Pieter van der Aa was a Dutch

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 publisher

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 best known for preparing map

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s and atlas

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es. Some of his most popular maps were of the Africa

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n continent

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, detailing locations such as Morocco

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 and Madagascar

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.

The orchid genus Aa

Aa (plant)

Aa Rchb.f. 1854, is a genus of plants belonging to the family Orchidaceae.Species in this genus can be found growing terrestrially in cold habitats near the snowline in the Andes and also in Costa Rica; they are usually found close to small streams. The elongated inflorescence grows from a basal...

is said to be named after him by the botanist Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach

Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach

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 because he was the printer for the Dutch botanist Paul Herman's "Paradisus Batavus". Published posthumously in 1698, this explanation is disputed.

Published atlases

• Nouvel Atlas
• and the sixty-six volume Galerie Agréable du Monde [Leiden, 1728], of which only 100 copies are said to have been printed.
• Van der Aa, Pieter - F. Draakx schipvaart door de straat en Zuyd Zee gedaan om de gantsen aardkloot. - Leiden, Van der Aa 1706-08 [16 x 23,2 cm]
• Van der Aa, Pieter - Zee-togten door Thomas Candys na de West Indien, en van daar rondom den gantzen aardkloot gedaan.
• Van der Aa, Pieter - *T Noorder deel van Amerika. Door C.Kolumbus in zyn.. Leiden, Van der Aa 1706-08 [16 x 23,6 cm]

• Van der AA, Pieter - Amerika of de Nieuwe Weereld Aller eerst Door C. Kolumbus; Leiden, 1705
• Van der Aa, Piter - Niew(Nieuw) Engeland in twee Scheeptogten door..John Smith.. Leiden, 1705
• Vander Aa, Pieter - De voor Eylanden van America.. Florida, New Mexico,.. Leiden, 1705
• Van der Aa, Pieter, T Vaste Land van Darien ten Zuiden Cuba en Hispaniola Gelege - Leiden, 1705
• Van der Aa, Pieter - Cuba en Jamaica, soo als die door Kolombus.. Leiden, 1705
• Van der Aa, Pieter - Reys togt door Thomas Coryat van Jerusalem; Leiden, 1705
• Van der Aa, Pieter - De zee en land-reysen vandenridder Hendrik Blunt.; Leiden, 1705
• Van der Aa, Pieter - Melite Insula vulgo Malta; Leiden, 1712
• Van der Aa, Pieter - Valetta Civitas Nova Maltae olim Millitae; Leiden, 1712
• The plates in the Leiden University Catalogus librorum of 1716 in Quaerendo
  Quaerendo
  Quaerendo is an academic journal devoted to manuscripts and printed books, especially in the Low Countries. It publishes scholarly articles dealing with codicology, palaeography and various aspects of the history of books from around 1500 until the present....
  
  , 22, 1992, p. 271-284, ill.