ENGELMANN, Godefroy (1788-1839); G. Berger.
Porte-feuille geographique et ethnographique
Porte-feuille geographique et ethnographique
contenant des planches pour la géographie mathématique, des dessins représentant les principales curiosités de la nature, ainsi que les costumes, moeurs et usages des peuples les plus remarquables... le tout exécuté par les procédés lithographiques et soigneusement enluminé, accompagné d'un texte explicatif et de tableaux synoptiques propres à faciliter l'usage de cet ouvrage dans l'enseignement de la jeunesse.
Stock Code 93845
Mulhouse, Chez G. Engelmann, 1820
Copies are recorded in two Australian collections (State Library of New South Wales; National Library of Australia).
Two volumes bound in one, 4to., volume 1 with hand-coloured frontispiece, 204, 46, 20pp; volume 2 comprises 88 hand-coloured copperplate engraved plates and maps (34 are maps, some folding), contemporary half calf over marbled papered boards, spine with raised bands, gilt ornament and contrasting title label with gilt lettering, mild water stain with some reddish discolouration around the upper margin of some sections of both volumes, affecting neither the text nor the plates, otherwise a crisp copy with vivid plates.
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