[Atlas nouveau contenant toutes les parties du monde ou sont exactement marques les empires
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Maps, Atlases & Globes
Abstract:
Factitious collection of about 549 maps taken from the atlases of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century, put together with the title "Atlas" and bound in 6 volumes. These volumes originally bore the imprint: Amstelaedamii apvd Reiniervm & Josvam Ottens. Over these words on the title pages of volumes 1-2 and 4-6 is the name of Henrik de Leth who painted them.
Description:
Verso blank.
Subject (Geographic):
British Isles --Maps --Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Leth, Hendrik de, 1703-1766, Reiner et Josua Ottens (Firm), Schenck, Peter, 1661-1715, Schenck, Peter, ca. 1698-1752, Valck, G. (Gerard), 1651 or 2-1726, and Wit, Frederik de
Subject (Topic):
Atlases --Early works to 1800
Collection Created:
[A Amsterdam, chez J. Covens & C. Mortier, ca. 1730-ca. 1800]
All volumes bound to match 1973 Folio 72. Factitious collection of about 549 maps taken from the atlases of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th cent., put together with the title "Atlas" and bound in 6 volumes. These volumes originally bore the imprint: Amstelaedamii apvd Reiniervm & Josvam Ottens. Over these words on the title-pages of v. 1-2, 4-6 is the name of Henrik de Leth who painted them. Volume 3 has only the erased imprint of Ottens., For fuller description see Phillips 3448 and C. Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici, bibliography of terrestrial, maritime and celestial atlases and pilot books, published in the Netherlands up to 1800, Amsterdam c1967-71, v. 2, p. 63-83., and Maps by P. Schenck and son, G. Valck, F. de Wit, N. Visscher and others.
Publisher:
chez J. Covens & C. Mortier,
Subject (Geographic):
Denmark --Maps --Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Reiner et Josua Ottens (Firm), Schenk, Peter, 1660-1718 or 1719., and Valck, G. (Gerard), 1651 or 1652-1726.
