754 - Atlases - Globes - Bion, Nicolai. *L'usage des globes céleste et terrestre, et des sphères suivant les différents systèmes du monde*. 5th revised edition. With an engraved headpiece, 11 folded copperplate maps, 37 (12 folded) copperplate plates, and 1 folded, engraved table. Paris, Brunet, 1728. 4 leaves, 372 pp., 10 (the last 2 blank) leaves, 22 x 14.5 cm. Contemporary speckled calfskin binding with spine label and gilt lettering on the spine (corners and upper headband restored, slightly rubbed).

Atlases - Globes - Bion, Nicolai. *L'usage des globes céleste et terrestre, et des sphères suivant les différents systèmes du monde*. 5th revised edition. With an engraved headpiece, 11 folded copperplate maps, 37 (12 folded) copperplate plates, and 1 folded, engraved table. Paris, Brunet, 1728. 4 leaves, 372 pp., 10 (the last 2 blank) leaves, 22 x 14.5 cm. Contemporary speckled calfskin binding with spine label and gilt lettering on the spine (corners and upper headband restored, slightly rubbed). Fifth edition, first published in 1699. - Houzeau-L. 9735 - Roller-G. I, 119 - DSB II, 133 - Lalande 446: "This is the most basic and clearest book available in French on the first principles of astronomy." - Among the copperplate engravings are maps of the constellations and the world, each showing two hemispheres; maps of the Moon and the Sun; maps of Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas, Spain and Portugal, France (colored), the Benelux countries, Scandinavia, Germany, and Italy; as well as globes, spheres, instruments, etc. - Plate 1 has a small corner defect; plates 5 and 22 are trimmed at the edges; plate 26 has 2–3 mm less margin on the white paper; Plates partly slightly browned and slightly stained; owner’s note on the title page; stamp of the Italian collector Pierpaolo Vaccarino on the endpaper. *