Pascaarte van een deel van Noorweghen ende van Laplandt, vertoonende eijghentlijck de gheleghentheijt der Zeecusten die tusschen de Noortcaap en de mondt vande witte zee zijn gheleghen. = Carte marine d'une partie de Norvegue et de Laplande, monstrant la vraije situation des costes marines, entre le Cap de Nord et l'embouchure de la Mer blanche.

• Main Author: Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638
• Format: Map
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1619
• Subjects: Nautical Charts; North Cape; White Sea; Lapland
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Nautical chart showing the coastlines of Norway and Lapland (Finland). Parallel titles appears in Dutch and French, translating (loosely) to: Nautical chart of part of Norway and Lapland, showing the sea coasts, between the North Cape and the mouth of the White Sea. Features cities, roads, ports, topography, coastlines, shoals, islands, anchorage, soundings and a ship. Relief shown pictorially. Includes three bar scales, rhumb lines and compass roses, with north oriented toward lower right. Decorative cartouches. With three inset maps: Gheleghentheijt van't Eÿlandt kildijn : Laplandt -- Afbeeldinghe van Kegro ende Laus : Laplandt -- Ontwerp wan't Eÿlandt Warhuijs en zijne ghelegētheÿt : Noorweghen. Black and white engraving. Chart is 25 x 55 cm, on double sheet 26 x 58 cm. Appears in "Tvveede boeck" of atlas. Het Licht der Zee-vaert, by Willem Blaeu; published in Amsterdam, 1620. Title translates to: The light of the sea. This chart atlas was Blaeu's first atlas. Initially published in 1608, this is the fifth Dutch edition with 38 (of 42) maps. Oblong quarto. Engraved title, engraved frontispiece, 38 mostly double-page engraved charts (of 42, lacking 4 maps of Denmark), woodcut illustrations and diagrams within the text, 1 with volvelle (lacking 1), letterpress tables within decorative woodcut borders. Volume comprised of 261 woodcut coastal profiles in the text, illustrations, tables and charts. Recent fine full calf binding with richly gilt spine in compartments. Collation: Engraved title, (2), engraved frontispiece, 54 pp. (A4-F4, G2) lacking 2 pages; (2, title to Eerste Boeck), [1-8], 9-119, (1 blank) pp. (2, title to Tvveede Boeck), 3-130, [131] pp. 38 engraved maps (lacking 4). Probably lacking 1 volvelle in the beginning. Lacking 4 maps of Denmark, numbers 21-22, 24-25. Het Licht der Zee-vaert was the first book produced by the Blaeu publishing house, heralding a golden age of atlas production, and survives in only a few copies. It is one of the most important Dutch pilot-guides. Blaeu's pilot books ...