Catégorie : Titlepage

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Good Date Acquired: Nov 2025 Dealers ID No.: 19739 Description: The Van Keulen family was among the most important publishers of nautical charts and atlases in the Dutch Republic. The firm In de Gekroonde Lootsman (In the Crowned Pilot) was founded in 1678 by Johannes van Keulen I,…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Good Confirmed: No Dealers ID No.: 19411 Description: After Janssonius's death in 1664, his brother-in-law Johannes Waesbergen took over the business. To honour Janssonius's legacy and maintain continuity, the firm continued to use the name "Joannis Janssonii Haeredes" (Heirs of Johannes Janssonius). Waesbergen oversaw the republication of several…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Fair (Damage in sky) Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 10/3/2023 Description: The Civitates orbis terrarum (Cities of the World) is a monumental six-volume series of city views and plans, conceived as a cartographic and cultural companion to Abraham Orteliuss Theatrum orbis terrarum (for the 1584 edition View Record (#252)).…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Fair Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 28/1/2018 Description: This engraved title page appears in Atlas minor, an atlas compiled and published by Carel Allard in 1697. The work was assembled largely from existing map plates inherited from earlier Dutch publishers, typical of Allards production. The Allard family publishing house…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Fair Date Acquired: 20/3/2023 Description: The design is a temple of antiquity, with the Sun King Louis XIV in the upper left on horseback, also known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand), king of France and of Navarra.nThe center figure has his French nickname "l' Hercule Francois",…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Fair Date Acquired: 10/3/2023 Description: Depictis navigators, sailors, navigational instruments and VOC ships.nAtlas carrying the heavens on the right. Engraver: Schenk, Petrus (1660-1711) after G. Van Houten First published: Atlas Nouveau Amsterdam: Gerard Valck, 1638 Image Size (cm): 26.6×44.5 Mapmaker: Valck, Gerard Price: 475 Primary Category: Titlepage Purchase…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 20/3/2023 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 Amsterdam. Henricus worked closely with his father…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Fair Date Acquired: 10/3/2023 Description: Second issue of Ogilby's English translation of Montanus's work, De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weerld, published in the same year. Complete as issued, with the Arx Carolina plate and the Virginia pars Australis & Florida map replaced with the large folding "First Lords Proprietors"…

Colouring: Uncoloured Description: During the sixteenth century the Portuguese dominated the East Indian spice trade, but when Cornelis de Houtman and his brother Frederick returned to Amsterdam in January 1597 after a successful voyage to the East Indies via the Portuguese route, around the Cape of Good Hope, they proved that the Dutch might safely…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Fair Date Acquired: 11/3/2023 Description: The frontispiece to Merian's work is a pictorial representation of the continents with four figures grouped around a globe and with the title at the foot. The four figures are all female and are given labels designating their respective continent. At the top,…