Vidal-Lablache - Atlas général Vidal-Lablache - 1894

Fascinating illustrated edition of 137 maps and 248 panels, with an alphabetical index of 40,000 names. This cartographic work, associated with the French geographer Paul Vidal de La Blache, a major figure of French geography at the end of the 19th century, and intended to provide a methodical and pedagogical representation of the territories of the known world at that time -

This atlas embodies a conception of geography that seeks to go beyond a simple enumeration of countries and places to highlight the relations between spaces, populations, human activities, reliefs, climates, means of communication, and political borders -

It thus constitutes a tool of knowledge and teaching allowing the reader to visually traverse the different regions of the globe thanks to maps organized according to a precise geographical logic -

The essential interest of the work lies in its ability to represent simultaneously the physical and human diversity of the planet, distinguishing the major continental groups, the states, the seas, the reliefs, the rivers, the basins, the regions and the main centers of population -

Vidal-Lablache - General Atlas Vidal-Lablache - 1894 - Armand Colin & Cie -
200 Pages.

Good condition of the binding, the volume in its original half-leather with corners, marbled boards, signs of wear, some minor faults on the cover, headpieces and corners worn, speckled edges, spine with raised bands adorned with gilded rosettes, gilded title and author’s name -

Good interior condition, some stains, the flyleaf is a page added by the publisher, it is marked 76a and 76b to interleave between pages 76 and 77, nice vignette on the title page, text in several columns, the work enriched with 137 maps and 248 panels, with an alphabetical index of 40,000 names, marbled endpapers in good condition, a pleasing copy -

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