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Loon, Jan van
Orbis Terrarum Nova et Accuatissima Tabula
Oxford: Moses Pitt, Steven Swart & Jan Jansson van Waesbergen,
1680, blank verso. Coloured. 480 x 565mm, with wide margins. Minor
restoration at centrefold.
Double-hemisphere world map decorated with allegorical figures
of the Elements in the corners. Originally published in Amsterdam
in 1666, this example comes from the uncommon English edition,
re-engraved with a dedication to Charles II in the lower cusp. Jan
Jansson à Waesberg, the original publisher, went into partnership with
two English publishers, Pitt and Swart, to produce an twelve-volume
‘English Atlas’ to compete with Blaeu’s. Between 1680 and 1683 four
volumes of the atlas and the text for the fifth were printed in Oxford, but
the mounting costs were too much. Production ceased, and for a time
Pitt was locked up in the Fleet Prison for debt. SHIRLEY: 505, & 439 for
the first state.
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