Ventes live - Lot 572
[Atlas - School]
Nouvel atlas des enfans, ou Principes clairs pour apprendre facilement & en fort peu de temps la géographie. Suivi d'un traité méthodique de la sphère [...].
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Description du lot
Brussels, B. Le Francq, 1780 [1782]
12mo: [12]-252 pp.; front. and 24 folding pl. (part of title missing, ink ms. notes, pl. 24 part. detached, sm. defects).
Contemp. mottled calf, gilt-decorated spine (sm. def. at head, rubbed and repaired).
Rare pirate version of the famous pocket atlas for children, in question and answer format, after B. Vlam's 4th revised ed. (1st ed.: Amsterdam, J.H. Schneider, 1760). Engr. ill.: front. with Atlas as a child holding up the celestial sphere and 24 numb. hand-coloured maps attributed to G. Delisle, but more likely after C.A. Sepp.
Ref. Opac KBR. - Phillips 307 (Amst. 1776 edition). - STCN - See also: B. Vlam's bookseller's list bound at the end.
Prov. "Beullens Franciscus 1819", "C.J. Legrand" (ms. entries).