Claude Buffier - Géographie en vers artificiels exposée dans les différentes méthodes qui peuvent abréger l'étude de - 1781





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Claude Buffier’s 1781 *Géographie en vers artificiels exposée dans les différentes méthodes qui peuvent abréger l'étude de cette science et en faciliter l'usage* is bound with his *Traité de la Sphère* and includes 16 maps and a world map, with the map of Asian Turkey missing.
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Claude Buffier. Geography in artificial verse, set forth in the various methods that can shorten the study of this science and facilitate its use. Paris, Barrois, 1781, xvi-452 pp. [Bound with] Claude Buffier. Treatise on the Sphere, exposed in different methods. Paris, sn, 1781, 77 pp.
A volume in-12 (170x100 mm), full calf, triple gilt fillets framing the boards, spine with raised bands ornate, title-piece in red morocco, red edges (binding of the period). Wear and rubbing on the boards and the spine, upper joint of the first board split, heads shaved, most of the last forty pages (Treatise on the Sphere) are pasted together and impossible to detach, several tears on these last pages. Interior fresh, no foxing.
New edition; with 16 maps (Europe, France, Netherlands, Switzerland and Savoy, Holy Roman Empire, a map of Upper and Lower Rhine, Italy, Spain, Great Britain, Sweden and Denmark, Poland, Turkey, Greece ancient and modern, Asia, Turkey ancient and modern, Africa, and America) and the world map. The map of Asia Minor is missing.
The geography work is completed by a Treatise on the Sphere.
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Claude Buffier. Geography in artificial verse, set forth in the various methods that can shorten the study of this science and facilitate its use. Paris, Barrois, 1781, xvi-452 pp. [Bound with] Claude Buffier. Treatise on the Sphere, exposed in different methods. Paris, sn, 1781, 77 pp.
A volume in-12 (170x100 mm), full calf, triple gilt fillets framing the boards, spine with raised bands ornate, title-piece in red morocco, red edges (binding of the period). Wear and rubbing on the boards and the spine, upper joint of the first board split, heads shaved, most of the last forty pages (Treatise on the Sphere) are pasted together and impossible to detach, several tears on these last pages. Interior fresh, no foxing.
New edition; with 16 maps (Europe, France, Netherlands, Switzerland and Savoy, Holy Roman Empire, a map of Upper and Lower Rhine, Italy, Spain, Great Britain, Sweden and Denmark, Poland, Turkey, Greece ancient and modern, Asia, Turkey ancient and modern, Africa, and America) and the world map. The map of Asia Minor is missing.
The geography work is completed by a Treatise on the Sphere.

