Author: SANSON D'ABBEVILLE Nicholas ( 1600 - 1667 ) :
Title: Atlas Portatif et Nouveau du Voyageur pour les Dix-Sept Provinces des Pais-Bas. Avec la Description Geographique & une Table, pour trouver facilement les villes , &c. (bound at the end) Nieuwe Zak-Atlas voor de Reizigers door de gezamentlyke Nederlanden....( with decorative alternate title page) Le Théâtre de la guerre avec tous les campemans des armées...dans le XVII Provinces du Pais-Bas .
Description: .: [1] Amsterdam, chez Pierre Mortier , s.d. ( ca. 1700 ) , typographical title printed in red & black + general map + (24) pp ( description) + division map + 33 maps + 2 engraved scale plates + 40 pp (index) + 8 pp ( index addenda) . [2] (dutch title) Nieuwe Zakatlas, Amsterdam, by Covens en Mortier, 1739, 24 pp. Bound before [1] & [2] is a double page engraved title page '' Le Théâtre de la guerre...'', s.d. Amsterdam, chez Covens & Mortier. In-8°, 18,5 x 11,5 cm, all 35 maps are double page and with fine contemporary hand colouring. Bound in contemporary red coloured half roan, boards covered with marbled paper. Binding with some wear and loss of the red colouring. Interior very fine, stainless and with bright colours. Complete and very attractive copy of an early 18th c. pocket atlas of the 17 Provinces of the Netherlands (the actual Benelux countries - Luxemburg, Belgium and the Netherlands), in a bi-lingual edition French and Dutch. .

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