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CLARKE, W. B.
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Clear and interesting map of the Dutch capital showing the ordered arrangement of canals that run in a semi-circle from the docks. There is a smaller plan of the environs of Amsterdam at the top centre and some relevant Dutch words translated into English. Some vignettes of notable buildings run ...
Dimensions (W x H): 38.4 x 33 / 15 x 13
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BLAEU, Joan
An attractive map of Kent by the famous Dutch cartographer Blaeu. This English county map is highly decorative with figurative cartouches and heraldic family coats of arms as well as ships on the sea. The map is very detailed and gives many placenames, smaller villages or settlements. Rivers, ...
Dimensions (W x H): 53 x 38 / 21 x 15
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BLAEU, Willem
A highly decorative map of Guinea, showing the coast of Africa between Sierra Leone and Gabon, including the Ivory, Gold & Slave Coasts in great detail, including the European outposts. Even though West Africa was a heavily populated area, there are few notations about African towns and political ...
Dimensions (W x H): 53 x 38.5 / 21 x 15
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BLAEU, Johannes
An extremely handsome map of Oxfordshire by the famous Dutch cartographer Blaeu. Dutch text to verso. This English county map is highly decorative with figurative title cartouche of two scholars. Royal arms and nineteen other coats of arms of the colleges down the two sides of the map. The map is ...
Dimensions (W x H): 50 x 38 / 19½ x 15
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BLAEU, Joan and Cornelius
From the Atlas of Joan and Cornelius Blaeu. Fine map based on the travel notes by Isaac Massa (1586-1643), a Dutch merchant who repeatedly travelled to Russia. The data collected by Massa was widely used by many Dutch printers and cartographers of that period. It covers the southern part of the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 53 x 39 / 21 x 15½
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BLAEU, Johannes
Decorative map of the northern portion of Russia, between Lake Ladoga and the Ural mountain range, with Nova Zemlya still incomplete. The scale cartouche depicts hunters and their prey, including a bear, deer and arctic fox. Joan (John) Bleau (1596-1673) was a son of a famous Dutch cartographer, ...
Dimensions (W x H): 54 x 42 / 21½ x 16½
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BLAEU, Johannes
An attractive map of the Savoie region in the Alps. Savoie is bounded by Geneva, Grenoble, the Piemont and southern Switzerland, including Mont Blanc, St. Anton, Val D'Isre and a number of other famous ski resorts near the French, Swiss and Italian borders. Notes cities, towns, mountains, valleys, ...
Dimensions (W x H): 50 x 38 / 19½ x 15
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BLAEU, Joan
A fine and attractive map of Somersetshire by the famous Dutch cartographer Blaeu. This English county map is highly decorative with figurative cartouches and heraldic family coats of arms as well as ships on the sea. The map is very detailed and gives many placenames, smaller villages or ...
Dimensions (W x H): 50 x 38 / 19½ x 15
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BLAEU, Johannes
Highly decorative map centered on Valencia and extending south to Murcia and Orihuella and North to the Cenia by the famous Dutch cartographer Blaeu. Map embellished with sea monster, ships, rhumb lines emanating from compass rose and ornate title cartouche with the arms of Valencia. The map is ...
Dimensions (W x H): 50.5 x 38.5 / 20 x 15
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BLAEU, Willem & Johann
Handsome map of Cambridgeshire, with title cartouche at upper left, shields of seventeen university colleges, and of eight nobleman, two blank shields, Royal arms at lower left of title.
Dimensions (W x H): 50 x 42 / 19½ x 16½
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BLAEU, Willem & Johann
Handsome map of Surrey, with decorated title cartouche at top left, on each side there are five shields; seven are of local gentry, three are left blank, Royal arms at lower left of title.
Dimensions (W x H): 50 x 38.5 / 19½ x 15
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SWEERT, Emanuel
Beautiful engraving showing 13 varieties of anenome with the rootstock of two varieties. The designs are well balanced on the page and the captions elegantly inscribed. Emanuel Sweert was prefect of the gardens of the Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. His Florilegium was first printed in Frankfurt by ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 33.5 / 8½ x 13
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SWEERT, Emanuel
13 species of anenome, six with the root stock shown. The designs are beautifully balanced on the page and the captions elegantly inscribed. Emanuel Sweert was prefect of the gardens of the Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. His Florilegium was first printed in Frankfurt by Kempner in 1612 -1614. It ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 33.5 / 8½ x 13
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SWEERT, Emanuel
Nine species of carnations. Stems leaves and flowers are shown. The designs are beautifully balanced on the page and the captions elegantly inscribed. Emanuel Sweert was prefect of the gardens of the Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. His Florilegium was first printed in Frankfurt by Kempner in 1612 ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 33.5 / 8½ x 13
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SWEERT, Emanuel
Beautiful engraving of nine species of carnation. The designs are elegantly balanced on the page and the captions neatly inscribed. Emanuel Sweert was prefect of the gardens of the Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. His Florilegium was first printed in Frankfurt by Kempner in 1612 -1614. It was ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 33.5 / 8½ x 13
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SWEERT, Emanuel
Nine varieties of aqualegia, better known as columbines. The designs are beautifully balanced on the page and the captions elegantly inscribed. Emanuel Sweert was prefect of the gardens of the Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. His Florilegium was first printed in Frankfurt by Kempner in 1612 -1614. It ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 33.5 / 8½ x 13
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SWEERT, Emanuel
The engraving shows six species of crocus of various hues, from blue to red patterned to yellow. The designs are beautifully balanced on the page and the captions elegantly inscribed. Emanuel Sweert was prefect of the gardens of the Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. His Florilegium was first printed ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 33.5 / 8½ x 13
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SWEERT, Emanuel
Four varieties of delphinium - white, variegated blue and white, purple and blue. The engraving shows flowers, leaves and stem. The designs are beautifully balanced on the page and the captions elegantly inscribed. Emanuel Sweert was prefect of the gardens of the Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. His ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 33.5 / 8½ x 13
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SWEERT, Emanuel
Beautiful print of eight varieties of the muscari family (grape hyacinths), showing the bulbs and flowering heads. The designs are beautifully balanced on the page and the captions elegantly inscribed. Emanuel Sweert's Florilegium was first printed in Frankfurt by Kempner in 1612 -1614. It was ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 33.5 / 8½ x 13
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SWEERT, Emanuel
This plate show five varieties of iris. The designs are beautifully balanced on the page and the captions elegantly inscribed. Emanuel Sweert was prefect of the gardens of the Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. His Florilegium was first printed in Frankfurt by Kempner in 1612 -1614. It was originally a ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 33.5 / 8½ x 13
£400
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SWEERT, Emanuel
Beautiful plate of four varieties of Iris, showing the whole plant from root to flower. The designs are beautifully balanced on the page and the captions elegantly inscribed. Emanuel Sweert was prefect of the gardens of the Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. His Florilegium was first printed in ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 33.5 / 8½ x 13
£300
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SWEERT, Emanuel
Beautiful plate of five flowering plants. The designs are beautifully balanced on the page and the captions elegantly inscribed. Emanuel Sweert was prefect of the gardens of the Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. His Florilegium was first printed in Frankfurt by Kempner in 1612 -1614. It was originally ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 33.5 / 8½ x 13
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SWEERT, Emanuel
Satyrion, commonly known as ‘salep’ was thought by the Greeks to be an aphrodisiac. Oiginally from the east it is now found wild in Britain. Nine varieties are shown in this beautiful engraving. The designs are well balanced on the page and the captions elegantly inscribed. Emanuel Sweert was ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 33.5 / 8½ x 13
£250
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SWEERT, Emanuel
Beautiful plate of nine flowering plants, including four varieties of Amaranthus. The designs are beautifully balanced on the page and the captions elegantly inscribed. Emanuel Sweert was prefect of the gardens of the Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. His Florilegium was first printed in Frankfurt by ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 33.5 / 8½ x 13
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SWEERT, Emanuel
Fascinating print of five varieties of poppy with leaves and seed pod. The designs are beautifully balanced on the page and the captions elegantly inscribed. Emanuel Sweert was prefect of the gardens of the Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. His Florilegium was first printed in Frankfurt by Kempner in ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 33.5 / 8½ x 13
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SWEERT, Emanuel
Beautiful engraving of six varieties of Leucoium. The designs are beautifully balanced on the page and the captions elegantly inscribed. Emanuel Sweert's Florilegium was first printed in Frankfurt by Kempner in 1612 -1614. It was originally a sales catalogue for plants and bulbs from Sweert's ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 33.5 / 8½ x 13
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SWEERT, Emanuel
Beautiful engraving of two sprouting bulbs. The two plants are side by side on the page. The right hand plant has a light green leaf with a maroon mottled tip. The plants are well balanced on the page and the captions elegantly inscribed. Emanuel Sweert was prefect of the gardens of the Emperor ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 33.5 / 8½ x 13
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SWEERT, Emanuel
Beautiful engraving of two sprouting bulbs. The plants are side by side on the page and the captions elegantly inscribed. Emanuel Sweert was prefect of the gardens of the Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. His Florilegium was first printed in Frankfurt by Kempner in 1612 -1614. It was originally a ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 33.5 / 8½ x 13
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SWEERT, Emanuel
The print shows four plants- the vine - ‘Vitis Vinifera’, Rosemary, ‘Balsamina sive momordica’ and ‘Halicacabus Indicus Arborescens’. The designs are beautifully balanced on the page and the captions elegantly inscribed. Emanuel Sweert was prefect of the gardens of the Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 33.5 / 8½ x 13
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SWEERT, Emanuel
Beautiful plate of four flowers. The designs are beautifully balanced on the page and the captions elegantly inscribed. Emanuel Sweert was prefect of the gardens of the Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. His Florilegium was first printed in Frankfurt by Kempner in 1612 -1614. It was originally a sales ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 33.5 / 8½ x 13
£300
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SWEERT, Emanuel
Beautiful plate of four flowering plants, including two varieties of jasmine. The designs are beautifully balanced on the page and the captions elegantly inscribed. Emanuel Sweert was prefect of the gardens of the Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. His Florilegium was first printed in Frankfurt by ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 33.5 / 8½ x 13
£435
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SWEERT, Emanuel
Beautiful print of six different species of hyacinth, showing the whole plant from bulb to flowering head. The designs are beautifully balanced on the page and the captions elegantly inscribed. Emanuel Sweert's Florilegium was first printed in Frankfurt by Kempner in 1612 -1614. It was originally a ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 33.5 / 8½ x 13
£300
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SWEERT, Emanuel
Beautiful plate of six flowering plants. The designs are beautifully balanced on the page and the captions elegantly inscribed. Emanuel Sweert was prefect of the gardens of the Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. His Florilegium was first printed in Frankfurt by Kempner in 1612 -1614. It was originally a ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 33.5 / 8½ x 13
£200
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SWEERT, Emanuel
Four species of conifer showing branches, needles and berries. The designs are beautifully balanced on the page and the captions elegantly inscribed. Emanuel Sweert was prefect of the gardens of the Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. His Florilegium was first printed in Frankfurt by Kempner in 1612 ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 33.5 / 8½ x 13
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SWEERT, Emanuel
Beautiful print of three varieties of iris, showing the whole plant, from bulb to flowering head. The designs are beautifully balanced on the page and the captions elegantly inscribed. Emanuel Sweert's Florilegium was first printed in Frankfurt by Kempner in 1612 -1614. It was originally a sales ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 33.5 / 8½ x 13
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SWEERT, Emanuel
This beautiful print shows four species from the nightshade family, including deadly nightshade, aubergine and tomato. Each illustration shows both the fruit and the flower. The designs are beautifully balanced on the page and the captions elegantly inscribed. Emanuel Sweert's Florilegium was first ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 33.5 / 8½ x 13
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SWEERT, Emanuel
Four varieties of minor bulb, two of which are ‘scilla’ or squill. The designs are beautifully balanced on the page and the captions elegantly inscribed. Emanuel Sweert's Florilegium was first printed in Frankfurt by Kempner in 1612 -1614. It was originally a sales catalogue for plants and bulbs ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 33.5 / 8½ x 13
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SWEERT, Emanuel
A beautiful print of four species of flower: Two varieties of hellebore, yellow ladies slipper, and one other. The designs are beautifully balanced on the page and the captions elegantly inscribed. Emanuel Sweert's Florilegium was first printed in Frankfurt by Kempner in 1612 -1614. It was ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 33.5 / 8½ x 13
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SWEERT, Emanuel
Beautiful plate of four flowering plants. The lower two on the plate are varieties of the tobacco plant. The designs are beautifully balanced on the page and the captions elegantly inscribed. Emanuel Sweert was prefect of the gardens of the Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. His Florilegium was first ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 33.5 / 8½ x 13
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GOTTFRIED, Johann Ludwig
This map is a reduced version of the one Merian engraved for Johann Ludwig Gottfried in 1631. It is one of many derivative maps of the Jodocus Hondius, 1618. One noticeable difference is the altered perspective of the inset map of Greenland. Matthew Merian was not only a publisher, but an ...
Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 27.5 / 14 x 11
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MERIAN, Matthew
An attractive illustrated map of Amsterdam by the famed Swiss engraver, Matthew Merian This very detailed and beautifully designed map shows the town, its fortifications, and its busy harbour teeming with ships. Two coats of arms towards the upper corners, title at lower centre.Gottfried’s ...
Dimensions (W x H): 35.5 x 28 / 14 x 11
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JANSSON, Jan
A very pretty, detailed map of England and Wales, showing counties and rivers, with hills, forests and towns shown pictorially. With elegant sailing ships at sea. Royal coat of arms at top right, Irish and Scots arms on map. Decorative title cartouche on right side crowned with a coat of arms with ...
Dimensions (W x H): 50 x 38.5 / 19½ x 15
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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
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MARIANUS, Joseph
A charming map of Asia, showing the nonexistent’ Compagne Land , north of Japan. Text in German at right of map. Decorated cartouche at lower left. A later copy, we suspect, of the nearly identical map by Johann Georg Schreiber
Dimensions (W x H): 23 x 16 / 9 x 6½
£250
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MERIAN, Matthew
A very decorative map of Holland and Belgium, with ornamented title cartouche at upper right, and a row of eighteen provincial coats of arms along top edge. Compass rose at sea, north to the right of map. This map, like many by the famed Swiss engraver Matthaus Merian, is very similar to Blaeu’s ...
Dimensions (W x H): 36.5 x 30 / 14½ x 12
£3250
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JANSSON, Jan
Spectacular map showing the Saxon Kingdoms of Britain. The map is based upon Blaeu's map of 1645, but can be readily distinguished from Blaeu's map by the addition of 3 compass roses, rhumb lines and sailing ships. The two sets of vignettes on either side of the map were first incorporated by Speed ...
Dimensions (W x H): 53 x 42 / 21 x 16½
£1100
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JAILLOT, Alexis Hubert
A spectacular but inaccurate sea chart of the coast and and the islands of NW Scotland and Ireland. Ornamental compasses at sea, highlighted in gold, connected by rhumb lines. The Neptune Francois was ‘a seminal work in the development of sea atlases.’ (ref: British Library Catalogue.) It was ...
Dimensions (W x H): 85 x 59 / 33½ x 23
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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
£300
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JAILLOT, Alexis Hubert
A double folio sea chart of the English Channel, with depth soundings, sand banks and rhumb lines, 32 point gold highlighted compass at sea. The atlas from which this chart came, The Neptune Francois was ‘a seminal work in the development of sea atlases.’ (ref: British Library Catalogue.) Mortier ...
Dimensions (W x H): 78 x 59 / 30½ x 23
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HOMANN, Johann Baptist
Handsome sea chart from the German cartographer Johann Baptiste Homann, who was the Imperial Geographer of the Holy Roman Empire and a dominant map publisher in Germany in the eighteenth century. After Homann's death the business was carried on by his son until his death in 1730 whereupon the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 58.5 x 49 / 23 x 19½
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FRISCH, Johann Leonhard
Beautiful print of the pigeon, the colours vibrant, the detail exquisite, from Johann Leonhard Frisch's 'Vorsstellung der Vogel in Deutschland'. This was the first great German colour-plate bird book. The plates feature European and exotic birds, including a number of parrots, drawn from the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 29 / 8½ x 11½
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FRISCH, Johann Leonhard
Beautiful print of the pigeon, the colours vibrant, the detail exquisite, from Johann Leonhard Frisch's 'Vorsstellung der Vogel in Deutschland'. This was the first great German colour-plate bird book. The plates feature European and exotic birds, including a number of parrots, drawn from the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 29 x 21 / 11½ x 8½
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FRISCH, Johann Leonhard
Beautiful print of the pigeon, the colours vibrant, the detail exquisite, from Johann Leonhard Frisch's 'Vorsstellung der Vogel in Deutschland'. This was the first great German colour-plate bird book. The plates feature European and exotic birds, including a number of parrots, drawn from the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 29 x 21 / 11½ x 8½
£100
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FRISCH, Johann Leonhard
Print of a duck’s head (Fig.1) and 2 bones (Fig.2), the colours vibrant, the detail exquisite, from Johann Leonhard Frisch's 'Vorsstellung der Vogel in Deutschland'. This was the first great German colour-plate bird book. The plates feature European and exotic birds, including a number of parrots, ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 29 / 8½ x 11½
£550
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FRISCH, Johann Leonhard
Beautiful print of the goose, the colours vibrant, the detail exquisite, from Johann Leonhard Frisch's 'Vorsstellung der Vogel in Deutschland'. This was the first great German colour-plate bird book. The plates feature European and exotic birds, including a number of parrots, drawn from the family ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 29 / 8½ x 11½
£250
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FRISCH, Johann Leonhard
Beautiful print of the duck, the colours vibrant, the detail exquisite, from Johann Leonhard Frisch's 'Vorsstellung der Vogel in Deutschland'. This was the first great German colour-plate bird book. The plates feature European and exotic birds, including a number of parrots, drawn from the family ...
Dimensions (W x H): 29 x 21 / 11½ x 8½
£550
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FRISCH, Johann Leonhard
Beautiful print of the duck, the colours vibrant, the detail exquisite, from Johann Leonhard Frisch's 'Vorsstellung der Vogel in Deutschland'. This was the first great German colour-plate bird book. The plates feature European and exotic birds, including a number of parrots, drawn from the family ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 29 / 8½ x 11½
£350
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FRISCH, Johann Leonhard
Beautiful print of the duck, the colours vibrant, the detail exquisite, from Johann Leonhard Frisch's 'Vorsstellung der Vogel in Deutschland'. This was the first great German colour-plate bird book. The plates feature European and exotic birds, including a number of parrots, drawn from the family ...
Dimensions (W x H): 29 x 21 / 11½ x 8½
£350
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FRISCH, Johann Leonhard
Beautiful print of the duck, the colours vibrant, the detail exquisite, from Johann Leonhard Frisch's 'Vorsstellung der Vogel in Deutschland'. This was the first great German colour-plate bird book. The plates feature European and exotic birds, including a number of parrots, drawn from the family ...
Dimensions (W x H): 29 x 21 / 11½ x 8½
£350
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FRISCH, Johann Leonhard
Beautiful print of the duck, the colours vibrant, the detail exquisite, from Johann Leonhard Frisch's 'Vorsstellung der Vogel in Deutschland'. This was the first great German colour-plate bird book. The plates feature European and exotic birds, including a number of parrots, drawn from the family ...
Dimensions (W x H): 29 x 21 / 11½ x 8½
£550
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FRISCH, Johann Leonhard
Beautiful print of the ducks, the colours vibrant, the detail exquisite, from Johann Leonhard Frisch's 'Vorsstellung der Vogel in Deutschland'. This was the first great German colour-plate bird book. The plates feature European and exotic birds, including a number of parrots, drawn from the family ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 29 / 8½ x 11½
£300
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FRISCH, Johann Leonhard
Beautiful print of the diver, the colours vibrant, the detail exquisite, from Johann Leonhard Frisch's 'Vorsstellung der Vogel in Deutschland'. This was the first great German colour-plate bird book. The plates feature European and exotic birds, including a number of parrots, drawn from the family ...
Dimensions (W x H): 29 x 21 / 11½ x 8½
£550
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FRISCH, Johann Leonhard
Beautiful print of the diver, the colours vibrant, the detail exquisite, from Johann Leonhard Frisch's 'Vorsstellung der Vogel in Deutschland'. This was the first great German colour-plate bird book. The plates feature European and exotic birds, including a number of parrots, drawn from the family ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 29 / 8½ x 11½
£550
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FRISCH, Johann Leonhard
Beautiful print of the duck, the colours vibrant, the detail exquisite, from Johann Leonhard Frisch's 'Vorsstellung der Vogel in Deutschland'. This was the first great German colour-plate bird book. The plates feature European and exotic birds, including a number of parrots, drawn from the family ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 29 / 8½ x 11½
£300
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FRISCH, Johann Leonhard
Beautiful print of the diver, the colours vibrant, the detail exquisite, from Johann Leonhard Frisch's 'Vorsstellung der Vogel in Deutschland'. This was the first great German colour-plate bird book. The plates feature European and exotic birds, including a number of parrots, drawn from the family ...
Dimensions (W x H): 29 x 21 / 11½ x 8½
£350
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FRISCH, Johann Leonhard
Beautiful print of the duck, the colours vibrant, the detail exquisite, from Johann Leonhard Frisch's 'Vorsstellung der Vogel in Deutschland'. This was the first great German colour-plate bird book. The plates feature European and exotic birds, including a number of parrots, drawn from the family ...
Dimensions (W x H): 29 x 21 / 11½ x 8½
£350
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HOMANN, Johann Baptist
Wonderful and elaborate map of Spain and Portugal, including the Balearic Islands, from the German cartographer Johann Baptiste Homann, who was the Imperial Geographer of the Holy Roman Empire. Coloured by regions and showing towns, rivers and mountains pictorially in relief. Coast of Africa shown ...
Dimensions (W x H): 58 x 47 / 23 x 18½
£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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MERIAN, Matthew
Attractive map of France, title cartouche at lower right, two royal shields above further shields in the upper corners.compass point at sea. This map, like many by the famed Swiss engraver, Matthaus Merian, is based on Blaeu’s map of the same title but a little smaller and, some of the titles ...
Dimensions (W x H): 35.5 x 27 / 14 x 10½
£400
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SWEERT, Emanuel
This beautiful print shows a gladiolus plant, bulb leaves and flowers, and two tubers. The designs are beautifully balanced on the page and the captions elegantly inscribed. Emanuel Sweert was prefect of the gardens of the Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. His Florilegium was first printed in Frankfurt ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 33.5 / 8½ x 13
£2250
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HOMANN, Johann Baptist
Beautiful, decorative map of the Southern skies with all the constellations, drawn by the famous scientist Johann Gabriel Doppelmayer. Cherubs carrying astronomical instruments. Title along top edge in each corner. Lists of astronomical data in columns on both sides of map. Ref: Scott, Celestial ...
Dimensions (W x H): 56 x 48 / 22 x 19
£400
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SWEERT, Emanuel
Beautiful engraving of two varieties of hyacinth - one blue, the other red - showing the whole plant from flowering head to bulb. The two plants are side by side on the page and the captions elegantly inscribed. Emanuel Sweert was prefect of the gardens of the Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. His ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 33.5 / 8½ x 13
£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
£750
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GOTTFRIED, Johann Ludwig
This map is a reduced version of Blaeu’s 1635 map of the same title, with some noteable differences. Merian has place his cartouche at lower left allowing more detail on the Chinese mainland and there are no rhumb lines for example, but the area covered and the level of detail is the same Matthew ...
Dimensions (W x H): 35.5 x 27 / 14 x 10½
£2300
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JANSSON, Jan
An important and attractive Dutch map of South East Asia, showing Dutch discoveries in northern Australia. The map includes South East Asia in general with all of Malaysia, the East Indies, the Philippines, Indonesia, Indochina, Maledives and Southern China with the Pearl River Delta, Taiwan, and ...
Dimensions (W x H): 49 x 39.5 / 19½ x 15½
£1800
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DE WIT, Frederick
Map published in the Atlas Major, 1680 circa. It is decorated with five inset maps depicting views and plans of Sicilian ports of Messina, Palermo, Catania and Trapani, and a plan of Messina erroneously called Milazzo. Cartouche with dedication to Joanni Uytenbogaert embellished with coat of arms ...
Dimensions (W x H): 59 x 50.2 / 23 x 20
£850
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BLAEU, Joan
Blaeu’s fine map of Lake Geneva. Compass rose and ships on the lake. Decorated title cartouche at lower right, 3 scales in secondary cartouche at lower centre
Dimensions (W x H): 52 x 41 / 20½ x 16
£650
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BLAEU, Joan
A fine and highly decorative map of Lancastershire by the famous Dutch cartographer Blaeu. This English county map with figurative title cartouche is ornated with heraldic family coats of arms and a cherub. The map is very detailed and gives many placenames, smaller villages or settlements. Rivers, ...
Dimensions (W x H): 51 x 40 / 20 x 15½
£345
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MEJER, JOHANNES
Map of the Elbe estuary and the area north of Hamburg. Inset map of the fortified town of Krempe at top right. Decorated title cartouche at upper right, dedicatory cartouche at lower left surrounded by four figures and goats in front of trees. The map was first published in Danckwerth’s atlas, ...
Dimensions (W x H): 54 x 42 / 21½ x 16½
£520
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SCHENK, Pieter & VALK, Gerard
A beautiful Blaeu style map with galleons in the sea.
Dimensions (W x H): 52 x 43 / 20½ x 17
£1500
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MERIAN, Matthew
Attractive map of the British Isles by the famed Swiss engraver Merian. Like many of Merian’s maps, it was based on a Blaeu map.It is about two thirds of the size of the Bleau, has the inset of the Orkneys at top right, but Merian has added his own attractive title cartouche, the royal coat of arms ...
Dimensions (W x H): 35.5 x 27 / 14 x 10½
£355
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SWEERT, Emanuel
Two varieties of martagon lily, showing the bulb and flowering heads. The designs are beautifully balanced on the page and the captions elegantly inscribed. Emanuel Sweert's Florilegium was first printed in Frankfurt by Kempner in 1612 -1614. It was originally a sales catalogue for plants and bulbs ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 33.5 / 8½ x 13
£350
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SWEERT, Emanuel
Beautiful engraving of two varieties of narcissus bulb with shooting leaves. The two plants are side by side on the page and the captions elegantly inscribed. . Emanuel Sweert was prefect of the gardens of the Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. His Florilegium was first printed in Frankfurt by Kempner ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 33.5 / 8½ x 13
£300
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SWEERT, Emanuel
Beautiful engraving of two varieties of narcissus bulb with shooting leaves. The two plants are side by side on the page and the captions elegantly inscribed. Emanuel Sweert was prefect of the gardens of the Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. His Florilegium was first printed in Frankfurt by Kempner in ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 33.5 / 8½ x 13
£300
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SWEERT, Emanuel
Handsome engraving of two varieties of nasturtium, valerian and a potato plant. The designs are beautifully balanced on the page and the captions elegantly inscribed. Emanuel Sweert was prefect of the gardens of the Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. His Florilegium was first printed in Frankfurt by ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 33.5 / 8½ x 13
£400
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MEJER, JOHANNES
Beautiful map of Holstein in Northern Germany. Title cartouche at top centre, dedicatory cartouche, to Frederick III and IV, decorated, flanked with two figures and a dog, scales at lower right. The map was first published in Danckwerth’s atlas, and later by Blaeu in his 1662 edition of the Atlas ...
Dimensions (W x H): 61.5 x 41.5 / 24 x 16½
£300
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MERIAN, Matthew
A very decorative map of Germany, title cartouche at lower right, a row of eight provincial coats of arms along top edge. Compass rose at sea. This map, like many by the famed Swiss engraver Matthaus Merian, is based on Blaeu’s map of the same title, but slightly smaller and with the added ...
Dimensions (W x H): 37 x 31 / 14½ x 12
£1500
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MERIAN, Matthew
Very attractive world map. Text in German in ornamented gothic and latin. Two polar hemispheres in corners. The acclaimed Swiss engraver Matthew Merian prepared this world map from Blaeu’s world map, but is about two thirds of the size. Originally published in 1638, this copy, without Merian’s ...
Dimensions (W x H): 35 x 26 / 14 x 10
£120
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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): 19.5 x 14.5 / 7½ x 5½
£6950
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CORONELLI, Vincenzo
A magnificent pair of maps, published in his famous Atlante Veneto, Coronelli’s separate eastern and western hemispheres “are a worthwhile addition to any collection. They combine the most up-to-date cartographical information with elegant engraving and restrained accompanying decoration” -- ...
Dimensions (W x H): 61 x 46.5 / 24 x 18½
£245
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QUAD, Matthias
Attractive map of Portugal, with north to the right of the map. This map is based on the earlier map by Alvaro Secco, also used by Blaeu and Ortelius. Matthaus Quad was a German cartographer based in Cologne which, at the time was the centre for German cartography. This map is from his Fascilus ...
Dimensions (W x H): 26 x 18 / 10 x 7
£300
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SWEERT, Emanuel
Beautiful engraving of six species of berry. The designs are well balanced on the page and the captions elegantly inscribed. Emanuel Sweert was prefect of the gardens of the Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. His Florilegium was first printed in Frankfurt by Kempner in 1612 -1614. It was originally a ...
Dimensions (W x H): 21 x 33.5 / 8½ x 13
£1200
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BLAEU, Joan (1596-1673)
Exceptional example of this decorative map of Sussex. Large margins. Dutch text on verso. Has the coat of arms of King Charles I on the left and the old Plantagenet coat of arms on the right (first used by Richard the Lionheart), as well as 4 coats of arms of local noblemen in between. The map ...
Dimensions (W x H): 52.5 x 38 / 20½ x 15
£400
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WIT, Frederick de
Finely engraved map of China and eastern Asia, from the Caspian Sea to Japan. The north east of Asia is very fancifully depicted, with short texts on the areas of the map that were unknown. The area was not accurately mapped until one hundred years after this map was made. The map was engraved by ...
Dimensions (W x H): 55 x 44 / 21½ x 17½
£400
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£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
£95
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/ MOLL, Herman.
Fine and very scarce map of the Isle of Iura. Moll’s maps of Scotland were the first Scottish county maps to be published since Willem Blaeu’s volume in 1617.
Dimensions (W x H): 26 x 19.5 / 10 x 7½
£95
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Very scarce and in fine condition. Moll’s maps of Scotland were the first Scottish county maps to be published since Willem Blaeu’s volume in 1617.
Dimensions (W x H): 26 x 19.5 / 10 x 7½
£250
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MERIAN, Matthew
Attractive map of Burgundy. Decorated title cartouche at lower right, two shields above. This map, like many by the famed Swiss engraver Matthaus Merian, is based on Blaeu’s but a little smaller and with less ornamentation.
Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 28 / 14 x 11
£250
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HONDIUS, Jodocus & JANSSON, Jan
Decorated title cartouche at top left. Three shields. Secondary cartouche sith scale at lower left. ‘Notarium explicatio’at right, 2 scales at lower left, (Blaeu’s nearly identical map has one scale). 3 coats of arms. Ref: Koeman, 6055:1B.1
Dimensions (W x H): 50 x 41 / 19½ x 16
£400
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JANSSON, Jan
The map provides us many details, like place names of cities and villages, castles and monastries, rivers, lakes, woods and mountains. In the lower center with a large decorative title cartouche and the coats of arms of the kingdom of Valentia. Moreover the map is ornated with sea monster and ships ...
Dimensions (W x H): 47 x 35 / 18½ x 14
£1200
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BLAEU, Joan
An elaborately decorated map of Wales, with coloured cartouches with cherubs and seven coloured armorial and royal shields, three sailing ships in the Irish Sea. From Vol. V of the Dutch language edition of Blaeu's Atlas Major, with Dutch text on verso. Hand-coloured in outline and wash. Joan ...
Dimensions (W x H): 50 x 38.5 / 19½ x 15
£175
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SANSON, Nicolas
Large compass rose showing the 32 wind directions. Nicolas Sanson was founder of the French school of mapmakers, at a time when the leadership in European cartography passed from the Low Countries to France. This map was published in Bion’s treatise on globes. Nicolas Bion was a famous French ...
Dimensions (W x H): 12.5 x 17.5 / 5 x 7
£1000
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EHRET, George
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Beautiful print of two sunflowers. One of a stunning collection of tulips, poppies, lilies and sunflowers from Weinmann’s Phytanthoza Iconographia. This series was printed in colour and hand finished, and is one of the earliest examples of colour printing. It is also the first published ...
Dimensions (W x H): 23 x 34 / 9 x 13½
£500
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£450
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WIT, Frederick de
Handsome map of Spain and Portugal, large cartouche at lower right with cherubs, seated monarch, royal arms, sea monster, and nymphs playing. Scales at lower left
Dimensions (W x H): 58.5 x 49 / 23 x 19½
£395
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HOMANN, Johann & Christoph Baptist
This stylish map, has lavish illustrations of the pyramids, waterfalls, and Egyptian antiquities, and clearly delineates 3 areas of Egypt; ‘Inferior, Media and Superior.’ Text on the title and map itself is in Latin, the text on the illustrations is in German
Dimensions (W x H): 47 x 55 / 18½ x 21½
£675
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BLAEU, Joan (1596-1673)
This elaborately engraved map of southern Africa is decorated with galleons in the sea and elephants, monkeys and other animals on land. The cartouche depicts two natives, monkeys and tortoise.
Dimensions (W x H): 51 x 38 / 20 x 15
£3500
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BLAEU, Guillaume
A beautiful decorative map of Africa, with side borders of double costume figures and nine principal African cities in vignette along top border. Animals on land, and place names face inward to hide the lack of detail inland. Compass point, many ships and sea monsters at sea. Title at top right. ...
Dimensions (W x H): 55.5 x 41 / 22 x 16
£145
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SANSON, Nicolas
Attractive map of northwest Africa, from Morocco to the Congo, and east as far as Nubia. Much of the charm of early maps of Africa lies in how they show the interior of the continent, which was not explored until the 19th century. Maps by Sanson in original colour are rare. Nicolas Sanson was ...
Dimensions (W x H): 29 x 17 / 11½ x 6½
£220
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SANSON, Nicolas
Map of Germany divided into regions, which at the time extended over much of the Low Countries. Maps by Sanson in original colour are rare. Nicolas Sanson was founder of the French school of mapmakers, at a time when the leadership in European cartography passed from the Low Countries to France. ...
Dimensions (W x H): 23.5 x 18.5 / 9½ x 7½
£245
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GOTTFRIED, Johann Ludwig
A beautiful view of the town of Altdorf, the capital of the canton of Uri. A coat of arms in the centre of the title shows the head of a fierce bull. In the lake to the left of the scene is a compass, and along the bottom of the map runs a key to the chief landmarks corresponding with numbers ...
Dimensions (W x H): 32.5 x 21 / 13 x 8½
£220
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SANSON, Nicolas
Attractive map of Turkey, title cartouche at top right. Maps by Sanson in original colour are rare. Nicolas Sanson was founder of the French school of mapmakers, at a time when the leadership in European cartography passed from the Low Countries to France. This map was published in Bion’s treatise ...
Dimensions (W x H): 23 x 18 / 9 x 7
£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
£300
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GOTTFRIED, Johann Ludwig
A Beautiful view of the town of Angra on Tercera in the Azores.
Dimensions (W x H): 33 x 20.5 / 13 x 8
£195
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GOTTFRIED, Johann Ludwig
The main view is of Appenzell, but in the top right corner is a view of the town of Herissaw. In the top right of the Appenzell view is the town’s coat of arms, depicting a bear standing on its hind legs. The views of both towns are beautifully detailed, showing houses, churches and trees, and with ...
Dimensions (W x H): 32.5 x 20.5 / 13 x 8
£250
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£350
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HOMANN, Johann Baptist
Detailed map of Belgium and parts of Holland, France and Germany. Decorated cartouche at top left, with title beneath drapes, reclining figure below. Secondary cartouche at lower right with two lions guarding an inset view of Lüttich under bombardment
Dimensions (W x H): 56 x 48 / 22 x 19
£195
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SABANNA, Johann Baptista
Handsome map of Arragon. Shields, title cartouche with Latin text above, at lower left
Dimensions (W x H): 51.5 x 41 / 20½ x 16
£195
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SCHREIBER, Johann Georg
A charming map of Asia, with text in German at right of map. Decorated cartouche at lower left
Dimensions (W x H): 23 x 16 / 9 x 6½
£450
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HAAS, Johann Matthias, for Homann Heirs
Beautiful and detailed map of Asia. Very accurate apart from the coastline of Novaya Zemla, NE Asia and towards Australia. Dedicatory cartouche at lower left, with King holding court, secondary cartouche, decoratedat top left with six scales. Title on top border
Dimensions (W x H): 53 x 49 / 21 x 19½
£775
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HOMANN, Johann Baptist
A map of Asia with a handsome decorated cartouche at lower left, depic