Catégorie : World

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: Uncoloured Condition: Fair Confirmed: 2/12/2024 Date Acquired: 7/03/2002 Dealers ID No.: M660 (STK 1213/01) Description: Jean Baptiste Nolin was a French cartographer and publisher who worked in Paris during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. He gained the attention of the Italian mapmaker Vincenzo Maria Coronelli while Coronelli was…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: 2/10/2024 Date Acquired: 1/11/2017 Description: Paulus Merula, a distinguished scholar from Leiden and chief librarian at the University Library of Leiden, was well-versed in history, geography, law, and classical studies. In 1605, two years before his death, he published his Cosmographia generalis, featuring a world…

Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Coloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 18/1/2002 Dealers ID No.: M87 (STK 1093.01) Description: Johannes Cloppenburg, a Dutch bookseller active in early seventeenth-century Amsterdam, is best known for producing the fourth and final edition of Jodocus Hondius Is Atlas minor (originally published in 1607). In 1630, Cloppenburg commissioned Pieter…

Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: 27/09/2024 Date Acquired: 26/6/2000 Dealers ID No.: M138/2 (STK 90.01) Description: Martin Waldseemüllers Ptolemaic world map was first published in 1513 and republished in 1520 by Johann Schott. It appeared at the head of a sequence of twenty-seven Ptolemaic maps that complemented the twenty modern…

Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 11/11/2010 Dealers ID No.: M410 (STK 1849.01) Description: This influential double-hemisphere world map by Petrus Planciusengraved by Jan van Doetecum (whose signature appears in the lower left corner), and first published in 1594marked a significant advancement in late sixteenth-century Dutch cartography. Plancius,…

Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: No Dealers ID No.: M1030 variant (STK 2117.01) #45293 on verso 32860 Description: This double-hemisphere world map was first published in 1662 in the Atlas Maior. While famous for its lavish decoration, it represents a benchmark record of the known world as it stood in…