(Text Page to) Capittel XIV. Beschryvinghe der See-custen van Laplandt, van de Noord-caep af tot de Mondt van de witte Zee. (4)

• Main Author: Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1619
• Subjects: White Sea; Lapland
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Fourteenth chapter to "Tvveede boeck" - second book - of Het Licht der Zee-vaert. Title translates (loosely) to: Description of the sea coast of Lapland, from the Northern Cape to the mouth of the White Sea. Includes sections: IV. Van het ghetye ofte loopen der Stroomen. -- V. Hoe dese Landen van malcanderen ende van andere Landen zijn gheleghen. -- VI. Van de hooghte deser Landen. Features engraved profile view. Spans pages 99-103. 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 were divided into chapters, each containing navigational instructions for specific sections of coastline, accompanied by a finely engraved coastal chart for each section. Map titles appeared in Dutch and French, with woodcut profile views illustrating the text. Blaeu included an editorial commentary at the beginning of the volume, condemning the generally held view of mariners that ...