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Pascaart van Europa Als mede een gedeelt vande cust van Africa
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Antique chart of the coasts of Europe and part of those of Africa, from Nova Zemblya all the way down to Cape Verde in west Africa.
Also are included the Azores, the Cape Verde islands and Greenland.
The map is decorated with ships, compass roses and rhumb lines in the sea, the coats of arms of the leading powers of the day, including Russia and Morocco, as well as two decorative cartouches, one with several scales, the other with title, surmounted by a Navigation light and flanked by a Dutch cartographer and a Russian(?).
By Pieter Goos (c1613-75) from one of his Atlases c1660, Amsterdam.
Pieter pursued and developed the business of his father, Abraham Goos (c1590-1643).
Both were engravers, cartographers and publishers of sea atlases (ie, atlases composed of sea charts). In the latter role (which was continued until the end of the century by his widow — whose first name is not recorded — relayed by his son Hendrik), the Goos family were extremely influential and widely imitated.
430x529mm (17 x 20¾in) Original hand colour. We rate the overall condition as only ‘good’, because of a brown spot (about 1 cm — less than ½ an inch — in diameter) on the centerfold; but this is the only blemish. $1350.00
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