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CHEMEREAU, N. Geographie pratique contenant outre les instructions sussisantes à render une personne assez habile pour dresser lui même des cartes, le moyen de trouver la longitude. Amsterdam: La Compagnie, 1715.
4° (240 x 186 mm). Title printed in red and black. Engraved frontispiece, 4 full-page engravings in text, and 22 engraved folding plates and maps by Nicolas de Sanson d’Abbeville, including a double-hemispheric world map. (Last leaf soiled.) Contemporary calf (rebacked preserving original spine).
Presumed first edition of this geographical manual, illustrated by Sanson’s finely engraved maps. Not in Phillips or Tooley. Polak 1689.
4° (240 x 186 mm). Title printed in red and black. Engraved frontispiece, 4 full-page engravings in text, and 22 engraved folding plates and maps by Nicolas de Sanson d’Abbeville, including a double-hemispheric world map. (Last leaf soiled.) Contemporary calf (rebacked preserving original spine).
Presumed first edition of this geographical manual, illustrated by Sanson’s finely engraved maps. Not in Phillips or Tooley. Polak 1689.