$1,080
Atlas. Compleete Zak-Atlas, van de Zeventien Nederlandsche Provincien . Amseterdam: Elwe en Langeveld, 1786. Tall octavo, second, enlarged edition, text in Dutch throughout, hand-colored double-page engraved title, 243 pages of text, twenty-nine (of thirty) folding, engraved, hand-colored maps (lacking map XI, one of twenty-three maps of the Low Countries), and two folding engraved charts of distances, also hand-colored, bound in contemporary half leather, speckled paper boards, worn. In addition to a world map, and detailed maps of Europe, this atlas also contains maps of Europe, North and South America and Africa compiled with information obtained through Captain Cook's recent explorations.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-11-18
