One of the Earliest Printed Maps of Holland Produced in the Low Countries

On either side columns depicting the manner of dress in the major countries of Europe, surmounted by nine city views and plans.For European mapmakers their own continent contained few mysteries or secrets by the seventeenth century. However, the mythical island of Frisland still appears between Iceland and Greenland. The map is decorated with ships and a sea monster on the sea, bears on northern Russia, and lions on North Africa.

With a large title cartouche with signature of the maker Adriaan van der Ende, : Kaerte en Afbeeldinge vande Geheele Jurisdictie van Stantdarbuyten Gelegen in de Generaliteit onder Marquisaet van Bergen op den Zoom, gemaekt, en in den Jare van 1733, 1734, 1735 gemeten by my ondergetz… Willemstadt den 8 Julij 1737 Adr: van Enden.Adriaan van de Ende was a surveyor, appointed by the Council of Brabant in 1720, then living in Heyningen. Was later living and active in Willemstad.Other manuscript m...