Send us your name and email address.
We'll add you to our subscriber list and alert you to new catalogues and similar news
Mr. Philip D. Burden
P.O. Box 863,
Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks HP6 9HD,
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel: +44 (0) 1494 76 33 13
Email: enquiries@caburden.com
The FIRST EDITION of Rigobert Bonne’s ‘Atlas Moderne’ which was published in 1762. Bonne (1727-95) was an engineer, mathematician and cartographer. He succeeded Jacques Nicolas Bellin as the hydrographer at the Depot de la Marine in 1773. Jean Lattre (d.1782) was the publisher of this edition. The ‘Avertissement’ states that the Abbe Nicolle de la Croix had desired an atlas to accompany his ‘Geographie Moderne’ which had been published in 1752. It goes on to state that this work partly meets in that it is arranged in the same manner, but many details have been added. With maps by Bonne, Jean Janvier (1716-82) and Giovanni Antonio Rizzi-Zannoni (1736-1814). The maps are all an attractive quarto size with appealing colour. Over the years the atlas came to be issued in various formats in terms of quantity of maps. Phillips (1909-) 629; Shirley (2004) T.Bonn 1a; Tooley’s Dictionary (1999-2004).
BONNE, Rigobert
Atlas Moderne ou Collection de Cartes sur toutes les parties du Globe Terrestre
Chez Jean Lattré & Thomas Herissant, Paris, 1762
Folio (380 x 280 mm.), recased in full early calf, bind panelled, spine with gilded raised bands, extensive gilt decoration to compartments, red calf gilt title label affixed to the spine, later endpapers. With ornate engraved title page, ‘Avertissement’ dated 1762, Table, and 36 copper engraved plates (Sphere Armillaire numbered ‘c’ and 35 maps numbered to 36, 25 omitted from Table), complete, all in early outline colour, final leaf with ‘Catalogue’ of Sr. Lattre, engraved throughout, some light foxing, particularly to final two maps, otherwise in good condition.
Stock number: 11804
£ 3,950