Catégorie : World

Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Good Confirmed: 28/09/2024 Date Acquired: 1/4/2004 Dealers ID No.: M425 (STK 1217.01) Description: This world map is from the first edition of Liber chronicarum (Book of Chronicles), first published in June 1493 by Anton Koberger in Nuremberg. The book is an illustrated history of the Christian world, covering…

Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Coloured Condition: Fair Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 12/6/2009 Dealers ID No.: M911 (STK 1793.01) 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…

Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Dealers ID No.: (STK 1775.01) Description: Nicolaes Visscher I, the only son of Claes Jansz. Visscher (View Record (#10), View Record (#11), View Record (#12), View Record (#292), View Record (#293)) took over the family business after his fathers death in 1652. Among his…

Colouring: Uncoloured Confirmed: No Description: Giovanni Antonio Magini, a distinguished Italian polymath, excelled in mapmaking, astronomy, astrology, and mathematics. After earning a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Bologna, he published his first work Ephemerides coelestium motuum, an astronomical treatise, in 1582. In 1588, Magini was appointed to the prestigious chair of mathematics at…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: 1/10/2024 Date Acquired: 2/2/2015 Description: The Van Keulen family was renowned for their significant contributions to mapmaking and atlas publishing. Their firm, In de Gekroonde Lootsman (In the Crowned Pilot), was established in 1678 by Johannes van Keulen I. In 1680, two years after establishing…

Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Fair Confirmed: No Date Acquired: March 2018 Dealers ID No.: M859 (STK1615.01) Description: Pierre Mortier published this richly ornamented double-hemisphere world map in Amsterdam around 1700 as part of his Atlas nouveau, a major French-language atlas conceived to rival the productions of Guillaume de LIsle and other leading…

Mapmaker: not sure (check Leen) Primary Category: World

Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: 27/09/2024 Date Acquired: 8/2/2001 Dealers ID No.: M241/1 (STK 1045.01) Description: Abraham Ortelius, a pioneering mapmaker, published the first comprehensive collection of uniformly sized maps. Titled Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World), this groundbreaking work first released in 1570, established the concept of the…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Date Acquired: 13/6/2013 Description: This undated and unsigned world map first appeared in the 1532 Basel edition of Johann Huttichs collection of travel accounts Novus orbis regionum (Regions of the New World). It follows an introductory essay, Typi cosmographici et declaratio et usus (Explanation and Use…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: 1/10/2024 Date Acquired: 30/6/2015 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), who also relocated to London, married Jodocus Hondius ( #18, #80, #82, #114, #123, #126,…