Categories
Shopping cart (0 items € 0)
Advanced search

Cartography, Exploration & Voyages / Atlases, Charts, Maps & Globes

A general in the Spanish army on the battles and sieges in Flanders 1601-1609,
during the Dutch war for independence, with 29 folding maps and plans

GIUSTINIANO, Pompeo. Delle guerre di Flandra libri VI. ... Posti in luce da Gioseppe Gamurini ...
Antwerp, J. Trognesio, 1609. 4to. With engraved architectural title-page and 29 folding engraved maps and plans of sieges and fortifications. White sheepskin (ca. 1700 or possibly later). [4], 329, [1 blank], [15], [3 blank] pp. Full description
€ 2,950
Order Inquire Terms of sale

A pair of striking Victorian library globes by map-maker George Frederick Cruchley

[GLOBES - TERRESTRIAL & CELESTIAL]. CRUCHLEY, George Frederick. Cruchley's new terrestrial globe from the most recent and best authorities, exhibiting the discoveries in equatorial Africa, North Pole, and the new settlements and divisions in Australia, New Zealand, California, Texas &c.
London, George Frederick Cruchley, [ca. 1850].
With: CRUCHLEY, George Frederick. Cruchleys new celestial globe on which is accurately laid down the whole of the stars and nebule contained in the astronomical catalogue of the Reverend Mr. Wollaston F.R.S. Also from the authorities Flamstead, De la Caille, Hevellus, Bradley, Herschel, Maskelyne, &c. and the limits of each constellation determined by a boundary line.
London, George Frederick Cruchley, [ca. 1850].
A matching pair of terrestrial and celestial globes (53 cm diameter) each made a hollow paper-marché core (2 hemispheres, joined at the equator), covered with a layer of plaster and 12 hand-coloured, engraved gores, showing the terrestrial geography and celestial bodies in great detail. Each globe mounted in a mahogany tripod stand on small wheels. With a compass (diameter: 25 cm) at the base of each stand; graduated brass meridian ring and engraved graduated horizontal rings (paper pasted on the mahogany frame) showing the months of the year, the zodiac signs and wind directions. Full description
€ 97,500
Order Inquire Terms of sale

The only atlas published by Abraham Goos: the 17 provinces of the Habsburg Low Countries

GOOS, Abraham. Nieuw Nederlandtsch caertboeck. Waer in volkomentlijcker als oyt te voren vertoont werden de XVII. Nederlanden, soo in t geheel, als elck besonder met grote neersticheyt ende kosten gesneden ende in t licht gebracht. Mitsgaders een nieuwe beschryvinge uijt verscheyden autheuren ordentlyck tsamen gestelt door Reinier Telle ... .
Amsterdam, Abraham Goos in de Kalverstraet, [1616]. Oblong 4to (ca. 16 x 21 cm). With an engraved title page (signed by P.S[erwouter] scul. (bottom right) after D.V[inck] B[oons] (bottom left)), 23 full page maps, several decorated woodcut initials and woodcut tailpieces. 19th-century quarter calf. [7], "305" [=294], [2], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 4,500
Order Inquire Terms of sale

Goos' West-Indische paskaert in its very rare first state: a monumental nautical chart of the Atlantic Ocean in Mercator projection on vellum, used by the Dutch West Indian Company (WIC)

GOOS, Pieter. West-Indische Paskaert waer in de graden der breedde over wederzijden van de middellijn wassende so vergrooten dat die geproportioneert sijn tegen hunne nevenstaende graden de lengde. Vertonende behalve[n] Europaes zuydelijcste alle de zeekusten van Africa en America begrepen in 't Octroy bij de H.M.H. Staten Generael der vereenichde Nederl. verleent aende Generale West Indische Compagnie. Mitsgaders die van Peru en Chili inde groote Zuyd-Zee.
Amsterdam, Pieter Goos, [ca. 1660]. Printed on vellum (ca. 80 x 98 cm) from one large copperplate engraving, partly coloured by a contemporary hand. Full description
€ 185,000
Order Inquire Terms of sale

Italian fortification atlas of the Low Countries

GUALDO PRIORATO, Galeazzo. Teatro del Belgio ò sia descritione delle diecisette provincie del medesimo; con le piante delle città, e fortezze principali; da chi al presente possesse; come, in qual modo, & in qual tempo acquistate.
Vienna, Michael Thurnmayer, 1673. Folio. With engraved frontispiece with the coat-of-arms of all Seventeen Provinces, engraved military scene on the title-page, folding engraved map of the Low Countries, 2 folding engraved views of a sea-battle and an army crossing the Rhine, and 120 double-page engraved fortification plans. Contemporary mottled sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. [14], 148, [6] pp. text Full description
€ 5,000
Order Inquire Terms of sale

First edition of Guicciardini's celebrated description of the Low Countries

GUICCIARDINI, Lodovico. Descrittione ... di tutti i Paesi Bassi, altrimenti detti Germania Inferiore.
Antwerp, Willem Silvius, 1567. Folio. With the title, the large coat of arms of Philip II, and his portrait set within a woodcut architectural frame with allegorical figures on separate pages, and 17 double-page plates, maps and views (15 woodcuts, 2 engravings).Further with 15 woodcut divisional title-pages for the illustrations and descriptions of the regions and cities set within a woodcut ornamental frame and numerous woodcut decorated initials (at least 4 series). Later vellum. [3], [1 blank], [16], "296"[= 339], [1 blank], [19], [1 blank] pp. Full description
€ 8,000
Order Inquire Terms of sale

Beautiful views of the Netherlands

HAVARD, Henry. La Hollande à vol d'oiseau.
Paris, G. Decaux, A. Quantin, 1881. 4to. With a full-page lithographed map of the Netherlands, printed in black and blue, a double suite of 24 full-page heliogravures (one suite in proof-state, the other with the printed text), showing views of the main Dutch cities, and numerous wood-engraved views and illustrations in the text. Contemporary gold-tooled half brown morocco. [6], II, "400" [= 398] pp. Full description
€ 1,250
Order Inquire Terms of sale

Hearne's expedition to the Arctic in a rare Dutch edition

HEARNE, Samuel and Johann Reinhold FORSTER (editor). Landreis van 't Prins van Wallis Fort aan Hudson Baai, naar den Noorder-Oceaan.
The Hague, J.C. Leeuwenstijn, 1798. 2 volumes. 8vo. With folding map, hand-coloured in outline (41.5×50.5 cm), a folding map of the Coppermine River, and 2 folding views, all engraved and etched. Contemporary half sheepskin, gold-tooled spine. 16, 247, [1 blank]; [4], 289, [1] pp. Full description
€ 2,500
Order Inquire Terms of sale
169 books found / Show all