CHIQUET, Jacques. Le nouveau et curieux Atlas Geographique et historique, ou Le Divertissement des Empereurs, Roys, et Princes, Paris: chez Chereanau, [maps dated 1719]. Small 4 (185 x 140mm.), engraved double-page title and 28 engraved double-page maps and astronomical plates, the maps hand-coloured in outline, one folding, with an early woodcut map from another work entitled Haec Paradisi Descriptio bound in at the end (some maps frayed with slight loss, some browning and staining, one map bound upside-down), contemporary vellum-backed boards (rather worn).

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CHIQUET, Jacques. Le nouveau et curieux Atlas Geographique et historique, ou Le Divertissement des Empereurs, Roys, et Princes, Paris: chez Chereanau, [maps dated 1719]. Small 4 (185 x 140mm.), engraved double-page title and 28 engraved double-page maps and astronomical plates, the maps hand-coloured in outline, one folding, with an early woodcut map from another work entitled Haec Paradisi Descriptio bound in at the end (some maps frayed with slight loss, some browning and staining, one map bound upside-down), contemporary vellum-backed boards (rather worn).

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