First edition of Atlas Meteorologique, by Pierre Beron, to accompany Beron's "Text des explications des faits contenus dans l'atlas meteorologique ..." Atlas includes letterpress title page listing the contents, elaborate pictorial frontispiece "Cosmobiographie" and 11 full color chromolithographed plates, seven printed in blue and white. Plates showing a wide range of meteorological theories, including the origin of clouds and whirlwinds, lighting and thunder rain, heat wind, terrestrial magnetism, magnetic currents and origin of land and sea currents. Covers are half red leather marbled paper covered boards with title on spine is embossed with gilt.
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First edition of Atlas Meteorologique, by Pierre Beron, to accompany Beron's "Text des explications des faits contenus dans l'atlas meteorologique ..." Atlas includes letterpress title page listing the contents, elaborate pictorial frontispiece "Cosmobiographie" and 11 full color chromolithographed plates, seven printed in blue and white. Plates showing a wide range of meteorological theories, including the origin of clouds and whirlwinds, lighting and thunder rain, heat wind, terrestrial magnetism, magnetic currents and origin of land and sea currents. Covers are half red leather marbled paper covered boards with title on spine is embossed with gilt.
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