[Title-page] The English Atlas, Volume II
by Pitt, Moses:
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London, 1681. Copper engraved title-page, 40.5 x 26.5 cms, black and white as issued, blank verso. Four volumes only of Pitts projected eleven volume world atlas were published 1680-83, all dealing with northern Europe. Pitt worked in partnership with Janssonius heir Joannes van Waesbergen, and this title-page for the German volume is a reworking of one engraved for Janssonius forty years earlier. The Holy Roman Emperor is now Leopold I, the faces of the other Electors have also been updated, and a there is a considerable amount of additional background detail. Shirley, Courtiers and Cannibals, 48A. Map
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- [Title-page] The English Atlas, Volume II
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- 1681
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