Rare antique maps

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43.  NICOLAAS J. VISSCHER  (1618-79)

“Orbis Terrarum Nova et Accuratissima Tabula”

Contemporary hand-coloured engraving, 47x56cm

AMSTERDAM  c. 1658 - 70

Decorative double hemisphere world map and a model for many later 

Dutch world maps like Van Loon, Stoopendal and Robijn. It was often 

copied in a reduced scale to fit into Dutch and German Bibles. The 

engraved work is by the artist Nicolas P. Berchem (1620-83).

Literature: R. Shirley “The Mapping of the World” no.406

35 000,-

(€4375)

44.   ALEXIS-HUBERT JAILLOT

“Mappe-Monde=Geo-Hydrographique, ou Description Generale du Globe Terrestre et Aquatique En Deux-Plans-

Hemispheres.”

Contemporary hand-coloured engraving, 55x80cm

PARIS  1696

A DELUXE COPY IN ORIGINAL COLOUR HIGHTENED IN GOLD.

A highlight in French map making late 17th century. Plate IV, state 2 according to Shirley. Cartographically based on a 

map by N. Sanson. The map with an extensive rollwork creating several decorations and symbols.

Literature: R. Shirley “The Mapping of the World” no. 462

45 000,-

(€5625)

45.  FREDERICK DE WIT  (1610 - 98)

“Totius Europa Littora Novissime edita”

Contemporary hand-coloured engraving, 49x89cm

AMSTERDAM  c. 1675 - 80

THE FAMOUS LARGE-SIZE SEA CHART OF EUROPE IN VERY GOOD CONDITION AND IN ORIGINAL 

COLOUR.

FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF DUTCH MAP MAKING

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The chart is one of the most decorative 

maps of Europe from the 17th Century 

extending from West Africa and the 

Mediterranean to Spitsbergen and Nova 

Zemlya far north. It was printed from two 

plates and originally joined and published 

in Frederick De Wit’s “Orbis Maritimus”. 

It is richly illustrated with a large 

cartouche and seven coats-of-arms. Other 

decorations are elephants in North Africa 

and rutting goats in Norway. “Its shape 

and style are intentionally reminiscent of 

the early manuscript portolans of the area 

drawn on vellum” See Ginsberg. 

«Totius Europae» is a highly influential 

map, a foremost example illustrating the 

reasons for Dutch supremacy in map production during the seventeenth century. 

 Literature: W.B. Ginsberg «Sea Charts of Norway 1585 – 1812» Entry 7, 7A.3a, Mingroot – Ermen  no.3, F.C. Wieder 166

100 000,-

(€12500)

46.   FREDERICK DE WIT

“Insulæ Promontorii Veridis Hispanis Issas De Cabo Verde, Belgis De Soute 

Eylanden.”’

Contemporary hand-coloured engraving, 38x49cm

AMSTERDAM c. 1680 – 1700

Wide margins, lower browned along centerfold. 

2 500,-

(€310)

The following 19 maps are from the same set with charts 

by Pieter Goos from his “De Zee-Atlas Ofte Water-Wereld, 

Waer in vertoont werden alle de Zee-Kusten Van het 

bekende des Aerd-Bodems.”. The publishing date is known 

to 1675, some maps are dated 1666 – 74. 

 Goos is one of the most famous among several Dutch sea 

chart publishers in Holland mid-1600 with an extensive 

production of charts, pilot guides and sea-atlases. His main 

work is “De Zee-Atlas Ofte Water-Wereld” consisting of 

40 or 41 maps. All his works reflect a high professional 

standard. For the design of the charts Goos mostly copied 

the charts by Hendrick Doncker. The Goos maps were 

decorated with large descriptive cartouches and illustrated 

with ships, compass cards, wind roses etc. The maps were 

sometimes sumptuously coloured and printed on thick 

paper heightened in gold. Typically these copies were 

PIETER GOOS  (Dutch 1616 – 75)

A collection of 19 beautiful sea charts, all exceptionally coloured and lavishly heightened in gold

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47.   PIETER GOOS

“Pascaerte van Groen Landt, Yslandt, Straet-Davids en 

Ian Mayen...”

Contemporary hand-coloured engraving, 43,5x52cm

AMSTERDAM  1675

13 000,-

(€1625)

48.   PIETER GOOS

“Paskaert Zÿnde de Noordelÿckste Zeekussten Van 

America Van Groenland door de Straet Davis en de Straet 

Hudson tot Terra Neuf.”

Contemporary hand-coloured engraving, 45x54cm

AMSTERDAM  1675

13 000,-

(€1625)

ordered by clients who wanted something extraordinary nice for their offices or homes. 

Our set of charts is one of these special examples. The charts are printed on thick double-paper and are perfectly 

preserved in excellent condition. The colours are gorgeous, also with illumination in gold.

Here offered as individual objects this is a rare opportunity to acquire some very nice and outstanding antique works of art 

in combination with marine cartography.

Literature: “Old” Koeman volume IV pages 192 – 193, the charts Koeman Goos 13

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49.   PIETER GOOS

“Pas-Caart van de Oost Zee”

Contemporary hand-coloured engraving, 45x54cm

AMSTERDAM  1675

(Ref: R. V. Tooley “Map Collectors’ Circle - Printed Charts of 

Scandinavia” see no. 283, C.H. Ericksson and more “The Routes of the 

sea” illustrated p. 50)

12 000,-

(€1500)

50.   PIETER GOOS

“Paskaerte Vande Bocht van Vrankrijk Biscajen en 

Galissen”

Contemporary hand-coloured engraving, 45x54cm

AMSTERDAM  1675

The coastline of France down to the Biscaya Bay.

10 000,-

(€1250)

51.   PIETER GOOS

“Pas-Caart van Hispangien, Vertoonende de Cussten van 

Granada, Andaluzie, Algarve Portugael, Galissien, en 

Biscaien...Straet van Gibraltar ”

Contemporary hand-coloured engraving, 45x54cm

AMSTERDAM  1675

Oriented with east at the top. Extends from the Strait of 

Gibraltar in the south to Bretagne in the North. 

A bubble in the paper upper left. Otherwise excellent.

12 000,-

(€1500)

52.   PIETER GOOS

“De Cust van Barbaria...van Capo S. Vincente tot Cap 

Verde ”

Contemporary hand-coloured engraving, 43x52cm

AMSTERDAM  1675

North West Africa including the Canary Islands. 

14 000,-

(€1750)

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