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Atlases from a Private Swiss Collection
JANSSONIUS, Johannes (1588-1664)
Het vijfde Deel Des Grooten Atlas, Vervatende De Water-Weereld, Ofte Een naarstige Beschryving van alle Zeen des gantschen Aardbodems ondekt door de huydendaagsche Schipvaart. Amsterdam: Johannes Janssonius, 1657.
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JANSSONIUS, Johannes (1588-1664)
Het vijfde Deel Des Grooten Atlas, Vervatende De Water-Weereld, Ofte Een naarstige Beschryving van alle Zeen des gantschen Aardbodems ondekt door de huydendaagsche Schipvaart. Amsterdam: Johannes Janssonius, 1657.
Rare Dutch edition of the first sea-atlas printed in the Netherlands. Identical to part 1 of volume V of Jansonnius’ Atlas Novus of 1652, this 1657 volume contains 23 nautical and geographical charts. The maps of Greece which appeared in part 2 of the 1652 edition were moved into the new volume 6, but this edition of this volume retains the earlier index leaf with the maps in part 2 covered with a blank overslip.
The present lot contains a celestial chart, maps of the North and South Poles, maps showing the Americas and the Caribbean, including one of the Pacific showing California as an island, as well as one of the Indian Ocean with a partial outline of ‘Terra del Zur’ (Australia). Koeman IV, Me 170; Van der Krogt, I 1:436.5T.
Folio (500 x 332mm). Text in Dutch. Engraved title with letterpress overslip, 23 double-page maps and charts (engraved title torn half way at gutter but without loss, first plate with short tear at foot of creasefold just into image with the margin showing remains of tape repair, map 15 lightly creased at gutter, browning throughout). Publisher’s vellum, panelled in gilt, covers with central arabesque, yapp edges gilt edges (extremities rubbed and soiled, head of spine defective, yapp edge of upper cover coming loose, lacking silk ties).
Het vijfde Deel Des Grooten Atlas, Vervatende De Water-Weereld, Ofte Een naarstige Beschryving van alle Zeen des gantschen Aardbodems ondekt door de huydendaagsche Schipvaart. Amsterdam: Johannes Janssonius, 1657.
Rare Dutch edition of the first sea-atlas printed in the Netherlands. Identical to part 1 of volume V of Jansonnius’ Atlas Novus of 1652, this 1657 volume contains 23 nautical and geographical charts. The maps of Greece which appeared in part 2 of the 1652 edition were moved into the new volume 6, but this edition of this volume retains the earlier index leaf with the maps in part 2 covered with a blank overslip.
The present lot contains a celestial chart, maps of the North and South Poles, maps showing the Americas and the Caribbean, including one of the Pacific showing California as an island, as well as one of the Indian Ocean with a partial outline of ‘Terra del Zur’ (Australia). Koeman IV, Me 170; Van der Krogt, I 1:436.5T.
Folio (500 x 332mm). Text in Dutch. Engraved title with letterpress overslip, 23 double-page maps and charts (engraved title torn half way at gutter but without loss, first plate with short tear at foot of creasefold just into image with the margin showing remains of tape repair, map 15 lightly creased at gutter, browning throughout). Publisher’s vellum, panelled in gilt, covers with central arabesque, yapp edges gilt edges (extremities rubbed and soiled, head of spine defective, yapp edge of upper cover coming loose, lacking silk ties).
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