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[ATLAS]. PERROT (A.-M.) – AUPICK (J.
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[ATLAS]. PERROT (A.-M.) – AUPICK (J.
See original version (French)
Estimate €100 - €149
Voluntary lot
Description
[ATLAS]. PERROT (A.-M.) – AUPICK (J.). NEW ATLAS OF THE KINGDOM OF FRANCE or Detailed Maps of Gaul, of France at the time of 1789, of the eighty-six departments and of the French colonies, followed by a fine map of present-day France. Paris, Longuet, successor to Simonneau, 1842. Large Italian quarto (50 × 37.5 cm), half marbled fawn sheepskin, large octagonal title label glued to the front cover, smooth spine divided by gilt chains and fillets, garnet morocco title label (contemporary binding). Inner hinges split, stitching on the front cover has come apart, edges and corners rubbed with some paper loss. ATLAS OF 98 MAPS with coloured boundaries, including 86 French departments, 10 maps of the French colonies (the West Indies, Saint-Domingue, Martinique, the islands of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Bourbon Island, etc.), one map of Gaul and one map of France in 1789. The maps are accompanied by a statistical table. The map of ‘Present-day France’ mentioned in the title is MISSING. This atlas was produced by General Jacques AUPICK (1789–1857), Charles Baudelaire’s father-in-law, and the cartographer Aristide-Michel Perrot (1793–1879).
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