Pascaert van de Middelandsche Zee, vertoonende in twee deelen, zijn van de Miswysing en veel fouten Verbetert

Etching and engraving, 530x590 mm, signed in the cartouche: T ’Amstredam By Iohannes van Keulen Boeckverkooper aende Nieubrugh in de geckroonide Lootsman Mer Privilegie voor 15 Iaaren. Beautiful example in old coloring.

Map taken from: De Nieuwe Groote Lichtende Zee-Fakel, ‘t Derde Deel. Verhoonde de Kunsten van Granaden, Catalonien, Provence, Italien, Dalmatien, Grieken, Thracien, Natolien, Syrien, Egyptne, en de geheele Noordkust van Barbaryen, met alle haer onderhoo rende en tussschen leggende Eylanden. […] Door Claas Jansz. Vooght, Geometra Leermeester der Wis-konst. T’ Amsterdam, Gedruckt voor Johannes van Keulen, Boeck en Zee-Kaert-verkoper, aen de Nieuw-brugh, in de gekroonde Lootsman. 1682. Met Privilegie voor 15 Jaren.

Nautical chart of the Mediterranean, divided into two parts, designed by Claes Jansz Vooght; it was first included in the third volume of the Nieuwe Lichtende Zee-Fakkel (1682) devoted to the Mediterranean. The plate is reprinted and included in numerous editions, also in other languages, of the atlas
Starting from 1695, the Mediterranean table is also included in the other nautical guide of the editors of Amsterdam, the De Groote Nieuwe Vermeerderde Zee-Atlas ofte Water-werelt (see Koeman, AN, vol. IV, p. 293, Keu 20 B).

The Van Keulen dynasty of publishers, printers, booksellers, and cartographers produced the most comprehensive and up-to-date Dutch nautical atlases. Johannes van Keulen (1654–1715) founded a book and instrument business in Amsterdam in 1678 and in 1680 obtained the privilege of printing nautical guides and atlases from Holland and West Friesland. His first major work was the Nieuwe Lichtende Zee-Fakkel, illustrated by Jan Luyken, with maps drawn by Claes Jansz Vooght; five volumes were published between 1681 and 1684. Van Keulen also produced a Zee-Atlas ofte Water-werelt. The Van Keulen family continued to operate for nearly two centuries; Gerard (1678 - 1726) produced new editions of his father's works, numerous manuscript maps, and was appointed hydrographer to the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in 1706; his son Jan II van Keulen (1704 - 1770) took over the business in 1726 and published a new edition of the Asiatic volume of the Zee-Atlas; he was appointed cartographer to the VOC in 1743. After Jan II's death, his sons Cornelis Buijs and Gerard Hulst van Keulen ran the family business. Gerard (1733 - 1801) added a further volume to the Zee-Fakkel containing East India material derived from the VOC. Gerard, in addition to publishing the first nautical almanac in Dutch in 1788, was one of the three original members of the commission established by the Dutch government in 1787 to solve the problem of finding longitude at sea. Gerard's son, Jan III, was the last van Keulen to run the company.

Bibliografia

C. Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici: Bibliography of Terrestrial, Maritime and Celestial Atlases and Pilot Books Published in the Netherlands up to 1880 Vol. IV, Amsterdam 1970, pp. 338-347, Keu 87 A (1) 99; National Maritime Museum, Catalogue of the Library - Vol. Three, Atlas & Cartography, Londra, 1971, pp. 110-114, n. 107 (104); cfr. R. Shirley, Maps in the Atlases of the British Library, Londra, 2004, pp. 1200-1213; cfr. D. de Vries, G. Schilder, W. Morzer Bruyns, P. van Iterson, I. Jacobs, The Van Keulen Cartography Amsterdam 1680-1885, Alphen aan den Rijn, 2005