Catégorie : Titlepage

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: Coloured Condition: Fair Confirmed: No Date Acquired: 30/07/2022 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)). The project was…

Colouring: Coloured Description: Henri Abraham Châtelain in conjunction with his father Zacharie and brother Zacharie junior produced the Atlas historique under several different Chatelain imprints, depending on the Chatelain family partnerships at the time of publication. nIt was published in seven volumes: Volume 1 in 1705, volumes 2 and 3 (volume 2, second part) in…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Fair Date Acquired: 15/3/2023 Dealers ID No.: 29425 Description: The Van Keulen publishing house was one of the most important producers of nautical charts and sea atlases in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Founded by Johannes van Keulen in Amsterdam in 1678, the firm specialised in…

Acquired From: Paulus Swaen Colouring: Coloured Condition: Fair Confirmed: No Date Acquired: 2022 Description: Following the death of Willem Blaeu in 1638, his son Joan Blaeu expanded and refined the familys atlas project, culminating in the monumental Atlas Maior. The origins of this enterprise, however, extend back several decades. In 1599, after briefly studying with…

Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Description: Henri Abraham Châtelain in conjunction with his father Zacharie and brother Zacharie junior produced the Atlas historique under several different Chatelain imprints, depending on the Chatelain family partnerships at the time of publication.nIt was published in seven volumes: Volume 1 in 1705, volumes 2 and 3 (volume 2, second…

Colouring: Coloured Condition: Good Description: This unsigned titlepage is from the fourth book of John Speeds atlas, titled The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, first published 1611-1612. It was the first atlas of the British Isles, and the first attempt by an Englishman at atlas production on a scale comparable with the great…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Good Confirmed: No Description: Johannes Janssonius was born into a family of publishers and booksellers, gaining expertise in book printing from a young age. In 1612, he married Elisabeth Hondius, the daughter of the renowned mapmaker Jodocus Hondius I (View Record (#80), View Record (#212), View Record (#253),…

Colouring: Coloured Condition: Fair – repairs, vertical crease Confirmed: No Description: Johannes Janssonius was born into a family of publishers and booksellers, gaining expertise in book printing from a young age. In 1612, he married Elisabeth Hondius, the daughter of the renowned mapmaker Jodocus Hondius I (View Record (#80), View Record (#212), View Record (#253),…

Acquired From: Paulus Swaen Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Good Confirmed: No Dealers ID No.: 47935 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)). The project…