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Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 30/11/2015 Description: Published in Amsterdam by Pierre Mortier, this frontispiece forms part of his broader ambition to establish a French-language cartographic publishing enterprise capable of rivaling the great atlas productions of Paris and Amsterdam. Having trained in Paris in the early 1680s, Mortier…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 5/10/2017 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…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Good Date Acquired: 6/5/2018 Description: Engraved title page from the 1708 edition of Andreas Cellariuss Atlas Coelestis seu Harmonia Macrocosmica, one of the most visually ambitious celestial atlases of the seventeenth century. Originally published by Johannes Janssonius in 1660, this later issue by Gerard Valk and Pieter Schenk…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Good Confirmed: Yes 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 for professional…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes 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 for…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 11/6/2015 Description: Hendrick Doncker was one of the most important independent hydrographers and maritime publishers active in Amsterdam during the Dutch Golden Age. Unlike firms that relied heavily on copying or adapting existing plates, Doncker was recognised by contemporaries for producing original…

Acquired From: Antique Print & Map Room Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 3/8/2016 Dealers ID No.: FP 1648 BLAE 001 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,…

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…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 24/12/2016 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…

Colouring: Coloured Confirmed: No 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. Its origins, however, date back several decades. In 1599, after briefly studying with Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, Willem Janszoon Blaeu settled in Amsterdam, where he…