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Auction archive: Lot number 7

WAGHENAER, Lucas Janszoon (1533-1606). Pars prima [- La deuxiesme partie] Du Miroir de la Navigation, de la Mer Occidentale, contenant toutes les costes de France, Espaigne, & la principale partie d'Angleterre, le tout comprins en plusieurs diverses ...

Estimate
£40,000 - £60,000
ca. US$50,867 - US$76,301
Price realised:
£75,000
ca. US$95,376
Auction archive: Lot number 7

WAGHENAER, Lucas Janszoon (1533-1606). Pars prima [- La deuxiesme partie] Du Miroir de la Navigation, de la Mer Occidentale, contenant toutes les costes de France, Espaigne, & la principale partie d'Angleterre, le tout comprins en plusieurs diverses ...

Estimate
£40,000 - £60,000
ca. US$50,867 - US$76,301
Price realised:
£75,000
ca. US$95,376
Beschreibung:

WAGHENAER, Lucas Janszoon (1533-1606). Pars prima [- La deuxiesme partie] Du Miroir de la Navigation, de la Mer Occidentale, contenant toutes les costes de France, Espaigne, & la principale partie d'Angleterre, le tout comprins en plusieurs diverses Cartes Marines . Antwerp: Jean Bellère, 1590. Extremely rare first French edition of the first printed pilot book to incorporate sea charts. ‘This work holds a unique place among the printed rutters of the sea in the 16th century because it is the first printed rutter with charts... Thanks to the unparalleled skill of the engravers ... the original ms. charts by Waghenaer were transformed into the most beautiful maps of the period’ (Koeman). The first printing began in Plantin’s workshop in Leiden in 1583. Cornelis Claesz took over the publication in 1589, producing a German edition, and in the same year Jean Bellère of Antwerp obtained the privilege to print the work in Dutch, Latin, French and Spanish. This French edition was a joint endeavour between Bellère (letterpress) and Claesz (copper-plate printing). A new plate (10B) replaced the previous version 10A. ‘There is no evidence that Waghenaer copied his charts from existing sources. Some of them must have been based on his personal observations and for the whole of the work he must have relied on his own rich experience in practical navigation’ (Koeman). The Van Doetecum double-page chart of Europe is extremely interesting, being in the rare first state with Iceland shown almost as a circular shape (New Hollstein 794/II). Koeman IV, p. 496 and 490-91 (Wag 8A). 2 parts in one volume, folio (413 x 289mm). Engraved title to both parts, each with French titles pasted on slips, 47 double-page engraved charts (on guards) by Baptist and Johannes van Doetecum after Waghenaer, the folding map 'Universe Europae maritime' in Koeman state 1A / New Hollstein 794/II, map 10 in Koeman state 10Bc / New Hollstein 871/I, map XIX in Koeman state XIX* / New Hollstein 812/II, all the others in Koeman state ‘d’ (New Hollstein numbers available upon request). All engravings – excepting about 10, with superimposed strip – with map titles in French printed in type in the upper margins and typographic text on the verso, 2 further engravings including one with volvelle, large woodcut on D2v (printer’s errors in the setting of the text page for verso of maps 19 and 27 remedied by the printer through the pasting-over of a sheet with the right text; title-page reinforced at gutter and along the opposite margin, occasional light spotting or browning, some marginal thumbing and a few edges frayed, verso of chart 6 soiled, inking of the plates a little uneven). Contemporary panelstamped calf, each side with four panels showing Louvain binder Jacob Pandelaert’s ‘Spes’ and ‘Lucretia’ figures twice with ‘Spes’ in the Fogelmark ‘Charitas A’ variant (rebacked with new paste-downs and restored along all edges, panels preserved, albeit in places a little flattened or scratched). Provenance: 18th-century shelf mark ‘E Shelf 3. – No.23.’ pasted above first title – M. Jean Antoine Philippe (bookplate on first title) – 19th-century armorial bookplate on verso of first title – c.19th-century inscription of author’s name on flyleaf.

Auction archive: Lot number 7
Auction:
Datum:
5 Jun 2019
Auction house:
Christie's
London
Beschreibung:

WAGHENAER, Lucas Janszoon (1533-1606). Pars prima [- La deuxiesme partie] Du Miroir de la Navigation, de la Mer Occidentale, contenant toutes les costes de France, Espaigne, & la principale partie d'Angleterre, le tout comprins en plusieurs diverses Cartes Marines . Antwerp: Jean Bellère, 1590. Extremely rare first French edition of the first printed pilot book to incorporate sea charts. ‘This work holds a unique place among the printed rutters of the sea in the 16th century because it is the first printed rutter with charts... Thanks to the unparalleled skill of the engravers ... the original ms. charts by Waghenaer were transformed into the most beautiful maps of the period’ (Koeman). The first printing began in Plantin’s workshop in Leiden in 1583. Cornelis Claesz took over the publication in 1589, producing a German edition, and in the same year Jean Bellère of Antwerp obtained the privilege to print the work in Dutch, Latin, French and Spanish. This French edition was a joint endeavour between Bellère (letterpress) and Claesz (copper-plate printing). A new plate (10B) replaced the previous version 10A. ‘There is no evidence that Waghenaer copied his charts from existing sources. Some of them must have been based on his personal observations and for the whole of the work he must have relied on his own rich experience in practical navigation’ (Koeman). The Van Doetecum double-page chart of Europe is extremely interesting, being in the rare first state with Iceland shown almost as a circular shape (New Hollstein 794/II). Koeman IV, p. 496 and 490-91 (Wag 8A). 2 parts in one volume, folio (413 x 289mm). Engraved title to both parts, each with French titles pasted on slips, 47 double-page engraved charts (on guards) by Baptist and Johannes van Doetecum after Waghenaer, the folding map 'Universe Europae maritime' in Koeman state 1A / New Hollstein 794/II, map 10 in Koeman state 10Bc / New Hollstein 871/I, map XIX in Koeman state XIX* / New Hollstein 812/II, all the others in Koeman state ‘d’ (New Hollstein numbers available upon request). All engravings – excepting about 10, with superimposed strip – with map titles in French printed in type in the upper margins and typographic text on the verso, 2 further engravings including one with volvelle, large woodcut on D2v (printer’s errors in the setting of the text page for verso of maps 19 and 27 remedied by the printer through the pasting-over of a sheet with the right text; title-page reinforced at gutter and along the opposite margin, occasional light spotting or browning, some marginal thumbing and a few edges frayed, verso of chart 6 soiled, inking of the plates a little uneven). Contemporary panelstamped calf, each side with four panels showing Louvain binder Jacob Pandelaert’s ‘Spes’ and ‘Lucretia’ figures twice with ‘Spes’ in the Fogelmark ‘Charitas A’ variant (rebacked with new paste-downs and restored along all edges, panels preserved, albeit in places a little flattened or scratched). Provenance: 18th-century shelf mark ‘E Shelf 3. – No.23.’ pasted above first title – M. Jean Antoine Philippe (bookplate on first title) – 19th-century armorial bookplate on verso of first title – c.19th-century inscription of author’s name on flyleaf.

Auction archive: Lot number 7
Auction:
Datum:
5 Jun 2019
Auction house:
Christie's
London
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