Coloured, printed map of Bermuda, circa 1840 - 1880

Map of Bermuda after an original engraving by Abraham Goos, cartographer (Fl.1614-1643),  printed and sold by George Humble of London in 1626. This 19th century copy in a fine bird’s eye maple frame.
English, circa 1840 - 1880

Abraham Goos was an engraver and mapmaker who operated in Amsterdam. He learned his trade from Jodocus Hondius, his nephew by marriage and himself a prominent mapmaker. Goos did engravings for a number of prominent mapmakers of his day, including the Englishman John Speed (1551/52-1629) and Willem Blaeu’s rival Jans Janszoon (1588-1664). He published one of the first atlases of the Netherlands, Nieuw Nederlandtsch Caertboeck (1616).