JANSSONIUS, J.  Novus Atlas Absolutissimus... Die Wasser-Welt, oder See-Atlas
with 6 additional charts, total 39 charts

In-folio de 39 cartes dont 38 en coloris d'époque et 1 non col. Reliure d'édition en plein vélin ivoire, fleurons et feuillages aux angles et motif central losangé dorés , dos lisse orné, tranches dorées. Amsterdam, chez les héritiers de Jean Jansson, 1657 [après 1664]

First German text edition of the Maritime Atlas Volume 9 of the "Novus Atlas Absolutissimus".
Volume IX : engraved frontispiece (highlighted in gold), 39 charts, thus 6 extra charts by Visscher ("Insulae Americanae", "Insula Matanino", "Novi Belgii", "Indiae orientalis", "Insularum Melitae" et "Insula Candia"). Some charts have slight browning and offsetting due to oxidation of paint. With usual  text pages browning.  Curiously the chart of the Eastern Mediterranean is uncolored.

Edition allemande de l'"Atlas maritime", Tome IX du "Novus Atlas Absolutissimus".
Tome IX : titre gravé, 39 cartes dont 6 supplémentaires par Visscher ("Insulae Americanae", "Insula Matanino", "Novi Belgii", "Indiae orientalis", "Insularum Melitae" et "Insula Candia").

The "Novus Atlas Absolutissimus" is the most developed of the editions of the "Novus Atlas", of which only the Latin edition arrived at the final state of the "Atlas Maior". The atlas comprises eleven volumes, formed (just as the Latin and Dutch editions) by splitting the five volumes of the "Atlas Nouveau" and by supplementing with a number of newly-engraved maps and with maps published by Nic. Visscher. Contrary to the Latin and Dutch atlases Janssonius printed new letterpress titles and new indexes for the German edition. The index includes the new maps.
The atlases were probably made in a very small number of copies and later obviously only made to order. This can explain the variation in letterpress titles and title-pages. When letterpress titles were out of print, the later made-to-order copies have letterpress titles composed by cutting and pasting of words, sometimes even syllables or letters. The Visscher maps occur in various states.

Including Northeast/ New York City. JANSSON J./ VISSCHER, C. J. Novi Belgii Novaeque Angliae... 18 ¼ x 21 ½ inches. A most attractive example of a map that is as historically important as it is beautiful. It was the culmination of all the surveys of the area conducted by the Dutch colonists of New Netherlands during their first three decades in America. It is also the first printed map to delineate the shape of Manhattan with relative accuracy; it had been shown as a triangle earlier. Also, English towns that were just being settled at the time, such as Milford, Guilford, Stratford, and Stamford, are shown along the Connecticut shoreline. Every Indian tribe encountered by the colonists, most of which are long extinct, as well as every town and settlement in existence at the time, are believed to be on this map.
The map in its original form was part of a protest by New Netherlands colonists against the policies of the Dutch West India Company, the organization that sponsored the colonization of New York. The author of this original was possibly A. van der Donck, a lawyer who was an early resident of New Amsterdam and who led the protest of the colonists.
The view of New Amsterdam at the southern tip of Manhattan in the lower right hand corner is based on the second earliest image of the city. It is believed to be a generally accurate though sanitized depiction of New Amsterdam approximately 25 years after initial settlement. The view reveals a modest but charming village set on the rolling landscape that characterized Manhattan topography in its virgin state. See below for Joep De Koning’s new research on the origins and dating of the view.

Burden 315, state 4; Tooley, America, no. 5, p. 284; Augustyn/ Cohen, Manhattan in Maps, pp. 32-33; J. De Koning, “From Van der Donck to Visscher” in Mercator’s World, July/ August 2000, pp. 28-33.