[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]
"The slight analysis drawn up as an accompaniment to Retsch's [!] Outlines being out of print, the publishers felt desirous to supply its place with a more careful abstract ..., "With this view the most striking passages and scenes ... have been translated into blank verse, and connected by a detailed description in prose.", Errata on p. [2] at end., Published also on large paper with the plates engraved by Moses from Retzch's Outlines., Translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. See the 2007 edition edited by Frederick Burwick and James C. McKusick., and With half-title.
Publisher:
Boosey and Sons : and Rodwell & Martin,
Subject (Name):
Boosey and Sons, publishers., Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834, translator., Moses, Henry, 1782?-1870, engraver., Retzsch, Moritz, 1779-1857, illustrator., and Rodwell and Martin (Firm), publishers.
"The most striking passages and scenes have been translated into blank verse and connected by a detailed description in prose ..."--Introd. and Frontispiece drawn and engraved by Henry Moses. Port. (of Goethe) engraved from the port. by Ferdinand Jagemann.
Publisher:
Tilt and Bogue,
Subject (Name):
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,--1749-1832.--Faust--Illustrations., Moses, Henry, 1782?-1870, and Retzsch, Moritz, 1779-1857