ABSTRACT
This small leather-bound book was printed in 1603. The front and back covers are decorated with a bold blindstamped impression in the centre and a further four delicate flower motifs embossed in each of the corners. These motifs are also repeated five times along its spine. This contemporary binding of leather covering paper-pulp boards has protected the book for four centuries. Measuring 17 cm by 13 cm, roughly the size of a modern paperback novel, this is an atlas, and its contents describe the wonders of the world as it was understood in the sixteenth century.
