[ATLASES]. LAET, Johannes de (1581-1649). Beschrijvinghe Van West-Indien? Tweede Druck. In ontallijke plaetsen verbetert, met eenig nieuwe caerten, beelden van verscheyden dieren ende planten verciert. Leiden: Elsevier, 1630. Folio. With engraved title-page and all 14 maps (bound here as double-page maps, instead of folding maps) by Hessel Gerritsz (1581-1632), and 14 pages with woodcuts of natives, flora, fauna. [28], 1-622, [17, Register], [1, blank] pp. Approximately 12 ? x 7 ?". Text in Dutch. Bound to style in modern full brown calf, boards with inlaid blind-stamped decorative panels, spine with portions of an earlier binding affixed in compartments, five raised bands, two modern burgundy gilt morocco lettering labels, plain endleaves (light rubbing to binding, text lightly toned, with occasional thumbsoiling and marginal dampstaining, half-title restored at margins, occasional contemporary ink marginal notes, p. 20 with tear at bottom (bottom text lightly affected), p. 81 with tear at upper margin (not affecting text), p. 281/282 missing, occasional scuffing with minor text loss, the final three leaves of the Register with repairs on rectos and versos). Very good.THE RARE SECOND EXPANDED EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT AND INFLUENTIAL ATLAS, WITH THE IMPORTANT FIRST PRINTED MAP OF THE NORTHEAST OF WHAT WOULD BECOME THE UNITED STATES. The ?First printed map of New Netherlands as well as the first printed map that names New Amsterdam [later New York City] and Manhattan [named here as ?Manbattes']." (Schwartz). This map is also the first to correctly display Manhattan as an Island. It was created just five years after the establishment of New Amsterdam by the Dutch. This map has a long publishing history, and was reproduced several times, through the many issues of Jansson. As per McCorkle, this is also the first map to use the place name ?Massachusetts." The cartographer, Gerritsz, is one of the most important Dutch cartographers of the seventeenth century, intimately involved in Dutch expansion at the time. He was the official cartographer of the Dutch East India Company, and these maps represent the finest and most accurate maps to appear at the time. Gerritsz trained under legendary cartographer Willem Blaeu (1571-1638) but was chosen over Blaeu as the official cartographer for the Dutch East India Company. This atlas is ?? arguably the finest description of the Americas published in the seventeenth century?" (Burden). Copies of this atlas with all fourteen maps are scarce. The first edition of 1625 had only ten maps ? this is the preferred edition. Schwartz and Ehrenberg, p. 105. Burden 229. Sabin 38555.Measurements 13"L x 8"W x 3"H.