Catégorie : Asia

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: Dec 2025 Dealers ID No.: 19727 Description: Issued in 1661, this previously unrecorded map of Asia represents the earliest known state of a plate later reissued by Carel Allard in 1679. Until recently, the map was known only in its later Allard state,…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Date Acquired: 10/4/2023 Dealers ID No.: 19173 Description: Sebastian Münster was a German mapmaker, cosmographer and professor of Hebrew at the University of Basel. Among his publications was a Latin edition of Claudius Ptolemys Geographia, first published in Basel in 1540. This edition included…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Date Acquired: 13/10/2023 Dealers ID No.: 19263 Description: Nicolas Sanson, widely regarded as one of the leading French mapmakers of the seventeenth century, played a critical role in establishing France as a leader in European mapmaking, ultimately surpassing the dominance of Dutch mapmakers. nOriginally…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Date Acquired: 31/10/2022 Description: This finely engraved map of Asia is from the first edition of Gerard de Jodes Speculum Orbis Terrae, published in Antwerp in 1578 as a rival to Abraham Orteliuss Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (for 1584 edition View Record (#252)). Though praised…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: 3/10/2024 Date Acquired: 3/5/2021 Dealers ID No.: 18960 Description: Nicolaes Visscher I, the only son of Claes Jansz. Visscher (#10, #11, #12, #292, #293) took over the family business after his fathers death in 1652. Around 16571658 Nicolaes created this map of Asia, which is believed…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: No Date Acquired: 08/09/2022 Dealers ID No.: 19121 Description: Sebastian Münster was a German mapmaker, cosmographer and professor of Hebrew at the University of Basel. Among his notable works was the Latin edition of Claudius Ptolemys Geography, first published in Basel in 1540. This edition featured…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 08/09/2022 Description: Sebastian Münster was a German mapmaker, cosmographer and professor of Hebrew at the University of Basel. Among his notable works was the Latin edition of Claudius Ptolemys Geography, first published in Basel in 1540. This edition featured twenty-seven Ptolemaic maps, including…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: 3/10/2024 Date Acquired: 17/8/2020 Dealers ID No.: 18914 (5861) Description: In 1584, Jodocus Hondius I fled religious persecution in Ghent (now Belgium) and settled in London. There, he established himself as an engraver, instrument maker, and mapmaker. Three years later, he married Coletta van den Keere,…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Fair Confirmed: 3/10/2024 Date Acquired: 18/8/2020 Dealers ID No.: 18915 Description: In 1583 Jan Huygen van Linschoten, a Dutch explorer, travelled to Goa, India where he served as secretary to João Vicente da Fonseca, the newly appointed Portuguese Archbishop. At the time, Goa was the capital of the…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Fair. Oxidation of green pigment Date Acquired: 6/9/2020 Dealers ID No.: 18916 Description: Johannes Janssonius was born into a family of publishers and booksellers, gaining experience in book printing from a young age. In 1612, he married Elisabeth Hondius, the daughter of the renowned mapmaker Jodocus Hondius I…