L'usage des globes céleste et terrestre, et des spheres suivant les différens systêmes du monde. Précédé d'un traité de cosmographie [...]. Accompagné des figures necessaire [...]. Quatrième édition, revûe, corrigée & augmentée.

8vo: [8]-400-[10] pp.

Contemp. calf (corners rubbed), gilt orn. spine on 5 raised bands (head sl. def., sm. holes on lower spine). Good copy.

Fourth edition (first 1699, with fewer ill.) of this cosmographical work by the French engineer to Louis XIV, cosmographer and mathematical instrument builder N. Bion (1652-1733). He made astronomical instruments in his own workshop in Paris where he sold globes and spheres. Ill. with an engr. headpiece showing scientific instruments and globes dedicated to the king, signed N.G. and 52 numb. engr. pl. (of which 27 folding and one bis) including 11 maps of the world, Europe, Africa, America, Asia, Italy, France, etc.
Ref. BnF. - COPAC. - Houzeau & Lancaster 9735. - Cp. Wellcome II:169.
Prov. De La Valute (old ownership entries).