Lot n° 770

North Sea - Pascaert van de Noord zee van Texel tot de Hoofden. Amst., P. Goos, 1667,

Estimation : 300 / 300
Adjudication : 280 €
Description
from "De Zee-Atlas, Ofte water-weereld, waer in vertoont werden alle de zee-kusten van het bekende des aerd-bodems", 45,5 x 56 cm, nicely old coloured & goldheightened map (sl. browned edges). Under passe-partout, glass in decorated gilt wooden frame (not unframed). Very nice sea chart of the North Sea with the coasts Flanders, Holland and England. As a sea chart very little interior detail is given, but the coastlines and principal coastal features are identified. Pieter Goos was famous for his sea atlas and pilot guides. "Pieter Goos' marine atlases were held to be among the finest printed at the time (...)" (Shirley).
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