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De Eylanden van Pehou, met alle derselver gelegentheeden, sanden, klippen, dieptens en ankergronden, nauwkeurig geteekent
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: 4/10/2024 Date Acquired: 1/6/2021 Dealers ID No.: 18963 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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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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Plan of the Road and CIty of Batavia on the North Coast of Java Island
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Good Confirmed: 4/10/2024 Date Acquired: 31/5/2021 Dealers ID No.: 18964 Description: Gerard van Keulens 1728 prototype for this Batavia (now Jakarta) road map first appeared in Zee fakkel Volume 5 (entry #349). In 1753, it was incorporated into the Volume 6 of the atlas, often referred to as…
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The Tasman Map of 1644: Historical Note and Description of the Manuscript Map in the Mitchell Library, Sydney
Condition: Good Confirmed: No Description: This booklet describes the so-called Tasman 'Bonaparte' map, an ornate manuscript map on Japanese paper bought in 1891 by Prince Roland Bonaparte, and presented to the Mitchell Library, Sydney, Australia (where it is shelved at ML 863), by the Princess George of Greece in 1933. Now thought to be neither…
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Table des Cartes etc: Du Sr. Sanson Contenues Dans ce Vollume
Colouring: Coloured Condition: Fair Dealers ID No.: 22714 Description: Index pagenFour elaborate allegorical scenes are shown, including Atlas holding the World aloft and an illustration of a woman beside a celestial globe, with pointer and compass, along with two winged gods in the heavens. At the bottom, a library scene including a large globe, atlas…
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Le nouveau theatre du monde
Acquired From: Paulus Swaen Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Fair Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 2021 Dealers ID No.: 25938 Description: This intricately engraved title page introduces Le Nouveau Théâtre du Monde, ou La Géographie Royale (The New Theatre of the World, or The Royal Geography), a comprehensive geographical work first published in 1713 by Pieter van der…
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Atlas historique Tome II
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Good Confirmed: No Dealers ID No.: 15044 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…
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Le Nouveau Theatre du Monde ou nouvel atlas
Acquired From: Paulus Swaen Colouring: Coloured Condition: Fair Date Acquired: 2021 Dealers ID No.: 46725 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…
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Mundum tradidit disputationi eorum
Colouring: Coloured Condition: Fair Dealers ID No.: 85220 Description: Heinrich Scherer was a Professor of Hebrew, Mathematics and Ethics at the University of Dillingen until about 1680. Thereafter he obtained important positions as Official Tutor to the Royal Princes of Mantua and Bavaria. It was during his time in Munich as Tutor to the Princely…