Catégorie : World

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,…

Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries? Colouring: Coloured Condition: Good Confirmed: No Dealers ID No.: M162/2 (STK 881.01) 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 the Vigilant Dog"), based in Amsterdam. Collaborating with his father,…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Date Acquired: 18/6/2014 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,…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: No Date Acquired: not sure Dealers ID No.: 18878 Description: This oval projection map of the world is the second of two (#21 and #199 being the other) engraved by Jodocus Hondius I for the Parisian publisher Jean Le Clerc. Although engraved around 1590, it survives…

Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: 27/09/2024 Date Acquired: 23/12/2000 Dealers ID No.: M128 (STK1066.01) Description: Between 1569 and 1572, Christophe Plantin produced his monumental eight-volume Biblia Sacra Hebraice, Chaldaice, Graece et Latine, commonly known as the Biblia Regia or Plantin Polyglot, under the patronage of King Philip II of Spain.…

Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 3/5/2002 Dealers ID No.: M113 (STK 841.01) Description: These twin hemispheric mapsone of the northern hemisphere, the other of the southernare among the most visually arresting additions to the posthumous 1593 edition of Gerard de Jodes Speculum Orbis Terrae. A skilled artist…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 10/4/2013 Description: Pieter Goos was a Dutch map and chartmaker, whose father, Abraham Goos had already published numerous globes, land and sea maps together with Jodocus Hondius and Johannes Janssonius in Antwerp. Pieter gained recognition due to the publication of sea charts…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Date Acquired: 31/3/2014 Description: Sebastian Münster was a German mapmaker, cosmographer and professor of Hebrew at the University of Basel. One of his notable works was a Latin edition of Claudius Ptolemys Geography, first published in Basel in 1540. This edition included twenty-seven Ptolemaic…

Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 2006 Dealers ID No.: M646/1 (STK 1167.01) Description: Lienhart Holles 1482 Ulm edition of Cosmographia marked a pivotal moment in European cartography. Ptolemy, a second-century Alexandrian astronomer and geographer, authored this practical guide for mapping the world. Divided into eight books, it…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 18/6/2014 Description: This double-hemisphere world map represents a later issue of the world map first published in 1650 (View Record (#25)) for inclusion in editions of the Dutch Statenbijbel. The present example corresponds to the 1657 issue, printed in Amsterdam by Paulus…