Title: Institutions géographiques, ou Description générale du globe terrestre,... suivi d'un Atlas élémentaire composé de 31 cartes, lequel comprend la carte générale de la France Ancienne & de la Nouvelle... A l'usage du jeune républicain Author: Delamarche, Charles-François-Place: Paris Publisher: Collége de Maitre-Gervais Date: An IIIe [1794-5] Description: viii, 112, pp. + 31 double-page copper-engraved maps, hand-colored in outline. (4to) 22x15 cm. (8¾x6"), period leather-backed pastepaper boards. First Edition. Rare little geography and atlas, published during the French Revolution, with maps of the world, the continents, the countries and regions of Europe and particularly of France, various portions of Asia, and the young United States. OCLC/WorldCat lists only three institutions with copies, the Bibliotheque National de France, the Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek Klassik in Germany, and the Newberry Library in the United States; no copies are shown to have sold at auction for the last 35 years according to American Book Prices Current. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine rubbed and worn, corners showing; still a near fine in contemporary boards, maps clean and bright with original outline color. Item number: 243236
Title: Institutions géographiques, ou Description générale du globe terrestre,... suivi d'un Atlas élémentaire composé de 31 cartes, lequel comprend la carte générale de la France Ancienne & de la Nouvelle... A l'usage du jeune républicain Author: Delamarche, Charles-François-Place: Paris Publisher: Collége de Maitre-Gervais Date: An IIIe [1794-5] Description: viii, 112, pp. + 31 double-page copper-engraved maps, hand-colored in outline. (4to) 22x15 cm. (8¾x6"), period leather-backed pastepaper boards. First Edition. Rare little geography and atlas, published during the French Revolution, with maps of the world, the continents, the countries and regions of Europe and particularly of France, various portions of Asia, and the young United States. OCLC/WorldCat lists only three institutions with copies, the Bibliotheque National de France, the Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek Klassik in Germany, and the Newberry Library in the United States; no copies are shown to have sold at auction for the last 35 years according to American Book Prices Current. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine rubbed and worn, corners showing; still a near fine in contemporary boards, maps clean and bright with original outline color. Item number: 243236
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