Dictionnaire geographique-portatif, ou Description des royaumes, provinces, villes, eveches, duches, comtes, marquisats, villes imperiales, ports, forteresses, citadelles, et autres lieux considerables des quatre parties du monde...
1803, 1803 Edition. A Paris : Chez Delalain fils, an XI = 1803. Fair copy. Boards quite worn. Spine cover detached - loosely inserted. Prelims. and pages 1-3 have started to separate from the text block. Pages dust-toned with some tanning and scattered foxing, however the text is clear and legible throughout. Binding or reading copy only. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1060 pages; Vosgien's adaptation of Echard's "Gazetteer's or newsman's interpreter", originally published in London by Tho. Salusbury in 1692. Vosgien's work also draws heavily on Bruzen de la Martine`re's "Grand dictionnaire". See Echeverria & Wilkie, French image; Alden-Landis, European Americana. Vosgien = J. B. Ladvocat. 1060p. 3 folding maps ; 20cm. Two columns to a page. Pages 62, 114, 193 and 542 wrongly numbered 26, 14, 293 and 642. Subjects: Geography -- Dictionaries. Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- Reference works. Language: French. Item #220911
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