Novus atlas absolutissimus : das ist, Generale Welt-Beschreibung mit allerley schoenen und neuen Land-Carten gezieret
This is a German-language atlas of the world, issued by the Amsterdam publisher Janssonius in 1647 for a general readership in German-speaking lands. The four plates show regional maps of northern Italian and French territories, with decorative cartouches, coats of arms and sea monsters. A designer could take the ornate title cartouches, heraldic emblems and hand-coloured borders as models for period map framing.
