De Nieuwe Groote Lichtende Zee-Fackel ,tweede und deerde deel

Amsterdam ,gedruckt voor Johannes Van Keulen 1680-90, 1680. Original vellum binding.Fine condition.  Folio (530x320 mm),two parts in one volumen.Dutch text, two engraved allegorical titles dated 168 . 169 . (1681-1695) after Johannes van Luyken, privileges and dedications, 183 pgs of text including many coastal profiles, harbour plans and 57 double page engraved sea charts.Original unsophisticated vellum binding that has been cleaned and restored.There is a light browning in some maps of the first part.Some Browning affecting the last three maps of the second part.The back vellum cover with a hole affecting the last page of text that has been restored. This atlas contains the part two and three of the Van keulen Zee Fackel covering the western european coasts from Holland to Gibraltar straits including Britain and Ireland. The western african coast is also represented with some higly decorative sea charts. This part includes 41 sea charts most of them first issue 1682 and one of the addition of 1695. The second part includes 16 sea charts covering the Mediterranean sea all of them of the 1682 issue besides the title page has the date 169 . probably 1695. Van Keulen established as printer in Ámsterdam in 1678 and obtained a privilege for 15 years from the States General of Holland to print and publish nautical atlases. Van Keulen collaborated with the geographer Claes Jansz Vooght and Johannes van Luyken. The Zee fackel was printed from 1681-82 onwards and had a tremendous success. These two parts that we offer were included with other three forming a five parts set with over 130 sea charts covering the whole world but many atlases were assembled to order for navigators, traders, merchants with geographical interests in specific áreas. Van Keulen complete atlases are nowadays very rare to find in the book market and in the same way is very unusual to find complete parts  like in this case with all maps and text. Ref .Schilder,De Vries, Van keulen cartography 2001 pgs 195-204. Koeman Keulen 57B, 87A.