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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
PALAIRET, Jean (1697-1774). Atlas méthodique, composé pour l'usage de son altesse sérénissime Monseigneur le Prince d'Orange et de Nassau. London: J. Nourse & P. Vaillant; Amsterdam and Berlin: J. Naulme and The Hague: P. Gosse, 1755.
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PALAIRET, Jean (1697-1774). Atlas méthodique, composé pour l'usage de son altesse sérénissime Monseigneur le Prince d'Orange et de Nassau. London: J. Nourse & P. Vaillant; Amsterdam and Berlin: J. Naulme and The Hague: P. Gosse, 1755.
2o (540 x 375 mm). 53 double-page engraved maps with contemporary hand coloring (some minor staining). Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, gilt-lettered black morocco spine label (some rubbing and light wear to spine ends and corners).
The Atlas includes three progressive hemispheric world maps, maps of North and South America, include "Carte des Possessions Angloises & Francoises du Continent de l'Amerique Septentrionale" (second state, dated in manuscript 1763) engraved by Thomas Kitchin. The map is based on the work of John Mitchell, and designed to show the French and English possessions in North America as of 1755. Karpinski p. 147; see Sellers/Van Ee 56/57; Tooley, p. 62.
2o (540 x 375 mm). 53 double-page engraved maps with contemporary hand coloring (some minor staining). Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, gilt-lettered black morocco spine label (some rubbing and light wear to spine ends and corners).
The Atlas includes three progressive hemispheric world maps, maps of North and South America, include "Carte des Possessions Angloises & Francoises du Continent de l'Amerique Septentrionale" (second state, dated in manuscript 1763) engraved by Thomas Kitchin. The map is based on the work of John Mitchell, and designed to show the French and English possessions in North America as of 1755. Karpinski p. 147; see Sellers/Van Ee 56/57; Tooley, p. 62.