[Netherlands. Keizer/ De Lat/ Ottens] Nieuw en accuraat geographies kaart-boekje

van de VII Nederlandse Provincien [met pen veranderd in XVII] (...). Opgestelt door Jacob Keyzer tot Almelo. Amsterdam, R. & I. Ottens, n.d. (1753), engraved title page followed by 25 handcoloured double-page and folding engraved maps and 2 "Steedewyzers", contemporary half sheepskin, thin 8vo (besides a few minor defects a very good copy).

With lovely subtitle: "Seer dienstig voor de geenen die de provincien begeerig zyn om door te reyzen en alles zeer nauwkeurig willen bezien, het zy op wagens te paart of in schuyten varen, of die te voet gaan, ook voor die geene die op haare comptoren of kamers sitten, om voort te kunnen zien hoe de provincien aan malkander zyn gelegen Nauwkeurig opgestelt na de beste gemeten en nieuste kaarten die daar van zyn te vinden. De liefhebbers moeten gedagtig zyn dat dit werkje zal vergroot worden met de tien Roomsch Katolyke provincies." That final line is of importance for identification of the copy and an explanation for the "X" added by hand. In this form (Koeman Ott 8, complete with the 10 southern provinces) the atlas is very rare, also of separate editions of the first 7 provinces few copies are known. PiCarta lists the date 1745 for the publication of the 7 northern provinces ("opgestelt en uitgegeven door Jacob Keyzer tot Almelo") and 1725-1750 for all provinces together. The maps appeared at wildly varying times, as shown by advertisements with their publication (V.d. Krogt, Advertenties 599 & 1012). Almelo resident Jacob Keizer (active 1703-1747) originally engraved the maps for Jan de Lat (active 1731-1747) in nearby Deventer. Reinier and Josua Ottens advertised a Keizer map already in 1747 (V.d. Krogt, Advertenties 927). The current atlas in this form was advertised in 1753 (V.d. Krogt, Advertenties 1012). The address on the engraved title has been visibly altered ("opgestelt en uitgegeven" replaced with "opgestelt"), below which the address of Ottens has been added. Considering the "X" added in hand and the preservation of the announcement that the 10 southern provinces were to follow later, the alteration of the title itself was of less importance to Reinier and Josua Ottens, while their edition of those 10 was probably the first (as far as we could trace, no copies of the addition published by Keizer himself exist).