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23 [Set of World & Four Continents from the 'Atlas Major'] BLAEU, Johannes.
Nova et Accuratissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula; Americæ nova Tabula; Asia noviter delineata; Africæ nova descriptio; Europa recens descripta. Amsterdam, 1662. Original colour. Five plates, each c.410 x 540mm.
A fine set of five maps from the most expensive book published in the 17th century, an eleven-volume atlas containing 593 hand-coloured maps. For this edition Johannes Blaeu replaced the world map engraved by his father in 1606 and used in Blaeu atlases since 1630 with a new double hemisphere map, the only Blaeu atlas map to show California as an island. The highly decorative borders have two cartographers and allegorical figures of the known planets along the top and the Four Seasons underneath. Shirley writes that 'the engraving and layout and elegance of decoration are of the highest standard. The map is invariably printed on thick paper of quality and often superbly hand coloured.'. Each of the continents has lateral borders of native dress and nine city prospects along the top. KOEMAN: Bl 56; SHIRLEY: World 255; BURDEN: 189; WALTER: 25; NORWICH: 32; BORRI: 126.		 p.o.a.

24 [World & Four Continents] SPEED, John.
A New and Accurat Map of the World...; Europ...; America...; Asia...; Africæ... London, Bassett & Chiswell, 1676. Coloured. Five plates, ea. c.395 x 515mm.
A set of landmark maps from Speed's 'Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World', the first English atlas of the world. The world has decorative borders illustrated with the Elements, etc., and each of the continents has costume vignettes down each side and prospects of famous cities along the top. Complete sets of these decorative maps are becoming increasingly uncommon. SHIRLEY: World, 317.		 p.o.a.

25 MONATH, Peter Conrad.
[Set of World & 4 Continents.] Nuremberg, 1758. Original colour with additions. Five plates, ea. c.260 x 290mm. Some restoration to margin of world map.
An uncommon set of maps, each with a decorative title cartouche. The world map has allegorical figures of the four continents, California as an island and a suggested North West Passage. McCLAUGHLAN: California 238.		 £3,000

26 JANVIER, Jean.
[Set of World & 4 Continents.] Paris, Lattré, 1762. Coloured. 5 plates, ea. c. 305 x 450mm.
A double-hemisphere world map and four continents, each with a fully-coloured title cartouche. 		£1,700

27 LEVASSEUR, Victor.
[Set of World & 6 Continents.] Paris, A. Combette, c.1845. Original body colour on the maps. Seven steel-engravings, ea. c.310 x 410mm.
A fine set, each map with bright body colour on the maps, within a highly decorative engraved border, with vignettes of costumes and animals. Published in one of the last decorative atlases, the 'Atlas Universel Illustré', which, unlike earlier sets, has grouped the East Indies, Australasia and the Pacific on one plate, 'Océanie'.On the map of the Americas Texas is a republic: the population table gives it a population of only 200,000. 		SOLD

28 [Set of World and Six Continents] VUILLEMIN, Alexandre A.
Planisphère Elementaire et Illustré... Paris, Fatout, 1865-6. Original colour. Seven plates, each c. 640 x 850mm. A few small signs of wear.
A fine set of seven large maps, with the world on Mercator's Projection (British Empire in red), and six continents (including South America and Oceania). Each map is decorated with informative vignettes. 		£2,600

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["a fine ornate example of the decorative cartography of the time"] HONDIUS, Henricus.
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula. Auct Henr. Hondio.Amsterdam, Hondius & Jan Jansson, c. 1630,  German text edition. Very fine Original Colour.  380 x 540mm. Minor reinforcements to lower c'fold.
First issued in 1630, this was one of the first world maps to appear in an atlas showing California as an island, and, according to Schilder, is 'the oldest dated map in an atlas on which a Dutch discovery in Australia has been shown'. The Cape York Peninsula is shown with eight names. The decoration on the map is superb: three strapwork cartouches appear on the map; portraits of Julius Cæsar, Ptolemy, Mercator and Jodocus Hondius fill the corners; scenes representing the four Elements are above and below each hemisphere; in the upper cusp is a celestial globe; and in the lower cusp are allegorical figures representing Asia, America and Africa making obeisance to Europe.This example is from the First State (before Jansson added his own name in 1641). SCHILDER: Australia Unveiled, 39; SHIRLEY: 336.

 £8,500

30 [Medieval  Woodblock World Map] Anonymous.
[untitled cicular world map] From " La Mer des Hystoires", Paris, Nicolas Couteau, 1543.  Woodblock, 2 sheets joined. 300 mm diameter. Uncoloured, strong impression.
This is the 1491 Lyons block of the world map, published in " La Mer des Hystoires" Chronicle
in Paris, in 1543. Shirley mentions that examples of the Lyons block appeared in later Paris editions of the Mer des Hystoires. The encyclopedic world history based on medieval theology, "Rudimentum Novitiorum", became better known through French translations under the title "La Mer des Hystoires". This famous publication contained the first detailed printed maps ever produced . Two separate blocks of the world map were made for French issuesof the Mer de Hystoires, the first in Paris in 1488 and the second in Lyons in 1491. "Whereas the earlier La Mer des Hystoires map of 1488 remained close to the RudimentumNovitiorum prototype, this second (and reduced) derivation of 1491 betrays the work of a thinking individual" ---- Campbell.  A number of mistakes have been corrected, and the text is much clearer than in the previous editions. Shirley, The Mapping of the World, item 17.		 £16,500

31 [Rare First Edition of Bordone's Famous Woodcut] BORDONE, Benedetto.
[World map.] Venice, 1528, First Edition. Woodcut, image size 215 x 380mm, with Italian text beneath and the Errata on verso.
One of the earliest world maps on an oval projection, published in Bordone's 'Isolario', for which it was one of three index maps. Most of the names on the map are on the continents or the names of the seas; the islands have numbers and letters refering to an index, unfortunately not the list on the back. SHIRLEY: 59.		 £4,250

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33 [Western & Eastern Hemispheres] DUNN, Samuel.
A New Map of the World with the Latest Discoveries by Samuel Dunn, Mathematician. London, Laurie & Whittle, 1805, original colour, 285 x 485mm. Top centerfold tear repaired, otherwise in good condition.
A very attractive double hemisphere map of the World showing Cook and Anson's voyages and marking down their discoveries, most notably New Zealand and Australia which is shown relitavely complete with only the Southern coast being unresolved. Papua New Guinea is also shown as a broken chain of islands with one marked as "Terre des Arsacides" being only denoted by a single coast. 		£500

35 [Ptolemaic World] RUSCELLI, Girolamo.
Ptolemaei Typus. Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1562, Latin edition. 185 x 260mm. Minor restoration at centrefold.
Engraved by Sanuto for Ruscelli's 'La Geographi di Claudio Tolomeo'. A feature of this first state is that the platemark runs off the top of the sheet: two maps were printed from the same plate then the resulting sheet cut in half. SHIRLEY: 109.		 £450

36 [Ptolemaic World] MUNSTER, Sebastian.
Figura del Mondo Universale. Basle, c.1550. Italian Text edition. Woodcut, printed area 260 x 340mm.
Munster's double-page map of the Ptolemaic World, with Africa extending into the Terra Incognita. The ornate border depicts the winds as puffing putti. SHIRLEY: World 76.		 £850

37 [Ortelius's Third Plate] ORTELIUS, Abraham.
Typus Orbis Terrarum. Antwerp, 1592-, Latin text. Coloured. 355 x 490mm.
Printed from the last plate of three that Ortelius used to print his world map, with the date 1587 engraved on the Great Southern Continent, although Shirley believes it was not issued until 1592. The first Latin issue was that year, but with the page number always being 1 it is impossible to specify which edition this example comes from. However the quality of the impression would suggest an early printing. The map is on an oval projection, and shows extensive land masses at the north and south poles and South America is without the second bulge on the west coast that appeared on the first two plates. VAN DER BROECKE: 3.1; SHIRLEY: 122.		 £5,500

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MOLL, Herman.    
A New and Correct Map of the World, Laid Down according to the Latest Discoveries, and From the Most Accurate Observations. London, John Bowles, Thomas Bowles, Philip Overton & John King, c.1730. Original colour with additions. Two sheets conjoined, total 570 x 965mm. Some restoration.
A large double-hemisphere world map, dedicated to George II, with California as an island. Of interest is the viriolic attack on Dutch plagarists under the eastern Hemispshere.

  £3,500

39 [An Elegant English World Map] SENEX, John.
A New Map of the World From the Latest Observations. Revis'd by I.Senex. Most humbly Inscribd to his Royal Highness George Prince of Wales.London, c.1720. Original outline colour with additions to the borders. 430 x 550mm. Lower centerfold reinforced.
Double-hemisphere with four further spheres on different projections, an armillary sphere flanked by two figures (one being Hercules) and allegorical figures of the four continents around the title. On the map California is an island (although not on two of the smaller spheres), "Jesso" is joined to mainland Asia, and Australia is joined to New Guinea via Carpentaria. There are also faint outlines offering alternative coastlines, necessitated by the continuing doubt over measuring latitude.Although this example is marked "Revis'd" we have been unable to trace an earlier version. George was made Prince of Wales in 1714, and came to the throne of England in 1727 as George II. 		£3,000

 

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[A Scarce English World Map] SELLER, John.    
Novissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula. London: Mount & Page, c.1708. Coloured. 450 x 550mm. Margins rubbed, split in lower centrefold repaired.
A scarce world map, first published in Seller's 'Atlas Maritimus' 1675, here re-issued in Mount and Pages "Atlas Maritimus Novus".The decorative borders include a map of the Moon with a supposed telescopic view after Hevelius in the cusps, four astronomical diagrams, allegorical representations of the Four Seasons and Four Elements, with Zodiac symbols. SHIRLEY: 460, illustrated in the Introduction.   

     £6,250

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[Double-Hemisphere World ] LOON, Jan van.
Orbis Terrarum Nova  et Accuatissima Tabula.Oxford: Moses Pitt, Steven Swart & Jan Jannson van Waesbergen, 1680, blank verso. Original colour. 480 x 565mm. Minor restoration at centrefolds.
Double-hemisphere world map decorated with allegorical figures of the Elements in the cornser. Originally published in Amsterdam ijn 1666, this example comes from the uncommon English edition, re-engraved with a dedication to Charles II in the lower cusp. Jan Jansson à  Waesberg, the original publisher, went into partnership with two English publishers, Pitt and Swart, to produce an twelve-volume 'English Atlas' to compete with  Blaeu's.Between 1680 and 1683 four volumes of the atlas and the text for the fifth were printed in Oxford, but the mounting costs were too much. Production ceased, and for a time Pitt was locked up in the Fleet Prison for debt. SHIRLEY: 505, & 439 for the first state.

 £5,250

42 [An Uncommon World Map in Armenian] Anonymous.
[World Map Written in Armenian.]. c.1730. 250 x 395mm. Crease just touching the printed border.
A very unusual map in Armenian script. It shows California as an island, and both Australia and New Zealand incomplete.		 £2,500

43 [Decorative World Map showing Cook's Tracks] LAURIE & WHITTLE.
A New Map of the World with Captain Cook's Tracks, His Discoveries and those of the Other Circumnavigators. London, Laurie & Whittle, 1794. Original wash colour. 480 x 720mm. A wonderful example.
Double-hemisphere world map surrounded by a finely-engraved architectural border. Cook's three voyages are all marked, and finally Tasmania has been separated from mainland Australia. 		£1,800

44 DE WIT, Frederick.
Nova Orbis Tabula in Lucem Edita. Amsterdam, c.1688. Coloured. 475 x 560mm. Some restoration to the centrefold and small tear, printer's crease reinforced.
Double-hemisphere world map, with two further spheres showing the northern and southern hemispheres and cherubs in the cusps. The four corners are taken up with vignettes of the seasons, each with references to the Elements and the Zodiac. The second of two very similar plates. However the northern tip of California (as an island) is pointed instead of flat, and both 'Nova Guinea' and 'Quiri Regio' have been added. First issued c.1680, this is a second state, with a privilege granted to De Wit in 1688. SHIRLEY: 499.		 £4,000

45 [Showing Ocean Currents & Volcanos] ZAHN, Johann.
Tabula Geographico-Hydrographica Motus Oceani Currentes, Abyssos, Montes Ignivomos in Universo Orbe... Nuremberg: J.C.Lochner, 1696. 360 x 420mm.
A world chart from the 'Mundi Mirabilis...', a finely-illustrated cosmography, designed to show the ocean currents, vortexes and volacnos. Johann Zahn (1631-1707), a German monk, also published a book on optics, 'Oculus Artificialis Teledioptricus Sive Telescopium' (1685), with extensive descriptions of both the camera obscura and the magic lantern, which he used for anatomical lectures. SHIRLEY: World 583, "engravings of a high standard".		 £1,850

46 Anonymous.
Werelt Caert. Amsterdam, c.1700. Coloured. 310 x 455mm.
A fine double-hemisphere world. In the four corners are figures and animals representing the continents. 		£2,100

47 [The Ancient World] WELLS, Edward.
A New Map of the Terraqueous Globe according to the Ancient Discoveries and most general Divisions of it into Continents and Oceans. Oxford, 1700. Coloured. 375 x 510mm.
Double hemisphere world map with decorative borders including a view of the Bodleian Library in Oxford. The map has America associated with Atlantis, with California marked as an island. Published for the "New Set of Maps of Both Ancient and Present Geography". The engraver was Michael Burghers, a Dutchman who came to England and became Engraver to Oxford University. His most famous work was the map for Plot's "Natural History of Oxfordshire", 1677. 		£1,200

48 [World Chart showing Cook's  Voyages from an Irish pirate edition] ROBERTS, Henry.
A General Chart; Exhibiting the Discoveries made by Captn. James Cook in this and his two preceeding voyages with the Tracks of the Ships under his Command.  By Lieu.t Heny. Roberts of His Majestys Royal Navy ... Dublin: The United Company of Booksellers, c.1784. 590 x 920 mm circa. Binding folds flattened,one repaired  tear top left entering into printed area 13 cm long.
A large map of the World on Mercator's Projection, published in a  rare Irish pirate edition of the account of Cook’s Third Voyage. Marking the routes taken by Cook on all three expeditions, it is centred on Australasia as the most important area of Cook's discoveries. Lieut. Roberts was given the task of compiling the surveys taken by Captain Cook on his third voyage, during which they penetrated the Bering Straits to the Arctic ice wall. Turning south Cook sailed to his death on Hawaii (February 1779) after which his crew returned to map the Kamchatka coastline and make another attempt to break through the ice wall. Failing again, they then turned for home, arriving in London in October 1780.  Roberts's work was used in the official account of the voyage. This pirate edition was engraved by George Byrne and was printed by Christopher Byrne. The United Company of Booksellers was a loose conglomeration of publishers. The National Library of Canada states the 1784 Dublin edition was published by H.Chamberlaine and 26 others! 		£1,500

49 [A Separate-Issue Double-Hemisphere Map] FUNCKE, David.
Novissima & exactissima totius Orbis Terrarum Tabula..Nuremburg: Funcke, c.1700. Coloured. 480 x 555mm. Some restoration at centrefold.
A close copy of De Wit's world map from his maritime atlas of 1668, with allegorical scenes representing the Four Elements in the corners, and polar projections in the cusps. It is possible that it was engraved by Johann Baptiste Homann, who worked for Funcke as an engraver before starting his own business. At least two of Funcke's maps were later re-published by  Homann, including this one. SHIRLEY: 616.		 £3,500

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51 [The British Empire at Its Height] GROSS, Alexander.
Commercial & Political Map of the World on Mercator's Projection. The British Empire Coloured prominently in Red..London: Geographia Ltd, c.1920. Colour lithograph, printed area 950 x 1460mm, folding into original cloth gilt boards.
Double-hemisphere world map, engraved by Matthæus Albrecht Lotter after De L'Isle, with two further spheres for the North & South Poles. Of interest are the partial outlines of Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand, and the 'Terra Yedso' connecting Japan to mainland Asia. 		£800

52 SEUTTER, George Matthäus.
Diversi Globi Terr-Aquei... Augsburg, c.1750. Original colour. 500 x 575mm.
A fine double-hemisphere map, with eight further hemispheres showing the Earth from different angles, surrounded by the allegorical wind-heads. California appears as an island; Ezo is a large adjunct to Japan, with 'Compagnie Land' just to the north; and Australia and New Zealand are partial outlines. Seutter used at least three plates for his world map, with only minor changes to the geography and decoration. This example is the third, with the title cartouche like a tapestry draped over the top wind head and Negroid wind heads in the east (both features of the second plate), and the lines of Zodiac ecliptics reversed in every sphere they are depicted. A new privilege line has been added outside the printed border top right. 		SOLD

53 [English World Map] BOWEN, Emanuel.
A New & Accurate Map of all the Known World... London, c.1750. Coloured. 315 x 530mm.
Double-hemisphere world map, with allegorical figures of the continents in the four corners. It shows the pre-Cook outlines of Australia and New Zealand. 		£1,100

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STUCCHI, Stanislao.
Mapp-Mondo in due Emisferi Colle piu recenti Scoperte fatte sino all'anno 1820.. Milan: Batelli & Fanfani, c.1820. Original colour. 380 x 665mm. A few small repairs.
Double-hemisphere world engaverd by Stucchi.

 £500

55 LOTTER, Mathieu Albert.
Mappe Monde ou Carte Générale de L'Univers sur une Projection Nouvelle D'Une Sphére Ovale pour Mieux Entendre les Distances ces Entre L'Euope et Amerique avec Le Tour Du Monde du Lieut. Cook et Tous Les Découvertes Nouvelles. Augsburg, 1778. Original colour. Two sheets conjoined, total 490 x 930mm.
Large world map on an oval projection, published to cash in on the publicity over Cook's Circumnavigation. His route in marked, through Tahiti, around the two main island of New Zealand and down the eastern coast of Australia. 		£1,600

56 JANVIER, Jean.
Mappe-Monde ou Description du Globe Terrestre... Paris, Lattré, 1782. Original colour with additions. 310 x 460mm.
Double-hemisphere map, with a fine title cartouche filling the upper cusp. 		£600

56 JANVIER, Jean.
Mappe-Monde ou Description du Globe Terrestre... Venice, Joseph Remondini & Son, 1804. Original outline colour with additions. 490 x 660mm.
A large double-hemisphere world map, with a finely-engraved title cartouche. First issued half-a-century before, and updated many times, this version has the discoveries of Cook in Australasia added, and 'Jesso' in Japan now resembles Hokkaido. 		£1,400

57 [The British Empire] THE LONDON GEOGRAPHICAL INSTITUTE    The British Empire showing the Great Commmercial Highways. George Philip & Son Ltd, London, c.1900, 355 x 480mm A map of the world with British possessions highlighted in pink and distances between selected locations highlighted, published in "The Harmsworth Universal Atlas". At the bottom of the map there are bar graphs illustrating the relative sizes of population and land mass of the various Imperial powers of the time. SOLD

58 [Large World Map] GEOGRAPHIA LTD.
Daily Telegraph World Map. Hutchinson & Co, London, c.1930, Original Colour, 695 x 970mm..
An attractive, large and detailed map, printed in colour and showing the various colonial possessions of the time, the British colonies being marked in pink and the French in purple. Also containing detailed measurements of the distances between various locations on the map. Interestingly this map has "Manchukuo" marked which was a puppet state in Manchuria and eastern Inner Mongolia created by former Qing Dynasty officials with help from Imperial Japan in 1932. The puppet state was founded and administered by Imperial Japan, with Puyi, the last Qing emperor, as the nominal regent and emperor. Manchukuo ceased to exist in 1945 with the defeat of Japan by the Allies.
Alexander Gross came to London from Hungary, founding the map publishing company Geographia Ltd in 1911 and emigrating to the US around 1930. His daughter, Phyllis Pearsall, walked the 23,000 streets of London in the 1930s and compiled London's first A-Z.. 		£200

60 TALLIS, John.
Eastern Hemisphere. London, c1851. Original colour. Printed area 255 x 340mm.
Steel engraving, drawn and engraved for the "Illustrated Atlas" by John Rapkin. Map of Europe, Africa, Asia and Australasia with a highly decorative border and attractive vignettes showing local fauna and native peoples.Of particular interest is the mail route from England to Australia and Hong Kong marked on the map with a blue line. 		£280

61 LEVASSEUR, Victor.
Planisphère. Paris, c.1850. Original outline colour with additions to the borders. Steel engraving, 330 x 450mm.
The World on Mercator's Projection, published in the Atlas Universel Illustre, with a highly decorative allegorial surround. 		£280

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62 [Antarctic; showing Tasman's discoveries in Tasmania and NZ] HONDIUS, Henricus.
[ Untitled map of the South Pole ] Amsterdam, Valk & Schenk  c. 1700.  Fine Original colour. 435 x 490mm. Some reinforcing to centerfold.
The third state of an important map of the southern hemisphere to just north of the Tropic of Capricorn. When it was first issued in 1639 it was one of the first maps to show the discoveries of Pieter Nuyts on the southern coast of Australia, 1627.  The second state merely had Jansson's name as publisher added, and has a blank dedication cartouche removed. However it was the discoveries of Tasman in 1642 that necessitated the reworking for the third state: the title cartouche has been removed so that Tasman's discovery of New Zealand could be added, and Tasmania appears well away from mainland Australia. Also, Cape Horn has been added to the tip of South America.In each of the four corners are vignettes of different races of the Southern Hemisphere.This edition is the fourth state with the publishers names added to the plate ( Valk and Shenk). PERRY: Plate 20; SCHILDER: Map 44, first state illus. 		£1,750

63 KIRCHER, Athanasius.
Poli Arctici Constitutio; Poli Antarctici Constitutio. Amsterdam, c.1665. 330 x 195mm.
Published in a Dutch-text edition of the 'Mundi Subterranei', first published 1665. Kircher, a Jesuit scholar, was one of the first compilers of knowledge of the physical features of the world, and, according to Tooley, the first to depict the ocean currents. Here he shows the the currents at the North and South Poles. TOOLEY: Dictionary p.357.		 £140

64 [Rare Dutch Edition of Buffon's Map of the Magnetic Poles.] BUFFON, George Louis le Clerc.
Carte Magnétique des Deux Hemisphères. Amsterdam: J.H. Schneider, 1775. Original colour. 485 x 940mm. Binding folds flattened as usual.
A double-hemisphere world map designed to display magnetic variation, so centred on the North and South Poles. Buffon has given the position of the supposed magnetic north as being in Canada, to the north of Hudson's Bay and east of Baffin's Bay. Published in the Dutch edition of Buffon's 'Histoire Naturelle', in the mineralogy volumes. As this section was not as popular as the bird volumes it is believed that one 250 copies of this edition were printed. 		£600

65 [Classic Decorative Map of the North Pole] MERCATOR, Gerard.
Septentrionalium Terrarum descriptio... Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius Jnr, between 1613 & 1619. Latin text edition. Original colour. 365 x 390mm. Minor restoration at centrefold, small verdigris reinforcement on verso.
The first map of the Arctic Circle, with both the North Pole and Magnetic North depicted as rocky islands. Mercator has included the latest voyages in search of the North West and North East Passages, marking the discoveries of Frobisher and Davis around Greenland. Within the roundels of the decorative borders are maps of the Shetlands, Faeroes and the mythical island of Friesland. This second state (post-1606) improves the outline of Nova Zembla, making it one island, and has one of the polar islands receding to allow the inclusion of Spitzbergen. A classic decorative map. BURDEN: 88; KOEMAN: Me 22. 		£1,600

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67 [Uncommon Miniature Map of the Antarctic] MULLER, Johann Ulrich.
[Die Sud=Pol-Lander...] . Ulm: Georg W. Kühnen, 1702. 70 x 80mm, set in text.
Charming miniature map, with the title in the German letterpress text. KING: Miniature Maps, 160-1.		 £250

68 [Arctic] BERTIUS, Petrus.
[Regiones Hyperboreæ.]. Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius jnr, 1616. 95 x 120mm.
The Arctic Circle, published in Hondius's revised version of Bertius's 'Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum', probably engraved by Hondius himself. It is derived from Mercator's folio map of 1585 (the 1606 state with Nova Zembla now a single, incomplete island), but has new borders of arctic animals rather than roundel maps. BURDEN: 184; KOEMAN: Lan 11a.		 £255

69 [Arctic] HONDIUS, Jodocus.
Poli Arctici, et Circumiacentium Terrarum Descriptio Novissima. Amsterdam, c.1638, Latin text edition. Coloured. 435 x 500mm. A few small marginal tears expertly repaired.
The Northern Hemisphere, south to 50º, so including the British Isles, surrounded by four views of the whaling industry. During the first years of the C17th the increase in the whaling trade lead to more exploration in Arctic waters, as the English and Dutch competed, first in Spitzbergen and later in Greenland. The different spheres of influence can be seen in the place names: eastern Greenland has 'M.Forbishers Streate', 'Q.Elisabeths forland' and 'London coast'; Spitzbergen has 'S.Thomas Smyths Land'; but Labrador is marked with 'Orange Bay' and various 'hoecks'. This plate was in use for over a hundred years: other publishers to issue it include Jansson, De Wit, Visscher, Reynard & Ottens! BURDEN: 246.		 £1,250

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[Southern Hemisphere] LA HARPE, Jean François de.
Emisfero Australe. Italy, c.1785. Coloured. 315 x 310mm. Binding folds flattened.
The Southern Hemisphere. Tasmania is shown as a peninsula of mainland Australia. Published in the 'Compendio della Storia Generale de Viaggi...', an abridgement of Prévost's 'Histoire Generale des Voyages'.
£225

71 [The Arctic, in Unusual Contemporary Colour] CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria.
Terre Artiche... Venice, c.1690. Contemporary colour. 455 x 610mm. Some wear to edges.
The Arctic Circle, with a large title cartouche featuring wind-heads. Early colour on Coronelli's maps is very unusual. 		£1,300