La Suede et La Norwege Avec l'Islande . Par Sr. Brion. A Paris, chez le Sr. Desnos. 1786. (inset) Islande. (to accompany) Atlas general, civil, ecclesiastique et militaire, methodique et elementaire pour l'etude de la geographie et de l'histoire . par M. Brion, dirige par le sr. Desnos … A Paris 1786.

• Main Authors: Brion de La Tour, Louis, 1743 – 1803, Desnos, Louis Charles, Desnos, Louis-Charles
• Format: Map
• Language: unknown
• Published: Louis-Charles Desnos 1786
• Subjects: School; Norway; Iceland; Islande
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Engraved hand color map. Includes decorative engraved title cartouche and border. Shows political boundaries. 3rd edition, with double-page maps engraved on copper, ornate title page, an alphabetical index of the countries and cities, 55 maps listed in the table of maps, 3 unnumbered maps, and 2 sheets of plate 12-13, and plate 27-28. Maps are double page and 1 folded, engraved hand colored, in a Louis XV frame, with ornamental title cartouche. This atlas adds two other maps titled "Nouvelle Carte de la Parue Des Indes Orientales, qui comprend entr'autres Etats, les vastres Possessions des Anglais" New map of the East Indies part, which includes the English possessions, and "Carte Des Etats-Unis de l'Amerique Septen trionale, dressee d'apres des Cartes Anglaises", Map of the United States of North America, being a close up of the newly formed United States, drawn up from English maps. Hand written dates and inscriptions in French on both inside the front and back covers, describing the acquisition of this book in 1803 by someone serving under the French imperial command. Bound in dark brown calf with brown marbled boards, embossed gilt designs on spine with title "Atlas General".