ROBERT De VAUGONDY (Didier): New portable atlas. Intended pr - Lot 132

ROBERT De VAUGONDY (Didier): New portable atlas. Intended primarily for the instruction of youth. D'après la Géographie Moderne de feu l'Abbé Delacroix, par Robert de Vaugondy, géographe; Revu, corrigé et augmenté avec la division de la France en départements par F. Delamarche, géographe successeur de J. Fortin ingénieur mécanicien pour les Globes et Sphères. Paris, Delamarche, s.d. [circa 1804]. 23.5 by 32 cm. 9-(1) pages + 53 double-page color maps (43.5 by 32 cm). Fully mitered. Modern fawn half-basane, 5-ribbed spine. Minor spotting. Some internal foxing, most pronounced on text pages and on maps 19, 20, 21, 24, 25, 28 and the 1st planisphere. But even pronounced, these spots are acceptable. Title page soiled. Margins of last maps very lightly stained. Dates are either Year III or 1804. The map of the departments of the Empire has been added, as advertised. The maps are numbered in pen. 1 - Mappemonde 2 - Mappemonde or general map of all parts of the globe ... 3 - Idem, corrected and augmented by Cape Cook's discoveries ... 4 - Idem 5 - Europe 6 - The British Isles 7 - England 8 - Scotland (Shetland Islands in inset) 9 - Ireland 10 - Sweden 11 - Norway. Kingdom of Danemarck 12 - European Russia. Northern part 13 - European Russia. Southern part. Tartary 14 - France 14 bis (unnumbered): Map of the French Empire divided into 108 departments (1804). Large folding map. Tears restored and not missing. 15 - Flandre françoise, Picardie et Artois, Isle de France, Orléanois, Champagne, Lorraine et Alsace 16 - Normandy, Brittany, Maine, Anjou; Touraine and Saumurois 17 - Berri, Nivernois, Bourbonois, Lyonois, Burgundy, Bresse and Franche-Comté 18 - Poitou, Aunis, Saintonge and Angoumois, La Marche, Limosin and Auvergne 19 - Guienne and Gascogne, Basse Navarre and Béarn 20 - Languedoc, Dauphiné, Provence 21 - German Empire according to old divisions ... 22 - Netherlands, United Provinces, Westphalia 23 - Circles of Upper Saxony and Lower Saxony 24 - Upper and Lower Rhine. Swabian Franconia 25 - Circles of Bavaria and Austria 26 - Bohemia, Silesia, Moravia, Lusatia 27 - Swiss and Grisons 28 - Divided Kingdom of Poland ... 29 - Kingdoms of Spain and Portugal 30 - Italy 31 - Lombardy, Tuscany, State of the Holy See, Isle of Corsica 32 - Kingdoms of Naples, Sicily 33 - Hungary, European Turkey 34 - Asia revised and corrected 35 - Asian Turkey, Arabia, Persia, Tartary 36 - Siberia. Chinese Tartary. Land of the Chosen. Islands of Japan 37 - Hindustan. Indian peninsulas. China. Independent Tartary. 38 - The Sunda Islands, Moluccas, Philippines, Carolines and Mariannes. 39 - Africa 40 - Barbary, Egypt, Nigritie, Guinea, Nubia, Abissinia. 41 - Congo, Coffee 42 - America 43 - Canada, Louisiana, United States 44 - New Spain. New Mexico. West Indies 45 - Tierra del Fuego, Peru, Brazil, Amazon Country 46 - Paraguay, Chile, Magellan Land 47 - Map of the first ages of the world. Ecclesiastical geography of Asian Turkey and Persia. 48 - Judea or Holy Land 49 - Judea or the Holy Land 50 - Judea or the Holy Land 51 - Judea or the Holy Land under the Turks 52 - Gaul The large 1804 map of the French Empire includes the departments that make up present-day Belgium... One of the editions of this classic Atlas, whose collection allows us to see the cartographic and political evolution of the world over 50 years...