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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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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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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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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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Americae Nova descriptio
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: 3/10/2024 Date Acquired: 3/4/2021 Description: Around 1584, Pieter van den Keere fled religious persecution in Ghent (now Belgium) and sought refuge in London. His sister, Colette van den Keere (View Record (#113)), also relocated to London, where she married renowned mapmaker Jodocus Hondius (View Record…
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Verhandeling der zee-horenkens en zee-gewassen in en omtrent Amboina en de naby gelegene eylanden….
Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Good Confirmed: 28/09/2024 Date Acquired: 6/3/2003 Dealers ID No.: (STK 48.23) Description: François Valentijn was a minister who devoted most of his life to the employ of the VOC. In 1685 he was sent by the VOC to Ambon as a Minister to the East Indies, where he…
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Insulae Javae pars Occidentalis edente Hadriano relando [&] Insulae Javae pars Orientalis edente Hadriano relando
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: 3/10/2024 Date Acquired: 1/10/2020 Dealers ID No.: 18925 (GE 1402) Description: The Van Keulen family was renowned for their significant contributions to mapmaking and atlas publishing. Their firm, In de Gekroonde Lootsman (In the Crowned Pilot), was established in 1678 by Johannes van Keulen I.…
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Pars altera speculi marini
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Date Acquired: 5/8/2020 Dealers ID No.: 18913 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…
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Atlas Minor Sive totius Orbis Terrarum ontracta delineat ex conatibus
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 9/10/2020 Dealers ID No.: 39700 Description: Nicolaes Visscher II inherited the family business following his fathers death in 1679. In 1682, he had secured a government patent to print and publish maps, relocating the shop to the Dam while retaining its original…