Representing Reality: A Century of Dutch Golden Age Maps at New College Library
Issue number
(2022): 18
New College 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.
New College Library, Oxford, BT1.32.7—Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas (1630)