This volume contains the lectures by Dirk de Vries, Library of the University of Leiden, Peter van der Krogt, researcher on history of cartography at the University of Utrecht and Jan Smits, Koninkliijke Bibliotheek at the Hague, on occasion of the celebration of the fourth course on the history of cartography dedicated to Cartography of the Netherlands.

The course outline is as follows:

• Official cartography in The Netherlands, by Dirk de Vries.
• Commercial cartography in the Netherlands with particular reference to atlas production (16th-18th centuries), by Peter van der Krogt.
• For pleasure and support (bis dat qui cito dat), by Jan Smits.