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India Orien[talis]
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Good Confirmed: No Date Acquired: 1/1/2023 Dealers ID No.: 19239 Description: This map first appeared in the Asia section of CaertThresoor, the compact Dutch atlas published in 1598 under the imprint of Barent Langenes and distributed through the Amsterdam publisher Cornelis Claesz. Designed as an affordable, portable alternative…
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Atlas nouveau, contenant toutes les parties du monde, ou sont exactement remarquees les empires, monarchies, royaumes, etats, republiques
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Fair Date Acquired: 20/3/2023 Description: The design is a temple of antiquity, with the Sun King Louis XIV in the upper left on horseback, also known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand), king of France and of Navarra.nThe center figure has his French nickname "l' Hercule Francois",…
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This set of eight engraved globe gores was
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 19/6/2023 Description: This set of eight engraved globe gores was produced by Vincenzo Coronelli in Venice in 1688, forming part of the printed edition of his monumental terrestrial globes originally created for King Louis XIV of France. Designed for a globe measuring…
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India Orientalis
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Date Acquired: 1/1/2023 Dealers ID No.: 18074 Description: Cornelius Wytfliet, a geographer from Louvain, earned a Licentiate in Laws from the University of Louvain before moving to Brussels, where he served as secretary to the Council of Brabant. His Descriptionis Ptolemaicae Augmentum (Augmentation to…
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Melchisedech Thévenot was a French author, scientist, traveller,
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Dealers ID No.: 19090 Description: Melchisedech Thévenot was a French author, scientist, traveller, cartographer, orientalist, inventor, and diplomat. He was also a tireless scholar with an insatiable curiosity about the world. Among his many achievements, his 1663 publication of Relation de divers voyages curieux…
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Paskaart van den Eylanden Cheuxan Lowang en alle desselfs onderhoorige Eylande met alle dieptens, droogtens en ankergronden geleegen aen de kust…
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Date Acquired: 28/05/2023 Dealers ID No.: 19203 Description: The Van Keulen family was renowned for their significant contributions to mapmaking and atlas publishing. Their firm, In de Gekroonde Lootsman (In the Crowned Pilot), was established in 1678 by Johannes van Keulen I. In 1680,…
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Descriptio Novae Guinea et Inss. Salom.
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Fair Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 1/1/2023 Dealers ID No.: 19153 Description: This map of New Guinea (Nova Guinea) and the Solomon Islands (Insulae Salomonis) first appeared in the Magellanica section of Caert-Thresoor, the compact Dutch atlas published in 1598 under the imprint of Barent Langenes and distributed through…
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Nieuwe Archontologia Cosmica
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Fair Date Acquired: 11/3/2023 Description: The frontispiece to Merian's work is a pictorial representation of the continents with four figures grouped around a globe and with the title at the foot. The four figures are all female and are given labels designating their respective continent. At the top,…
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America
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Fair Date Acquired: 10/3/2023 Description: Second issue of Ogilby's English translation of Montanus's work, De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weerld, published in the same year. Complete as issued, with the Arx Carolina plate and the Virginia pars Australis & Florida map replaced with the large folding "First Lords Proprietors"…