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Greetings to everyone!
 
Since a few days I am on Maps-L and as a kind of introduction I want to give
you a description of the project Atlantes Neerlandici, presently in progress
for 'Explokart', the history of cartography research project of the
department of Cartography at the Faculty of Geographical Sciences, Utrecht
University.
At the end you will find a general query and some specific queries for old
Dutch atlases.
 
THE PROJECT
 
The *Atlantes Neerlandici* by Professor C. Koeman is the bibliography of
atlases published in the Netherlands up to 1880, which appeared between 1967
and 1970.  This work has now been out of print for several years, and when
it was decided to publish a new edition of the bibliography it became clear
that a simple photographic reproduction of the original work would not meet
present requirements.
 
The new edition will be published in ten volumes. The atlases will not be
ordered alphabetically as in Koeman's edition, each volume will include one
or more coherent group(s) of atlases.
The contents of the different volumes will be:
1. The folio atlases published by Gerard Mercator and his successors,
Jodocus Hondius, Henricus Hondius and Johannes Janssonius.
--- Although the atlas by Mercator is published in Duisburg and Duesseldorf
(presently in Germany) they are included in the *Atlantes Neerlandici* as
the publication is later transferred to Amsterdam as the so-called
Mercator-Hondius atlases.
--- the volume will include also *The English Atlas* by Moses Pitt, because
this atlas is made up with maps from Janssonius' heirs. See below.
2. The folio atlases by the Blaeu's
3. Atlases by Ortelius and De Jode, the minor atlases (Ortelius *Epitome*,
Mercator's *Atlas Minor*, etc.)
4. The town books by Braun & Hogenberg, Janssonius and Blaeu
5. The composite atlases of the late 17th and early 18th century (Visscher,
De Wit, Allard etc.)
6. The atlases of the 18th century.
7-9. Sea atlases and pilot guides.
10. Atlases of the 19th and 20th century.
 
The first volume is planned for 1996. Information and prospects are
available at HES Publishers, Tuurdijk 16, 3997 MS  't Goy-Houten, the
Netherlands, fax +31 30 601 1813, of at the address below.
 
GENERAL QUERY
  The first step in the task of compiling the new edition of Koeman's
bibliography was the dispatch of a questionnaire to some fifteen hundred
libraries world-wide asking for a listing of their holdings of Dutch
 terrestrial atlases published before 1800. The survey resulted in the
location of 10,000 copies of Dutch atlases held by some 750 libraries.
Those of you who have in your collection atlases published in the
Netherlands (generally in Amsterdam or Antwerp) and have not received my
questionnaire, please give me a list of your Dutch atlases. At this moment,
I am especially interested in the atlases to be included in the first four
volumes of the new *Atlantes Neerlandici*
 
SPECIAL QUERIES
 
** the following is a summary of the query posted to MAPHIST last week, my
apologies for any duplication **
 
I: MOETJENS' HISTORICAL ATLAS
I have not located a copy of an atlas described by Koeman in the supplement
(vol. VI, published in 1985). It concerns:
 
Atlas, contenant le vieux monde, ou la geographie ancienne, sainte & profane.
A La Haye, Chez Adrian Moetjens, 1702.
(bibl. code Me 179B; new number 1:652)
 
This atlas is a new title edition of the sixth volume of the *Theatre du
Monde ou Nouvel Atlas*, published 1658 by Joannes Janssonius.
According to Koeman, the copy described is in the Municipal Archives in
Leiden. This must be erroneous, because the Leiden Archives does not possess
such an atlas and it has never been there according to the librarian.
 
A private collector in Chicago has a similar atlas with the title "SPECTACLE
DE L'UNIVERS", published by Janssonius in 1658. This also is a new title
edition of the *Nouvel Atlas* volume six.
The same new editions are made with the Latin volume 6, these "new editions"
are called "HISTORIA TOTIUS ORBIS ANTIQUUS..." (three copies known, in New
York NYPL, Vienna ONB and Uppsala resp.).
A Dutch edition can be supposed, no copy is known.
 
Does anybody know where to find any copies of these historical atlases,
especially the one published by Moetjens in 1702?
 
II: HORNIUS' HISTORICAL ATLAS
Joannes Janssonius and his successors published from 1652 onwards an
historical atlas, called "ACCURATISSIMA ORBIS ANTIQUI DELINEATIO" (old
numbering Ja 2 ff; new number 1:601ff). This is a collection of 53 maps
without text on the back, from the 1653-edition the maps are preceded by an
introduction in history by Georgius Hornius (Georg Horn), whose name is
added on the titlepage. (Therefore it is generally catalogued under: Horn, G.)
 
An english translation was published in 1700:
 "A FULL AND EXACT DESCRIPTION OF THE EARTH OR ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY..". -
Amsterdam: Printed for John and Gillis Janssons a Waesberge, and sold at
London by Timothy Childe... MDCC". (old number: Ja 8; new number 1:611).
 
41 years later, the following english edition was published:
"A COMPLEAT BODY OF ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY.. THE THIRD EDITION, Enlarged with
eleven maps of Laurenberg and Blancard." Printed at The Hague and sold by T.
Osborne, Bookseller in Gray's Inn, London, MDCCXLI.  (old number Ja 11, new
number 1:613)
The printer was Pieter de Hondt in The Hague, who published Latin and French
editions under his own name.
 
The problem is: why is the 1741 edition called THE THIRD EDITION?
The 1700-edition is the first in English, but no trace is found of an other
edition between 1700 and 1741 (not in the British Library or Bodleian).
 
a) Does anybody know of a second edition between 1700 and 1741?
or
b) a colleague supposed that the publisher used "THIRD EDITION" to emphasize
that it is a *very* new and updated edition and that there has never been a
second edition. Does this sound plausible and/or has anybody found other
examples of the skipping of an edition number to let the book look more
updated?
 
III: THE ENGLISH ATLAS
It appeared that there was an atlas published in Oxford of which  the maps
were printed in Amsterdam from old Janssonius-copperplates.
This atlas is named THE ENGLISH ATLAS. The Oxford imprint and the title of
this atlas suggest it  is an english atlas and therefore almost no librarian
or map curator included it in the answer on my inquiry. For my purpose,
however, it is a "Dutch" atlas!
The atlas is published in four volumes in 1680 (Northern and eastern
Europe), 1681 (Germany vol. 1), 1683 (Germany vol. 2) and 1682 (The
Netherlands) resp. (yes, the fourth volume is published before the third!
and yes, there are no maps of England in the "English" Atlas, because the
project ended with the fourth volume).
 
There are two different editions of each volume:
A) has the imprint: Oxford, printed at the Theater for Moses Pitt at the
Angel in St. Paul's Churchyard, London;
B) has the imprint: Oxford, printed at the Theater for Jo. Jansonius a
Waesberge and Stephen Swart, Booksellers in Amsterdam.
 
I am interested in the location of copies of this four* volume atlas, with
indication which imprint it has.
*The British Library has an unfinished copy of a fifth volume, The general
description of the East Indies.
 
Those interested in the history of this uncompleted atlas read E.G.R.
Taylor, The English Atlas of Moses Pitt. In: The Geographical Journal
95(1940), pp. 292-299.
 
Any other information on Dutch atlases is welcome.
 
Thanks in advance, Peter van der Krogt
 
 
 
 
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Dr Peter van der Krogt
FRW-Cartography
University of Utrecht           Mijerstraat 20
P.O. Box 80.115                 2613 XM  DELFT
3508 TC UTRECHT                 The Netherlands
tel. +31 15 253 2052            fax: +31 15 212 6063
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