Willem and Joan Blaeu | Novus atlas... drittes Theil, Amsterdam, 1642

Willem and Joan Blaeu.

Novus atlas, das ist Welt-beschreibung… Drittes theil. Amsterdam: Joan and Cornelis Blaeu, 1642

Folio (490 x 330mm.), engraved title with letterpress title and imprint, 60 engraved maps (only, of 63, lacking 3 maps of British Isles in the Appendix), all but one double-page, with 3 smaller engraved maps in the text, contemporary Dutch vellum gilt with fore-edge flaps (probably publisher's binding), flat spine gilt with manuscript lettering, browned, occasional marginal worming, small wormhole in map 'Regno Di Napoli' at 4K2; sold not subject to return

The third volume of Blaeu’s atlas, mainly focusing on Italy and Greece.

PROVENANCE:

Early ownership inscription at foot of title page; The Loverdos Collection, gilt bookplate and library stamp to rear paste-down

LITERATURE:

Koeman II, 2:231