Composite atlas.

Large folio: 22 engr. maps, old hand-coloured (some sl. soiled, sm. holes and edges repaired, occ. with re-used paper parts, map of Flanders browned with tear).

Contemp. paper covers (worn, re-used manuscript paper parts, maps of Braunschweig, Nuremberg and sale announcement on verso covers).

Interesting collection of some rare 18th- and early 19th-c. maps, in particular: 1. Poirson, J.B. - Mappe-monde divisée en deux hémisphères [...]. Rare world map with double-hemisphere, with two small polar projections and 5 astronomical diagrams (Paris, Jean, 1808). - 2-4. Nolin, J.B. - 3 maps of the continents: L'Europe divisée en touttes ses régions et grands estats [...] corrigée [...] par Longchamps Fils (Paris, Basset, 1808); Afrique divisée [...] corrigée [...] par L. Denis (Id., 1807); Amérique ou nouveau continent [...] corrigée [...] par L. Denis (Id., 1807). - 5-12. 8 country maps: Italy, France, Germany, Spain/Portugal, Scandinavia, Russia, Poland and Hungary, by G. Delisle, Bonne, Hérisson, Janvier (Amsterdam, Paris or Nuremberg, J. Covens and C. Mortier, Lattré or Heirs Homann). - 13-19. 7 regional maps: Kriegstheater oder Grenzkarte (Augsburg, J. Walch, s.d.), Zeelandiae comitatus, Namur (2 sheets), Liège (2 sheets), Bavaria, County of Flanders, Duchy of Brabant by T.C. Lotter, J. Covens, C. Mortier, Seutter, etc. - 20-22. 3 town plans: Bethune, Saint-Omer and Koblenz (Jaillot).