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Stock# 68097
Description

List of maps:

  1. Typus Orbis Terrarum, ad Imitationem Universalis Gerhardi Mercatoris.
  2. Aphrica
  3. Abyssinorum sive Magni Regis Davidis, quem vulgo Presbyterum Joannem vocant, Imperium
  4. Barbaria Africana, et Biledulgerid
  5. Asia Partivorbis Maxima
  6. India Orientalis
  7. Persiae Regnum sive Sophoru Imperium
  8. Natoli olim Asia Minor
  9. Palestina quae et Terra Sancta vel Terra Promissionis
  10. Cyprus Insula
  11. Europa
  12. Germania
  13. Helvetia
  14. Bohemia
  15. Austria
  16. Moravia
  17. Silesiae Ducatus Accuratissime Descriptus
  18. Prussia
  19. Marca Brandenburgensis & Pomerania
  20. Saxonia
  21. Misniae et Lusatiae Tabula
  22. Mansfeldia
  23. Franconia
  24. Sveviae
  25. Salisburgum
  26. Bavaria
  27. Palatinatus Bavariae
  28. Wirtenbergensis Ducatus
  29. Elsatia Superior
  30. Elstatia Inferior
  31. Florentissimus Rheni Palatinatus
  32. Thuringia
  33. Braunswick Ducatus
  34. Lunaeburgensis Ducatus
  35. Hessenlandt
  36. Comitatus Waldeck Accurate Desciptus
  37. Westphalia
  38. Monasteriensis Episcopatus
  39. Trier
  40. Dioecesis Coloniensis
  41. Ivliacum
  42. Cliviae Ducatus
  43. Belgium
  44. Geldria
  45. Groningensis Agrivera Descriptio
  46. Frisia
  47. Hollandia
  48. Zelandia
  49. Brabantia
  50. Flandria
  51. Namurcum
  52. Lutzenburgsis Montuosissimi
  53. Hannonia
  54. Artesia
  55. Anglia
  56. Scotia
  57. Hibernia
  58. Hispania
  59. Portugalia
  60. Francia
  61. Leodiensis Episcopat
  62. Lotharingia
  63. Burgundiae Ducatus
  64. Italia; 64 b. Neapolitanum Regnum
  65. Mediolanensis Ducatus
  66. Sicilia
  67. Sardinia
  68. Corsica
  69. Creta
  70. Graecia
  71. Thracia et Bulgaria
  72. Moscovia
  73. Hungaria
  74. Sclavonia, Bosnia, Croatia, Dalmatia
  75. Polonia
  76. Oswieczensis & Zatoriensis
  77. Daniae
  78. Dietmarsia
  79. Svetia et Norwegia
  80. Islandia
  81. Polus Arcticus
  82. America
  83. Hispania Nova
  84. Peruvia
  85. Magellanica, sive Terra Australis
  86. Ventorum Index
Condition Description
Quarto. Modern 17th-century-style full gilt vellum.
Matthias Quad Biography

Matthias Quad (1557-1613), a map publisher based in Cologne, was trained in the Netherlands by Johannes van Doetecum, who also worked with the De Jodes. Quad used many De Jode maps as a base to which he added additional information and decorations. Quad was best known for his atlases, which were part of the first boom in atlases best characterized by Abraham Ortelius’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. In 1592, Quad released an atlas of Europe that had 38 maps. He expanded it in 1594 to 50 maps. In 1600, he expanded the collection of maps further still, this time to 82 maps, and called the atlas, Geographisch Handtbuch. All three were small in size, allowing them to compete as cheaper alternatives to the larger atlases of Ortelius, Mercator, and the De Jodes. Quad released one other atlas, in 1608, with 86 maps, the Fascilus Geographicus.