Rare Atlas with 62 colored geographic maps. BLAEU. Novus Atlas, Italia. Rare Atlas with 62 colored geographic maps. BLAEU, Willem & Johannes. Novus Atlas, Italia. Amsterdam: Johannes Blaeu, 1647 Folio, mm. 511x334; Contemporary full vellum binding with golden sections, ties in green silk; Pictorial Title page, 62 engraved maps, of which 58 on double page and 4 in the text. All Maps in contemporary coloring. Monogram crowned of the king of Saxony Johann on the margin of the title, the transfer stamp of the University Library of Dresden. Small hole at the edge of the Title page, other two small holes to 3V1-2 plates, some slight browning and two small restorations on the edge of 3T2 plates and 3V1, in good preservation complex.
German first edition. The work, in beautiful contemporary hand coloring and in the typical golden parchment binding of the Dutch Atlas contains 58 maps of Italy and 4 of Greece, for a total of 62 double-page engraved maps. This is the third volume in the German edition of the Novus Atlas of Joannes and Willem Blaeu, first published in three volumes in 1641-42 and was later extended until reaching, in 1655, the five volumes. The company of Blaeu family, founded by Willem Janszoon Blaeu in 1596, was the most prosperous and productive cartographic establishment of the Netherlands until it was destroyed by fire in 1672.Van der Krogt, II, 2:232.3J.
Rare Atlas with 62 colored geographic maps. BLAEU. Novus Atlas, Italia. Rare Atlas with 62 colored geographic maps. BLAEU, Willem & Johannes. Novus Atlas, Italia. Amsterdam: Johannes Blaeu, 1647 Folio, mm. 511x334; Contemporary full vellum binding with golden sections, ties in green silk; Pictorial Title page, 62 engraved maps, of which 58 on double page and 4 in the text. All Maps in contemporary coloring. Monogram crowned of the king of Saxony Johann on the margin of the title, the transfer stamp of the University Library of Dresden. Small hole at the edge of the Title page, other two small holes to 3V1-2 plates, some slight browning and two small restorations on the edge of 3T2 plates and 3V1, in good preservation complex.
German first edition. The work, in beautiful contemporary hand coloring and in the typical golden parchment binding of the Dutch Atlas contains 58 maps of Italy and 4 of Greece, for a total of 62 double-page engraved maps. This is the third volume in the German edition of the Novus Atlas of Joannes and Willem Blaeu, first published in three volumes in 1641-42 and was later extended until reaching, in 1655, the five volumes. The company of Blaeu family, founded by Willem Janszoon Blaeu in 1596, was the most prosperous and productive cartographic establishment of the Netherlands until it was destroyed by fire in 1672.Van der Krogt, II, 2:232.3J.
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