Title Page for Pitt’s English Atlas, vol. II

[Title-page] The English Atlas, Volume II

Pitt worked in partnership with Janssonius’ heir Joannes van Waesbergen, and this title-page for the German volume is a reworking of one engraved for Janssonius forty years earlier. The Holy Roman Emperor is now Leopold I, the faces of the other Electors have also been updated, and a there is a considerable amount of additional background detail.

Four volumes only of Pitt’s projected eleven volume world atlas were published 1680-83, all dealing with northern Europe.

Condition & Materials 

Copper engraved title-page, 40.5 x 26.5 cm, black and white as issued, blank verso.

References 

Shirely, Courtiers and Cannibals, 48A.