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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 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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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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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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Tabula moderna indiae
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: 2/10/2024 Date Acquired: 25/10/2017 Dealers ID No.: 18665 Description: Martin Waldseemüllers edition of Claudius Ptolemys Geography was first published in 1513 by Johann Schott in Strasbourg. Waldseemüller, a German mapmaker and scholar, began his academic journey in 1490 at the University of Freiburg, where he studied…
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Der Hollaendisch-Ostindianischen Compagnie weltberuhmte Haupt-Handels und Niederlags-Stadt Batavia, in Asien auf dem grossen Eyland Iava in dem…
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: 4/01/2025 Date Acquired: 28/8/2017 Dealers ID No.: 19155 Description: The map translated into English The Dutch East India Companys World-Famous Principal Trading and Settlement City of Batavia, in Asia, Located on the Great Island of Java in the Kingdom of Jacatra to the Northwest, Depicted…
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Totius orbis cogniti universalis descriptio
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: 2/10/2024 Date Acquired: 1/11/2017 Description: Paulus Merula, a distinguished scholar from Leiden and chief librarian at the University Library of Leiden, was well-versed in history, geography, law, and classical studies. In 1605, two years before his death, he published his Cosmographia generalis, featuring a world…
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Tabula Asiae XI
Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Date Acquired: 28/8/2017 Description: Giacomo Gastaldi was the leading Italian cartographer of the 16th century. In 1548 he created maps for Pietro Andrea Mattioli's Italian translation of Claudius Ptolemys Geographia. This atlas contained sixty double-page maps, including twenty-six ancient or Ptolemaic maps, such as…