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Lot 69
  • 69

Blaeu, Joannes.

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Description

  • Le Theatre du Monde ou nouvel Atlas [Theatrum, Vol. V: Scotland and Ireland]. Amsterdam, 1654
  • paper
Folio (505 x 330mm.), French text edition, engraved allegorical frontispiece with letter-press title pasted on and 55 mostly double-page engraved maps, contemporary hand colour, contemporary vellum, [Koeman I, Bl 50; Van der Krogt 2:411], some light browning throughout, mainly on text, hinges weak, binding soiled

Catalogue Note

First atlas of Scotland edited by Robert and James Gordon, largely bases on the surveys of Timothy Pont.