Lot 83
Visscher, Nicolaes
[Composite atlas of Europe]
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 07 February 2024 from 10:00 GMT
Description
Amsterdam: Nicolaes Visscher, c.1700. Large folio, contemporary half calf, marbled sides, 27 engraved maps (all by Nicolaes Visscher except 11 and 12, by Joannes Blaeu), each a single broadsheet folded once and mounted on guard, opening to 52.5 x 61cm (except maps 2, 3, 14 and 21, on larger sheets and consequently with extra folds), contemporary hand-colouring throughout, contemporary manuscript titles on versos, most maps with allegorical title cartouches, many also with decorative dedications and mileage charts, maps 16, 20 and 22 embellished with naval scenes, 6, 17, 24 and 26 with printed gazetteers on versos, contemporary manuscript list of contents to front. Contents comprise:
1) Gallia, vulgo la France;
2) Nouvelle carte géographique de la partie méridionale de France;
3) Gallia, seu Franciae tabula;
4) Carte particulire [sic] du terroir et des environs des [sic] Paris;
5) Comitatus Burgundiae;
6) Generalis Lotharingiae Ducatus tabula;
7) Totius Alsatiae novissima tabula;
8) Landgraviatus Alsatia inferior novissima tabula;
9) Superioris Alsatiae;
10) Totius Italiae tabula;
11) Ducatus Chablasius et Lacus Lemanus cum regionibus adjacentibus;
12) Tabula generalis Sabaudiae;
13) Regiae Celsitudinis Sabaudicae status;
14) De Stoel des Oorlogs in Italien;
15) Regnum Siciliae;
16) Insularum Melitae vulgo Maltae et Gozae novissimae delineatio;
17) Exactissima Helvetiae Rhaetiae, Valesiae ... tabula;
18) La Castille;
19) Cataloniae principatus;
20) Portugalliae et Algarbiae regna;
21) Regnorum Portugalliae et Algarbiae tabula novissima;
22) Peloponnesus hodie Morea;
23) Exactissima totius archipelagi nec non Graeciae tabula;
23) Cretae seu Candiae insula et regnum;
24) Exactissima tabula qua tam Danubii fluvii pars inferior ... quam regiones adjacentes;
25) Exactissima tabula qua tam Danubii fluvii pars media ... quam regiones adjacentes;
26) Exactissima tabula qua tam Danubii fluvii pars superior ... quam regiones adjacentes;
27) Regnum Hungariae
Footnote
FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE STEVENSON LIGHTHOUSE ENGINEERS