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M. Scutters "Atlas Novus."

By W. B. D. D. TURNBALL.

I shall feel obliged by you, or any "to whom these presents shall come," affording me some information respecting a work and its author, of which no mention is made in any bibliographical or biographical work which I have consulted. The book is in two enormous folio volumes, without any printed title, date, place, or publisher's name; but in the elaborately engraved frontispiece, which serves as a title, is inserted "Atlas Novus, sive Tabulae Geographicæ, totius Orbis faciem, partes, imperio, regna et provincias exhibentes, exactissiina cura juxta recentissimas observationes aeri incisae et ve…