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Australia from surveys made by order of the British Government combined with those of Dentrecasteaux, Baudin, Freycinet
Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Description: John Arrowsmith was a renowned British cartographer and a key figure in nineteenth-century mapmaking. A nephew of the influential mapmaker Aaron Arrowsmith, John was instrumental in advancing the precision and detail of geographic representation during his time. His work stood out for its incorporation of the latest…
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A Map of the East-Indies and the Adjacent …
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 26/12/2024 Dealers ID No.: 19641 Description: Herman Moll was a German-born mapmaker who settled in London in the late 17th century. Beginning his career as an engraver, he rose to prominence as a cartographer known for his detailed and commercially astute maps.…
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Universi orbis descriptio ad usvm navigativm
Colouring: Uncoloured Confirmed: No Description: Giovanni Antonio Magini, a distinguished Italian polymath, excelled in mapmaking, astronomy, astrology, and mathematics. After earning a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Bologna, he published his first work Ephemerides coelestium motuum, an astronomical treatise, in 1582. In 1588, Magini was appointed to the prestigious chair of mathematics at…
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Maris Pacifici (quod vulgo Mar del Zur) cum regionibus circumiacentibus, insulisque in eodem passim sparsis, novissima descriptio
Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: 27/09/2024 Date Acquired: 8/2/2001 Dealers ID No.: M241/1 (STK 1045.01) Description: Abraham Ortelius, a pioneering mapmaker, published the first comprehensive collection of uniformly sized maps. Titled Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World), this groundbreaking work first released in 1570, established the concept of the…
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Typus cosmographicus universalis
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Date Acquired: 13/6/2013 Description: This undated and unsigned world map first appeared in the 1532 Basel edition of Johann Huttichs collection of travel accounts Novus orbis regionum (Regions of the New World). It follows an introductory essay, Typi cosmographici et declaratio et usus (Explanation and Use…
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Mare del Sud, detto altrimenti Mare Pacifico
Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Dealers ID No.: M104 (STK 759.01) Description: This finely engraved map of the Pacific Ocean by Vincenzo Coronelli appeared in the first edition of his Atlante Veneto published in Venice in 1691.It presents a sweeping view of the Pacific, framed by the western coasts…
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India quae orientalis dicitur, et insulae adjacentes
Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Coloured Condition: Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 26/6/2000 Dealers ID No.: M47/1 (STK 946.01) Description: This intermediate state of Willem Jansz. Blaeus map of the East Indiestitled India quae orientalis dicitur, et insulae adjacentes (India, so-called the East, and adjacent islands)was published in the 1634 German-language edition of Novus Atlas.…
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Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: 1/10/2024 Date Acquired: 30/6/2015 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), who also relocated to London, married Jodocus Hondius ( #18, #80, #82, #114, #123, #126,…
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Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula
Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries? Colouring: Coloured Condition: Good Confirmed: No Dealers ID No.: M162/2 (STK 881.01) 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 the Vigilant Dog"), based in Amsterdam. Collaborating with his father,…