Le Rouge, Georges Louis
ATLAS AMERIQUAIN SEPTENTRIONAL CONTENANT LES DETAILS DES DIFFERENTES PROVINCES, DE CE VASTE CONTINENT. TRADUIT DES CARTES LEVÉES PAR ORDRE DU GOUVERNEMENT BRITANNIQUE. PAR LE MAJOR HOLLAND, EVANS, SCULL, MOUZON, ROSS, COOK, LANE, GILBERT, GARDNER, HILLOCK &C. &C. PARIS: CHEZ LE ROUGE, 1778
Le Rouge, Georges Louis
Engraved frontispiece depicting William Penn meeting with the Indians after Benjamin West, engraved title incorporating table of contents. ILLUSTRATION: 17 engraved maps (9 double-page, 8 folding, 14 with period hand-coloring in outline), maps numbered in contemporary manuscript.
Folio (21 1/16 x 15 3/4 in.; 535 x 400 mm). BINDING: Expertly bound to style in 18th century Russia over contemporary marbled paper covered boards, flat spine in seven compartments divided by gilt rules, brown morocco lettering piece in the second compartment. PROVENANCE: Unidentified European ink stamp on title with Royal arms — Leander van Ess (1772-1847, bookplate on verso of title)
Expert repairs to lower left margins, clean splits to folds of a few maps.
Provenance:
Howes J81; Phillips, A List of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress 1212; Sabin 35954; Schwartz & Ehrenberg, Mapping of America p. 202
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ATLAS AMERIQUAIN SEPTENTRIONAL CONTENANT LES DETAILS DES DIFFERENTES PROVINCES, DE CE VASTE CONTINENT. TRADUIT DES CARTES LEVÉES PAR ORDRE DU GOUVERNEMENT BRITANNIQUE. PAR LE MAJOR HOLLAND, EVANS, SCULL, MOUZON, ROSS, COOK, LANE, GILBERT, GARDNER, HILLOCK &C. &C. PARIS: CHEZ LE ROUGE, 1778
Le Rouge, Georges Louis
Engraved frontispiece depicting William Penn meeting with the Indians after Benjamin West, engraved title incorporating table of contents. ILLUSTRATION: 17 engraved maps (9 double-page, 8 folding, 14 with period hand-coloring in outline), maps numbered in contemporary manuscript.
Folio (21 1/16 x 15 3/4 in.; 535 x 400 mm). BINDING: Expertly bound to style in 18th century Russia over contemporary marbled paper covered boards, flat spine in seven compartments divided by gilt rules, brown morocco lettering piece in the second compartment. PROVENANCE: Unidentified European ink stamp on title with Royal arms — Leander van Ess (1772-1847, bookplate on verso of title)
Expert repairs to lower left margins, clean splits to folds of a few maps.
Provenance:
Howes J81; Phillips, A List of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress 1212; Sabin 35954; Schwartz & Ehrenberg, Mapping of America p. 202
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