[Atlas]. Atlas classique de géographie moderne by Charles V. Monin and Alexandre Vuillemin in the 1853 Paris edition with 20 maps, mostly double-page, with coeval coloring of the borders, together with the Universal Geographical Atlas for accompaniment to Marmocchi's 1862 Dictionary of Universal Geography, with the Scholastic Atlas for Political and Physical Geography of 1870, Barbié du Bocage's Universal Geographical Atlas Ancient and Modern of 1864, and finally with Cortambert's Nouvel atlas de géographie of 1851 within green half-morocco editorial binding. (5)

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