VISSCHER, Nicolaus (1649-1702). Atlas minor sive totius orbis terrarum contracta delinea ex conatibus... Amsterdam: Visscher, [circa 1705].

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VISSCHER, Nicolaus (1649-1702). Atlas minor sive totius orbis terrarum contracta delinea ex conatibus... Amsterdam: Visscher, [circa 1705].

2o (535 x 345 mm). Engraved hand colored title and 101 hand-colored engraved maps, mostly double-page and some folding, ALL COLORED IN A CONTEMPORARY HAND, and mounted on guards. Additional coloring to printed title and index (each plate with perforated stamp to lower right corner of image, a few plates with tears to folds or edges of green coloring, some with repairs on verso, folding plate 18 with loose and repair to verso). Rebound with contemporary Dutch vellum sides laid down (worn).

Later edition, with most of the maps by Nicolaus Visscher, but some maps by de Wit, J. Blaeu, H. Allard and C. Specht, and the widow of Visscher. Elisabeth Visscher took over her husband's business after his death in 1702. Two maps are dated 1706 and one map is dated 1704. Koeman III, Vis 23; Shirley 406.

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This lot is exempt from Sales Tax.