Méthode pour étudier la Géographie. Ou l'on donne une Description exacte de l'Univers, formée sur les observations de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, et sur les auteurs originaux.

Réf. 42740

€ 2200.00

Nicolas Lenglet Du Fresnoy

Paris - Rollin Fils, Debure L'ainé - 1742

Format : In-12.
Number of volumes : 7 tomes en 8 volumes
Binding : Related.
Collation : Volume 1: 330 pp. Volume 2: 333 pp.à 542 pp. le catalogue des meilleures cartes géographiques Volume 3: 584 pp. Volume 4: 664 pp. Volume 5: 732 pp.Volume 6: 676 pp.Volume 7: 701 pp.Volume 8: 653 pp.
Language : Français

Binding of the full Havana calf era. Spine with finely spine with raised bands decorated with golden cases, red title piece. Triple gilded framing net on the boards. Three marbled slices. Blunt corners. The interior is perfectly fresh and white. Illustrated with numerous folding maps. Volume 2 contains the Geography of Children or Abbreviated Method of Geography. Volume 4 is dedicated to France. Volume 6 is devoted to Turkey, Asia, Africa and America. A small addiction on the upper cap of volume 8.

I present to the Public a new and much increased edition of the Method for the Study of Geography, which I first published in 1716, in 4 volumes, and then in 1736 in 5 volumes. Nicolas Lenglet Du Fresnoy, born on 5 October 1674 in Beauvais and died on 16 January 1755 in Paris, is a French scholar, historian, geographer and philosopher. Lenglet was extraordinary because of the diversity of his interests, his sense of historical perspective, his ability to distance himself from norms and prejudices, and his business genius.

Bookplates of Mr. Dupleix de Bacquencourt, Intendant of Amiens.

Third edition.

Superb set, rare in this state and in this edition.