Visscher, Nicolaes, 1649-1702, Atlas minor, sive, Geographia compendiosa, qua orbis terrarum, per paucas attamen novissimas tabulas ostenditur, [approximately 1716?]
- Title(s):
Atlas minor, sive, Geographia compendiosa, qua orbis terrarum, per paucas attamen novissimas tabulas ostenditur.
- Published/Created:
- Amstelaedami : Ex officina Nicolai Visscher, [approximately 1716?]
- Physical Description:
- 1 atlas ([2] pages, 95, 132 leaves of plates) : 227 maps ; 54 x 68 cm
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsFolio C 2015 1Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon CollectionView by request in the Study Room [Request]
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- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/12250629
- Classification:
- Maps & Atlas (printed)
- Scale:
- Scales differ
- Notes:
- Maps by N. Visscher, F. de Wit, J. Jansson and others.
"Index & ordo tabularum hujus atlantis": [2] pages at end.
Includes maps of the Americas.
"This, the most spectacularly illuminated atlas known, has the maps in plano; the half-folio size title pages being enlarged with paper strips."--Koeman.
Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici, Vis 27
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in contemporary pigskin. Bookplate: J. Eliot Hodgkin. - Subject Terms:
- America -- Maps, Early.Atlases -- Early works to 1800.Hodgkin, John Eliot -- Bookplate.
- Form/Genre:
- Composite atlases.
- Export:
- XML
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