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  • Four Elements

    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…

  • Petermann Australia Maps

    Condition: Excellent Description: Nine folding maps (18591871), bound as an atlas of Australian exploration from Petermann's Journal, along with a two-part folded map of Southern Australia stored in the back sleeve.nAugustus Heinrich Petermann was a distinguished 19th-century German cartographer, renowned for his detailed maps documenting various explorations, including those in Australia. In the 1840s, he…

  • La Seconde Table Generale Selon Ptol

    Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: 3/10/2024 Date Acquired: 9/3/2021 Dealers ID No.: 18787 Description: Sebastian Münster was a German mapmaker, cosmographer and professor of Hebrew at the University of Basel. Among his notable works was the Latin edition of Claudius Ptolemys Geography, first published in Basel in 1540. This edition included…

  • The Australian Sketchbook by S.T.G

    Acquired From: Hordern House Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Description: This is one of the best illustrated books on Australian life in the mid-nineteenth century. Samuel Thomas Gill's most famous volume and his last, it is a most attractive album of 25 rural scenes – bushranging, kangaroo stalking, the bush mailman, cattle droving…

  • Quatuor Mundi Ætates: Ætas Aurea, Ætas Argentea, Ætas Ænea, Ætas Ferrea

    Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Fair Confirmed: 4/10/2024 Date Acquired: 7/12/2021 Description: This series of four allegorical engravings, designed by Tobias Verhaecht and engraved by Jan Collaert II, was first published by Theodor Galle in Leiden in 1638. The accompanying Latin text, written by Laurens Beyerlinck, draws inspiration from Ovid's Metamorphoses, capturing the…

  • Battle of Bantam

    Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Good Confirmed: 4/10/2024 Date Acquired: 31/12/2021 Description: The engraving depicts a major naval battle between Dutch and Portuguese fleets on 27 December 1601 in Bantam Bay (now Banten Bay), Indonesia. It resulted in Dutch victory thus opening up the lucrative spice trade. For the book see #350 Engraver:…

  • Het Aandeek der Nederlandersin de Ontekking Van Australie 1606-1765: The Part Borne by the Dutch in the Discovery of Australia 1606-1765

    Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Description: The book provides a comprehensive account of Dutch exploration and mapping of Australia between 1606 and 1765. It is a bilingual publication, featuring both Dutch and English texts side by side. It includes valuable historical mapssome fold-outreproducing early Dutch charts of the Australian coastline. First published: London: Luzac, 1899…

  • Coastal view

    Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 22/12/2021 Description: D'Y Stroom en Zeegezichten (The River IJ and Seascapes) is a series of ten etchings created in 1701 by Ludolf Bakhuizen, a renowned maritime artist born in Emden who settled in Amsterdam around 1650. Bakhuizen specialized in depicting ships at…

  • Descripcion de las Indias Ocidentalis

    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…

  • Illustriores Hispaniae urbes, aliaque ad orientem & austrem civitates celebriores

    Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Good Confirmed: No Description: Johannes Janssonius was born into a family of publishers and booksellers, gaining expertise in book printing from a young age. In 1612, he married Elisabeth Hondius, the daughter of the renowned mapmaker Jodocus Hondius I (View Record (#80), View Record (#212), View Record (#253),…