Totius Europae Littora Novissime adita. Pascaert vertoonende alle de See-custen van Europa.
| Reference: | VR08OL |
| Author | Reiner & Joshua OTTENS |
| Year: | 1745 |
| Zone: | Europe |
| Printed: | Amsterdam |
| Measures: | 890 x 495 mm |
| Reference: | VR08OL |
| Author | Reiner & Joshua OTTENS |
| Year: | 1745 |
| Zone: | Europe |
| Printed: | Amsterdam |
| Measures: | 890 x 495 mm |
Description
Etching and engraving, 495x890 mm. Not dated, signed in the cartouche, lower center: Tot Amsterdam, R. & I. Ottens.
Magnificient example, printed on contemporary laid paper, with margins, contemporary old coloured, in excellent condition.
A beautiful Dutch Portolan style sea chart that shows an area from Morocco to the Scandinavian island of Spitsbergen and Iceland, based upon an earlier map of the same title by De Wit, which in turn was based upon Blaeu's 4 sheet chart of Europe and the Atlantic first published in 1621.
The map extends west to east from Iceland to Dalmatia and north to south from Spitzbergen to Morocco, continuation Chart of the Mediterranean inset to Africa, several decorative crests, numerous rhumb lines, vignette depictions of Elephants in North Africa and rutting Goats in Norway. The inset map on the left shows the continuation of the Mediterranean. Richly embellished with three scale and one title cartouche, two pairs of animals, goats in Scandinavia and elephants in Africa. Winged putti holding navigational instruments surround the title cartouche. This fine chart appeared in Ottens' Atlas der Zeevaart. On of the most decorative and fascinating sea charts of the period.
Bibliografia: 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. 432-435, Ren 3, (5); National Maritime Museum, Catalogue of the Library - Vol. Three, Atlas & Cartography, Londra, 1971, p. 164, n. 171 (6).
Literature
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S. Bifolco, "Mare Nostrum, Cartografia nautica a stampa del Mar Mediterraneo" (2020), pp. 180-181, tav. 80.
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The family business of print and map selling was founded by Joachim Ottens but the active period of map publishing was concentrated in the years between 1720 and 1750 when the brothers, Reiner and Joshua, produced enormous collections of maps, some as large as 15 volumes.
These, including copies of practically all maps available at the time, were made up to order and were magnificently coloured. Besides these specially prepared collections they also issued single-volume atlases with varying contents as well as pocket atlases.
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Literature
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S. Bifolco, "Mare Nostrum, Cartografia nautica a stampa del Mar Mediterraneo" (2020), pp. 180-181, tav. 80.
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The family business of print and map selling was founded by Joachim Ottens but the active period of map publishing was concentrated in the years between 1720 and 1750 when the brothers, Reiner and Joshua, produced enormous collections of maps, some as large as 15 volumes.
These, including copies of practically all maps available at the time, were made up to order and were magnificently coloured. Besides these specially prepared collections they also issued single-volume atlases with varying contents as well as pocket atlases.
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