124 - MACLOT (Jean-Charles). General Description of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, Preceded by a Treatise on the Understanding of the Armillary Spheres of Ptolemy and Copernicus, and of the Celestial and Terrestrial Globes; With a historical preface on the origin and progress of astronomy and geography; a work useful for understanding all forms of universal atlases. Paris: Desnos, 1768. Folio (395 x 320 mm), 19th-century green half-shagreen binding with corner pieces, ribbed spine.

MACLOT (Jean-Charles). General Description of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, Preceded by a Treatise on the Understanding of the Armillary Spheres of Ptolemy and Copernicus, and of the Celestial and Terrestrial Globes; With a historical preface on the origin and progress of astronomy and geography; a work useful for understanding all forms of universal atlases. Paris: Desnos, 1768. Folio (395 x 320 mm), 19th-century green half-shagreen binding with corner pieces, ribbed spine. Collation: A beautiful engraved frontispiece title spread across two pages, title page, 6 pp., 51 + 15 double-page plates, one of which (12 bis) is mounted on tabs with color highlights. Each plate consists of a repeating border surrounding a central map. On either side of the map are pasted explanatory texts (some of which are slightly peeling away), astronomical notes by Tchirikow and Delisle, as well as historical and geographical notes by Maclot (Binding is heavily rubbed, edges and corners are worn, inner hinges are open, there is a repaired tear on the first colored endpaper and a paper loss on the last, water stains at the margin edges of some leaves; the last map is fragile at the margins with a paper loss in the upper part and a cut corner; furthermore, the volume has been trimmed quite short)