Visscher, Nicolaes, the younger.

Folio (521 x 325mm.), engraved allegorical title, 28 double-page or folding engraved maps, full contemporary hand colour, eighteenth-century red half morocco gilt, one or two splits at folds, occasional light creasing, spine and corners of binding expertly repaired

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The Wardington copy.

An unusual Dutch composite atlas of Europe, assembled in Amsterdam circa 1700, and then supplemented with a small body of rare English broadsheet maps, the latest datable to 1703, including three published to depict events from King William's War or the War of the Spanish Succession. The atlas as an entity was probably assembled in connection with the latter war for an English owner and coloured in England.

The atlas comprises Visscher's world map, Schenk's maps of the four continents, eighteen maps by Visscher and one de Wit map of the countries and regions of Europe. Finally there are four English maps: Moses Skynner's plan of Dunkirk, published by Christopher Browne in 1697 (advertised in the London Gazette for 21–24 June 1697), Jean Cailloué's map of the Sevennes after Mr. de Basville (advertised in the Post Man for 24–27 April 1703), Cailloué's "Seat of the War in Savoy", 1703, after Nicolas de Fer (advertised in the Post Man for 14–16 December 1703), and Robert Morden's "New Map of the English Empire in America", with the joint imprint of Christopher Browne, here in the third state, with the numbers for longitude in the borders revised, now ending with "0" or "5" (advertised in the Term Catalogues for Trinity Term 1701).