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has dispersed into the world by means of the issue of the catalogues of the expositions,
so this paper may contribute to its codification.
Recently, during investigations which covered a wider field of cartographic research,
the author discovefed another two copies of the Atlantis Appendix of 1630. Indicating
the copy in the British Museum as nr I, that in the museum Plantin-Moretus as nr II,
our number III was found in a private collection in Switzerland (now in possession of
the Library of the municipal University of Amsterdam) and nr IV in the Nether
lands, in the Library of the 'Groot Seminarie Liesbosch-Princenhage at Breda. The
numbers I, II and III are almost identical, but nr IV is different, being coloured and
being amended with 15 maps, which have to be considered as inserted maps, not included
in the printed index. These 15 maps are not by Blaeu, and all prior to 1630. This makes
the copy of the 'Groot Seminarie' the most interesting one. It is a pity however that this
CQpy has been restored, that sorne of the maps are damaged and that two maps are mis-
sing. Summarizing, the characteristics of the four copies now known can be described
as follows: all the copies contain the same titlepage with the text:
Atlantis/appendix/sive/pars altera/continens/tab. geographicas/diversarum/orbis/
regionum/. Nunc primum editas Amsterdami/Apud Guiljelmum/Blaeuw/Amio
CIDDCXXX.
I. Copy of the British Museum, London.
Uncoloured, in good condition. Rebound in the 19th Century. The earliest printed
record is probably in the 'Catalogue of the Printed Maps, plans and Charts' in the
British Museum, (1885), col. 4492. The Contents were first listed by Wieder, in
Monumenta Cartographica (1929), pp. 81-82. According to information obtained from
Mr. R. A. Skelton, British Museum, the copy appears to have been in the library of
Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) and came to the Museum with Sloane's collection in
1754.
II. Copy of the museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerpen.
Uncoloured, in good condition. Bound in vellum, but cut. 3 3 fly leaves. Originates
most probably from the library of Moretus. The earliest printed record is probably in
the catalogue of the exhibition 'de Blaeu's' of 1952/53 7This copy is almost identical
with the copies I and III. The map of Spain: 'Regnorum Hispaniae nova descriptio,
Amsterdami, apud Guiljelmum Blaeu', differs from the map of Spain in the copies
I and IV. The map of France is identical with that map of copy nr IV, but differs with
the same plate of the copies nr I and III. The 'Tabularum Appendicis Index' of this
copy is reproduced here as fig. 1.
III. Copy in a private Swiss collection (now in the Library of the municipal Univ. of
Amsterdam)
Uncut and spotless cqpy. Uncoloured. The map of Spain is missing. One map 'Sa-
baudia' inserted and added in handwriting in the 'Tabularum Appendicis Index'. It is the
map 'Sabaudia ducatus', by Jod. Hondius. This map has been included in the Appendix
of 1631, with the name of Jod. Hondius substituted by the name Guiljelmus Blaeu 8.
7 See note 6.
8 As we know, Blaeu obtained in 1629 at least 34 copperplates, engraved by Jod. Hondius.
Blaeu effaced the name of Hondius, substituted it by his own name and published these maps in
his Atlantis Appendix of 1630. The literature on this subject is confusing as the numbers of maps
by Hondius, Visscher a.o., given by Keuning and Wieder, don't agree.
See: Wieder, Monumenta Cartographica, p. 78, 81, 82.
Keuning, T.A.G. 1931, p. 422, 425.
Imago Mundi, V (1948), p. 64.
XIV (1959), p. 74.
