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COVENS (JEAN) AND CORNEILLE MORTIER
Nouvel atlas, très exact et fort commode pour toutes sortes de personnes, Amsterdam, [1735]; and 2 others (3)

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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COVENS (JEAN) AND CORNEILLE MORTIER

Nouvel atlas, très exact et fort commode pour toutes sortes de personnes, engraved pictorial title-page, engraved contents leaf (with hand-coloured border), letterpress introduction in French and German, one plate depicting globes, 99 hand-coloured engraved maps (numbered 3-100, with 46b, c and d), globe plate cut to size and remounted, plate 100 plate laid down, final leaf of German introduction torn with some losses, nineteenth century half morocco gilt, rubbed [Koeman II, Covens & Mortier 13], oblong folio (245 x 358mm.), Amsterdam, Covens & Mortier, [1735]--SEUTTER (ALBERT CHARLES) Atlas tres-exact des Pas Bas Catholiques, our des X Provinces de l'Allemagne Inferieure, engraved pictorial title, 24 hand-coloured engraved map sheets (including additional decorative title cartouche "Les provinces des Pais Bas Autrichiens...", title cut to size and laid down (with a few small losses) on upper wrapper, early wrappers, upper cover detached, small oblong folio (221 x 305mm.), Augsburg, A.C. Seutter, 1758--MONIN (CHARLES V.) AND A.R. FREMIN. Atlas universel des cinq parties du monde, 37 hand-coloured engraved maps (that of Belgium bound as first map in following next mentioned atlas), 1836; Petit atlas de la Belgique, 9 engraved maps (of 10, lacking general map of Belgium, the publisher using the map from the previous atlas in its place), 1836, 2 works bound in vol., contemporary morocco-backed boards, gilt morocco lettering label on each cover, small oblong folio (250 x 320mm.), [Paris], Binen (3)

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