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ATLANTIC OCEAN -- GOOS, PIETER (c.1616-1675) AND JOHANNES LOOTS (1665-1726)
West Indische Paskaert. Amsterdam: J.Loots [c.1700]. Hand-coloured engraved chart fo the Atlantic Ocean, on Mercator's projection extending from Tierra del Fuego to Greenland, from the Cape of Good Hope to Holland, on four sheets, joined 840 x 1000mm. Elaborate imprimator cartouche at upper left signed Pieter Goos, title cartouche set in North Africa signed by Loots, inset detail of the Southern tip of South America, the seas decorated with three compass roses, 6 ships and one whale, thumb-line network, Eastings and Northings graticule set in the Atlantic Ocean, coastlines decorated with 12 arms, lions and an 'ostrich' in Africa. The Atlantic marked in a contemporary hand with the various routes to navigate from the Cape of Good Hope to Holland and around Scotland, the routes annotated in Dutch. (Some light discolouration of greens to brown), one clean tear along fold, (light browning, the chart backed on old paper as supplied).
A IMPORTANT AND RARE SEA CHART OF THE ATLANTIC. The concept of the West Indische Paskaert, as with many great cartographical images stems from Blaeu. As cartographer for the VOC he produced a large chart to facilitate navigation from Europe to the Cape of Good Hope, published, one suspects, to compete with the manuscript versions that were already being used. Blaeu's concept was soon copied by other Dutch mapmakers notably Colom c. 1639; Jacobszoon, 1646 and 1649; Doncker 1659 and 1669; Goos, 1665; Keulen after Goos, 1680; Robjin after Blaeu, 1687 and the present work based on Goos, all adopt a similar form. The fragility of these charts is such that most are only known in less than three copies each. For this Loots chart, 3 examples on paper are recorded, Amsterdam Scheepvaart Museum; Rotterdam Maritime Museum; and British Admiralty Library. A copy printed on vellum is recorded in the Polish National Library in Warsaw.
The verso of this example has an interesting contemporary note in Dutch, translated as 'Chart of the West Indies' in Mercator's projection with indication of the sailing routes from the fatherland to the Cape Good Hope and from there back to the fatherland along the North of Scotland.' Johannes Loots, was originally a nautical instrument maker, and worked in the same street as Keulen and Doncker, and he served as an apprentice to Doncker in the 1680's. He was accepted into the Guild of Booksellers in 1693 and began publishing charts and atlases.
West Indische Paskaert. Amsterdam: J.Loots [c.1700]. Hand-coloured engraved chart fo the Atlantic Ocean, on Mercator's projection extending from Tierra del Fuego to Greenland, from the Cape of Good Hope to Holland, on four sheets, joined 840 x 1000mm. Elaborate imprimator cartouche at upper left signed Pieter Goos, title cartouche set in North Africa signed by Loots, inset detail of the Southern tip of South America, the seas decorated with three compass roses, 6 ships and one whale, thumb-line network, Eastings and Northings graticule set in the Atlantic Ocean, coastlines decorated with 12 arms, lions and an 'ostrich' in Africa. The Atlantic marked in a contemporary hand with the various routes to navigate from the Cape of Good Hope to Holland and around Scotland, the routes annotated in Dutch. (Some light discolouration of greens to brown), one clean tear along fold, (light browning, the chart backed on old paper as supplied).
A IMPORTANT AND RARE SEA CHART OF THE ATLANTIC. The concept of the West Indische Paskaert, as with many great cartographical images stems from Blaeu. As cartographer for the VOC he produced a large chart to facilitate navigation from Europe to the Cape of Good Hope, published, one suspects, to compete with the manuscript versions that were already being used. Blaeu's concept was soon copied by other Dutch mapmakers notably Colom c. 1639; Jacobszoon, 1646 and 1649; Doncker 1659 and 1669; Goos, 1665; Keulen after Goos, 1680; Robjin after Blaeu, 1687 and the present work based on Goos, all adopt a similar form. The fragility of these charts is such that most are only known in less than three copies each. For this Loots chart, 3 examples on paper are recorded, Amsterdam Scheepvaart Museum; Rotterdam Maritime Museum; and British Admiralty Library. A copy printed on vellum is recorded in the Polish National Library in Warsaw.
The verso of this example has an interesting contemporary note in Dutch, translated as 'Chart of the West Indies' in Mercator's projection with indication of the sailing routes from the fatherland to the Cape Good Hope and from there back to the fatherland along the North of Scotland.' Johannes Loots, was originally a nautical instrument maker, and worked in the same street as Keulen and Doncker, and he served as an apprentice to Doncker in the 1680's. He was accepted into the Guild of Booksellers in 1693 and began publishing charts and atlases.
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