£1,250
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 23 June 2021 at 11:00 BST
[Paris, c.1818]. 4 volumes, folio, 37 engraved maps and plans (including 3 bis), some folding, some double-page, some partly hand-coloured; WITH Jomini, Antoine, Général. Atlas pour le Traité des Grandes Opérations Militaires.[Paris, 1818], folio, 26 engraved maps and plans (including 22 bis), some folding, some double-page, some partly hand-coloured; all 5 volumes uniform original marbled blue board folders, ties, rebacked with blue cloth; no title-pages appear to have been issued with these volumes, slight marginal dampstain to a few maps; Lallemand, A. Atlas Topographique du traité théorique et pratique des Opérations secondaires de la Guerre. Paris: Librairie Militaire J. Dumaine, 1846. 4to, lithographed title with vignette, 2 plates and 42 lithographed maps, all partly hand-coloured, contemporary half calf, title slightly spotted (6)
Note: The first atlas above calls for a Carte Generale de l’Empire d’Allemagne but a note on the list of plates on the cover states that as it is found already in the Traité des Grandes Opérations Militaires, published in 1818, it would not be supplied to the Subscribers of the first atlas.