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Atlante - Le Sage , Alan René
Historical, geographical, genealogical, chronological and literary atlas, 1826
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Naples, Royal Printing House, 1826. In 2 °. Frontispiece with large lithographic vignette, 2 unnumbered preface pages, 40 double-page numbered plates outside the text, of which the first depicts a large historical globe engraved and colored with vintage watercolor, on the other cards 18 geographical representations, engraved and watercolors, first issue detached, plate 1 reinforcement and tear at the bottom of the left page, tear at plate 9 without loss and reinforcements on the verso, tear along the central fold of plates 10, 11, 12 of different sizes, plate 19 stain , reinforcements and halos of humidity, some stains on the last papers, coeval half leather binding, very damaged.
Specialist Notes
The volume is a valuable historical-geographical atlas: the scholar Graesse cites various editions published during the 1920s, and attributes its true authorship to Count Aug. Emm. Dieudonné Mar. Jos. de Las Cases. He was born in Las Cases (in Haute Garonne) in 1766 and died in Passy-sur-Seine in 1842: he was an official and remained loyal to Napoleon, so much so that he wanted to follow the emperor in the exile of Saint Helena; his most important writing is, in fact, Le Mémorial de Saint-Hélène on the last years of the famous strategist.