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First edition, second state (or second edition; see below). Amsterdam: Abraham Goos, 1616. Oblong quarto (6 3/8" x 8 5/16", 162mm x 210mm). [Full collation available.] With an engraved title-page and 23 engraved maps integral to the text. Bound in contemporary vellum over paste-board, with a blind fillet border. Title and shelf-mark (709.) ink manuscript to spine, with an additional shelf-mark (66) in red ink manuscript to spine. With eight ties (perished). All edges of the text-block glazed blue. Rear lower fore-corner restored. Ties perished. Small gash to the spine, with some wear at the head and tail. Front board splayed a little. Wear to the front paste-down from the removal of a bookplate. Internally a lovely copy, with a pale water-stain to the lower margin, scarcely affecting text. Good margins and a strong impression. Gilt red sheep ex-libris of Carlo De Poortere to the recto of the first free end-paper. Ink ownership signature in an old hand to the half-title-page. Abraham Goos (1590-ca. 1643) was at the very heart of the Dutch cartographic community; he learned from Jodocus Hondius and partnered with Jan Janssonius. Goos is best known as the first publisher of a Hebrew-language map of the Holy Land (as the initial of the dedication with its tetragrammaton hints), and as the father of Pieter Goos, who was a highly successful mapmaker in his own right. Koeman and Van der Kroegt both single him out as "an excellent craftsman," outstripping his colleagues. The Nieuw Nederlandtsch Caertboeck is his only publication proper, with 2 maps of the Low Countries generally and 21 maps of the 17 individual states: one for each of the Seventeen Provinces (except Drenthe, which is included in map 22: Trans-isulana (Overijssel)), four additional maps of Holland and one additional map of Brabant (map 18, Marchionatus Sacri Imperii (Antwerp)). Each map is a stadium, with arabesque corner-ornaments. Koeman recognizes only one Goos edition, but Van der Kroegt's reissue of Koeman's Atlantes Nederlandici distinguishes two "editions," of which ours is the second (the imprint changes to include Goos's new address "inde Kalverstraet"). It is not clear to what extent this is a true setting-from-fresh of the type, or if it is in fact a change of issue or state; the typesetting of the book seems not to have changed, and the maps are identical. Of the early (late XVIIc?) ownership signature nothing can be written. Carlo De Poortere (1917-2002), the great Belgian bibliophile, amassed one of the finest libraries of continental (and especially Netherlandish) illustrated books. The present volume was not in his major sale at Sotheby's Paris (6 November 2014), but passed through the rooms of Drouot/Van de Wiele (10 October 2020, lot 895) and Reiss & Sohn (10 May 2021, lot 1894). Koeman Goo 1, Shirley T.Goos-1a, Van der Kroegt/Koeman 363:01B. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 6JLR0182
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