The Great Atlas, Dutch edition (Amsterdam: Joan Blaeu, 1664-65) speakers: Benjamin Weiss, Leonard A. Lauder Senior Curator of Visual Culture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Steven Zucker
6:00 - they didn't give up *all* of the colony. They kept a certain amount which became the colony of Dutch Guyana that nowadays is the independent state of Surinam.
I find that historical monetary translations (this then, is worth this now) are very misleading but according to Pettegree and Weduwen in their "The Bookshop of the World" a copy with colored maps would cost between 430 and 460 gulden but some copies intended, for example, for Louis XIV or the Ottoman Sultan, could be much more lavish.
@@smarthistory-art-history Thank you for the information, and understood on the issues of currency conversion across multiple centuries. Just researching for fun, it looks like between 1618 and 1800, the value of one gulden was approx. 10 grams of silver. So, if the atlas set sold at 430 gulden X 10 g silver X $0.81 per g spot price today, then the value today would be approx. $3,483. Certainly not your average coffee table book!
Aww, my new crush is from the Netherlands. I take this as a good sign, lol. 🥰 But how fascinating. Smarthistory helped me appreciate how difficult to manufacture and precious books were. I can't imagine doing this from scratch, personally.
As a New Yorker, both New Netherland and New Amsterdam have a nice ring to them, but "New Amsterdam" is more commonly associated with the decent but low-cost spirits (gin and vodka) brand.
6:00 - they didn't give up *all* of the colony. They kept a certain amount which became the colony of Dutch Guyana that nowadays is the independent state of Surinam.
Fascinating.
Look at the blues on those oceans at the 1:00 mark. Awesome subject, more maps maybe
I have a rare map that's blue in parts.
Translated into today's U.S. $, approx. how much would this atlas set have cost upon its original release?
I find that historical monetary translations (this then, is worth this now) are very misleading but according to Pettegree and Weduwen in their "The Bookshop of the World" a copy with colored maps would cost between 430 and 460 gulden but some copies intended, for example, for Louis XIV or the Ottoman Sultan, could be much more lavish.
@@smarthistory-art-history Thank you for the information, and understood on the issues of currency conversion across multiple centuries. Just researching for fun, it looks like between 1618 and 1800, the value of one gulden was approx. 10 grams of silver. So, if the atlas set sold at 430 gulden X 10 g silver X $0.81 per g spot price today, then the value today would be approx. $3,483. Certainly not your average coffee table book!
@@smarthistory-art-history Good question; great answer!
@@smarthistory-art-history ok but how much is that in dogecoin?!
The Dutch, such clever people !! 👌🏻
Aww, my new crush is from the Netherlands. I take this as a good sign, lol. 🥰
But how fascinating. Smarthistory helped me appreciate how difficult to manufacture and precious books were. I can't imagine doing this from scratch, personally.
please talk about 'Pillar of Shame' statue in hongkong
Wikipedia in the 17th Century?
the Dutch started a colony in the north America...New York City!!!! They called it New Amsterdam.
I think they should rename it New Amsterdam again👍🏻
As a New Yorker, both New Netherland and New Amsterdam have a nice ring to them, but "New Amsterdam" is more commonly associated with the decent but low-cost spirits (gin and vodka) brand.
What would that set of map books be worth today.