d. 1679
Son of Anthonie Jacobsz.
Anthonie Jacobsz founded a printing
and publishing business in Amsterdam in which he specialized in the
production of pilot books and sea atlases. As he died at a
comparatively early age most of the numerous editions of his works
appeared after his death published by his sons, Jacob and Caspar, who
took the name 'Lootsman' (sea pilot) to distinguish them from another
printer of the name Jacobsz.
Following Blaeu and Colom, Anthonie Jacobsz was the most important
compiler of sea charts in Amsterdam in the first half of the
seventeenth century. In his new ZeeSpiegel issued in 1643 he
increased the number of charts normally included in these books and
enlarged them to folio size, which evidently proved popular.
Editions in many forms appeared until 1715 and they were copied or
reprinted by Pieter Goos, Hendrick Doncker and Jan Jansson, sometimes
in competition with each other but usually in cooperation with the
Lootsman brothers.
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