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DESNOS, L.C. / BUY DE MORNAS, C. - Globe Terrestre.

DESNOS, L.C. / BUY DE MORNAS, C. -  Globe Terrestre.
DESNOS, L.C. / BUY DE MORNAS, C. - Globe Terrestre.
Published: Paris, 1762
Size: 385 x 540mm.
Color: In original colours.
Condition: Water stains in lower margin, just affecting printed border. Overall good condition bur some brown spotting. Dark impression.

Description

Decorative map of the world on a globe.
Left and right a box with information's about the terrestrial globe.
Prepared by Buy de Mornas, who was a professor of geography and history and published by Louis Charles Desnos, active in Paris at rue St.Jacques.
From : Atlas Méthodique et Elémentaire de Géographie et d'Histoire Dédié a Monsieur Le Président Hénault...
Printed within a very decorative border frame (drawn and engraved by Martinet) entwined with garlands of leaves and flowers, including surveyors and draughtsman's tools e.g. triangles, compasses, rulers, telescopes, a map and globe, with a mythological figurehead crowned with leaves in top center, and the address of the publisher.
This edition with remarkable decorative borders found only in the deluxe edition.
150€
  • Reference N°: 21322
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