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[Title page: Atlas Novus, volume IV]
by Blaeu, Joannes:
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- 1646
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Amsterdam, 1646. Copper engraving, 42 x 25 cm, original hand colour heightened in gold, ink library stamp of a Dutch school affecting top right hand corner of image (the Gymanisum St Alberti in Zenderen, attached to the Carmelite monastery there); blank verso. Architectural title page, engraved for the fourth volume of Blaeus Atlas Novus. The central panel is blank:… Read more about this item Item Price
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LEspagne dressée sur la Description qui en a eté faite par Rodrigo Mendez Sylva... par G. de lIsle/Nova Regni Hispaniae accurata descriptio...
by Covens, Johannes & Mortier, Cornelis:
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- c. 1740
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Amsterdam, c. 1740. Copper engraving, 50 x 60 cms, engraved by Joan van Lugtenberg after Guillaume de L'Isle, original hand colour with later additions to cartouche, slight marginal spotting, blank verso. Pieter Mortier (1661-1711) contributed to the revival of the Dutch map trade, flagging since the achievements of the Golden Age cartographers. After his death the business was continued… Read more about this item Item Price
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[title-page] Atlas Novus
by Covens, Johannes & Mortier, Cornelis:
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- c. 1730
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c. 1730. Copper engraved allegorical title page, 50 x 28 cms, modern hand colour, left hand margin reinforced (just touching printed border), blank verso. This title-page, engraved by Romeyn de Hooge, seems to have been used first by Hubert Jaillot in Paris c. 1695, and was subsequently employed by Pieter Mortier (who had a close working relationship with Jaillot)… Read more about this item Item Price
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Afbeeldinge van't zeer vermaarde Eiland Geks-Kop.
by Anonymous:
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- 1720
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Amsterdam, 1720. Copper engraving, 30 x 23.5 cms, black and white, elaborate engraved border, Dutch text beneath; generous margins, blank verso. A Dutch fools cap map, satirising the bursting of the financial bubbles of 1720. Cartographic features are given punning names such as the River Bubble, the Island of Despair and the town of Madmandam, but the real Rivers… Read more about this item Item Price
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[Title-page] Description de lUnivers Tome I
by Mallet, Allain Manesson:
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- 1683
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Paris, 1683. Copper engraving, 15 x 10.5 cms, black and white, blank verso, title-page for the first volume of Mallets Description de lUnivers printed by Denis Thierry. Map Item Price
SGD 129.26
[Title-page] Anglorum Indoles Studia et Actiones
by Scherer, Heinrich:
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- c. 1703
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Munich, c. 1703. Copper engraving 23.5 x 35 cms, black and white, blank verso. Allegoricial engraving by Jospeh à Montalegre of Nuremberg after Johannes Degler for Jesuit scholar Heinrich Scherers Atlas Marianus. In attempting to define the character of the English there is a strong emphasis on trade and discovery; note the map of New England under the arm… Read more about this item Item Price
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[Title-Page] Mercurio Geografico [...] Tomo Secondo [...]
by Cantelli da Vignola de Rossi, Giacomo:
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- 1692
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Rome,, 1692. Copper engraved title-page, 42 x 26.5 cms, black and white as issued, blank verso. Map Item Price
SGD 560.10
[Title-page] Le Nouveau Theatre du Monde ou Nouvel Atlas, Tome second.
by Janssonius, Joannes:
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- 1639
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Amsterdam, 1639. Copper engraved title-page, 39.5 x 24.5 cms, original hand-colour, minor adhesion damage, old marginal repairs, blank verso. Janssonius title page, employed from 1638, closely follows Blaeus of 1630, a complex image which set a decorative standard for the next thirty years. Through the groups of allegorical figures Blaeu and Janssonius sought to promise their readers that they… Read more about this item Item Price
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[Title-page] The English Atlas, Volume II
by Pitt, Moses:
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- 1681
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London, 1681. Copper engraved title-page, 40.5 x 26.5 cms, black and white as issued, blank verso. Four volumes only of Pitts projected eleven volume world atlas were published 1680-83, all dealing with northern Europe. Pitt worked in partnership with Janssonius heir Joannes van Waesbergen, and this title-page for the German volume is a reworking of one engraved for Janssonius… Read more about this item Item Price
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[Title-page] Atlas Historique
by Chatelain, Henri Abraham:
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- c. 1705
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Amsterdam, c. 1705. Copper engraved title-page, 40 x 24.5 cms, black and white as issued, blank verso. Engraved for the first volume of Chatelains historical atlas. The classical muses represent Chronology, History, Navigation and Geography. Atlas braces himself against a crumbling pyramid, supporting the heavens, while the title of the atlas is suspended on a banner, borne by the… Read more about this item Item Price
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[Title-page] Le Nouveau Theatre du Monde ou Nouvel Atlas, Tome Troisieme
by Janssonius, Joannes:
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- 1641
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Amsterdam, 1641. Copper engraved title-page, 37.5 x 23.5 cms, later hand-colour, blank verso. The general Mercator-Hondius architectural title page, in use from 1606 onwards. This is Mercators original Atlas - the wise King of Mauritania, measuring a globe, rather than the weary titan. Shirley, Courtiers and Cannibals, 27. Map Item Price
SGD 603.19
[General title page for Blaeus town books of the Netherlands]
by Blaeu, Joannes:
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- c. 1650
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Amsterdam, c. 1650. Copper engraving, 41.5 x 25.5 cm, original hand colour, blank verso. Title left blank so that a separately printed label in the correct language for the edition could be pasted down. The first volume features plans and views of the towns of the Northern provinces, the Free Netherlands, and their coats of arms are featured here;… Read more about this item Item Price
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