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Interesting map in two parts. The Western Australia map shows from Perth, south to Albany, with county borders and sketchy geographical detail, supplemented by text on map - ‘Abundance of Kangaroos’ or ‘rich red loam.’The Tasmanian map shows the northern coast and the strip down to Hobart in ...
Dimensions (W x H): 39 x 31.5 / 15½ x 12½
Dimensions (W x H): 39 x 31.5 / 15½ x 12½
£120
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HONDIUS, Jodocus
A beautiful miniature map of the south east counties of England. Jodocus Hondius’ edition of Mercator’s map.
Dimensions (W x H): 26 x 19.5 / 10 x 8
£120
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BOWEN, Emannuel
Map of Denmark, the Skaggerak and western Baltic. Compass point, illustrated cartouche, showing a pair of horses in front of pine trees. Text below the cartouche states that ‘the sea coast is laid down.....according to....... van Keulen. The inland parts are chiefly taken from DeLisle’
Dimensions (W x H): 22.3 x 31.5 / 9 x 12½
£245
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This fascinating copperplate engraving comes from a famous work originally published in Dutch by the trade diplomat Jan Nieuhoff, but translated into English by the British mapmaker and publisher John Ogilby. The images provide a document of early western contact with China and come from the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 29.5 / 14 x 11½
Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 29.5 / 14 x 11½
£240
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This fascinating copperplate engraving comes from a famous work originally published in Dutch by the trade diplomat Jan Nieuhoff, but translated into English by the British mapmaker and publisher John Ogilby. The images provide a document of early western contact with China and come from the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 29 / 14 x 11½
Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 29 / 14 x 11½
£195
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Bertius, Petrus
Attractive little map of England and Wales, with title at top right. Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on mathematical, historical and theological subjects he is known as a cartographer for his editions of Ptolemy's ...
Dimensions (W x H): 13 x 9.5 / 5 x 3½
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ORTELIUS Abraham
A beautiful Ortelius map of England and Wales, based on earlier maps by Humphrey Lluyd and Mercator, with ornate strapwork title cartouche, flanked by two figures. Secondary cartouche with scales at top right. Stippled sea with ships and fishes. This is state two with corrected scale. Ref:Van den ...
Dimensions (W x H): 47 x 37.5 / 18½ x 15
£1800
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ORTELIUS Abraham
A beautiful map of the British Isles. North is to the right. Title in strapwork cartouche at top right, text in Latin, in its own cartouche at lower left, scale and royal arms. Ships at sea. It is difficult to put an exact date on the map, because of the complex publishing history of Ortelius’ ...
Dimensions (W x H): 34.5 x 50.5 / 13½ x 20
£350
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ORTELIUS, Abraham
Splendid map of the Artois region of north eastern France, from Calais to Cambrai. Magnificent strapwork title cartouche at upper right, scale with strapwork decorations at lower left. The dedicatory cartouche at left, identifies this plate as van den Broecke 74.
Dimensions (W x H): 48 x 36.5 / 19 x 14½
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VAN DEN KERRE, P.( Petrus Kaerius)
George Humble published this Atlas in 1627, known as the Speed Miniature Map. Of the 63 maps in the Atlas, 40 were from the original Van den Kerri plates, reworked, 16 were reduced from Speed and 7 were additional. The publication was very popular and there were further reissues up to 1676.
Dimensions (W x H): 12.2 x 8.6 / 5 x 3½
£220
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BERTIUS, Petrus
Attractive map of Brittany in France. Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on mathematical, historical and theological subjects he is known as a cartographer for his editions of Ptolemy's Geographia. In 1618 he moved ...
Dimensions (W x H): 13 x 9.5 / 5 x 3½
£220
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This fascinating copperplate engraving comes from a famous work originally published in Dutch by the trade diplomat Jan Nieuhoff, but translated into English by the British mapmaker and publisher John Ogilby. The images provide a document of early western contact with China and come from the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 33 x 22.5 / 13 x 9
Dimensions (W x H): 33 x 22.5 / 13 x 9
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BERTIUS, Petrus
Attractive view of the fabled ‘silver mountain’ whose seemingly limitless supplies of silver flooded Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on mathematical, historical ...
Dimensions (W x H): 13 x 9.5 / 5 x 3½
£245
![CEYLON [and the Maldive Islands].](itemImages/th_4440.jpg)
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Bertius, Petrus
Two maps on one sheet: Ceylon to the right and the Maldives to the left. Ships and sea-monsters. Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on mathematical, historical and theological subjects he is known as a cartographer ...
Dimensions (W x H): 13 x 9.5 / 5 x 3½
£450
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Aspin
/ THOMSON, John
Interesting sheet with four maps, that shows the extent of settlement in Australia in the early nineteenth century. The four maps are, in order of size: ‘Surveys in the Interior of New South Wales.’, ‘Van Diemen’s Land from the latest Authorities and Surveys.’, ‘British Settlements at Port ...
Dimensions (W x H): 60 x 50 / 23½ x 19½
£245
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BERTIUS, Petrus
Attractive little map of the Congo, ships and seamonster at sea, title cartouche to the right’, ‘Lunae montes’( Mountains of the Moon) erroneously placed to the south. Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on ...
Dimensions (W x H): 13 x 9.5 / 5 x 3½
£85
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VAN DEN KERRE, P.( Petrus Kaerius)
George Humble published this Atlas in 1627, known as the Speed Miniature Map. Of the 63 maps in the Atlas, 40 were from the original Van den Kerri plates, reworked, 16 were reduced from Speed and 7 were additional. The publication was very popular and there were further reissues up to 1676.
Dimensions (W x H): 12.2 x 8.6 / 5 x 3½
£275
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This fascinating copperplate engraving comes from a famous work originally published in Dutch by the trade diplomat Jan Nieuhoff, but translated into English by the British mapmaker and publisher John Ogilby. The images provide a document of early western contact with China and come from the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 29 / 14 x 11½
Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 29 / 14 x 11½
£275
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This fascinating copperplate engraving comes from a famous work originally published in Dutch by the trade diplomat Jan Nieuhoff, but translated into English by the British mapmaker and publisher John Ogilby. The images provide a document of early western contact with China and come from the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 35.5 x 29 / 14 x 11½
Dimensions (W x H): 35.5 x 29 / 14 x 11½
£245
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This fascinating copperplate engraving comes from a famous work originally published in Dutch by the trade diplomat Jan Nieuhoff, but translated into English by the British mapmaker and publisher John Ogilby. The images provide a document of early western contact with China and come from the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 29 / 14 x 11½
Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 29 / 14 x 11½
£60
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VAN DEN KERRE, P.( Petrus Kaerius)
George Humble published this Atlas in 1627, known as the Speed Miniature Map. Of the 63 maps in the Atlas, 40 were from the original Van den Kerri plates, reworked, 16 were reduced from Speed and 7 were additional. The publication was very popular and there were further reissues up to 1676.
Dimensions (W x H): 12.2 x 8.6 / 5 x 3½
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Bertius, Petrus
Beautiful little map of Elba, with title cartouche of Neptune’s mouth at top right, galley at top left and a seamonster at lower right. Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on mathematical, historical and theological ...
Dimensions (W x H): 13 x 9.5 / 5 x 3½
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Vertue, George
A handsome engraving by George Vertue of Anthony Van Dyck’s 1634 portrait of Charles I and his wife Henrietta. She looks towards the artist, and passes a crown of leaves to Charles, whose crown orb and sceptre sit on the table behind him. Text in latin along lower edge of engraving.
Dimensions (W x H): 57 x 42 / 22½ x 16½
£495
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ORTELIUS, Abraham
A beautiful decorative map. This plate replaces the earlier one and has the latitude numerals inside the border and Galliae Pars in large capitals next to the lower cartouche. Ref: Marcel P.R. van den Broecke, “Ortelius Atlas Maps” p 252 Entry: 200
Dimensions (W x H): 47.2 x 36.6 / 18½ x 14½
£1800
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LOON, Jan van (1649-86)
A magnificent map of the old world, divided into climatic zones with a highly decorative border. Containing cherubs, animals, diagrams and the title at top. Van Loon was an engraver and mathematician who mainly published charts and maps for pilot books and sea atlases.
Dimensions (W x H): 51 x 42 / 20 x 16½
£420
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Ortelius, Abraham
A beautiful, detailed map of Andalucia with battle ships and monsters in the sea. Strapwork cartouche. ‘ Geromino Chaves’ lost manuscript of Andalusia’ Ref: van den Broecke 28
Dimensions (W x H): 45.3 x 34.6 / 18 x 13½
£220
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Bertius, Petrus
Very attractive little map of the northern Adriatic near Trieste. Ships and monsters at sea. Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on mathematical, historical and theological subjects he is known as a cartographer for ...
Dimensions (W x H): 13 x 9.5 / 5 x 3½
£275
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This fascinating copperplate engraving comes from a famous work originally published in Dutch by the trade diplomat Jan Nieuhoff, but translated into English by the British mapmaker and publisher John Ogilby. The images provide a document of early western contact with China and come from the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 35.5 x 29 / 14 x 11½
Dimensions (W x H): 35.5 x 29 / 14 x 11½
£195
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BERTIUS, Petrus
Delightful little map of the island of Mozambique, discovered by Vasco da Gama in 1492. Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on mathematical, historical and theological subjects he is known as a cartographer for his ...
Dimensions (W x H): 13 x 9.5 / 5 x 3½
£245
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Bertius, Petrus
Mqp of the Italian island of Ischia. Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on mathematical, historical and theological subjects he is known as a cartographer for his editions of Ptolemy's Geographia. In 1618 he moved ...
Dimensions (W x H): 13 x 9.5 / 5 x 3½
£395
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Kaerius, Petrus
A bold map of Roman northern Italy based on the Ortelius map of the same name(Van den Broecke 206) Title cartouche at top left, two more cartouches containing lists of place names and lists of people. Annotations on map, Roman roads
Dimensions (W x H): 45 x 34 / 17½ x 5½
£220
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This fascinating copperplate engraving comes from a famous work originally published in Dutch by the trade diplomat Jan Nieuhoff, but translated into English by the British mapmaker and publisher John Ogilby. The images provide a document of early western contact with China and come from the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 29 / 14 x 11½
Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 29 / 14 x 11½
£220
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This fascinating copperplate engraving comes from a famous work originally published in Dutch by the trade diplomat Jan Nieuhoff, but translated into English by the British mapmaker and publisher John Ogilby. The images provide a document of early western contact with China and come from the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 29 / 14 x 11½
Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 29 / 14 x 11½
£445
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ORTELIUS, Abraham
Ornate map of Luxembourg, eastern Belgium and part of North Eastern France, with flamboyant strapwork decoration to title across upper centre. Decorated frame. The stippling around the scale identifies this as the later of two plates of the same subject. Ref: Van den Broecke 64.
Dimensions (W x H): 48.5 x 37.5 / 19 x 15
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Bertius, Petrus
TA fine little map of the Red Sea with Suez (north) to the right and Aden to the left. Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on mathematical, historical and theological subjects he is known as a cartographer for his ...
Dimensions (W x H): 13 x 9.5 / 5 x 3½
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This fascinating copperplate engraving, showing interior of a temple, comes from a famous work originally published in Dutch by the trade diplomat Jan Nieuhoff, but translated into English by the British mapmaker and publisher John Ogilby. The images provide a document of early western contact ...
Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 29 / 14 x 11½
Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 29 / 14 x 11½
£60
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VAN DEN KERRE, P.( Petrus Kaerius)
George Humble published this Atlas in 1627, known as the Speed Miniature Map. Of the 63 maps in the Atlas, 40 were from the original Van den Kerri plates, reworked, 16 were reduced from Speed and 7 were additional. The publication was very popular and there were further reissues up to 1676.
Dimensions (W x H): 12.2 x 8.6 / 5 x 3½
£245
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Bertius, Petrus
Attractive map of Turkey, including Cyprus and many of the Greek Islands, Cartouche at lower right. Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on mathematical, historical and theological subjects he is known as a ...
Dimensions (W x H): 13 x 9.5 / 5 x 3½
£185
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HUGHES, William
A clean, crisp engraving showing the coastline and rivers of New Zealand with two insets entitled “The Settled Portion of Western Australia.” and “Van Diemens Island.”
Dimensions (W x H): 27.4 x 38 / 11 x 15
£400
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ORTELIUS, Abraham
Based on the 1548 map by Jacques & Jean Surhonio, which for security reasons was never published. Only in 1579, when Antwerp was independent for a short time, did Ortelius publish it (van den Broecke 70). Strapwork cartouche, coats of arms, two scales
Dimensions (W x H): 49 x 37 / 19½ x 14½
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ORTELIUS, Abraham
Based on the 1548 map by Jacques and Jean Surhon, according to van der Broecke there were only one hundred copies of this map printed. Strapwork cartouche, coats of arms,two scales beadwork border Ref: van den Broecke 69
Dimensions (W x H): 50 x 38 / 19½ x 15
£350
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ORTELIUS, Abraham
Attractive map of area around Mauberge in France and Mons in Belgium. ‘Franciscus Hogenburgus ex archetypo coelabat 1572’ in the lower left corner identifies this as the rarest of the three plates of this region that Ortelius made. Van den Broecke surmises that ‘perhaps about 100 copies’ were ...
Dimensions (W x H): 50.5 x 37.5 / 20 x 15
£240
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This fascinating copperplate engraving comes from a famous work originally published in Dutch by the trade diplomat Jan Nieuhoff, but translated into English by the British mapmaker and publisher John Ogilby. The images provide a document of early western contact with China and come from the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 30 x 22 / 12 x 8½
Dimensions (W x H): 30 x 22 / 12 x 8½
£95
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VAN DEN KERRE, P.( Petrus Kaerius)
George Humble published this Atlas in 1627, known as the Speed Miniature Map. Of the 63 maps in the Atlas, 40 were from the original Van den Kerri plates, reworked, 16 were reduced from Speed and 7 were additional. The publication was very popular and there were further reissues up to 1676.
Dimensions (W x H): 12.2 x 8.6 / 5 x 3½
£285
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AA, Pieter van der.
Pieter van der Aa was apprenticed to a bookseller at the age of nine, and set up in business as a publisher at the age of 23. Over the following 50 years he produced a huge amount of Atlases and Ilustrated books. Les Delice de la Grand Bretagne, with text by his fellow Dutchman, James Beeverell, ...
Dimensions (W x H): 15.5 x 12.5 / 6 x 5
£85
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VAN DEN KERRE, P.( Petrus Kaerius)
George Humble published this Atlas in 1627, known as the Speed Miniature Map. Of the 63 maps in the Atlas, 40 were from the original Van den Kerri plates, reworked, 16 were reduced from Speed and 7 were additional. The publication was very popular and there were further reissues up to 1676.
Dimensions (W x H): 12.2 x 8.6 / 5 x 3½
£195
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Bertius, Petrus
Attractive little map of Poland, scales at top left, title cartouche at lower left. Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on mathematical, historical and theological subjects he is known as a cartographer for his ...
Dimensions (W x H): 13 x 9.5 / 5 x 3½
£275
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This fascinating copperplate engraving comes from a famous work originally published in Dutch by the trade diplomat Jan Nieuhoff, but translated into English by the British mapmaker and publisher John Ogilby. The images provide a document of early western contact with China and come from the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 35.5 x 29 / 14 x 11½
Dimensions (W x H): 35.5 x 29 / 14 x 11½
£60
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VAN DEN KERRE, P.( Petrus Kaerius)
George Humble published this Atlas in 1627, known as the Speed Miniature Map. Of the 63 maps in the Atlas, 40 were from the original Van den Kerri plates, reworked, 16 were reduced from Speed and 7 were additional. The publication was very popular and there were further reissues up to 1676.
Dimensions (W x H): 12.2 x 8 / 5 x 3
£245
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BERTIUS, Petrus
Map of ‘ Sabavida’, which covers the French Alps, or Chambery. Title cartouche at lower left. Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on mathematical, historical and theological subjects he is known as a cartographer for ...
Dimensions (W x H): 13 x 9.5 / 5 x 3½
£450
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ORTELIUS, Abraham
Very attractive map, with ornamented cartouche and border.Three scales. The map was criticised by Hiob van Magdeburg at an early stage but survived through all editions of the Ortelius’s landmark atlas. Ref: van den Broecke 93.
Dimensions (W x H): 50 x 34 / 19½ x 13½
£195
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HOGARTH,WILLIAM
Southwark Fair was the second most renowned, or perhaps notorious, in London, after Bartholomew Fair. Held in September it started as a market and became increasingly a place of entertainment. In 1762 it was abolished as the so-called theatres and drinking dens had become centres of vice, and ...
Dimensions (W x H): 64 x 49 / 25 x 19½
£165
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An unusual square view of St. Helena showing the six rivers draining off to the North west. Rising sun at upper left, compass point at right centre, and title on banner, with cherub at upper centre. Key to place names in the upper right hand corner in French, in the lower left corner there is ...
Dimensions (W x H): 31.5 x 25 / 12½ x 10
£620
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JANSSON, Jan
Johannes Janssonius (1588 - 1664), more familiarly known as Jan Jansson, was a Dutch cartographer who produced his first maps of France and Italy in 1616 and continued from then onwards publishing a large number of maps which were almost comparable to Blaeu in quality. During the 1630s he went into ...
Dimensions (W x H): 49 x 38 / 19½ x 15
£195
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A detailed map of Australia with two insets entitled “The World on Mercator’s Projection with Distances from Australian Ports.” and “ Tasmania or Van Diemen Land.”
Dimensions (W x H): 68 x 40 / 27 x 15½
£240
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This fascinating copperplate engraving comes from a famous work originally published in Dutch by the trade diplomat Jan Nieuhoff, but translated into English by the British mapmaker and publisher John Ogilby. The images provide a document of early western contact with China and come from the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 35.5 x 29 / 14 x 11½
Dimensions (W x H): 35.5 x 29 / 14 x 11½
£95
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VAN DEN KERRE, P.( Petrus Kaerius)
George Humble published this Atlas in 1627, known as the Speed Miniature Map. Of the 63 maps in the Atlas, 40 were from the original Van den Kerri plates, reworked, 16 were reduced from Speed and 7 were additional. The publication was very popular and there were further reissues up to 1676.
Dimensions (W x H): 12.2 x 8.6 / 5 x 3½
£240
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Attractive engraving of a statue of the Buddha Sakyamuni with all-seeing third eye in a temple. This fascinating copperplate engraving comes from a famous work originally published in Dutch by the trade diplomat Jan Nieuhoff, but translated into English by the British mapmaker and publisher John ...
Dimensions (W x H): 35.5 x 29 / 14 x 11½
Dimensions (W x H): 35.5 x 29 / 14 x 11½
£220
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This fascinating copperplate engraving comes from a famous work originally published in Dutch by the trade diplomat Jan Nieuhoff, but translated into English by the British mapmaker and publisher John Ogilby. The images provide a document of early western contact with China and come from the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 29 / 14 x 11½
Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 29 / 14 x 11½
£240
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This fascinating copperplate engraving comes from a famous work originally published in Dutch by the trade diplomat Jan Nieuhoff, but translated into English by the British mapmaker and publisher John Ogilby. The images provide a document of early western contact with China and come from the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 35.5 x 29 / 14 x 11½
Dimensions (W x H): 35.5 x 29 / 14 x 11½
£240
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This fascinating copperplate engraving comes from a famous work originally published in Dutch by the trade diplomat Jan Nieuhoff, but translated into English by the British mapmaker and publisher John Ogilby. The images provide a document of early western contact with China and come from the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 35.5 x 29 / 14 x 11½
Dimensions (W x H): 35.5 x 29 / 14 x 11½
£95
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VAN DEN KERRE, P.( Petrus Kaerius)
George Humble published this Atlas in 1627, known as the Speed Miniature Map. Of the 63 maps in the Atlas, 40 were from the original Van den Kerri plates, reworked, 16 were reduced from Speed and 7 were additional. The publication was very popular and there were further reissues up to 1676.
Dimensions (W x H): 12.2 x 8.6 / 5 x 3½
£245
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This fascinating copperplate engraving comes from a famous work originally published in Dutch by the trade diplomat Jan Nieuhoff, but translated into English by the British mapmaker and publisher John Ogilby. The images provide a document of early western contact with China and come from the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 29.5 / 14 x 11½
Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 29.5 / 14 x 11½
£210
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This fascinating copperplate engraving, showing Chinese worshipping various gods, comes from a famous work originally published in Dutch by the trade diplomat Jan Nieuhoff, but translated into English by the British mapmaker and publisher John Ogilby. The images provide a document of early western ...
Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 29 / 14 x 11½
Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 29 / 14 x 11½
£195
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This fascinating copperplate engraving comes from a famous work originally published in Dutch by the trade diplomat Jan Nieuhoff, but translated into English by the British mapmaker and publisher John Ogilby. The images provide a document of early western contact with China and come from the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 47.5 x 27.5 / 18½ x 11
Dimensions (W x H): 47.5 x 27.5 / 18½ x 11
£195
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This fascinating copperplate engraving comes from a famous work originally published in Dutch by the trade diplomat Jan Nieuhoff, but translated into English by the British mapmaker and publisher John Ogilby. The images provide a document of early western contact with China and come from the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 47.5 x 27.5 / 18½ x 11
Dimensions (W x H): 47.5 x 27.5 / 18½ x 11
£195
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This fascinating copperplate engraving comes from a famous work originally published in Dutch by the trade diplomat Jan Nieuhoff, but translated into English by the British mapmaker and publisher John Ogilby. The images provide a document of early western contact with China and come from the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 47.5 x 27.5 / 18½ x 11
Dimensions (W x H): 47.5 x 27.5 / 18½ x 11
£195
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This fascinating copperplate engraving comes from a famous work originally published in Dutch by the trade diplomat Jan Nieuhoff, but translated into English by the British mapmaker and publisher John Ogilby. The images provide a document of early western contact with China and come from the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 47.5 x 27.5 / 18½ x 11
Dimensions (W x H): 47.5 x 27.5 / 18½ x 11
£245
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Bertius, Petrus
Very attractive little map of the province of Valencia, surrounded by Murcia, Castilia and Arragon. Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on mathematical, historical and theological subjects he is known as a ...
Dimensions (W x H): 13 x 9.5 / 5 x 3½
£1200
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DODD, Robert
Four magnificent prints of the Battle of Trafalgar, at various stages. Two prints, from before the battle, show the Van and Rear divisions approaching battle. Plate 3 shows a scene ‘nearly at the close of action’, with the French ships trying to escape and Plate 4, at the end of the battle shows ...
Dimensions (W x H): 77 x 51 / 30½ x 20
£245
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Bertius, Petrus
Map of north-west Switzerland, from Lake Geneva to Lucerne. Petrus Bertius was a professor of mathematics and librarian at Leyden University. As well as being a prolific writer on mathematical, historical and theological subjects he is known as a cartographer for his editions of Ptolemy's ...
Dimensions (W x H): 13 x 9.5 / 5 x 3½
£250
![[3 coastal Views of Ascunsion].](itemImages/th_6070.jpg)
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LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van
Decorative print showing three coastal views of Ascunsion island in the Atlantic, numerous birds, flying fish and ships at sea, compass rose at sea, strapwork cartouche at top right, two secondary cartouches at left centre and lower right. Text in Latin and Dutch along lower edge. Linschoten lived ...
Dimensions (W x H): 32 x 25 / 12½ x 10
£475
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SCHENK, Pieter & VALCK Gerard
Splendid ornamental cartouche,with title flanked by four figures, with the pyramids in the background, sheaths of corn on the ground. North to the right of picture. Various animals and short texts adorn the map
Dimensions (W x H): 49 x 40 / 19½ x 15½
£175
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AA, Pieter van der
A truly apocalyptic print depicting an earthquake and erupting volcano in Japan (‘Jedo’). Panicking people in the foreground, a flood or mudslide to the right sweeping trees and buildings along with it, destroyed buildings and trees, dark brooding clouds and a fiery erupting volcano on the horizon, ...
Dimensions (W x H): 32 x 23.5 / 12½ x 9½
£195
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LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van
Attractive print of four Africans. Text in Latin and Dutch along lower edge. Linschoten lived and wrote at a time when exploration was rapidly opening up the world. His travel writings, in three parts, the famous ‘Itinerarium’, included ‘Description de l’Amerique’, ‘Le Grande Route de Mer’ and ...
Dimensions (W x H): 32 x 25 / 12½ x 10
£195
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LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van
Attractive print of four people and two children in India. Text in Latin and Dutch along lower edge. Linschoten lived and wrote at a time when exploration was rapidly opening up the world. His travel writings, in three parts, the famous ‘Itinerarium’, included ‘Description de l’Amerique’, ‘Le ...
Dimensions (W x H): 32 x 25 / 12½ x 10
£150
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LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van
Attractive print of four people and two children in India. Text in Latin and Dutch along lower edge. Linschoten lived and wrote at a time when exploration was rapidly opening up the world. His travel writings, in three parts, the famous ‘Itinerarium’, included ‘Description de l’Amerique’, ‘Le ...
Dimensions (W x H): 32 x 25 / 12½ x 10
£220
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SCHENK, Pieter & VALK, Gerard.
This attractive map has two cartouches at the lower corners, ornamented with cherubs, one contains the title at lower left, the other contains the two scales at lower right. North is to the right of the map
Dimensions (W x H): 51 x 40.5 / 20 x 16
£220
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SCHENK, Pieter & VALK, Gerard.
A beautiful map of Aragon in NE Spain. With coats of arms of the surrounding areas. Ornamental cartouche decorated with coats of arms and crown. Decorated dedication to ‘Gaspari Charles.’ Scale at top. North to right of map
Dimensions (W x H): 51 x 41 / 20 x 16
£375
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LABANNA, Joanne Baptista
Striking map of Aragon, Spain, from the Dutch Edition of Blaeu's 'Atlas Novus.' The map centres on Zaragoza and extends to Balbasdtor, Huesca, Calataiud, Tortosa, Tervel, Albarrazin, and Cuenca. The natural landscape of rivers, mountains, and valleys are shown pictorially in relief. Two handsome ...
Dimensions (W x H): 51 x 40.5 / 20 x 16
£300
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£150
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LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van
Fabulous print of a Brahman cremation ceremony. Text in Latin and Dutch along lower edge. Linschoten lived and wrote at a time when exploration was rapidly opening up the world. His travel writings, in three parts, the famous ‘Itinerarium’, included ‘Description de l’Amerique’, ‘Le Grande Route de ...
Dimensions (W x H): 32 x 25 / 12½ x 10
£135
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AA, Pieter van der
Interesting map of the south east coast of Africa, from the Cape to Mozambique, showing the different regions and settlements. Includes the west coast of Madagascar
Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 15 / 7½ x 6
£450
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£800
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SCHENK, Pieter & VALK, Gerard
A beautiful map of the county, rich with heraldry. Shows the bordering counties
Dimensions (W x H): 52 x 42 / 20½ x 16½
£500
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JAILLOT, Alexis Hubert
Fine sea chart of the coasts of Ireland, and western Britain, with an inset map at lower left of the estuary of the River Dee, as far as Chester. Rhumb lines crisscross the map, depth soundings. compass point. The Neptune Francois was ‘a seminal work in the development of sea atlases.’ (ref: ...
Dimensions (W x H): 92 x 64 / 36 x 25
£195
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LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van
Handsome print of elephant and spear-bearing Cochin soldiers. Text in Latin and Dutch along lower edge. Linschoten lived and wrote at a time when exploration was rapidly opening up the world. His travel writings, in three parts, the famous ‘Itinerarium’, included ‘Description de l’Amerique’, ‘Le ...
Dimensions (W x H): 31.5 x 25 / 12½ x 10
£650
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SCHENK, Pieter & VALCK, Gerard
Splendid map of Dorset divided into its hundreds, with decorated cartouche at top left, ships at sea, compass rose, rhumb lines, 4 shields (one is empty) at top right, and the Royal Seal at top centre. The map is very similar to (but more decorative than) Jansson’s map of the same name.
Dimensions (W x H): 50 x 38 / 19½ x 15
£165
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AA, Pieter van der
Attractive view of the bustling harbour front and market in the Javanese port of Bantam. The port of Bantam, situated on the tip of Java facing Sumatra, was at the centre of the often violent competition between the British and Dutch trading empires in south east Asia. This detailed print shows the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 30.5 x 21.5 / 12 x 8½
£175
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AA, Pieter Vander
A very pretty little map of the Maldives and Ceylon, also showing the southern tip of India, and the western edge of Malaysia. Scale with pair of compasses in bottom left corner. Decorative title cartouche in bottom right corner showing a woman working at a loom and a fisherman, his catch in the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 27 x 14.5 / 10½ x 5½
£350
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Schenk, Pieter
This beautiful engraving shows the pre-Great Fire mediaeval cathedral of St Pauls as viewed from the Thames near Charing Cross. In the foreground boats cross the river, between the busy wharves and mills on the banks. Decorated border, title at lower edge.
Dimensions (W x H): 25.5 x 21 / 10 x 8½
£195
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LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van
Interesting print of an agricultural compound with trees, cows and the preparation of Betel nut (Arecca) in the foreground. Text in Latin and Dutch along lower edge. Linschoten lived and wrote at a time when exploration was rapidly opening up the world. His travel writings, in three parts, the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 31.5 x 25 / 12½ x 10
£675
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SCHENK, Pieter & VALK, Gerard
A beautiful map of the county, rich with heraldry. Shows the bordering counties. Title cartouche is in the form of a large green and gold drape. Putti play with measuring instruments on the scale cartouche
Dimensions (W x H): 52 x 42 / 20½ x 16½
£520
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SCHENK, Pieter & VALK, Gerard.
A beautiful Blaeu style map with galleons in the sea. Title-piece and scale are decorated with cherubs.
Dimensions (W x H): 52 x 43 / 20½ x 17
£275
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£195
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LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van
An attractive print of several Portuguese soldiers with sun umbrellas in east India. Text in Latin and Dutch along lower edge. Linschoten lived and wrote at a time when exploration was rapidly opening up the world. His travel writings, in three parts, the famous ‘Itinerarium’, included ...
Dimensions (W x H): 32 x 25 / 12½ x 10
£175
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LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van
Handsome print of four inhabitants of China. Text in Latin and Dutch along lower edge. Linschoten lived and wrote at a time when exploration was rapidly opening up the world. His travel writings, in three parts, the famous ‘Itinerarium’, included ‘Description de l’Amerique’, ‘Le Grande Route de ...
Dimensions (W x H): 32 x 25 / 12½ x 10
£195
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LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van
Handsome print of four people - merchants from Goa and Cambodia and a Brahmin and his wife. Text in Latin and Dutch along lower edge. Linschoten lived and wrote at a time when exploration was rapidly opening up the world. His travel writings, in three parts, the famous ‘Itinerarium’, included ...
Dimensions (W x H): 32 x 25 / 12½ x 10
£195
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LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van
A handsome print of a Portuguese nobleman being carried on a palanquin. Text in Latin and Dutch along lower edge. Linschoten lived and wrote at a time when exploration was rapidly opening up the world. His travel writings, in three parts, the famous ‘Itinerarium’, included ‘Description de ...
Dimensions (W x H): 32 x 25 / 12½ x 10
£150
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LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van
Attractive print of a rural temple with religious rites being enacted in a pagoda. Text in Latin and Dutch along lower edge. Linschoten lived and wrote at a time when exploration was rapidly opening up the world. His travel writings, in three parts, the famous ‘Itinerarium’, included ...
Dimensions (W x H): 31.5 x 25 / 12½ x 10
£2200
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JANSSON, Jan
A decorative map of China embellished with sailing ships and junks, a title cartouche flanked by Chinese and Jesuit men and a scale of miles surrounded by putti. The Great Wall is shown and Korea has a more or less correct peninsular shape, and there are many cities noted throughout. Johannes ...
Dimensions (W x H): 53 x 47 / 21 x 18½
£195
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LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van
Attractive view of an Indian village near Goa, with bathing women, a well, and several animals. Text in Latin and Dutch along lower edge. Linschoten lived and wrote at a time when exploration was rapidly opening up the world. His travel writings, in three parts, the famous ‘Itinerarium’, ...
£175
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LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van
Handsome print of four people from the Malabar coast and Goa. Text in Latin and Dutch along lower edge. Linschoten lived and wrote at a time when exploration was rapidly opening up the world. His travel writings, in three parts, the famous ‘Itinerarium’, included ‘Description de l’Amerique’, ‘Le ...
Dimensions (W x H): 32 x 25 / 12½ x 10
£500
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SCHENK, Pieter & VALCK, Gerard
A handsome map of the Balearic Islands, with decorated compass points, ships, galleys and seamonsters, rhumblines and two coats of arms in the upper corners. Title on ribbon at upper right,scale in cartouche at lower right.
Dimensions (W x H): 50 x 39 / 19½ x 15½
£1200
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SCHENK, Pieter & VALCK Gerard
A superb map of the island of Borneo in original colour. Decorative title cartouche with mermaids and people spearing fish. Map scale also in cartouche with cherubs. The sea decorated with ships.
Dimensions (W x H): 52 x 42 / 20½ x 16½
£1250
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SCHENK, Pieter & VALCK Gerard
A superb map of the island of Java showing its relationship to Bali, Sumatra and Borneo. Very decorative title cartouche with natives and a cherub. Map scale in cartouche with cherubs and mermaids. The Schenk and Valck families were closely linked by marriage. Most of their work consisted of ...
Dimensions (W x H): 51 x 42 / 20 x 16½
£1200
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SCHENK, Pieter & VALCK Gerard
A superb map of the East Indies. Decorative title cartouche with natives holding spears and swords. Map scale also in cartouche with mermaid. The sea decorated with ships a sea monster and a compass rose. The Schenk and Valck families were closely linked by marriage. Most of their work ...
Dimensions (W x H): 50 x 39 / 19½ x 15½
£850
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De LISLE, Guillaume.
Handsome map of Europe. Decorated cartouche at top left with title on cloth held aloft by cherubs. Two reclining figures below, one with a lyre, the other with a shield and helmet, at lower right, there is a secondary cartouche with eight scales.
Dimensions (W x H): 60 x 47 / 23½ x 18½
£450
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A beautiful print, with an elaborate architectural border, from Antoine de Pluvinel’s important work on equestrianism, engraved by the Dutch engraver Crispijn de Pass. Pluvinel’s innovative method of horse training was regarded as much more humane than earlier methods.
Dimensions (W x H): 41 x 31 / 16 x 12
Dimensions (W x H): 41 x 31 / 16 x 12
£450
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A beautiful print, with an elaborate architectural border, from Antoine de Pluvinel’s important work on equestrianism, engraved by the Dutch engraver Crispijn de Pass. Pluvinel’s innovative method of horse training was regarded as much more humane than earlier methods.
Dimensions (W x H): 40.5 x 32.5 / 16 x 13
Dimensions (W x H): 40.5 x 32.5 / 16 x 13
£450
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A beautiful print, with an elaborate architectural border, from Antoine de Pluvinel’s important work on equestrianism, engraved by the Dutch engraver Crispijn de Pass. Pluvinel’s innovative method of horse training was regarded as much more humane than earlier methods.
Dimensions (W x H): 40 x 31.5 / 15½ x 12½
Dimensions (W x H): 40 x 31.5 / 15½ x 12½
£650
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A beautiful print, with an elaborate architectural border, from Antoine de Pluvinel’s important work on equestrianism, engraved by the Dutch engraver Crispijn de Pass. Pluvinel’s innovative method of horse training was regarded as much more humane than earlier methods.
Dimensions (W x H): 41 x 31 / 16 x 12
Dimensions (W x H): 41 x 31 / 16 x 12
£650
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A beautiful print, with an elaborate architectural border, from Antoine de Pluvinel’s important work on equestrianism, engraved by the Dutch engraver Crispijn de Pass. Pluvinel’s innovative method of horse training was regarded as much more humane than earlier methods.
Dimensions (W x H): 41 x 31 / 16 x 12
Dimensions (W x H): 41 x 31 / 16 x 12
£650
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A beautiful print, with an elaborate architectural border, from Antoine de Pluvinel’s important work on equestrianism, engraved by the Dutch engraver Crispijn de Pass. Pluvinel’s innovative method of horse training was regarded as much more humane than earlier methods.
Dimensions (W x H): 41 x 31 / 16 x 12
Dimensions (W x H): 41 x 31 / 16 x 12
£650
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A beautiful print, with an elaborate architectural border, from Antoine de Pluvinel’s important work on equestrianism, engraved by the Dutch engraver Crispijn de Pass. Pluvinel’s innovative method of horse training was regarded as much more humane than earlier methods.
Dimensions (W x H): 41 x 31 / 16 x 12
Dimensions (W x H): 41 x 31 / 16 x 12
£450
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A beautiful print, with an elaborate architectural border, from Antoine de Pluvinel’s important work on equestrianism, engraved by the Dutch engraver Crispijn de Pass. Pluvinel’s innovative method of horse training was regarded as much more humane than earlier methods.
Dimensions (W x H): 40.5 x 31.5 / 16 x 12½
Dimensions (W x H): 40.5 x 31.5 / 16 x 12½
£450
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A beautiful print, with an elaborate architectural border, from Antoine de Pluvinel’s important work on equestrianism, engraved by the Dutch engraver Crispijn de Pass. Pluvinel’s innovative method of horse training was regarded as much more humane than earlier methods.
Dimensions (W x H): 40.5 x 32.5 / 16 x 13
Dimensions (W x H): 40.5 x 32.5 / 16 x 13
£120
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£265
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£110
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£275
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AA, Pieter van der
Attractive map of Brazil. The interior was largely unknown at the time, so the considerable detail of the map - place-names, rivers and states- is concentrated near the coast. Title cartouche at lower right.
Dimensions (W x H): 30.5 x 23 / 12 x 9
£265
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£195
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LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van
Handsome print of a mandarin and attendants on a river bank watching another mandarin on a boat. Text in Latin and Dutch along lower edge. Linschoten lived and wrote at a time when exploration was rapidly opening up the world. His travel writings, in three parts, the famous ‘Itinerarium’, included ...
Dimensions (W x H): 32 x 25 / 12½ x 10
£195
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LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van
An atrractive print of a Portuguese noble woman on a palanquin, with her retinue. Text in Latin and Dutch along lower edge. Linschoten lived and wrote at a time when exploration was rapidly opening up the world. His travel writings, in three parts, the famous ‘Itinerarium’, included ‘Description ...
Dimensions (W x H): 32 x 25 / 12½ x 10
£175
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£225
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AA, Pieter van der
Attractive map of the British Isles. Ireland is divided into four provinces, England into six, and Scotland into two parts. De