Atlas nouveau, contenant toutes les parties du Monde, ou sont exactement remarquées les Empires, Monarchies, Royaumes …
Atlas nouveau, contenant toutes les parties du Monde, ou sont exactement remarquées les Empires, Monarchies, Royaumes …
Atlas nouveau, contenant toutes les parties du Monde, ou sont exactement remarquées les Empires, Monarchies, Royaumes …
Atlas nouveau, contenant toutes les parties du Monde, ou sont exactement remarquées les Empires, Monarchies, Royaumes …
Atlas nouveau, contenant toutes les parties du Monde, ou sont exactement remarquées les Empires, Monarchies, Royaumes …
Atlas nouveau, contenant toutes les parties du Monde, ou sont exactement remarquées les Empires, Monarchies, Royaumes …
Atlas nouveau, contenant toutes les parties du Monde, ou sont exactement remarquées les Empires, Monarchies, Royaumes …
Atlas nouveau, contenant toutes les parties du Monde, ou sont exactement remarquées les Empires, Monarchies, Royaumes …
Atlas nouveau, contenant toutes les parties du Monde, ou sont exactement remarquées les Empires, Monarchies, Royaumes …
Atlas nouveau, contenant toutes les parties du Monde, ou sont exactement remarquées les Empires, Monarchies, Royaumes …
Atlas nouveau, contenant toutes les parties du Monde, ou sont exactement remarquées les Empires, Monarchies, Royaumes …
Atlas nouveau, contenant toutes les parties du Monde, ou sont exactement remarquées les Empires, Monarchies, Royaumes …
Atlas nouveau, contenant toutes les parties du Monde, ou sont exactement remarquées les Empires, Monarchies, Royaumes … Atlas nouveau, contenant toutes les parties du Monde, ou sont exactement remarquées les Empires, Monarchies, Royaumes … Atlas nouveau, contenant toutes les parties du Monde, ou sont exactement remarquées les Empires, Monarchies, Royaumes … Atlas nouveau, contenant toutes les parties du Monde, ou sont exactement remarquées les Empires, Monarchies, Royaumes … Atlas nouveau, contenant toutes les parties du Monde, ou sont exactement remarquées les Empires, Monarchies, Royaumes … Atlas nouveau, contenant toutes les parties du Monde, ou sont exactement remarquées les Empires, Monarchies, Royaumes …
Atlas nouveau, contenant toutes les parties du Monde, ou sont exactement remarquées les Empires, Monarchies, Royaumes …
COVENS, Johannes & MORTIER, Cornelis

Atlas nouveau, contenant toutes les parties du Monde, ou sont exactement remarquées les Empires, Monarchies, Royaumes …

Amsterdam
Jean Covens & Corneille Mortier, sur le Vygendam
1733 [1735]
Color : Coloris original
Condition : Très bon
Reference : 174
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In-folio of 56 double-page engraved maps mounted on tabs, some in multiple sheets; hardback. (Foxing to text, slight flaws not serious (wetness in vertical margins of map [3], old restorations to map of Paris [13], map [54] misquoted 51. Without the map of Brabant [21]. Binding restored)

Frontispiece, 2 titles engraved in black and red, (1) f., 38 pp. Handwritten table, 56/57 maps engraved and colored at the time.

All maps by Covens & Mortier except maps 1,2 and 3 by Delisle. Two maps are dated: the map of France (11) dated 1721, and the map of Mexico and Florida (51) dated 1722.

Beautiful atlas gathering 56 maps of the Atlas nouveau de Guillaume de l'Isle published by the famous publishing house Covens & Mortier.

The work opens with a frontispiece by R. de Hooghe with the title in Latin"Atlas Novus ad Usum Serenissimi Burgundiae Ducis" and in French"Atlas François à l'usage de Monseigneur le Duc de Bourgogne..." It is followed by two titles engraved in black and red "Atlas nouveau, contenant toutes les parties du monde... 1733" and "Inleidinge tot de géographie... door den Heer Sanson d'Abbeville ... Te Amsterdam, by Johannes Covens en Cornelis Mortier", a leaf of Preface and Table, then the text in Dutch on two columns of theIntroduction to geography, in 19 leaves.

The 56 maps of thenew Atlas include : a world map, 2 maps of the hemispheres, 29 maps of Europe - including the map of the continent, one of the British Isles, 3 of Scandinavia, 2 of Muscovy, 7 of France, 4/5 of Belgium and the Netherlands, 3 of Germany, one of Switzerland, one of Poland, one of Spain, 2 of Italy and Sicily, one of Hungary and one of Greece -, 8 maps of Asia including the map of the continent, 6 maps of Africa including the map of the continent, 9 maps of America including 4 of North America (North America - Canada or New France - Louisiana and the Mississippi River - Mexico and Florida), 2 of the West Indies (Isle of Santo Domingo, French West Indies and neighboring islands), and 3 of South America (South America - Peru, Brazil and the Land of the Amazons - Paraguay, Chile, Strait of Magellan), and 2 maps of the ancient world.

Guillaume Delisle (de l'Isle), eldest son of the historian and geographer Claude Delisle, of whom he was a pupil, was a French geographer and cartographer born and died in Paris (1675-1726). In 1702, he entered the Académie des Sciences and studied with the astronomer Jean-Dominique Cassini. He became an associate astronomer in 1718 and taught geography to the young Louis XV. That same year he was appointed First Geographer of the King, a title he was the first to receive, along with a pension. In order to provide the most accurate and precise cartography possible, Delisle carefully gathered all available information: maps of his predecessors, astronomical data obtained from the observations of the Academy of Sciences, navigation and travel journals... He analyzed them, compared them, interpreted them, corrected errors, updated the latest discoveries... and finally made his maps. He is at the origin of modern cartography.

At his death, his widow obtained from Louis XV the privilege to publish his maps. She entrusted the famous Covens & Mortier company with the execution of the maps. The French publisher Cornelis Mortier and his brother-in-law Johannes Covens joined forces in 1721 to develop, under the name Covens & Mortier, the family printing house created by Pierre Mortier (father) and based in Amsterdam (he had notably obtained the privilege of distributing in the Netherlands maps and atlases from French publishers). The company's reputation only grew during the 140 years of its existence. Thus, between 1730 and 1790, numerous editions of Guillaume Delisle's Atlas Nouveau were published, starting with 43 maps and reaching 138 maps around 1790.

COVENS, Johannes & MORTIER, Cornelis