Together, a magnificent large-scale chart of the Indian and Pacific Oceans showing the complete route from the Cape of Good Hope across the Indian Ocean to Southeast Asia and Australia, the west coast of New Zealand, and across the Pacific to the Americas.

The mapmaker
Johannes Loots (1665-1726) was originally a nautical instrument maker, who worked in the same street as Johannes van Keulen and Hendrick Doncker. In the 1680s he served as an apprentice to Doncker. He was accepted into the Guild of Booksellers in 1693 and began publishing charts and atlases under his own name, flourishing in the competitive sea chart trade of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Loots published several sea atlases and separately issued charts.

The rise of the van Keulen firm who, by the start of the eighteenth century, dominated the Amsterdam chart business, probably led Loots to combine forces with Claes de Vries and Antoni de Winter to produce sea charts on a Mercator Projection, however the venture had foundered by 1707, with many of their plates being sold to van Keulen.