The first three (2 Mappe-mondes, and a Carte de la direction des vents) and the last six maps, no. 39 to 44, relate to America,
and include North and South America and the Islands.
The
Abbé Grenet was born circa 1750. In 1789 he was a professor at the Collège de Lisieux, but his fate during the Revolution of that year
is not known.
Rigobert Bonne, 1727-1794, French geographer.
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Geographie ancienne et moderne de Grenet.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 117, no. 6, as above.
GRENET,
Abbé.
Abrégé de Géographie ancienne et moderne, par M. l’Abbé Grenet . . . pour servir à l’Atlas portatif du même auteur . . .
Paris:
L’Auteur,
1781.
12mo. 2 parts in 1; no copy was located for collation. The title was taken from the Catalogue of the Bibliothèque Nationale.
For the
Atlas portatif
, see the preceding entry.
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Principes de geographie par Le Moine.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 117, no. 7, as above.
LEMOINE d’ESSOIES, Edme Marie Joseph.
Principes de Géographie, suivis d’un Traité du Globe, et de l’Exposition du Système de Copernic; avec des Traits d’Histoire
Naturelle et Politique, des Notes, des Tables et des Planches; ouvrage qui contient la description des Principales contrées
de l’Univers . . . l’Histoire abrégée de la Révolution de l’Amérique Septentrionale . . . a l’usage des jeunes Gens . . .
Par M. Lemoine . . .
Paris:
l’Auteur,
Belin,
Nyon,
1784.
12mo. 297 leaves, 1 plate; no copy was located for collation.
Edme Marie Joseph Lemoine d’Essoies, 1751-1816, French professor of mathematics and physics, and the founder of a polytechnic school, published the first edition
of this work, dedicated to the duc d’Enghien, in 1780.
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Scott’s Universal gazetteer.
4. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 117, no. 114, as above.
SCOTT,
Joseph.
The New and Universal Gazetteer; or, Modern Geographical Dictionary. Containing a full and authentic Description of the different
Empires, Kingdoms, Republics, States, Provinces, Islands, Cities, Towns, Forts, Mountains, Caves, Capes, Canals, Rivers, Lakes,
Oceans, Seas, Bays, Harbours, &c. in the Known World . . . Including the new political divisions of Europe, and several hundred
places in the United States of America never before published. The whole containing many thousand places not found in any
similar Geographical work; and wherein upwards of Five Hundred Errours are corrected in the Encyclopedia Britannica, and in
Millar, Payne, Guthrie, Watson, Brooks, Walker, Morse, &c. To which is added, a new and easy Introduction to Geography and
Astronomy; with a Nomenclature,
