Dec 17, 2020 - Sale 2555

Sale 2555 - Lot 283

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
LAGUILLERMIE, FREDERIC-GUILLAUME. Sphéricite de la Terre. Atlas Sphéroidal Pour Servir a l'Etude de la Geographie Généale. Letterpress title and advertisement leaf, 7 hand-colored engraved spheroid-projected maps. Small folio, 13 1/4x10 1/2 inches, publisher's cloth-backed printed boards; light external wear, minor foxing. Paris, circa 1845

Additional Details

Finely designed individual orb-projections of Europe, Asia, Oceania, North America, South America, Africa and France, each successfully offering a near sense of three-dimensionality. Texas is shown independently in North America. Nicely preserved in its original condition; no copies traced in auction records.