KEULEN (Johannes van).
Le nouveau & Grand Illuminant flambeau de la Mer, deuxieme partie demonstrant les Costes Maritimes de la partie Meridionale de la Mer du Nord, de la Manche, de la partie Occidentale d'Angleterre, d'Escosse & Irlande, France, Espagne ...
First French edition of the second part of the ‘Zee-Fakkel’, this part devoted to the “Southern Navigation”, broadly the southern North Sea round to North-west Africa (Cape Verde) with the Azores, Canary and Cape Verde Islands. Van Keulen’s ‘Zee-Fakkel’ is the finest of the may pilot books printed in seventeenth century Amsterdam; it was printed in a large folio format; the charts are more elaborately engraved, generally with decorative title vignettes, pictorial scenes and so on; in this way, the ‘Zee-Fakkel’ is more typical of a library volume than for ship-board use.
The plates were much reprinted over the years; the charts here are early printings, in fine dark impressions, which show the quality of the chart-making and engraving, printed on good quality paper, only associated with earlier printings.
Koeman’s collation of this edition calls for 39 charts, but the list of charts given for the atlas lists 38; chart 3, numbered ‘3’, a chart of the Zuyder-Zee, is not listed, but is clearly called for.
Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, IV, Keu 82A (charts as 57B).
