KEULEN (Gerard van).

[Untitled Sea-Atlas of the Western Route to the Pacific].

Large Folio (552 x 320 mm); eleven double-page engraved charts, pasted back to back, in original blue paper wrappers pasted to the reverse of the outer charts; original marbled spine. Some light staining, but a reasonable example of the type. [Amsterdam : Gerard van Keulen, 1750.

£18,500.00

Series of scarce sea-charts, engraved on a larger-than-atlas format, clearly assembled to order for shipboard use. The Charts cover the waters from the southern North Sea (notably Amsterdam), through the Channel, the Western approaches to Europe with the Azores and Canary Islands, the Bay of Biscay, coast of Portugal, Mediterranean, the North Atlantic, West Indies, Caribe Islands, south Atlantic and finally the Pacific Ocean.

Such compilations are rare.

Stock No.
226377