A beautiful set of four continents by Gerald Valck. Each map shows, in detail, the extent of the exploration of the world in 1700. Each map has separate decorated cartouches for the title and the scales. The map of the Americas has a vignette at lower right of encounters between Europeans and ...

Dimensions (W x H): 58.5 x 50 / 23 x 19½

Double hemisphere Mappe Monde with nine medallion portraits of explorers, California as an island. Title at top.

Dimensions (W x H): 33 x 22.5 / 13 x 9

Map of the Americas, with California as an island. Title cartouche at lower left. Dedication cartouche with fleur-de-lys at top left, and scale at lower right.

Dimensions (W x H): 33 x 22.5 / 13 x 9

An unusual and very attractive pair of engravings. One showing a terrestrial globe and a celestial globe. The other one of an armillary sphere showing four systems (the Copernican, Ptolemaic, Tycho-Brahe and composed systems).Nicolas de Fer (1646-1720) was the youngest son of Parisian print and ...

Dimensions (W x H): 28 x 21 / 11 x 8½

An unusual engraving of three globes on a table. At centre is an armillary sphere, the ‘Sphere Artificielle’ flanked by two smaller globes - a terrestrial globe, and a celestial globe. Text at the top below title describes the Sphere Artificielle ‘It is an instrument that represents the ...

Dimensions (W x H): 32 x 22.5 / 12½ x 9

Interesting map of Africa, showing lakes Zaire and Zeflin. Title cartouche and scale, and dedication at lower right.

Dimensions (W x H): 33 x 22.5 / 13 x 9

Map of Europe. Title cartouche at upper left. Dedication cartouche with fleur-de-lys at top right.

Dimensions (W x H): 33 x 22.5 / 13 x 9

Map of Asia. Title cartouche at upper right. Dedication cartouche with fleur-de-lys at upper left, and scale at lower right. The map mistakenly calls New Guinea ‘Nouvelle Zealand’.

Dimensions (W x H): 31.5 x 22.5 / 12½ x 9