Sale 2496 - Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books, December 13, 2018

228 228 c   BELLIN, JACQUES NICOLAS. [Atlas de L’Histoire Générale des Voyages.] 73 mostly double-page or folding engraved maps, lacking title and prelims as common. 4to, 10x8 inches, contemporary quarter calf over brown paper covered boards, hinges split but cords still holding; maps numbered in ink in a small hand, later manuscript table of contents on final blank. [Paris, later part of the eighteenth century] [1,200/1,800] 229 c   BERGHAUS, HEINRICH. Physikalischer Atlas. Without title-pages or contents, 90 numbered engraved mapsheets and letterpress tables, several joined as double-page. 2 volumes. Oblong folio, 14 1 / 2 x18 inches, publisher’s half brown morocco, titles stamped in gilt, upper covers faded; occasional mild foxing, else bright and clean with original hand-coloring. Early shelf-mark library label to front pastedowns. Gotha: Justus Perthes, 1838-1848 [400/600] 229