This attractive sea chart by Hendrik Doncker was first published in the ‘Zee-Atlas’ in 1672 and is so dated. It illustrates the English Channel from the Cherbourg Peninsula to the tip of Brittany and the south coast of England from Portland Bill to the Isles of Scilly. Earlier charts of this portion of the French coast rarely included so much of the English coastline. The Channel Islands are again disproportionately displayed, especially ‘Ornay’ (Alderney).Doncker (1626- 99), registered as a bookseller at 21 years-old and became one of the most active publishers of sea charts and atlases in the second half of the century. He was the first to follow Arnold Colom with a comprehensive sea atlas. The first edition of the ‘Zee-Atlas’ appeared in 1659, of which no surviving example is known. Doncker is known to have been in partnership with Goos and Lootsman on the ‘Zeespiegel’; however, the ‘Zee-Atlas’ was entirely his own production. Provenance: Robert Putman 1986; private Jersey collection. Koeman (1967-70 IV Don 14 & 20 no. 19.