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VANDERMAELAN (Phillipe Marie Guillaume) : ATLAS UNIVERSEL DE GEOGRAPHIE,PHYSIQUE,POLITIQUE,STATISTIQUE ET MINERALOGIQUE, Brussels, 1827
6 vols (including statistical tables to vol. 1), folio (530 x 385mm), half-titles, hand coloured lithographed table of mountains, 387 double-page lithographed maps and plates by Henri Ode (comprising 6 index sheets,374 maps numbered consecutively and 7 bis sheets including one sheet of text for the Asia volume), hand-coloured in outline throughout ( upper margins of a few titles slightly stained), contemporary half roan (edges and corners rubbed)
Koeman I Vdm 1; NMM III 179; Phillips 749
The maps in this atlas make up the first map of the world on a uniform scale, constructed on a modified conical projection, which when assembled form a globe with a diameter of 7.75m. The contents of the atlas appears to vary according to subscriber. In this copy the contents conform with the indices although the copy is not indentical to that described by Koeman; the Koeman copy has 5 additional maps, most duplicated number plates in vol. 4, while the Phillips copy has 4 additional maps to vols 1, 5, and 6 in comparison to Koeman. Koeman describes a copy with as many as 26 bis and duplicate sheets, although he does not specify which copy this is. This copy with fewer bis plates may well be an early issue. (6)
6 vols (including statistical tables to vol. 1), folio (530 x 385mm), half-titles, hand coloured lithographed table of mountains, 387 double-page lithographed maps and plates by Henri Ode (comprising 6 index sheets,374 maps numbered consecutively and 7 bis sheets including one sheet of text for the Asia volume), hand-coloured in outline throughout ( upper margins of a few titles slightly stained), contemporary half roan (edges and corners rubbed)
Koeman I Vdm 1; NMM III 179; Phillips 749
The maps in this atlas make up the first map of the world on a uniform scale, constructed on a modified conical projection, which when assembled form a globe with a diameter of 7.75m. The contents of the atlas appears to vary according to subscriber. In this copy the contents conform with the indices although the copy is not indentical to that described by Koeman; the Koeman copy has 5 additional maps, most duplicated number plates in vol. 4, while the Phillips copy has 4 additional maps to vols 1, 5, and 6 in comparison to Koeman. Koeman describes a copy with as many as 26 bis and duplicate sheets, although he does not specify which copy this is. This copy with fewer bis plates may well be an early issue. (6)