Introduction a la Geographie avec une Description Historique sur touttes les parties de la Terre. ...

ENGRAVED THROUGHOUT

Fourth edition. Engraved throughout; engraved title-page with a double-hemisphere map of the world, portrait of the author, eighteen folding maps and plates. 'Catalogue des ouvrages de géographie que l’auteur a mis au jour jusques en l’année 1716' at the rear. 8vo. Contemporary speckled calf, recently rebacked, two red morocco labels, gilt titling and floral decoration to spine. [2], 297, [7], [2]pp. Paris, Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste Desbois,

Nicolas de Fer (1646-1720), engraver, mapmaker and publisher, was appointed Geographer to King Louis XIV of France; he succeeded his father, Antoine de Fer. He was a prolific mapmaker; one of his most long-lived publications was the Introduction a la Geographie ..., first published in 1708 and re-issued in 1717, [ca. 1723] and, here, in 1754, with the title-page and maps so-dated.

 

The first edition contained only the map set in the title-page; the second and third added the "La Sphere Artificielle", the map of the world and four continents from the Atlas Curieux. This edition is much expanded, containing the "Sphere Artificielle" and seventeen maps from de Fer’s stock.

 

No copy traced in a French institution; not found in the BnF online catalogue; not found on COPAC; Worldcat only records a digital copy of the atlas, without it being clear where the original resides.

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Stock Code: 223298