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GOOS, PIETER. The Lighting Colomne or Sea-Mirrour, Containing The Sea-Coasts of the Northern, Eastern and Western Navigation... Gathered out of the experience and practice of divers Pilots and Lovers of the famous Art of Navigation. 1662. 2 parts in one vol., title frayed at fore-margin, 2-inch repaired tear to lower margin of fol. C1, part 1, affecting catchword and last 3 lines of verso, outer edges of charts 5 and 21 and lower edges of charts 30 and 37 slightly cropped, a few small worm tunnels from quire H of part 2 to the end, with minor loss to charts and a few letters of text leaves, corner of chart 10 chipped with loss to chart number, corner of chart 50 repaired, the usual offsetting . Third English edition, printed title on pasted-down slip within full-page engraved pictorial border, 59 DOUBLE-PAGE ENGRAVED COASTAL CHARTS, 2 of them folding, 3 engraved maps in the text and one engraved view, volvelles on fols. B3v ( creased ) and C4v of part 1, the first with additional printed moveable slip, the 3-page Almanack dated 1664-71. [ with ] The Lighting Colom of the Midland-Sea, Containing A Description of all the knowne Coasts, Islants, Sands, Depthes, and Roads, beginning from the narowest, of the Streat, unto Alexandrette in the Levant [ie., the Third Part of the Lighting Colomne ]. 1669. Fore-edge margin of title-leaf repaired, minuscule hole to one leaf of chart 1, borders of 7 charts shaved with slight loss to the image or numbering of 3 of them (nos. 5, 24 and 25), 3 1/2 inch tear to final leaf Q4 with loss to woodcuts and text, mostly marginal dampstaining , only English edition by Goos, title printed within engraved allegorical border with vignette of ships, 24 DOUBLE-PAGE ENGRAVED COASTAL CHARTS, and one full-page chart, 35 woodcut maps in text; both Amsterdam: Pieter Goos, together 3 parts in 2 vols., folio, 450 x 280mm. (17 3/4 x 11 1/8in), modern calf, a few short marginal tears, chipped corners or small holes, some repaired, a few charts and text leaves creased, some foxing and browning, particularly to part 3 , numerous woodcut coastal profiles, diagrams, initials and ornaments in the text. "Pieter Goos's Zeespiegel was not an original work. In or shortly before 1650, he obtained the plates from Theunis [or Anthonie] Jacobsz or his sons and printed the charts...from them, after having cut the plates ca. 1 1/2 cm. at the right side, sometimes at the top and bottom as well...The text too was almost literally borrowed from Jacobsz' Zeespiegel of 1644... For his Straetsboeck [the chart book of the Mediterranean], being the third part of the Zeespiegel , Pieter Goos copied the text from Lootsman's Straetsboeck , but...did not buy Lootsman's plates but had his own made"--Koeman, IV, p. 201, and Goos 35 and Goos 45 (pp. 211-12 and 216-17); Wing C 5403 (erroneously attributing the work to Jacob Aertsz Colom and misspelling the title), citing 2 copies (Admiralty Office Library and Edinburgh University. Provenance : One or two marginal pencil annotations in part 1, eighteenth-century manuscript addition to the altitude chart on A4v of part 3; Admiralty Office Library, ink-stamps on title and last page of part 3. (2)