Catégorie : Asia-pacific

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: 3/10/2024 Date Acquired: 23/4/2019 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 modern atlas. Ortelius personally drafted the…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 19/2/2017 Description: Benedetto Bordone, a Paduan-born miniaturist and illustrator active in Venice, is best known for his Isolario (Book of Islands), a landmark compendium first published in 1528. Drawing on classical geographies, medieval travel narratives, and early exploration accounts, Bordones Isolario catalogues 111…

Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Coloured Condition: Good Confirmed: No Dealers ID No.: M420/1 (STK 1839.01) Description: Johann Matthias Reinecke was a German polymath and scientist renowned for his contributions to cartography and paleontology. A man of diverse talents, he spoke eight languages and also wrote poems and songs. Among his cartographic achievements is a…

Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Coloured Condition: Good Confirmed: No Dealers ID No.: M937 (STK 1846.01) Description: In 1805, when this map Generalcharte von Australien nach dem Entwurfe des H. Joseph Marx Freiherrn v. Liechtenstern (General Map of Australia Based on the Design by H. Joseph Marx Freiherr von Liechtenstern) was published, it was still…

Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Coloured Condition: Good Confirmed: No Dealers ID No.: M929 (STK 1853.01) Description: This map, which covers the east coast of Africa, Indian Ocean and Australia, was published in Paris in 1803 by Jean-Baptiste Poirson, a renowned French globemaker, engraver, and cartographer active in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.…

Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: 28/09/2024 Date Acquired: 9/10/2002 Dealers ID No.: M391 (STK 1283.01) Description: Herman Moll was one of the most important London mapmakers in the first half of the eighteenth century. His early career began as an engraver for Moses Pitt on the production of the English…