Atlas. Compleete Zak-Atlas, van de Zeventien Nederlandsche Provincien

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Atlas. Compleete Zak-Atlas, van de Zeventien Nederlandsche Provincien. Amseterdam: Elwe en Langeveld, 1786.
Tall octavo, second, enlarged edition, text in Dutch throughout, hand-colored double-page engraved title, 243 pages of text, twenty-nine (of thirty) folding, engraved, hand-colored maps (lacking map XI, one of twenty-three maps of the Low Countries),and two folding engraved charts of distances, also hand-colored, bound in contemporary half leather, speckled paper boards, worn.
In addition to a world map, and detailed maps of Europe, this atlas also contains maps of Europe, North and South America and Africa compiled with information obtained through Captain Cook's recent explorations.
Estimate $800-1,200

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