COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Aa, Pieter van der, 1659-1733
Date:
1728
Short Title:
Title:Tome second de Chine & Grand Tartarie
Publisher:
Pieter van der Aa
Publisher Location:
Leiden
Type:
Title Page
Obj Height cm:
38
Obj Width cm:
24
Note:
Second volume of the La galerie agreable du monde, de Chine & Grand Tartarie in 3 volumes by Pieter van der Aa, with title page in red and black, 14 pages of text and table of contents in volume 1, including engraved views and double page and folded maps, with decorative cartouches, including figures, cherubs, fauna. Showing panoramas of the provinces, towns, fortresses, coasts, rivers, seaports, rivers, mountains, principle cities; views of the Chinese gods, Buddhist temples, flags, costumes, religious ceremonies, animals, fishing, Chinese ships, fireworks, as well as exotic flora and fauna. Relief shown pictorially.
Reference:
Peter van de Krogt, Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici; v. IV-A1 & A2.
Full Title:
(Title Page to) La galerie agreable du monde : ou l'on voit en un grand nombre de cartes tres-exactes et de belles tailles-douces, les principaux empires, roiaumes, republiques, provinces, villes, bourgs et fortresses, avec leur situation, & ce qu'elles ont de plus remarquable; les iles, cotes, rivie'res, ports de mer, & autres lieux considerables del'ancienne & nouvelle geographie ... dans les quatre parties de l'univers. Divisee en LXVI. Tomes. Les estampes aiant ete dessinees sur les lieux, & gravees exactement par les celebres Luyken, Mulder, Goeree, Baptist, Stopendaal, & par d'autres maitres renomez, avec une courte description qui precede chaque empire, roiaume &c. & meme avec le sommaire sous chaque planch ... Cette partie comprend le tome second de Chine & Grand Tartarie. Le tout mis en ordre & execute a Leide, par Pierre Vander Aa.
List No:
11647.055
Series No:
55
Publication Author:
Aa, Pieter van der, 1659-1733
Pub Date:
1728
Pub Title:
La galerie agreable du monde : ou l'on voit en un grand nombre de cartes tres-exactes et de belles tailles-douces, les principaux empires, roiaumes, republiques, provinces, villes, bourgs et fortresses, avec leur situation, & ce qu'elles ont de plus remarquable; les iles, cotes, rivie'res, ports de mer, & autres lieux considerables del'ancienne & nouvelle geographie ... dans les quatre parties de l'univers. Divisee en LXVI. Tomes. Les estampes aiant ete dessinees sur les lieux, & gravees exactement par les celebres Luyken, Mulder, Goeree, Baptist, Stopendaal, & par d'autres maitres renomez, avec une courte description qui precede chaque empire, roiaume &c. & meme avec le sommaire sous chaque planch ... Le tout mis en ordre & execute a Leide, par Pierre van der Aa.
Pub Reference:
Peter van de Krogt, Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici; v. IV-A1 & A2.
Pub Note:
1 atlas in 3 volumes, covering China & Grand Tartary, 3 titles in red and black, 14 pages of text and table of contents in volume 1. Includes 125 engraved double page and foldout views and maps, with cartouches decorated with figures, cherubs, fauna. Sheets 12, 20, 21, 23 missing. Sheet 42 numbered 22. Maps and views consist of panoramas of the provinces, towns, fortresses, coasts, rivers, seaports, rivers, mountains, principle cities including Beijing, Nanjing, Guangdong, and Tianjin, Forbidden City, pagodas, Chinese gods, Buddhist temples, flags, native people, native costumes, islands, rivers, seaports, religious ceremonies, animals, fishing, Chinese ships, fireworks, as well as exotic flora and fauna. Relief shown pictorially. Includes extensive text in volume 1. Includes description of illustrations and maps. Published at Leiden, by Pierre van der Aa. Bound in half leather marbled paper covered boards with "Galerie agreable du monde Chine" stamped on the spine in gilt. Pieter van der Aa, a Dutch publisher and printer was best known for his cartographic work. He opened a bookshop and publishing house in Leiden in 1677, and started his first business there in 1683. By 1694 he was made printer to Leiden University, and by 1715, he was appointed the official printer to the town of Leiden. He gradually broadened his publishing scope and by the turn of the eighteenth century had moved into the publication of works on travel and topography. He produced a series of atlases and collections of voyages composed of plates acquired from other cartographers. His career culminated with the publishing of his illustrated atlas of the world, the “Galerie Agreable du Monde” made up of 66 volumes, the largest book of prints ever published. Only 100 copies are said to have been printed. The great work covers Europe, Asia, Africa and America, and although it professed to cover the entire world, due to the quantity of European material in Van der Aa's stock, 47 of the 66 parts cover Europe. The “Galerie” did not just cover geography, but also carried over 3,000 plates. Most of the plates were by other contemporary publishers, to which van der Aa added his signature broad decorative borders. Many of these views are among the earliest European made views of China.
Pub List No:
11647.000
Pub Type:
National Atlas
Pub Maps:
122
Pub Height cm:
40
Pub Width cm:
28
Image No:
11647055.jp2
Authors:
Aa, Pieter van der, 1659-1733
