Atlas des enfans, ou Nouvelle méthode pour apprendre la géographie
Subtitle: avec un Nouveau traité de la sphere, et XXIV cartes enluminées
Edition: Nouvelle édition, corrigée & augmentée.
Publisher: Chez Jean-Marie Bruyset, père & fils.
Published: 1784
Place of publication: A Lyon
Language: fre
Number of pages: 331
Subjects: Celestial mechanics; Sphere; Atlases; Textbooks; Children's atlases; Geography
Other titles: Atlas des enfans.; Nouvelle méthode pour apprendre la géographie.; Nouveau traité de la sphere.
Work titles: Atlas des enfans, ou, Methode nouvelle, courte, facile et demonstrative, pour apprendre la geographie
Notes: First edition printed in Amsterdam, 1760 under title: Atlas des enfans, ou, Methode nouvelle, courte, facile et demonstrative, pour apprendre la geographie. This edition has only 22 maps.

"Nouveau traité de la sphere, où l'on explique le mouvement des astres; & les systêmes du monde ancien & moderne, l'usage des globes & des mesures géographiques. Nouvelle édition, corrigée & augmentée", p. [283]-331, has separate dated title page with imprint: A Lyon, chez Jean-Marie Bruyset, père & fils. M. DCC. LXXXIV.

Signatures: a⁶ (a1 verso blank) A-O¹² (O10 verso, O11 and O12 blank)

Includes index on p. 263-282.

Engraved printer's ornament on title pages; head and tail pieces.

Includes a frontispiece of a child holding up the globe with a marine scene in the background; maps are numbered I-XXIV.

Purchase; 2017; 18-286.

Maps are hand-colored in blue, green, orange, pink, purple, and yellow.

John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: map XXII. [Americas] is bound upside down.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full mottled calf.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Sophia Augusta Brown Fund.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Marie Boniface: ms. autograph on verso of front flyleaf.
Table of contents: title: (Titles of maps supplied by cataloguer) I. [Mappamundi]; title: II. [Europe]; title: III. [Portugal]; title: IV. [Spain]; title: V. [France]; title: VI. [Germany]; title: VII. [Switzerland]; title: VIII. [Italy]; title: IX. [Low Countries]; title: X. [Netherlands]; title: XI. [Great Britain]; title: XII. [Denmark]; title: XIII. [Norway]; title: XIV. [Sweden and Finland]; title: XV. [Russia]; title: XVI. [Prussia]; title: XVII. [Poland]; title: XVIII. [Hungary]; title: XIX. [European Turkey]; title: XX. [Asiatic Turkey]; title: XXI. [Africa]; title: XXII. [Americas]; title: XXIII. [Armillary sphere]; title: XIV. [Astronomical movements of a sphere]