- ATLAS NOUVEAU, CONTENANT TOUTES LES PARTIES DU MONDE

auction 405, Lot 248

SUMMERAUCTION

on 29 June 2022

 

ATLAS NOUVEAU, CONTENANT TOUTES LES PARTIES DU MONDE

estimate:
€ 15.000 to € 20.000

Differenzbesteuerung    

result:
€ 32.500 (incl. 30 % buyer's premium)

description:

Alexis-Hubert Jaillot

1632 Avignon-lès-Saint-Claude - 1712 Paris

 

 

 

ATLAS NOUVEAU, CONTENANT TOUTES LES PARTIES DU MONDE

 

OU SONT EXACTEMENT REMARQUÉS LES EMPIRES, MONARCHIES, ROYAUMES, ESTATS, RÉPUBLIQUES & PEUPLES QUI SY TROUVENTÀ PRESENT. 2 vol. Paris 1692. Imperial folio. Partly stained and browned, minor damage. Some of the colouring has slightly bled through to the verso / there is a faint imprint on the opposite pages. Endpapers stained, damage to margins. Marbled leather binding of that period with spine label. Richly embossed and gilt decoration with two central pieces (atlas with armillary sphere). Minor rubbing and damage. Minor damage to leather cover. Rear joint of the 1st volume chipped.

 

Revised edition published by Mortier in Amsterdam, the maps are dated between 1691 and 1693.

 

LGK 354.

 

Ex libris Franz Josef Keuffel von Ullbert (died in 1765), treasurer in Weitra. - Stamped "Bibliothek Schloß Weitra".

 

The map of the Danube (table list 112) is missing.

 

 

 

 

 

Provenance: owned by Austrian nobility.