Catalogue 25: The Stuff of Nightmares - Altea Gallery Antique Maps

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Catalogue 25: The Stuff of Nightmares

For our return to the ABA Chelsea Book Fair we have compiled a short catalogue beginning with a section celebrating Halloween, continuing with ten diverse interpretations of the world and finally some new acquisitions.

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Crusius Antikamnia Calendar

An American drug company's humourous calendar

CRUSIUS, Louis. Date: 1900 Stock #: 25958 £1,900.00

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Come va il mondo? Calendario per l'anno 1879. by Manfredi 1879

A calendar with a satire of the state of the world

MANFREDI, Manfredo. Date: 1879 Stock #: 25859 £3,750.00

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Canada and Newfoundland. Their Natural and Industrial Resources. By MacDonald Gill

A pictorial map of Canada from the Second World War

GILL, Leslie MacDonald. Date: 1942 Stock #: 25827 £1,250.00

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Johnson Riddle Europe in French

The First World War depicted as a dog fight

JOHNSON, RIDDLE & CO. Date: 1914 Stock #: 25820 £2,800.00

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Platte Grondt der Verbrande Stadt London. Doornick Great Fire of London 1666

A contemporary map of the Great Fire of London of 1666

DOORNICK, Marcus Willemsz. Date: 1666 Stock #: 25791 £11,000.00

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Drayton Severn Estuary

The most decorative map from Drayton's fantastical 'Poly-Olbion'

DRAYTON, Michael. Date: 1612 Stock #: 25842 £550.00

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Nixon Aerostatic Stage Balloon

An 18th century political satire with a hot air balloon

NIXON, John? Date: 1783 Stock #: 25840 £1,600.00

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Trevisan Air India

A unique collection of original artworks for an Air India ad campaign

TREVISAN, Giorgio. Date: 1954 Stock #: 26031 £11,000.00

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Hopfer Death and the Devil

An unusual memento mori etched on iron

HOPFER, Daniel. Date: 1700 Stock #: 26032 £1,100.00

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Geographical Fun: Being Humerous Outlines of Various Countries. With Introduction and Descriptive Lines. By Aleph

A complete set of caricature maps of European countries

ALEPH [HARVEY, William]. Date: 1869 Stock #: 25971 £2,800.00

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Typus Orbis Terrarum by Abraham Ortelius 1592

Ortelius's world map from the third plate

ORTELIUS, Abraham. Date: 1592 Stock #: 25771 £6,500.00

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The Illustrated Atlas, and Modern History of the World, Geographical, Political, Commercial & Statistical, Edited by Montgomery Martin, Esq. Author of the ''History of the British Colonies," &c. &c. By John Tallis 1851

A mid-19th century atlas with Tallis maps

MARTIN, Montgormery. Date: 1851 Stock #: 25896 £6,750.00

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Morris Regents Park

A spectacular panorama of Regent's Park

MORRIS, Richard. Date: 1831 Stock #: 25991 £8,500.00

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Mail Steamship Routes by Gill 1937.

A vivid poster map of the GPO's mail routes

GILL, Leslie MacDonald. Date: 1937 Stock #: 25969 £6,750.00

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Horsey New World Order

A very rare serio-comic map satirising the World of George H.W. Bush

HORSEY, David. Date: 1991 Stock #: 25924 £2,800.00

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Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula. ByVisscher 1652

A world map with portraits of the Twelve Caesars in fine colours

VISSCHER, Claes Janszoon. Date: 1652 Stock #: 17720 £15,000.00

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Dance of Death by Schedel. title: Septima etas mudi. Imago mortis. 1493.

The famous woodcut incunabulum of the Dance of Death

SCHEDEL, D. Hartmann. Date: 1493 Stock #: 25980 £2,500.00

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Grossi Allegory of the British Empire

An Italian map satirising the British Empire as a serpent

GROSSI, Augusto. Date: 1878 Stock #: 25632 £3,250.00

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Adams Pocket Globe

A late 18th century pocket globe

ADAMS, Dudley Date: 1795 Stock #: 24635 £17,500.00

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Greff Apocalypse

Albrecht Dürer's vision of the Apocalypse.

GREFF, Hieronymus. Date: 1502 Stock #: 25410 £1,400.00

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World map by De Jode, title: Universi Orbis seu Terreni Globi in Plano Effigies. Cum privegio.

De Jode's rare cordiform world map in fine original colour

DE JODE, Gerard. Date: 1578 Stock #: 25173 £90,000.00

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World map by Robyn, title: Nieuw Aerdsch Pleyn.

A superb map of the world in a single sphere

ROBYN, Jacob. Date: 1700 Stock #: 24874 £9,000.00

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Sebastian Münster / Belleforest, "Les marins monstres & terrestres" (Sea Monsters), woodcut from the Cosmographia, Paris c.1575.

A rare enlarged version of Munster's woodcut of sea monsters

BELLEFOREST, François de. Date: 1575 Stock #: 25353 £3,500.00

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Voltz Napoleon satire

The famous 'Hieroglyphic' portrait of Napoleon

VOLTZ, Johann Michael. Date: 1814 Stock #: 25109 £980.00

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Die eigentliche und warhafftige gestalt der Erden und des Meers. Cosmographia Universalis. By Bunting 1581

A 16th century woodblock map of the Old World

BÜNTING, Heinrich. Date: 1581 Stock #: 24728 £1,800.00

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Mappe-Monde Geo-Hydrographique, ou Description Generale du Globe Terrestre et Aquatique en Deux Plans Hemispheres [...] by Mortier Witsen 1700

A two-sheet, double-hemisphere world map full of unusual features

MORTIER, Pierre. Date: 1700 Stock #: 24058 £15,000.00

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Deni Hitler caricature

A Russian propaganda poster demonising Hitler

DENISOV, Viktor Nikolaevich. Date: 1945 Stock #: 23437 £2,500.00

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Manfredi serio comic map, title: L'Europa Geografico-Politica Veduta a Volo d'Oca.

A rare Italian serio-comic map of Europe in 1871

MANFREDI, Manfredo. Date: 1871 Stock #: 23283 £16,000.00