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Americae Mappa generalis.
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- Maker :
- HOMANN HEIRS. / HAAS, J.M.
- Place :
- Nuremberg
- Date :
- 1746
- Color :
- Colored
- Height mm.:
- 465
- Width mm.:
- 535
- Condition :
- Repair of split lower part center fold, 3cm. Into engraved area, hardly notable. Good impression.
- Bibliography :
- Lowery Collection #383. Wagner #1746.
- Seller's ref. :
- 26071
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Description
Johann Baptist Homann's well-engraved second map of America has a large decorative cartouche. Detailed map of the western hemisphere.The interior of North America has new details supplied by the Jesuits, especially along the Mississippi River and English and Dutch information along the coast.
The Great Lakes after D'Anville. The NW Coast of America and NW Passage are still unknown. Quivira -the legendary land of gold and silver- is shown considerably east of its normal location.
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[John Smith caught by the French.]
In 1615, during one of John Smith’s voyages across the Atlantic, he was caught by some French pirates. While at sea in captivity he was forced to suffer great hardships but, one night during a storm in the Bay of Biscay when the crew were forced below deck, he managed to escape in a rowing boat. All night he was tossed about by the waves with only a pike to help him steer. The small boat was eventually driven ashore on the island of Charante where some bird-catchers found him almost dead from ...
€75
Maker : GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
Place : Frankfurt, M.Merian
Date : 1633
Carte d'Amerique dressée par l'usage du Roy..
Fine map prepared by G.d'Isle depicting North and south America, the west coast taken north to Cap Mendocin and Cap Blanc with a note Entrée decouverte par Martin d'Aguilar .The re-engraved Amsterdam edition, with the lettering within the title cartouche copied from the issue of the first edition with the florid lettering for d'Amerique. Dated 1739.
€700
Maker : COVENS, J. / MORTIER, C.
Place : Amsterdam
Date : 1739
Karte von den N.W. Amerikanischen und N.OE. Asiatischen Kusten nach den Untersuchungen des Kapit. Cook...
A detailed large-scale map showing the Bering Strait, Kamchatka, Alaska and much of North America. While the Russian coastline is shown with reasonable accuracy. Showing tracks of Captain Cook. Prepared by Heinrich Roberts.A German language variant of Cook’s map of his explorations along the northwest coast of America and the northeast coast of Asia. Based upon original work by Cook’s cartographer Henry Roberts. Vancouver Island is missing. Shows several lakes west of Hudson Bay in what is...
€900
Maker : SCHRAEMBL, F.A.
Place : Vienna
Date : 1788
Gallia.
Small map of France, surrounded by text in Dutch. Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver and publisher in Delft from 1599-1621.Included in the rare book : Wereld Spiegel, waer in vertoontword de Beschryvinge der Rijken Staten, ende vorstendommen des gantsen Aerdbodems… which was a Dutch translation of "Les estats, empires et principautez de monde" by Pierre Davity.The map is engraved by Jodocus Hondius before 1616 and first published in Petrus Bertius' revised pocket atlas Tab...
€70
Maker : DE CLERCK, N.
Place : Amsterdam, Cloppenburch
Date : 1621
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