Covers the region Blankenberge - Sluis - Breskens - Aardenburg - Brugge.

Colom Jacob Aertsz. (Dordrecht, 1600 - Amsterdam, 1673)

Colom settled in Amsterdam in 1622, where he became a member of the booksellers' guild. He married Barbertge Jans, and later two of their children would also become booksellers. Their daughter, Johanna, married the Rotterdam bookseller Pieter van Alphen, and their son, Arnoud, born in 1623 or 1624, started his own shop in Amsterdam around 1650. Jacob Colom was a printer, bookseller, and mapmaker. He possessed an excellent entrepreneurial spirit, which placed him in competition with the then only nautical mapmaker in Amsterdam, Willem Janszoon Blaeu. In 1627, he bought a house on the same street where Blaeu lived, "Op 't Water" (Damrak 45), on the corner of Mandemakerssteeg. The house was named "De Vyerighe Colom", as was his nautical guide, published in 1632, which put him on hostile terms with Willem Blaeu. Colom didn't want to limit himself to publishing maritime works, but in 1635 also printed a small atlas of the Low Countries, also titled De Vyerighe Colom (...). In addition, by 1633, he had printed all of Coornhert's works. His business must have flourished; it is known that between 1632 and circa 1671, numerous editions of his mariner's guide were published in Dutch, French, and English. He is also known to have been active as a globemaker, although no copies of his globes have survived. They are mentioned in the inventory of goods of the Van Keulen publishing house, compiled in 1689.

After Colom's death, his personal belongings (printing presses, copper plates, and books) were auctioned on September 25, 1673. (Koeman)