Buy de Mornas, Claude. Atlas méthodique et élémentaire de géographie et d'histoire. Paris, at the expense of the author and Desnos, 1761-62. In 2nd (515 x 337 mm); 2 parts in 4 volumes. 57 double-page plates in the first tome and 205 in tomes 2-4, all finely engraved and most with coeval coloring, 3 frontispieces and 3 indexes for tomes 2-4 (missing table 123, tear to one page, slight halo.) 20th-century half vellum binding, title in black on spine, red boards (lack on spine of fourth volume). Important atlas by Buy de Mornas, geographer to Louis XVI. The first volume deals with the historical development of cosmography, astronomy, and oceanography while tomes 2-4 are devoted to historical geography. (4)

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