Pas-Kaart van de zee-kusten van, Brazilia tusschen, Rio Ponica, en Rio das Contas

Beautiful nautical chart of the Brazilian Atlantic coastline, first published in the 1680 edition of De Groote Nieuwe Vermeerderde Zee-Atlas ofte Water-werelt (see Koeman, AN, vol. IV, p. 282), and replicated in the same year in the French edition, entitled Le Grand Nouvel Atlas de la Mer (Koeman, Keu 2).

Borders graduated for latitude. Bar scales in Dutch miles, Spanish miles and English and French miles. Shows the location of the Tapiana silver mine and numerous settlements.

The Van Keulen dynasty of publishers, book merchant printers and cartographers produced the most complete and up-to-date Dutch nautical atlases. Johannes van Keulen (1654 - 1715) established a book and instrument sales business in Amsterdam in 1678 and in 1680 was granted the privilege by Holland and West Friesland to print nautical guides and atlases. 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 business continued for nearly two centuries; Gerard (1678 - 1726) produced new editions of his father's works, numerous manuscript maps, and in 1706 was appointed hydrographer of the Dutch East India Company (VOC); his son Jan II van Keulen (1704 - 1770) took over the business in 1726 and published a new edition of the Asian volume of the Zee-Atlas; he was appointed cartographer of the VOC in 1743.

Etching, finely hand-colored, restorations to upper corners, otherwise in very good condition.

Bibliografia

Koeman, Bibliography of terrestrial, maritime and celestial atlases and pilot books, published in the Netherlands up to 1880, 152.