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LE CLERC, Jean (1657-1736). Atlas antiquus, sacer, ecclesiastus et profanus. Amsterdam: Pieter Mortier, [preface dated September 1705].
2 (525 x 315mm). Letterpress title with woodcut arms of Amsterdam. 89 engraved maps, all but one double-page, one folding, all except Canaan with the imprint of Pieter Mortier, hand coloured in outline, woodcut tailpiece and initials, cancel slip pasted over part of index. (Light browning on the text, a few maps with small unobtrusive paper flaws, Judea cropped with slight loss and repaired with skilful manuscript facsimile, Italia antiqua detached and loosely inserted, lacking engraved title.) Contemporary mottled calf gilt, roll-tooled gilt border of a double twisted ribbon enclosing a diamond, the spine gilt in compartments with central floral tools surrounded by smaller floral tools, gilt red leather lettering-piece, red edges, (lightly rubbed and scuffed).
FIRST EDITION, presumably published in 1705 or 1706, of an atlas which brings together maps of the pre- and post-Christian Ancient World by various cartographers, including the Sansons, Delisle, Duval and de la Rue.
Koeman Mor 4 notes that, ''A printed index, partially overpasted with a printed slip, listing the first 18 items, suggests that an earlier version exists''. However, an alternative interpretation would be that the cancel slip present in this copy and Koeman Mor 4 merely corrected an erroneous index listing, and the index leaf was correctly reset when the atlas was re-issued by Pieter Mortier with five extra sheets as NMM III 244 before his death in 1711. A further edition was published by J. Covens and C. Mortier, with their imprint on the title page and most maps (Koeman C & M 15 and Phillips Atlases 3283, incorrectly dated ''[1705]'') in circa 1725 (according to Koeman C & M 15) or 1730 (note to NMM III 244). Koeman Mor 4. KoemanMor4.
2 (525 x 315mm). Letterpress title with woodcut arms of Amsterdam. 89 engraved maps, all but one double-page, one folding, all except Canaan with the imprint of Pieter Mortier, hand coloured in outline, woodcut tailpiece and initials, cancel slip pasted over part of index. (Light browning on the text, a few maps with small unobtrusive paper flaws, Judea cropped with slight loss and repaired with skilful manuscript facsimile, Italia antiqua detached and loosely inserted, lacking engraved title.) Contemporary mottled calf gilt, roll-tooled gilt border of a double twisted ribbon enclosing a diamond, the spine gilt in compartments with central floral tools surrounded by smaller floral tools, gilt red leather lettering-piece, red edges, (lightly rubbed and scuffed).
FIRST EDITION, presumably published in 1705 or 1706, of an atlas which brings together maps of the pre- and post-Christian Ancient World by various cartographers, including the Sansons, Delisle, Duval and de la Rue.
Koeman Mor 4 notes that, ''A printed index, partially overpasted with a printed slip, listing the first 18 items, suggests that an earlier version exists''. However, an alternative interpretation would be that the cancel slip present in this copy and Koeman Mor 4 merely corrected an erroneous index listing, and the index leaf was correctly reset when the atlas was re-issued by Pieter Mortier with five extra sheets as NMM III 244 before his death in 1711. A further edition was published by J. Covens and C. Mortier, with their imprint on the title page and most maps (Koeman C & M 15 and Phillips Atlases 3283, incorrectly dated ''[1705]'') in circa 1725 (according to Koeman C & M 15) or 1730 (note to NMM III 244). Koeman Mor 4. KoemanMor4.