Lot 218: 

ADRIEN HUBERT BRUÉ (1786-1832)
Atlas universel de géographie physique, politique, ancienne et moderne. Paris: chez l'Auteur, 1830. 2° (677 x 516mm). Engraved title and index leaf within decorative border, with letterpress leaf of review of the first edition of the atlas. 64 engraved maps only (of 65), all but two hand-coloured in outline (the map of France is entirely coloured). [Together with:] Brué's four-sheet 'Carte physique, routière et politique d'Europe, indiquant les limites des états, d'après les derniers traités de paix'. Paris: chez l'Auteur, 1824. This bound as four double-page engraved maps hand-coloured in outline, between maps 20 and 21 of the Atlas universel. (Lacking map 52 'Afrique... partie nord', map 40 'Turquie d'Europe' with light diagonal crease, map 51 'Afrique (carte générale)' loose with fore-edge frayed, two of the double-page maps with vertical creases, light offsetting to the double-page maps, faint soiling and browning to the others.) Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards, marbled endpapers (worn, spine detached).

Second edition of this atlas bound with the plates unfolded, together with Brué's EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION LARGE FOUR-SHEET MAP OF EUROPE. This latter map can only be traced in four institutions: BnF, Harvard, Chicago, and University of British Columbia, and no copies can be traced as selling at auction since 1975 (ABPC/AE). Phillips Atlases, 758 (Atlas universel).