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Gros & Delettrez

34 - POIRSON, J.-B. TARDIEU.

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Estimation

€200 - 300

Sale fees

30%

POIRSON, J.-B. TARDIEU. (Ancient and Modern Atlas). (1831). Small quarto (21 x 18 cm), [2] handwritten folios (title page and table of contents), 28 plates, amateur binding in green half-suede (some flaws, including scuffing on the spine and covers, very slight foxing). A composite atlas containing 24 copperplate engravings in black by Poirson, Tardieu, Hérisson, and Alès, including a world map, a planisphere, as well as maps of France (Gaul, the Empire of Charlemagne, France divided into 32 provinces), ancient Italy, Europe, European Russia, Germany, England, Asia, the Indies, Africa, and North and South America. It also includes three maps of Paris and a plate depicting the League’s procession in 1590, taken from Anquetil’s *History of France*, for a total of 28 plates.

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Auction details

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

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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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