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Paskaerte van’t Weftelyckste der Middelandsche Zee
| Reference: | s11215 |
| Author | Pieter GOOS |
| Year: | 1662 ca. |
| Zone: | Mediterranean Sea |
| Printed: | Amsterdam |
| Measures: | 520 x 400 mm |
€1,500.00
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| Reference: | s11215 |
| Author | Pieter GOOS |
| Year: | 1662 ca. |
| Zone: | Mediterranean Sea |
| Printed: | Amsterdam |
| Measures: | 520 x 400 mm |
€1,500.00
Description
Nautical chart of the western Mediterranean. It extends from the Pillars of Hercules, to the Ionian coast of Greece, including the island of Corfu.
The chart is taken from: Nieuwe Groote Zee-Spiegel, Inhoudende het Straets-Boeck Ofte de Vertooninge en de Beschrijvinge Der Middelantsche Zee, In verscheyde Zee-Karten en Opdoeningen van Landen, etc. Gesneden gedruckt en uytgegeven t' Amsterdam. By Pieter Goos, op 't Water, in de Vergulde Zee-Spiegel, by de Nieuwe-brugh. Year 1662. Goos's editorial imprint is given in the cartouche in the upper left-hand corner: Gesneden gedruckt en uytgegeven t' Amsterdam by Pieter Goos, op 't Water in de Vergulde Zee Spiegel.
The publishing activity of Pieter Goos (1616 - 1675) developed after he purchased the copper plates of nautical charts that Anthonie Jacobsz Lootsman had engraved for his De Lichtende Columne ofte Zeespiegel. Goos reprinted and updated Lootsman's atlas, publishing his own editions of this work in various languages, and adding new maps.
His editorial motto was “Op 't Water, in de vergulde Zeespiegel” (on the water, in the golden mirror of the sea). Under the address “Op 't Water” Goos printed his first version of Lichtende Columne ofte Zee-Spiegel in 1650; a work he updated with an increasing number of nautical charts. In 1662 the third part of the Zee-Spiegel, the so-called Straets-Boek of the Mediterranean, a collection of 25 nautical charts printed with Dutch text, came to light.
Goos' nautical atlas of the Mediterranean inspired the Genoese captain Francesco Maria Levanto, who in 1664 translated the text and had the 25 nautical plates engraved for the First Part of the Specchio del Mare, printed in Genoa by Gerolamo Marino and Benedetto Celle. Goos' collection was then translated for the English and French markets, both published in 1669: the Lighting Colom Of the Midland-Sea and the Troisieme Partie Du Grand et Noveau Miroir ou Flambeau de la Mer.
Etching, finely hand-colored, very slight abrasions, otherwise in good condition.
Bibliografia
Stefano Bifolco, "Mare Nostrum, Cartografia nautica a stampa del Mar Mediterraneo" (2020), pp. 124-125, tav. 48; C. Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici: Bibliography of Terrestrial, Maritime and Celestial Atlases and Pilot Books Published in the Netherlands up to 1880 Vol. IV, Amsterdam 1970, pp. 192-217, Goos 44 A (1, 2); National Maritime Museum, Catalogue of the Library - Vol. Three, Atlas & Cartography, Londra, 1971, p. 83, n. 92 (nn. 18-19); cfr. R. Shirley, Maps in the Atlases of the British Library, Londra, 2004, pp. 1172-1175.
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Abraham Goos was a noted engraver in Amsterdam who prepared plates for many maps published in well-known atlases of his time including Speed's A Prospect ofthe Most Famous Parts of the World (1627) and the 1632 edition of Speed's Atlas.
He was related to the Hondius family by whom he was also employed as an engraver.
In 1616 he issued a book of maps, the Nieuw Nederlandtsh Caertboeck (4to) which was re-issued in 1619 and 1625.
His son, Pieter, continued and extended his father's business and became one of the group of well-known engravers of sea charts active in Amsterdam in the middle years of the seventeenth century.
In common with Colom, Doncker and Jacobsz he published a pilot guide, the Zee-Spiegel, basing it on plates obtained from Jacobsz. This went through many editions in different languages under the startling titles so popular at the time.
In addition to publishing his Zee-Spiegel in the usual Parts 1 and II (Europe and Atlantic coasts) and Part III (Mediterranean) he broke new ground in preparing Parts IV and V, covering charts and sailing directions for the coasts of the West Indies and West Africa. The later editions of the Zee Atlas were published by his widow who eventually sold the publishing rights of the Atlas and of the Zee-Spiegel to Jacobus Robijn.
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Abraham Goos was a noted engraver in Amsterdam who prepared plates for many maps published in well-known atlases of his time including Speed's A Prospect ofthe Most Famous Parts of the World (1627) and the 1632 edition of Speed's Atlas.
He was related to the Hondius family by whom he was also employed as an engraver.
In 1616 he issued a book of maps, the Nieuw Nederlandtsh Caertboeck (4to) which was re-issued in 1619 and 1625.
His son, Pieter, continued and extended his father's business and became one of the group of well-known engravers of sea charts active in Amsterdam in the middle years of the seventeenth century.
In common with Colom, Doncker and Jacobsz he published a pilot guide, the Zee-Spiegel, basing it on plates obtained from Jacobsz. This went through many editions in different languages under the startling titles so popular at the time.
In addition to publishing his Zee-Spiegel in the usual Parts 1 and II (Europe and Atlantic coasts) and Part III (Mediterranean) he broke new ground in preparing Parts IV and V, covering charts and sailing directions for the coasts of the West Indies and West Africa. The later editions of the Zee Atlas were published by his widow who eventually sold the publishing rights of the Atlas and of the Zee-Spiegel to Jacobus Robijn.
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