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Parisius & Maguncia. [Paris & Munich] Folio XXXIX
Imaginary view of Paris and on verso Munich : however the earliest obtainable views of this period.In the forground a large vessel, who was the symbol of the powerful corporate body of the Marchands de l'eau, and is dating back to the Middle Ages. The city motto, "Fluctuat nec mergitur" ("It is beaten by the waves without being submerged") is equally a reference to this vessel. The first mention of coat of arms of Paris with the vessel appears as early as 1190 when Philippe Augustus gave the des...
€900
Maker : SCHEDEL, H.
Place : Nuremberg
Date : 12 July 1493
Page from La Cosmographie Universelle with map of France. (Page 160)
Text page with woodblock map of ancient France (122 x 163 mm.) In 1575 Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia was translated into French and published in Paris by François de Belle-Forest.
€75
Maker : DE BELLE-FOREST, F.
Place : Paris
Date : 1575
Novus de Leone Belgico eiusq topographia atq. Historica descriptione liber (…). Rerumque in Belgio maxime gestarum, inde ab anno Christi M.D.LIX. Usque ad annum M.D.LXXXVII perpetua narratione continatus.
ENLARGED EDITION, with 207 (of 208) engravings of a famous eyewitness account of the Dutch Revolt, with the famous "Leo Belgicus" map, here in its second state. One of the major sources for the history of the Low Countries during the beginning of their struggle for independence. This history of the religious wars in Belgium and Holland from 1559-87 is illustrated with Hogenberg's engravings (from his "Geschichtsblättern"), whereby the engravings for this edition were printed without the lower ...
$39.000
Maker : AITSINGER (EYZINGER), Michael von.
Place : Cologne, Gerardus Campensis for Frans Hogenberg
Date : 1588
Valencena . . .
Eye-bird view of Valenciennes.
€55
Maker : GUICCIARDINI, L.
Place : Anvers
Date : 1590
Plants Lantor, Assa, Pimenta, Mangostan and Pepper.
Lantor is a kind of coconut palm (or Indian nut) with fronds as long as a human body. These fronds are used as paper. Pimenta del Rabo (or cubebe) grows grape-like on trees and is held in such esteem by the Indians that they cook and preserve them, rather than sell them to other countries. Also shown is the Tamarind tree or Assa, the plant Talasse grows in Java, and the Mangostan fruit and the black pepper is called ‘Sahang’ in Java.Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a...
€80
Maker : DE BRY, Th.
Place : Frankfurt
Date : 1598
Burgundiae Ducatus.
Map of Burgundy region without text on the verso. Second state with the date 1597 removed from the title cartouche. This is the rarest Burgundy map of the four that Ortelius made.
€500
Maker : ORTELIUS, A.
Place : Antwerp
Date : after 1612
Artois. Atrebatum Regionis Vera Descripto.
Prepared by Jacob Surhon who made a manuscript map of Artois for which he received 36 Livres from Charles V in 1554. For security reasons the map was not published. Only in 1579, when Antwerp was independent for a short time, Ortelius used the map for publication in his atlas.This is the last and very rare state with the signature of Theodorus Galle.
€500
Maker : ORTELIUS, A. / GALLE, Th.
Place : Antwerp, after 1612
Date : 1612
Burgundiae Ducatus. Burgundiae Comitatus.
Separately issued map of Burgundy area. Two maps of Burgundy region on a plate. Separately published map, without text on the verso. Second state with the date 1597 removed from the title cartouche. This is the rarest Burgundy map of the four that Ortelius made.
€500
Maker : ORTELIUS, A.
Place : Antwerp
Date : after 1612
Provinciae, Regionis Galliae, vera exactissimaq. descriptio. Provence Petro Ioanne Bomparioo auctore.
A finely engraved map of the Province prepared by Pierre-Jean de Bompar who published a single sheet map of the Province in 1591. Title cartouche in the upper left-hand corner. Engraved by Baptista Doetichum.
€500
Maker : HONDIUS, J. / DOETECOM, B.
Place : Amsterdam
Date : 1613
Nieuw Nederlandtsch Caertboeck. Waer in volkomentlijcker als oyt te voren vertoont werden de XVII. Nederlanden.
Rare first edition of this atlas of the provinces of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg. Engraved title page, with : "Gedruckt t' Amsterdam by Abraham Goos Plaetsnyder wonende op den Dam in 't vergulde Caertboeck.Our atlas is conform to the copy described in Koeman/Krogt : "One copy is known of the B-edition without text (Brussel KB IV). All maps in this copy are in the second variant".A. Goos published on his own a single atlas, the " Nieuw Nederlandtsch Caertboeck" with 23 maps. He receive...
$3.000
Maker : GOOS, A.
Place : Amsterdam
Date : 1616
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
Bresse.
Early map of Eastern France and part of Switzerland. Geneva in upper right corner. With Latin text on verso. Engraved by Petrus Kaerius. Shortly after the publication of big folio-atlases the need was apparently felt for a smaller sized atlas, one that would be handier and, above all, cheaper. Joh. Cloppenburgh published in 1630 a atlas based on Mercator's pocket map, but in a slightly larger size. He published a Latin text edition in 1632.
€50
Maker : CLOPPENBURGH, J.E.
Place : Amsterdam
Date : 1632
Belovacium comitatus.
Early map centered north of Paris. With Latin text on verso. Engraved by Petrus Kaerius. Shortly after the publication of big folio-atlases the need was apparently felt for a smaller sized atlas, one that would be handier and, above all, cheaper. Joh. Cloppenburgh published in 1630 a atlas based on Mercator's pocket map, but in a slightly larger size. He published a Latin text edition in 1632.
€75
Maker : CLOPPENBURGH, J.E.
Place : Amsterdam
Date : 1632
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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
Freti Magellanici ac novi Freti vulgo Le Maire. . .
A fine map of Tierra del Fuego. With an explanatory text of the passage by Barent Jansz. Potgieter who accompanied captain Sebald de Weert to the Straits in 1599/1600, being the first Dutch vessels to sail through the Strait of Magellan, in Latin and Dutch.After various English voyages, the Dutch appeared in the Strait of Magellan in 1599. One of the Dutch pioneering voyages to the Southwest was the one by Jacques Mahu and Simon de Cordes, who were sent out by Rotterdam merchants. The five ships...
€800
Maker : HONDIUS, H.
Place : Amsterdam
Date : ca. 1633
Carte du siège présidial Dax et seneschaucee des Lannes et des sieges de Bayonne sainct sever et Tartas qui en dependent Nouvellement dessignee Par le Sr de Classun.
Very rare map including Bayonne and Dax in the south west of France. With inset plan of "Plan de la ville Dax.". Engraved by Henri le Roy. With the address "Chez F. DLa Pointe sur le quay de l'horloge".
€900
Maker : DELA POINTE, F.
Place : Paris
Date : 1638
Nova Hispania et Nova Galicia.
Map of New Spain and New Galicia shows the city of Mexico situated by a large lake, as well as the location of many silver and gold mines. The map's elaborate cartouche is surmounted by the Spanish Royal coat of arms. Based on Ortelius map of 1579 which became the basis for many of the seventeenth century maps of the area. From early on Willem Jansz. Blaeu aimed of publishing an atlas to compete with the Hondius-Jansson Atlas. By 1630, he had published at least 17 folio size maps. Blaeu was ab...
€850
Maker : BLAEU, W.
Place : Amsterdam
Date : 1644
Insulae Divi Martini et Uliarus, vulgo L'Isle de Ré.. Oleron.
Map of Ré and Oléron islands. Depicting the west coast of France, showing La Rochelle. Several vessels and sailing ships dot the Atlantic ocean.Three windroses indicate north to the left. Embellished with sea goddess and monsters. From early on Willem Jansz. Blaeu aimed of publishing an atlas to compete with the Hondius-Jansson Atlas. By 1630, he had published at least 17 folio size maps. Blaeu was able to realize his plan soon after he had acquired the copper plates of the atlas maps by Jod...
€950
Maker : BLAEU, J.
Place : Amsterdam
Date : 1644
Britannia Ducatus. Duché de Bretaigne.
Map of Bretagne in France. From early on Willem Jansz. Blaeu aimed of publishing an atlas to compete with the Hondius-Jansson Atlas. By 1630, he had published at least 17 folio size maps. Blaeu was able to realize his plan soon after he had acquired the copper plates of the atlas maps by Jodocus Hondius. The "Appendix followed in 1630.In 1635 he finally realized a "international edition" of a world atlas, the "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum".
€650
Maker : BLAEU, W.
Place : Amsterdam
Date : 1644
Paraguayo prov. de Rio de La Plata cum regionibus..
A beautiful map of Paraguay, and parts of Peru, Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia. Much of the area was still "Terra Incognita" so there are few towns and cities shown. The Andes are clearly shown to the west as well as the river systems.The Renaissance cartouche adds a special decorative accent to the map. The small cartouche in the lower right gives the name of the publisher. From early on Willem Jansz. Blaeu aimed of publishing an atlas to compete with the Hondius-Jansson Atlas. By 1630, ...
€600
Maker : BLAEU, W.
Place : Amsterdam
Date : 1644