ID 1317598
Lot 6 | [CHÂTELAIN, Henri Abraham (1684-1743)] - GUEUDEVILLE, Nicolas (1652-1721)
Estimate value
€ 7 000 – 10 000
Atlas Historique ou Nouvelle introduction à l'Histoire, à la Chronologie & à la Géographie... représentée dans de nouvelles cartes. Amsterdam : L'Honoré & Chatelain, 1708-1720.
Bel exemplaire en veau hollandais de l'époque.
Important atlas encyclopédique comportant des très nombreuses cartes et planches par Chatelain et les textes par Nicolas Gueudeville, brillant esprit et auteur de prolifique.
L'exemplaire est bien complet du tome VI, dont une large partie concerne l'Amérique. Il inclut la grande carte dépliante "Carte très curieuse de la Mer du Sud". Gueudeville y reporte des informations sur le Canada qu'il tira des ouvrages du baron de La Hontan qu'il publia au début du XVIIIe siècle.
Koeman, II, 33-38 ; Tooley America p.80 ; Mc Laughlin 190.
7 vols. in-folio (449 x 279 mm). 5 titres gravés et 285 planches, la majorité dépliante. Reliure de l'époque. Tome I : veau hollandais de l'époque, roulette dorée en double encadrement des plats, fers dorés aux angles de l'encadrement intérieur, large cartouche central doré, armoiries dorées frappées postérieurement, dos à nerfs, caissons ornés ; Tomes IIa, IIb et IV :veau hollandais de l'époque roulette dorée en encadrement des plats, triple filet doré et à froid, fers dorés aux angles internes et externes, large cartouche central doré avec au centre un globe doré, qui sera repris aux caissons des tomes V, VI et VII, armoiries dorées frappées postérieurement ; tomes V, VI et VII : veau hollandais, dos à nerfs, globe doré aux caissons ; tranches dorées (T. I à IV) ; mouchetées (T. V à VII). (Reliures très frottées, accidents importants aux coiffes et aux dos, les dorures du tome IV oxidées, planche 72 du tome IIb détachée, galerie de vers au tome IV).
Provenance : Heinrich Johann Baptist Ghislain Graf von Gudenus (1839-1915 - reliure aux armes et ex-libris) puis son fils Philipp Friedrich Gabriel Heinrich Maria, Graf von Gudenus (1877-1948 - cachet en sanguine aux titre) ; Hans-Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kaszon (1921-2002 - ex-libris).
Fine copy in a contemporary Dutch calf binding.
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