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Nova Reperta
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Good Date Acquired: 15/8/2018 Dealers ID No.: 18932 Description: The Nova Reperta (New Discoveries) offers a comprehensive visual record of early modern achievements, highlighting milestones such as the discovery of the New World (the Americas), as well as advancements in medicine, mechanics, and the arts. First published around…
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Americae Retectio
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Good Confirmed: 3/10/2022 Date Acquired: 15/5/2018 Dealers ID No.: 19046 Description: In the late 1580s, nearly a century after the travels of Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci, Jan van der Straet (also known in Italian as Giovanni Stradano and in Latin Johannes Stradanus) designed a series of engravings…
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Orbis terrarum typus de integro multis in locis emendatus
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: 3/10/2024 Date Acquired: 7/7/2018 Dealers ID No.: 41501 Description: Around 1584, Pieter van den Keere fled religious persecution in Ghent (now Belgium) and settled in London. His sister, Colette van den Keere ( #113), also relocated to London, where she married Jodocus Hondius ( #18,…
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Macrobii Ambrosii Aurelii Theodosii, Viri Consularis & Illustris, Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis et Saturnalia, ex variis ac vetustissimis…
Acquired From: Douglas Stewart Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Dealers ID No.: #9711 Description: This edition, published in Lyon by Sebastian Gryphius, is titled The Commentaries on the Dream of Scipio and Saturnalia by Macrobius Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius, a Consular and Illustrious Man, revised and expanded from various ancient manuscripts (translated from Latin).…
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Benedetto Bordone, a Paduan-born miniaturist and illustrator active
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 27/3/2019 Description: Benedetto Bordone, a Paduan-born miniaturist and illustrator active in Venice, is best known for his Isolario (Book of Islands), a landmark compendium first published in 1528. Drawing on classical geographies, medieval travel narratives, and early exploration accounts, Bordones Isolario catalogues 111…
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Americae et proximar[um] regionum orae descriptio
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: 3/10/2024 Date Acquired: 21/4/2019 Description: This map by Giovanni Battista Mazza is one of three significant maps illustrating the connection between the Americas, Asia, and the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean. The other two maps Abraham Ortelius's Maris Pacifici (1589) (View Record (#221)) and…