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  • This set of three engraved globe gores was

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    Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Date Acquired: 7/5/2023 Dealers ID No.: 19197 Description: This set of three engraved globe gores was produced by Vincenzo Coronelli in Venice in 1688, forming part of the printed version of his monumental terrestrial globes originally created for King Louis XIV of France. Designed…

  • Australian Agricultural Company – Acts of Parliament

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    Acquired From: Harbeck Rare Books Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 21/2/2014 Description: The Australian Agricultural Company (AACo.) was formally established by an Act of the British Parliament, enacted on 21 June 1824 under the citation 5 Geo. IV c. 86. This foundational legislation granted the newly incorporated company broad powers and authorities…

  • Two allegorical glass paintings. One depicting the continents

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    Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: 3/10/2024 Date Acquired: 16/9/2020 Description: Two allegorical glass paintings. One depicting the continents of America and Africa. The other represents the continents of Europe and Asia. nFrom Leen email: The glass paintings are in early frames that go back to 1820-30, but the glass paintings themselves…

  • Novus Planiglobii Terrestris per Utrumque Polum Conspectus

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    Acquired From: Leen Helmink Confirmed: No Description: map showing the world on a polar projection was the final world map executed by Johannes Blaeu in circa 1672. A tragic fire destroyed the Blaeu company that same year before the map was published. The plate itself survived and was acquired by Gerald Valck, who replaced Blaeu's…

  • Le Theatre du monde, ou novvel atlas

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    Acquired From: Paulus Swaen Colouring: Coloured Condition: Fair Confirmed: No Date Acquired: 2022 Description: Following the death of Willem Blaeu in 1638, his son Joan Blaeu expanded and refined the familys atlas project, culminating in the monumental Atlas Maior. The origins of this enterprise, however, extend back several decades. In 1599, after briefly studying with…

  • Atlas historique Tome IV

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    Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Description: Henri Abraham Châtelain in conjunction with his father Zacharie and brother Zacharie junior produced the Atlas historique under several different Chatelain imprints, depending on the Chatelain family partnerships at the time of publication.nIt was published in seven volumes: Volume 1 in 1705, volumes 2 and 3 (volume 2, second…

  • ‘t Wester Deel van Oost Indien Streckende van C. de bona Esperance tot Ceylon (and) ‘t Ooster Deel van Oost Indien Streckende van Ceyon tot Iapan…

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    Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 11/7/2024 Dealers ID No.: 43304 Description: This sea chart of the Indian Ocean, engraved and published by Hendrick Doncker in Amsterdam in 1660, forms the western sheet of a two-part composition depicting the maritime expanse of the East Indies. It spans from the…

  • The Four Elements

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    Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 7/12/2021 Description: This striking series by Stefano della Bella visualises the classical elementsEarth (Terra), Water (Aqua), Air (Aer), and Fire (Ignis)through richly detailed allegorical landscapes and seascapes, rendered in the refined etching technique for which della Bella was renowned. The inscription Stefano…

  • Four Elements

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    Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Fair. Backed onto paper sheet Confirmed: 4/10/2024 Date Acquired: 9/12/2021 Description: A series of the Four Elements after Hendrick Goltzius.n''Terra (Earth)''nA hunter with two dogs in a mountain landscape. Below the image are two lines of Latin verse: Hunc leporem ac reliquas pecudes Terra alma ministrat / In…

  • Descripcion de las Indias Ocidentalis

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    Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: 4/10/2024 Date Acquired: 25/11/2015 Dealers ID No.: WBL028 Description: In 1571, King Philip II commissioned Juan Lopez de Velacso to compile a comprehensive account of Spains overseas territories. Four years later, Velacso completed his Universal geography and description of the Indies (Geografía y descripción universal de…