Author: DRIOUX AND LEROY
Title: Atlas Universelle Et Classique de Geographie
Description: Paris, Drioux and leroy. 1864. Book, Atlas Universelle et Classique de Geographie- Ancienne Romaine du Moyen Age et Contemporaine by Drioux and Leroy Paris 1864. The 70 maps in the atlas comprise10 devoted to ancient and sacred geography; four to the Roman Empire; 19 to the period from 400 AD to the end of the eighteenth century; 35 to the modern and contemporary world plus a cosmography and a map of the planet or planisphere. The modern" maps include maps of Europe during the Napoleonic wars; France (3 maps including one that folds out to 72 cm by 54 cm); Germany; the World in two hemispheres; Europe physical and political; Germany and Northern Italy; Central Europe (Austria and Prussia); British Isles; Russia in Europe; Belgium and Holland; Sweden Norway and Denmark; Switzerland; Spain and Portugal; Italy; Turkey and Greece; Asia; Turkey in Asia; Arabia and the East from the Mediterranean to the Indus; Africa (three maps); French colonies in Africa (two maps); North America; South America and the West Indies; Oceania. The maps are double-page in colour and with some additional hand-colouring. Condition Good to VG. Bound in original stiff red boards with a leather spine both VG. Marbled endpapers with some weakness to hinges. The large folding map of France is torn at the folds without loss. Size 33.5 cm by 25.5 cm. Images available.".

Keywords: Atlases