CHARLE, Jean Baptiste Louis. - Lot 19

CHARLE, Jean Baptiste Louis. Nouvelle géographie méthodique. Atlas élémentaire avec les cinq cartes muettes, compiled by M. Charle. Paris, chez les auteurs, 1827. Small folio (44 x 29 cm), 6 plates. Paperback, publisher's blue paper cover, large title label printed on upper cover (very slight wear from use). Uncommon. Only one record in the CCFr (BnF). Atlas, without the blank maps announced in the title, intended to illustrate the Géographie méthodique à l'usage des écoliers by Achille Meissas, a pupil of Abbé Gaultier, and Auguste Michelot, a former student at the Ecole Polytechnique. Comprising six maps engraved in black on steel by Dumortier and Arnoul, with colored borders, mounted on tabs: Mappemonde, Europe, Central Europe, Asia, Africa, America - drawn by Jean Baptiste Louis Charle, geographer attached to the Dépôt général de la guerre. Old monogrammed stamp repeated.