Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Goos, Pieter, approximately 1616-1675

Title:

De zee-atlas, ofte, water-weereld : waer in vertoont werden alle de zee-kusten van het bekende des Aerd-Bodems : seer dienstigh voor alle heeren en kooplieden, als oock voor alle schippers en stuurlieden.

Alternate Title(s):

Water-weereld

Published / Created:

Gesneden, gedruckt en uytgegeven t'Amsteldam : By Pieter Goos, op de Texelse Kay, naest de Rams-koy, in de Zee-Spiegel, 1666.

Physical Description:

1 atlas ([20] pages, [82] leaves of plates (2 folded)) : 41 maps ; 59 cm (folio)

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio B 2024 4
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Maps & Atlas (printed)

Scale:

Scales differ.

Notes:

BEIN: No. 367 in H.C. Taylor collection.

The title page is engraved, with blank panels for the title and imprint completed in manuscript.

"This first edition of 1666 is known in two variants: with 40 or 41 charts, resp. Furthermore, the preliminary matter may differ in various copies."--Koeman

Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings.

Signatures: *² A-D².

With an index of the maps on page [20].

Koeman, C. Atlantes Neerlandici, v. 4, p. 196-197

List of geographical atlases in the Library of Congress, 473

BAC Folio B 2024 4: Maps are hand-colored and illuminated in gold. Bound in contemporary vellum. Armorial bookplate: Sir William Augustus Fraser of Ledeclune and Morar Baronet.

Subject Terms:

Geography -- Early works to 1800. | Coasts. | Fraser, William, Sir 1826–1898 -- Bookplate.

Form/Genre:

Atlases. | Nautical charts. | Engravings. | Hand coloring.

Contributors:

Goos, Pieter, approximately 1616–1675, publisher..