Cartography - Lot 345

Cartography NIEROP (Dirck Rembrandtsz van) - GOOS (Pieter) Wassende graade paskaart vertonende alle de Zeekusten van Europa, de geheele middelandsche Zee, als cock ten Noordwesten, en Noordoosten soo veer als ons tot noch toe bekent is [Map of increasing degrees showing all the sea coasts of Europe, all the Mediterranean Sea, as far northwest and northeast as we know so far]. Amsterdam, Pieter Goos, [1658]. Large map printed on vellum, with outlines manually enhanced in watercolor after printing. Dimensions 90x72 cm, minor skinning at edges, brown stains on a vertical strip on the outer right. Very rare map printed on the model of a portulan: "Carte de passage montrant toutes les côtes maritimes de l'Europe, l'ensemble de la mer Méditerranée, ainsi que Nord-ouest et nord-est aussi loin que nous l'avons été" printed on parchment and hand-colored. Dirck Rembrantsz van Nierop (1610-1682) was a 17th-century Dutch mathematician, astrologer and preacher. As a cartographer, he worked with Willem Hessels de Vlamingh and Pieter Goos. This growing chart from 1658 bears his name. It is not known exactly in what year Dirck Rembrandtz drew this map, but arguments have been put forward to date its creation to around I658. As Jan Werner has shown, it corresponds in many respects to a series of two other large passport maps of the East Indies and West Indies respectively, drawn by Pieter Goos around 1660. Johannes van Keulen mentions the map in the reader's advertisement for his 1688 Marine Atlas: "Neither was decreed by me, and one was issued the large Paskaert of d'Archipelag Eylanden, as well as the 4 large Paskaerten on Parkement, Pieter Goos must have used it". There is no evidence of any other cards by Dirck Rembrandtz van Nierop at Pieter Goos. In a report by Christaan Huygens, we find trace of this map of Europe by Van Nierop This article covers a rare chart drawn by Dutch mathematicians including mathematician and almanac writer Dirck Rembrandtz de Niérop. It is almost certain today that Huygens used Dirck Rembrandtz van Nierop's map as a basis for improving his own map of the coasts of Europe, namely: "De Caerte, pour autant que la partie supérieure soit engagée, jusqu'à ce que à 27 degrés de latitude nord a été prise à partir d'un Pascaert d'Europe avec des degrés croissants de D. Rembrandts de Nierop...". In a survey of maps printed on vellum in 2019, Schilder & Kok identify only a few examples of the present map: One on vellum at the University Library of Amsterdam (OTM: HBKZL L.K. VI4); an uncolored copy printed on paper at theBibliothèque nationale de France (Ge DD 2987 B(181)); one at the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington (D.C. 20540-4650 USA dcu). The map we are offering for sale today is probably one of the very few unreferenced copies still in circulation.