Description: , Paris, P.C. Lehuby [..], 1841[-1842], [4],98 pp. With engraved title-vignette, 49 double-p. engraved maps (borders in a contemp. handcolouring) by P.A. Tardieu & 1 double-p. engraving (dep. an armillary sphere) by P.A. Tardieu after A.E. Lapie. Large folio (ca. 50,5 x 36,5 cm.), 19th-cent. green half-chagrin with gilt(-lettered) ribbed spine. ? Phillips 123a & 787. Cf. Brunet III, 832 (listing the first edition publ. in 1828). Scarce re-edition of a 19th-cent. French atlas by the French cartographers Pierre M. Lapie (1779-1850) & his son Alexandre Emile Lapie (1800-1871) illustrated with 50 large-sized engravings by the French engraver Pierre Alexandre Tardieu (1756-1844) printed by “Kaeppelin & Cie” (= Eugène Florent Kaeppelin, 1805-1865). – Spine-ends (sl.) dam. (lower part of backstrip missing), corners rubbed/ worn. Small library-stamp in lower blank margin of title-page, occ. sl. foxed/ browned, but nevertheless in a good interior condition.