[Syria]. DELISLE (Joseph-Nicolas). Mémoire sur trois cartes - Lot 215

[Syria]. DELISLE (Joseph-Nicolas). Mémoire sur trois cartes nouvellement publiées en juillet 1764, destinées à servir de suite à la Carte de l'ancienne Palestine ou Terre-Sainte... A Paris, s.n. [Impr. Vve Delatour], 1764. In-4, 15 p., paperback, mute cover, full margins, as issued (cover worn, corners rounded). Very rare publication announcing the appearance of two maps of Syria and its environs, and one of the situation of the Terrestrial Paradise. The author is J.-N. Delisle, astronomer-geographer to the French Navy, professor at the Académie royale des Sciences, and brother of the king's geographer Guillaume Delisle. Only one copy is known to the Worldcat, kept at the Bibliothèque Mazarine.