Author: LADVOCAT, JEAN BAPTISTE (1709-1765)
Title: 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...
Description: A Paris : Chez Delalain fils. an XI = 1803. 1803. 1803 Edition. 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.Weight in Kg appr.:

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