Author: SCHNEIDER J.H. - Benoit LE FRANCQ ( ) :
Title: NIEUWEN ATLAS der Jeugd, Of duydelyke grondregels om de Géographie gemakkelyk en op korten tyd te leeren. Gevolgt Van eene bequaeme verhandeling over den Werel-Bol, waer in de beweégingen der Gesternten, de verscheyde Saemenstellingen (Systemata) der wereld, en het gebruyk der Bollen uytgelegt worden; Verrykt met XXIV. afgezette Kaerten. Uyt de laeste Fransche uytgaeve van 't jaer 1779 in 't Neder-duytsch overgezet.
Description: .: Brussel, Benoit Le Francq, 1780. In-8°, 16,5 x 10 cm, (6)nn pp including full-page engraved frontispiece + 223 pp +(2)nn pp + 22 folding engraved maps (9.5 x 12 cm) + 2 folding engraved plates, all with contemporary outline hand-colouring. Bound in contemporary leather, red title label, headcaps expertly restored, binding with some wear, some maps with a few false creases (as usual), still a fine copy. Dutch (Flemish) translation of a French children's atlas, composed by J.H. Schneider in 1760. According to the NCC entries, this atlas is a translation of ; ''Nouvel atlas des enfans, ou principes clairs pour apprendre facilement et en fort peu de temps la geographie, suivi d'un Tracté méthodique de la sphère, qui explique le mouvement des astres, les divers systêmes du monde, & l'usage des globes''. See Koeman Schn 1A (French edition 1760); NCC lists French editions of 1772 and 1779 and Dutch translations of 1786 and 1787. BN-Paris has a copy of a French edition (Brussels 1791).. .

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