17 - GARNIER, F. A.

GARNIER, F. A. Universal and Spheroidal Atlas of Geography, Compiled Using Official Documents Recently Published in France and Abroad. Paris, Veuve Jules Renouard, 1862. Large folio (approx. 61 x 43 cm), 13 folios, 61 maps numbered 1 through 60, including 24bis, 30bis, and 50bis; maps 6 and 26 are missing. Green half-shagreen with period corners, title label in the center of the upper cover (covers detached, spine missing, some leaves loose, foxing, map 45 loose with a tear and frayed margins). Garnier’s atlas comprising 61 steel-engraved and hand-colored maps, including the supplementary maps nos. 24 bis, 30 bis, and 50 bis. Missing are no. 6, “Map of the Present World” (Planisphere), and no. 26, “France Divided into 89 Departments.” It consists of general tables of cosmography and geography, spheroidal maps devoted to different parts of the world, and maps covering Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Oceania. The maps reflect the political and physical geography of the mid-19th century and include, in particular, maps of Italy in 1859 and 1861, the United States in 1835 and 1860, French Africa (Algeria), Central and East Asia, as well as Australia and New Zealand.