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7. Thirteen copies (mounted or in separate sheets) are now known; see ibid., 127 n. 547.
8. Peters (ibid., 141) mentions two copies in the Netherlands (at university libraries in Amsterdam and Utrecht) and two in St. Petersburg, Russia (at the Academy of Science library and the Russian National Library). There is, ho- wever, a fifth copy whose present location is unknown. It was on loan from
the antiquarian bookseller A. W. M. Mensing (1866–1936) to the Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum in Amsterdam in the 1920s; then Mensing withdrew a part of his collection from the museum, including this book. After his death
it was auctioned by Sotheby’s in London. See Verzameling-Mensing in het Scheepvaartmuseum te Amsterdam: Bibliotheek (Amsterdam: Frederik Muller & Co., 1923), 2:365, no. 2762; and The Mensing Library . . . formed by the late Mr. Ant. W. M. Mensing of Amsterdam, 2 vols. (London: Sotheby’s, 1936–37), 1:169, lot no. 611.
9. Peters, “Mercator Sapiens,” 139.
10. The stay in the Netherlands was interrupted by a three-month visit to England in early 1698.
11. Peters, “Mercator Sapiens,” 138–39.
12. Nicolaas Witsen, Noord en Oost Tartaryen. Behelzende eene beschryving van verscheidene Tartersche en nabuurige gewesten . . . (Amsterdam: M. Scha- lekamp, 1785).
13. Gebhard, Het Leven, 2:159, 161, 197.
14. Peters, “Mercator Sapiens,” 60–61.
15. Gebhard, Het Leven, 1:350.
16. Witsen, Aeloude en Hedendaegsche Scheeps-bouw, 2, and appendix 9,
col. 2.
17. Louis Th. Lehmann, Witsen en de Oudheid (Amsterdam: De Gouden
Reaal, 1995), and Lehmann (On?)kritische wetenschap in de 17e eeuw (Amster- dam: De Gouden Reaal, 1995).
18. A complete overview of Witsen’s prints, maps, and book illustrations are in Christiaan Schuckman, Ilja M. Veldman, and Jeroen de Scheemaker, Holl- stein’s Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings, and Woodcuts, ca. 1450–1700, vol. 53, Frederick de Wit to Lieven de Witte, ed. Dieuwke de Hoop Scheffer (Rot- terdam: Sound & Vision, 1999).
19. Peters, “Mercator Sapiens,” 114.
20. Marieke van Delft and Clemens de Wolf, Bibliopolis: Geschiedenis van het gedrukt boek in Nederland (Zwolle: Waanders, 2003), 72–73. Available in English at www.bibliopolis.nl/handboek; see “1585–1725: Hey-day as centre of world trade,” sec. 2.2.3, “Relation between publisher and author” (accessed August 27, 2008).
21. Peters, “Mercator Sapiens,” 116.
22. G. Asaert et. al., eds., Maritieme Geschiedenis der Nederlanden, 4 vols. (Bussum: Unieboek, 1976–78), 2:141, 144.
23. Isabella H. van Eeghen, De Amsterdamse boekhandel, 1680–1725, 5 vols. (Amsterdam: H. J. Duyvisfonds, 1960–87), 3:78; and M. M. Kleerkoper and W. P. van Stockum, De Boekhandel te Amsterdam, voornamelijk in de 17de eeuw, 2 vols. (The Hague: Van Stockum, 1914–16), 2:1234.
24. Van Delft and de Wolf, Bibliopolis, 82. Available in English at www .bibliopolis.nl/handboek; see “1585–1725: Hey-day as centre of world trade,” sec. 2.2.10, “Financing, print-runs and prices” (accessed November 12, 2010).
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