‎MENTELLE, EDME.‎
‎Cosmographie élémentaire, divisée en Parties astronomiques et géographique. Ouvrage dans lequel on a tâche de mettre les vérités les plus intéressantes de la Physique céleste a la portée de ceux même qui n'ont aucune notion de Mathématiques" Troisie...‎

‎Paris, Théophile Barrois, An VII (1799). 8vo. Bound in 2 well-preserved contemporary hcalf. Gilt backs. Title-and tomelabels in leather. XXII,727 pp., 1 folded table and 14 folded engraved plates (numb. I-XIII, 1 unnumb.), including 10 large folded and outline coloured engraved maps. Clean and fine, printed on good paper. With bookplate from ""Nörager Bibliothek"".‎

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‎Mentelle was geographer and historian, member of the Royal Inst. of Sciences and known for editing several geographical atlasses from 1782 up to 1808. - Poggendorff II:120.‎