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Celestial mechanics, Sphere, Atlases, Textbooks, Children's atlases, GeographyPlaces
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Translation, by Francisco Vasquez, of the anonymous author's: Atlas des enfans, ou Methode nouvelle, courte, facile et demonstrative, pour apprendre la g̓eographie, first printed in Amsterdam, 1760.
"Nuevo tratado de la esfera, que contiene una explicacion de la esfera armilar y sus circulos, con el movimento de los astros, systémas del mundo antiguos y modernos; con un compendio del uso de los globos y medidas geograficas. Traducico, aumentado y acomodado al meridiano de Madrid, por el P. D. Francisco Vazquez, C. R.", p. [1-2] and 1-44, 3rd and 4th counts, has separate dated title page with imprint: Con permiso en Madrid, por Pantaleon Aznar. MDCCLXXXVI.
Signatures: A-2F⁴ (A1 verso blank) ²A-²F⁴
Includes index on p. 203-222.
Engraved printer's ornaments on title pages; head and tail pieces; initials.
Purchase; 2017; 18-287.
Maps are hand-colored in blue, green, orange, pink, purple, and yellow.
John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary vellum over boards.
John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Sophia Augusta Brown Fund.
Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Frances Matthews: ms. autograph on recto of front flyleaf.
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