Lot 1067
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Atlas géographique contenant la mappemonde et les quatre parties, avec les différents états d'Europe [...]. [- Idée de la sphère ou Principes sur la géographie astronomique].
RIZZI-ZANNONI, Giovanni-Antonio
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Lot description
Paris, Lattré, 1762
12mo (ca. 12 x 8 cm): front.-engr. title-31 maps, numbered and titled by hand on verso, hand-coloured in outline (weak marg. damp stain).
Contemp. mottled calf, gilt decorated spine.
2nd enlarged ed. of Zannoni's miniature atlas, published, in the same year as the 1st, during his sojourn in Paris. Complete with allegorical front., title and 31 maps incl. the "Sphère de Ptolomée", 2 hemisphere maps, 5 maps of the continents (Europe, Asia, Africa and the 2 Americas), 22 country and regional maps of Europe and an additional map of the Gulf of Mexico.
Ref. Shirley, T.RIZ-1b. - Philips 633.
Bound with: Bonne, Rigobert - Idée de la sphère ou Principes sur la géographie astronomique. Paris, s.n., 1763. [4]-55-[2] pp.
Prov. "Bastia 7 may 1772 [...]" (contemp. ms. entry).