Paris, Charles Chauvin, 1869. Folio-oblong (535 x 415 mm). In contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine. Extremities with wear and two paper-labels pasted on to front board. Very light soiling to first few leaves, otherwise internally fine and clean. 214 pp full page weather charts showing the weather from America to the Caspian Sea.
Rare first printing of daily weather charts, issued by Observatoire Impériale de France, covering the North Atlantic and Western Europe, constituting one of the earliest weather or climate atlases to be published