COMPAN (l'abbé Charles)

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COMPAN (l'abbé Charles)
Nouvelle méthode géographique, précédée d'un traité de la sphère ; & des Élémens de Géométrie ; & terminée par une Géographie sacrée. Paris, Merigot jeune, 1771. 2 strong volumes in-8, red morocco, triple gilt fillet, small fleuron at the corners, coat of arms in the center, ornate spine, olive title and gilt stamps, inner scroll, lining and endpapers of dominoté paper, gilt edges (Period binding). First edition, dedicated to Madame de France, of this useful work for those who wish to make progress in Geography, a necessary science, [...] suitable for all ages and sexes. It is decorated with an engraved plate of explanatory figures for the first chapter concerning the elements of geometry. This method of geography, supposedly new, due to the abbot Compan, lawyer in Parliament and "geographer of cabinet" native of Arles, is largely drawn from the works of Lenglet Dufresnoy and Nicolle de Lacroix. In addition to a Preliminary Discourse on the origin and usefulness of this science, a Table of longitudes and latitudes of the main cities of the world, as well as a copious alphabetical table of cities, rivers, islands, etc., the work contains general notions on the manner in which the Earth was successively discovered and populated, the different peoples, the continents and the islands. There is also a more or less detailed description of certain countries in Europe, Africa, Asia and America, not to mention the Arctic, Antarctic and Southern polar lands, and the regions mentioned in the Holy Scriptures. A superb copy on hollande, in morocco, with the coat of arms of Marie-Louise de Rohan (1720-1803), known as Madame de Marsan, governess of the children of France, Louis XVI and his brothers and sisters. Daughter of the prince of Soubise, she married in 1736 Gaston de Lorraine, count of Marsan. The binding is of high quality and the decoration of the spine very elegant. Glued to the back cover of volume one, one can see the remainder of a fichet (bearing the n°156 in pen) of revolutionary seizure: the names of the owner or of the depository appeared on the upper part now disappeared. Some scratches on one plate.
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