[Belgium and Netherlands composite atlas Hondius/Janssonius] Atlas with 38 engraved maps,

except for the first 6 maps all with antiquely coloured outlines, mostly published in Amsterdam by Hondius or Janssonius, partly in Paris by Sanson et al., ca. 1630-1660 (several much later), all double-page (partly folding), with handwritten index (1p.) on which 49 numbered maps, contemporary Italian limp parchment, folio (43 x 30 cm.), lacks ties and parchment wrinkled). According to the index maps 7, 22, 24-49, 45, 46, 48 and 49 are missing, while the last three maps included are not listed. General defects: several maps frayed, with tears or slightly damaged, partly loose or tender, here and there waterstained (serious defects mentioned below per map). Sold w.a.f. Contains: a series of 6 uncoloured double-page maps published by Sanson, Paris, 1656: (1) Evesché de Laon; (2) Suessones. Evesché de Soisson; (3) Veromandui. le Veromandois. Evesché de Noyon; (4) Oromansaci, et gesoriacus Pagus. Evesché de Boulogne; (5) Britannni. Archid conné de ponthieu, dans l'Evesché d'Amiens; (6) Ambiani. Archid. conné d'Amiens de l'Evesché d'Amiens.

All other maps in the atlas have coloured outlines (folding maps with size): (8) Belgii Veteris Typus. Ex conatibus Geographicis Abrahami Ortelii (no address or date); (9) Comitatus Flandriae Nova Tabula (Amst., H. Hondius, n.d.; bottom margin cut short and frayed); (10) Pascaert vande Custe, van Vlaenderen, van Walcheren tot Calesen Bouloigne in Vranckrijc (Amst., H. Hondius, 1631) (folding: 43.5 x 51 cm.); (11); Description de la Vicompté de Bourbourg (Paris, J. Boisseau, 1644); (12) Flandria Gallica Continens Castellanias (...) (Amst., H. Hondius, n.d.); (13) (The area between Oudenaerde and Leuven, right-hand side connecting to the previous map), no address (Hondius); (14) Flandriae pars Occidentalis (Amst., H. Hondius, n.d.); (15); Flandriae pars Orientalis (Amst., H. Hondius, n.d.); (16) Artesia Comitatus. Artois, (Amst., J. Janssonius, n.d.); (17) L'Archevesche de Cambray (Amst., H. Hondius, n.d.); (18) Comitatum Hannoniae et Namurci descriptio (Amst., J. Janssonius, n.d.); (19) Namurcum Comitatus Auctore Iohann. Surhonio (no address); (20) Iuliacensis Ducatus (no address; cut short and frayed); (21) Iuliacensis et Montensis Ducatus. De Hertoghdomen Gulick en Berghe (no address); (23) Clivia Ducatus et Ravestein Dominium (no address); (30) Marchionatus Sacri Romani Imperii (C.J. Visscher, 1624); (31) Kaerte van Bergen Op Zoom, Steenbergen ende de Nieuwe Fortificatien gemaeckt tot bevrijdinghe van 't Landt van Ter Tolen in t jaar 1628 ("Visscher excudit"); (32) Tertia Pars Brabantiae (...) ex Archetypo Michaelis Florenty a Langren (no address; narrow margins); (33) Mechlinia Dominium et Aerschot Ducatus (...) (Amst., J. Janssonius, n.d.); (34) Brabantiae pars Septentrionalis (...) (Amst., H. Hondius, n.d., folding, 47 x 54 cm., folding part loose, margins left and right cut short); (35) Tabula Castelli ad Sandflitam (...) (Amst., J. Janssonius, n.d.); (36) Nieuwe Caerte waerinne vertoont wordt de gantsche Vaert van Amsterdam over de Watten tot de stadt Hamborch toe (H. Hondius, 1634, folding, 44.5 x 49.5 cm., narrow margins); (37) Zeelandia Comitatus (J. Janssonius, n.d.); (38) Novissima Delflandiae, Schielandiae et circumieacentium insularum (Amst., H. Hondius, 1629, folding, 45 x 54.5 cm., small holes in top left-hand corner); (39) Novissima Tabula Insular. Dordracensis, Alblasser, Crimper, Clundert etc. (Amst., H. Hondius, 1629, folding, 45 x 53.5 cm., cut short and frayed, dam. in bottom margin); (40) Comitatus Hollandiae novissima descriptio Designatore Balthazaro Florentio a Berckenrode Anno Domini 1629 (Amst, H. Hondius); (41) Episcop. Ultraiectinus (...) (Amst., H. Hondius, 1628, by Van Berckenrode); (42) Rhinolandiae, Amstelandiae (...) (Amst., H. Hondius, 1629, by Van Berckenrode, folding, 45 x 55 cm., left margin frayed); (43) (Part of North Holland from Amsterdam to Wieringen) (no address, folding 45 x 55 cm., damaged); (44) De Zype/ Beemster/ De Purmer/ De Wormer/ Caerte van Waterland (...) (Amsterdam, H. Hondius, n.d. 5 maps on one double-page leaf); (47) Fossa Eugeniana quae a Rheno ad Mosam duci coepta est, Anno mdcxxvii ductu Comitis Henrici van den Berge (Amst., H. Hondius, n.d.) ; (unnumbered) Illustribus Ac potentibus Drentiae (...) dedicat Cornelis Pijnacker 1634 (Amst., H. Hondius, n.d.); (unnumbered) Le comté de Flandre avec parties des Comtés de Hainaut et d'artois (Paris, Crépy, 1741, folding, 50.5 x 64 cm., damaged); (unnumbered) Le cercle de la Basse Saxe (...) (Paris, Crépy, 1757, folding, ca. 65 x 49 cm., damaged).