Pascaart van Europa. Als mede een gedeelte van cust van Africa

Etching and engraving, 435x530 mm, signed in the plate in the lower right title cartouche: By Theunis Iacobsz op't water inde Lootsman.

Rare chart of Europe and the Mediterranean. Specimen without the graduated margin that was rebuilt with an old restoration. Old colors with retouching, some rust stains.

Second state of the Lootsman brothers' nautical plate of Europe, published by Casparus Anthonisz in 1680, which shows various cartographic innovations. To the north of Iceland is depicted an unknown land mass, and some inscriptions related: "t'Lant van Broer Ruys op gedaen Anno 1655", "Baay door Gael Hamkes opgedaen An ° 1654" and "' t Lant van Edam opgedaen 1655 ". The decorative element that the feature is the sea monster drawn under Greenland.

Second state of the paper published by Jacob Anthonisz Lootsman in 1662, printed by his brother Casparus Anthonisz Lootsman in 1680. At the death of Jacob (1679), Casparus published his own edition of the Nieuw en groote Lootsmans Zeespiegel, same text of the previous editions of 1677 and 1679, but several new maps included in the first part of the collection.

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, p. 241, Jac 24 (1); cfr. R. Shirley, Maps in the Atlases of the British Library, Londra, 2004, pp. 1185-1187 e 1224-1226.