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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),…
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This untitled mapcommonly referred to as Mar di
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 8/2/2021 Dealers ID No.: 18927 Description: This untitled mapcommonly referred to as Mar di Indiawas published in 1619 as part of America Occidentalis, Part 11, within Theodor de Brys monumental travel compendium Collectiones peregrinationum in Indiam Occidentalem et Indiam Orientalem. De Bry,…
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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…
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Carte universelle du commerce, c’est-à-dire carte hidrographique où sont exactement décrites les costes des 4 parties du monde, avecque les routes…
Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Dealers ID No.: M877/2 (STK 1990/01/Y) Description: This richly detailed world map by Pierre Du Val, Royal Geographer to Louis XIV, was issued in 1674 as part of his effort to produce a global commercial chart highlighting maritime trade networks. A nephew and pupil…
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Pars Globi terrestris Ao. 1492 a Martino Behaim Equite Lusitano Norimbergae confecti
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Good Confirmed: 4/10/2024 Date Acquired: 3/11/2021 Dealers ID No.: 18708 Description: Martin Behaim, a fifteenth-century merchant, mathematician, and geographer from Nuremberg, was trained in mathematics during his youth. He began his career as a merchant's apprentice, travelling extensively across Western Europe. Following a period as an apprentice weaver…
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Johannes Janssonius was born into a family of
Colouring: Coloured Condition: Fair – repairs, vertical crease 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),…
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Urbium praecipuarum totius mundi
Acquired From: Paulus Swaen Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Good Confirmed: No Dealers ID No.: 47935 Description: The Civitates orbis terrarum (Cities of the World) is a monumental six-volume series of city views and plans, conceived as a cartographic and cultural companion to Abraham Orteliuss Theatrum orbis terrarum (for the 1584 edition View Record (#252)). The project…