KEULEN, Johannes van (1654-1715)

Pas-kaart van de Zuyd Kust van Espaniola met de Zee kust van Nuevo Reyne de Granada

Amsterdam: Johannes van Keulen, [1687]. Copper-engraved map, period hand-colouring in outline. Inset of the Bay of Tiburon. Sheet size: 21 x 24 7/8 inches.

Early Caribbean sea chart of southern Hispaniola (Haiti and Dominican Republic), the Dutch Antilles including Aruba and Curacao, and the northern coast of Venezuela and Colombia.

This beautifully finished map was published by innovative Dutch cartographer and publisher, Johannes van Keulen, in the 1687 second edition of the third volume his Sea-Atlas [or Zee-Fakkel]. The chart includes a fine decorative title vignette, just above which is the island of Aruba, to the left the north coast of Colombia and as far west as Santa Marta. In the right corner is an enlarged detail of the bay of Tiburon (Baya de Tiburaon.) On the southwestern-most tip of Haiti. Along the uppermost margin, the south coast of the island of Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic) is shown, with the capital city of Santo Domingo, the oldest continuously occupied city in the Americas, marked at the mouth of the Ozama River. The Van Keulen family were chart and instrument makers, and publishers of nautical textbooks, books on sea law, shipbuilding, almanacs and more. Founded by Joannes van Keulen (c.1654-1715), the firm remained in business for over 200 years.

Cf. Koeman IV, Keu109B.

Item #27838

Price: $675.00