Doncker Hendrik (7 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very good. [De Zee-Atlas ofte Water-Waereld, vertoonende alle de Zee-Kusten van het bekende deel des Aerd-Bodems. Amsterdam: Hendrick Doncker, 1669?]. Folio (18" x 12", 456mm x 305mm): engraved title-page (without letterpress, rough but contemporary color), A-C2 [$1 signed]. 12 leaves, pp. 1324. With 34 hand-colored (outlined) engraved double-page maps. [Complete account of maps available.] The first map is the double-hemisphere map by de Wit (1660) with elaborate borders, vignettes and decorative elements. All mounted on guards. (all but one (no. 9, De Cust van Vlaenderen) laid down on heavier stock, some early marginal repairs). Bound in contemporary deerskin covering modern boards (endpapers and mounts renewed) with a turquoise morocco title-label gilt ("ATLAS") to the front cover. With loose-hanging edges. Modern support with the contemporary deerskin overlaid. Deerskin torn and stained. All but one of the maps (no. 9, De Cust van Vlaenderen) backed onto heavier stock. Some early marginal repairs and some later reinforcement of the peripheries of the text and plates. Maps numbered lightly in pencil on the reverse. First published in 1659 with 19 maps and frequently re-issued, updated and augmented through to the 1669 edition (boasting some 50 maps), Doncker's Zee-Atlas set the standard for up-to-date maritime cartography. Doncker was involved at all aspects (save the exploration); his maps are principally his own; he printed, published and sold the books at his own shop. Doncker reinvigorated the Dutch tradition of sea-atlases after Colom. Because it lacks the letterpress of the title-page, it is difficult to say with confidence the date of the present copy. The letterpress portion collates perfect with Koeman's Don 8 B. The earliest (dated) map is 1658, the latest are from 1669. The register at the end of the text (C2v, p. 24) calls for 30 maps. Koeman's Don 8 B calls for those thirty maps plus the insertion of the two maps numbered 22 and 23. The present copy lacks the register's map 7 (Spitsbergen en Yslandt). There are in addition three maps, numbered 7-9, one from 1660 (Don 3) and two from 1669 (Don 13). The 1660 map includes Spitsbergen, and so perhaps in the mind of the assembler replaced the register's map 7. With Doncker doubtless present at the shop where this atlas was bought, there must have been a degree of pick-and-mix based on what was available, desirable or affordable. Koeman IV: Don 3, 8 B & 13.…

Sin Encuadernar. Condition: Muy bien. Double page engraved sea chart. Black and white. 57x 45 cms. The chart is divided in five insets. Two bands representing the African west coast and three inset of Madeira and Porto santo islands including Angra view. Compass roses,rhumb lines and scales.The chart was originally reinforced with a double paper leaf. The chart has been expertly restored to remove foxing.Ample margins. Comes from a very rare unrecorded variant of the french edition dated 1668 not in Koeman.…

No binding. Condition: Good. 425 x 515 mm., early outline colour on good thick paper, light even toning, two minor paper creases, otherwise in good condition. This attractive sea chart by Hendrik Doncker was first published in the 'Zee-Atlas' in 1672 and is so dated. It illustrates the English Channel from the Cherbourg Peninsula to the tip of Brittany and the south coast of England from Portland Bill to the Isles of Scilly. Earlier charts of this portion of the French coast rarely included so much of the English coastline. The Channel Islands are again disproportionately displayed, especially 'Ornay' (Alderney).Doncker (1626- 99), registered as a bookseller at 21 years-old and became one of the most active publishers of sea charts and atlases in the second half of the century. He was the first to follow Arnold Colom with a comprehensive sea atlas. The first edition of the 'Zee-Atlas' appeared in 1659, of which no surviving example is known. Doncker is known to have been in partnership with Goos and Lootsman on the 'Zeespiegel'; however, the 'Zee-Atlas' was entirely his own production. Provenance: Robert Putman 1986; private Jersey collection. Koeman (1967-70 IV Don 14 & 20 no. 19.…

Sin Encuadernar. Condition: Bien. Double page engraved sea chart. 55 x 47 cms. Black and white. Compass roses, scales, rhumb lines,cartouche with figure looking through an astronomical instrument. The chart has been expertly restored to erase the foxing. originally reinforced with double paper leaf. The chart comes from an unrecorded french issue of Doncker´s atlas not mentioned in Koeman. Doncker was a bookseller and printer of sea charts in Amsterdam for over fifty years.The difference of the Doncker´s charts is that were his own work and were noted for the accuracy and imporvement that showed in comparison with other cartographic material that other cartographers copied each other. The stock of Doncker was sold eventually to Johannes Van Keulen. …

"Folio (20 2/8 x 13 2/8 inches). Index listing 20 charts. Engraved title-page, exceptionally fine double-page engraved world map "Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula" by De Wit with an elaborate allegorical border in full contemporary hand-colour and the hemispheres with contemporary hand-colour in outline, and 27 fine double-paged charts with contemporary hand-colouring in outline, occasionally HEIGHTENED IN GOLD, all mounted on guards (some light browning, occasional minor spotting and a few pale stains). Original publisher's Dutch vellum, each cover gilt decorated in panels with an elaborate central arabesque, the smooth spine decorated in gilt in six compartments with five gilt Tudor roses, all gilt edges. Provenance: Christopher Henry Beaumont Pease, Lord Wardington (1924-2005), Library of Important Atlases and Geographies, his sale Sothebys' 18th October 2005, lot 141. First published in 1659, this is an early and intermediate state of Doncker's magnificent and celebrated Sea-Atlas: twenty of the superb sea charts are from Koeman's Don 2, the earliest example of the Zee-Atlas collated by Koeman and dated to 1660. The pair of charts of the Indian Ocean have engraved titles. Six additional charts, which were originally published in 1660, are dated 1661 (Don 3). Koeman's chart 9 "Pas-Caart van de Middelandsche Zee" has been replaced by the pair of charts of the Mediterranean introduced in 1664 edition (Don 7). A bookseller in Amsterdam from the age of 22, Doncker ran an extremely successful business for more than fifty years: a publisher of the "most popular sets of maritime works published in Amersterdam during the Golden Age" (Koeman), including pilot guides, sea atlases, and textbooks on the art of navigation. Doncker was the first cartographer to publish a sea atlas after Arnold Colom's publications in 1654 and 1658. Although his Sea-Atlas is similar to the publications of Van Loon, Goos, and Lootsman, Doncker's charts were original, frequently corrected and improved and so were the most up-to-date in the second half of the 17th-century. Koeman IV Don 2, 3, 6, 7 and 8a, pages 152-155. Truusje Goedings, renowned expert in Dutch colourists of the 17th-century writes of this copy: "Though soberly, this copy has a de-luxe colouring: the title-page, decorative world map and almost all charts were touched with gold in tiny details, sometimes so minuscule that it is hardly visible. Compass roses, boats, and in decorations around cartouches are touched with trifle bits of gold. The title-page not only has gold on the helm, in tiny speckles on the wings of the mermaid, on the celestial globe, and the stick there-under, but also traces of it along the edges of the red curtain, and on the boats. The world map by De Wit (1660) was treated very decoratively in bright and lively colours. Colours on charts and their decorations were applied sparingly. Obviously a more sober type of de-luxe colouring was applied. "As a whole the colouring has a somewhat old-fashioned character, much like the way it was done in general in the forties and fifties. This, of course, fits Doncker's approach as a thorough publisher combining scientific aims and practical use. He was interested in constant updating, not in luxury. Precisely for this reason he was commercially surpassed by far by Pieter Goos who published a very de luxe sea atlas especially meant for the shore, for offices and collectors. "A de-luxe colouring for a complete Doncker atlas is rare. The typical Dutch atlas binding in gilt vellum, gilt edges, has been done very expertly and corresponds with the de-luxe character of the colouring. Both might have been cared for by the publisher to order. "The colouring of this atlas is much in the style of the illuminator Frans Koerten (1604 - 1668), who was around the middle of the 17th century the most famous Dutch colourist. He must have had a larger workshop for all sorts of colouring, ranging from sober and simple to very de-luxe. The Blaeu fir".…

No Binding. Condition: Fair. Original copperplate map with old hand coloring. Map size: 59.5 cm x 50.5 cm. Tightly cropped. Some wear and tears in the fold. Hendrik Doncker the Elder, (1626-1699), bookseller, instrument maker and hydrographer. Active in Amsterdam.

Amsterdam, 1665. Original colour with gold highlights. 445 x 540mm. Split in centre fold repaired. A decorative early chart of the British Isles, orientated with north to the right. with fine cartouches for the title and scale in full colour, first published in Doncker's 'De Zee-atlas of Water-Waerld' of 1665. This is an example of the first state: after 1669 the date was removed. Shirley: British Isles 1650-1750, Doncker 2, state 1 of 4.…