Hendrick Doncker (1626 – 1699)
was a Dutch bookseller and publisher of sea-charts and nautical atlases active in Amsterdam who started at the age of 22 years and ran his shop successfully for fifty years. He lived in the „Nieuwe Bruchsteech“ which is mentioned in many of his maps. Doncker published his first „Zee-Atlas“ in 1659. In addition to producing his own charts he also collaborated with Pieter Goos and Theunis Jacobsz in the production of the pilot guide „Zee-Spiegel“. Following his death, Doncker‘s remaining stock of maps and plates were acquired by Johannes van Keulen.
Doncker was somehow unique to this period in that he did not copy the work of earlier cartographers, instead producing his own maps. Moreover his charts were widely admired for their constant revision and overall accuracy.
Map Details
This is Hendricks Doncker‘s 1680 chart of the North Atlantic, in its second, 1693 state. It is extremely rare.
Comments by the collector
I bought this map from „Geographicus“. According to the description only three examples are cataloged in OCLC Online Computer Library Center, two in „Biblioteca Nacional de Espana“ (1680, 1693) and one in Universiteit Van Amsterdam (1693).