Manuscript world atlas

France or Belgium, early 19th cent. Several maps signed "Joséphine Simon", containing 19 maps in pen and ink and all brightly handcol. in watercolour. Orig. boards, large folio (57 x 40.5 cm). Some small internal and external defects. A very fine and unusually large example of a manuscript world atlas. Maps of the world (in two hemispheres), Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Oceania, France, Italy, The Netherlands and Belgium, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Great Britain, Turkey, Russia, Scandinavia, the Vosges and Israel.