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COMPLETE COPY OF QUADT'S RARE 1608 ATLAST WITH 87 DOUBLE-PAGE ENGRAVED MAPSQUADT, Matthias (1557-1613). Fasciculus geographicus complectens praecipuarum totius orbis regionum tabulas circiter centum, una cum earundem enarrationibus. Cologne: Johann Bussemecher, 1608. Folio, 27 cm x 19 cm. Contemporary vellum. Third and final edition of Matthias Quadt's printed atlas.
Title within engraved architectural border, engraved arms of Herman Kran above printed dedication, 87 double-page engraved maps (including an anemographic diagram) engraved by Johann Bussemecher, Heinrich Nagel or Matthias Quadt, many incorporating portrait vignettes, mounted on guards; Latin text on verso.
This rare edition is the augmented version of Quadt's earlier atlas, the Geographisch Handbuch (1600), which contained 82 maps, as well as his Europae totius terrarum orbis partis praestantissimae (1596) which contained 67 maps. Six of the maps in this atlas relate to the Americas and Australia/Antarctic.
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