BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas. Le Petit Atlas maritime recueil de cartes et plans des quatre parties du Monde. Paris: Bellin, 1764.

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BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas. Le Petit Atlas maritime recueil de cartes et plans des quatre parties du Monde. Paris: Bellin, 1764.

6 parts in 5 volumes (volume 3 in 2 parts), 4o (318 x 238 mm). Engraved general title, 6 engraved divisional titles, engraved dedication and indexes and 578 engraved maps, charts and plans, many double-page or folding, mostly WITH CONTEMPORARY HAND-COLORING (perforated stamp to titles, small old library stamp to lower right corner of most maps, some within image). Contemporary mottled calf (rebacked, old spines laid down). Provenance: Gregoire Koncheleff (ownership inscription on title); early unidentified Russian library stamp (on titles, and most plates).

FIRST EDITION. The contents of the above atlas is arranged geographically: Volume I: L'Amérique Septentrionale et les Isles Antilles (102 plates); volume II: L'Amérique Méridionale (90 plates) including plate 39 bis Carte des Isles du Salut; volume III part I L'Asie and part II L'Afrique (126 plates including plate 92 bis Isle de Mogador and plate 95 bis Costes du Senegal; volume IV L'Europe (128 plates) and Volume V Les costes de France (132 plates). Phillips 638. (5)

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