Catégorie : World

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Good Date Acquired: Nov 2025 Dealers ID No.: 19657 Description: A small world map first issued in the 1596 edition of Matthias Quads Europae Totius Orbis Terrarum. The map combines empirical cartography with humanist commentary, expressed through an extended Latin title, a note on the earths circumference, and…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Excellent Date Acquired: Nov 2025 Description: This double-hemisphere world map by the Amsterdam engraver Jan van Jagen presents the world in eastern and western hemispheres, accompanied by two smaller inset spheres depicting the polus arcticus (upper centre) and the polus antarcticus (lower centre). The map includes the engravers…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: Dec 2025 Dealers ID No.: 19647. Gowrie Galleries M128/5 STK 1785/01 Y Description: This map appears on page 553 of Volume 6 of Sacri, sive doctissimorum virorum in SS. Biblia annotationes & tractatus, published in London by Thomas Roycroft in 1660. Produced in…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: Dec 2025 Dealers ID No.: 19691 Description: This striking woodcut map was first published in 1529 in Martin Luthers commentary on the Book of Daniel and ranks among the earliest Protestant world maps. Commonly known as the Wittenberg World Map or Daniels Dream…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: Dec 2025 Description: This leaf derives from Chapter 35 of Geografia cioè Descrittione universale della terra by Giovanni Antonio Magini, an influential Italian geographical compendium combining cartographic representation with descriptive text. The map titled Universi orbis descriptio ad usum navigantium (Description of the…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Excellent Date Acquired: 24/1/2025 Description: Page from showing Ferdinand Magellan and Willem Schouten sitting across from each other with an armillary sphere between them. Below them is a double hemisphere map of the world, whosing their tracks. They are surrounded by the portraits of Francis Drake, Olivier van…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Date Acquired: 12/01/2025 Dealers ID No.: 19659 Description: The Wittenberg World Map Daniels Dream Map Magdeburg editions from 1545 or 1550. The printer was Hans Walther. nThis unusual map represents Daniel's interpretation of King Nebuchadnezzar's dream. This prophecy from Chapter 7 of the book of Daniel…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 23/1/2025 Dealers ID No.: 19653 Description: Claes Jansz. Visscher was a leading Amsterdam map publisher whose output played a central role in shaping Dutch cartography in the first half of the seventeenth century. He established his publishing house in 1611 on the Kalverstraat,…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Date Acquired: 3/2/2024 Dealers ID No.: 19377 Description: This engraved South Pole cap (calotte) was produced by Vincenzo Coronelli in Venice in 1688, forming part of the printed edition of his monumental terrestrial globes originally created for King Louis XIV of France. Designed for…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Fair Confirmed: No Date Acquired: 29/05/2023 Dealers ID No.: 19219 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 twenty-seven…