Iehova

Acquired From: Leen Helmink

Colouring: Uncoloured

Condition: Very Good

Date Acquired: 2021

Dealers ID No.: 19137 also #572b

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 firms prominence was sustained for over a century 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 reputation for geographical accuracy and artistic excellence 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 (titlepage, View Record (#10)), Africae, and Americae nova descriptio. nAlongside the inherited Caert-thresoor material, 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 by Benjamin Wright (View Record (#369), View Record (#370)). The atlas also includes two revised world maps, Typus Orbis Terrarum (View Record (#292)) and Iehova (this map) both originally engraved fifty-one years earlier by Hondius for Langeness Caert-Thresoor (1598; #294 and View Record (#296)).nIn this revised state, Visscher retained the essential structure of the original double-hemisphere projection, including the strapwork frame, the compass rose below, and the inscription IEHOVA, a Latinised form of the Hebrew name for God, placed between the two hemispheres. Hondiuss signature was replaced with Visschers, and the plate discreetly marked a 4 within the strapwork at lower right.nWhile the overall framework remained intact, Visscher made significant changes to the southern continent. In the original version, Terra Australis incognita formed an extensive, continuous landmass in the southern hemisphere. On this map, the landmass has been removed. In the eastern are outlines of t Landt van dEendracht (Australia) and A. van Diemens Lant (Tasmania), reflecting geographical knowledge derived from Abel Tasmans voyage of 16421643.

Engraver: Visscher, Claes Jansz. (1587-1652)

First published: Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri quatuor denuo recogniti, Amsterdam: Claes Jansz. Visscher, 1649

Image Size (cm): 12.5.8.9

Mapmaker: Visscher, Claes Jansz. (1587-1652)

Notes: Purchased with entry #292

Price: 47,500

Primary Category: World

Purchase Reference: Email 22/05/2021

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)

Sheet size (cm): 18.5×15

Technique: Copper Engraving

This state: First

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