Pieter Goos was
one of Amsterdam’s most prominent publishers of nautical charts. The reputation
of his firm was matched only by that of the
publishing houses of Blaeu and van Keulen.
The "Le Grand & Nouveau Miroir ou Flambeau de la Mer" follows the prototype
of pilot guides, opening with an introduction into navigation, followed by
charts of the coasts west and south from the Netherlands. A chapter with sailing
directions is devoted to each section and woodcut coastal profiles are
interspersed throughout the text.
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GOOS, Pieter (1615-1675).
Le Grand &
Nouveau Miroir ou Flambeau de la Mer contenant une description de toutes les
costes marines Occidentales et
Septentrionalles... traduictes de Flaman en
François par Paul YVOUNET.
Amsterdam,
chez Pierre Goos, demourant
sour l'eau prez du
Miroir de la Mer doré, A°. 1662.
FIRST FRENCH
EDITION. Folio; 450 x 290 mm, 4 parts in 1 volume, contemp.
vellum binding. (1) p.
Very decorative engraved frontispiece with
pasted-on printed title, coloured in a strictly contemporarily hand and
heightened with gold. In lower part three large vessels in
the foreground and two smaller ones in the distance. Followed by text pages
Instruction en l'art de
Navigation,with
woodcut
volvelles. Illustrated with 33 charts strikingly
colored by a contemporary hand, the maps in outline,
the cartouches fully colored. Paper slightly
browned, as often is the case. Light water staining to the first few leaves,
few scattered spots, small tear in right hand margin of the title page.
- Koeman Atlantis
Neerlandica, IV, Goos 40.
The composition of the French
edition is entirely different from the Dutch and English editions. It contains
the Western Navigation with charts and descriptions of Great Britain, The
Netherlands, Belgium, France, Portugal, Spain, Coast of Morocco with Canary
Islands, and 3 charts on a sheet, and full- page chart of Canary Islands. The
translation into French is by Paul Yvounet.
Provenance :
- Chrétien-François de
Lamoignon (1735-1789) The pasted ex--libris
of the (Bibliotheca Lamoniana)
booklabel on front pastedowns, ink shelf mark (25, K36).
"Lamoignon (1735-1789), a
cultivated man of letters, entered public life at an early age and was an actor
in the troubles which heralded the Revolution [in France]. First on the side of
the parliament and later on that of the king he was one of the assistants of
Loménie de Brienne,
whose unpopularity and fall he shared. He committed suicide on the 15th of May
1789" - Encyc. Brit.
He left behind a super collection of books and he
printed a private catalogue of his library in 1770. The library was due to be
sold at auction in The Hague in 1791, but was bought en bloc prior to sale by
the London bookseller Thomas Payne and issued his own catalogue in 1793.
30 000 / 40 000 €
Résultat 32.000
€
The
van Keulen family operated a chart-making and
publishing firm in Amsterdam for nearly 200 years. It was founded by Johannes
van Keulen who registered his business as a
“bookseller and cross-staff maker.” Under his management the
Nieuwe
Lichtende Zee-Faakel
(New Shining Sea Torch) was begun in 1681. It was expanded to five volumes, and
finally to six volumes with the addition of material from the secret files of
the East India Company.
In
1678, Johannes registered with the Amsterdam Booksellers Guild as a "bookseller
and Cross-staff maker" By this time, most of the Amsterdam chart makers and
instrument makers, like Blaeu,
Janssonius, Hondius,
Goos, and Doncker, had either closed down or
were at the end of their fame. As a result, Johannes van
Keulen had the opportunity to obtain copperplates, privileges, and stocks
of many of his former competitors. Besides manuals and cross-staffs, Johannes
produced his famed "ZeeAtlas"(Sea Atlas, 5 volumes),
and "ZeeFakkel" (Sea pilotbook,
5 volumes). ZeeFakkel was produced in numerous
languages, including English, French, Italian, and Spanish.
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KEULEN, Johannes van (1654-1715)
/ VOOGHT, Claes Jansz.
Le Nouveau & Grand Illuminant
Flambeau de la Mer.
(Part II and III.)
Amsterdam, 1698 - 1700
Large folio. 19th century half calf. Composite atlas of the
French edition with 52 charts.
Part II : allegorical frontispiece, dated 1698,
(1) p. title, 99 pp. and 35 charts (of 44) of Western Europe, showing
the coasts of the southern part of the North Sea, the
Channel, the western part of England, Scotland & Ireland, France, Spain,
Morocco, Gualata, Genehoa
& Gambia, and the Flemish- and Canary Islands.
Part III: allegorical frontispiece, dated 1700, (1) p. title, 94 pp.
and 17 charts (of 20) of the Mediterranean.
Showing the coasts of Granada, Catalonia, Provence, Italy, Dalmatia,
Greece, and the northern coast of Barbary.
Numerous
woodcut coastal profiles and smaller detail charts in the text.
Several charts weakened due to foxing with sometimes marginal paper loss. Some
charts with losses into the printed area. Some charts are slightly shaved in the
top due to their larger size:
Italia...
Dalmatia,
carte de la Méditerranée, Italien... Sicilia,
Sardinia et Archipelagusche
Eylanden.
A few creases, occasional faint browning or discoloration chiefly in the text.
Mainly good and dark impression, paper slightly toned, as usual.
The allegoric title-page of part III is dated 1700 and is
unknown to Koeman.
Vooght is the author
of the text subsequently translated into French by Pierre François
Sylvestre.
-
Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici,
IV, Keu 83 AA
et Keu 103 A
10 000 /
12 000
Résultat 14.500
€
England’s
answer
England’s
answer to the Dutch monopoly on charts and sea atlases came with the publication
of the English Pilot by John Seller. The English charts covered the same
territory as the Dutch Waggoners but not so well
engraved. The English Pilot came out in four “Books”.
When John Seller (1641-1708) was beset by difficulties in completing the later
volumes of the English Pilot, Thornton took over and subsequently published Book
III (1703) and Book IV (1689), the latter in conjunction with William Fisher. He
also assisted with the issue of Seller's Atlas Maritimus
(c. 1675) and later issued an atlas of his own under the same title.
As a map engraver and hydrographer, Thornton was one
of the best-known figures of his time, being appointed
Hydrographer to the Hudson Bay Company and to the East India Company. He
worked closely for many years with John Seller, William Fisher (fl. 1669-91),
Richard Mount, Robert Morden and Philip Lea in preparing and publishing a number
of well-known atlases and charts. Samuel Thornton took over
his father’s business in 1709 and continued to publish charts from the
same address in the Minories.
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Samuel THORNTON
London, John How and Samuel
Thornton, 1711.
The English Pilot. The Third
Book « Defcribing the Sea-Coafts,
Capes, Headlands, Streights, Soundings, Sands,
Shoals, Rocks, and Dangers…. London, Printed by John How, for Samuel
Thornthon, and are be Sold at his Shop at the Sign
of England, Scotland, and Ireland, in the Mineroties,
MDCCXI »
Large folio, contemp. Calf in poor condition, with paper
label in brown ink “The English Pilot – 1711”.
Interleaved
with text pages giving detailed sailing instruction, coastal profiles in
woodcut, numbered 3-90. Pages 88 and 89 are tables of Latitudes and
Longitudes of the Principal Capes and Headlands. The final page 90,
A TABLE of the several Variations of the Compass, as they were observed, with
great care and Accurateness, in an East-India Voyage, in the year 1700 and 1701,
both Outward and Homeward bound.
39 charts printed on thick paper. All good and dark
impressions.
A VERY RARE CHART BOOK FOR
SAILING TO AUSTRALIA. Second edition, published in 1711 by John How and Samuel
Thornton, of John Thornton's The English Pilot: The Third Book (first edition
1703)
12 000 / 15 000 €
Résultat 125.000
€
The book contains the following 39 charts, the general
size are ca. 43x53cm, or as indicated. The titles are followed by “By
Sam.l Thornton
hydrographer At the Signe of England Scotland and
Ireland in the Minories London”.
1. A New and Correct
Mapp Of the WORLD According to Mr. Edward Wight
Commonly called Mercator's projection. With a View of the
Winds and Variations.
515x840mm. ( World
map in Mercator projection, showing California as an island. Indicating the
tracks of Dampier and Halley, Tasman)
page 3. The English Pilot Book
III. The First part Shewing the Nature and
Properties
2. A New and Correct Chart of
the Sea Coast of ENGLAND SCOTLAND & IRELAND.
3. A Large Draught of the ISLE
of WIGHT and OWERS 440x803mm.
4. A New & Correct Large Draught
of PLYMOUTH SOUND CATTWATER and HAMOWSE
5. A New and Correct Chart of
the Coast of IRELAND
6. A CHART of The SEA COAST from
ENGLAND to the STREIGHTS
7. Chart of the Coast of
BARBARIA with the WESTERN, CANARIA & CAPE DE VERD, ISLES.
8. A New Draught of the Coast of
GUINEA and BRASILE According to Mr. Edw. Wrights Projection Vulgarly Called
Mercator Chart
9. A
Generall Chart from ENGLAND to CAPE BONA ESPRANCA With the Coast of
Brasile.
10. A New
Mapp of the Island of SAINT HELLENA
11. A Draught of Cape Bona
Esperanca.
12. A Chart of the WESTERN Part
of the EAST-INDIES. with all the Adjacent Islands from Cape Bona
Esperanca to the Island of
Zelone.
13. A Draught of the South Part
of AFRICA from Cape Bona Esperance to Delagoa.
This chart shows
South Africa from the Cape of Good Hope on the west to Delagoa Bay (present-day
Lorenzo Marques). By Delagoa, there is a Portuguese flag and notation in English
of this being a resupply outpost- “here are all the necessary’s to be had”.
14. A New Draught of the Island
of MADAGASCAR als St. LORENZO With
Augustin Bay and the Island of
Mombais at Large.
15. A Chart of the Island of
MAURITIUS
page 25. small wood
block chart of " The Daught of the Island of Joanna.
435x533mm.
16. A Chart of the Straits of
BABELMANDELL AND MOHA.
17. A Large Draught of the Coast
of ARABIA from Maculla to Dofar
18. A Large Draught of the GOLF
of PERSIA
19. A Large Chart of Part of the
Coast of GUZARATT & INDIA from Diu Head to Bombay
20. A New
Mapp Of the Island of BOMBAY and SALLSET
21. A Large Draught of Part of
the Coast of INDIA From Bombay to Bassalore
22. A Large Draught
of the MALLABAR COAST From Bassalore to Cape
Comaroone
23. A New Map of the Island of
ZELOAN
24. A Large Chart Of Part of the
Coast of COREMANDELL from Point Pedro to Armegon
25. A New Chart of Part of the
Coast of COREMANDELL from Armegon to
Bimlepatam
26. A New Chart of the Coast of
ORIXA and GALCONDA
27. New &
Correct Chart Shewing
the goeing over the Braces with the Sands Shoals
Dept of water and Anchorage from Point Palmiras to
Hughley in the BAY of BENGALL
28. A Mapp
of The Greate River GANGES As it
Emtieth it Selfe into
the Bay of BENGALA. Taken from a Draught Made uppon
the Place by the Agents for the English East India Company Never Before made
Publique.
29. A Chart of the Easternmost
part of the EAST INDIES and CHINA, From the Cape Comarine
to JAPAN, with all the Adjacent Islands.
30. A New and Correct Chart of
Part of the Island of JAVA From the West End to Batavia with the STREIGHTS OF
SUNDA
31. A Large Draught of the Coast
of IAVA from Bantam Point to Batavia
445x1025mm. With several vertical foldings as
issued. Left folding damaged, under laid with old paper, and small parts
missing. Chart slightly stained.
32. A Large Draught of the East
End of JAVA and MADURA Shewing the STREIGHTS OF BALY.
33. A Large Chart
Describeing ye Streights
of MALACCA AND SINCAPORE
34. A Large Draught of the Coast
of CHINA from Amoye to Chusan
with ye Harbour of Amoye at Large.
(with inset map "A Large Draught of the
Harbour of Amoye".)
35. A Large Draught of the North
Part of CHINA. Shewing all the Passages and
Chanells into the Harbour of CHUSAN. (With in upper
right corner a dedication To the Honourable The Court of
Mannagers For the UNITED TRADE To The EAST INDIES This
Mapp of CHUSAN & Parts Adjacent is Humbly Dedicated
and Presented by y.r Honours Most Humble Servant
Sam.l. Thornton.
Oversized folding chart, measuring:
525x865mm.
This elegant and large
sea chart captures China's modern day Zhejiang province. Located on the East
China Sea, just below the Yangtze Delta, this region was of major interest to
European traders during the eighteenth-century. It features the major port of
Zhousan (Chusan), and
was the location of the entrance of the Grand Canal of China. The canal,
construction of which began in the 5th-century B.C., was then the oldest and
longest man-made waterway in the world, which allowed barges to travel hundreds
to Beijing.
36. A Large Draught of the South
Part of BORNEO
37. A Large Draught from
Benjar on the Island of BORNEO To
Macassar on the Island of CELEBES
Shewing the Streights of
Bally with the Islands to the Eastward thereof on verso
38. A Draught of the Coast of
NEW HOLLAND and Parts Adjacent. 400x202mm. (with inset chart of
A Draught of Sharks Bay on the Coast of New Holland in the
Lattd of 25 05 Sq by Capt Dampier Anno 1701 74x95mm.
First state of the
first published chart of Australia to include the discoveries at Shark Bay made
by William Dampier in August 1699 and the first English chart devoted to the
west coast of Australia. The chart follows closely the format of
Hessel Gerritsz’s 1629 map. Only the Western part of Australia is shown and is labelled on the chart
New Holland. (Tooley 1260)39. page 87 "Of the
Tryal Rocks near New-Holland" in top with chart
94x241mm.
Rare chart of the
Traill Islands off the west Australian coast. These
were named after the 1622 shipwreck of the English ship the
Traill.
