DESNOS, Louis Charles. Atlas general méthodique et élémentaire pour l'étude de la géographie et de l'histoire moderne. Paris: Desnos, 1770-[71].

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DESNOS, Louis Charles. Atlas general méthodique et élémentaire pour l'étude de la géographie et de l'histoire moderne. Paris: Desnos, 1770-[71].

2o (443 x 313 mm). Engraved double-page allegorical title and 66 hand-colored engraved double-page maps and diagrams within allegorical border, text panels printed and mounted on either side of the maps (title torn along fold with perforated stamp, numerous maps with repairs along fold). Modern quarter morocco.

The maps are mainly by or after Louis Brion de la Tour and some are dated between 1766 and 1771.

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