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COLOM, Arnold. Lighting Colom, of the Midland-Sea. Amsterdam: Arnold Colom, 1661.
2° (420 x 275mm). Engraved title with pasted letterpress over-slip, 19 double-page engraved charts, numerous woodcut plans and coastal profiles in the text, notice to the bookbinder on final leaf with pasted over-slip. (Title restored at lower margin and mounted, occasional light spotting, lower margin of chart 17, the Greek Islands, shaved with loss, chart 19 slightly shaved, later guards). Modern morocco-backed cloth. Provenance: Trinity House (armorial bookplate).
Arnold Colom's extremely rare English edition of a Mediterranean pilot; this is the 'third edition', previously known only by a copy in the Royal Geographical Society. Koeman V A.Col 6. Koeman found surviving contracts that showed that Colom was commissioned in 1664 by John Tuthill, a merchant of Yarmouth, to produce the plates for an English edition of a Mediterranean pilot. The plates were apparently re-engraved from his own work and not simply copies of charts by his father, Jacob Aertsz. The agreement between Tuthill and Colom was for Colom to deliver 500 unbound 'strait-books' at 45 pennies a piece, and Colom was then obliged to take a hundred of these English copies, to be sold within 12 years at a minimum price of 6 guilders. Of the Tuthill edition Koeman records 3 copies, of the 'second edition' with Colom's over label, dated 1660 only one copy is recorded.
2° (420 x 275mm). Engraved title with pasted letterpress over-slip, 19 double-page engraved charts, numerous woodcut plans and coastal profiles in the text, notice to the bookbinder on final leaf with pasted over-slip. (Title restored at lower margin and mounted, occasional light spotting, lower margin of chart 17, the Greek Islands, shaved with loss, chart 19 slightly shaved, later guards). Modern morocco-backed cloth. Provenance: Trinity House (armorial bookplate).
Arnold Colom's extremely rare English edition of a Mediterranean pilot; this is the 'third edition', previously known only by a copy in the Royal Geographical Society. Koeman V A.Col 6. Koeman found surviving contracts that showed that Colom was commissioned in 1664 by John Tuthill, a merchant of Yarmouth, to produce the plates for an English edition of a Mediterranean pilot. The plates were apparently re-engraved from his own work and not simply copies of charts by his father, Jacob Aertsz. The agreement between Tuthill and Colom was for Colom to deliver 500 unbound 'strait-books' at 45 pennies a piece, and Colom was then obliged to take a hundred of these English copies, to be sold within 12 years at a minimum price of 6 guilders. Of the Tuthill edition Koeman records 3 copies, of the 'second edition' with Colom's over label, dated 1660 only one copy is recorded.