Representing Reality: A Century of Dutch Golden Age Maps at ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library
Issue number
(2022): 18
²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library holds a trio of beautiful Dutch Golden Age atlases: a fine copy of one of the first world atlases ever produced, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum from 1584, a tenth edition of Gerhard Mercator’s famous atlas from 1630, and Andreas Cellarius’s Harmonia Macrocosmica of 1660.
²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, BT1.32.7—Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas (1630)