Nouvelle géographie méthodique. Atlas élémentaire avec les cinq cartes muettes, dressé par M. Charle.

Small folio, 5 outline colored maps, mounted on endpapers; original blue binding, large title label affixed to first board. Atlas only.

First edition of this methodical geography work for schoolchildren, by Achille Meissas, a student of Abbé Gaultier, and Auguste Michelot, a former student of the Ecole Polytechnique. It is illustrated with five maps - Mappemonde, Europe, Central Europe, Asia, Africa, America - drawn by Jean Baptiste Louis Charle, a geographer attached to the General Depot of the War.

Aloïsius Edouard Camille Gaultier, known as Abbé Gaultier (1746 - 1818) and Achille Meissas are two authors who marked the teaching of geography in elementary school in the first half of the 19th century. A student of Abbé Gaultier, whose geography textbooks were the most widely distributed at the time, Achille Meissas (1799-1814) published, in collaboration with Auguste Michelot, a Nouvelle Géographie méthodique (New Methodical Geography) accompanied by an atlas that met with growing success: more than sixty editions were published until the beginning of the Third Republic. Geographer, former member of the Société de Géographie, editor and draughtsman, Jean-Baptiste Louis Charle (18?-18?) had a very abundant cartographic production from 1823 on.