Contents of Volume 1

Introduction

I. Van Deutecum a family of engravers

II. Printed wall-maps of the Seventeen Provinces, published in the Netherlands in the sixteenth and seventeenth century

III. The wall-map of the Seventeen Provinces published by Gerard de Jode in 1566

 IV. The wall-map of the Seventeen Provinces by Willem Jansz. Blaeu, 1608 and later editions

V. The wall-map of the Seventeen Provinces by Claes Jansz. Visscher, 1636

Plates

l. Gerard de Jode, Wall-map of the Seventeen Provinces, 1566. (5 plates)

2. Willem Jansz. Blaeu, Map of the Seventeen Provinces, 1608 (1622) (22 plates)

3. Willem Jansz. Blaeu, Map of the Seventeen Provinces in folio,1608. (2 plates)

4. Joannes van Deutecum, Wall-map of the Seventeen Provinces, 1594 (3 plates)

5. Claes Jansz. Visscher, Wall-map of the Seventeen Provinces, 1636. (14 plates)

6. Francois van den Hoeye, Map of the Seventeen Provinces in two sheets, 1616. (4 plates)

  Text volume: Blue cloth, bound with gold imprint. Format 400x285mm/ 15,5x11,5inch. Text in Dutch and English; 111 illustrations in black and white. 171 pp.

Map volume: Blue cloth portfolio, bound with gold imprint. Format 410x580mm/ 16x23inch. 120 grams paper [cream coloured] 6 maps printed on 50 sheets.

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The second volume-in contrast is much more varied in content. It focuses mainly on sixteenth-century Antwerp, until its fall in 1585 the center of the Netherlands map trade. The volume reproduces in full size maps by Abraham Ortelius, Joan Baptista Vrients. and the Galle family. Three of Ortelius's wall maps are given chapters of their own, and the description of his wall map of the world (1564) is preceded by a description of other wall maps published before his time and outside the Netherlands. beginning with Waldseemuller (1507). Although it is not entirely clear why these non-Dutch maps were included (and the practice was not fully followed in later volumes). they are useful summary descriptions.

In chapter two of the second volume, Schilder explains the relationship between some maps of Ortelius and the Italian geographer Giacomo Castaldi and here a little Dutch-Italian rivalry rears its head. For example, Ortelius's eight-sheet wall map of Asia in eight sheets (1567) was significantly based on Gastaldi's 'prima, seconda. e terza parte dell'Asia.' In fact, Ortelius acknowledges his debt to Gastaldi in his the address to the geography of Aboulfeda, which had become known in Europe through the infamous philologist. historian, and arabist Guillaume Postel (1495-1581). Postel gave his translated summary to Giambattista Ramusio, who published it in his Navigotioni et Vioggi. a work in which Gastaldi took part. But since there was no mention of a 'map' in Ramusio's summary of Aboulfeda - a 'model' is the word he uses one might wish for more discussion of the extent to which Gastaldi was indebted to the Arabic geographer for his information and whether or not there was an Arabic map on which he relied.

In contrast. Schilder's analysis of Ortelius's six-sheet wall map of Spain (1571) and its related precursors is extremely thorough. Ortelius co authored this map with Carolus Clusius, whose travels in Spain to describe botanical specimens gave rise to his famous book on the plants of the Iberian peninsula (1576). Along the way. Clusius noted the landscape in general. and this information culminated in his contribution to Ortelius's wall map Among the useful descriptions of earlier wall maps of Spain is that concerning the curious four-sheet anonymous map in the Museo Correr and the map of Spain in six sheets (1558) attributed to Matteo Pagano by his imprint and dedicated - as are several Italian maps - to the Dutch humanist Nicholas Stopius. (secure Orderform)

Contents of volume 2

Introduction

I. The map of the world by Abraham Ortelius, 1564

II. The wall-map of Asia by Abraham Ortelius, 1567

III. The wall-map of Spain by Abraham Ortelius and Carolus~Clusius, 1571

IV. The wall-map of the Seventeen Provinces in twelve sheets by Joan Baptista Vrients, 1605

Plates

1. Abraham Ortelius, Wall-map of the world, 1564. (8 sheets)

2. Gerard de Jode, Map of the world, 1571. (1 sheet)

3. Abraham Ortelius, Wall-map of Asia, 1567. (8 sheets)

4. Abraham Ortelius - Carolus Clusius, Wall-map of Spain, 1571. (6 sheets)

5. Filips Galle - Joan Baptista Vrients, Wall-map of the Seventeen Provinces, 1605. (16 sheets)

6. Joannes Galle, Map of the Central Netherlands in two sheets. (3 sheets)

7. Filips Galle - Joan Baptista Vrients, Map of the Seventeen Provinces in folio, 1606. (1 sheet)

8. Joannes en Baptista van Deutecum, Map of the Seventeen Provinces in folio, 1588. (1 sheet)

9. Frederick de Wit, Map of the Seventeen Provinces in folio, 1652. (1 sheet)

Text volume: Blue cloth, bound with gold imprint. Format 400x285mm/ 15,5x11,5inch. Text in Dutch and English; 146 illustrations in black and white. 171 pp.

Map volume: Blue cloth portfolio, bound with gold imprint. Format 410x580mm/ 16x58inch. 120 grams paper [cream coloured] 9 maps printed on 45 sheets.

 Is larger than volumes I and II combined. It is devoted entirely to the wall map of the world in two hemispheres published in 1619 by Willem Jansz, Blaeu and reissued with alterations by his son Joan in 1645-46. Both versions are part of a rich cartographic tradition in Amsterdam in the first half of the seventeenth century that satisfied an immense demand for global information Testimony to the fragility of wall maps, thousands of impressions of both maps were originally printed but only one example of each state is extant, both at the 'Prins Hendrik' Maritime Museum in Rotterdam.

Following the fall of Antwerp in 1585, the economic center of the Netherlands moved to the northern Netherlands, particularly Amsterdam Amsterdam's growth was stimulated by several factors: to record exploration associated with the northeast passage, the East and West Indies, and South America; to disseminate news of the war with Spain; and to document changes in the domestic cultural landscape, particularly hydrographical. To achieve these aims, the city was able to capitalize on the new pool of geographical talent in the form of religious refugees from the southern Netherlands, particularly Cornelis Claesz, Petrus Plancius, Petrus Bertius, and Pieter and Abraham Goos.

With this backdrop in place, Schilder provides a short but very useful biography of Blaeu, who started out as Willem Jansz. but decided to adopt his father's sobriquet (Blue Willem) as the family name to avoid confusion with Jan Jansz. who had moved in next door, Willem Jansz. thus became Willem Jansz, Blaeu around 1622. Blaeu's appointment as official mapmaker to the Dutch East India Company (VOC) on the death of Hessel Gerritsz in 1632 sharpened his competitive edge: he now had the complete archive of maps and charts of the VOC at his disposal. But his competitors were never entirely

 As further background. this volume contains a description of thirteen wall maps of the world published in Amsterdam before 1619 with all their editions, highlighting the importance of the radical Calvinist Petrus Plancius's map of 1592 in eighteen sheets. Plancius's map was the basis of many Late sixteenth-century wall maps - Dutch and Italian - and Schilder provides a very useful genealogical stemma of its influence.

 The core of this third volume is a detailed description of the two versions of the Blaeu wall map (1619 and 1645/46). Sources used for iconography as well as geography are presented. Between Willem Blaeu's version of 1619 and Joan Blaeu's second edition (1645/46). there were key discoveries and advances in geographical knowledge: the fictitious northwest coast of America is omitted, and the results of Abel Tasman's two voyages (1642-43 and 1644) in Australia and New Zealand - as well as those of his predecessors - have been included. But not all the geographical changes to the map were 'progressive:' the representation of California as an island in the second version appears alongside the more timely representation of the momentous explorations in the southern hemisphere. Nor should the power of decoration in the market place he underemphasized. as Schilder's lengthy general excursion into the development of decorative borders on Dutch wall maps before 1619 demonstrates: after the Peace of Munster, which ended the Thirty Years' War and changed many national boundaries and names, Joan Blaeu put out an entirely new map of the world on 21 copper plates in 1648, but demand for the geographically obsolete 1645-46 map continued simply because the 1648 map did not have decorative borders. 

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Contents of volume 3

Introduction

I. Amsterdam during the time of Willem Jansz [Blaeu]

II. Wall-maps of the world published in Amsterdam before 1619

III. The wall-map of the world in two hemispheres by Willem Jansz. [Blaeu] of 1619

IV. The revised edition of the wall-map of the world in two hemispheres by Joan Blaeu of 1645/46

Appendix: Transcription of the Latin text, accompanied by Dutch and English translation.

The wall-map of the world in two hemispheres by Willem Jansz. of 1619 (99x 190 cm; the only known copy without decorative borders) and the revised edition by Joan Blaeu of 1645/46 (173 x 276 cm; the only known copy is provided with decorative b6rders and text), both preserved in the Maritiem Museum 'Prins Hendrik', Rotterdam have been published in full-size.

Text volume: Blue cloth, bound with gold imprint. Format 400x285mm/ 15,5x11,5inch. Text in Dutch and English; 352 illustrations in black and white. 351 pp.

Map volume: Blue cloth portfolio, bound with gold imprint. Format 410x580mm/ 16x23inch. 120 grams paper [cream coloured] 2 maps printed on 41 sheets.

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Monumenta Cartographica Neerlandica - Volume 4

Consists of descriptions and facsimiles of the single-sheet maps and topographical prints published by Willem Jansz. Blaeu. A short description of the stale of research on Blaeu and his cartographic activity. which includes a useful bibliography of the literature cited on Blaeu, is followed by an illustrated catalogue of the single~sheet maps and topographical prints, listed in chronological order. The history of each copperplate in its different states is fully described and a full bibliography and list of extant examples or impressions provided for each item. Of the 23 maps and prints discussed here, two are commemorative military prints, two are world maps, four depict a continent, eight are 'national,' three show regions, and four concern local areas and cities. In Chapter 3, the bibliographical description is repeated from the catalogue in chapter 2, but the narrative goes on to analyze these 23 maps and prints in great detail, with due attention to both iconographical and geographical sources. A number of appendices transcribe various archival documents relating to Blaeu, translated from Latin into Dutch but not into English. These include resolutions by various government bodies. notarial documents, and letters in Latin and Dutch to John Scot, Wilhelm Schickard. Paulo Sonnio and Pieter Cornelisz. Hooft. There is also a description of Blaeu's printing office on the Bloemgracht and a document on Blaeu's association with the Dutch East India Company. 

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Contents of volume 4,

Single-sheet maps and topographical prints published by Willem Jansz. Blaeu

Introduction

I. The state of research into the cartographical work of Willem Jansz Blaeu (1571-1638)

II. Inventory of single-sheet maps and topographical prints published by Willem Jansz Blaeu

III. Descriptions of the reproduced prints and maps

Appendices

I. Resolutions by the States General

II. Resolutions by the States of Holland and West-Friesland

III. Documents concerning Willem Jansz Blaeu

IV.A. Latin letters written by Willem Jansz. Blaeu. Published and translated by Chris L. Heesakkers

IV.B. Dutch letters written by Willem Jansz Blaeu

V. Description of the Blaeu's printing-office on the Bloemgracht

VI. Willem Jansz Blaeu and the Dutch East India Company (VOC)

Text volume: Blue cloth, bound with gold imprint. Format 400x285mm/ 15,5x11,5inch. Text in Dutch and English; 350 illustrations in black and white. 364 pp.

Map volume: Blue cloth portfolio, bound with gold imprint. Format 410x580mm/ 16x23inch. 120 grams paper [cream coloured] 23 maps printed on 37 sheets.

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Consists of descriptions and facsimiles of ten wall maps; the four continents by Willem Blaeu (1624 state by Henricus Hondius); Germania by Willem Jansz. Blaeu and Nicolaas Visscher; Holland and West Friesland by Willem Blaeu (1621) and Nicolaas Visscher (s.d.); Italy by Willem Jansz. Blaeu (1614-1617); and Flanders by Willem Jansz. Blaeu, 1638.

A description of the Amsterdam cartographic scene in the first half of the 17th century.

The history of each copperplate in its different states is fully described and a full bibliography and list of extant examples or impressions provided for each item.

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Contents of Volume 5

I Amsterdam's cartographic scene in the first half of the 17th century

II. Wall maps of the four continents by Willem Jansz. Blaeu (1608)

III. The wall maps of Germania by the Visscher and Blaeu families

IV. The wall maps of Holland and West-Friesland published by Willem Jansz. Blaeu (1621) and the Visscher family

V. Wall map of Italy by Willem Jansz. [Blaeu] (1614-1617)

VI. Wall map of Flanders by Willem Jansz. Blaeu, 1638

Plates:

Full scale reproductions of the following ten wall maps have been published: the four continents by Willem Jansz. Blaeu (1624 state by Henricus Hondius); Germania by Willem Jansz. Blaeu and Nicolaas Visscher; Holland and West-Friesland by Willem Jansz. Blaeu (1621) and Nicolaas Visscher (s.d.); Italy by Willem Jansz. Blaeu (1614-1617); and Flanders by Willem Jansz. Blaeu, 1638.

Text volume: Blue cloth, bound with gold imprint. Format 400x285mm/ 15,5x11,5inch. Text in Dutch and English; 350 illustrations in black and white. 400 pp.

Map volume: Blue cloth portfolio, bound with gold imprint. Format 410x580mm/ 16x23inch. 120 grams paper [cream coloured] 10 wall maps.

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The sixth volume attention is focused on maps with decorative borders published in Amsterdam since the end of the 16th century. The production of Amsterdam publishers was surprisingly abundant and diverse. Special products were the single-sheet maps in folio-size with decorative borders, which were published for the world, the four continents~ and various European countries and regions. The map decoration was relegated to the map borders in order not to detract from the actual contents of the map. A more rigorous approach was developed, in which the decorative elements were related directly to the map area involved. Town plans and views, combined with costumed figures of natives characteristic for the map area, were the most sought after subject matter for the decorative borders. It is noteworthy that publishers, even though that they could call upon a large stock of existing prints, still specially commissioned well-known artists to produce new designs

The center part of volume VI will be formed by an illustrated descriptive catalogue of all Dutch single-sheet maps with decorative borders. In this carto bibliography the history of each copperplate in its different states will be described (c. 120 prototypes in about 350 states). Attention will be paid to both art-historical and geographical aspects. A selection will be published in full scale reproduction.

This volume is the result of a cooperative effort by prof. Gunter Schilder and the late prof. Klaus Stopp.

Text volume: Blue cloth, bound with gold imprint. Format 400x285mm/ 15,5x11,5inch. Text in Dutch and English; 800 illustrations in black and white. 452 pp.

Map volume: Blue cloth portfolio, bound with gold imprint. Format 410x580mm/ 16x23inch. 120 grams paper [cream coloured] 95 maps in facsimile, printed on 96 sheets.

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THE standard work on Dutch Carte á figures maps. Weight of two volumes 9kg!!.
ith Petrus Plancius the spiritual focus of the Dutch explorations to all corners of the earth. We are indebted to these two extraordinary men, who worked closely as scholar and publisher to bring important cartographic documents onto the market. The core of this volume offers detailed descriptions and folio-sized facsimiles of the 8-sheet wall maps of the four continents along with the earliest marine charts which provide a virtually complete summary of the cartography of the whole world and form the oldest series of printed Dutch charts showing seas and coastlines outside Europe, and of a set of very scarce maps of different European countries.

Monumenta Cartographica Neerlandica - Volume 8

The maps and charts, published separately by Jodocus Hondius (1563-1612), Pieter van den Keere (1571-c. 1646) and Hessel Gerritsz (1580/81-1632), will be the subject of this volume. All three men were renowned engravers mapmakers and publishers who had a decisive influence on development of cartography in Amsterdam. Their lives and cartographic works will be discussed in detail. A selection of the maps will be reproduced at full scale. From Hondius's production, e.g., a hitherto unknown 8-sheet wall map of the world on Mercator's projection (1595/96), the wall maps of the continents (1598) and of the Seventeen Provinces (1593 and 1602). From Van den Keerius hand, e.g., a map of the world in 4 sheets (1609) and of Germania (1611) in 7 sheets. Included in Hessel Gerritsz's contribution to this volume are facsimiles of wall maps of Spain (1612) Italy (1617) and Northern Europe. An illustrated carto-bibliography of the folio-sized maps of all three map-makers, published separately will be also part of this publication, accompanied by a selection of full-size reproductions.

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Monumenta Cartographica Neerlandica - Volume 10 

Little is known about the lives and map production of the Allard and Danckerts families, two important representatives of Dutch map-makers and publishers of the second half of the 17th century. This volume will fill this gap. Special attention will be paid to the production of extremely rare wall maps. From Huych Allard, e.g., the following maps will be reproduced at full scale: the world in 7 sheets; England of 1657 in 9 sheets; East Indies and Brasil, each in 9 sheets. From Jacob Allard the unique copies of the world and Europe, each in 6 sheets. The members of the Danckerts family will contribute full-size reproductions of the world in 10 sheets; the four continents, each in 4 sheets; the British Isles in 12 sheets; England in 4 sheets; the United Seven Provinces and France, each in 9 sheets. A selection of maps of different countries in 2 sheets will be reproduced.

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