L'ISLE (Guillaume de): Atlas nouveau contenant... Lot 55
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L'ISLE (Guillaume de): Atlas nouveau contenant toutes les parties du monde, ou sont exactement représentées les Empires, Monarchies, Royaumes, Etats, Republiques, etc. par Guillaume de l'ISLE, premier géographe de sa majesté. Amsterdam, Jean COVENS & Corneille MORTIER, 1730. One volume.
Avec l'introduction à la Géographie () par le sieur SANSON d'Abbeville, géographe ordinaire du Roy.
33 by 53.5 cm. Engraved frontispiece-(6)-32-(5 manuscript pages)-(5 blank) pages, followed by 61 (of 64) double-page mitered maps. Contemporary full marbled calf, 6-rib spine, decorated boxes, havana title page, triple gilt fillet framing the boards. Binding in good condition, with minor flaws (headbands faded, minor superficial flaws on boards). A few maps cut for a few centimeters at the fold, but not missing. Restored tear on one of the handwritten table leaves.
This Atlas is volume 1 of De L'ISLE's Atlas nouveau. Volume 2 is missing.
The maps are all in color, measuring 63 by 53.5 cm. They are in a remarkable state of preservation, and of great aesthetic value.
The Atlas contains :
World map
Northern Hemisphere
Southern Hemisphere
Eastern Hemisphere
Western Hemisphere
Europe
British Isles
Northern Courones (Denmark, Sweden, Norway &)
second map of the northern crowns
Kingdom of Danemarc
Muscovy
Southern Muscovy
Russian Empire
Second map of Russia - glacial sea
France
Surroundings of Paris
An added map of Paris and its suburbs from 1772
Map of Paris and its suburbs (in black, fold-out)
Guienne and Gascony
Generalitat of Tours (fold-out)
Anjou and Touraine (fold-out)
Bordelois and Périgord
Bigorre and Armagnac
Diocese of Senlis
Diocese of Beauvais
Picardy
Picardie septentrionale and Artois (map detached, not missing)
Champagne and Generality of Chalons
Southern Champagne
Normandy (fold-out)
Brittany
Burgundy
Northern Burgundy
Beauce, Gatinois, Sologne
Languedoc
Eastern Languedoc
Diocese of Narbonne
Provence
Dauphiné and neighboring countries
Diocese of Béziers
Diocese of Toul
Catholic Netherlands
Missing (county of Flanders)
Missing (Haynaut, Namur, Cambresis)
Artois (map detached, not missing)
Missing (Brabant)
United Provinces of the Netherlands
Germany (map detached but not missing, small tear in margin but not missing)
Large theater of war on the borders of France and Germany (with inset plans of strongholds).
Course of the Rhine above Strasbourg
Rhine from Strasbourg to Worms
Rhine from Worms to Bonne
Electorate of Hanover
Eastern part of the Franconian circle
Electorate of Mainz
Circle of Bavaria (Latin title cut too short)
Posts and roads of the German Empire
Southern Swabia
Northern Swabia
Brandeburg
Helvetic Federation
Neuchatel and Vallangin
Poland
Spain
Majorca, Minorca, Yvice
A total of 61 maps plus one addition.
A detailed 5-page handwritten table of the two volumes precedes the maps.
Guillaume de l'Isle or Delisle (1675-1726), was a famous cartographer and pupil of CASSINI. In 1718, he produced a map of the Caspian Sea at the request of Peter the Great.
A precious and rare atlas, despite the defects of our copy.
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