Stunning Dutch Chart
Barbados, St. Lucia, Martinique, Dominica, Antigua, St. Kitts, and Nevis

Van Keulen, c1684 :
Paskaart van de Caribes... Excellent. 20 x 23 inches. $2200.

The van Keulen firm enrolled in the booksellers' guild in 1678, and continued to publish for over two centuries, through 1885. Early in their enterprise a ``mathematical practitioner'' by the name of Claas Jansz Vooght was hired to design charts for their sea-atlas Usually the most highly regarded mapmakers were retained by the Dutch East India Company; but when Joan Blaeu II resigned his post as hydrographer with the Company in 1704, Joannes was not hired in his place. A decade later his son Gerard, having proven himself competent to create his own charts, was given the honor of that position.