[Atlas]. MICHEL, ed. Atlas universel dédié au général baron - Lot 213

[Atlas]. MICHEL, ed. Atlas universel dédié au général baron de Richemont, ex-commandant d'école St Cyr. Paris, Michel fils aîné, Lecointe et Pougins, 1834. In-16 oblong (10 x 12 cm. excluding binding), period green bronze calf, smooth spine, gilt title, gilt fillets and roulettes, cold fleurons, boards decorated with a central medallion and a border roulette, all in cold, and a gilt fillet and angular fleurons, gilt roulette on the spines and chasses, gilt edges (spine and upper board sunned, snagged tail cap, 3 corners dulled). Delightful and uncommon pocket atlas. It consists of 2 notice leaves, an engraved frontispiece with portraits of Mercator and Hondius, an engraved title, 30 steel-engraved maps, a printed title leaf and a paginated text [35]-60.