Atlas.

Folio: engr. title-22 pp.; 37 nicely coloured maps (minor defects).

Cont. half calf, sprinkled paper covers, gilt stamped and ribbed spine (rubbed). Very good copy.

First edition of Elwe's atlas with an allegorical title by J. van Monnikhuyse after L. Webbers, Louis Renard's "Planisphere" representing the titan Atlas with a north polar azimuthal projection on his shoulders, a star map, a world map and 34 maps, many reissues of De L'Isle, Ottens and others, as well as a geopolitical table of Europe and a table of distances between European towns. Ref. Koeman II, pp. 105-107.