Zee caerte vande Sondt tvermaerste van Danemarcke . . .
A detailed chart of the coast of Denmark and its islands, Copenhagen in the center of the chart. West to the top. It is decorated by a title, scale and descriptive cartouche, a compass rose, several vessels and sea monsters, and depictions of mountains, fields, trees, small villages and animals.The chart shows soundings, sandbanks, landmarks and coastal profiles.Chart from an early Dutch text edition of this landmark contribution to the science of navigation. Waghenaer's own experiences as a pil...
$3.000
Maker : WAGHENAER, L. J.
Place : Leiden, Plantijn
Date : 1585
Pascarte van Europa Beginnende vande Canael tot aen Spitbergen, en van Ysland tot aen Nova Zemla . . .
An eye-catching chart of northern Europe with a coastline from northern Russia to the Dutch English Channel in the south. Good detail on Iceland. North to the top.In the upper left corner an inset map of Spitzbergen. Illuminated manuscripts had often been produced in pen and wash with a very limited color range, and many artists such as Jean Pucelle and Matthew Paris specialized in such work, which had been especially common in England since Anglo-Saxon times.Renaissance artists such as Mantegna...
$3.750
Maker : VAN KEULEN, J.
Place : Amsterdam
Date : after 1666
![[Lot of 8 maps and prints] Norvegiae Maritimae ab Elf-burgo ad Dronten / Pascaert van Noorwegen streckende van Elf-burg tot Dronten.](/uploads/cache/84130-500x500.jpg)
[Lot of 8 maps and prints] Norvegiae Maritimae ab Elf-burgo ad Dronten / Pascaert van Noorwegen streckende van Elf-burg tot Dronten.
Norvegiae Maritimae ab Elf-burgo ad Dronten / Pascaert van Noorwegen streckende van Elf-burg tot Dronten.Frederick de Wit's fine sea chart of southern Norway. An attractive sea chart of southern Norway and Sweden, richly embellished with a stunning large decorative title cartouche, showing the drying of cod. A lot of 8 maps including:-Carte du Detroit de Waeigats ou de Nassau 1758 -Partie de la Mer Glaciale 1758 -RVGIA VSEDO MIAE ET IVLINAE -Carte du Spits-Berg 1758 -Carte Des Pais Habites parÂ...
€900
Maker : DE WIT, Frederick.
Place : Amsterdam
Date : 1675