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MOULLART-SANSON, Pierre (d.1730). Introduction à la géographie en plusieurs Cartes avec leur Explication. Paris: Dans le Cloître de Saint Nicolas du Louvre, 1713. Very rare atlas, including the rare world map on Mercator's projection, compiled as a teaching aid for understanding terrestrial and celestial cartography, coloured by a contemporary hand. Published by Pierre Moullart-Sanson, grandson of Nicolas Sanson this atlas includes his updating of his forebear's world map, 'Mappemonde ou Carte Marine Universelle Reduite'. Dated 1695, it contains a 'detailed recording of the day's length according to the son's zodiacal position, thus allowing (in theory) a means of calculating longitude' (Shirley World 573). The other engravings are mostly undated, with the exception of one or two bearing 1704 or 1705. Folio (442 x 293mm). Engraved title, two imprints, one dated 1711 and the other 1713 obscured with an engraved pasted overslip with date of 1713, 33 maps and plates, all coloured in outline by a contemporary hand, of which 1 double-page, 1 double-page and folding, and 11 single-page folding, plate 24 with moveable volvelle, plate21 with loose moveable part (maps 6 and 7 with text on folding flaps frayed at edges with some tiny losses and old reinforcement, plate 22 remargined, tiny hole to preface with old paper repair, map 5 with plain paper overslips obscuring engraved text, 3 maps cut-down and mounted, one map reinforced at fore-edge and mounted on a stub, occasional light marginal staining and light creasing). Contemporary calf, central gilt arms (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: La Rochefoucauld, Duc de Bisaccia (armorial binding and bookplate).