Atlas du Commerce dédié au Roi ...

Quarto (275 x 214 mm); large folding letterpress table, errata and additions and Privilége du Roi at end; five large folding engraved charts, two in original colour. Original paper-covered boards, rebacked with red gilt-embossed title label. Paris : Froullé, 

"Drawing heavily from a plan of economic reform set out by C.A. de Calonne and the Comte de Vergennes, Le Clerc gives an analysis of the economy and resources of France and Russia. The work followed publication of his Histoire de la Russie (6 vols; 1783-94), and was dedicated to Louis XVI."

The sequence of charts at the rear comprise a composite sheet of the environs of Constantinople, the Sea of Marmora and the Black Sea, a two sheet chart of the Mediterranean and charts of Crete and of the Peloponnese.

Stock Code: 226391