Laet, Johannes de (sold)
Johannes de Laet (1581 – December 15, 1649) was a Dutch businessman and cartographer active in Leiden during the early 17th century. De Laet was a Flemish Protestant born in Antwerp to a prosperous merchant family in the cloth trade. When Antwerp fell to the Catholic Spanish in August of 1585, he and his family fled to the northern Netherlands. At the University of Leiden, he studied Theology and Philosophy, matriculating in 1597. In 1603 he relocated to London, where he acquired denizenship, an early type of citizenship and married. His Anglo-Dutch wife died shortly afterward and he returned to Leiden, where he married again. He cleverly invested in Dutch land reclamation projection and the overseas trade, becoming extremely wealthy. In 1620, he became a founding director of the Dutch West Indies Company, a position he held until his death. His most important cartographic work, Nieuwe Wereldt ofte Beschrijvinghe van West-Indien has been hailed by the map historian Phillip Burden as 'arguably the finest description of the Americas published in the 17th century. It contained several seminal maps of the Americas that significantly advanced cartographic perspectives on the region and served as a foundational work for subsequent cartographers. De Laet died in Den Haag (The Hague) in 1649.
Foundational map of the southernmost extent of the Americas.
Provinciae Sitae Ad Fretum Magallanis itemque Fretum Le Maire.
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This is Johannes de Laet's 1630 map of southern South America, from the southern bank of the Rio de la Plata in the north to Tierra del Fuego in the south. It was the work of the official chartmaker of the Dutch West India Company, Hessel Gerritsz; his was the best charting of the region available. It first appeared in De Laet's 1626 Beschrijvinghe van West-Indien with a Dutch title, Provincien van de Straet van Magallanes, ende vande Straet Le Maire. (The title and the labels for the three scales were altered on the copperplate for the 1633 Latin-text edition.) (more details)
One of the Earliest Colonial Maps of the North American East Coast.
Nova Anglia Novum Belgium et Virginia.
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A beautiful, original color example of Jan Jansson's 1636 map of the North American coastline from Cape Lookout (here identified as C. of Feare) to Nova Scotia. It offers some of the earliest depictions of the Chesapeake Bay, Delaware Bay, Manhattan Island, New Amsterdam, Long Island, and the Great Lakes. It is also among the first maps to accurately portray the position of Bermuda vis-a-vis the American coastline. (more details)
One of the Earliest Colonial Maps of the North American East Coast.
Nova Anglia Novum Belgium et Virginia.
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A beautiful first state example of Jan Jansson's 1636 map of the North American coastline from Cape Lookout (here identified as C. of Feare) to Nova Scotia. The map includes parts of modern-day North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, and Nova Scotia. Most particularly, it offers some of the earliest depictions of the Chesapeake Bay, Delaware Bay, Manhattan Island, New Amsterdam, Long Island, and the Great Lakes. It is also among the first maps to accurately portray the position of Bermuda vis-a-vis the American coastline. (more details)