ABSTRACT
Munister's appeal for regional maps represented a parallel attempt to compile an atlas of composite authorship, as did the sets of maps put together for their customers by Italian mapsellers in the mid — 16th century — Lafreri in Rome, Camocio, Forlani and Bertelli in Venice. The publication of small sextodecimo atlases based on the Theatrum, with such titles as Spieghel, Le Miroir, Epitome, Enchiridion, had begun in 1577 and continued until 1724. Apart from the atlases published by family tradition, a large number of other publishers' atlases appeared, chiefly in the second half of the 17th century. Among the firms making atlases from their own and other cartographers' maps was the house of Reinier and Josua Ottens. Besides large atlases of the world, the Netherlands manufactured a number of miniature or "pocket" atlases, based on the folio works of Abraham Ortelius, G. Valck. Mercator and others.
