Atlas van Loon

Blaeu's world map, first published in the 1664 volume of the Atlas van Loon, later reprinted

The Atlas van Loon was commissioned by Frederik Willem van Loon of Amsterdam. It consists of a large number of maps published between 1649 and 1676:

The works includes both maritime atlases and country-specific maps which cover in detail areas of the Italian Peninsula (including Sicily), the Kingdom of France, the Old Swiss Confederacy, the Dutch Republic, and the Spanish Netherlands.

Contents

17th-century depiction of Stonehenge from the Atlas van Loon

• Volumes I to IX: The Dutch edition of Joan Blaeu's Atlas Maior (Grooten Atlas) of 1663-1665
• Volumes X, XI and XII: Blaeu's city books of Italy, covering the Papal States, Rome, Naples, and Sicily, all of 1663.
• Volumes XIII and XIV: Two volumes of the French edition of Blaeu's Atlas Maior, covering France and Switzerland, both of 1663.
• Volumes XV and XVI: Blaeu's Toonneel der Steeden, city books covering both the Northern and the Southern Netherlands, of 1649
• Volume XVII: Pieter Goos's Zee-atlas ofte water-wereld (Maritime Atlas or Water World) of 1676
• Volume XVIII: The French edition of Johannes Janssonius's Zeeatlas (Maritime Atlas) of 1657

The Atlas van Loon was acquired by the Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum in 1996.

See also

• History of cartography
• Cartography
• Ancient maps
• Willem Blaeu

External links

• Digitalized maps and pictures from the Atlas Van Loon:
  • Volume I:^{[link removed]} Atlas Maior I - Northern and Eastern Europe
  • Volume II:^{[link removed]} Atlas Maior II - Germany and Central Europe
  • Volume III:^{[link removed]} Atlas Maior III - the Low Countries
  • Volume IV:^{[link removed]} Atlas Maior IV - England and Wales
  • Volume V:^{[link removed]} Atlas Maior V - Scotland and Ireland
  • Volume VI:^{[link removed]} Atlas Maior VI - France
  • Volume VII:^{[link removed]} Atlas Maior VII - Italy and Greece
  • Volume VIII:^{[link removed]} Atlas Maior VIII - Spain, Portugal, Africa and America
  • Volume IX:^{[link removed]} Atlas Maior IX - Asia
  • Volume X:^{[link removed]} Italian Cities I - the Papal State
  • Volume XI:^{[link removed]} Italian Cities II - Rome
  • Volume XII:^{[link removed]} Italian Cities III - Naples and Sicily
  • Volume XIII:^{[link removed]} French edition Atlas Maior VII - France
  • Volume XIV:^{[link removed]} French edition Atlas Maior VIII - France and Switzerland
  • Volume XV:^{[link removed]} Tooneel der Steeden I - cities and fortifications of the Dutch Republic
  • Volume XVI:^{[link removed]} Tooneel der Steeden II - cities and fortifications of the Spanish Netherlands
  • Volume XVII:^{[link removed]} Goos' Zee-atlas ofte water-wereld
  • Volume XVIII:^{[link removed]} Janssonius' Zeeatlas