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Pascaert van ‘t Oostelyckste deel van Oost Indien: met alle de Eylanden daer onder gelegen, van Cabo Comorin tot aen Japan
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: 31/12/2024 Date Acquired: 3/6/2020 Dealers ID No.: 18747 (HJX022) Description: Anthonie Theunis Jacobsz established a printing and publishing business in Amsterdam, focusing on pilot books and sea atlases. Although he passed away relatively young in 1650, the majority of his works were published posthumously by his…
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Delineatio omnium orarum totius Australis partis Americae, dictae Peruvianae, a R. de la Plata, Brasiliam, Pariam, & Castellam
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Dealers ID No.: 17356 Description: In 1583 Jan Huygen van Linschoten, a Dutch explorer, travelled to Goa, India where he served as secretary to João Vicente da Fonseca, the newly appointed Portuguese Archbishop. At the time, Goa was the capital of the Estado da…
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Carta XXII – Isole nel mare di Sur scoperte nel 1617
Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Dealers ID No.: 29374 Description: This intriguing chart depicts a group of islands in the South Sea (Pacific Ocean), attributed to discoveries made in 1617. It appears in Robert Dudleys DellArcano del Mare (Secrets of the Sea), first published in Florence between 1646 and 1647, and reissued in…
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Arcano del mare… Tomo Secondo
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 20/10/2020 Description: This engraved title page introduces Volume II (Tomo Secondo) of the 1661 edition of Robert Dudleys DellArcano del Mare, retitled Arcano del Mare in this reissue. The second edition reorganised the original three-volume atlas (164647) into two uniformly sized folio…
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Arctica
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Date Acquired: 28/01/2023 Dealers ID No.: 19157 Description: Following the death of Willem Blaeu in 1638, his son Joan Blaeu expanded and refined the familys atlas project, culminating in the monumental Atlas Maior. The origins of this enterprise, however, extend back several decades. In…
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Atlas
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Fair Confirmed: 2/1/2025 Date Acquired: 20/3/2023 Description: Frederik de Wit began his career as an apprentice to Willem Blaeu before establishing his own publishing house in Amsterdam in 1648 under the sign De Drie Crabben (the Three Crabs). In 1655, he renamed his shop Witte Pascaert (the White…
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Orbis terrarum typus de integro multis in locis emendatus
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 2025 Description: This world map was first published c.1652 in Amsterdam, shortly after Nicolaes Visscher I succeeded his father Claes Janszoon Visscher (View Record (#10), View Record (#11), View Record (#12), View Record (#292), View Record (#293)). It was issued separately and also…
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Le Nouveau Miroir des Voiages
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Good Confirmed: 3/10/2024 Date Acquired: 6/11/2020 Description: In 1584-85, Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer published Spieghel der zeevaerdt (Mariner's Mirror), a groundbreaking pilot guide designed specifically to address the complexities of coastal sailing. This work provided seamen with detailed charts, sailing directions, and advice on how to navigate the coasts…
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Pascaerte vande Zuyd-Zee tussche California, en Ilhas de Ladrones
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: 3/10/2024 Date Acquired: 5/2/2021 Description: Johannes van Loon was an accomplished mathematician and astronomer. He began his cartographic career in the 1640s working with Theunis Jacobsz. By 1650 he was collaborating with Johannes Janssonius, engraving plates for significant works, including the final volume of Janssoniuss…