Atlas universel de géographie physique, politique, statistique et minéralogique, sur l'échelle 1/1641836 ou d'une ligne par 1900 toises [...], lithographié par H. Ode. Première partie. - Europe.

Folio (54,5 x 37,5 cm): 29 maps partially hand-coloured (changed map order: after 12 follow 1, 3, 4, 8, 2, 5, 9, 6, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 13, 14, 19, 18, 24, 25, 20, 26, 21, 27; water stains).

Three-quarter green morocco, marbled paper covers, gilt orn. spine (sl. used).

3rd edition of the first part of Europe of Philippe Vandermaelen's monumental atlas dedicated to the King of the Netherlands and published in instalments between 1825 & 1827. The volume contains the "Statistique de l'Europe d'après Hassel" in 2nd ed. with table, errata and "Statistique de la Turquie", the "Tableau comparatif des principales hauteurs du globe", the "Carte d'assemblage de l'Europe" and 29 double-paged maps (complete). It is the first atlas produced by the then new printing process of lithography and the first to show the whole world in maps using a large uniform scale resulting in the most detailed maps made at the time.
Ref. Koeman III, Vdm 1. - Silvestre V, Atlas [3].