Atlas van Loon

The Atlas Van Loon was commissioned by Frederik Willem van Loon from Amsterdam. It consists of:^[1]

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

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

References

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