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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Arent Roggeveen and Jacob Robijn. The Burning Fen Second Part Amsterdam 1687. Amsterdam: Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Ltd., 1971, xii, 40 pp. + maps. *** This atlas is one in a series of facsimile atlases resurrected and produced by the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum project. The Burning Fen is the 4th. part of the new Great Sea-Mirrour, first published in 1687. It is a Pilot for the West African and Brazilian coasts. Historical background for this work is provided in an Introduction by Prof. Ir C. Koeman. The atlas contains large double-page maps done in the portolan style, with coastline views and sailing directions. With the original illustrated Dust Jacket. This book is in my inventory and the images are of this particular item. *** Bound in dark blue cloth boards and spine, clean with no wear, bottom corners lightly bumped. The jacket is clean with very light wear, one faint mark at bottom of front panel, a tiny closed tear (repaired on verso with archival tape) and a small wrinkle bottom right corner of front panel. The contents are clean and complete in a good binding. *** 18.25 inches tall by 12.25 inches.

Condition: Good. 2 unirform original gilt lettered cloths, dust jackets, (double page) illustrations in b/w, folio. Theatrvm Orbis Terrarvm, Series of Facsimile Atlases, Fifth Series, Volume V and VI.

Condition: Good. 2 uniform original gilt lettered cloths, dust jackets, (double page) illustrations in b/w, folio. Theatrvm Orbis Terrarvm, Series of Facsimile Atlases, Fifth Series, Volume V and VI.

Carolina First state. Double-page engraved chart, with fine hand-colour in part and in outline. Large-scale sea chart of the Carolina coast - published in Roggeveen's exceedingly rare sea pilot 'Het Brandende Veen'. In 1687 Robijn replaced the earlier chart of the south-east with this one. It is interestingly derived from Johannes van Keulen's 'Pas Kaart Van de Kust van Carolina,' 1684, the publisher whom he had been working with in 1679. Robijn rotates the projection to a north-south one and in the process eliminates the south portion of Chesapeake Bay. The coastline is virtually identical but nomenclature does vary. One notable new addition is B de S. Anna and a sand bar is also placed at C Faire. The position of Charles Town is still on the south bank of the Rio Grande, a position from which it relocated in 1680. Roggeveen, born in Delshaven, came to Middleburg, the seat of both the Dutch East and West India Companies, in 1658. He worked for both companies teaching the art of navigation and helped to maintain their collections of hydrographic manuscripts and charts, including Spanish portolans of the West Indies. In the mid-1660s, assisted by his access to these collections, Roggeveen embarked upon compiling a series of large-scale charts of the North American coastline, West Indies, and, later, West Africa. Many of his charts are based upon the earlier large-scale work of Hessel Gerritsz and Joan Vingboons, both cartographers for the Dutch East and West India Companies, but Roggeveen's work was the first to show the whole coastline of North America and the Caribbean. He called this pilot 'Het Brandende Veen' or 'The Burning Fen'; a pun on his name, as 'veen' means 'fen', and a heap of burning fen represents a fire on the coast to guide or warn ships. The first edition of the atlas was published in 1675 by Pieter Goos, however, due to the death of Goos in the same year, and that of Roggeveen four years later, a second edition would not be published until 1680, by which time the plates had been acquired by the chart dealer Jacobus Robijn. Robijn went on to republish the second edition in 1689, with a third edition appearing in 1698. Burden 629 state 1.

(Amsterdam), 1696. 52x59,5 cm. Kobberstukket og håndkoloreret søkort visende Bælterne mellem Østjylland, Fyn, Sjælland, Lolland og Falster, Sydsverige, Rü Bornholm, Nordtyskland m.v. Med det danske rigsvåben i nederste højre hjørne" heri dedikation til Cornelis Tromp, den danske og hollandske flådes admiral. Den store kartouche i øverste venstre hjørne viser scener fra folkelivet og brydning af kalksten fra Møn eller Stevns. Fin reparation i højre margin. Sjældent søkort over de indre danske farvande og porten til Østersøen. Kortet "ligger ned" med øst orienteret oppe. Jacob Robyn var kortsælger og kortudgiver. Han købte rettighederne til Pieter Goos's Zee-Spiegel og Zee Atlas fra Goos' enke, men han udfærdigede også selv adskillige kort. Hans lager blev overtaget af Johannes Loots i Amsterdam."Alle de anførte hydrografers (samtidige kartografer) kortarbejder er overordentlig sjældne både herhjemme og i udlandet og noteres betydelig højere i pris end de samtidige landkort" (Bo Bramsen p. 112).