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Atlas minor sive Totius orbis terrarum contracta delinea[ta] ex conatibus Nico[laas] Visscher Amst: Bat

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Publication date: [170-?]
Call number: 32672
Creator: Visscher, Nicolaes (1649-1702)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Chicago Historical Society, March 1922. Bookplate on front pastedown: Douglas, Cavers. From the library of Charles Frederick Gunther.
Dimensions: 56 cm (folio)
Associated people: Lairesse, Gérard de, (1640-1711,); Allard, Carel, (1648-approximately 1709,); Morden, Robert, (approximately 1650-1703,); Moll, Herman, (-1732,); Wit, Frederik de, (1629 or 1630-1706,); La Feuille, Jacques de, (1668-1719,); Schenk, Peter, (1661-1711,); Ortelius, Abraham, (1527-1598,); Gunther, Charles Frederick, (1837-1920,)
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