PHÉROTÉE DE LA CROIX, A. - Lot 35

PHÉROTÉE DE LA CROIX, A. Algemeene weereld-beschryving, nae de rechte verdeeling der landschappen, plaetsen, zeeën, rivieren, &c. geographisch, politisch, historisch, chronologisch en genealogisch... T'Amsterdam, Gedrukt by Francois Halma, 1705. 3 volumes in-4 (22.5 x 17.1 cm). Contemporary cold-stamped ivory vellum, spine ribbed, title and tomation handwritten on spine, edges speckled with red (soiling to vellum, headpieces worn on volumes 1 and 2, light foxing, a few ff. unbound including the celestial globe, the view of Constantinople, the map of England, Asia, Turkey of Asia, and China). Volume I. Frontispiece, title in red and black, (15) ff, 120-436 pp, (40) pp, 13 maps and 14 plates including 10 views. Volume II. Frontispiece, title in red and black, (3) ff, 612 pp, (36) ff, 10 maps and 6 views and Tome III. Frontispiece, title in red and black, (3) ff. 480 pp, (36) pp, 53 maps, 2 views. Very rare atlas. First Dutch edition of this general description of the world by La Croix, which includes the founding of New Amsterdam (later New York) with 15 maps of the Americas, 21 maps of Europe, 20 of Asia and 18 of Africa, the views representing mainly European capitals and cities, but also panoramas of Constantinople and Mexico City. A total of 98 black copper-engraved plates. "This book is invaluable. (according to Sabin). The 76 engraved maps, mostly on double pages, are by Nicolas Sanson, with a few signed by F. Halma. Most maps engraved on copper by de Winter. They show many regions of Europe (Spain, France, Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy), Asia (Turkey, Syria, Holy Land, Georgia, Arabia, Persia, China, Japan...) and Africa (Egypt, Libya, Barbary, Morocco, Guinea, Ethiopia, Congo...). Volume III covers the Americas, with 15 maps starting with North America, showing California in its island form, Canada, Florida, Mexico, South America, Guatemala, the West Indies, Peru, Chile, Paraguay, Brazil... Also includes a celestial globe, a terrestrial globe, a compass rose and an armillary sphere, as well as 18 double-page views showing Lisbon, Amsterdam, Rome, Prague, Paris, Copenhagen, London, Stockholm, Constantinople, Mexico... Koemann, II, pp. 125. Sabin, 38504.