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PLUCHE, Antoine Concorde de la géographie des différens âges. Posthumous work by M. Pluche. Paris Frères Estienne 1764 12mo: lx-511-[4] pp.; 13 pl. (portrait missing, marg. tear in fold of map of America, occ. spotting). Contemp. mottled sheep, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands, blue marbled edges (head missing, joints starting to split, corners bumped). First edition of this instructional geographical work through the ages by Antoine Pluche (1688-1761), French priest and naturalist. Ill. with 13 fold. maps: double hemisphere world map, 4 continents, India, France, Arabia & Egypt, the Holy Land, the Mediterranean, Greece, the Middle East and the Orient. Ref. Conlon 64:1115. - Cioranescu 50668. - Shirley I: T.Plu-1a. - Tooley IV:445. Prov. Carola Jutzler (mod. bookpl.).