Pas kaart van de Weder zytsche Zee-kusten soo van Italia als Dalmatia em Griecken…
| Reference: | MS6905 |
| Author | Johannes VAN KEULEN |
| Year: | 1680 ca. |
| Zone: | Adriatic Sea |
| Printed: | Amsterdam |
| Measures: | 595 x 515 mm |
€1,100.00
| Reference: | MS6905 |
| Author | Johannes VAN KEULEN |
| Year: | 1680 ca. |
| Zone: | Adriatic Sea |
| Printed: | Amsterdam |
| Measures: | 595 x 515 mm |
€1,100.00
Description
Sea chart published for the first time in the Zee Atlas of Van Keulen, in 1681, and afterwards included in different editions of the sea atlas, published until 1720.
The chart depicts the Adriatic sea, from the gulf og Venice until Capo Santa Maria di Leuca, the Dalmatian and the Albanese coasts, until the Greek ones, the gulf of Taranto with the Jonio sea until Capo delle Colonne.
The map includes a large inset of Corfu and smaller inset of the mouth of the Po River and Paxos & Andipaxos islands.
The chart is embellished with five compass roses, rhumb lines, and a decorative title cartouche featuring putti.
Copper engraving, beautuful contemporary colour, in excellent condition. Very rare.
Literature
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Zacharakis #1182.
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Johannes VAN KEULEN (1654 - 1715)
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As we have noted in other biographies in this chapter, the Dutch produced a remarkable number of enterprising and prolific map and chart makers but not even the Blaeu and Jansson establishments could rival the vigour of the van Keulen family whose business was founded in 1680 and continued under their name until 1823 and in other names until 1885 when it was finally wound up and the stock dispersed at auction.
Throughout the history of the family, the widows of several of the van Keulens played a major part, after their husbands' deaths, in maintaining the continuity of the business.
The firm was founded by Johannes van Keulen who was registered as a bookseller in Amsterdam in 1678. In 1680 he published the first part of his Zee Atlas which, over the years, was expanded to 5 volumes and continued in one form or another until 1734. More ambitious and with a far longer and more complicated life was his book of sea charts, the Zee-Fakkel, published in 1681-82 which was still being printed round the year 1800. A major influence in the development of the firm was the acquisition in 1693 of the stock of a rival map publisher, Hendrik Doncker.
Although the firm was founded by Johannes van Keulen, he was primarily a publisher; it was his son, Gerard, a talented engraver, mathematician, Hydrographer to the East India Company, who became the mainspring of the business which not only published charts but also books on every aspect of geography, navigation and nautical matters.
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Literature
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Zacharakis #1182.
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Johannes VAN KEULEN (1654 - 1715)
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As we have noted in other biographies in this chapter, the Dutch produced a remarkable number of enterprising and prolific map and chart makers but not even the Blaeu and Jansson establishments could rival the vigour of the van Keulen family whose business was founded in 1680 and continued under their name until 1823 and in other names until 1885 when it was finally wound up and the stock dispersed at auction.
Throughout the history of the family, the widows of several of the van Keulens played a major part, after their husbands' deaths, in maintaining the continuity of the business.
The firm was founded by Johannes van Keulen who was registered as a bookseller in Amsterdam in 1678. In 1680 he published the first part of his Zee Atlas which, over the years, was expanded to 5 volumes and continued in one form or another until 1734. More ambitious and with a far longer and more complicated life was his book of sea charts, the Zee-Fakkel, published in 1681-82 which was still being printed round the year 1800. A major influence in the development of the firm was the acquisition in 1693 of the stock of a rival map publisher, Hendrik Doncker.
Although the firm was founded by Johannes van Keulen, he was primarily a publisher; it was his son, Gerard, a talented engraver, mathematician, Hydrographer to the East India Company, who became the mainspring of the business which not only published charts but also books on every aspect of geography, navigation and nautical matters.
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