La geographie du Temps. Revue, corrigee et augmentee sur les manuscrits de l’auteur, par le R. P. Placide Augustin Deschausse, geographe du Roy. Volume one

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2nd Edition. 12mo. Hardcover. Contemporary full mottled lather, raised bands, gilt spine decorations, red spine label, speckled red edges, marbled endpapers. 16.5x10x3.8 cm. Du Val. Paris. 1688. [16], 312 pages. 52 double-page maps, 11 full-page illustrations of coats-of arms. Very good, old call number on paper label at base of spine, light wear to corners and spine ends, old owner’s ink name and bookseller’s pencil notes to endpapers, scattered light foxing, very small marginal dampstain to a few pages. French text. First volume only of this seventeenth century French atlas with 4 world maps, 15 maps of the Americas, 17 maps of Africa, and 16 maps of Asia. Lacks the volume with the European maps. Includes the map of Mexico showing California as an island. weight: 1.0 lb.:.