ATLAS "MAPPEMONDE À L'USAGE DU ROY" by Guillaume DELISLE (16 - Lot 120

ATLAS "MAPPEMONDE À L'USAGE DU ROY" by Guillaume DELISLE (1675-1726) Composite atlas, Paris, Guillaume Delisle, 18th century. Large folio, flipped leather, ribbed spine, gilt coat of arms on cover. Collection of 23 double-page maps (approx. 51 x 69 cm) engraved on copper and outlines enhanced in color, drawn up and published by Guillaume Delisle, the king's first geographer, cartographer and publisher. Composition: - 1. Mappemonde à l'usage du Roy, 1720. - 2. map of Europe, 1724. - 3. Map of Asia, 1723. - 4. map of Africa, 1722. - 5. Map of America, 1722. - 6. Spain, 1701. - 7. Map of France, 1721. - 8. Italy, 1700. - 9. Germany, no date specified. - 10. British Isles, 1702. - 11-12. Carte des courones du Nord, map in two sheets, no date specified. - 13. Poland, no date given. - 14-15. Map of Muscovy, map in two sheets, no date specified. - 16. Map of Hungary, 1703. - 17. Map of Turkey, Arabia and Persia, no date given. - 18. Orbis Veteribus Noti Tabula Nova, 1714. - 19. Geographiæ Sacræ Terra Promissa sive Iudæa, between 1000 and 678 (CIƆ - IƆCLXXVIII), by N.Sanson. - 20-21. Theatrum historicum. Pars orientalis [- occidentalis], 1705, map in two sheets. - 22. Tabula Italiæ antiquæ, 1715. - 23. Alexabdri Magni Imperium et Expeditio, elaborated by Delisle, Posthumous work 1731, by "Parisiis viduam autoris". Dim: 51 x 81 cm approx. Worn binding with missing parts, animal marks and heavy spotting, dampstaining and small tears in the margins of the maps. Book slightly bent. Some foxing.