VISSCHER NICHOLAS; et al Atlas Minor Sive Geographia Compend

Sale 2417 - Lot 217

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VISSCHER, NICHOLAS; et al. Atlas Minor Sive Geographia Compendiosa. [Composite Atlas] 73 engraved maps, most double-page, some folding. Folio, original blind-stamped vellum, book block and binding fully separated and each stabilized with later marbled paper; the maps with resplendent original hand-color in full; two maps defective. Amsterdam: "Ex Officina Nicolai Visscher", [after 1716]

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bound with: SCHENK, PETER. Theatrum Bellicum Incipiens a Carolo II. 12 double-page engraved mapsheets, printed in sanguine. Last leaf backed. (Incomplete.)

In all likelihood this is the second volume of a semi-standardized two-volume Visscher composite atlas. Thus this lot is lacking the first volume with the world and celestial map, and with some European material, but it includes the volume with the foreign maps at the conclusion. In addition to its impressive complement of European maps, this example includes 6 Asian maps, 4 of the Middle East, 5 of Africa (one of which defective), 7 of the Americas, and the Utopia map.