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Gros & Delettrez

24 - LATTRE.

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Estimation

€800 - 1,000

Sale fees

30%

LATTRE. Modern Atlas, or Collection of Maps of the Globe. Part Two contains the detailed maps that were missing from the first part, making this atlas complete. Paris: Lattré and Delalain, (1771–1776). Folio (39 x 29 cm), (3) folios, 41 maps. Period cardboard binding, red edges (binding worn, marginal defects including foxing). First edition. Atlas of 41 copperplate engravings in black by Lattré, based on works by various authors, all enhanced with colored outlines. Includes maps of France (Artois, Picardy, Normandy, Brittany, Anjou, Champagne, Burgundy), England, Scotland, and Ireland; Portugal (on two sheets); the Russian Empire (on two sheets), Asian Turkey, Arabia, Persia, India (on four sheets), Tartary, Canada (on two sheets), Mexico, Peru, and the Holy Land (on two sheets). The atlas also includes a beautiful title page and frontispiece engraved on copper by Louis Legrand, a disclaimer, and a table of maps.

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Auction details

Travel Books, Atlases, and Maps
Friday, November 20
02:00 PM
22, rue Drouot
75009 Paris, France

Auction house

Gros & Delettrez +33 1 47 70 83 04 j.remaut@gros-delettrez.com
On Drouot for more than 10 years avec More than 280,000 lots published

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