THE UNIVERSE. History and description of all peoples - 10 vo - Lot 36

THE UNIVERSE. History and description of all peoples - 10 volumes. An impressive series, reflecting the progress of geographical and ethnological knowledge in the early 19th century. Paris, F. Didot, 1839-1850. 10 full-length volumes in-8, half-bassane racine, smooth spines with caissons decorated in the grotesque style. Between 250 and 550 pages; numerous steel-engraved maps and plates. Spines faded and rubbed, brown spots, missing title pages of the volume bearing the name "Affrique" and of the volume on the States of the German Confederation. Reunion of 10 volumes, with text on double columns, of this very learned collection whose aim was to provide a description, illustrated with maps, plates and views, of all parts of the Earth then known. Numerous inscriptions in graphite in the margins, handwritten table leaves have been added at the beginning and end of the volume on the States of the German Confederation. The countries mentioned are: Algeria, India, Chile, Spain, the countries of Eastern Europe (Austria-Hungary, Prussia, etc.), the countries of the French, Spanish and British West Indies (the future Jamaica, Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago, Dominican Republic), the countries and islands of pre-colonial sub-Saharan Africa. Good set, uniformly bound.