Catégorie : World

Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: 29/09/2024 Date Acquired: 12/7/2011 Dealers ID No.: M435/1 (STK 1991.01) on verso GER 2551 Description: See also Gowrie Galleries descriptionnThe Dutch expedition led by Willem Cornelis Schouten and Jacob Le Maire from 1615 to 1617 was the sixth recorded circumnavigation of the globe. During their journey,…

Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: 29/09/2024 Date Acquired: 7/4/2005 Dealers ID No.: M512/1 (STK1507.01) Description: This double-hemisphere world map is the first of two engraved by Jodocus Hondius I for the Parisian publisher Jean Le Clerc, with the second rendered in an oval projection (#110). The map exists in three distinct…

Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 7/10/2008 Dealers ID No.: M901/1 (STK 1768.01) Description: Issued around 1664, this double-hemisphere world map is a re-working of an earlier map published around 1650 by Jacob Colom. Hendrick Doncker replaced Coloms name with his own in the title cartouche, but left…

Acquired From: Gowrie Galleries Colouring: Coloured Condition: Very Good Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 11/11/2010 Dealers ID No.: M325 (STK 1802.01) on verso BHZ6556 Description: his double-hemisphere world map was first published c.1650 in Amsterdam by Paulus Aertsz van Ravesteyn for inclusion in editions of the Dutch Statenbijbel. It is regarded by Simon Dewez as a…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 2/12/2016 Description: This set of six engraved globe gores was produced by Vincenzo Coronelli in Venice in 1690 for a terrestrial globe measuring 110 cm (42 inches) in diameter. The gores form part of the Libro dei Globi ("Book of Globes") and depict…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 19/2/2017 Description: Benedetto Bordone, a Paduan-born miniaturist and illustrator active in Venice, is best known for his Isolario (Book of Islands), a landmark compendium first published in 1528. Drawing on classical geographies, medieval travel narratives, and early exploration accounts, Bordones Isolario catalogues 111…

Acquired From: Leen Helmink Colouring: Uncoloured Condition: Excellent Confirmed: Yes Date Acquired: 7/9/2016 Description: Published in Amsterdam in 1606, this richly illustrated map is one of the earliest printed world maps by Willem Janszoon Blaeu, a leading figure in Dutch cartography. It is based on a large twenty-sheet Mercator-projection world map issued by Blaeu in…