Jean-Pierre CATTEAU-CALLEVILLE
Tableau de la mer Baltique, considérée sous les rapports physiques, géographiques, historiques et commerciaux, avec une carte, et des notices détaillées sur le mouvement général du commerce, sur les ports les plus importans, sur les monnaies, poids et mesures[Survey of the Baltic Sea, Considered in its Physical, Geographical, Historical and Commercial Aspects, with a Map, and Detailed Notices on the General Movement of Trade, the Principal Ports, Currencies, Weights and Measures]
Pillet|Paris 1812|13.6 x 23.5 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition illustrated with a large folding map bound at the rear of the first volume and 3 folding tables in the second volume (cf. Kress 5962. Goldsmiths B.20411. INED 1006. Not in Einaudi.)
Contemporary Bradel bindings in full yellow paper boards, smooth spines slightly darkened and decorated with fillets, minor rubbing to the spines, olive morocco lettering-pieces, volume numbers stamped within gilt shields, a few rubbed areas with slight losses to the paper boards, bookplates pasted onto the endpapers, contemporary bindings.
An important work from the geographical, economic, and statistical points of view alike. INED particularly notes, in volume II, the "sixth and
€850