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Atlas Coelestis seu Harmonia Macrocosmica
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Good Date Acquired: 6/5/2018 Description: Engraved title page from the 1708 edition of Andreas Cellariuss Atlas Coelestis seu Harmonia Macrocosmica, one of the most visually ambitious celestial atlases of the seventeenth century. Originally published by Johannes Janssonius in 1660, this later issue by Gerard Valk and Pieter Schenk…
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Geographia Blaviana
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 5/10/2017 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…
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Atlas Novus ad Usum Serenissimi Burgundiae Ducis
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 30/11/2015 Description: Published in Amsterdam by Pierre Mortier, this frontispiece forms part of his broader ambition to establish a French-language cartographic publishing enterprise capable of rivaling the great atlas productions of Paris and Amsterdam. Having trained in Paris in the early 1680s, Mortier…
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Atlas Maritime
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 30/11/2015 Description: Published in Amsterdam by Pierre Mortier, this frontispiece forms part of his broader ambition to establish a French-language cartographic publishing enterprise capable of rivaling the great atlas productions of Paris and Amsterdam. Having trained in Paris in the early 1680s,…
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Nova orbis terrarum delineatio singulari ratione accommodata meridiano Tabb Rudolphi Astronomicarum
Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Dealers ID No.: M275 (STK 1726.01) Description: This striking and visually dramatic world map, dominated by the German Imperial double-headed eagle, was designed by Johannes Kepler, and engraved by Johann Philipp Walch in 1630, based on astronomical data from Johannes Keplers Tabulae Rudolphinae (1627).…
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Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula
Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Date Acquired: 6 March 2006 Dealers ID No.: M162/5 (STK 1586.01) (STK 1808.01 not sure) Description: Henricus Hondius, the younger son of the renowned engraver and mapmaker Jodocus Hondius I, played a key role in the family mapmaking business, "In de Wackere Hondt" ("In…
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Het Westelykste Gedeelte van ‘t Land vande Eendragt of Nova Hollandia. Strekkende van het Eyland Rottenest lot voorby de Willems Rivier De West…
Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: 28/09/2004 Date Acquired: 30/11/2004 Dealers ID No.: M786 (STK 1491.01) 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.…
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Mappe-monde geo-hydrographique, ou description generale du globe terrestre et aquatique, en deux plans-hemispheres…
Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Fair Confirmed: No Date Acquired: March 2018 Dealers ID No.: M859 (STK1615.01) Description: Pierre Mortier published this richly ornamented double-hemisphere world map in Amsterdam around 1700 as part of his Atlas nouveau, a major French-language atlas conceived to rival the productions of Guillaume de LIsle and other leading…