Acquired From: Leen Helmink
Colouring: Coloured
Condition: Excellent
Confirmed: 3/10/2024
Date Acquired: 1/2/2018
Description: The Van Keulen family gained renown for producing high quality nautical charts and atlases for over two centuries, beginning the 1680s. Their Amsterdam based firm, In de Gekroonde Lootsman (In the Crowned Pilot), was established in 1678 by Johannes van Keulen I. Just two years later, he published the first edition of De groote nieuwe vermeerderde zee atlas ofte water-werelt (Great New Enlarged Sea Atlas of the Water World), commonly referred to as Zee atlas. nThis atlas included this sea chart, titled in English Chart of the South Sea and a Portion of Brazil, from the Ladrones Islands to the Rio de la Plata, reflecting a geographic focus on the Pacific Ocean (often referred to as the "South Sea" in early European maps) and the Atlantic coast of South America. At the far west the map depicts the discoveries of Abel Tasman in New Zealand (Staten Landt) and Tasmania (Anthoni van Diemens Landt), and the western coast of what us now known as the Gulf of Carpentaria. nThe maps large decorative cartouche features European and indigenous figures, mythological beings, and maritime symbols as well as sailing ships, of which two are in a sea battle.
First published: De groote nieuwe vermeerderde zee atlas ofte water-werelt, Amsterdam: Johannes van Keulen I, 1680
Mapmaker: Keulen I, Johannes van (1654-1715)
Price: 8,200
Primary Category: Sea Charts
Purchase Reference: Ledger 2022
Rarity: R2 Very rare – one or two copies appear on the market
References: McLaughlin #76; Tooley (Amer) #45, p.123; Tooley (AUS) #795; Wagner (NW) #443nThomas Suárez, The Early Mapping of the Pacific: The Epic Story of Seafarers, Adventurers, and Cartographers Who Mapped the Earths Greatest Ocean (Singapore: Periplus Editions, 2004), 94, Fig. 88.
Technique: Copper Engraving
This state: 1680
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