Catégorie : World

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 10/4/2013 Description: This double-hemisphere map of the world, engraved by Arnold and Hendrik van Langren, was published in Antwerp by Jan Baptista Vrients around 15981602. Though closely based on the world map Petrus Plancius created for Jan Huyghen van Linschotens Itinerario (Amsterdam,…

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…

Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 6/4/2001 Dealers ID No.: M45 (STK 1071.01) Description: Nova et accuratissima totius terrarum orbis tabula (A new and most accurate map of the whole world) is a double-hemisphere world map created by Joan Blaeu, one of the leading figures of the Dutch…

Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Coloured Condition: Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 15/8/2003 Dealers ID No.: M724 (STK 1395.01) Description: Pieter van der Aa was a publisher, bookseller, and engraver based in Leiden in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. He was not a mapmaker in the technical sense, but he produced many maps…

Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Coloured Condition: Fair Confirmed: 27/09/2024 Date Acquired: 26/6/2000 Dealers ID No.: M240 (STK 934.01) 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 modern…

Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries? Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Dealers ID No.: M162 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, Henricus…

Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 31/7/2002 Dealers ID No.: M677/1 (STK 1339.01) Description: This unrecorded 1680 edition of Michel-Antoine Baudrands double hemisphere world map, printed on two joined sheets, is based on a version first published in Rome in 1658 by the prominent printer Giovanni Giacomo Rossi.…

Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 6/4/2001 Dealers ID No.: M270 (STK 1094.01) Description: This elegantly engraved world map, printed on two sheets, the result of a collaboration between Amsterdam cartographer Cornelis Danckerts and Paris-based printer Melchior Tavernier, who styled himself graveur et imprimeur du Roy (engraver and…