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Antique Map Auction Sale No. 133 - closed 9/1/2010

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Lot #713: "Atlas Historique, Genealogique, Chronologique, et Geographique" LeSage

Antique atlas Atlas Historique Genealogique Chronologique et Geographi
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Estimate:
$250.00 - $350.00
Sold for: $190.00

Lot 713
By: LeSage
Subject: Atlases
Date: 1810

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Condition:
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Color: hand color

Size: 15 x 21 inches
38.1 x 53.4 cm

An elephant folio historical atlas in French; forerunner to the familiar Carey & Lea/ Buchon atlases. Engraved frontispiece of Napoleon's Empire and 32 double-page plates, incorporating chronological, historical and genealogical tables with 14 maps which include a double hemispheric world map and continents, but not including the map of the Western Hemisphere. Sold as a set of maps, NOT as a complete atlas.

The covers are perished and the title page is missing, the engraved frontispiece being the first page present. Frontispiece has water stain across lower 1/3, but the fourteen maps on remaining pages are generally very good.

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