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www.adams.ieThe R.S.J.Clarke Collection of Cartography
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December 2015
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Blaeu, Willem Janszoon (1571-1638)
A part set of eight charts of the Irish coast including Ireland and the
Irish sea. [Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow & Dublin,
Donegal bay & Mayo, Galway Bay & Shannon, Kerry &
Cork, South Coast & Cork, East Cork & Waterford
(i) “Der Zuizdoost hoeck van Yerkandt tusschen Waterfoort
en Glaskarick”, “No 75” in lower right corner. (ii) “De
oost Cust van Yerlandt tusschen Glaskarick en Dubling”,
“No. 76”; (iii) “De West-Cust van Yerlandt tusschen C.
Tellin en Slijnehooft”, “No. 80”; (iv) “West-Cust van
Yerlandt tusschen Slijnehooft” en de Blasques”, “No. 81”;
(v) “De Zuijdwest hoeck van Yerlandt tusschen de Blasques
en Mesan hooft”, “No. 82”; (vi) “De Eijlanden en Havenen
outrent de Cabo Clare bijde Zuidwesthoeck van Ierlandt”,
“No 83”; (vii) “De Zuijdcust van Yerlandt tusschen
Oldhooft en Waterfoord”, “No. 84”; (viii) “Zeekarte van
Yerlandt”, “No. 74”. From an edition of Zeespiegel,
published c 1640.
All approximately 360 x 260. Dutch text on verso of 74;
the versos of the remaining maps are blank. (8)
€ 1,200 - 1,800
Willem Janszoon Blaeu was born at or near Alkmaar in 1571 and, though he
started in the herring trade with his uncle, soon changed his job to study mathematics.
With this in view he went to Denmark in 1594 as an assistant to the famous astronomer
Tycho Brahe and from him learnt the art of instrument making. In 1596 he returned to
Amsterdam and started business as a globe, instrument and map maker. By 1604 he had
moved to the Damrak. He married c. 1596 Maertgen Cornelisdochter, by whom he had
five children :- Joan (1596-1673), Pieter (d. 1650), Cornelis (c. 1610 - c. 1645), Stijntgen and
Stijtchen. Willem J. Blaeu published his first cartographic work, a globe, in 1599 and his
first map in 1604. He died in 1638 and was succeeded in the business by Joan and Corne-
lis, the former of whom became equally famous with the publication of his Geographiae
Blavianiae.
Willem Blaeu published two main books of charts. The first of these, Het
Licht der Zeevaert, came out in 1608, with 6 subsequent Dutch editions between 1610 and
1630, 4 English editions 1612-1625, and 2 French editions in 1619 and 1625. The book is in
two parts (usually bound together) with 41 charts and many pages of navigational instruc-
tions with coastal profiles interspersed, including five pages on Ireland. There is only one
Irish chart, number 16 in Book I, which covers the south-east coast. The English edition is
entitled The Light of Navigation .... By William Iohnson at Amsterdam. Printed by William
Johnson dwelling upon the water, by the Old Bridge at the Sign of the Golden Sondyal
Anno 1612. Cum Privilegio. The French edition is entitled Le Flambeau de la Navigation.
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon (1571-1638)
Dutch Charts
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