Leen Helmink Antique Maps
Antique map of Manilla Bay by Pieter van der Aa
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Stock number: 18829
Zoom ImageCartographer(s)
Pieter van der Aa (biography)
Title
La Baie de Manille
First Published
Leiden, 1713
Size
18.5 x 17.0 cms
Technique
Condition
excellent
Price
This Item is Sold
Description
Exceptionally rare chart by Pieter van der Aa. Many depth soundings in fathoms. In vibrant original colour.
Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733)
Records show that van der Aa, born in Leiden in 1659, made an early start in life by being apprenticed to a bookseller at the age of nine and starting his own in business as a book publisher by the time he was twenty-three.
During the following fifty years he published an enormous amount of material including atlases and illustrated works in every shape and size, two of them consisting of no less than 27 and 28 volumes containing over 3,000 maps and plates.
(Moreland & Bannister).
