Koeman’s Atlantes Neerlandici, Volume I
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Koeman’s Atlantes Neerlandici, Volume I
Date of publication: 1997
Publisher: Brill | Hes & De Graaf; Revised edition
Dimensions: 22,5 x 31,7 cm
Weight: 3,3 kg
Pages: 755
B/W pictures of the maps
Condition: A+, but used
Language: English
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Koeman’s Atlantes Neerlandici
Bibliography of terrestrial, maritime and celestial atlases and pilot books, published in the Netherlands(Low Countries) from 1570 up to the 20th century, in nine volumes, each describing a coherent group of atlases and supplied with indexes. The work is fully illustrated with all engraved title-pages, all maps of the folio-atlases, and a selection of the other maps.
The first edition of Atlantes Neerlandici was compiled and edited by professor C. Koeman and published in six volumes by Theatrum Orbis Terrarum from 1967-1985. Koeman’s magistral work was the first work in the field of atlas-bibliography.
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