75/ 821 [Atlases]. Mees Azn., G. Historische atlas van Noord-Nederland van de XVI eeuw tot op heden. Rott., Verbruggen & Van Duym, 1851-1865, 15 parts w. 9 to 37 descript. textpages, 14 loosely inserted double-p. handcol. lithogr. maps, in parts as issued in the orig. unif. printed wr., folio.

- Part 15 without the orig. wr.; backwr. part 9 stained.

= Rare in the orig. wrappers. Koeman II, Mee 1 (p.274, erroneously 16 maps, corrected in VI, p.208); Phillips 3073. "G.M. Mees, a lawyer and historian, was the first to produce a historical atlas of the Netherlands. In his atlas he has introduced for the first time a correct choropleth map of the Netherlands. The contents of the original Historical Atlas of 1865 is on a very high cartographical level. Mees, Eekhoff and Staring are considered the only three intelligent Dutch cartographers of the mid-nineteenth century." (Koeman VI, p.207-208).