1696 MORTIER, P. - Atlas nouveau contenant toutes les parties du monde, ou sont exactement remarqués les empires, monarchies, royaumes, estats, republiques & peuples qui s y trouvent & present..

Very fine example in atractive original colors of the second edition of this atlas by Pieter Mortier. The publisher of Amsterdam Mortier lived in Paris between 1681 and 1685. He knew the maps of Sanson / Jaillot well. Mortier published three successive editions of this counterfeit Atlas. The first two are from 1692 and 1696.
The first edition faithfully reproduces the French work, and the name of Mortier does not appear in any place. Most maps of the New Atlas of Mortier are faithful counterfeit maps of the French edition. Mortier strives to complete and develop the New Atlas: 99 maps in 1692, 111 in 1696 and 168 in the last edition.

It is noted for the large number of multi-sheet "Theatre de la Guerre" (Theater of War) maps covering the battles raging in Europe and the Americas during the Spanish War of Succession (1701-1713) and the Northern War (1700-1721).
The atlas has 20 page introduction in Dutch text.

Pierre Mortier (1661-1711)

Pierre (Pieter) Mortier (Leiden, 1661 – Amsterdam, 1711) Dutch publisher, engraver and print seller of French Huguenot descent; best known for his Amsterdam editions of French maps and for Le Neptune François (1693) Mortier is the founder of the family business that later became Covens & Mortier (see the earlier entry). Life Pierre Mortier his grandparents were French refugees who left France around 1625 for Leiden, and his parents settled in Amsterdam in 1661 or 1662. He grew up in Amsterdam, then lived in Paris from 1681 to about 1685, where he entered the book trade and adopted the French form of his name, Pierre, which he kept throughout his career.
Back in Amsterdam, he specialized in French books and kept up his relationships with Parisian publishers. At that time Amsterdam was the international marketplace for books, especially those forbidden by repressive governments.
Much of his business consisted of issuing embellished, high-quality Amsterdam editions of contemporary French maps, generally with the permission of their authors. This was a significant advantage, because most Dutch publishers had by then fallen into reprinting their own outdated work, while French cartographers were producing the most accurate and up-to-date charts anywhere. In 1690 he was granted a privilege (an early form of copyright) to publish French maps in the Dutch lands.
Mortier’s cartographic work culminated in the nautical atlas Le Neptune François, ou Atlas nouveau des cartes marines. The original French Neptune François, by Charles Pène and others, was produced in 1693 for the French navy. Mortier re-engraved the plates in a richly coloured version and added to the titles the words “Levée et Gravée par Ordre du Roy à Paris 1693,” though they were in fact engraved, coloured and published in Amsterdam. He released the first volume in 1693 and followed with an expanded, unofficial Amsterdam supplement, the Suite du Neptune François (c. 1700). The supplement included charts that the French navy’s edition lacked, such as the large chart of the Chesapeake Bay and Delaware River. A 1703 world chart showing California as an island appeared in the Mortier edition.
Beside the Neptune he published the "Nouveau Théâtre d’Italie" (1704) reissued Joan Blaeu’s Italian city atlas of 1663.