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Important Cartography from the Niewodniczanski Collection
COLOM, Jacob Aertsz. (1600-1673)
Zee-Atlas ofte Werelts water-deel waer in verthoondt warden Alle Desselfs Bekende Zee Custen. Amsterdam: Jacob Colom, 1668.
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COLOM, Jacob Aertsz. (1600-1673)
Zee-Atlas ofte Werelts water-deel waer in verthoondt warden Alle Desselfs Bekende Zee Custen. Amsterdam: Jacob Colom, 1668.
Extremely rare edition of Colom’s fine Sea Atlas, noted for its charts of North America, one of which is the very rare map of New Amsterdam: this chart (here in Burden 375, state 2) ‘depicts the region at one of the most important stages of the English colonial history. In the same year the colony of South Carolina was granted, extending their control further south. In 1664 they would capture New Amsterdam from the Dutch and rename it New York, in the process completing the English control of the area from the Carolina to Massachusetts’ (Burden).
The only trace that Koeman could make of this 1668 Dutch edition was in a 1915 bookseller’s catalogue, with just 45 maps, and a note in the papers of F. C. Wieder in Rotterdam maritime museum. ‘Jacob Colom was a printer, bookseller, and chartmaker in Amsterdam. His excellent enterprising spirit made him enter into competition with the, then one and only chartmaker in Amsterdam, Willem Janszoon Blaeu’ (Koeman). Colom’s most successful publication was the De Vyerighr Colom, issued in folio format in 1632 and was re-issued up to 1662. In 1663 Colom published a new sea atlas covering the whole world, called Atlas of Werelt-Water-Deel, and was thought to be a response to the sea atlases published by Goos, Janssonius and Doncker. The last known issues are dated 1669, and appeared in five languages: Dutch, French, Latin, Portuguese and Spanish. After Colom’s death in 1673 his estate, including his copper plates were sold. Burden 374, 375 (state 2), 376 (state 2), 377, 398, 399 (state 1) and 400; Koeman IV, J. Col 3 (‘Mentioned in the Wieder-papers. Another copy offered by Jac. Rosenthal, Munchen, 1915, with 45 m[aps]’); Shirley 381.
Folio (567 x 330mm). Engraved title, letterpress dedication and 7 leaves of text (without blank D2), preliminary free endpaper with clean tear at top corner), 52 double-page engraved maps on thick paper, 2 folding (light to medium spotting and occasional light offsetting). Contemporary vellum, flat spine (covers a little dust-stained and bowed).
Zee-Atlas ofte Werelts water-deel waer in verthoondt warden Alle Desselfs Bekende Zee Custen. Amsterdam: Jacob Colom, 1668.
Extremely rare edition of Colom’s fine Sea Atlas, noted for its charts of North America, one of which is the very rare map of New Amsterdam: this chart (here in Burden 375, state 2) ‘depicts the region at one of the most important stages of the English colonial history. In the same year the colony of South Carolina was granted, extending their control further south. In 1664 they would capture New Amsterdam from the Dutch and rename it New York, in the process completing the English control of the area from the Carolina to Massachusetts’ (Burden).
The only trace that Koeman could make of this 1668 Dutch edition was in a 1915 bookseller’s catalogue, with just 45 maps, and a note in the papers of F. C. Wieder in Rotterdam maritime museum. ‘Jacob Colom was a printer, bookseller, and chartmaker in Amsterdam. His excellent enterprising spirit made him enter into competition with the, then one and only chartmaker in Amsterdam, Willem Janszoon Blaeu’ (Koeman). Colom’s most successful publication was the De Vyerighr Colom, issued in folio format in 1632 and was re-issued up to 1662. In 1663 Colom published a new sea atlas covering the whole world, called Atlas of Werelt-Water-Deel, and was thought to be a response to the sea atlases published by Goos, Janssonius and Doncker. The last known issues are dated 1669, and appeared in five languages: Dutch, French, Latin, Portuguese and Spanish. After Colom’s death in 1673 his estate, including his copper plates were sold. Burden 374, 375 (state 2), 376 (state 2), 377, 398, 399 (state 1) and 400; Koeman IV, J. Col 3 (‘Mentioned in the Wieder-papers. Another copy offered by Jac. Rosenthal, Munchen, 1915, with 45 m[aps]’); Shirley 381.
Folio (567 x 330mm). Engraved title, letterpress dedication and 7 leaves of text (without blank D2), preliminary free endpaper with clean tear at top corner), 52 double-page engraved maps on thick paper, 2 folding (light to medium spotting and occasional light offsetting). Contemporary vellum, flat spine (covers a little dust-stained and bowed).
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