[MANUSCRIPT ATLAS; 17 HAND-DRAWN AND HAND-COLORED MAPS OF THE WORLD] -

[France?], 1800. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Oblong quarto. 265mm x 210mm. 17 maps, drawn and colored on the recto only; two are folding. Bound in later cloth-backed decorative paper boards. Front board with earlier oval pastedown label with printed border and printers name: "By de Weduwe de Moor en Zoon" ("by the Widow of Moor and Son," a publishing house). All maps are hand-drawn in ink with neat labeling in French in black ink; all hand-colored. Light soiling and some ink remnants to paper label. Sporadic spotting, mostly along margins, generally not impacting maps.

The detailed and elegant maps include a map of the world, one of Europe, Asia, Africa, North America as it stood at the turn of the 19th century, South America, a very detailed map of France, the Low Countries, The British Isles, Spain and Portugal, Italy, German speaking Central Europe, Poland in 3 parts as it was after 1795 until 1807 when the Duchy of Warsaw was created, Scandinavia, European Russia, Switzerland and Hungary and Turkey which shows Greece before Independence in 1822.