Atlas historique, généalogique chronologique et géographique

First French edition, rare, the first edition having appeared in London in 1801. 33 double pages heightened in colors, being 22 maps (sometimes two per page) published in 8 parts of 4 maps or charts between 1802 and 1826 (Quérard). Edition published under the pseudonym A. Lesage.
Contemporary half sheep binding with corners. Paper boards with glue bordered with gilt rules. Sheep label on front board. Some stains on spine. Paper of boards faded. Some foxing. Quérard, in his France littéraire, reports regarding this work that it would not truly be the work of Las Cases but of an English or Irish clergyman who would have sold his work to the latter who would have published it upon his return to France; in any case this world atlas (map of Asia, Oceania, America) is a compilation, the maps naturally not being by Las Cases, and the author drew from various works to compose his own. This atlas was reprinted several times and continued, but although provided with more maps (which one could purchase additionally), these reissues no longer concern exclusively the world under the Empire and are therefore less specific. The geopolitical Europe of 1802/1804 is not the same as that of 1822 or 1831, and it is the same for the United States. Besides the maps of the five continents, one can distinguish a map of ancient Greece, of the Roman world...