Creator Bio
Hendrik Doncker
1626–1699
Hendrick Doncker (also known as Henri Donker) was a Dutch bookseller and publisher of sea charts and nautical atlases. He was active in Amsterdam in the mid-seventeenth century. Unlike other cartographers, he did not copy earlier maps but created his own, original maps.
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Map of Suriname
By the time this sea pilot’s map of Suriname was created in 1680, there was a well-established Jewish community there. In the 1660s, Jewish communities arose on the Caribbean islands of Martinique…