Visscher, Nicolaes, 1649-1702, Atlas minor, sive, Geographia compendiosa, qua orbis terrarum per paucas attamen novissimas tabulas ostenditur, [circa 1703?]
- Title(s):
- Atlas minor, sive, Geographia compendiosa, qua orbis terrarum per paucas attamen novissimas tabulas ostenditur.
- Additional Title(s):
- Added engraved title page: Atlas minor, sive, Totius orbis terrarum contracta delinea[ta] ex conatibus Nico[laas] Visscher Amst. Bat.
- Published/Created:
- Amstelaedami : Ex officina Nicolai Visscher, [circa 1703?]
- Physical Description:
- 1 atlas ([1] leaf, [289] leaves of plates) : 144 maps ; 55 cm
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsFolio A 2023 63Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection[Request]
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/12455244
- Classification:
- Maps & Atlas (printed)
- Scale:
- Scales differ.
- Notes:
- With an allegorical engraved title page by Gérard de Lairesse.
With a "Stellatum Planisphaerium" by Louis Vlasbloem and Johannes van Keulen.
Some maps include indexes of place names.
With a listing of maps (in English) written in manuscript at a later date, on an added leaf at front.
Bound in later calf.
Maps are uncolored.
Composite atlas. Most maps are undated and credited to Nicolaes Visscher. Exceptions include: [18] La Provence ... H. Jaillot ... 1696 -- [21] Tabula generalis Sabaudiae ... Joannes Blaeu -- [23] Status et Ducatus Mediolanensis et Parmensis ... per Carolum Allard -- [24] Continentis Italiae, pars media ... Petrum Schenk .. 1703 -- [25] Continentis Italiae, pars Australior ... Petro Schenk ... 1703 -- [32] Circulus Saxoniae Inferioris ... F. de Wit -- [37] Circuli Saxoniae Superioris, pars meridionalis ... F. de Wit -- [55] Circulus Franconicus ... F. de Wit -- [88] Marchionatus Sacri Romani Imperij ... Nicolaus Jansenius -- [118] Regni Sueciae ... F. de Wit -- [119] Norvegia Regnum ... F. de Wit -- [121] Russiae Albae ... Petr. Schenck -- [128] Regni Hungariae, Graeciae, et Moreae ... Pierre Schenk -- [130] Tartaria ... Carolo Allard -- [133] Nova Persiae, Armeniae, Natoliae, et Arabiae ... F. de Wit. - Subject Terms:
- Geography -- Early works to 1800.
- Form/Genre:
- Composite atlases.
Atlases.
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