CAERT-THRESOOR

stein verloren waren gegaan, zag de uitgever zich genoodzaakt
een geheel nieuwe editie te verzorgen, de
Nieuwe atlas der wereld, die voor het eerst in 1864 verscheen
(Koeman II, Kuy 1, 2a, B, C, Kuy 3).
13. Van de kaart van Nederland uit de eerste uitgave bestaan
twee staten. Op de vroegste staat, gedateerd 1851, waarvan
een los exemplaar in de Coll. Bodel Nijenhuis (Port 4 N18),
ontbreekt de reliëftekening in Utrecht en Gelderland. De latere
staat met het jaar 1852 is in de atlas opgenomen.
14. D. Henze, Enzyklopädie der Entdecker und Erforscher der
Erde. Band 3. Graz, 1993, blz. 10 en 11 met opgave van de
literatuur, waaraan Frijlink de gegevens over Kanes ontdekkingstocht
ontleend kan hebben.
15. Eerste tot en met vijfde uitgaven door Frijlink: Koeman II
(I969), blz. 111-115, Frij 3 tot en met Frij 7; zesde tot en
met achtste uitgaven door Noothoven van Goor: Koeman
II (1969), blz. 115-116, Frij 8 en Frij 9 en Koeman VI
(1985), blz 157, Frij A8.
16. PJ. Veth, Populaire aardrijkskunde in ons vaderland. In:
De Gids 16 (1852), blz. 529-561 en Idem, Nieuwe kaarten
en atlassen. In: De Gids 19 (1855), blz. 158-198. Met dank
aan Paul van den Brink die mij wees op de bespreking in
Vaderlandsche Letteroefeningen. Eerste stuk (1856), blz.
276-283.
SUMMARY
The Nieuwe Hand-atlas der Aarde (1855) by Hendrik
Frijlink: a Dutch Stieler in statu nascendi
About 1710 the great atlas tradition in the Netherlands had
come to an end. Thereafter mainly composite atlases, relying
partly on material inherited from the previous century, were
published. The first half of the 19th century had nothing at all
in this field that deserved mention. Then, about 1850, this
situation changed rapidly through the contribution of three
mapmakers: Jaeger, Frijlink and Kuijper.
The Nieuwe Hand-Atlas der Aarde by the bookseller and publisher
Hendrik Frijlink of Amsterdam, first issued in four instalments
from 1851 to 1855 in 24 maps, occupied a special
position within this development because of its remarkable
high quality of its production as well as with respect to content.
In addition to being publisher Frijlink may also be considered
as editor and even, in the case of some maps, as cartographer.
For the making of the maps which were still
reproduced by copper engraving, he managed to employ the
best engravers of those days: father and three sons Veelwaard,
Zürcher, Tuyn and Van Baarsel.
The atlas ran through eight editions, of which the first five
were published by Frijlink himself from 1851 to 1868. He spared
no pains to emend his maps again and again with a lot of
insets and new data, e.g. railways. His biggest concern was
the constant change of political frontiers especially in Central
Europe, by which every new edition was always out of date.
At the final auction of his stock in 1869 the copperplates came
into the hands of the Leiden publisher Noothoven van Goor,
who took care of still another three editions.
At the time when the eyes of the learned public in the
Netherlands were being gradually opened to what was going
on in the field of the geographical sciences abroad, the atlas
by Frijlink took a remarkable lonely and prominent position
in the slow starting atlas publishing. As an example of a handatlas,
meant for the general cultured public - as a Dutch Stieler
in statu nascendi - this atlas by Frijlink was not succeeded until
far into the 20th century, in contradiction to the dozens of
school atlases, which started to be published from about I860.
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