Pas Kaart Van Rio Oronoque Golfo De Paria Met d'eylanden Trinidad, Tobago, Granada...
Map of the Gulf of Paria from the mouth of the Orinoco, showing Trinidad, Tobabgo and Grenada.
Van Keulen, 1684.
520mm x 590mm. Original hand-coloured copper engraved map. Large decorated cartouche to the top left, and figured mile scale to bottom right, with an inset map of Tobago in the top right corner. A very good copy indeed, with a little foxing and a short closed tear with two small chips to the bottom right of the map.
The Nieuwe Lichtende Zee-Fakkel ('New Shining Sea Torch') was one of the most successful maritime atlases from the period, and a publication that confirmed Van Keulen as one of the age's finest cartographers.
The first volume was published in 1682, and the fourth, from which this map is taken, appeared in 1684, containing maps of Central and North America and the West African and Brazilian shipping routes, which were used by the Dutch West India Company and other shipping companies trading in the Caribbean.
Scarce.
LITERATURE: De Nieuwe Lichtende Zee-Fakkel, Part IV (1684)
Stock ID: 36706
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