Statistique de la Belgique :Agriculture : Recensement General de 1895 : Atlas

1899. BRUSSELS, MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE. Statistique de la Belgique: Agriculture: Recensement Général de 1895: publié pare le Ministre de l'Agriculture: Atlas. 34 Plates. Large folio, 485 x 360 mm., in publisher's linen-backed cloth portfolio. Brussels: Ministre de l'Agriculture, 1899. A splendid example of the works published by the French statistical bureau very much in the style established by Charles Josph Minard. On the outside the book appears drab and undistinguished, but on the inside it is alive with a profusion of dazzling coloured charts. These statistical works have been called "the finest specimens of French graphic art in the century" (H.G. Funkhuser). A rare book with OCLC listing only NYPL, LC and 1 copy in the Netherlands, 1 in Spain and 1 in Hungary.