NOLIN (Jean-Baptiste). General Atlas for the use of colleges and educational institutions Adapted to the different works of Geography. Pour l'Intelligence de l'Histoire Ancienne et Moderne, Accordés aux Observations de l'Académie Rle des Sciences Suivant les derniers Mémoires de J. B. Nolin Géographe de Sa Majesté. Paris : Mondhare, 1783. - In-4, 230 x 174: title, 48 maps, 1 f. of table. Half marbled basane, spine decorated, red edges (period binding). Rare first edition of the general atlas of the geographer Jean-Baptiste Nolin (1686-1762), published posthumously. It consists of an engraved title, forty-eight plates numbered from 2 to 49, representing the armillary sphere with a representation of the systems of Copernicus, Descartes, Ptolemy and Ticho-Brahé, the division of the globe, the winds and eclipses, the celestial globe, the eastern and western hemispheres, as well as maps of the different parts of the world, the last nine being devoted to ancient geography. The last leaf contains the engraved table. This atlas is rarely complete, as is the case here, and one more often encounters the reissue made in 1791. all plates are in color, except for the title and the table; they have all been mounted on tabs . Copy in contemporary binding. Large wetness and rubbing on the spine, lower headband torn off, crack at the bottom of the second plate hinge, corners dulled. Lower margin of the title cut out, without affecting the text. Lower margin of the table leaf shortened with damage to the frame.