Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Wit, Frederik de, 1629 or 1630-1706.
2. Visscher, Nicolaes, 1618-1679.

Description

1. 1 atlas (4, 4, [16], 4 p., [110] leaves of plates (some folded)) : 55 hand col. maps; 52 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection ; 316.
2. National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.

Alternative title

1. Atlas terrestris

Subject

1. Atlases > Early works to 1800
2. Atlases > Great Britain > Early works to 1800

Call number

1. Map Div. 97-6041

Note

1. Relief shown pictorially and depths shown by soundings on some maps.
2. A composite atlas consisting of maps by Wit, Visscher, Seller, and others. Most maps undated; dated maps include 1651 and 1664.
3. "Cum privilegio."
4. Ill. engraved t.p.
5. T.p. as well as each map mounted on modern paper. Modern binding.

Language (note)

1. Text in English. Some maps in English and some in Latin.

Author

1. Seller, John, active 1658-1698.

Title

1. Atlas terrestris, or, A book of mapps of all the empires, monarchies, kingdomes, regions, dominions, principalities, and countreys in the whole world : accomodated with a brief description of the nature and quality of each particular countrey / by Iohn Seller, hydrographer to the Kings most excellent majestie.

Imprint

1. London : And are to be sold at his shopps in Wapping at the Hermitage and in Exchange-Alley near the Royall-Exchange ..., [ca. 1680]

Cartographic data

1. Scales differ.

Language

1. Text in English. Some maps in English and some in Latin.

Local note

1. NYPL copy has maps numb. by hand in crayon on each verso. Map no. [32], [42], [52], and [54] wanting.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Added author

1. Wit, Frederik de, 1629 or 1630-1706.
2. Visscher, Nicolaes, 1618-1679.

Research call number

1. Map Div. 97-6041 [LHS 316; atlas cases]