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LAURIE (ROBERT) AND JAMES WHITTLE
A New and Elegant Imperial Sheet Atlas, Comprehending General and Particular Maps of Every Part of the World, Laurie & Whittle, 1797

19 August 2020, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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LAURIE (ROBERT) AND JAMES WHITTLE

A New and Elegant Imperial Sheet Atlas, Comprehending General and Particular Maps of Every Part of the World, 52 hand-coloured engraved maps after Dunn, Jefferys, d'Anville, Rennel, and others, the majority double-page and folding, short tear to United States, later maroon half morocco, neatly rebacked preserving original gilt-tooled spine [cf. Phillips, Atlases 4302; cf. Shirley, British Library T.LAU-2a], folio (535 x 393mm.), Laurie & Whittle, 1797

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Rare atlas, including 2 World maps, and 8 of the Americas. This copy contains two additional maps (Invasions of England; Coast of Brazil) which are not called for in the list of contents.

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