RAYNALL, Guillaume-Thomas (1713-1796). Atlas portatif pour servir à l’intelligence de l’histoire philosophique et politique des établissemens et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes. Amsterdam: Ernest van Harrevelt and Daniel Jean Changuion, 1773.
4º (267 x 200mm). 47 hand-coloured maps, most engraved by J. van Schley after J. N. Bellin, numbered 1 to 40 with 7 bis plates, some double-page and folding, all mounted on guards. Contemporary calf (rebacked preserving old spine label, board edges rubbed, corners worn). Provenance: R.H. Johnstone (20th-century bookplate).
AN ATTRACTIVE COPY OF A SCARCE ATLAS, intended to accompany the Histoire philosophique et politique … des Europe´ens dans les deux Indes, first published by abbé Guillaume-Thomas Raynal in Amsterdam in 1770. The double hemisphere world map is by and after A.V. Krerelt and dated 1773. The only other cartographer to be identified is Bellin; his maps, when dated, are much earlier. For example, the Canary Islands bears a 1746 date, West Tartary 1749 and Indoustan 1752. Individual map titles are given in both French and Dutch. cf. Brunet IV, 1126.
RAYNALL, Guillaume-Thomas (1713-1796). Atlas portatif pour servir à l’intelligence de l’histoire philosophique et politique des établissemens et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes. Amsterdam: Ernest van Harrevelt and Daniel Jean Changuion, 1773.
4º (267 x 200mm). 47 hand-coloured maps, most engraved by J. van Schley after J. N. Bellin, numbered 1 to 40 with 7 bis plates, some double-page and folding, all mounted on guards. Contemporary calf (rebacked preserving old spine label, board edges rubbed, corners worn). Provenance: R.H. Johnstone (20th-century bookplate).
AN ATTRACTIVE COPY OF A SCARCE ATLAS, intended to accompany the Histoire philosophique et politique … des Europe´ens dans les deux Indes, first published by abbé Guillaume-Thomas Raynal in Amsterdam in 1770. The double hemisphere world map is by and after A.V. Krerelt and dated 1773. The only other cartographer to be identified is Bellin; his maps, when dated, are much earlier. For example, the Canary Islands bears a 1746 date, West Tartary 1749 and Indoustan 1752. Individual map titles are given in both French and Dutch. cf. Brunet IV, 1126.
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