This is the FIRST CLOPPENBURG EDITION. The success of Gerard Mercator’s folio atlas under Jodocus Hondius encouraged the latter to publish an ‘Atlas Minor’ in 1607 with 152 maps. In 1628 Johannes Janssonius produced a slightly larger series of plates for another edition. This was followed in 1630 by this first edition by Johannes Cloppenburg with a new series of plates mostly engraved by Pieter van der Keere. Its early life was short, appearing in just three editions before disappearing for nearly forty years. This suggests that either competition forced it out of business, or since it later appeared in the hands of the Janssonius family, that it was bought out. It is the largest and rarest of the three series and includes some significant maps. The world map is one of the earliest to record Australia displaying the 1616 discoveries of the Dutch under Dirk Hartog in the ship ‘Eendracht’ on the west coast. Only a handful of maps pre-date this all separately published or in travel books. This is the first map in an atlas to show the continent. At the other end of the book is a fine map of Bermuda drawn from that of Richard Norwood. Only three printed maps pre-date its issue; Andre Thevet’s fictitious map of c.1586 surviving in just one example, John Smith’s great rare map of 1624 and that of John Speed, 1626. Provenance: Ex-Libris ‘The Right Honble. Anthony Earle of Kent 1702’ pasted inside front cover; ex-libris of ‘Thomas Philip Earl de Grey (1781-1859) Wrest Park’ pasted inside front cover; Damms Antikvariat 1994. Koeman II Me 198; Van der Krogt 353:01. pp. 529-34; Phillips 3439; Schilder ‘Australia Unveiled’ no. 33; Shirley BL T.Clop 1a; Shirley ‘World’ 334.