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BLAEU´S RARE SEA-ATLAS. BLAEU, WILLEM JANSZOON. Het Licht der Zee-vaert, daerinne claerlyck beschreven ende afghebeeldet werden, alle de Custen ende Havenen, vande Westersche, Noordsche, Oostersche ende Middelandsche Zee´n. Dock van vele Landen, Eylanden ende plaetsen van Guinea, Brasielien, Oost ende West-Indien... Amsterdam (Willem Janszoon Blaeu) 1619.

Oblong 4to (255 x 287mm.). Engraved title, engraved frontispiece, 38 mostly double-page engraved charts (of 42, lacking 4 maps of Denmark), woodcut illustrations and diagrams in the text, 1 with volvelle (lacking 1), letterpress tables within decorative woodcut borders. Renovated and finely repaired copy, affecting both the beginning with title, frontispiece and many maps, which have losses, see details below.
All but 2 are double-page, 261 woodcut coastal profiles in the text, illustrations, tables and charts. The maps are mostly richly embellished with fine cartouches, sailing ships, sea-monsters, compass-roses and sometimes with insets. They show the coasts of England, Scotland, Irland, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Finland, Baltics, Pomerania, Spain, France, Northern Africa, Canarias, Maderia a.o.
Recent fine full calf binding with richly gilt spine in compartments, only slight wear.

Engraved title very worn and with paper renovations to upper part and corners with minor loss of the word "Het" and image loss, some holes, minor tears to lower margin, some spotting, the printing year is rubbed and you can only read "20", engraved frontispiece with large image loss to left corner and repairs, minor tears to lower margin, new inner margin, lacking 4 maps of Denmark, number 21-22, 24-25, about 11 maps with losses and paper renovations to upper part and corners, about 10 with minor losses of corners, no 6 with large loss, no 17 blackened to the outer left part, many shaved or trimmed to upper part, first map mounted on paper, partly with some spotting and soiling. Text with paper repairs to corners, about 40 leaves, especially in the introduction, about 20 leaves with some text loss, some only with loss of letters, very spotted and soiled to the beginning.
Collation: Engraved title, (2), engraved frontispiece, 54 pp. (A4-F4, G2) lacking 2 pages, (2, title to Eerste Boeck), (1-8), 9-119, (1 blank) pp. (2, title to Tvveede Boeck), 3-130, (1) pp. 38 engraved maps (lacking 4). Probably lacking 1 volvelle in the beginning.

First published in 1608. This is the 5th Dutch edition with 37 (of 42) maps. The map "Carte van de Reede ende Haven van Medenblick" in the beginning, was not published until the editions 1618 and was bevor 1620 only published with the Dutch title (the cartouche for the French title was, as in this case, blank.
Het Licht der Zee-vaert was the first book produced by the Blaeu publishing house, heralding a golden age of atlas production, and extant in only a handful of copies. "It is one of the most important Dutch pilot-guides rivalling and surpassing the Thresoor der Zeevaerdt of Lucas Waghenaer which was first published some sixteen years earlier and ceased with the issue of the ninth edition one year later in 1609" (Wardington Catalogue).

Auktionsnummer:

6149

Datum:

2019-12-11