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Atlases from a Private Swiss Collection
RENARD, Louis (fl. c.1702-1707) – Reinier OTTENS (1698-1750) and Josua OTTENS (1704-1765)
Atlas van Zeevaert en Koophandel door de Geheele Weereldt. Amsterdam: Reinier and Josua Ottens, 1745.
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RENARD, Louis (fl. c.1702-1707) – Reinier OTTENS (1698-1750) and Josua OTTENS (1704-1765)
Atlas van Zeevaert en Koophandel door de Geheele Weereldt. Amsterdam: Reinier and Josua Ottens, 1745.
Rare copy of the corrected issue of Renard’s Atlas de la navigation et du commerce (Amsterdam: 1715), which had been printed from plates used for Frederik de Wit’s maritime atlas of c.1675. The firm of R. and J. Ottens produced a French edition in 1739, slightly different from 1715, and then this 1745 edition with Dutch text and careful correction of the plates. Seven new charts appear, including a world map by Edmund Halley (4), maps of the postal routes of Europe (10) and of Greenland (32). Renard's name is no longer found on the plates, and the text is rewritten. Koeman IV, Ren 3; Phillips, Atlases 601; Shirley BL II, M.Ren-1c.
Tall folio (550 x 320mm). Engraved frontispiece, title printed in red and black, engraved dedication to the Dutch East India Company, 32 double-page engraved maps, with a duplicate of chart 23 ‘Cimbelas et Caffariae’ in a different state loosely inserted (folding Halley world map with extremities slightly frayed, occasional variable light browning and staining). Contemporary pasteboards, backed in red vellum (extremities heavily rubbed).
Atlas van Zeevaert en Koophandel door de Geheele Weereldt. Amsterdam: Reinier and Josua Ottens, 1745.
Rare copy of the corrected issue of Renard’s Atlas de la navigation et du commerce (Amsterdam: 1715), which had been printed from plates used for Frederik de Wit’s maritime atlas of c.1675. The firm of R. and J. Ottens produced a French edition in 1739, slightly different from 1715, and then this 1745 edition with Dutch text and careful correction of the plates. Seven new charts appear, including a world map by Edmund Halley (4), maps of the postal routes of Europe (10) and of Greenland (32). Renard's name is no longer found on the plates, and the text is rewritten. Koeman IV, Ren 3; Phillips, Atlases 601; Shirley BL II, M.Ren-1c.
Tall folio (550 x 320mm). Engraved frontispiece, title printed in red and black, engraved dedication to the Dutch East India Company, 32 double-page engraved maps, with a duplicate of chart 23 ‘Cimbelas et Caffariae’ in a different state loosely inserted (folding Halley world map with extremities slightly frayed, occasional variable light browning and staining). Contemporary pasteboards, backed in red vellum (extremities heavily rubbed).
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