Author: (Anonym) (Chr. Sepp, illustr.)
Title: Atlas des enfans, ou Nouvelle mthode pour apprendre la gographie, avec un nouveau trait de la sphre, et XXIV cartes enlumines. Nouvelle dition corrige et fort augmente. - At the end: Nouveau trait de la sphre, o l'on explique le mouvement des astres, & les systmes du monde ancien & moderne, l'usage des globes & des mesures gographiques. Nouvelle dition corrige & fort augmente.
Description: Anvers, C.M. Spanoghe, Imprimeur-Libraire, 1786 Small 8vo (18,5x10,5 cm). Original wrappers damaged but covered with recent handmade decorative paper. viii,236,42,(ii) pp. With engraved frontispiece showing a putti bearing the world on his shoulders with on the background sailingships welcomed by fire-musketry. With 24 handcoloured maps, including 1 worldmap with globe, 2 engravings with spheres and 1 with the spherical machine. - Paper first quires a bit age-toned, a few small dog's ears, but on the whole a nice interior condition, complete with all the engravings. - Rare edition, 'possibly pirated from the identical Amsterdam edition' (WorldCat) . Gewicht/Weight: 300 grs.

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