Pieter van der Aa
Pieter van der Aa , also Peter van der Aa (* 1659 in Leiden ; † August 1733 there ) was a Dutch printer , publisher and bookseller .
Life
Pieter van der Aa was the son of from Holstein originating stonemason Boudewijn Pietersz. van der Aa, who moved to Leiden in 1659. In 1677 Pieter van der Aa was accepted into the booksellers' guild. He ran an important bookseller's business in Leiden with his two brothers, the book printer Boudewijn and the engraver and prospectus draftsman Hillebrand , since 1682. His first marriage was on September 9, 1685 with Elisabeth Pechlinus, daughter of the Lutheran pastor Johannes Pechlinus, and on November 16, 1697 in his second marriage with Anna Maria Croessen of Amsterdam. In 1714 he joined Leiden's printer's guild. The following year, 1715, he became a city printer. Not much later he also got the job of university printer.
Pieter van der Aa's very qualitative scientific editions were important. Between 1703 and 1706 he published Jean Leclerc's ten-volume edition of the works of Erasmus of Rotterdam , for which his brother Hillebrand designed the title page. He also published botanical, medical and ancient science works, including the thesauri by Jakob Gronovius and Johann Georg Graevius as well as other works by the latter. In 1698 he also printed “Paradisus Batavus”, a plant atlas by the Dutch botanist Paul Hermann . This pressure is said to have persuaded the German plant and ornithologist Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach to name an orchid species " Aa ". However, this explanation is controversial.
In his day, Pieter van der Aa was especially famous for atlases with copperplate engravings depicting cityscapes. In some cases he copied these engravings in great detail from Matthäus Merian . He proceeded in a similar way with maps for his atlases, of which above all his Africa maps with detailed illustrations of z. B. Morocco or Madagascar became popular. He also edited collections of travelogues. A very extensive series work published by him, but already little appreciated in the 19th century, was his Galerie Agréable du Monde , which was created with the participation of important engravers such as Luyken and Goeree and published in 1728 in 66 parts , which contains maps, topographical images and zoological illustrations on over 3000 engraved plates and contains botanical content. Only 100 copies of this enormous work were probably printed.
In 1729 Pieter van der Aa published a sales catalog of his publishing house, in the foreword of which he stated that for reasons of age he was no longer able to pursue his profession as agile as before and that he wanted to sell his holdings at moderate prices. As a result, he retired from his printing business and died in his hometown in 1733. A new sales catalog for his library, now much smaller, was published in 1735.
Published atlases
- Nouvel Atlas
- Agréable du Monde gallery in 66 parts, Leiden, 1728
- F. Draakx schipvaart door de straat en Zuyd Zee gedaan om de gantsen aardkloot , Leiden, 1706-08. [16 × 23.6 cm]
- Zee-togten by Thomas Candys na de West India, en van daar rondom den gantzen aardkloot gedaan .
- T Noorder deel van America. Door C..Kolumbus in zyn .. , Leiden, 1706-08 [16 × 23.6 cm]
- America of de Nieuwe Weereld Aller eerst Door C. Columbus , Leiden, 1705
- Niew Engeland in twee Scheeptogten door ... John Smith ... , Leiden, 1705
- De voor Eylanden van America ... Florida, New Mexico, ... Leiden, 1705
- T Vaste Land van Darien ten Zuiden Cuba en Hispaniola Gelege , Leiden, 1705
- Cuba en Jamaica, soo as the door Kolombus , Leiden, 1705
- Reys togt door Thomas Coryat van Jerusalem , Leiden, 1705
- De zee en land-reysen vandenridder Hendrik Blunt , Leiden, 1705
- Melite Insula vulgo Malta , Leiden, 1712
- Valetta Civitas Nova Maltae olim Millitae , Leiden, 1712
Other published works
- Versameling the most memorable Zee en Land Reysen na East and West India , 28 vols., Leiden, 1707; New edition 8 vols., Leiden, 1727
- Icones arborum, fructicum et herbarum exoticarum , undated
- Sébastien Vaillant , Botanicon Parisiense , Leiden, 1723 (with engravings by Claude Aubriet )
- Jakob Gronovius , Thesaurus Antiquitatum graecarum , 13 vols., Leiden, 1697–1702
- Johann Georg Graevius , Thesaurus Antiquitatum romanorum , Utrecht, 12 vols., 1694–1699
- Johann Georg Graevius, Thesaurus Antiquitatum et Historiarum Italiae , 30 vols., Leiden, 1704–1723
- Johann Georg Graevius, Thesaurus Antiquitatum et Historiae Siciliae , 15 vols., Leiden, 1723–1725
- Erasmus of Rotterdam , Opera omnia , Leiden, 10 vols., 1703–1706
- Johann (John) Potter, Archaeologia Graeca, sive Veterum Graecorum, praecipue vero Atheniensium, Ritus Civiles, Religiosi, Militares et Domestici, fusius explicati per Joannem Potterum, 1702
literature
- Aa (Pierre van der) . In: Nouvelle biography générale , vol. 1 (1852), col. 1f.
- Aa (Pieter Boudewijnszn. Van der) , in: Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek (NNBW), 1st vol. (1911), p. 7f. ( online ) (Dutch)
- Aa, Pieter van der , in: Meyers Großes Personenlexikon , Lexikonteil S. 1, Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim 1968
Web links
- Literature by and about Pieter van der Aa in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Aa, Pieter van der |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Aa, Peter van der |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch printer and publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1659 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leiden , Netherlands |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 1733 |
| Place of death | Suffer |