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954
[Africa]
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Novissima et perfectissima Africae descriptio ex formis Caroli Allard
. Amst., Allard,
Tideman del., v. Gouwen sculps., c. 1700, 50 x 60 cm, cont. col. (narrow margins, splitt. c’fold,
some minor soiling). Good copy.
€ 220/280
Nice map North at top, title within monument-shaped cart. surrounded by decorative vignette,
depicting a woman, as an allegorical representation of Africa, with children, a lion, an ostrich and
a crocodile.
Ref.
Betz, The mapping of Africa, 162. Koeman All 3, 54.
955
[America]
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Americae sive Novi Orbis, nova descriptio
. Basel, S. Petri, from S. Münster’s
“Cosmographia”, 1614, 31,5 x 36,5 cm, hand col. (margins somewhat browned & soiled as usual,
clear marg. waterstain, tiny hole in lower margin). Very good copy.
Cfr. ill.
€ 500/700
Attractive woodcut map showing the Americas, North up. On top: “Die newen Inseln/ so hinder
Hispaniam gegen Orient/ bey dem Landt Indie gelegen”. From the revised ed. of 1614. The map is
based on the Ortelius map of 1570 showing also the large unknown southern continent (Antarctica).
Ref.
Burden 67.
956
[Asia - China]
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Set of 6 maps of China
, early 20th c., various sizes and authors, 3 maps dissected
and mounted on linen. General good condition.
€ 150/250
Most interesting set consisting of: Théâtre des opérations en Chine. Environs de Pékin (...). Service
Géographique de l’Armée, 75 x 103,5 cm (some tiny pinholes in the corners). - Province of Chih-li
(Southern sheet), Southampton, Ordnance Survey Office, 1906, revised June 1909, 72 x 77,5 cm
(marg. tears). - Compagnie impériale des chemins de fer chinois. Ligne de Pékin à Hankow. Anon.,
107 x 56 cm, full-col. print, Chinese and French text (hole on a fold separation). - Karte von Ost-
China. Peking (-Mukden. - Peking). Kartographische Abteilung d. Preuss. Landes, 1901, 55/55/143
x 66,5 cm, full-col. print, mounted on linen. - Provenance: Lambert Jadot (1875-1867) resident in
China from 1902 to 1908, Mgr. Jean Jadot (his son,1909-2009), Louis de Strycker.
957
[Asia]
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Asia recens summa cura delineata. Auctore Henr. Hondio
. Amsterdam, Janssonius,
1644-58, German ed., 37,7 x 49,7 cm, orig. bright col. (some clear offsetting). Very good copy.
€ 240/300
Nice map with nice cartouche and dedication to Lubinus by Hondius. 3 vessels in the Chinese sea,
elephant in India and lions in the African part.
Ref.
Van der Krogt 8000:1D.4.
958
[Asia]
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Asiae V Tab:
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Asiae X Tab:
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Asiae IX Tab:
. Mercator, c. 1600, 47 x 35 cm, orig. col.
(offsetting, marg. staining, marg. tears, on 1 map running into the plate & rep.).
€ 200/400
Ptolemaic maps with decorative title cart. of Asia: modern-day Iran, Iraq and part of Armenia (V),
India, Pakistan & Afganistan (IX) and India (X).
959 [Asia]
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Troisième partie d’Asie, contenant la Sibérie et quelques autres parties de la Tartarie
.
d’Anville, 1753, printed on 2 sheets, each 52,4 x 54,7 cm, full-col. (sl. frayed upper edge, strong
impression). Very good copy.
€ 200/300
Interesting, nicely coloured, map (cart. uncoloured) of
Siberia & Tartary
with
Nova Zembla
in the
North, the Caspian Sea in the South-West and
Japan
in the East. (2 pcs)
960
[Belgium - Aalst]
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Alostum, urbs Flandrie imperatoriae firmissima
. Cologne, Braun &
Hogenberg, c. 1590, 33,2 x 42,4 cm, orig. full col. (tiny marg. hole, sl. browning edges). Very good
copy.
€ 120/150
We join
: Alostum vulgo Aelst. Guicciardini, c. 1670, 11 x 13,3 cm. Very good copy. (2 pcs)