HOLSTEIN GERMANY 1680 THEODORE DANCKERTS UNUSUAL ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED MAP

Description: Striking and highly detailed interesting 1680 approx. copper engraved map centered on Holstein, Germany. The map tracks the course of the Elbe River through Hamburg to the sea.  Other major towns shown include Lübeck, Kiel, Rendsburg,  and Bad Oldesloe. The  map notes cities, rivers, lakes, sandbanks, releifs, forests, islands and regional divisions. A large figurate title & mileage scales cartocuhe with putti & large armorial and a compass rose adorn the map.
 
Date: 1680 approx. ( undated )

Dimension: Paper size approx.: cm 58,6 x 49,4

Condition: Very strong and dark impression on good paper. Paper with chains and wiremarks. Map old original colored. All the margins missing. Small foxing and browning. Smal marginal tears. Map folded. Conditions are as you can see in the images.              

Mapmaker: Danckerts Family (fl. 1628 - 1717)
 
The Danckerts family (fl. 1628 - 1717) were a Dutch engraving and cartographic publishing firm active in Amsterdam during the latter half of the 17th and early 18th centuries. The firm was founded by Cornelis Dankerts II (1603-1656) and his brother Dancker Danckerts (1614-16?). Cornelius and Dancker published few maps, but did pass the business on to Cornelius' son Justus Danckerts (1635 - 1701) and grandsons Theodorus Danckerts (1663-1727) and Cornelius Danckerts III (1664-1717). The firm was most active in this period between 1680 and 1700 when a number of atlases and maps appeared bearing either the Justus Danckerts or Theodorus Danckerts imprint. At the time, it was in vogue in Amsterdam to leave maps undated, which makes Danckerts maps particularly difficult to ascribe. Similarly, there is a considerable corpus of maps signed as Cornelius Danckerts. When dated we can correctly attribute these to either Cornelius II or Cornelius III, though, typically, most are undated and consequently difficult to attach to the correct Danckerts family member. The Danckerts family is well known for its highly detailed and graphic engraving style. In addition to numerous atlas maps, they also produced a number of spectacular Dutch wall maps. In the early 18th century, the Danckerts map plates were purchased by R. and J. Ottens, who reprinted many of them under their own imprint. (Ref: Keuning, J., "Cornelis Danckerts and his "Niew Aerdsh Pleyn"", Imago Mundi, Vol. 12 (1955), pp. 136-139.).