- A few tiny holes; cut just outside the borderline; a few creases.
AND 3 similar publ. by the same: "Yrlandt, van Dubling tot Corkbeg", "Paskaarte om achter Yrlandt om te Zeylen (...)" and "De Noord-Oost zyde van Yerlandt (...)" (similar defects).
- Sl. yellowed; closed tear in lower blank margin. = Van der Krogt/ Koeman 7805:2
- One map waterst., frayed and sl. mouldy.
- Neatly closed tear in right margin.
ADDED 1 other map: "Le Cercle de la Haute Saxe ou sont Le Duché et Eslectorat de Saxe, les Marquisats de Misnie et de Lusace, et le Landgaviat de Thuringe (...)" (large engr. map w. handcol. borders, 2 cartouches, Paris, H. Jaillot, 1681. Left margin sl. waterstained).
- Several closed tears; occas. duststained along margins.
= Joined together these 4 maps show the first approximately correct map of India, carrying the title: "Carte de l'Indostan ou de l'Empire Mogol; d'après les observations les plus recentes." The cartographer James Rennell (1742-1830), is regarded as the 'father of Indian cartography' and was one of the founders of the Royal Geographical Society in 1830. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XC.
LOOSELY INSERTED IN: Rennell, J. Receuil de cartes géographiques pour la description de l'Indostan. Paris, Poignée, "an VIII" (1800), (2),39,(1) textp., 10 fold. engr. maps (incl. the 4 maps forming the wallmap) and 1 fold. plan, contemp. boards, 4to.
- Lacks p.7/8 of the index; most margins of maps duststained; title-p. sl. foxed. Binding rubbed and badly soiled.
= The atlas vol. only to J. RENNELL, Description historique et géographique de l'Indostan (Paris, 1800).
- Upper edge laid down on paper mount.
= After a plate from La Harpe, Histoire Générale (1780).
- Central horizontal fold w. sm. tear at left end; blank margins sl. duststained/ a few foxed spots and sl. creased; sl. frayed.
- Mounted on linen; neatly closed hole in cartouche; sl. worn in blank margins in upper corners.
= Koeman IV, p.395 [80].
- Flattened middle fold. = Koeman II, p.59 (69).
- Trifle age-toned, otherwise fine.
- Lacks 1 plate; trifle/ sl. foxed, mostly on title and blank margins. Bindings sl. worn along extremities.
= Rossetti 361.
- Doubled (closing/ strengthening several weak/ dam. sections due to ink corrosion); lower margin sl. creased; top blank margin sl. chipped; sl. yellowed. Sold w.a.f.
= Rare 1st state of this important map, the first to show the newly discovered Sakhalin and Kyril islands, and famous for showing Korea as an island. Van der Krogt/ Koeman 8450: 1B; Walter 57; Cortazzi, H., Isles of Gold: Antique Maps of Japan, p.46 and 57 and plate 70. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCI.
- Seven dam. spots on folds (4x in top margin of plan); a few small sl. yellowed spots in image.
= The present day Wangan-doro Avenue is indicated in pink.
- Part of the textlvs only, without the maps and the views. Partly waterst. and some marginal tears/ false folds.
- Occas. w. some defects (mainly) in blank margins.
= Comprises i.a. "Planispheres celestes", "Carte de la peninsule comprenant l'Espagne et le Portugal", "Carte de la Turquie d'Europe et de la Grèce moderne", "Carte de l'Amérique septrentionale" and "Carte des Antilles du golfe de Mexique".
- Occas.sl. foxed, otherwise fine. = Espenhorst H 2.5.