Hendrick Donckert Composite Sea Atlas. c. 1672–1690. With 49 handcoloured sea charts. Rare charts of the Americas, Bay of Bengal and East India. Atlas with 49 handcoloured double-page sea charts by renowned Dutch bookseller and mapmaker Hendrick Doncker. Worn vellum binding. Without title page. Some maps slightly detached from spine. Some prominent maps in these volume include: 'Pascaart vertoonende de zeecusten van Chili, Peru, Hispania Nova, Nova Granada, en California.' Amsterdam. Presumably 1660. Showing California as an island, containing an insert of New Zealand, Japan and Yedso [Hokkaido]. Second state, with Yucatan shown. + 'Pascaerte vande Caribische Eylanden, vande Barbados tot aende Bocht van Mexico.' Amsterdam. (1659). First state. Shows the eastern coast of the Americas from the Venezuelan coastline to Virginia, and Caribbean islands. Cartouche with the figure of a Native American. + 'Pas Caert van Nieu Nederland, Virginia en Nieu Engelant.' Amsterdam. (1660). + 'De golf van Bengala'. Amsterdam. (c. 1689). + 'Pas-caert van't Oostelyckste Deel van Oost Indien, met alle de Eylanden daer onder gelegen, van Cabo Comorin tot aen Japan'. Amsterdam. (c. 1669). + 'De Custen van Noorwegen, Finmarken, Laplandt, Spitsbergen'. Amsterdam. (c. 1665). Also contains numerous charts of Europe, the British Isles and Africa. All maps without dates. On maps with dates these have been erased or painted over. Some maps numbered between 1 and 60. Without double-hemisphere map by de Wit seen in some sea-atlases. Hendrick Doncker (1626–1699). Dutch bookseller and publisher of sea charts and atlases. Based in Amsterdam, he operated his shop for fifty years and produced a large volume of exceptionally fine and original maps. Doncker consistently revised his charts. In 1659 he published the renowned 'De Zee-Atlas ofte Water-Waereld' with 19 charts. Throughout the next decade this was consistently revised and culminated in an edition with 50 maps in 1669. Provenance: Possibly the 'Blaeser' family of Dragør, Denmark which traces its heritage back to the 1500s.
