Pitt, Moses

2 volumes bound in 1, folio (540 x 340mm.), 89 (of 90?) double-page engraved maps, including the often wanting Laplanders plate, maps by or after Nicolaes Visscher, Jan van Loon, Johannes Janssonius, Francis Lamb and Moses Pitt, no text on verso of maps, some maps with towns picked out in colour, half roan over boards, map Nova totius Belgii missing (or perhaps never present), a few maps with splits at lower folds, some light browning at folds, binding worn

cf. Shirley, British Library T.Pitt-1a

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This bound collection includes maps taken from two volumes of Pitt’s abortive English Atlas, intended to emulate Blaeu’s Atlas major, but never completed. The areas covered are Germany (volume 3) and volume 1 which includes two world maps and a map of the North Pole, with the remaining sheets covering Northern and Eastern Europe.