![LANGENES, Barent. (fl.598-1610) Thresor de Chartes, contenant les Tableaux de Tous les Pays du Monde, enrichi de belles descriptiones, & nouvellement mis en lumiere. The Hague: Albert Henry for Corneille Nicolas, [1600].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2002/CKS/2002_CKS_06689_0006_000(045105).jpg?w=1)
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LANGENES, Barent. (fl.598-1610) Thresor de Chartes, contenant les Tableaux de Tous les Pays du Monde, enrichi de belles descriptiones, & nouvellement mis en lumiere. The Hague: Albert Henry for Corneille Nicolas, [1600].
2 parts in one volume, oblong 8° (120 x 180mm). Title with hand-coloured engraved vignette of mariners, hand-coloured engraved plate of the ship the Victoria and 169 hand-coloured engraved miniature maps. (Some light browning, world map tipped in at A1). Contemporary vellum (a few minor holes to spine, ties lacking). Provenance: Philipp a Scholley (title with ownership inscription dated 1601, and numerous marginal notes).
THE FIRST FRENCH EDITION OF THE CAERT THRESOOR, LANGENES' IMPORTANT POCKET ATLAS, printed in the Hague for Cornelis Claesz. The small maps are 'extremely well-engraved: neat and clear, elegantly composed' (Koeman II, p.252.) This edition accords with Koeman Lan 3, containing some characteristics of the first Dutch edition [1598] issued without the maps of Africa, America and Megellanica, with titled leaves provided in their place, and is similar to the 1599 Dutch edition, which also includes degrees of longitude and latitude which were not present in the first edition, and the maps of Java, Sumatra and Madagascar which were re-engraved by Benjamin Wright since the 1598 edition (who worked in Amsterdam between c.1596 and c.1603). The text was edited by Petrus Bertius, Cosmographer to Louis XIII and brother-in-law to Jodocus Hondius. Koeman II, Lan 3 (calling for 170 maps).
2 parts in one volume, oblong 8° (120 x 180mm). Title with hand-coloured engraved vignette of mariners, hand-coloured engraved plate of the ship the Victoria and 169 hand-coloured engraved miniature maps. (Some light browning, world map tipped in at A1). Contemporary vellum (a few minor holes to spine, ties lacking). Provenance: Philipp a Scholley (title with ownership inscription dated 1601, and numerous marginal notes).
THE FIRST FRENCH EDITION OF THE CAERT THRESOOR, LANGENES' IMPORTANT POCKET ATLAS, printed in the Hague for Cornelis Claesz. The small maps are 'extremely well-engraved: neat and clear, elegantly composed' (Koeman II, p.252.) This edition accords with Koeman Lan 3, containing some characteristics of the first Dutch edition [1598] issued without the maps of Africa, America and Megellanica, with titled leaves provided in their place, and is similar to the 1599 Dutch edition, which also includes degrees of longitude and latitude which were not present in the first edition, and the maps of Java, Sumatra and Madagascar which were re-engraved by Benjamin Wright since the 1598 edition (who worked in Amsterdam between c.1596 and c.1603). The text was edited by Petrus Bertius, Cosmographer to Louis XIII and brother-in-law to Jodocus Hondius. Koeman II, Lan 3 (calling for 170 maps).
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