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In hoc Operae haec continétur Geographia Cl. Ptholemaei a plurimis uiris utriusqß. linguae...
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In hoc Operae haec continétur Geographia Cl. Ptholemaei a plurimis uiris utriusqß. linguae doctiss. emendata:& cum Archetypo graeco ab ipsis collata...: The earliest obtainable printed depiction of the Americas

by PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius

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Rome,: [Colophon:] Explicat Planisphaerium Ptholemai recognitum diligentissime a Marco Beneventano Monacho Caelestinorum quod antea in multis etia antiquis exemplaribus latinus corruptissimum reperiebantur. Nec nõ Claudii Ptholemai a plurimis uiris utriusqß linguae doctiss. emendatu cum multis additionibus Rome Novitur impressum per Bernadinu Venetu de Vitalibus. Expesis Evagelista Tossino Brixiano Bibliopola. Impante Iulio II. Pont. Max Anno. III. Potificatus sui Die VIII. Septebr M.D.VII., 1507.. Folio (403 by 275mm). 200 leaves, one of which is blank, comprising letterpress title, index, and text in double columns with 52 lines to a full column on 107 leaves, followed by one blank leaf, ornamental initials and woodcut diagrams in the text and full page woodcut "Sphaero in plano" on N1 recto, 6 leaves (of 14 of the "orbis nova descriptio" by Beneventanus normally found in the fourth (1508) edition), 34 double-page copper engraved maps on 68 leaves (one folding), and the treatise "De Locis" in 20… Read More
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Cosmographia.
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Cosmographia.: Second Rome edition with the "finest Ptolemaic plates produced until Gerard Mercator"

by PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius

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Rome,: Petri de Turre,, 1490.. Folio (425 by 282mm), loose endpaper/initial blank on different paper, minor wormholes to first two gatherings, occasional minor staining to margins not affecting text, very occasional manuscript annotations in faded ink, 27 double-page engraved maps, minor staining to world map, some loss to right edge of 'Quinta Asia Tabula' not affecting printed area, 'Sexta Asia Tabula' with small closed tear to title, small open tear to right edge and some brown staining, some minor brown staining to 'Decima Asia Tabula', minor wormholes to final two gatherings. Contemporary calf decorated in blind with intricate roll tool borders enclosing central diamond with woven rope motif, clasps with cross straps replaced, some areas of repair including triangular area c50-60mm to upper cover and small area to lower left hand corner of lower cover, early paper label with manuscript lettering in iron gall ink. Collation: A8 (first leaf blank) B-C8, D6 (second leaf incorrectly signed D3), E6,… Read More
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La Primera Parte Del Nuevo Gran Espejo Maritimo, Alumbrando las Costas Maritimas de la Navigacion...
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La Primera Parte Del Nuevo Gran Espejo Maritimo, Alumbrando las Costas Maritimas de la Navigacion de la India Occidental,: Unrecorded Spanish edition of the First Sea Atlas of America Empecando de la Costa de Espana Hasta el Rio de Amazonas...

by ROGGEVEEN, Arent

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Amsterdam,: Jacob Robijn,, 1690.. Folio (450 by 280mm), title, privilege, [2]p. description of the earth, 67pp., 34 engraved charts (all double-page apart from the chart of Catalina), seventeenth century Spanish pig skin. One of the most important maritime atlases of the Dutch Golden Age. Roggeveen's work is the first maritime atlas of the American coasts, and was based largely on the closely guarded collection of mostly Iberian manuscript nautical charts owned by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and West India Company (WIC). It covers what it calls the West Indies, a term then interpreted much more broadly than today, including not only the entire Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico and Central America, but also part of South America and the entire east coast of what is now the United States and southern Canada. Arent Roggeveen (c.1628-1779) was born in Delfshaven, and came to Middelburg as a teacher in 1658. Familiar with mathematics and land-surveying and interested in astronomy, he quickly… Read More
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[Pair of nine-inch table globes].
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[Pair of nine-inch table globes].: Amongst the rarest to survive"

by BLAEU, Willem Janszoon

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Amsterdam,, 1602 [but c1621].. Diameter: 230mm (9 inches).. Terrestrial and celestial globes, each with 12 hand-coloured engraved gores heightened in gold, with two polar calottes, over a papier mâché and plaster sphere, rotating on brass pinions within a brass meridian ring with graduated scale, and a graduated brass altitude quadrant, set into a seventeenth century Dutch wooden base with an engraved horizon ring, adumbrating scales, calendar, almanacs etc. With usual defects: paper equinoctial tables present gaps that are filled and restored, small splits along the gores, several partially deleted entries, small scattered spots but in general in good condition for such an early globe pair, modern hour circles and pointers. Biography Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638) started "one of the most successful publishing houses of the seventeenth century" (Dekker). Originally trained in astronomy, he quickly became a leading maker of maps, atlases and instruments. At the time the Low Countries hosted the… Read More
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[Portolan Atlas of the Mediterranean].
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[Portolan Atlas of the Mediterranean].: A magnificent portolan atlas signed by a member of the leading family of chart-makers of the Mediterranean Franciscus Oliva Me Fecit in Civitae Marsilia Anno Domini 1658.

by OLIVA, Franciscus [II]

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Marseille,, 1658.. Portolan atlas (510 by 340mm) comprising of 10 manuscript charts on vellum (six double page and four single page) pasted on thick card, coloured in ink wash and gouache throughout and heightened in gold, lavish decorative motifs on compass roses, scale bars, armorial shields and name cartouches, each chart within a simple yellow border, the outlines in sepia, main islands in gold, the rest in red, blue, green, coastlines red, blue, green and pink, rivers in blue, main names in red and the rest in brown ink, rhumblines in sepia, red and green; some typical signs of wear, particularly on the borders, resulting in some tears and losses which in some cases have been reinstated; owner label pasted to upper marbled paper pastedown, contemporary vellum binding. The portolan chart originated in thirteenth century Italy, as an aid to the pilots navigating their way across the often treacherous Mediterranean Sea. They are characterized by rhumb lines, lines that radiate from the centre in… Read More
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West Indische Paskaert… Gedruckt t'Amsterdam Bij Jacobus Robyn, inde Nieuwe Brugh steeg inde...
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West Indische Paskaert… Gedruckt t'Amsterdam Bij Jacobus Robyn, inde Nieuwe Brugh steeg inde Stuurman: A majestic sea chart from the Dutch "Golden Age"

by BLAEU, Willem Jansz.

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Amsterdam,: by Jacobus Robyn, inde Nieuwe Brugh steeg inde Stuurman,, [c1630-1674].. 810 by 978mm. (32 by 38.5 inches).. A separately published large engraved chart printed in four sheets, joined, with fine contemporary hand-colour lavishly heightened in gold. The very rare second state (of four) of one of the most important charts published in the seventeenth century, one of the earliest on Mercator's projection, and the first on the projection for North America. Waters: the "earliest printed chart of the Atlantic … became immediately the standard chart for navigation to America and the Cape of Good Hope". Campbell says that only "a few examples at most" of each state have survived. The title indicates that the Paskaert was designed to show the area chartered to the West India Company in 1621. Destombes and Gernez suggest that the lack of a privilege on the first state indicates that it was used exclusively by the company and not available to the general public. Schilder locates just two… Read More
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Description des Indes Occidentales, qu'on appelle aujourdhuy le Nouveau Monde:
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Description des Indes Occidentales, qu'on appelle aujourdhuy le Nouveau Monde: The first town plan of anywhere in the present-day United States" Par Antoine de Herrera,…avec la Navigation du Vaillant Capitaine de Mer Jacques le Maire, & de plusieurs autres...

by HERRERA [Y TORDESILLAS], A de, [JACOB Le Maire, Willem CORNELIS SCHOUTEN, Giovanni Battista BOAZIO], et al.

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Amsterdam,: Chez Emanuel Colin de Thovoyon,, 1622.. Folio (310 by 200mm), first French edition second issue (title page canncelled, with Paris imprint added to that of Amsterdam) engraved title with vignettes and map, [8], 103, [1, blank], [6], 107-254 pp., head- and tail-pieces, with decorated initials; 27 engraved plates, pictorial title page, 17 maps and charts (16 double-page, 1 folded), 4 city views, 5 text engravings (scenes from Le Maire voyage), portrait of Le Maire not present as usual for the French edition, seventeenth century vellum. The first French edition of Herrera'a rare work here extra-illustrated with Boazio's exceedingly rare views of Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic); Santiago (Cape Verde Islands); Cartagena (Columbia); and San Augustine (Florida) - first known engraving of any locality in the present-day United States. The importance of this French edition of Herrera's 'Description des Indes Occidentales', and the other 1622 editions in Latin and Dutch, lies in its engraved… Read More
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A Mapp of New England
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A Mapp of New England: The first map of New England" (Burden) by John Seller Hydrographer To the King. And are to bee Sold at his Shop at the Hermitage in Wapping And by Iohn Hills in Exchange Alley in Cornhill.

by SELLER, John

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London,, [1676].. 445 by 550mm. (17.5 by 21.75 inches).. Engraved map, with contemporary hand-colour in outline and in part, a minor repair to the lower margin with some infill, close-trimmed at an early date. A "great rarity…the first map of the area we now call New England" (Burden). Published for inclusion in John Seller's 'Atlas Maritimus', 1676, although it is very rarely found with it: only one institutional example of this issue is known still bound in the atlas, at the John Carter Brown Library. King Philip's War Published at a time of heightened interest in New England and King Philip's War, Seller's map contains up-to-the minute information. Advertised by him in the 'London Gazette', in early April 1676, at the heart of the map is a dramatic scene, showing the Colonists and the local Indians firing on each other at Hadley, a battle which happened only as recently as the 1st of September, 1675. Many of the other place-names on the map are connected directly to the conflict, and were then… Read More
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[Portolan Chart of the Mediterranean].

[Portolan Chart of the Mediterranean].: A fine portolan signed and dated by one of the most prolific chart makers of the Mediterranean

by OLIVA, Joan

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[Messina,, 1610].. 460 by 860mm. (18 by 33.75 inches).. Pen, ink, and wash colour on vellum, highlighted in silver and gold, extending west to east from Cape Finisterre to the Holy Land, and north to south from Ukraine to the north coast of Africa, islands in red, blue and green, rivers in blue, numerous coastal place-names in red and sepia in semi-italic lettering, 14 large and small compass roses, many with fleur-de-lys north points, heightened in gold, crucifix to neck, the whole chart divided by red, green, and sepia, rhumb lines extending from the compass roses, gilt borders, scale upper and lower centre, la few small nicks to right margin of chart, one or two at shoulders. Finely drawn chart of the Mediterranean attributed to Joan Oliva. The chart has been attributed to Joan Oliva (fl.1570-1614), a leading member of the Oliva family, a cartographic dynasty who dominated portolan production in Europe during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Charts signed by no fewer than 16… Read More
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[Bird's-eye View of Amsterdam, first printed in Amsterdam in 1544, 3rd edition, 1553 or later].

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Amsterdam,, 1544 [1553 or later].. Dimensions (if joined) 1065 by 1095mm. (42 by 43 inches). Individual sheet measurements: (297 by 378mm; 242 by 387mm; 283 by 378mm; 287 by 392mm; 305 by 392mm; 287 by 387mm; 302 by 374mm; 304 by 387mm; 242 by 387mm; 304 by 393mm; 245 by 378mm; 308 by 387mm). Large wall map, woodcut with handcut and letterpress lettering on twelve sheets, mounted on linen. Watermark (on several sheets): A yet unidentified foolscap with four pointed extensions and two shorter ones with bells, including an elongated staff with three balls. Not identified in Churchill, Laurentius, Voorn or Heawood. Condition: overall fine condition, untrimmed, and in loose sheets, some sheets a bit darkened in the corners, a few small areas of restoration to margins, perhaps pressed at some stage, apparently once framed (some dark lines in the margins do suggest this), very clean, printed on thin paper. The first printed plan of Amsterdam. Cornelis Anthonisz (1499-c1557) was a distinguished… Read More
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Geographicae Enarrationis, Libri Octo.
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Geographicae Enarrationis, Libri Octo.: Servetus - the expurgated edition - with contemporary hand-colour Ex Bilibaldi Pircheymheri tralatione, sed ad Graeca & Prisca exemplaria a Michaele Villanovan (d.i. Servertus) secondo recogniti, & locis innumeris denuo castigati.

by PTOLEMAEUS, Claudius; and Michael VILLANOVANUS, known as 'SERVETUS'

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Prostant Lugduni,: apud Hugonem a Porta,, 1541.. 405 by 285mm. (16 by 11.25 inches).. Folio. Large woodcut printer's device on title-page; double-page woodcut old map of the world, 26 old regional maps, 2 modern maps of the world, 20 new regional maps and one full-page, most with text enclosed in elaborate woodcut borders, probably by Hans Holbein and Urs Graf, text with 2 full-page woodcuts of a diagram and armillary sphere showing the projection of the winds by Albrecht Dürer (l4 verso), all with magnificent contemporary hand-colour in full, 4 large woodcut diagrams, woodcut initials, colophon n4 present, seventeenth-century limp vellum, recased. Collation: a-i(6), k-m(6), n(4), 50 maps, A-G(6), 2[-]; pp., [1]-149, [3], 50 maps, [76]. Beautifully coloured in a contemporary hand throughout, and very rare as such, this is the second edition of Ptolemy's 'Geographia' to be edited by Michael Villanovanus, better known as Servetus, (c1490-1570). It was printed by Gaspar Trechsel for Hugues de la Porte… Read More
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Magna Orbis Terrarum Nova

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Antwerpiae,: apud Joannem Baptistam Vrient,, 1604.. 1670 by 2970mm. (65.75 by 117 inches).. Engraved map, printed on twelve sheets, above four sheet letterpress description annotated with several woodcut animals, with fine CONTEMPORARY HAND-COLOUR HEIGHTENED GOLD, trimmed to neat lines, laid on linen, extensive areas of restoration. A full conservation report is available on request. A spectacular wall map of astonishing beauty made at the beginning of the Dutch Golden Age. Cartography The present map draws on the cartography of Luis Teixeira (fl.1564-1613) - whose name appears in the large pasted title - a Portuguese cartographer from a famous mapmaking dynasty. He worked in Lisbon and the Portuguese colonies, but was also a friend of and collaborator with Dutch cartographers, contributing a map of Japan to Abraham Ortelius' atlas. Ortelius and Cornelis Claesz published five of his maps between them, and all were specifically advertised as based on his work, indicating that he was highly respected in… Read More
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[Portolan atlas].
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[Portolan atlas].: A rare portolan atlas showing the shift in focus from the Mediterranean to northern Europe

by DOSSAIGA, Jaime [DOUSAIGO, Jacques]

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[Portugal?],, 1590.. Ten vellum leaves, four bifolia with two blank leaves (one at each end) pasted together, four double page maps. Coastlines drawn in brown ink and heightened in green or gold wash, places names in brown ink, major place names and rivers in red ink, rivers in silver, islands in red, blue, or gold, mountain ranges (imaginary) in brown and green wash heightened with gold. Each map decorated with compass roses and scale bar in blue, green, red, and gold, cartouche with author's name and date on map of Western Europe. Folio (367 by 238 mm), French nineteenth century brown morocco binding by Marcelin Lortic, binder's stamp "Lortic Fils" to lower turn-in of front board, gilt fillet border to covers, spine divided into six compartments with raised bands, lavishly gilt, title lettered to spine in gilt, board edges and turn ins gilt. A striking portolan atlas of the Mediterranean and northern Europe, beautifully coloured and highlighted in gold and silver. Surviving portolan atlases are… Read More
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Dell'arcano del mare, di D. Ruberto Dudleo duca di Nortumbria, e conte di VVarvich, libri sei…
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Dell'arcano del mare, di D. Ruberto Dudleo duca di Nortumbria, e conte di VVarvich, libri sei…: The first atlas on Mercator's Projection from the library of Imperial geographer Wolfgang Engelbert, Earl of Auersperg

by DUDLEY, Robert.

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Florence,: Francesco Onofri,, 1646-1647.. 6 parts in 3 volumes. Folio. Complete with half-titles, vignette title-pages, and all exceptionally fine engraved maps, plates and original moveable parts: Volume I: (343 by 233mm), Part I: 56 pages, 30 plates, including 24 folding, and 20 with volvelles, [3] leaves of tables (ephemerides) Part II: 76, [2] pages, 12 plates, including 7 folding, and 5 with volvelles, 15 folding maps; Part III: [4], 1-48, [4], 49-55, 8 plates (5 folding), 4 engravings on half-page, the first after plates 2, the second after plates 4, the other two between pages 16 and 17 Part IV: 39, [3] pages, 18 plates, including 15 folding; Volume II: (478 by 343mm), Part V: 36, [2] pages, 98 plates 150 illustrations, 24 folding plates including 15 with volvelles, 67 plates with 100 illustrations only on the recto and 9 with volvelles, 7 plates with 25 illustrations on recto and verso; Volume III: (468 by 330mm), Part VI: [2], 60, [2] pages, 132 folding maps including 59 of Europe, 17… Read More
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Speculum nauticum super navigatione maris occidentalis pars prima [-pars altera]
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Speculum nauticum super navigatione maris occidentalis pars prima [-pars altera]

by WAGHENAER, Lucas Janszoon

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Leiden,: Franciscus Raphelengius for Luca Johannes Aurigarius, , 1586.. The rutter for which all waggoners are named 2 parts in one volume. Folio (415 by 292mm), engraved allegorical title-page to the first part, title-page with woodcut border to the second part, "Ad lectorem", without dedication (as often), 45 double-page engraved charts by Joannes and Baptista van Doetichum all with fine contemporary hand-colour in full, 3 full-page engraved text illustrations, expert repairs to upper corners of the majority of the charts, including map of Europe chart, a few with loss skilfully repaired in facsimile, contemporary vellum gilt, repairs to upper corners. A fine example of the first Latin edition of the earliest printed sea atlas: complete, with fine contemporary hand-colour in full. First published in Dutch in 1583-1584 as Spieghel der Zeevaerdt, the over-sized map of Europe is in the first state, showing a circular Iceland, all other maps in Koeman state b. "Waghenaer's work was a milestone in the… Read More
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