[Atlas]. - Lot 14

[Atlas]. Madame de Bondy's Library. Atlas. A Paris, (Bibliothèque des Dames) rue d'Anjou-Dauphine, 1786. 2 volumes in-16 (ca 12 x 8 cm), (4) ff. 14 plates; (2) ff. 16 plates. Contemporary buff calf, smooth spine adorned with gilt lyres, double fillet on covers, fillet on edges, gilt roulette, gilt edges (slight wear, missing title-pieces, slightly unbound and one corner slightly worn, book rebacked). Charming 18th-century atlas from the Bibliothèque universelle des Dames series. Complete with 29 engravings: 3 plates of astronomical figures, a celestial map and a double-hemisphere world map; 25 maps representing Europe, Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, European Russia, Scandinavia, the British Isles, Asia, European and Asian Turkey, the East Indies, China and Japan, Africa, Egypt, North and South America, the Gulf of Mexico, the Map of New England, New York, New Jersey and Pensilvania, as well as the Map of Virginia and Maryland. No copy at CCFr. Dictionnaire des journaux 1600-1789, dir. Jean Sgard, 1991.