Atlases.- Le Rouge (Georges-Louis) Introduction a la Geographie, with engraved double-page additional allegorical title 'Atlas Nouveau Portatif à l'Uage des Militaires et du Voyageur', 2 hand-coloured engraved plates of globes and instruments, 86 maps hand-coloured in outline, including a celestial and terrestrial double hemisphere map, also with an engraved plan of Paris, and plate of flags, lacking map no. 64, all double-page and mounted on stubs, several maps incorporating cartouches and/or vignettes, map of France split along central fold with marginal losses, other occasional minor splitting to folds, scattered spotting and surface dirt throughout, a few minor nicks and marginal losses, some ink stains to one regional map of Germany, a few other maps with stains and marginalia, minor ink stains to extreme edges of some towards end, manuscript pen and ink contents list tipped in at end, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, splitting to spine, some losses, rubbed and scuffed, worn, 4to, Paris, chez l'Auteur, Prault le fils, la Veuve Robinot, 1756.
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