L'Amerique en Plusieurs Cartes, & en divers Traittes de Geographie, et d'Histoire

by Nicolas Sanson D'Abbeville

$5,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

15 engraved double-page maps, hand colored in outline. 4 , 40 of 42 unpaginated text leaves lacks final two leaves of text . 4to. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt, raised spine bands, repairs at joints. Lacks final two leaves of text after the map of Brazil. Sabin 76708; Phillips Atlases 1151; Streeter sale 68 undated edition ; Leighley, California as an Island, plate 9. Item #375003 First edition of important and quite handsome 17th-century

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