Catégorie : World

Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Dealers ID No.: M355 (STK 1265.01) Description: This important map of the southern hemisphere is the first state of Carte des Terres Australes, issued in 1714 by Guillaume Delisle, one of the most influential French cartographers of the early eighteenth century. A landmark in…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Good Confirmed: No Date Acquired: 6/5/2018 Description: Abraham Ortelius, a pioneering mapmaker, published the first comprehensive collection of uniformly sized maps, titled Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World) in 1570. This groundbreaking work established the modern concept of the world atlas and set a new standard for…

Colouring: Coloured Condition: Good Confirmed: No Description: Abraham Ortelius, a pioneering mapmaker, published the first comprehensive collection of uniformly sized maps, titled Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World). Released in 1570, this groundbreaking work established the modern concept of the world atlas and set a new standard for cartography. nIn addition to the Theatrum,…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 22/10/2024 Dealers ID No.: 19581 Description: Frederik de Wit began his career as an apprentice to Willem Blaeu before establishing his own publishing house in Amsterdam in 1648 under the sign De Drie Crabben (the Three Crabs). In 1655, he renamed his…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: 3/10/2024 Date Acquired: 7/7/2018 Dealers ID No.: 41501 Description: Around 1584, Pieter van den Keere fled religious persecution in Ghent (now Belgium) and settled in London. His sister, Colette van den Keere ( #113), also relocated to London, where she married Jodocus Hondius ( #18,…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Good Confirmed: 3/10/2024 Date Acquired: 28/1/2018 Dealers ID No.: 41532 Ruderman Description: Matthias Quad was a renowned German mapmaker and engraver, best known his contributions to geographic publications during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. He was particularly active in Cologne where he specialised in engraving geographical…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 24/8/2011 Description: This double-hemisphere world map is the first of two engraved by Jodocus Hondius I for the Parisian publisher Jean Le Clerc; the second, is in an oval projection (#110) followed soon after. The map exists in three known states. The…

Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Dealers ID No.: M417/1 (STK 838.01) Description: Cornelius Wytfliet was a geographer from Louvain, earned a Licentiate in Laws from the University of Louvain before moving to Brussels, where he became secretary to the Council of Brabant. In 1597, he published Descriptionis Ptolemaicae Augmentum,…

Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Dealers ID No.: M275 (STK 1726.01) Description: This striking and visually dramatic world map, dominated by the German Imperial double-headed eagle, was designed by Johannes Kepler, and engraved by Johann Philipp Walch in 1630, based on astronomical data from Johannes Keplers Tabulae Rudolphinae (1627).…

Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Date Acquired: 6 March 2006 Dealers ID No.: M162/5 (STK 1586.01) (STK 1808.01 not sure) Description: Henricus Hondius, the younger son of the renowned engraver and mapmaker Jodocus Hondius I, played a key role in the family mapmaking business, "In de Wackere Hondt" ("In…