Beschreibung:

WAGHENAER, LUCAS JANSZOON. Pars prima [- La deuxiesme partie] Du Miroir de la Navigation, de la Mer Occidentale, contenant toutes les costes de France, Espaigne, & la principale partie d'Angleterre, le tout comprins en plusieurs diverses Cartes Marines...par Lucas fils de Iean Chartier. De nouveau... augmenté, par Richard Slotboom. Antwerp: Jean Bellère, 1590. 2 parts in one vol., folio, contemporary vellum, covers with central gilt-blocked oval arabesque cartouche within gilt border, leafy ornaments at corners, smooth spine divided into six gilt panels, gilt-tooled bands, title lettered in ink, soiled, worn, vellum cracked at joints and creased on the covers, small gouge to upper cover, restoration to corners, head and tail of spine and fore-edges of covers, leather ties renewed, first title-page soiled, some soiling throughout, occasional light dampstaining, a few leaves discolored, a few marginal paper defects and repairs, 2 small holes to the "Compas tournant" engraving with loss of one ornament and 3 letters on verso and partial loss of another ornament and 4 other letters, the first chart cropped at lower border as usual, small hole through charts 3 and 4 deleting 3 letters of letterpress description, small wormhole to charts 7-14, one or two neatly repaired tears . FIRST FRENCH EDITION OF THE FIRST PRINTED PILOT BOOK TO INCORPORATE SEA CHARTS, two engraved titles with the French title printed on a slip of paper pasted down over the Spanish title (the second title-page with a second slip over the Latin "Pars Altera"), 47 double-page engraved coastal charts by Baptist and Johannes van Deutecom after Waghenaer, text printed on versos, chart 10 with the French captions printed on strips of paper pasted down over the original Dutch and Latin [?] descriptions, all in Koeman's state "d" except for plate 40 which is unnumbered and apparently from his "b" state, 2 full-page engraved diagrams, one with volvelle incorporating a paper strip for measuring degrees, 2 full-page woodcut diagrams, a few smaller woodcuts in the text, woodcut initials, type ornaments. In 1590 Bellère and Cornelis Claesz published 4 translations of Waghenaer's Spieghel der Zeevaerdt , in Dutch, Latin, French and Spanish, the charts being printed from the original copperplates of the first edition (1584-5), slightly reworked by Claesz. "This work holds a unique place among the printed rutters of the sea in the 16th century because it is the first printed rutter with charts... Thanks to the unparalleled skill of the engravers...the original ms. charts by Waghenaer were transformed into the most beautiful maps of the period"--Koeman IV, p. 496 and 490-91 (Wag 8A); The World Encompassed 183 (Harvard copy, Nicolas issue [Wag 8B]). Rare: apparently no copies have come up at auction in the past 60 or more years.