Catégorie : World

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 19/6/2023 Description: This set of eight engraved globe gores 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 a globe measuring…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: No Date Acquired: 25/07/2022 Description: Martin Waldseemüllers modern world map, Orbis typus universalis iuxta hydrographorum traditionem also known as the Admirals map was first published in 1513 and republished in 1520 by Johann Schott. It was positioned at the beginning of a section of twenty modern…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Date Acquired: 7/5/2023 Dealers ID No.: 19197 Description: This set of three engraved globe gores was produced by Vincenzo Coronelli in Venice in 1688, forming part of the printed version of his monumental terrestrial globes originally created for King Louis XIV of France. Designed…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: 3/10/2024 Date Acquired: 9/3/2021 Dealers ID No.: 18787 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 included…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 06/04/2022 Description: This rare set of engraved globe gorestwo sheets, each with six segmentswas designed to form a small terrestrial globe about 18.5 cm in diameter. Although dateed 1603 (Lugduni excudebat Gulielmus Nicolai Belga. Prope S. Antonium. 1603), the maps content was…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 12/3/2018 Dealers ID No.: M35970/47 Description: This is the first world map by the influential Dutch cartographer Petrus Plancius, published in Amsterdam in 1590. Titled Orbis terrarum typus de integro multis in locis emendatus (A New Map of the World, Corrected in…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 1/11/2021 Dealers ID No.: 19009 Description: This matching set by Amsterdam-based engraver and publisher Gerard van Schagen comprises separate maps of the four continentsEurope, Asia, Africa, and Americaalongside a double-hemisphere world map. Issued in 1689, it represents the second state of van Schagens…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 1/7/2021 Dealers ID No.: 18979 Description: This finely engraved folio world map was published in Antwerp in 1630 by Pieter Verbiest, a member of a prominent family of engravers and publishers. While Pieter is credited as engraver and publisher in the lower…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Good Confirmed: 4/10/2024 Date Acquired: 3/11/2021 Dealers ID No.: 18708 Description: Martin Behaim, a fifteenth-century merchant, mathematician, and geographer from Nuremberg, was trained in mathematics during his youth. He began his career as a merchant's apprentice, travelling extensively across Western Europe. Following a period as an apprentice weaver…

Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Dealers ID No.: M877/2 (STK 1990/01/Y) Description: This richly detailed world map by Pierre Du Val, Royal Geographer to Louis XIV, was issued in 1674 as part of his effort to produce a global commercial chart highlighting maritime trade networks. A nephew and pupil…