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KEULEN, Johannes van. Della nuova, e grande illuminante Face del Mare parte terza...per Nicolo Jans Vooght. [Zee-Fakkel, part III, in Italian]. Translated from French to Italian by Mose Giron. Amsterdam: appresso di Joannes van Keulen, 1695.
2° (540 x 320mm). Letterpress title, 39 double-page engraved charts of the Mediterranean, 5 folding, including 2 views of Algiers, 9 plates of harbour plans, most double-page, 3 engraved sheets of coastal profiles, numerous other woodcut profiles and harbour plans in the text. (Browning and staining throughout, worm track affecting inner margin and guards of a few leaves.) Old vellum (stained, corners and head and foot of spine neatly restored, one tie lacking.) Provenance: Pietro Cossovieti (early ownership inscription on upper cover 'Portulane Ad uso Sign.e Pietro Cossovieti'); Franciscan monastery of Cattaro (bookplate).
A very rare example of the only Italian translation of any part of the Zee-Fakkel. Koeman 107 notes only two copies, one in the Maritime Museum in Amsterdam without maps, and a second in the Topkapi Library, Istanbul. A later edition of the same atlas was issued in 1705; Koeman describes the Amsterdam Maritime Museum with a total of 25 charts. The index in the present copy, like the 1705 edition, calls for only 20 charts.
2° (540 x 320mm). Letterpress title, 39 double-page engraved charts of the Mediterranean, 5 folding, including 2 views of Algiers, 9 plates of harbour plans, most double-page, 3 engraved sheets of coastal profiles, numerous other woodcut profiles and harbour plans in the text. (Browning and staining throughout, worm track affecting inner margin and guards of a few leaves.) Old vellum (stained, corners and head and foot of spine neatly restored, one tie lacking.) Provenance: Pietro Cossovieti (early ownership inscription on upper cover 'Portulane Ad uso Sign.e Pietro Cossovieti'); Franciscan monastery of Cattaro (bookplate).
A very rare example of the only Italian translation of any part of the Zee-Fakkel. Koeman 107 notes only two copies, one in the Maritime Museum in Amsterdam without maps, and a second in the Topkapi Library, Istanbul. A later edition of the same atlas was issued in 1705; Koeman describes the Amsterdam Maritime Museum with a total of 25 charts. The index in the present copy, like the 1705 edition, calls for only 20 charts.