Author: Malte-Brun & E. Cortambert
Title: Géographie universelle. Revue, rectifiée et complètement mise au niveau de l'état actuel des connaissances géographiques par E. Cortambert.
Description: Paris, Dufour, Mulat et Boulangwe, Éditeurs, Dufour, Mulat et Boulangwe, Éditeurs, 1860-1862. 8 tomes bound in 4 volumes (27x18 cm). Contemporary red morocco bindings, blindstamped; spines with ribbons and gilt titles; marbled endpapers. Each volume about 500 pages. With together 64 steelengravings: frontispiece, portrait and 62 topogaphical views, 8 large folding maps in colours, 7 line-engravings and 16 handcoloured plates of local inhabitants. - Some light, mainly marginal waterstains and a few spots in places, but over all a good set with all the maps and plates according to "Placement des gravures" at the end. The frontispiece is entitled "Muse de la Géographie", the portrait is of Malte-Brun.'The line-engravings are about the "Théorie de la Géographie". The maps: worldmap in hemispheres "Mappe-Monde 1856" (66x54 cm), map with 5 insets "Géographie ancienne", maps of "Asie", "Océanie", "Afrique", "Amérique", "Europe" and "France". The plates of the regional costumes engraved after Philippoteaux. Gewicht/Weight: 9500 grs.

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