2 - BELLIN, Jacques-Nicolas. PREVOST, Antoine-François.

BELLIN, Jacques-Nicolas. PREVOST, Antoine-François. [Atlas of “The General History of Travel, or New Collection of All Accounts of Sea and Land Journeys by Abbé Antoine François Prévost”]. (Paris, late 18th century). In-4 (25 x 19.5 cm), 74 maps and one fold-out chart. Contemporary marbled fawn half-basane, ribbed spine, title label, decorated panels, red edges (binding rubbed). An atlas comprising 74 copperplate engravings, primarily based on works by Nicolas Bellin, in single- or double-page formats, some of which are fold-out maps, intended to accompany Abbé Antoine François Prévost’s *General History of Travel*. This atlas covers a vast geographical area encompassing the African, Asian, American, and Oceanian continents. Among the African maps are the Cape of Good Hope, the Congo, the Monomotapa Empire, and the Canary Islands. The Asian maps depict, in particular, Persia, Arabia, the Maldives, the Philippines, and China, as well as detailed regions such as Tartary and Japan. For the Americas, the maps depict Mexico, Peru, Brazil, Guyana, Louisiana, Florida, New York, Hudson Bay, and the St. Lawrence River. The final plate includes a comparative table of the various languages of the South Seas alongside those of other countries in the West and East. Two loose handwritten sheets contain a list of the plates in the atlas.