Atlas de choix, ou recueil des meilleures cartes de géographie ancienne et moderne dressées par divers auteurs.

>This atlas was published in many compilations over a thirty year period.
The atlas contains ancient and modern geographical maps, engraved and hand colored, in 48 sheets, some are folded.
Shows the old world (10 maps) with the spreading and development of the different peoples, including Holy Land, the ancient world, a world map after Mercator, and the New World including a world map,
a map of Europe, maps of Scandinavia, Russia, Great Britain, the Netherlands and Belgium, France (one half-sheets and one four-sheets map), a plan of Paris, one of its “environs”, Switzerland, Germany, Spain and Portugal, Italy (two-sheets map), Corsica chart by Hell,
the Ottoman Empire (two-sheets map), Asia, Turkey and Arabia, India, the Chinese Empire,
Oceania,
Africa, Algeria, Egypt,
North America, the United States, the States of Mexico, Martinique, South America, Colombia, Peru and Chile, Brazil,
the last plate "Tableau Comparatif et Figure de La Hauteur des Principales Montagnes et du Cours des Principaux Fleuves due Monde.", includes a large and beautiful colored comparative view of the main mountains and the main rivers of the world.

The maps are embellished with engraved cartouches, geographical, agricultural, physical information, tables and text.

Seven maps relating to the Americas of which the famous monumental map (930 x 625 mm) by A.H. Brué : "Nouvelle carte du Mexique et d'une partie des Provinces Unies de l'Amérique centrale, 1734". Beautifully engraved map showing Texas as a province, Upper California and Mexico, with 2 insets and a key lower right. One of the most important map of the region during the period showing Jedediah Smith's journey to California and back in 1826.
"A monumental map, much on the order of the Arrowsmith and Wyld maps of the period" (Wheat)

A magnificent map showing Texas as a province, Upper California and Mexico, and of importance for showing Jedediah Smith's journey to California and back in 1826. "In fact, a most important map of 1834 - historically speaking - was that of A.H. Brue, also published posthumously by his widow. It was a map of Mexico, beautifully engraved, as were all the maps of this cartographer.
It... carries many of the legends of the 1833 Brue map. On this map, however, a line has been added from the Lac Teguayo (Lac Sale) area south to the R. Adams, thence southwest past the Rock Salt Cavern to the Seeds-Keeder River, and finally across to San Diego, the line being labeled in the north â ˜Route de Smith en 1826 and farther south merely "Route de Smith"...
All but one of the names mentioned by Jedediah Smith in his letter dated October 11, 1827... are present on this map... (Wheat 404) The insets are: Details des environs De Mexico et de la Vera-Cruz Complement de la Carte donnant Le Yucatan et une partie des provinces unies de L'Amerique Centrale.

Including also Brué « Nouvelle Carte des Etats-Unis, des Haut et Bas-Canada, de la Nouvle. Ecosse, du Nouvau-Brunswick, de Terre-Neuve &c, 1836 ». A large map of the United States and Canada, showing Arkansas, made a state that year. Seven inset maps show details including the western Territories. Texas is shown as a Republic. (Wheat 420).

The last one is a beautiful colored plate showing the heights of mountains.
It was indeed an atlas of "choice" of the publisher and as such consists in a wide variety of maps that Andriveau-Goujon favoured to include at the time.

Brue was an important and prolific French cartographer, who for a time held the position of Geographe de Roi. His most significant achievement was his Atlas Geographique, Historique, Politique et Administratif de la France published between 1820 and 1828 and extending to 36 maps in a planned series of 48.

Reference: Wheat 404.