KEULEN, Johannes van (1654-1715)

Lot 125
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£ 13 860
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Lot 125 | KEULEN, Johannes van (1654-1715)
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£ 5 000 – 8 000
KEULEN, Johannes van (1654-1715)
Le Nouveau & Grand Illuminant Flambeau de la Mer. La troisième partie, demonstrant les Costes de Grenade, Murcie, Valance, Cathalogne, Languedoc, Provence, Italie, Dalmatie, Grèce, Trace, Natholie, Sirie, d’Egipte, & toute la coste septentrionale de Barbarie, avec les Isles adjacentes; les Isles d’Yvica, Majorca, Minorca, Corsica, Sardagne, Sicilia, & Malta, comme aussy les Isles de l’Archipel, & Cyprus. Text by Claas Janszoon Vooght, translated into French by Henry Desaguliers. Amsterdam: Johannes van Keulen, 1699
The second French edition of the finest maritime pilot published in seventeenth-century Amsterdam. Nieuwe Lichtende Zee-Fakkel was Johannes van Keulen’s first major atlas, with privileges granted for all five parts on 17 July 1680 and 20 October 1695. It was later translated into English, Spanish and Italian, with the French edition printed in 1684. Part III of the French edition sold best, and the present lot is the 1699 reprint, published to satisfy demand. The atlas was illustrated by Jan Luyken, and the maps are by Claes Jansz Vooght. The earliest editions of this maritime atlas originally contained 17 charts, but the present edition was enlarged with 3 further charts of the Mediterranean, numbered XVIII, XIX and XX. The frontispiece presents an allegorical figure, carrying a torch shining over the people and countries of the Mediterranean, while a sea-battle between a Dutch ship and galleys features at the bottom. Koeman IV, Keu 103A.

Large Folio (530 x 310mm). Engraved allegorical frontispiece dated 1699 designed by Jan Luyken, with letterpress title, 20 double-page engraved sea- and coastal charts numbered I-XX, 92pp letterpress with numerous woodcut harbour charts and coastal profiles, the frontispiece and all charts and profiles finely coloured and highlighted with gold by a later hand (fore-edges to frontispiece and letterpress title repaired and strengthened, large lower portion of letterpress title torn into text and expertly repaired without loss, a few other skilful repairs to text leaves and some charts, chart IX of the western Italian seaboard with expertly repaired chip in sea area affecting only a few rhumblines, a few leaves of text with light dampstaining mostly confined to margins excepting p.88 which has associated repaired tear and stain reaching into text). Remboitage in seventeenth-century blind-stamped calf. Provenance: Sotheby’s 7 December 1989, lot 213 – thence by descent to the current owner.
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