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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…

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…

Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Good, loss lower right corner Description: From the 1698 ed. of Mercator's Ptolemy Atlas: Claudii Ptolemaei Tabulae Geographicae Orbis Terrarum Veteribus Cogniti, published by Francois Halma & Willem van den Water, Utrecht & Leonard Strick, Franeker. This Atlas was first published in 1578 and re-published in 1584, 1605, 1618/1619, 1695, 1698, 1704…

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…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Good Confirmed: 3/10/2024 Date Acquired: 1/8/2020 Description: The frontispiece of the atlas features a hand-colored engraving by Jan van Vianen, depicting Neptune riding a seashell-shaped chariot drawn by four hippocampi, mythical creatures with the upper body of a horse and the lower body of a fish. The god…

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…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Fair Confirmed: Check with entry 158 Date Acquired: 12/8/2020 Dealers ID No.: 43843 Description: The upper half represents the celestial vault with a radiant Sun, a crescent Moon, the stars and a portion of the zodiac with the signs of Virgo and Libra as observed by a pair…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Confirmed: No Description: Published in Amsterdam by Pierre Mortier around 1700, this titlepage appropriates the Blaeu model of global allegory to position Mortiers effort to establish a French-language cartographic publishing enterprise capable of rivaling the great atlases of Paris and Amsterdam. Having trained in Paris in the early 1680s,…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Date Acquired: 14/3/2023 Description: The Van Keulen publishing house was one of the most important producers of nautical charts and sea atlases in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Founded by Johannes van Keulen in Amsterdam in 1678, the firm specialised in hydrographic publications intended…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 30/11/2015 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 1599, after briefly studying…