GOOS, PIETER. De Zee-Atlas ofte Water-Wereld, waer in vertoont werden all de Zee-Kusten van het bekende des Aerd-Bodems. Amsterdam: Pieter Goos 1673. Folio, contemporary vellum, covers panelled in blind with blind-stamped central lozenge, spine lettered in ink, remains of paper label with ms. shelf number, inner hinges cracking, the usual offsetting and uniform discoloration, text leaves foxed, without the dedication leaf (*2) and plate 34 (lacking in most copies and not called for in the contents list) . Printed title within engraved allegorical border, 8 leaves of preliminary text including contents list, and 40 ENGRAVED DOUBLE-PAGE OR FOLDING SEA AND COASTAL CHARTS DELICATELY COLORED IN A CONTEMPORARY HAND, ON THICK PAPER, the charts colored in outline, the embellishments fully colored, the dates of charts 3,12, 14 and 17 altered to 1673 (not noted by Koeman), plate 5 without the pasted down extension. Koeman IV, Goos 12; this edition not in Phillips, Atlases (cf. 473-74), nor in NUC. Approximately 20 editions of Goos's sea atlas were published between 1666 and 1683, all of which contained the same 40 or 41 charts (copied from Hendrik Doncker's slightly earlier sea atlas). "After his death [in 1675], his widow brought out a few new editions with 44 charts. These copies are famous for their outstanding coloring...This leads us to the opinion that Goos's sea-atlas was more intended for the book-lover than for the seaman" (Koeman, p. 193). The nine regional charts of the Americas include "perhaps the most attractive and certainly the most definite representation of California as an island" (Tooley, The Mapping of America , p. 117, no. 22, illustrated). The twin-hemisphere world map (Shirley 438) is elaborately decorated with allegorical figures of the seasons.
GOOS, PIETER. De Zee-Atlas ofte Water-Wereld, waer in vertoont werden all de Zee-Kusten van het bekende des Aerd-Bodems. Amsterdam: Pieter Goos 1673. Folio, contemporary vellum, covers panelled in blind with blind-stamped central lozenge, spine lettered in ink, remains of paper label with ms. shelf number, inner hinges cracking, the usual offsetting and uniform discoloration, text leaves foxed, without the dedication leaf (*2) and plate 34 (lacking in most copies and not called for in the contents list) . Printed title within engraved allegorical border, 8 leaves of preliminary text including contents list, and 40 ENGRAVED DOUBLE-PAGE OR FOLDING SEA AND COASTAL CHARTS DELICATELY COLORED IN A CONTEMPORARY HAND, ON THICK PAPER, the charts colored in outline, the embellishments fully colored, the dates of charts 3,12, 14 and 17 altered to 1673 (not noted by Koeman), plate 5 without the pasted down extension. Koeman IV, Goos 12; this edition not in Phillips, Atlases (cf. 473-74), nor in NUC. Approximately 20 editions of Goos's sea atlas were published between 1666 and 1683, all of which contained the same 40 or 41 charts (copied from Hendrik Doncker's slightly earlier sea atlas). "After his death [in 1675], his widow brought out a few new editions with 44 charts. These copies are famous for their outstanding coloring...This leads us to the opinion that Goos's sea-atlas was more intended for the book-lover than for the seaman" (Koeman, p. 193). The nine regional charts of the Americas include "perhaps the most attractive and certainly the most definite representation of California as an island" (Tooley, The Mapping of America , p. 117, no. 22, illustrated). The twin-hemisphere world map (Shirley 438) is elaborately decorated with allegorical figures of the seasons.
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