Mar 30, 2006 - Sale 2074

Sale 2074 - Lot 11

Price Realized: $ 5,980
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
COVENS and MORTIER / DELISLE. Atlas Nouveau, contenant Toutes les Parties du Monde . . . Par Guillaume de l'Isle. 63 double-page or folding engraved maps; hand-colored in outline. Folio, 540x340 mm, early 1/2 calf, very worn; several maps lacking one corner with very slight loss (European subjects), some separation along vertical folds in varying lengths (repairable without loss), browning throughout, some offsetting on scattered maps, a few maps with dampstaining (principally in margins), other repairable faults; retabbed throughout; with approximately 40 extraneous smaller maps trimmed to their neatlines and mounted on the versos of the maps in the atlas by subject. should be seen. Amsterdam, 1733
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Atlas corresponds in many respects to Koeman listing C&M 5. It lacks the "Introduction" leaf, and the "Preface" leaf has been trimmed. It contains all remaining text leaves. The maps correspond to C&M 4, but one of the African subject maps has been updated. It lacks the final two maps for C&M 4, but contains additional maps from the list. Koeman's 1733 edition cites 75 maps for completeness, but the maps are not listed. This atlas contains 9 additional maps from the 1730 edition, including 5 from Grand Theatre de la Guerre (plus the engraved double-page title). It is possibly an intermediate state, or a composite of some sort. Despite the physical faults, the atlas is presentable and could be nicely cleaned and repaired.
The extraneous maps mounted on the versos of the original atlas maps are generally 19th-century, but some are of interest and should be examined.