VAN DER AA

(1659 -1733)

Pieter van der Aa, born in Leyden in 1659, made an early start in life by being apprenticed to a bookseller at the age of nine and starting on his own in business as a book publisher by the time he was twenty three. During the following fifty years he published an enormous amount of material including atlases, and illustrated works in every shape and size, two of them consisting of no less that 27 and 28 volumes containing over 3,000 maps and plates.

c.1707 (See-en land reysen
(Cartes de itineraires et voyage modernes
28 volumes: average size of maps 240 x 360 mm

c1710 Atlas Nouveau et Curieux
Average size of maps 160 x 240 mm
1714, 1728 Re-issued

1713 Le Nouveau Theatre du Monde (N. Gueudeville)
2 maps to a page: av. size 230 x 330 mm

1714 Nouveau petit atlas - Atlas Soulage
9 parts average size of maps 140 x 200 mm

1714 Nouvel Atlas: average size of maps 140 x 200 mm
c. 1735 Re-issued by Covens and Mortier

1729 La Galerie Agreable du Monde
27 volumes: 66 parts

Carl Moreland and David Bannister: Antique Maps, pp121.

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