Description Medium: Engraving on hand-laid (verge) paper. Sheet size: 58.5 x 46.5 cm (23.03 x 18.31 inch). Condition: good, given age. Light foxing, creasing and soiling. Several small tears in top and bottom paper edge. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully. RIJNLAND, DUTCH WATER MANAGEMENT, HAARLEMMERMEER, POLDER MAPS, 18TH-CENTURY CARTOGRAPHY, HYDROLOGICAL MAPS, DUTCH ENGINEERING, ISAAK TIRION, MELCHIOR BOLSTRA BACKGROUND INFORMATION Published by Isaak Tirion, based on original maps by Dou and Broeckhuysen (1647), revised by Bolstra (1745). State: Third corrected state. Reference: Donkersloot-De Vrij 715. Biography engraver: David Coster (1686-1752) is a Dutch painter and engraver. He was the first western artist to illustrate the Arabian Nights. In 1701 the orientalist Antoine Galland published a translation from Arabic into French of “The Voyages of Sindbad”. He also found a manuscript of stories known as “Alf Layla wa Layla”, or “A Thousand and One Nights”. His translation, published in 12 volumes in the years 1704-1717 was a great success all over Europe. Between 1714 and 1730 a series of pirate editions of Galland’s translation was printed in The Hague. Each of the 12 volumes had a frontispiece by David Coster. Biography artist: Melchior Bolstra (1703/1704-1779) was a Dutch surveyor, who was employed by the Rijnland Water Board for 45 years. He also published a very large number of maps from regions outside the Rhineland.
