£8,125
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 589
Auction: 19 February 2020 at 10:00 GMT
Amsterdam: Joannes Loots, 1708. Folio, disbound map of the Dutch coast and 29 other double-page maps, contemporary vellum, ties broken, many maps loose, a little soiling to covers
Note: The second part of the Lootsman 'Sea-Mirror', an atlas published in various editions between 1662 and 1717. The work is a re-issue of Theunis's father's work, published between 1644 and 1650. This second part of the atlas describes Western shipping routes (the Netherlands, the British Isles, France, Spain, Portugal and Northern Africa). A copy of volume 1 can be found in the Rijksmuseum.