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Six double-page engraved tables and thirty double-page engraved maps and plans hand-colored in outline; map 18, the French Empire, folds out to 33¼x31¼" (84.5 x 79.3 cm). (Folio) 55.7x40.5 cm (21¾x16"). original quarter sheep & paste paper boards,  morocco spine label, parchment corners. Manuscript map numbers stenciled on blank rectos. Second Edition.

A handsome copy of Vaugondy's "Study Atlas, For the Instruction of the Young" edited and corrected by Vaugondy's successor, C.F. Delamarche. Giles Robert de Vaugondy and his son Didier Robert de Vaugondy were the leading mapmakers in France in the eighteenth century, most famous for their production of the revolutionarily accurate Atlas Universel (1757), as well as for their spectacular terrestrial globes. The Vaugondys produced several study atlases in the late eighteenth century, and another folio atlas with this title in 1797-98, but with only thirty-five maps and plans. This updated edition of Vaugondy's Atlas d'Étude is undated on the title page, with some of the maps dated, the most recent being 1812.