Contemporary Hand-Color and Gilt Red Morocco Binding.
A spectacular example of this 91-map Visscher atlas of the World, in original hand-color and a superlative extra-gilt red morocco binding.
The atlas includes a detailed treatment of the Low Countries, as well as some highlights of foreign content, including Visscher's famous Novi Belgii Novaeque Angliae Nec Non Partis Virigniae Tabula map of New England, and his maps of the Americas, the Caribbean and southeastern United States, and Martinique, which was a focus of Dutch foreign policy in the mid-to-late 17th century, and a place where Dutch Jews settled after they were expelled from Portuguese Brazil.
In all it is a wonderful example of Dutch atlas production during the Golden Age of Dutch mapmaking.
Complement of Maps
Koeman 3, p.164: Vis 8: "(...) Most of the maps are by Claes Jansz. and Nicolaes Visscher, but some are by F. de Wit and Joh. Janssonius". This example includes maps are by the following makers:
- Claesz Jansson Visscher and Nicolas Visscher: 58 maps
- Jansson: 23 maps
- De Wit: 6 maps
- Hugo Allard: 1 map
- Moses Pitt: 1 map
- Joannes Van Loon: 1 map
- Francesco Caroli: 1 map
The Allard and Caroli maps are very rare.
Contents as listed on the letterpress contents leaf at the end of the atlas, for a copy of which see the illustration on our website. The following maps are a few of the highlights of this atlas:
- "Tabula Russiae" (N.J. Visscher, 1651. Inset plan of Moscow and 5 inset views of i.a. "Ivane-gorod", "Archangelscka-goroda" and the Kremlin);
- "Palatinus Rheni nova et accurata descriptio" (N.J. Visscher, 1652. With 17 views and illustrations in surrounding borders);
- "Marchionatus sacri romani imperii" (w. "C.J. Visscher excudebat", without date. With 13 views and illustrations in surrounding borders);
- "Comitatus Hollandiae Tabula pluribus locis recens emendata" (N.J. Visscher, n.d.);
- "Comitatus Zelandiae" (N. Visscher, n.d.);
- "Insularum Melitae vulgo Maltae et Gozae" (N. Visscher, n.d. With inset map of the Mediterranean);
- "Candia." and "Insula Candia olim Creta" (profile and map on 1 leaf, N. Visscher, n.d.);
- "Asiae nova delineatio" (N. Visscher, n.d.);
- "Tabula Tartariae et majoris partis regni Chinae" (F. de Wit, n.d.);
- "Imperii Sinarum" (by J. van Loon, no publ., n.d.);
- "Indiae orientalis nec non insularum adiacentium nova descriptio" (N. Visscher, n.d.);
- "Africae accurata tabula" (N. Visscher, n.d.);
- "Novissima et Accuratissima Totius Americae Descriptio" (N. Visscher, n.d.);
- "Insulae Americanae in Oceano Septentrionali ac Regiones Adiacentes" (N. Visscher, n.d.);
- "Novi Belgii novaeque Angliae nec non partis Virginiae Tabula" (N. Visscher, n.d. With fine inset view of "Nieuw Amsterdam op 't Eylant Manhattans")
- "Insula Matanino vulgo Martanico" (N. Visscher, n.d., illustrated 3 times in error, but only present in the atlas once).