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Mercator Atlas
One of the most important atlases in history
Mercator Gerard. Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura. Denuo auctus Edition Quarta. Amsterdam, J. Hondius, 1619. Fourth edition, folio (485 x 315 mm), French text, engraved title, double-page portrait of Mercator and Hondius, 4 engraved sectional titles and 156 mapsheets in fine original colour, contemporary vellum.
Item number: 24330
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Fries - Ptolemy Atlas - 1541
Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini Geographicae Enarrationis Libri Octo Ex Bilibaldo Pirckeymheri Tra[ns]latione, Sed Ad Graeca & Prisca Exemplaria À Michaële Villanovano Secundo Recogniti & Locis Innumeris Denuo Castigati. ... Prostant Lugduni Apud Hugonem À Porta. [Hughes de la PORTE] Gaspar Trechsel Excvdebat Viennae. [rule] M D XLI. Folio, (405 x 280 mm), 18th cent. vellum binding. Letterpress title with large woodcut printer's device, 49 double-page woodcut maps and one single-page map, text with 4 large woodcut diagrams and 2 full-page woodcuts of a diagram and armillary sphere showing the projection of the winds, woodcut initials.
Item number: 04237
de LAET, Jean (1593-1649). L'Histoire du Nouveau monde ou Description des Indes occidentales,
The most accurate description of the Americas at the time - 1640
de LAET, Jean (1593-1649). L'Histoire du Nouveau monde ou Description des Indes occidentales, contenant dix-huict livres... Enrichi de nouvelles Tables géographiques & Figures des Animaux, Plantes & Fruits. Leiden: Bonaventure & Abraham Elzevier, 1640.
Folio (345 x 220 mm) 14 double-page engraved maps, 64 woodcut illustrations in text; two maps age-toned, one sheet (O1) with a corner torn off, modern imitation binding, spine richly gilt with six raised bands, marbled sheepskin, marbled edge. Title printed in red and black with woodcut printer's vignette.
Item number: 04230
Ortelius A. Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Antwerp, J.B. Vrients, 1603.
An exceptional Ortelius atlas in black morocco with the coat of arms of the city of DANZIG (Gdansk - Poland).
A. ORTELIUS. Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Tabula aliquot novis vitaq(ue) auctoris illustratum. Editio ultima. (With Parergon and Nomenclator). Two engraved titlepages, portrait and 156 doublepage maps. Antwerp, J.B. Vrients, 1603. Folio, (binding 49 x 33 cm).
Item number: 21653
F. De Wit - J. Covens & C. Mortier, Atlas Maior.
F. De Wit - Covens & Mortier. Atlas Maior. Amsterdam, J. Covens & C. Mortier, c.1730. Modern half-calf, folio (55 x 35 cm), new endpapers. Engraved title page + 73 contemporary coloured maps (2 folding) from De Wit, Ottens, Covens & Mortier, Schenck, Visscher, Valck, Jaillot, etc.. + 3 tables with two inset maps.
Item number: 24280
Ptolemaeus Cl., Geographia. Venice, 1562.
Ptolemaeus Cl., Geographia. Venice, Valgrisis, 1562.
4to. Contemporary limp overlapping vellum (somewhat wrinkled), 3 parts in one vol., woodcut device on title and 64 double-page engraved maps after Gastaldi, numerous diagrams in the text.
Item number: 21604
Blaeu W. & J., Le Théâtre du Monde ...
First French text edition of the three volume Blaeu Atlas
BLAEU W. & J. Le theatre du monde ou Nouvel Atlas contenant les chartes et descriptions de tous les païs de la terre mis en lumiere par Guillaume et Jean Blaeu. Amsterdam, 1640-43, 3 vol. folio (500 x 320 mm) 6 engraved architectural titles (heigthened with gold), and 273 mostly double-page engraved maps, contemporary hand colour, contemporary gilt-panelled vellum. Occasional browning, some light marginal staining, binding soiled. (Van der Krogt 2, 211)
Item number: 04239
Magini G.A. Italia, 1620
First edition of the first printed atlas of Italy.
MAGINI G.A. Italia. Bologna: Sebastiano Bonomi, 1620.
Folio, engraved allegorical title by Olivero Gatto printed within typographical border, 61 engraved maps as called for in index (all but 3 double-page), in fine dark impression, engraved portrait of Magini, text on 15 leaves. Seventeenth-century red morocco, gilt, sides panelled in gilt and blind, gilt edges. A few marginal repairs, some occasional marginal soiling.
Item number: 04238
Blaeu, Townbook of the Northern Netherlands
The greatest of the Dutch townbooks in a magnificent contemporary colouring
BLAEU Joan. Novum Ac Magnum Theatrum Urbium Belgicae Liberae Ac Foederatae, Ad praesentis temporis faciem expressum A Ioanne Blaeu, Amstelaedamensi.
Amsterdam: W. & J. Blaeu, [1649]. Second Latin edition. Engraved title page (old coloured and heightened in gold) + 139 mostly double-page plates, all finely coloured by a contemporary hand. Original Dutch publisher's atlas binding in maroon leather gilt (restored), gilt-panelled with large central gilt arabesque, spine in eight compartments with raised bands, gilt edges. Collector's stamp "Walter Ashburner - Firenze" on frontispice and on last page, the same owner signature on the back of the front cover dated "Firenze,1908".
Item number: 21657
Braun & Hogenberg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum
The most famous cities atlas: Braun and Hogenberg's magnificent collection of town map engravings
BRAUN & HOGENBERG, Civitates Orbis Terrarium. Part I, II and III in 1 vol. Cologne, Gottfried von Kempen (Part I & II), 1575 and Bertram Buchholtz (Part III), 1593. Latin text. With 3 engraved title-pages, 176 engraved plates, depicting 300 cities (one plate with coat of arms): detailed perspective town plans and views, all beautiful coloured by contemporary hands. Calf binding, restored, new spine (original spine preserved), covers gilt paneled with central arabesque motifs.
Item number: 24226
Vandermaelen Ph. Atlas Universel. 1827.
The first world atlas produced by the printing process of lithography
Vandermaelen Philippe. Atlas universel de geographie, physique, politique, statistique et mineralogique. Brussels, Ph. Vandermaelen, 1827. 6 volumes, folio. (53.5 x 37 cm). 7 index maps, one chart of comparative altitudes of mountains, and 381 double-page lithographed maps by Henri Ode and Vandermaelen with original hand-colour in outline. Occasional minor foxing, a few maps lightly age-toned. Contemporary half sheepskin, marbled paper boards.
Item number: 24277
Price: €26000 ($33020 / £20540)
Strabo, Rerum Geographicum Libri Septemdecim. Basel, 1571.
Nice copy of Strabo's Geographica, an encyclopedia of the geographical knowledge of Strabo's time.
STRABO (63 BC - c. AD 24) Rerum Geographicum Libri Septemdecim. Basel: Ex officina Henricpetrina, 1571. Folio, contemporary brown sheep, rubbed. With 27 double-page woodcut maps by S. Münster, including 3 repeats and 7 smaller woodcut maps in the text. Nice copy.
Item number: 21593