[Cartography] (Atlas, Blaeu, 1644) Le Theatre du Monde

ou Nouvel Atlas. Mis en lumiere par Guillaume & Jean Blaeu. La seconde partie de la premiere. A Amsterdam, chez Jean Blaeu, 1644.

Large folio with coloured frontispiece and 36 old-coloured copper engr., 34 of which double-paged, 1 extra folding (Nieuwpoort) and 1 (Zutphen) in the text, 48 p., vellum binding renewed using original residual material, gilt stamped. Koeman 2:211.1.F This is the part about the 'Verenigde Nederlanden'. Lightly browned with some small stains here and there, Mechelen somewhat more stained, water stains in various places (outer edge paper), the survey map has a small tear at the bottom of the middle fold line. Incl. the often missing map index.