Fine Books and Manuscripts

4to (259 x 207 mm). Half-title, letterpress list of plates, 28pp. text, 50 engraved maps, 23 letterpress tables (most folding). (Some very minor spotting or offsetting.) Contemporary blue silk-covered boards (spine defective). A fine copy of the atlas to accompany Raynal's L'Histoire Philosophique et Politique des Etablissemens et du Commerce des Europeens dans les Deux Indes, comprising maps by Bonne engraved by Andre. The map of North America is mostly blank west of the Mississippi River, and the maps of Mexico and the southwest include detailed information about the Jesuit missions.