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Creator:
Visscher, Nicolaes, 1649–1702
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 Manuscripts
Folio A 2023 63
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
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.
World atlases.
Contributors:
Lairesse, Gérard de, 1640–1711, engraver.
Keulen, Johannes van, 1654–1715.
Vlasbloem, Louis.
Berchem, Nicolaas Pietersz, 1620–1683.
Allard, Carel, 1648–approximately 1709, cartographer.
Blaeu, Joan, 1596–1673, cartographer.
Jaillot, Alexis Hubert, 1632?-1712, cartographer.
Schenk, Peter, 1661–1711, cartographer.
Wit, Frederik de, 1629 or 1630–1706, cartographer.
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