This atlas contains forty-three charts, including a chart of the Straits of Dover (Number twelve). The chart of New York and New Jersey is considerably larger than the other charts in the atlases as it was probably published separately and included as a supplement upon request. The finely engraved chart details the east coast of America from New Amsterdam (New York) to the Delaware River.

Title page, sixteen pages of text, with index to charts; world map; forty-one double-page engraved charts in original outline hand-colour heightened in gold.

Pieter Goos was one of the best-known maritime booksellers of Amsterdam. His elegant sea atlas is based largely on Hendrick Doncker’s cartographical work of 1659. Goos was an engraver rather than a chartmaker. However, he declares on the titlepage that the atlas will be as beneficial to 'Heerenen Kooplieden' (gentlemen and merchants) as to 'Schippers en Stuurllieden' (pilots and seamen).

The title page bears the date 1675 and the imprint of Goos’ widow, who would run the business following her husband’s death. This particular copy has wonderfully fine hand-colour, heightened in gold. The binding is original and bears the embossed coat-of-arms of the Dutch Admiralty.

Goos was an engraver, bookseller, and publisher who produced a number of highly influential maritime atlases. Goos published his most famous work, the ‘Zee-

Double hemisphere world map

Frontispiece

Upper Atlantic ocean

North Sea

Baltic Sea

South Sea

Gulf between Holland and Texel

The Texel stream

Zeeland pt 1

Zeeland pt 2

Ocean around England/ North Sea

Ocean around England

Map of England

English Chanel

Atlantic Ocean around England

Atlantic Ocean

Atlantic Ocean around France

Atlantic Ocean around Portugal 

Mediterranean Sea around Spain

Mediterranean Sea

Barbaria' Atlantic Ocean around Africa

Mamora Bay, Capo Blanco, Porto Santo 

Tenerife

Guinea, Africa

Cabo Negro, Africa 

East Indies pt 1 (Yemen)

East Indies pt 2 (China)

Asia, Tataria 

Norway and Lapland

Ocean around Scandinavia 

Ocean around Greenland

Atlantic Ocean, West Coast of Greenland

Atlantic Oceana around the Americas

New Netherlands, East Coast of North America pt 1

New Netherlands, East Coast of North America pt 2

West Indies, Florida

Caribbean Islands

Brazil 

Magellanica, a fictional place in the Southern Hemisphere

Peru and Chile

California, as an island 

A sumptuous example of the 1675 edition of Pieter Goos’ masterpiece of Golden Age cartography with the arms of the Dutch Admiralty.

Folio, publisher’s vellum gilt, green ties, covers panelled with large corner arabesques, arms of the Dutch Admiralty to centre, spine gilt in compartments, each compartment with central rose tool.

The Sea-Atlas of the Water-World 

De Zee-Atlas Ofte Water-World Water 

Dutch Admiralty Copy of Goos’ ‘Zee-atlas’

showing the water of all the Sea-Coasts of the known world. A book to be of service to all Lords and Merchants, Shippers and Mates. Cut, printed and published in Amsterdam.

in vertoont werden alle de Zee-Kusten Van het bekende des Aerd-Bodems. Seer dienstigh voor alle Heeren en Kooplieden Is vock book alle Schippers en Stuurlieden. 