Atlas Geographicus Portabilis
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A charming miniature world atlas for the pocket. 16mo. Engraved frontispiece, engraved title-page, 35 single-page copperplate engraved maps with original hand colour. Red-brown morocco over flexible boards with foliate blind-tooled central cartouche and decoration around the edges. Floral paste downs, Wardington bookplate. A wonderful, miniature atlas including a double-hemisphere world map, celestial hemisphere, maps of each of the continents (Asia with small printer's crease), the British Isles and various individual countries. The signatures of publisher and draughtsman Thomas Lobeck and engraver Tobias Lotter appear on most of the maps. The atlas appears to have been published with varying numbers of maps between about 1740 and 1780. The freshness of the engraving and number of maps here suggest a mid-date of c.1760 for this attractively coloured and well presented atlas. A miniature snapshot of the world in mid-century.
region: World Atlases
mapmaker:
T.C.Lotter
place and date of publication:
Augsburg c. 1760
medium and colour:
copperplate, Original colour
ref:
31438
size in cms: 16mo 10.5 x 8 Price: £ 1400 |
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