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901 [Incunable map of the Balkans] PTOLEMY, Claudius.
Quinta Europe Tabula. Ulm, Johan Reger, 1482-86. Original hand colour with blue finishing on the sea area and rivers. Woodcut, 290 x 580mm. Some small repairs.
The Balkans from an early German edition of Ptolemy, with metal-type lettering within a coloured trapezoid border, with a Latin-text description on verso, with a coloured capital. 		SOLD

902 [Copper-engraved Incunable map of the Balkans] PTOLEMY, Claudius.
Quinta Europe Tabula. Rome: Petrus de Turre, 1490. Printed area 265 x 535mm. Joined at the centre, as usual with this edition.
The Balkans. Published in the second edition of Angelus & Caldarini's edition of Ptolemy, first published 1478, and indistinguishable from the first edition. An unusual feature of the series is the lettering, which is not engraved with a burin but stamped onto the plate. SHIRLEY: World 4. "Many consider the Rome plates to be the finest Ptolemaic plates produced until Gerard Mercator engraved his classical world atlas of 1578".		 £3,000

903 [Copper-engraved Incunable map of Romania & Bulgaria] PTOLEMY, Claudius.
Nona Europe Tabula. Rome: Petrus de Turre, 1490. Printed area 360 x 520mm. Joined at the centre, as usual with this edition.
Romania and Bulgaria, marking Byzantium. Published in the second edition of Angelus & Caldarini's edition of Ptolemy, first published 1478, and indistinguishable from the first edition. An unusual feature of the series is the lettering, which is not engraved with a burin but stamped onto the plate. SHIRLEY: World 4. "Many consider the Rome plates to be the finest Ptolemaic plates produced until Gerard Mercator engraved his classical world atlas of 1578".		 SOLD

904 [The Fries Ptolemaic Map of the Eastern Balkans] WÄLDSEEMÜLLER, Martin.
[Tabula IX Europae.]. Lyon: M. & G. Treschel, 1535.  Woodcut, printed area 335 x 510mm. Some restoration at centrefold.
The Fries reduction of Wäldseemüller's Ptolemaic map of the eastern Balkans, with Romania, Bulgaria and the Dardanelles, with the title on verso. Originally intended not for a Ptolemy edition but for a new "Chronica mundi" being written by Wäldseemüller, his death c.1520 caused the project to be shelved, so the woodcuts were used to publish a smaller sized and so cheaper edition of the 'Geography'. On verso is a text surrounded by woodcut column decorations. 		£750

905 [Balkans] RUSCELLI, Girolamo.
Tavola Nuova di Schiavonia. Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, c.1561. 200 x 260mm.
Map of the 'modern' Balkans, from Ruscelli's 'La Geographi di Claudio Tolomeo',also showing Italy, but with no detail. A feature of this first state is that no map has a platemark at top: two maps were engraved on the same plate and the resulting sheet halved. 		SOLD

906 [Balkans] ORTELIUS, Abraham.
Schlavoniae, Croatiae, Carnia, Istriae, Bosniae, Finitimarumque Regionem Nova Descriptio, Auctore Augustino Hirsvogelio. Antwerp, 1588, Spanish text edition. Original colour. 335 x 460mm. Tiny verdigris crack.
Very decorative map of the Balkans. VAN DEN BROECKE: 145.		 £430

907
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908 [The Adriatic] FER, Nicolas de.
Le Golfe de Venise, Aux Environs du quel se trouvent a l'Orient partie des Etats du Turc en Europe, Les Isles et Côtes de Dalmatie, et D'Istrie, aux Venetiens et la Republique de Ragusa. Paris, Guillaume Danet, c.1720. Original outline colour. 515 x 590mm.
De Fer's large map of the Adriatic, engraved by Starckman. This example was published by Danet, De Fer's son-in-law and successor. 		£625

909 [Balkans] CLUVER, Philip.
Veteris et Nova Pannoniæ et Illyrici Descriptio. Amsterdam, c.1730. Coloured. 210 x 250mm.
The Western Balkans, with a decorative title cartouche. 		SOLD

910 CLOPPENBURG, Johannes.
Walachia Servia Bulgaria Romania. Amsterdam, 1630, French text edition. First Edition. 190 x 260mm. Fine impression.
A reduction of the Hondius map of the eastern Balkans, engraved by Van den Keere for Cloppenburg's version of the Mercator 'Atlas Minor'. 		£125

911 BONNE, Rigobert.
Pannoniæ, Daciæ, Illyrici et Mœsiæ Tabula Geographica. Paris 1780. Original colour. 240 x 345mm.
The Balkans in classical times. 		SOLD

912 [Balkans] ZATTA, Antonio.
La Croazia, Bosnia, E Servia Di nuova Projezione. Venice 1780. Original outline colour. 325 x 415 mm. Old mss. numeral in top border.
The Adriatic coast. 		SOLD

913 [Albania] DE ROSSI, Giovanni Giacomo.
Albania Propria ouero Superiore detta anche Macedonia Occidentale descritta... Rome, 1689. Old colour. 540 x 435mm.
Albania, engraved after Vignola, published in the Mercurio Geografico. 		SOLD

914 [Illyricum] ORTELIUS, Abraham.
Illyricum. Antwerp, 1588, Spanish text edition. Original colour. 370 x 480mm.
Very decorative map of Slovenia and Croatia, engraved in 1572 after Johann Sambucus. VAN DEN BROECKE: 144.		 £500

915 [Dalmatia] ALBRIZZI, Giovanni Battista.
Carta Geografica della Dalmazia. Venice, 1753. Coloured. 340 x 440mm.
Published in volume 20 of Albrizzi's Italian edition of Thomas Salmon's Modern History. 		SOLD

916 [Rare Sea Chart of the Dalmatian Coast] JANSSON, Jan.
Iadera, Sicum et Ænona Vulgo Zara, Sibenico et Nona cum Insulis adjacentibus, in Parte Dalmatiæ Boreali.. Amsterdam, c.1650, French text edition. Original colour. 530 x 530mm. Paper lightly age-toned overall, tiny repairs to centrefold.
A fine sea chart from Jansson's uncommon 'Atlas Maritimus', first published 1650, showing the Dalmatian coastline from Pag to Sibenska with the adjacent islands, marking Zadar and Sibenik. The decorative title cartouche shows Christian and Turkish soldiers in full colour; the scale cartouche has mer-people and the arms of Venice. In the seas are galleons, galleys, a sea-monster and compass rose. The original colour is particularly fine. 		SOLD

917 [Two Sheet Chart of the Dalmatian Coasline] CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria.
Ristretto de Dalmazia Divisa né Contadi... Venice, c.1690. Two sheets conjoined, total 465 x 1155mm. Centrefold repaired.
Large and detailed map of Croatia and Montenegro, with parts of Bosnia and Herzegovinia, detailing the victories of the Venetians and their allies over the Turks in the area, resulting in the Treaty of Carlowitz in 1699. As Coronelli was Cartographer to the Doge of Venice it was important for him to maximize the role of the City: the large allegorical vignette depicts Venice as the leader of Christendom in a sea-chariot surrounded by mer-people, one holding the Venetian standard. 		SOLD

918 [Sea Chart of Dubrovnik] BEAUTEMPS-BEAUPRÉ, Charles François.
Plan des Environs de Raguse. Levé en 1809. Paris: Dépôt-général de la Marine, 1820. Coloured. 930 x 630mm.
A large and detailed chart of the environs of Dubrovnik. C.F. Beautemps-Beaupre is regarded as the father of modern French hydrography. He was the hydrographer to the expedition.to find La Perouse in the early 1790s, returning to France in 1796 when he was appointed Chief Engineer to the Hydrographic Office. This chart is one of a series of charts of the Adriatic that he surveyed on the orders of Napolean Bonaparte. 		£490

919 [Krk] CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria.
Isola dei Veglia. Venice, c.1690. 260 x 330mm, set in text.
The island of Krk in Primorsko, with parts of the mainland, Rab and Cres. Published in the 'Isolario'. 		£285

920 [Sea Chart of Molunat] BEAUTEMPS-BEAUPRÉ, Charles François.
Plan des Ports de Molonta Levé en 1809. Paris: Dépôt-général de la Marine, 1821. Coloured. 920 x 620mm. Two small repaired tears.
A large and detailed chart of the harbour of Molonta, just north of the border with Montegegro. C.F. Beautemps-Beaupre is regarded as the father of modern French hydrography. He was the hydrographer to the expedition.to find La Perouse in the early 1790s, returning to France in 1796 when he was appointed Chief Engineer to the Hydrographic Office. This chart is one of a series of charts of the Adriatic that he surveyed on the orders of Napolean Bonaparte. 		£290

921 [Dubrovnik] CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria.
Ragusi. Venice, c.1690. 130 x 165mm, set in text. Faint smear on printed area.
Dubrovnik. On verso is another plate, 'Pastrouicchi' (Petrovac in Montenegro?). 		SOLD

922 [Sea Chart of Sebenik] BEAUTEMPS-BEAUPRÉ, Charles François.
Plan des Environs de Sebenico. Levé en 1806. Paris: Dépôt-général de la Marine, 1820. Coloured. 920 x 620mm. Two small repaired tears.
A large and detailed chart of the environs of Sebenik. C.F. Beautemps-Beaupre is regarded as the father of modern French hydrography. He was the hydrographer to the expedition.to find La Perouse in the early 1790s, returning to France in 1796 when he was appointed Chief Engineer to the Hydrographic Office. This chart is one of a series of charts of the Adriatic that he surveyed on the orders of Napolean Bonaparte. 		£425

923 [Plan of Split] CASSAS, Louis-François.
Plan Général de la Ville et des Environs de Spalatro. Paris: Pierre Didot, 1802. 440 x 600mm.
Uncommon plan of Split, highlighting the defences and the palace of the Roman emperor Diocletian. Cassas was commissioned to create a series of drawings of the Istrian and Dalmatian coast in 1782, published as 'Voyage Pittoresque et Historique de l'Istrie et de la Dalmatie'. In 1784 Cassas traveled to Constantinople with the Comte de Choiseul-Gouffier and moving onto Syria, Egypt, Palestine, Cyprus, and Asia Minor. He drew many middle-eastern images and later published them with Choiseul's help. 		£750

924 [Two Croatian Islands - Vis & Curzola] CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria.
Isola di Lissa. (On verso) Citta di Curzola nella Dalmatia. Venice, c.1690. Two maps on one sheet, 130 x 170mm & 125 x 165, both set in text.
From the 'Isolario'. 		SOLD

925
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926 [Danube] JANSSON, Jan.
Maximi Totius Europæ Fluminis Danubii curcus per Germaniam Hungariamque Nova Delineatio. Amsterdam: Heirs of Jan Jansson, 1666, Latin text. Original colour. 450 x 515mm. Old repair to split in lower centrefold margin.
The Danube, in two strips. Published in the 'Atlas Contractus', a two-volume atlas, published two years after Jansson's death by his son-in-law, Jan Jansson van Waesbergen. KOEMAN: Me 184 & 185.		 SOLD

927 [The Danube] DE ROSSI, Giovanni Giacomo.
Corso del Danubio da Belgrado sino al Mer Nero... Rome, 1684. 430 x 550mm. Old ink mss. in top right margin.
The Danube from Belgrade to the Black Sea, engraved by Mariotto after Vignola, published in the Mercurio Geografico. 		£400

928 [The Danube: Rare issue by Nolin] NOLIN, Jean Baptiste.
Cours du Danube Depuis sa source, Ins qu'a ses Embouchures, ou sont partie de l'Empire D'Allemagne; et des Estats qui ont este, ou qui sont encore de l'Empire des Turcs en Europe; Avec Partie des Estats de la Ser.me Republique de Venise. Dresé par le P.Coronelli Cosmographe etc. Paris, 1688. Four sheets conjoined, total 600 x 1190mm. Some restoration to binding folds, slight loss of text in the description of the Bosphorus inset.
A monumental map of the course of the Danube, decorated with a title cartouche featuring medallion portraits of the rulers of the countries depicted. On two separately printed sheets joined underneath are five prospects of fortress towns and a chart of the Bosphorus. Nolin published 28 maps for the Venetian cartographer Coronelli: however they were never issued in atlas form and so are scarce. 		SOLD

929 [The Danube] JAILLOT, Alexis-Hubert.
Le Cours du Danube Depuis sa Source Iusqu'a ses Embouchures Dressé sue les Memoires lesplus Nouveau du P.Coronelli et autres. Amsterdam, Pieter Mortier, c.1705. Original colour. Three sheets conjoined, total 595 x 1120mm. Slight staining in title area.
A large and decorative map of the Danube from Mortier's issue of Jaillot's 'Atlas Nouveau'. Based on the Coronelli map published by Nolin in 1688, the fine baroque title features medallion portraits of Pope Innocent XII, the Holy Roman Emperor, and the kings of Poland, Hungary and Bavaria. Underneath are five prospects of fortress towns and a chart of the Bosphorus KOEMAN: Mor 1.		 £1,300

930 [Three-sheet map of the Danube] HOMANN, Johann Baptist.
Danubii Fluminis... Pars Superior...; Danubii Fluminis... Pars Media... Danubii Fluminis... Pars Infirma... Nuremberg, c.1720. Original colour. Three sheets, each c. 495 x 590mm.
Colourful map of the Danube over three sheets, showing from Lake Geneva east to Constantinople. 		£650

931 [The Gulf of Kotor] BEAUTEMPS-BEAUPRÉ, Charles François.
Plan du Golfe de Cattaro Levé en 1808. Paris: Dépôt-général de la Marine, 1820. Coloured. 840 x 920mm.
A large and detailed chart of the Gulf of Kotor. C.F. Beautemps-Beaupre is regarded as the father of modern French hydrography. He was the hydrographer to the expedition.to find La Perouse in the early 1790s, returning to France in 1796 when he was appointed Chief Engineer to the Hydrographic Office. This chart is one of a series of charts of the Adriatic that he surveyed on the orders of Napolean Bonaparte. 		SOLD

932 [The Assimilation of the Banat of Temeswar] PROBST, Johann Michael.
Nova Mappa Geographica Princip: Transilvaniæ, Districtus Memeswariensis... Augsburg, 1788. Original colour. 445 x 510mm.
The Banat of Temeswar was a separate province of the Habsburg Monarchy under military administration as a buffer between the Habsburgs and the Ottoman Empire. It was created by the Treaty of Passarowitz (1718), two years after Prince Eugene of Savoy conquered it from the Ottoman Empire. The Banat was abolished in 1778, and in 1779 it was incorporated into Habsburg Hungary. The southern part of the Banat region remained part of the buffer until it was abolished in 1871. The title cartouche illustrates one of the frequent skirmishes between the Austrians and Turks. 		£500