L12401

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拍品 100
  • 100

Goos, Pieter.

估價
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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描述

  • Lighting Colom of the Midland-Sea, containing a Description of all the knowne Coasts, Islants, Sands, Depthes, and Roads, begining from the narowest, of the Streat, unto Alexandrette in the Levant. Amsterdam: P. Goos, 1669
  • paper
Folio (460 x 290mm.), title within elaborate engraved allegorical border, 24 double-page engraved charts, and one full-page chart, 35 woodcut maps in the text, manuscript annotations, recent blind-stamped calf by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, cancelled stamp of Admiralty Office Library on title, title reinforced at outer edge, some browning (mainly to text), occasional staining, a few maps trimmed to neatline

出版

Koeman IV, Goos 45 

Condition

the condition of this lot is as described in the catalogue description
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拍品資料及來源

Rare: the only English edition of the Straets-boeck, a Mediterranean sea atlas, first published by Goos with Dutch text in 1662 and that same year with a different title-page as part III of the Zee-Spieghel (see previous lot).

The charts in the work were newly engraved by Goos, although the text was borrowed from Jacobsz' Straets-boeck of 1648. In the contents the author explains the differences between the handling of the compass by the Dutch and Italians, and that the information in this work is adapted to Dutch use. He also explains why the charts have no degrees of latitude, as well as the use of the backstaff. The list with "The height of Som Places in the Midle-land Sea" contains additions and corrections in manuscript.