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Polus Antarcticus
Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: 28/09/2024 Date Acquired: 9/10/2002 Dealers ID No.: M163 (STK 1271.01) Description: Henricus Hondius, the younger son of the renowned engraver and mapmaker Jodocus Hondius I, played a key role in the family mapmaking business, known as "In de Wackere Hondt" ("In the Vigilant Dog") in…
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Orbis terrarum nova et accuratissima tabula=Nieuwe Werelt Kaert uyt gegeven tot
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 10/4/2013 Description: Pieter Goos was a Dutch map and chartmaker, whose father, Abraham Goos had already published numerous globes, land and sea maps together with Jodocus Hondius and Johannes Janssonius in Antwerp. Pieter gained recognition due to the publication of sea charts…
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Die eigentliche und warhafftige gestalt der Erden und des Meers. Cosmographia universalis
Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Coloured Condition: Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 23/12/2000 Dealers ID No.: M75 (STK 937.01) Description: This distinctive woodcut map, titled Die eigentliche und warhafftige gestalt der Erden und des Meers (The True and Faithful Form of the Earth and the Sea), appears in Heinrich Büntings widely read Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae…
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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,…