RIVER MAAS AND ROTTERDAM -- OTTENS, REINER AND JOSHUA.
RIVER MAAS AND ROTTERDAM -- OTTENS, REINER AND JOSHUA. Afbeeldinge van de Maes van de stadt Rotterdam tot in zee...Int licht gebracht door Jacob Quacq. Amsterdam: R. and J. Ottens, 1740. Engraved wallmap of the River Maas from Rotterdam to the Hook of Holland, on four sheets, overall size 500 x 1440mm; the title set at lower right corner in an elaborate "plinth" cartouche and supporting allegorical figures, the seas and river embellished with sailing craft, depiction of Neptune riding his sea horses, compass rose; together with an additional sheet with two views of the North side of the estuary of the Maas showing 's-Gravensande, all sheets with wide margins, deckle edges. A very fine set of Ottens map of the Navigation of the Maas below Rotterdam. The Ottens brothers based their map on the surveys of the postmaster of Rotterdam, Jacobus Quack in the 1660's. Quack's project was abandoned on his untimely death, but the Ottens brothers revived his work and issued this delightful river map. (5)
RIVER MAAS AND ROTTERDAM -- OTTENS, REINER AND JOSHUA.
RIVER MAAS AND ROTTERDAM -- OTTENS, REINER AND JOSHUA. Afbeeldinge van de Maes van de stadt Rotterdam tot in zee...Int licht gebracht door Jacob Quacq. Amsterdam: R. and J. Ottens, 1740. Engraved wallmap of the River Maas from Rotterdam to the Hook of Holland, on four sheets, overall size 500 x 1440mm; the title set at lower right corner in an elaborate "plinth" cartouche and supporting allegorical figures, the seas and river embellished with sailing craft, depiction of Neptune riding his sea horses, compass rose; together with an additional sheet with two views of the North side of the estuary of the Maas showing 's-Gravensande, all sheets with wide margins, deckle edges. A very fine set of Ottens map of the Navigation of the Maas below Rotterdam. The Ottens brothers based their map on the surveys of the postmaster of Rotterdam, Jacobus Quack in the 1660's. Quack's project was abandoned on his untimely death, but the Ottens brothers revived his work and issued this delightful river map. (5)
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