Description
Including the "New" United States
A new edition of Laporte's compact Atlas Moderne Portatif, with explanatory text expanded from earlier editions of 1776 and 1781. The present edition of Laporte's "portable" school atlas would appear to be the first to describe the "new United States." Laporte (1713-1779) first published this work one year after the American Declaration of Independence in 1776, then expanded the work in 1781 and 1786.
The text describing map 26 (New England and New York), states: "...son aujourd'hui possédées par les Treize Etats-Unis d'Amérique."
The plates and maps are as follows (all are double-sheet, except for the map of France which is folding):
- 3 engraved cartes astronomiques (described by some bibliographers as 6 plates due to the printed boarders.
- La Sphére Artificielle, our Armilaire Oblique
- Mappe-Monde, ou Description du Globe
- Carte de l'Europe
- L'Espagne et le Portugal
- Carte du Royaume de France
- L'Italie
- Carte des Pays Bas
- L'Allemagne
- Pologne
- La Russie d'Europe
- Suede, Norwege et Danemarck
- Angleterre
- Carte du Royaume d'Ecosse
- Irlande
- Hongrie et la Turquie d'Europe
- Asie
- Turquie d'Asie
- Carte des Regions et des Lieux dont il est parlé dans le Nouveau Testament
- Les Indes Orientales et leur Archipel
- L'Empire de la Chine avec les Isles du Japon et la Coree
- L'Afrique
- Carte de l'Egypte. Ancienne et Moderne
- Amerique Septentrionale
- Amerique Méridionale
- Golfe du Mexique
- Carte de la Nouvelle Angleterre, Nouvelle Angleterre, Nouvelle York, Nouvelle Jersey, et Pensilvanie.
- Carte de la Virginie et du Mariland.
- Isle de la Jamaique
Condition Description
Octavo. Half antique calf and marbled boards. Spine handsomely tooled in gilt with repeating fleuron device in five compartments. Title page a bit dust soiled. Internally clean, especially the maps. 47 pages plus 31 double-page engraved diagrams and maps (3 diagrams, 1 plate, and 27 maps). Map of France is folding. Complete. Couple of tiny wormholes, in lower gutter margin area (printed areas not affected). A very nice example.
Reference
Phillips Atlases 654 (1781 ed.)