KEULEN Johannes van, VOOGHT Claes Jansz, “LE NOUVEAU & GRAND ILLUMINANT FLAMBEAU DE LA MER. LA TROISIESME PARTIE, DEMONSTRANT les Costes de Grenade, Murcie, Valance, Cathalogne, Languedoc, Provence, Italie, Dalmatie, Grece, Trace, Natholie, Sirie, d´Egipte, & toute la coste septentrionale de Barbarie, avec les Isles adjaçentes; les isles d´Yvica, Mjorca, Minorca, Corsica, Sardagne, Sicilia, & Malta, comme aussy les Iles de l´Archipel, & Cyprus”, Amsterdam, Imp. Jean van Keulen, 1720. Grand folio. Including 16 double-page rare charts of the Mediterranean and 94 pages with text in French in two columns. The charts are showing the coasts of Granada, Catalonia, Provence, Italy, Dalmatia, Greece, the Aegean, Cyprus and the northern coast of Barbary. Numerous woodcut coastal profiles and smaller detail charts in the text. Analytical list of the charts:

“Pas-caarte van de Middelandsche Zee”, numbered “I” Two Charts from Gibraltar to Italy & from Sicily to Cyprus, Zacharakis 1794 [Chart of Mediterranean harbors] numbered “II” 30 harbor charts Zacharakis 1794 “Nieuwe Paskaart Van de kust van Hispania”, numbered “III” Pascaart van de Zee Kusten van Granada en Murcia”, numbered “IIII” Paskaart... Barbaria... Catalonia... Yvica, Majorca, en Minorca”, numbered “V” Paskaart van de Zee Kusten van Valence, Catalonien”, numbered “VI” “... Zee Kusten van Provence, en Italiae... Corsica”, numbered “VII” “... Zee Kusten vant Eyland Sardinia...”, numbered “VIII” “Paskaart der Zeekusten van Italien... Sicilia...”, numbered “IX” “Pas kaart vande Zee-Kusten van Cicilia, Calabria, Graetia en Morea…”, Zacharakis 1792, numbered “XI” “... “Pas-caart vande Weder zytsche Zee- Kusten soo van Italia als van Dalmatia en Grieken in de Golf van Venetien…”, numbered “XII”, Zacharakis  1797 “Archipelagusche Eylanden”, numbered “XIII”, Zacharakis  1781 [Southern Aegean] “Paskaart van de Archipelagusche Eylanden”, numbered “XIV”, Zacharakis  1781 [Northern Aegean] “Archipelagusche Eylanden / Pontus Euxinus, Mare Nigrum, Mer Noire of de Swarte Zee / De Oostkust van I. Scio / De Golff van Smyrna”, numbered “XV” Zacharakis  1781 [North-East Aegean / Black Sea / Asia Minor] “Archipelagusche Eylanden”, numbered “XVI” Zacharakis  1781 [Dodecanese] “Middellantsche Zee... Caramania Cyprus...”, numbered “XVII” Zacharakis

The van Keulen family operated a chart-making and publishing firm in Amsterdam for nearly 200 years. Johannes van Keulen had the opportunity to obtain copperplates, privileges and stocks of many of his  competitors like Blaeu, Janssonius, Hondius as they had either closed down, or were at the end of their fame. Based on this material he produced between 1681 and 1684 the monumental  ZeeFakkel charting in five volumes and 137 charts the seas of the world.  

Here we offer the third part of a French edition of the Zee-Fakkel originally published in 1682 in Dutch with 17 charts. The "Le Grand & Nouveau Miroir ou Flambeau de la Mer" follows the prototype of pilot guides. Texts with navigation guidelines are followed by charts of the coasts. Chapters with sailing directions devoted to each section and woodcut coastal profiles are interspersed throughout the text.

The current copy includes the engraved title page, featuring a classical maiden holding a shield, bearing a cross and half fleur de lys, and a torch (the "Flambeau de la Mer") to illuminate the scenery. To the right are Mercury and Neptune examining a compass, and a female figure representing Geography with terrestrial and celestial globes. The part of the title text has been replaced by the current publication’s text “Imprime a Amsterdam par / Jean Van Keulen / Marchant Libraire de Cartes Marines / ou Hydrographique de Arballestrille & D Instruments pour la Navigation, Demeurant a L Orient du Pon neuf ou Pilotte Couronne, l’ 1720 / Avec Privilege pour 15 annees”

Binding: Full contemporary vellum. Condition. External: Lightly soiled, small part detached on lower corner, worn along edges and partly detached from thick paper covers. Interior: internal joint cracked but still firm, small spots on lower part of title page, light water-stain on first 10 sheets, spotting throughout, 2-3 small wormbook holes, more evident after pp.61. Loss of sheets outer white margin ~13x2.5cm slightly entering in engraved areas.