LEVASSEUR (Victor).

Atlas National Illustré des 86 Départements et des Possessions de la France divisé par Arrondissements, Cantons et Communes. Avec le tracé de toutes les routes, chemins de fer et canaux. …

Folio; engraved throughout, comprising a title-page, statistical table, eighty-six maps of the provinces of mainland France, six of France’s overseas possessions, Europe, Africa, North America, South America, Asia and Oceania, and the world and France, totalling 100 maps, ninety-eight double-page, the world and France large folding. Contemporary half calf, gilt titling to front board; rebacked. Paris : Amable Combette, 1854.

£2,000.00

Famous atlas, justly celebrated for the elaborate pictorial borders around the double-page sheets, containing townscapes, historical scenes, portraits, costume figures, illustrations of local products, flora and fauna, statistical tables and descriptive panels of text.

Stock No.
224959