Les Usages del Sphere, et des Globes Céleste et Terrestre, selon le Hypothése de Ptolémée & de Copernic, accompagnées de Figures analogues .Deuxieme Edition par Delamarche, Géographe & Successeur de Robert de Vaugondy. A Paris, Rue du Foin S. Jacques, au Collége de Me Gervais.
Translation in English: The Uses of the Sphere, and of the Celestial and Terrestrial Globes, according to the Hypothesis of Ptolemy & Copernicus, accompanied by similar Figures. Second Edition by Delamarche, Geographer & Successor of Robert de Vaugondy. In Paris, Rue du Foin S. Jacques, at the College of Me Gervais.
8vo octavo, 8 x 5 inches, small bookplate on front pastedown, 584 pages, endpapers renewed. Quarter calf over marbled boards. 8 fine engraved plates, 1 folding engraved map of France hand-colored in outline. Some light staining mainly restricted to first few preliminaries, most pages clean and bright, near fine condition...a beautiful copy. Boards with minor scuffing, edgewear, corners/edges with minimal rubbing, near fine.
"AN VII" of the Republican calendar corresponds to the years 1798 and 1799 of the Gregorian calendar.
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