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GOOS, PIETER. The Lighting Colomne or Sea-Mirrour, Containing The Sea-Coasts of the Northern, Eastern and Western Navigation... Gathered out of the experience and practice of divers Pilots and Lovers of the famous Art of Navigation. 1662. 2 parts in one vol., title frayed at fore-margin, 2-inch repaired tear to lower margin of fol. C1, part 1, affecting catchword and last 3 lines of verso, outer edges of charts 5 and 21 and lower edges of charts 30 and 37 slightly cropped, a few small worm tunnels from quire H of part 2 to the end, with minor loss to charts and a few letters of text leaves, corner of chart 10 chipped with loss to chart number, corner of chart 50 repaired, the usual offsetting. Third English edition, printed title on pasted-down slip within full-page engraved pictorial border, 59 DOUBLE-PAGE ENGRAVED COASTAL CHARTS, 2 of them folding, 3 engraved maps in the text and one engraved view, volvelles on fols. B3v (creased) and C4v of part 1, the first with additional printed moveable slip, the 3-page Almanack dated 1664-71.
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The Lighting Colom of the Midland-Sea, Containing A Description of all the knowne Coasts, Islants, Sands, Depthes, and Roads, beginning from the narowest, of the Streat, unto Alexandrette in the Levant [ie., the Third Part of the Lighting Colomne]. 1669. Fore-edge margin of title-leaf repaired, minuscule hole to one leaf of chart 1, borders of 7 charts shaved with slight loss to the image or numbering of 3 of them (nos. 5, 24 and 25), 3 1/2 inch tear to final leaf Q4 with loss to woodcuts and text, mostly marginal dampstaining, only English edition by Goos, title printed within engraved allegorical border with vignette of ships, 24 DOUBLE-PAGE ENGRAVED COASTAL CHARTS, and one full-page chart, 35 woodcut maps in text; both Amsterdam: Pieter Goos, together 3 parts in 2 vols., folio, 450 x 280mm. (17 3/4 x 11 1/8in), modern calf, a few short marginal tears, chipped corners or small holes, some repaired, a few charts and text leaves creased, some foxing and browning, particularly to part 3, numerous woodcut coastal profiles, diagrams, initials and ornaments in the text.
"Pieter Goos's Zeespiegel was not an original work. In or shortly before 1650, he obtained the plates from Theunis [or Anthonie] Jacobsz or his sons and printed the charts...from them, after having cut the plates ca. 1 1/2 cm. at the right side, sometimes at the top and bottom as well...The text too was almost literally borrowed from Jacobsz' Zeespiegel of 1644... For his Straetsboeck [the chart book of the Mediterranean], being the third part of the Zeespiegel, Pieter Goos copied the text from Lootsman's Straetsboeck, but...did not buy Lootsman's plates but had his own made"--Koeman, IV, p. 201, and Goos 35 and Goos 45 (pp. 211-12 and 216-17); Wing C 5403 (erroneously attributing the work to Jacob Aertsz Colom and misspelling the title), citing 2 copies (Admiralty Office Library and Edinburgh University.
Provenance: One or two marginal pencil annotations in part 1, eighteenth-century manuscript addition to the altitude chart on A4v of part 3; Admiralty Office Library, ink-stamps on title and last page of part 3. (2)
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The Lighting Colom of the Midland-Sea, Containing A Description of all the knowne Coasts, Islants, Sands, Depthes, and Roads, beginning from the narowest, of the Streat, unto Alexandrette in the Levant [ie., the Third Part of the Lighting Colomne]. 1669. Fore-edge margin of title-leaf repaired, minuscule hole to one leaf of chart 1, borders of 7 charts shaved with slight loss to the image or numbering of 3 of them (nos. 5, 24 and 25), 3 1/2 inch tear to final leaf Q4 with loss to woodcuts and text, mostly marginal dampstaining, only English edition by Goos, title printed within engraved allegorical border with vignette of ships, 24 DOUBLE-PAGE ENGRAVED COASTAL CHARTS, and one full-page chart, 35 woodcut maps in text; both Amsterdam: Pieter Goos, together 3 parts in 2 vols., folio, 450 x 280mm. (17 3/4 x 11 1/8in), modern calf, a few short marginal tears, chipped corners or small holes, some repaired, a few charts and text leaves creased, some foxing and browning, particularly to part 3, numerous woodcut coastal profiles, diagrams, initials and ornaments in the text.
"Pieter Goos's Zeespiegel was not an original work. In or shortly before 1650, he obtained the plates from Theunis [or Anthonie] Jacobsz or his sons and printed the charts...from them, after having cut the plates ca. 1 1/2 cm. at the right side, sometimes at the top and bottom as well...The text too was almost literally borrowed from Jacobsz' Zeespiegel of 1644... For his Straetsboeck [the chart book of the Mediterranean], being the third part of the Zeespiegel, Pieter Goos copied the text from Lootsman's Straetsboeck, but...did not buy Lootsman's plates but had his own made"--Koeman, IV, p. 201, and Goos 35 and Goos 45 (pp. 211-12 and 216-17); Wing C 5403 (erroneously attributing the work to Jacob Aertsz Colom and misspelling the title), citing 2 copies (Admiralty Office Library and Edinburgh University.
Provenance: One or two marginal pencil annotations in part 1, eighteenth-century manuscript addition to the altitude chart on A4v of part 3; Admiralty Office Library, ink-stamps on title and last page of part 3. (2)