“100 IMPORTANT ITEMS” - Kunstantikvariat Pama AS

45. (H. SCHOLEUS) - FREDERICK DE WIT
“Berga Noorwegiæ”
Engraved view, 31,5x47cm
AMSTERDAM (1588) - c. 1694
A RARE ISSUE OF THE “SCHOLEUS VIEW”.
The “Scholeus-Bergen” copper plate was engraved c. 1588 and had a long lifetime. After last issue in the “original state” from c. 1617, it was sold
to Janssonius c.1653 and published in his “Illustriorum...Urbium tabulae” in 1657. The plate was partly re-engraved mainly as far as the clouds are
concerned. The central cartouche and the ships were also altered and there is now a person hanging in the gallow! After Janssonius’ death in 1664,
the plate went in the possession of his son-in-law, Johannes Waesberghe and his stock of plates were later sold in auction. Most of them (including
Bergen) were bought by the map publisher in Amsterdam, Frederick de Wit. Bergen was re-issued c. 1694 with his imprint lower right. There
is also a plate issue from c. 1729 by Van der Aa (see Kunstantikvariat PAMA’s catalogue 16 no. 252 and W.B. Ginsberg “Maps and Mapping of
Norway 1602 - 1855“ pages 90-91).
Excellent condition with wide margins.
(Ref: A. Brinkmann jr. “Scholeus-Prospekter i senere trykk” (in Bergens Historiske Forening Skrifter 79/80) Scholeus IV (the third state), “Old” Koeman - see volume II, page 11
under Braun Hogenberg)
20 000,-
(€2325)
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