Grand atlas universel ou collection de cartes encyprotypes, générales et détaillées des cinq parties du monde …

Large folio (67 x 47 cm) of [3] ff. (false-title, title, table), 40 maps on 48 leaves; half-binding (damaged, stains and missing).

Entirely engraved work, dedicated to Monsieur, by H. Brué, engineer-geographer to H.A. Royale

The atlas includes 16 double-page copper-engraved maps, with boundaries colored at the time: 2 maps of the world, 2 of Europe, 2 of France, 2 of Asia, 2 of Africa, 4 of America (northern and southern) and 2 of Oceania, including 8 general maps in 1 sheet each, and 8 detailed maps in 4 sheets each. When mounted, the latter can measure up to 1.25 x 1.90m.

All maps are dated between 1814 and 1816, except for the one-sheet maps of Africa and the four-sheet maps of Oceania. After having traveled, notably in the North Seas, the West African area and Australia in 1803, Adrien-Hubert Brué (1786-1832) devoted himself, upon his return to France, to his passion, cartography. Cartographer and publisher of geographical maps in Paris, he was appointed "Geographer of H.R.H. Sir" and then "Geographer of the King". Author of several atlases and maps published separately, he published the first edition of his Great Universal Atlas in 1815. Brué was a member of the central commission of the Geographical Society of Paris, and an associate of the Geographical Society of London. List of maps: 2 world maps - World map on Mercator projection. Encyprotype map. 1816. . . - World map on Mercator projection. Encyprotype map. 1816. . . In 4 sheets 2 maps of Europe - encyprotype map of Europe. 1816. - Encyprotype map of Europe. 1816. In 4 sheets 2 maps of France - encyprotype map of France containing all the cities of the kingdom. 1816. - Geographical and administrative map of the kingdom of France. 1816. In 4 sheets 2 maps of Asia - Standard map of Asia. 1814 - Incyprotype map of Asia. 1814. In 4 sheets 2 maps of Africa - Standard map of Africa. With maps of Ile de France (Mauritius) and Ile Bourbon (Reunion) in inserts. - Encyprotype map of Africa. 1814. With the map of the Ile de France (Mauritius) reduced from the map of Milbert's voyage, and the map of the Ile Bourbon (Reunion) reduced from that of Bory de St. Vincent. In 4 sheets 4 maps of America - Encyprotype map of North America. 1815. - Encyprotype map of North America. 1815. With the map of the Aleutian Islands, Santo Domingo, Guadeloupe and Martinique. In 4 sheets - Incyprotype map of South America. 1816. - Incyprotype map of South America. 1816. With maps of the Galapagos archipelago, the Shetland Islands... and the routes of the new discoveries made in the southeast of America. In 4 sheets 2 maps of Oceania - Oceania or fifth part of the world including the archipelago of Asia, Australasia, Polynesia &c. 1814. - Oceania or fifth part of the world comprising the archipelago of Asia, Australasia and Polynesia (or the continent of New Holland and the islands of the Great Ocean). In 4 sheets