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Planisphere terrestre suivant les nouvelles observations des astronomes
Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Coloured Condition: Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 15/8/2003 Dealers ID No.: M724 (STK 1395.01) Description: Pieter van der Aa was a publisher, bookseller, and engraver based in Leiden in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. He was not a mapmaker in the technical sense, but he produced many maps…
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Nuova Olanda e Nuova Galles riconosciuta dal Cap.o Cook nel 1770
Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 4/2/2002 Dealers ID No.: M655 (STK 1183.01) Description: This miniature map of Australia, titled Nuova Olanda e Nuova Galles riconosciuta dal Cap.o Cook nel 1770 (New Holland and New South Wales as recognised by Captain Cook in 1770), appears in the Nuovo…
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Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula
Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries? Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Dealers ID No.: M162 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, Henricus…
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Nieuwe Pascaert van Oost Indien Verthoonende hen van C. De Bona Esperanca tot aen het Landt van Eso Geleyt op Wassende Graeden
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: 24/10/2024 Date Acquired: 25/3/2013 Dealers ID No.: 19099 Description: The Van Keulen family gained lasting renown for producing high quality nautical charts and atlases for over two centuries, beginning the 1680s. Their Amsterdam-based firm, In de Gekroonde Lootsman (In the Crowned Pilot), was established in 1678…
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Oost Indien Van Cabo de Bona Esperanca tot Ceilon and Oosterdeel van Oost Indien
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 17/10/2013 Description: Arnold Colom, the son of Amsterdam bookseller and chartmaker Jacob Colom, was a prominent seventeenth-century printer and publisher. He is best known for two major nautical works: De Vyerighe Colom (1633), a Mediterranean pilot guide, and Zee-Atlas ofte Water-Wereldt, a…
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Nova et esatta tavola del mondo o terra universale
Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 31/7/2002 Dealers ID No.: M677/1 (STK 1339.01) Description: This unrecorded 1680 edition of Michel-Antoine Baudrands double hemisphere world map, printed on two joined sheets, is based on a version first published in Rome in 1658 by the prominent printer Giovanni Giacomo Rossi.…
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Charte universelle de tout le monde
Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 6/4/2001 Dealers ID No.: M270 (STK 1094.01) Description: This elegantly engraved world map, printed on two sheets, the result of a collaboration between Amsterdam cartographer Cornelis Danckerts and Paris-based printer Melchior Tavernier, who styled himself graveur et imprimeur du Roy (engraver and…
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Nova, et integra universi orbis descriptio
Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Fair Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 11/2/2004 Dealers ID No.: M777 (STK 1438.01) Description: Oronce Fine, an esteemed French physician, mathematician, and mapmaker, created this woodcut world map using a double cordiform (heart-shaped) polar projection. Dated 1531, it was likely sold as a loose sheet at the time but…
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Tabu nova orbis / Differt situs orbis hydrographorum ab eo quem Ptolomeus posuit
Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Coloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: 27/09/2024 Date Acquired: 26/6/2000 Dealers ID No.: M580/1 (STK 878.01) Description: Martin Waldseemüllers modern world map, Orbis typus universalis iuxta hydrographorum traditionem also known as the Admirals map was first published in 1513 and republished in 1520 by Johann Schott. It was positioned at the beginning…
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Typus orbis universalis
Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: 28/09/2024 Date Acquired: 6/3/2006 Dealers ID No.: M239/1 (STK 1549.01) Description: Sebastian Münster was a German mapmaker, cosmographer and professor of Hebrew at the University of Basel. One of his notable works was a Latin edition of Claudius Ptolemys Geography, first published in Basel in…