In 8° oblong (mm 120x170). Pages [16 unnumbered], 645 [i.e. 655] [49]. With a total of 170 copper-engraved maps, almost all in excellent condition and inking, of all areas of the known world including two globes, an allegorical table of navigation, a “sphaera caelesti,” the 4 continents, which each have their own engraved frontispiece. Beautiful coeval red morocco binding a little frayed and with slight abrasions and a darker stain to the back plate, with gilt panels and fillets to the plates and spine. Gilt edges. First edition of Bertius' redaction of the text. There had been a first edition by Langenes in 1598 and then one in 1599 by Corn. Claesz, but both with the primitive text by anonymous author, which was later corrected and expanded by Bertius.The rare first edition with Latin text by Bertius, of Barent Langenes' Caert-Thresoor was first published in 1598. In addition to the two world maps, 12 maps and plates refer to the Americas. Almost all of the engravings are by Pieter van den Keere, except for a few by Iodocus Hondius and Benjamin Wright. Good copy. Antique notes to front flyleaf. Complete atlas with all plates with some minor defects such as uniformly yellowed papers, a restoration to the bifolium (almost loose) with the typographical and engraved frontispiece (slightly trimmed), a restoration to the lower margin of Poiteau's plate (p. 115), some scattered stains and redness, a waterstain to the final part of the work a few pp. Missing p. a2 ad ampliss...viros, consules et senators reip. Lugdunensis ad Rhenum...KOEMAN II, Lan 4.