[Atlas nouveau contenant toutes les parties du monde ou sont exactement marques les empires
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Maps, Atlases & Globes
Abstract:
Factitious collection of about 549 maps taken from the atlases of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century, put together with the title "Atlas" and bound in 6 volumes. These volumes originally bore the imprint: Amstelaedamii apvd Reiniervm & Josvam Ottens. Over these words on the title pages of volumes 1-2 and 4-6 is the name of Henrik de Leth who painted them.
Description:
Verso blank.
Subject (Geographic):
British Isles --Maps --Early works to 1800
Subject (Name):
Leth, Hendrik de, 1703-1766, Reiner et Josua Ottens (Firm), Schenck, Peter, 1661-1715, Schenck, Peter, ca. 1698-1752, Valck, G. (Gerard), 1651 or 2-1726, and Wit, Frederik de
Subject (Topic):
Atlases --Early works to 1800
Collection Created:
[A Amsterdam, chez J. Covens & C. Mortier, ca. 1730-ca. 1800]
English text on verso entitled: The description of the kingdom of Tartary, p. 39-40 (signature: V)., Illustrations on left border: A. Samoged -- Tartar genteel woman -- A Tartar -- Tartar country woman., Illustrations on right border: Samoged woman -- Tartar gentleman -- Tartar woman -- Tartar country man., Illustrations on top border: Astrakhan -- Samarkand -- Cambalu -- The House in Nova Zemla., Map folio 39 from: The theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine ... as also a prospect of the most famous parts of the world / John Speed. London : Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell, 1676., Map of Tartary [i.e. Mongolia] to the north of China controlled by marauding Mongols in the 13th-14th centuries. The map shows its provinces and cities stretching north from the Himalayas, west to eastern Europe and north of Chinae Regni Pars [i.e. China] and Corea Isle [i.e. Korea]. One feature is the Great Wall of China along the Chinese border on the lower right side of the map. There are many decorative features including along the top of the map pictorial scenes of the cities of Astrakhan, Samarkand and Cambalu, as well as an illustration of a "house in Nova Zemla". Left and right borders eight colourful illustrations of ethnic costumes from some of the peoples of Tartary., Relief shown pictorially., Text at top centre of map reviewing the discovery of Nova Zembla [i.e. the archipelago Novaya Zemlya] by the Dutch explorer William Hollander in 1594-96., and Watermark.
Boundaries hand colored., From Johnston's Royal atlas of modern geography., Prime meridian: Greenwich., Relief shown by hachures., Upper left: Keith Johnston's general atlas., and Upper right: 39.
Subject (Geographic):
Africa--Maps
Subject (Name):
Johnston, Alexander Keith, 1804-1871. Royal atlas of modern geography and W. & A.K. Johnston Limited
Boundaries hand colored., From Johnston's Royal atlas of modern geography?, Prime meridian: Greenwich., Relief shown by hachures., and Upper right: 36.
Subject (Geographic):
Africa--Maps
Subject (Name):
Johnston, Alexander Keith, 1804-1871. Royal atlas of modern geography and W. & A.K. Johnston Limited, publisher