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Printed title-leaf, contents-leaf, & 22 double-page copper-engraved maps, hand-colored in outline; engraved by Perrier, the lettering engraved by Andre or Macquet. 11x8½, period half roan & pastepaper boards, spine tooled in gilt, morocco label.

Selections from Grenet's Atlas Général, published as Napoleon was cementing his control over Revolutionary France. Most of the maps are dated 1780 to 1782; the map of France is dated 1800. Included are two maps of the world, plus the ancient world; continental maps of Europe, Asia, Africa, North America and South America; the various European nations, including Russia in Europe, and the young United States. This latter is of interest, dated July, 1781, before the Battle of Yorktown ensured the nation's freedom from British suzerainty. The map of North America has some curious but charming features, including a very large "Mer de l'Ouest" within the northwest, the the city of Quivira perched on its southern bank; a "Grande Eau" farther north, connected by a waterway to the Pacific Ocean; an "Archipel du Nord" in place of a defined Alaska; and the Port de Francois Drake near present-day San Francisco.