ATLAS GEOGRAPHICUS PORTABILIS -

EARLY GERMAN. (MAPS) ATLAS GEOGRAPHICUS PORTABILIS: XXIX MAPPIS ORBIS HABITABILIS REGNA EXHIBENS. Augsburg: Vendit inejus aedib. in suburb. Jocobaeo, in reg. Paradisi, s.a., no date, circa 1750. Caelo accurate expressit Tobias Conradus Lotterus, delineavit et excudit Tobias Lobeck. 16mo (2 3/4 x 4 1/4"), contemporary and probably original blind stamped calf housed in a custom cloth box, Lacks free endpapers, covers rubbed, generally Very Good and clean. Featuring fine copper plate engravings that include a double-page engraved frontis and double page engraved pictorial title by Eichler followed by 29 hand-colored double page maps of Europe, America and Africa. Also included are a double page hemisphere map of the world and a double page planisphere map of the heavens. There is a 2 page index at the rear of the book.