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Fine example of Pieter Goos's pair of charts of the Dutch Coast.
This two-panel nautical chart illustrates significant maritime regions of the Netherlands. The left panel focuses on the Texel Stroom and the Marsdiep, a critical waterway between the North Sea and the Wadden Sea, while the right panel depicts the Maas estuary and the Goeree channel, essential routes for vessels approaching Rotterdam.
The map is densely packed with rhumb lines radiating from key points, guiding ships across treacherous waters. Place names like Texel, Enkhuizen, Rotterdam, and Goeree are marked prominently, as are various islands and coastal features such as the "Lant van Vooren" and "Wieringen." Both panels are embellished with decorative cartouches typical of 17th-century Dutch maritime cartography. Depth soundings are marked throughout.
Pieter Goos (ca. 1616-1675) was a Dutch map and chart maker, whose father, Abraham Goos (approx. 1590-1643), had already published numerous globes, land and sea maps together with Jodocus Hondius and Johannes Janssonius in Antwerp. Pieter gained recognition due to the publication of sea charts. He bought the copperplates of the famous guide book for sailors, De Lichtende Columne ofte Zeespiegel (Amsterdam 1644, 1649, 1650), from Anthonie Jacobsz. Goos published his own editions of this work in various languages, while adding his own maps. In 1666, he published his De Zee-Atlas ofte Water-Wereld, which is considered one of the best sea atlases of its time. Goos' sea charts came to dominate the Dutch market until the 1670s, when the Van Keulen family came to prominence.
