Pieter van der Aa

Pieter van der Aa, Peter van der Aa, (* 1659 in Leiden, † August 1733 ) was a Dutch printer, publisher, bookseller and engraver.

In his time he was mainly famous for atlases with engravings on which cities Views depicted. Mostly he copied these stitches detail by Matthäus Merian. Similarly, he proceeded with maps for his atlases, of which especially his Africa maps with detailed illustrations of, for example, Morocco and Madagascar were particularly popular.

In 1698 van der Aa printed " Paradisus Batavus ", a Plant Atlas of the Dutch botanist Paul Hermann. This pressure should have the German plant and bird watchers Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach prompted to designate a species of orchid " Aa ". This explanation, however, is controversial.

In the years 1703 to 1706 Pieter van der Aa also brought out a ten-volume edition of the works of Erasmus of Rotterdam, for his brother Hillebrand designed the title page.

Published atlases

  • Nouvel Atlas
  • And the sechsundsechzigbändige Gallery Agréable du Monde [ Leiden, 1728 ], were printed by the well only 100 copies.
  • Alphabetum Grandonico - malabaricum immersive Samscrudonicum. Roma, S. Congregation for Propag. Fide, 1772. 8vo. Woodcut
  • F. Draakx schip vaart door de straat en Zuyd Zee gedaan om de Gantsen aardkloot. Leiden, Van der Aa 1706-08.
  • Zee - door togten Thomas Candys na de West Indies, en van daar rondom the gantzen aardkloot gedaan.
  • T Noorder deel van America. Door C.Kolumbus in zyn .. Leiden, Van der Aa 1706-08 [ 16 x 23,6 cm]
  • America of de Nieuwe Weereld All eerst Door C. Columbus; Leiden, 1705
  • Niew Engeland in twee Scheeptogten door .. John Smith .. Leiden, 1705
  • De voor Eylanden van .. America Florida, New Mexico, .. Leiden, 1705
  • T Vaste Land van Darien th Zuiden en Cuba Hispaniola scrim. Leiden, 1705
  • Cuba en Jamaica, soo as the door Colombus .. Leiden, 1705
  • Reys Togt door Thomas Coryat van Jerusalem; Leiden, 1705
  • De zee en land - Reysen vanden ridder Hendrik Blunt. ; Leiden, 1705
  • Melita Insula vulgo Malta; Leiden, 1712
  • Valetta Civitas Nova Maltae olim Millitae; Leiden, 1712
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