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LOT 954
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[Atlas] Voyage dans les quatre principales iles des mers d'Afrique. 1804

fait par ordre du Gouvernement, pendant les Années neuf et dix de la République (1801 et 1802), Avec l'Historie de la Traversée du Capitaine Baudin jusqu'au Port-Louis de l'IIle Maurice. J.B.G.M. Bory de Saint-Vincent, Paris, F. Buisson, 1804. Atlas complete with 58 plates. Large 4to (36 x 26.5 cm.), 3 large folding maps of La Réunion (general and detail and Mauritius and 55 maps (15 double-page, 2 folded and 1 colour plate [= 56 Réunion volcano]). Copper engravings by Adam, Blondeau, Fortier, Dorgez, B. Tardieu. Numbered plates 1-56, 14bis, 23 bis. (iv pp.). Bound in orig. cotton paper, lacks spine, edges and corners bumped. Bookblock intact and inside good.

Rare atlas volume, without the 3 text vols. A. Monglond, vol. IV, p. 749. Bory de Saint-Vincent (1778-1846) was an officer, geographer and naturalist, above all interested in volcanology, biology and the classification of species.

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