Estimate € 200 - 300
Sold € 180
Auction: 28 February 2024 at 15:00
LE SAGE, M. A. [Emmanuel Auguste Dieudonne de Las Cases] (1766-1842) - Atlante storico, geografico, genealogico, cronologico e letterario. Venice: Girolamo Tasso, 1826. Venetian edition of this well-known historical atlas in fine contemporary colouring. The text is enclosed in synchronous-chronological tables, to follow the method used by Le Sage and the colour maps, often double-page, are by Albrizzi. Folio (401 x 274mm). Printer's device on title, text mostly in colour and 37 colour plates (the number of plates may vary, some leaves slightly shorter, some slight foxing and browning). Contemporary quarter-calf with gilt title and blindstamped decorations, marbled paper covers (rebacked preserving original spine, some wear). Our copy is collated [pigreco]2 1-46/2 with the addition of some leaves from another edition at end. Provenance: Almici (bookplate on front endpaper).
Estimate € 200 - 300