ATLAS - LOPEZ, TOMAS (LOPEZ DE VARGAS MACHUCA).
Atlas elemental, moderno ò Colleccion de Mappas, para ensenar á los Ninos geografia; con una idea de la esfera.
Madrid, 1792. Small 4to. (21x18 cm.). Cont. full mottled calf. neathly rebacked with titlelabel in leather, gilt. Free endpapers renewed. Engraved titlepage with decorative frame. 24 pp. and 27 double-page engraved maps. (numb. 1-27). Plate 1-2 showing orbits of earth and moon and different world-systems (these 2 are uncoloured). Plate 3-27 are double-page engraved maps, all handcoloured (the first 4 with a tear to lower part of centerfolding, but no loss). Old name on title and title with some strokes in crayon. Maps fine and clean, engraved on good paper.
¶ First edition of this fine atlas (a second edition was issued in Madrid 1801 with 26 maps). Lopez, the leading Spanish mapmaker at the time and geographer to the king, compiled a number of town-plans and highly esteemed geographical maps. - The atlas having maps of the World, Europe, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Poland, England, Russia, Scandinavia, Asia, India, China, Africa, North-America, Estados Unidos, Gulf of Mexico y las Islas Annulos, WSouth America etc. - Phillips No. 677 (5 relating to America) - Not in Shirley
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