Jun 16, 2005 - Sale 2047

Sale 2047 - Lot 3

Price Realized: $ 978
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
DELISLE, GUILLAUME; and after. Composite atlas containing 23 double-page engraved maps, by Delisle or after Delisle, each approximately 490x635mm (one smaller and from another source); each hand-colored in outline; all maps dampstained in the lower margin at the gutter, with staining bleeding about 100-mm into the image along the fold, several maps defective (European subjects). Bound in very worn leather-backed boards. Paris, 1780s-1810s

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Contains a double-hemispheric world map, continental maps (Europe, Asia, Africa, Americas), with the remaining maps being European subjects.