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Unrecorded Antwerp edition
[ATLAS - LOW COUNTRIES].La description de XVII. Provinces, avec les Terres Circonvoicins, a Scavoir Champagnie, Picardie, Liege, Retelle, &c.      Antwerp, Ian Huyssens, 1652. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf, spine ribbed and richly gilt. With double-page title within typographical borders, and 39 double-page engraved maps of the Northern and Southern Netherlands by J. Colom, nicely coloured by hand. Rare pocket-atlas, not recorded in Koeman, published at Antwerp but containing a selection of the maps of the Low Countries originally published by Jacob Aertsz. Colom at Amsterdam in 1635 with the title "De Vyerighe Colom", the same title with which Colom had first published his famous pilot guide in 1632, and the same name he had given to his printing office at Amsterdam, where he worked from 1622 to his death in 1673 as a bookseller, printer and mapmaker. The "Vyerighe Colom", with 47 maps and 3 plates, and with extensive text in Dutch and French, was republished several times all through the 17th century, but until now it was thought that all editions before his death in 1673 had been published at Amsterdam by Colom himself. So the present edition is of great interest and gives cause to a review of Colom's activities. He probably licenced the Antwerp publisher to produce a variant of his "Vyerighe Colom" to broaden his market, possible only since the signing of the Peace of Münster in 1648, which finally ended the 80-years war and opened ways for trade and communication between the two Netherlands. Jan Huyssens made an entirely new and practical atlas out of Colom's "Vyerighe Colom". He left out the three plates and all text, and selected only maps of general interest, leaving out the ancient map of the Netherlands and such typical Dutch maps as the separate maps of the polders De Zype, Beemster, Wormer, Purmer, Byllemermeer, Waterland, etc., also completely rearranging the maps, more in order of their geographical sequence. Thus the atlas contains a general map of the 17 Provinces, and maps of Artois, Flanders (5), De Vier Ambachten, Hainault, Namur, Luxemburg, Limburg, Liege, Brabant, Malines, Antwerp, Bergen-op-Zoom, Breda, 's-Hertogenbosch, Gelre, Maastricht, Zeeland, Walcheren, Holland (2), Delfland, Rijnland, Dordrecht, Utrecht, Veluwe, Zutphen, Overijssel, Drenthe, Twente, Friesland, and Groningen (3). Good copy, interleaved with blank leaves.- (Binding sl. rubbed; a few maps strengthened at the back; some waterst.; sl. browned).
Unrecorded; cf. Koeman II, Col 1.
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