Acquired From: Leen Helmink
Colouring: Uncoloured
Condition: Excellent
Confirmed: Yes
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 (this titlepage), Africae, and Americae.nAlongside the inherited Caert-thresoor plates, the 1649 edition includes twenty-three newly engraved maps, among them t Landt van de Eendracht (View Record (#12)), Anthoni van Diemens Landt aldaereerst beseylt ofte ontdeckt by de Schepen Heemskerck ende Zeehaen den 24 November 1642 (View Record (#11)), Java Maior (View Record (#371)), and several plates engraved engraved by Benjamin Wright (View Record (#369), View Record (#370)). The atlas also includes two revised world maps: Typus Orbis Terrarum (this map) and Iehova (View Record (#293)), both originally engraved fifty-one years earlier by Jodocus Hondius for Langeness Caert-thresoor (1598; #294 and View Record (#296)).nThis engraved plate depicts a standing male figure in Oriental dress, turbaned and holding a bow, with a cloak draped over his right arm. He leans against a low parapet upon which are arranged various objects suggestive of wealth and abundance including a bird, strings of pearls, large vessels, and a shield alongside plumes and a sword.
Engraver: Visscher, Claes Jansz. (1587-1652)
First published: Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri quatuor denuo recogniti, Amsterdam: Claes Jansz. Visscher, 1649
Image Size (cm): 9.2 x 12
Mapmaker: Visscher, Claes Jansz. (1587-1652)
Price: Purchased with entries #11, 12
Primary Category: Titlepage
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)nSee also https://mapforum.com/2022/01/24/barent-langenes-unrecorded-miniature-… Also a zoomable image at SLV (Image 8).
Sheet size (cm): 14.5 x 18
Technique: Copper Engraving
This state: First
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