Hollandia Comitatus,
een kartobibliografie van Holland

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This attractive and profusely illustrated book offers for the first time a complete survey of all printed maps of the former county of Holland. The reader obtains an excellent insight into the development of the typically Dutch landscape through the ages. Over a hundred maps from the period of 1542 to the beginning of the Kingdom of the Netherlands show the results of impoldering, peat cutting and town extensions in the provinces of North and South Holland.
Many maps from this period are richly decorated. Besides the geographical and cartographical developments this book also gives a good picture of the developments which took place in the artistic field.

Hollandia Comitatus is the first volume of the series Utrechtse Historisch-Kartografische Studies (Utrecht Historio-Cartographical Studies) which were accomplished under the auspices of the Research Group Explokart of the Faculty of Geographical Sciences of the University of Utrecht. Explokart aims to provide users of old maps with a thorough research tool by classifying map material and making it accessible. The publications prepared by and published under the auspices of Explokart are intended for scientific researchers and interested laypersons alike.

Expertly guided by Günter Schilder, Peter van der Krogt and Paul van den Brink, the authors, Dirk Blonk and Joanna Blonk-van der Wijst, have written a standard work on the maps of Holland. After an extensive introduction they describe all the maps in a clear and systematic way. All the maps discussed are accompanied with beautiful illustrations; from some of the maps even several versions are included.
As in each map all states are mentioned, this publication is a particularly useful book, especially so for map collectors.

Monumenta Cartographica Neerlandica by Prof.Dr. Günter Schilder.

David Woodward in "Imago Mundi, 46 - 1994

Any reference library that has the smallest interest in the history of early maps - or the history of art science, or technology - should subscribe to this series

 Each volume and its accompanying portfolio of unbound full-sized reproductions of important wallmaps and is a feast for the eyes. The maps are carefully described, many of their main legends translated from Latin into Dutch and English, and the locations of their known impressions listed. There is a full description of the mathematical construction and projection of the maps, archival and biographical information related to engraving and printing, and extensive narrative on the sources of the geographical content of the maps. Particularly from first-hand accounts from voyages of exploration. However, Monumenta Cartographica Neerlandica is far more than an illustrated bibliographical description. Each map is put into its context: cartographic, geographic, iconographic, and historical. Furthermore, other maps -not necessarily produced in the Netherlands - that are precursors of or associated with the main subject of the volumes, are also fully described. It would therefore be a mistake for the reader to assume that this work is about only Dutch maps. The extensive use of supporting illustrative material makes the project a veritable iconographic treasure trove: included are comparative details of maps and views, portraits, cartouches, ships, contemporary town views showing centers of the map trade.

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With an introduction by Leon Voet. Edited by Marcel van den Broecke, Peter van der Krogt and Peter Meurer Abraham Ortelius and the first atlas. Essays commemmorating the Quadricentennial of his Death 1598-1998. With an introduction by Leon Voet, and with 20 contributions by Günter Schilder, Rodney Shirley, Dennis Reinhartz and others. 1998. Cloth. Illustrated. 432 pp. .
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Cloth. c. 250 illustrations in black and white. 308 pp.
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This book by Marcel P.R. van den Broecke,  book provides information on the maps which were induded in the first regular atlas that ever appared, Ortelius Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. This atlas appeared first in 1570, and went through numerous editions. Its content was updated and expanded. It grew from 53 to 166 maps. The atlas was the most expensive book of the 16th century, but in spite of that a bestseller, and more than 7000 copies of it were printed. This illustraties its importance in the history of cartography, a fact recognised by Ortelius' contemporaries as well as by map collectors and historians today.

The book is a guide that provides information on the occurrence of each map in various atlas editions, thus allowing the reader to determine from which edition a loose map derives. lt also provides information on the various states that most maps went through, and gives their cartographical sources. An illustration opens the description of each map. Many new maps have been identified by the author, and are described here for the first time.
The guidebook opens with a short biography on Ortelius, and a survey of the editions of his atlas, and is conduded by indexes that help to accomplish quick map identification.

This book is indispensible for anyone who wants to know details about Ortelius' maps as they occur in his atlas.

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 New edition of Atlantes Neerlandici by Peter van der Krogt.

The official presentation of the first volume ( of 10) of this new edition of "Atlantes Neerlandici", edited by Peter van der Krogt was on 9 January 1998. Virtually new edition of Professor Koeman's bibliography of terrestrial, maritime and celestial atlases and pilot books, published in the Netherlands up to 1880, the Atlantes Neerlandici.

• New bibliographical descriptions of the atlases, based upon an inquiry to about 1500 libraries all over the world, according to the latest standards.
• Illustrations and full descriptions of all the maps
• Illustrations of all the frontispieces
• Each volume has its own indexes.

Volumes I and II (including respectively 1000 and 700 illustrations) are now available. Please go to the specialORDERFORM and Volumes I and II will be mailed out immediately.

1. Folio atlases by Mercator, Hondius and Janssonius. Available (1000 ill., 755pp.) Please have a look at some sample pages.
2. Folio atlases by Blaeu. (Now Available, 700 ill., 636pp.)
3. Various atlases from the 16th and 17th century (a.o. Ortelius, De Jode, Van den Keere, the Epitome, the Caert-Thresoor, the Atlas Minor etc.
4. Town Books by Braun & Hogenberg, Blaeu, Janssonius a.o.
5. Composed Atlases (Visscher, De Wit, Valk & Schenk a.o.).
6. Atlases of the 18th century.
7. Pilot guides up to c. 1650 (Waghenaer, Blaeu a.o.)
8. Pilot guides and sea-atlases after c. 1650 (Goos, Doncker a.o.)
9. Van Keulen's sea-atlases and pilot guides
10. Atlases of the 19th and 20th century.

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Cloth. 30 x 24 cm. With 572 illustrations, 20 in colour. 663 pp. With bibliography of globes made in the Low Countries.

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Globi Neerlandici by drs.Peter van der Krogt is the first comprehensive study of globe production in the Netherlands. It is a standard work which deals with the history of Dutch globe production, a field in which Amsterdam had a worldwide monopoly in the period of ca. 1585-1650. Dutch globes in that period were - and still are - world famous for their precision and quality.

A detailed survey is given of the globemakers in Amsterdam, as well as of those in the southern Netherlands (Antwerp, Louvain and Brussels) from the first attempts in the first half of the 16th century to the mass production in the 19th and 20th centuries. The background of each edition, its globe map and use are also discussed. It gives a carto-bibliographical survey of all the globes ever    made in the Netherlands. Each globe is extensively described and illustrated.

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Leo Belgicus

113 pp. Text in English and Dutch. A list of 32 Leo Belgicusmaps and their different states. 10pp Introductory note on the iconology.
Size: 12.2 x 8.9 inch - 310 x 225 mm. Most entries illustrated. Contents:
A. - Lion rampant facing right.
B. - Sitting lion facing right.
C. - Lion rampant facing right in F.Strada 'De Bello Belgico'.
D. - Lion passant facing left.
E. - Lion Rampant facing right with equestrian figure.
F. - Leo Hollandicus.
G. - Special Lion maps.

Price  Hfl. 95.00 (appr.US $ 50.00)
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Now available ! Volume I and II each: € 456.96  (appr.$ 460)  Only by subscription of complete set
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The Atlas Blaeu-van der Hem forms today the finest collection of maps, topographical prints and drawings that has come down to us from the seventeenth century. The forty-six voliimes of the collection, still fully intact, contain over 2400 maps, views of towns, buildings, and harbours, seascapes and landscapes from all over the world. The whole offers a pictorial encyclopedia of contemporary knowledge ranging from geography and topography to warfare and politics. Works from some of the most famous artists of their time appear in the atlas. All their drawings and prints are accurately adapted to the format and aim of the atlas, forming a coherent ensemble with the maps, charts, and texts.
The Amsterdam lawyer Laurens van der Hem (1621-1678) used his 11-volume Atlas Maior published by Joan Blaeu in 1662 as a portmanteau for other cartographical and topographical prints and drawings. He augmented the 600 maps of his Atlas Maior with maps, drawings, manuscripts and printed texts of his own choice. This copy thus expanded to include 2400 maps, views, etc. in 46 folio volumes.
Among the additions were four volumes of manuscript maps made for the Dutch East India Company (VOC), which normally were available only for use by VOC officers.
In 1730 the atlas was sold by Van der Hem's heirs to Prince Eugene of Savoy, stadholder-general of the Southern Netherlands. His heir, his niece Victoria, sold the atlas to the imperial library in Vienna, now the Austrian National Library.

The maps and prints are decorated with goldleaf, and beautifully handcoloured by the well-known Dirck Jansz. van  Santen and other colourists.
The drawings are highly finished, nearly always washed with one or two kinds of ink, and sometimes even handcoloured. All available means were used to create the best possible image of the site. Many of these drawings were specifically commissioned by Laurens van der Hem to enrich and complete his atlas, and to create a personal image of the world.

The uniqueness of Van der Hem's Atlas derives from the rarity and originality of the supplementary material and from the skillful and aestlietically
pleasing way the additions were mingled with the more standard features.
The Atlas Blaeu-Van der Hem is the only such collection that has survived intact from the seventeenth century and has an immense historical,
topographical and artistic value.

For the first time a scholarly description of all the sheets in the atlas is being compiled. Our edition of this catalogue, issued in five volumes, will
include all maps, plates, views and drawings in black-and-white reproductions with cartographical, historical and art-historical descriptions by
Peter van der Krogt, maphistorian at the University of Utrecht, and by Erlend de Groot, art-historian at the University of Nijmegen. Also a
selection of the plates will be reproduced in colours.

In additions to the maps, cityplans, bird's-eye views and vistas the Atlas Blaeu-Van der Hem contains a wealth of material on archaeology, architecture, engineering, ethnography, costume, navigation, fortification, warfare, hydrolics, poriraiture, sculpture, heraldry, and many aspects of the seventeenth-century history and ceremony. The Atlas presents this material in a coherent fashion. Therefore, the present catalogue follows the original order of the Atlas.

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I.     Spain, Portugal and France (vols 1-8).    Price € 456.96  (Aprox. US $. 460.00) Now available !
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Manhattan in Maps

We warmly recommend a recently published reference book: "Manhattan in Maps 1527 - 1995 " by our colleagues Robert T. Augustyn and Paul E. Cohen. This lavishly illustrated volume explores New York's urban and social history through rare and beautiful maps of the city produced during the past 400 hundred years and collected from archives and libraries throughout the world. Many of the 65 colour plates reproduced have never been published before, and each is accompanied by an engaging essay on the changing physical and social contours of New York as revealed in the map's details and provenance. 80 Colour illustrations; 164 pages, and bibliography,

$ 50 (Postage extra US $ 5.00 rest of the world $ 10.00)

Robert T.Augustyn

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