London, circa 1785.Ĭaptain Cook/Henry Roberts. 9¼x14 inches sheet size, wide margins small repair. Robinson, 1798.Ĭaptain Cook/Alexander Hogg. 16½x21½ inches sheet size, wide margins center fold flattened, minor nicks at lower edge. Plan of the Entrance of the Port of Bucarelli on the North West Coast of America. 16½x21½ inches sheet size, wide margins center fold flattened. Plan of Port des Francais on the North West Coast of America. 16½x21 inches sheet size, wide margins center fold flattened. Explored by the Boussole and Astrolabe in 1786. Wove paper, 11½x17 inches sheet size, wide margins cleaned, original folds flattened. Chart of Norton Sound and of Bherings Strait Made by the East Cape of Asia and the West Point of America. 9¼x15 inches sheet size, ample margins small edge repairs. A Chart of the North West Coast of America and North East Coast of Asia, Explored in the Years 1778 & 1779. London, circa 1785.Ĭaptain Cook/Alexander Hogg. 9x13½ inches sheet size, ample margins minor stain. London, 1784.Ĭaptain Cook/Alexander Hogg. 16½x27½ inches sheet size, ample margins (upper right reinstated where trimmed for binding) original folds flattened. Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE coast of Asia Explored in the Years 1778 & 1779. At first in 1795 the whole Dam was rebaptized into Revolution Square, then it got the name Napoleon Square, till in 1813 after Napoleon's fall Covens & Mortier were back again at the Vijgendam.Captain Cook/Henry Roberts. They didn't move out of their building, but they did change addresses. It was located on the Vijgendam (Fig Dam), the southern part of what is now Dam Square, the central hub of the city. This firm was the biggest Dutch one for publishing maps in the 18th century. The late eighteenth century saw a number of successful reissues by publisher Cornelis Covens (1764-1825), who ran the famous cartographical publishing house of Covens & Mortier (1721-1866) in Amsterdam. Leonard Valk died in relative poverty: his wife had to take in the washing of their aunt to make ends meet. Leonard naturally took over the business on his father's death in 1726, and following his own death in 1746 the firm was run by Maria Valk, cousin, and wife to Gerard. The cartography, as stated on the cartouche, is based closely on the celestial atlas Uranographia, published in 1687 by the celebrated Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687).Īround 1711, when he became a member of the bookseller's guild, Leonard Valk (1675-1746) came into partnership and his name started to appear alongside that of his father on the cartouches of the globes, although the earliest of these, both terrestrial and celestial, still bear the date 1700. The Valks produced several editions of 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18 and 24-inch diameter terrestrial and celestial globes. In 1701, he applied for a charter for making globes and the "Planetolabium", designed by Lotharius Zumbach de Coesfelt (1661-1727), an astronomy lecturer at Leiden University. Initially, they published maps and atlases, but in 1700 the company moved the shop to the building previously occupied by map and globe-maker Jodocus Hondius. Initially an engraver and art dealer, and having worked for map-sellers Christopher Browne and David Loggan in London between 16, Valk established the firm in Amsterdam in 1687. Gerard Valk, or Gerrit Leendertsz Valck (1652-1726) together with his son Leonard, were the only significant publishers of globes in the Netherlands in the eighteenth century, enjoying an almost total monopoly in the first half of the 1700's. African Islands, including Madagascar (65).
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