ATLAS. Étienne André PHILIPPE DE PRÉTOT.
Universal cosmography, physical and astronomical.
No place, no name, 1748; high volume large in-4 mounted on tabs, entirely uncut, turned sheep binding with traces of use.
Frontispiece and 67 double-page copper-engraved cards, generously colored with subjects and cartridges, all very decorative. - Detail: Northern celestial hemisphere.... southern (2). - Notions of cosmogony (2). - Old and New World (with half of Australia). - World map (2). - A world known to the ancients. - America (2). - Asia (2). - Promised land.
- Africa (2). - Europe. - Scandinavian countries. - Russia.
- France (16). - Switzerland. - Germany (9). - Austria.
- Netherlands. - Poland. - Spain (7). - Portugal.
- Italy (6 including Corsica). - Turkey. - British Isles (5).
Some of the maps are dated to the 1770s.
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