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JULIEN (Roch-Joseph). Topographical and military atlas, including the Kingdom of Bohemia, the marquisates of Moravia and Lusatia, the Duchy of Silesia, Upper and Lower Saxony, the borders of the Upper Rhine and Westphalia, and general maps of these states, and of the present theater of war in Germany. [Dedicated to Her Majesty the Empress Queen of Hungary and Bohemia]. Paris, chés l'auteur, à l'Hôtel de Soubise, 1758. In-folio, [2] ff. 5 double introductory leaves (general assembly plan, two general maps, map of the Electorate of Saxony, legends and scales), 60 double-page maps, with colored outlines, with collettes for plates 5, 11, 17, 23, 31 and 50. Marbled fawn basane, ornate ribbed spine, red title page, double gilt fillet on the edges, red edges (period binding). Headbands trimmed, jaws cracked, small leather tears on boards. First edition of the first part of this monumental atlas published in the context of the Seven Years' War, by the bookseller Julien, who specialized in maps and sold at the Hôtel de Soubise between 1745 and 1780. He was also valet de chambre to Charles de Rohan, Prince de Soubise, then inspector of his buildings from February 1757. The second part, entitled Second volume de l'atlas géographique et topographique de la guerre d'Allemagne, is missing here. (Quérard IV, 267 (describes above all the 1797 edition); the CCF does not seem to describe a complete copy, even for the first part: Tours lists 45 maps, Soissons 47 and the BnF 55...).

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JULIEN (Roch-Joseph). Topographical and military atlas, including the Kingdom of Bohemia, the marquisates of Moravia and Lusatia, the Duchy of Silesia, Upper and Lower Saxony, the borders of the Upper Rhine and Westphalia, and general maps of these states, and of the present theater of war in Germany. [Dedicated to Her Majesty the Empress Queen of Hungary and Bohemia]. Paris, chés l'auteur, à l'Hôtel de Soubise, 1758. In-folio, [2] ff. 5 double introductory leaves (general assembly plan, two general maps, map of the Electorate of Saxony, legends and scales), 60 double-page maps, with colored outlines, with collettes for plates 5, 11, 17, 23, 31 and 50. Marbled fawn basane, ornate ribbed spine, red title page, double gilt fillet on the edges, red edges (period binding). Headbands trimmed, jaws cracked, small leather tears on boards. First edition of the first part of this monumental atlas published in the context of the Seven Years' War, by the bookseller Julien, who specialized in maps and sold at the Hôtel de Soubise between 1745 and 1780. He was also valet de chambre to Charles de Rohan, Prince de Soubise, then inspector of his buildings from February 1757. The second part, entitled Second volume de l'atlas géographique et topographique de la guerre d'Allemagne, is missing here. (Quérard IV, 267 (describes above all the 1797 edition); the CCF does not seem to describe a complete copy, even for the first part: Tours lists 45 maps, Soissons 47 and the BnF 55...).

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