[Atlas]. DUVAL (Pierre). Diverses cartes et tables pour la g - Lot 39

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[Atlas]. DUVAL (Pierre). Diverses cartes et tables pour la g - Lot 39
[Atlas]. DUVAL (Pierre). Diverses cartes et tables pour la géographie ancienne pour la chronologie et pour les itinéraires et voyages ... [chronology in several tables. [And:] [Cartes pour les itinéraires et voyages modernes]. A Paris, chez l'auteur, 1665. Three parts in one oblong in-4 volume (20 x 27.3 cm), [2] f. (titles), 29 maps, 20 p. ; [1] f. (title), 4 p., 15 f. (engraved tables) ; 27 maps. Contemporary brown calf, 5-ribbed spine, gilt title, ornate caissons, red speckled edges (corners worn, boards epididized, jaws split, gaps in cover at upper jaws and spine; some freckling; 3 f. of text lacking). First edition of this tripartite atlas, consisting of a general engraved title, a 2nd title for the first part, including the dedication to Guillaume de Lamoignon, 29 maps (including two slightly shorter maps, the first, the 2nd edition map of St. Paul's Travels, the second, Map of the Holy Land added), 20 pp. of text (2 ff. on Roman names and numbers, 8 ff. on the Parallèle de l'Ancienne et de la Nouvelle Géographie), a title, 4 pp. of Foreword on Chronology, 13 tables, 2 ff.n.ch. Les noms des Princes Souverains...., and 27 maps on 25 leaves. The title and 4 pages of text in the last part are missing. A total of 56 maps (on 54 sheets), including : a world map, a map of Assyria and Syria, maps for the Trojan War and the Navigation of Ulysses, the empires of Great Cyrus and the Persians, Libya and Egypt according to Herodotus, the Saracen Empire, [the region of Uzbekistan with Samarkand and Bochara], France Antarctica or Rio Janeiro in Brazil, French Florida, several Persian routes, the road to Constantinople via Romania, the route from Cairo to Mecca and Gaza, the route from Ragusa to Belgrade via Bosna-Serai, the route from Surate to Mazulptan via Orengabat and Golconde, etc. (Pastoureau, Duval VI A, VII A).
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