The first folio Sea Atlas

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contenant une parfaicte description du monde maritime ou hydrographie generale de toute la terre, enrichie des particularités de la navigation tant ancienne que moderne, avec un excellent 7 curieux tableau du monde des anciens accompagne des paralleles de l'antique & nouvelle Grece; c'est à dire, une collation des lieux de antiquité avec ceux e nostre temps. Ou une veritable correspondence des anciennes denominations avec les modernes, selon le calcul des plus doctes de notre siècle.

JANSSONIUS, Johannes
Amsterdam,
Joannem Janssonium,
1650
Folio sea atlas (500 by 340mm), title, 33 double-page engraved maps and charts, all in original outline hand-colour, small hole to title, maps and text evenly age-toned throughout, as usual, contemporary Dutch vellum over boards, gilt-panelled with corner and central gilt arabesques, flat spine in seven compartments, gilt, edges gilt.
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Although pilot guides, or rutters, supplemented by charts had been produced as early as 1584, Jansson must be credited with the production of the "first real sea-atlas", which contained "a collection of charts in folio size, to serve as an atlas for general purposes" (Van der Krogt). Some Anglo-Italians might put forward for that title Robert Dudley's Acarno del Mare – a work of numerable firsts, published in 1646 – but it was not until the second edition of 1661 that all t...

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bibliography:

Koeman Me 171; Van der Krogt, 1:416.5M&O.