- Lot 281

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- Lot 281
MUNSTER & BELLE-FOREST (François de). La Cosmographie universelle de tout le monde. Paris, Nicolas Chesneau, 1575, 3 parts in 2 vols. in-fol, 20 ff. - 397 pp. - 390-1837 pp, - 44 ff. - 6 ff. - 2235 pp. - 87 ff, marbled calf, spine ribbed (very worn, damage to head and spine). Edition given by François de Belleforest, the last French edition. Regulated copy. With 109 wood-engraved maps and views (of which 101 double and 8 folding on 11 off-text). Map of Europe (torn), the city of London (4 burn holes with mq., wetness, tears), general map of all France (tears with mq.), the city of the suburbs of Paris with gd.mq., the city of Milan (tears with mq.), general map of Germany (tears), the city of Jerusalem (tears with lacks), the great Cairo (tears, mq.). Numerous plans and views in the text. The engravings are often city views: Beauvais, Marseille, Avignon, Loches, Aix en Provence, Clermont-Ferrand, Naples, Rome, Venice, Florence, Vienna, Rhodes, Goa, etc.. A remarkable double-page plate represents the marine and terrestrial monsters. Volume 1. The pagination from p. 338 to 353 is handwritten and the city of Aix en Provence is an ink drawing. The castle of Bloys has a marginal tear with mq., marginal tear at the border of the city of Saint-Denis, burn holes on pp. 95-102, qq. ff. disbound, worm gallery on first pages. Volume 1. Second part. Kingdom of Bohemia (tears). Marginal worm gallery at the table. Volume 2. Heavy marginal wormholes not reaching the text on pp. 1554 to 1689, burn spots on pp. 286 to 319, the map the island of crest (burn spots). Browning and wetness. Pagination error. Incomplete with the world map Typus Orbis Terrarum.
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