Acquired From: Leen Helmink
Colouring: Uncoloured
Condition: Excellent
Confirmed: No
Date Acquired: 26/5/2016
Description: Claes Jansz. Visscher was a leading Amsterdam map publisher whose output played a central role in shaping Dutch cartography in the first half of the seventeenth century. He established his publishing house in 1611 on the Kalverstraat, close to leading contemporaries such as Pieter van den Keere (View Record (#8), View Record (#109), View Record (#122), View Record (#155), View Record (#217), View Record (#273), View Record (#285)) and Jodocus Hondius I (View Record (#80), View Record (#212), View Record (#253), View Record (#272)). The firm was continued by his son Nicolaes Visscher I (View Record (#25), View Record (#93), View Record (#129), View Record (#287), View Record (#299)) and later by his grandson Nicolaes Visscher II, maintaining its prominence well into the eighteenth century.nFollowing the death of the publisher Cornelis Claesz. in 1612, the copperplates for Barent Langeness Caert-thresoor (1598; #294, View Record (#295), View Record (#296), View Record (#383), View Record (#388)) passed through several hands before being acquired by Visscher. In 1649 he reissued and expanded this material as Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri quatuor denuo recogniti, a compact atlas divided into four parts: Europae, Asiae (titlepage, View Record (#10)), Africae, and Americae nova descriptio.nAlongside the inherited Caert-thresoor plates, the 1649 edition includes twenty-three newly engraved maps, among them this map, t Landt van de Eendracht (View Record (#12)), Java Maior (View Record (#371)), and several plates engraved engraved by Benjamin Wright (View Record (#369), View Record (#370)). The atlas also included two revised world maps: Typus Orbis Terrarum (this map) and Iehova (View Record (#293)), originally engraved by Jodocus Hondius for the 1598 Caert-thresoor (#294 and View Record (#296)).nThis map depicts Van Diemens Land (Tasmania) just seven years after its discovery by Abel Tasmans ships the Heemskerck and Zeehaen, on November 24, 1642. Unlike earlier speculative representations of the southern oceans, this plate presents a defined coastal outline with fourteen place names along the south-west, south, and south-east coasts. nSpanning approximately 30S to 4430'S, the map also includes part of the southern Australian coastline from Cape Leeuwin to the Isles of St. Francis and St. Peter, labelled t Landt van de Leeuwin and t Landt van P. Nuyts. The surrounding sea is designated Mare Lantchidol.
Engraver: Visscher, Claes Jansz. (1587-1652)
First published: Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri quatuor denuo recogniti, Amsterdam: Claes Jansz. Visscher, 1649
Image Size (cm): 9.7 x 13.7
Mapmaker: Visscher, Claes Jansz. (1587-1652)
Notes: Check Email 22/05/2021 Purchased with entries #10, #12
Price: 120,000
Primary Category: Southern Continent
Rarity: R1 Extremely rare – occasionally seen on the market
References: Peter van der Krogt, ed., Koemans Atlantes Neerlandici, vol. 3 (t Goy-Houten: HES & De Graaf, 1997), 42834.nPrescott, A Little Masters Piece, The La Trobe Journal, 79 (2007): 3143 nBaynton-Williams, Barent Langenes: An Unrecorded Miniature Atlas, Map Forum 2 (1999), also at https://mapforum.com/2022/01/24/barent-langenes-unrecorded-miniature-… nAlso a zoomable image at SLV (Image 8).
Sheet size (cm): 14.5 x 18
Technique: Copper Engraving
This state: First
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