For nearly a century the members of the Visscher family were important art dealers and map publishers in Amsterdam. The founder of the business, C.. Visscher, had premises near to those of Pieter van den Keere and Jodocus Hondius whose pupil he may have been. From about 1620 he designed a number of individual maps, including one of the British Isles, but his first atlas consisted of maps printed from plates bought from van den Keere and issued as they stood with some additions of his own, including historical scenes of battles and sieges for which he had a high reputation. Some maps bear the latinized form of the family name: Piscator. After Visscher's death his son and grandson, both of the same name, issued a considerable number of atlases, constantly revised and brought up to date but most of them lacking an index and with varying contents. The widow of Nicholaes Visscher II carried on the business until it finally passed into the hands of Pieter Schenk.
Claes Jansz Visscher
1634: Belgium sive Germania inferior: 43 maps l637, c.1645 Re-issued with additional maps
1649:Tabularum Geographicarum contractarum. Re-issue of the Caert Thresoor by Langenes (1598)
Nicolaes Visscher I
1656-79: Atlas Contractus Orbis Terrarum. Several editions with varying contents
c.1677:Germania Inferior: 52 maps. Maps by the Visschers, Jansson, Blaeu and others
Nicolaes Visscher II
c.1684: Germania Inferior: 21 maps
c. 1683-98: Atlas Minor. Inspite of its name this was a full-scale atlas in folio size. Several editions with numbers of maps varying from about 60 to 150.
Elizabeth Visscher
c. 1702-16: Atlas Minor. 6 editions with numbers of maps varying from 50 to 150, many bearing her name.
c. 1702: Atlas Major: 2 volumes: 200 maps. Enlarged edition of the Atlas Minor
Ref: Bannister/Moreland Collecting Antique Maps