Atlas Germaniae Specialis [with] Grosser Atlas Uber die Gantze Welt.
Nuremberg, 1735-1737.
2 vols, folio (55 x 35.5 cm); A total of 318 double page illustrations comprising the following: Atlas Germaniae: title printed in red and black, 169 double-page maps, four of which are folding, with contemporary hand colour (apart from town plans for Rouen and Versailles which are in black and white) and two engraved tables with hand colouring, minor staining to margins of a few leaves and a few maps browned. Grosser Atlas: hand-coloured engraved allegorical title-page for 'Atlas Novus', engraved portrait of Homann by Johann Wilhelm Winter after Johannes Kenckel, lettepress title in black and red with vignette of northern hemisphere in polar projection, dedication, 42pp. introduction by Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, 147 double page maps, contemporary hand-colouring, a few maps browned, repairs to edge of paper to title-page, frontispiece and pictorial title; patterned endpapers, contemporary German calf, rebacked preserving parts of the original spines, labels to spines, modern beige cloth solander boxes with morocco labels to spines, very good set.
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