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appeared in editions of the “Cosmographia” and “Geographia” from 1540 onwards. It is an oval
projection surrounded by clouds and wind-heads with their names in banners. In the oceans are
depicted wales & sea monsters. The continents are in rough outline. In the lower left corner the
woodcutter’s initials DK (David Kandel).
Ref.
Shirley 92.
1014
[World]
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Die erst General Tafel / die Beschreibung und den Circkel des gantzen Erdrichs und
Meers innhaltende
. -
Ptolemeisch General Tafel/diehalbe Kugel der welt begreffende
. Basel, S.
Petri, from S. Münster’s “Cosmographia”, 1614-ed., 32,5 x 36,5 cm, hand col. (somewhat browned
& soiled as usual, sm. clear stains, marg. tear). Good copies.
€ 500/700
1.
Attractive oval woodcut map showing the “modern” world in the later issues of Münster’s
“Cosmographia”. Title in gothic. Corners decorated by a florid vine leaf patern.
2.
Fair example
of Munster’s second ancient map of the World, based upon the writings of Ptolemy. The traditional
classical world is surrounded by clouds and 12 wind-heads (their Latin names in banners). The
continents have unexpected shapes and are all connected by a great southern continent, “Terra
incognito secundum Ptolemaeum”.
Sharp & clean copies without
a heavy
shining through of
verso
as usual.
Ref.
Shirley, World 163.
1015
[World]
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Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula =Wahre Bildtnüss
des Gantzen Erden Krayses mit allen seinen theilen
. Frankfurt a. M., Merian, after 1638, 26 x 36
cm, borderline col. (sl. soiled margins).
Cfr. ill.
€ 300/400
World in Mercator projection with 2 small inset polar spheres underneath. Interior of North America
largely unknown.
Ref.
Shirley 345.
1016
[World]
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Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula. Auct. Henr.
Hondio
. Amsterdam, Hondius, 1630, 38,5 x 54,5 cm, hand-coloured (sl. splitt. c’fold rep., sl. soiled
margins, sm. chip of lower corners torn off). Nice copy.
Cfr. ill.
€ 2500/3500
State 1 of this double-hemisphere world map, French text on verso, embellished with cart., ships
and sea monsters, decorative borders with vignettes of the 4 elements and portrait medallions of
Caesar, Ptolemy, Mercator and Jodocus Hondius in the corners.
Ref.
Shirley 336.
1017
[World]
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Universalis tabula iuxta Ptolemaeum
. S.l., Mercator, before 1619, 34,5 x 48,3 cm,
orig. col. (some offsetting of green, browned margins, 2 tiny pinholes near c’fold). Good copy.
€ 400/600
Nice map of the Ptolemaic world by Mercator himself. First published in 1578 in his first atlas
“Tabula Geographicae Cl. Ptolemaei Ad Mentem Autoris Restitutae Et Emendatae Per Gerardum
Mercatorem” with subsequent editions in Cologne (1584), in Frankfurt and Amsterdam (1605) and
in Leiden and Amsterdam (1618-1619).
1018
[Varia]
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Lot of 16 maps & views
, 17th-20th c., various sizes, authors and techniques. Some soiling
& staining, some edges frayed, etc. In general good copy.
€ 200/300
Variety of mostly iconographicaly interesting plates.
Maps
: Carte du théâtre de la guerre entre
l’Autriche la Russie et la Porte. L.J.U., 18th c. - Toneel des oorlogs (...) Tartaren. Utrecht, Broedelet,
1743. - Les courans des riviers de Meuse de Mozel et de la Sar ou se trouvent le Luxembourg
et l’Archevêché de Trèves. Paris, Nolin, 1787, bordercol. Poor copy. - Map of Durham. London,
Stockdale, 1805, 40 x 52 cm, bordercol. - Plan à vol d’oiseau de la ville. Ghent, Ed. Maison
Heins, 1910, 49 x 32 cm, printed in col. (margins sl. soiled, tiny holes near c’fold underlaid, verso
dusty, right upper corner replaced, folds). Interesting map. Rare map of Ghent with the canal to
Terneuzen. etc. -
Views
: Panorama de Naples. Interesting circular panorama. Anon., 29,5 x 45 cm,
some staining & soiling. - Vue d’une ferme au dessus de St Maur. Col. engr. - Battle scenes, costume
(France, 17th c. orig. col.?), popular print (circus, early 19th c.) etc.