T’Landt van de Eendracht

Acquired From: Leen Helmink

Colouring: Uncoloured

Condition: Excellent

Date Acquired: 26/5/2016

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 firm was continued 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 prominence 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 plates, the 1649 edition includes twenty-three newly engraved maps, among them this map, t Landt van de Eendracht (View Record (#12)), Java Maior (View Record (#371)), and several plates engraved engraved by Benjamin Wright (View Record (#369), View Record (#370)). The atlas also included two revised world maps: Typus Orbis Terrarum (this map) and Iehova (View Record (#293)), originally engraved by Jodocus Hondius for the 1598 Caert-thresoor (#294 and View Record (#296)).nThe title of this map refers to the ship Eendracht ("Concord"), commanded by Dirk Hartog, which in 1616 encountered and charted a substantial stretch of the western Australian coast. The map extends geographically from approximately 5N to 35S, graduated at one-degree intervals, and spans from Java to the western and northern coasts of Australia. The Tropic of Capricorn is marked, though no longitudes are shown. A simple compass rose appears in the lower portion of the page.nThe western coastline of Australia is delineated with a sequence of Dutch toponyms commemorating voyages between 1616 and 1627, including I. dEdels Lant, t Landt van de Leeuwin, and other coastal designations. The sea between the Australian mainland and the Indonesian archipelago is labelled Mare Lantchidol, a Latinised form of an Indigenous name recorded during Tasmans voyage and subsequently adopted in Dutch cartography.nSeveral Indonesian islands are depicted, including Madura, Iava maior, Timor, Baixos, Batulier I., Terra alta, Caber, and Vleermuyse Eylant, situating the Australian coastline within the broader VOC sphere of navigation.nThe plate also contains chronological errors. I.d'Edels Lant det. 1639 should read 1619, referring to its discovery by Frederik de Houtman and Jacob dEdel aboard the Dordrecht and Amsterdam. Similarly, t'Lant van de Leeuwin det. 1627 should read 1622, marking the voyage of the Leeuwin, which recorded the southernmost Dutch landfall on the western coast of the Southland.

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

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

Image Size (cm): 9.5 x 13

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

Notes: Check Email 22/05/2021

Price: Purchased with entries #10, 11

Primary Category: Southern Continent

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), 42834nDorothy Prescott, A Little Masters Piece, The La Trobe Journal, 79 (2007): 3143nAshley Baynton-Williams, Barent Langenes: An Unrecorded Miniature Atlas, Map Forum 2 (1999), republished online here.

Sheet size (cm): 9.5 x 18

Technique: Copper Engraving

This state: First