ATLAS. Georges-Louis LE ROUGE]. Atlas nouveau portatif à l'Usage des Militaires, Collèges et du Voyageur. Paris, Crépy, 1767-1759; 2 vol.in-4 of 93 bifeuillets including engraved title and table; 102 bifeuillets including engraved title and table, half tan calf mounted on tabs, spine ribbed. First edition. 195 double plates including three of spheres, one of flags and two of table and 189 double-page engraved maps with coloured outlines: France including the map of Paris, Germany, Poland, Turkey, the West Indies. The second volume is almost entirely devoted to Germanic countries.

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