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WAGHENAER, Lucas Janszoon (1533/4-1610). [ Pars Prima Speculum Nauticum super navigatione maris Occidentalis conspectus.] Pars Altera Speculi Marini. Amsterdam: Cornelis Claesz, 1591. 2 parts in one volume, 2° (413 x 290mm). Engraved and letterpress title to part II, three full-page illustrations, two engraved (one with overslips), the third woodcut, 47 engraved coastal charts, one folding, 46 double-page. (Title to first part and two following leaves supplied in photo facsimile, 5 charts browned due to over-inking.) Contemporary vellum over thin pasteboard, tooled in dutch-metal now oxidised to black, covers with central arabesque within a wide border, (small tears and light worming to extremities, lower outer corner of upper cover neatly reinforced). A fine collection of charts of Northern Europe. Waghenaer had started his working life at sea, and knew the requirements of pilots and seamen. In 1591 he published his Thresoor der Zeevaerdt , a small pocket-sized 'rutter' with detailed text and coast-profiles, which was more useful for practical purposes. The charts of the Speculum were a useful supplement to this. The work was first published in 1584-85 with Dutch text, and due to its popularity a number of editions followed, with text in Dutch or Latin. In 1591, the patent for the work passed to Claesz who published the present edition in the same year. Koeman IV. Wag 9B.