Lot n° 22
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[Atlas]. DUVAL (Pierre). Diverses cartes et tables pour la - Lot 22
[Atlas]. DUVAL (Pierre). Diverses cartes et tables pour la géographie ancienne pour la chronologie et pour les itinéraires et voyages ... [Bound at the end] Chronology in several tables. [And:] Cartes pour les itinéraires et voyages modernes. A Paris, chez l'auteur, 1677. [bookseller's relay label N. Langlois]. Three parts in one oblong in-4 volume (ca. 20 x 32 cm), [2] f. (titles), 28 maps ; [1] f. (title), 20 p., 18 f. (engraved tables) ; 22 out of 27 maps, contemporary tan calf, 5-ribbed spine (4 maps lacking (4, 25, 26 and 27), binding worn, small marginal defects affecting a map of the 1st work, some maps bound out of order and p. 1-4 of the 2nd part bound after the title of the 3rd part).
Second edition of this tripartite atlas, comprising a general engraved title, a 2nd title for the first part, including the dedication to Guillaume de Lamoignon, and 28 maps, title of the second part, 20 pp. of text and 18 engraved tables, a title, and 22 maps out of 27 (Pastoureau, Duval VI, maps 4, 25, 26).
A total of 50 maps, 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 itineraries, the road to Constantinople via Romania, the route from Cairo to Mecca and Gaza, the route from Ragusa to Belgrade via Bosna-Serai, the road from Surate to Mazulptan via Orengabat and Golconde, etc.
(Pastoureau, Duval VI A; VII A, VII Ba).
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