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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
Europa recens descripta à Guilielmo Blaeuw.
On either side columns depicting the manner of dress in the major countries of Europe, surmounted by nine city views and plans.For European mapmakers their own continent contained few mysteries or secrets by the seventeenth century. However, the mythical island of Frisland still appears between Iceland and Greenland. The map is decorated with ships and a sea monster on the sea, bears on northern Russia, and lions on North Africa.
€3.250
Maker : BLAEU, W.
Place : Amsterdam
Date : 1644
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Boertige reis door Europa. . . [with] Europa volgens de nieuwste verdeeling. . .
Rare illustrated publication including a rare map of Europe as a regal queen with the title "Geheimzinnige toebereidselen tot eene boertige reis door Europa. [...] voorgeleezen in [...] de maatschappij der verdiensten, onder de spreuk: Felix Meritis. / By A. Fokke Simonsz".The book contains a map of Europe (168x2369mm.) engraved by H.Klockhoff and a cartographical curiosity, "Europa volgens de nieuwste verdeeling...", Europe as a regal queen but with an interesting twist and political commentary...
€1.900
Maker : BOHN, F.
Place : Haarlem
Date : 1794
L'Europe en Sept 1939. Ille terrarum mihi angulus ridet.
A rare oversized serio-comic map of Europe at the start of the Second World War depicting stereotypes of 31 countries, as listed in the key lower right, including Britain as a woman with battleships on leads; France as Marianne, leading her troops into battle; Germany, with a swastika sash, stabbing a female Poland; and Russia as a Cossack holding a hammer and sickle, his arm around a large brown bear. Very scarce, although as mentioned on the map 150 were printed, only three, nos. 8, 9, 10, 13...
€9.000
Maker : VLAANDEREN, Cornelis André
Place : Bruges, Leon Burghgraeve
Date : 1939