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Hendrick Doncker

Title

Pas-Caart van de Oost Zee Verthoonnde Alle de ghelegentheyt tusschen 't Eylandt Rugen en Wyborg . . . 1658

Publication Place / Date

Amsterdam / 1658

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22 x 17 inches

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Hand Colored

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Stock# 23139

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Description

Rare first edition of Doncker's chart of the Baltic region.

The primary chart extends from Rugen to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania,centered on Prussia and Coerland, along with the contigous coasts of Sweden and Finland. The map includes two inset charts, one covering the area around Dantzig and a second covering the region near Stockholm. One of the earliest commercial sea charts to cover the region.

Hendrik Doncker was a famous bookseller in Amsterdam, who started with the age of 22 years and ran his shop successfully for fifty years. He published his first sea atlas around 1659. Due to the fact, that Hendrik Doncker corrected and improved his charts more frequent then other well known map makers, as van Loon, Goos or Theunis, his business was quite successful and there was a high demand for his works and this reflected also the various improved and corrected editions of sea atlases he published. This map was published in a composit sea atlas by Pieter Goos, who was 'one of the best known maritime booksellers of Amsterdam' (Koeman), he published a number of different sea-atlases or pilot books, his work was very much derivative. With his 'Zee-Atlas' he relied heavily on Hendrick Doncker's 'Ze e-Atlas' of 1659.

Condition Description

Minor loss along the neat lines, expertly reinstated in facscimile.

Hendrick Doncker Biography

Hendrik Doncker was a prominent bookseller in Amsterdam best known for his sea charts and nautical atlases. He issued his own original charts, which he updated frequently, and also worked with colleagues like Pieter Goos, for example to produce the pilot guide, De Zeespeigel. He died in 1699, after fifty years in business. His plates then passed to Johannes van Keulen.