![JANSSON, Johannes (1588-1664). Novus Atlas, Das ist: Welt-Beschreibung ... Niederlandt, Franckreich und Hispanien [Volume II]; Novus Atlas, Das ist: Welt-Beschreibung ... Italien, Asia, Africa und America [Volume III]. Amsterdam: [1647, but dated 1644, and 1644/5].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2003/CKS/2003_CKS_06704_0070_000(054430).jpg?w=1)
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JANSSON, Johannes (1588-1664). Novus Atlas, Das ist: Welt-Beschreibung ... Niederlandt, Franckreich und Hispanien [Volume II]; Novus Atlas, Das ist: Welt-Beschreibung ... Italien, Asia, Africa und America [Volume III]. Amsterdam: [1647, but dated 1644, and 1644/5].
2 volumes only, 2° (470 x 280mm). Text in German. 2 hand-coloured engraved architectural titles and 2 section titles, all with letterpress overslips and highlighted in gold, 215 hand-coloured double-page engraved maps, woodcut initials and tailpieces, mounted on guards throughout, some signature marks supplied in manuscript, map of Asia Minor annotated in red ink in an early hand, map of Le Pais de Brie cut to plate mark and laid down. (Light browning throughout, without map of Bourgogne in Vol.II, not always present, titles cut to platemark and laid down, the first with some loss supplied in pen and ink; minor worming or tears at folds of first few leaves of both vols., repairs, mostly marginal, to several maps, map of Belgium with margins restored to size.) Mid 20th-century brown morocco in a period style, original gilt calf backstrip laid down (backstrip with small losses at edges). Provenance: Count Jakob Johann von Löwenburg (crowned CL monogram stamp, in 1748)-- Vienna, Piarist College (18th-Century inscription)-- Vienna, Staatsgymnasium (stamps dated 1871).
Volumes II and III of Jansson's Novus Atlas, containing hand-coloured maps of the Low Countries, France, Spain, Italy, the continents, and all 18 maps relating to the Americas. By 1638 Jansson had expanded the Mercator-Hondius atlas to three volumes in competition with Blaeu. The German edition was issued in 1644, and a four-volume edition in German appeared in 1647 with the first 3 volumes unaltered. Cf. Koeman/der Krogt 1:425.2 and 1:424.3G. (2)
2 volumes only, 2° (470 x 280mm). Text in German. 2 hand-coloured engraved architectural titles and 2 section titles, all with letterpress overslips and highlighted in gold, 215 hand-coloured double-page engraved maps, woodcut initials and tailpieces, mounted on guards throughout, some signature marks supplied in manuscript, map of Asia Minor annotated in red ink in an early hand, map of Le Pais de Brie cut to plate mark and laid down. (Light browning throughout, without map of Bourgogne in Vol.II, not always present, titles cut to platemark and laid down, the first with some loss supplied in pen and ink; minor worming or tears at folds of first few leaves of both vols., repairs, mostly marginal, to several maps, map of Belgium with margins restored to size.) Mid 20th-century brown morocco in a period style, original gilt calf backstrip laid down (backstrip with small losses at edges). Provenance: Count Jakob Johann von Löwenburg (crowned CL monogram stamp, in 1748)-- Vienna, Piarist College (18th-Century inscription)-- Vienna, Staatsgymnasium (stamps dated 1871).
Volumes II and III of Jansson's Novus Atlas, containing hand-coloured maps of the Low Countries, France, Spain, Italy, the continents, and all 18 maps relating to the Americas. By 1638 Jansson had expanded the Mercator-Hondius atlas to three volumes in competition with Blaeu. The German edition was issued in 1644, and a four-volume edition in German appeared in 1647 with the first 3 volumes unaltered. Cf. Koeman/der Krogt 1:425.2 and 1:424.3G. (2)
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