Abbé GRENET. BONNE, Rigobert. - Lot 31

Abbé GRENET. BONNE, Rigobert. Atlas portatif à l'usage des collèges, pour servir à l'intelligence des auteurs classiques. Dedicated to the Academy of Padoüe. Venice, P. Santini, (1788-1793). Fort in-4 oblong (27.5 x 41.5 cm), (2) ff. 61 plates. Contemporary half basane with corners, spine with 3 nerves, gilt fleurons and fillets (binding and corners rubbed, small light wetness in upper margin of first 3 leaves, a few stains (maps 53 and 54), plate 59 bound at end of volume). A good copy of this interesting educational atlas in its contemporary binding. Comprising a double-page engraved title-frontispiece, a table leaf and 61 copper-engraved maps with contours colored in the period. With a world map in two hemispheres, a planisphere, two maps (on one sheet) of general wind directions and monsoons, 15 maps of the ancient world, general maps of Europe, Asia, Africa, North America and South America. In addition to these maps, there are 26 maps of European countries, 6 maps of Asia, 2 maps of Africa and 4 maps of America (USA, Cuba and Jamaica, Santo Domingo and Puerto Rico, West Indies). The maps are dated from 1788 to 1793 and are all attributed to M[onsieur] Bonne or Rto. Bona. Abbé Grenet, a Jesuit educator, had the atlas printed as being by Santini in Venice, but it was inspired by Bonne.