Monumenta Cartographica Neerlandica VI. - Dutch folio-sized single sheet maps with decorative borders, 1604-60

Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands: Canaletto Repro Holland, 2000. 1st edition, 2 vol. in-4 and in-folio. Reprints of 95 folio-sized single sheet maps with decorative borders issued in the Netherlands in the first three quarters of the seventeenth century. - Limited, Numbered edition. With slipcase

Canaletto / Repro Holland, Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands, 2000

Limited, Numbered edition. With slipcase. 2 vol. in-4 and in-folio, text and atlas volume. ---
Text volume: 452 pages with almost 900 b./w. illustrations. In original blue cloth hardcover binding with gilt lettering and vignette on front boards. Sm. folio. - Plate volume: 95 maps on [96] loose leaves, together in orig. matching large blue cloth portfolio with gilt lettering. Oblong folio.Complete set of volume six. - The portfolio contains reprints of 95 folio-sized single sheet maps with decorative borders issued in the Netherlands in the first three quarters of the seventeenth century. - Text in Dutch & English.
Monumenta Cartographica Neerlandica VI. Nederlandse foliokaarten met decoratieve randen, 1604-60. / Dutch folio-sized single sheet maps with decorative borders, 1604-60. [Set of two volumes].


First edition of this excellent study on the production of geographical maps in the Netherlands in the 17th century accompanied by the album in folio of facsimile reproduction in black and color of some of the most prestigious maps of the period including world maps and continents de Blaeu, Pieter van der Keere, Hondius, de Wit, Visscher etc.

The author Günter Schilder (Vienna, born February 18, 1942) is a prominent Dutch historian of cartography and for many years held the world's only chair of cartographic history at Utrecht University from 1981 to 2004.

One of Schilder's great achievements was the founding of Explokart which focuses on the examination of ancient cartographic records & the relationships between travel travelers and cartographers.

One of his pioneering works was the nine-part facsimile series "Monumenta Cartographica Neerlandica" whose objective was: the disclosure and inventory of map and atlas production in Amsterdam in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, focusing on the Dutch participation in the early geographical discoveries, and the conservation, restoration and production of facsimiles of those maps to safeguard this material for the future.