°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ 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.

 

°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, BT1.32.7—Gerardi Mercatoris Atlas (1630)

 

°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library and Archives, Oxford
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