Atlas Moderne ou Collection de Cartes sur toutes les parties du Globe Terrestre. (Modern Atlas, or Collection of Maps of All Parts of the Terrestrial Globe)

Description

Hardcover. Folio. Old brown mottled boards. 39×28.5×3 cm. Laure and Jean Thomas Herissant. Paris. Circa 1762. 3 leaves plus 36 maps, 1 page. . Engraved title page, 36 2-page maps with old outline color. Title page engraved by Prevost (after Monnet). Good, spine worn with some loss, corners bumped and bent, front endpaper wrinkled and nearly detached, marginal dampstain to preliminaries and first two maps, scattered foxing, a few maps have short marginal tears at the center folds, light toning and soiling. French text. An important eighteenth century atlas complete in an original binding. Heavy book, may require extra shipping. weight: 3.6 lb.