Continents: 5 engravings, "Tableau des principaux peuples de .. " 1) l'Afrique 2) l'Amerique 3) l'Asie 4 ) l'Europe und 5) "Tableau des decouvertes du Cap. Cook, & de la Perouse", kol. aquatints by Phelipeau (1), Malbeste (2) and Mixelle (2) after Jacques Grasset de Saint Sauveur, dat. 1798, 31,5 x 43,5 (3x) and 41 x 61,5 (2x) cm € 9.500,- As complete set very rare. Jacques Grasset de Saint Sauveur (1757-1810) was French diplomat and author. He published several books with costumes. The plates on America, Africa and Oceania with 24 pairs, Europe and Asia with 40. (326628)
€ 9.500

A classic 16th century map of South America LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van. Delineatio omnium orarum totius Australis partis Americæ... Amsterdam, c.1596. Coloured. Two sheets conjoined, total 395 x 530mm. Binding folds flattened, narrow margins as usual. A highly decorative map of South America, engraved by Arnold Florent van Langeren for Linschoten's 'Itinerario', a manual for sailing to the East Indies. Orientated with north to the right, the West Indies and Florida are shown in some detail on the right; on the left Terra del Fuego, the landmass south of the Straits of Magellan, spreads out to fill the entire height of the map. The map displays all the features that made this period the golden age of decorative cartography: the titles, in Latin and Dutch, are within strapwork cartouches, as is the scale; in the sea are a finely-engraved compass rose, sea-monsters and galleons. In the interior are vignettes of natives and animals based on de Bry. [Ref: 18923]
£7,850.00

A rare and important 15th century map of Arabia] image of Sexta Asie Tabula. show larger image PTOLEMY, Claudius. Sexta Asie Tabula. Ulm, Johan Reger, 1482-86. Woodcut, original colour, slightly retouched. 300 x 565mm. Some restoration mainly to bottom margin. The Arabian peninsula from an incunabula edition of Ptolemy's Geographia , within a trapezoid border with metal type for the lettering. The title is on the verso with a Latin-text description, with a coloured capital. The map was originally published by Lienhart Holle in an edition of Ptolemy’s 'Geography' with revisions by the cartographer Nicolaus Germanus Donis. This was the first European atlas published outside Italy and the first to be illustrated with woodcut maps. Soon afterwards Holle went bankrupt, probably because of the cost of producing the atlas, and Reger acquired the rights to the 'Geography', reissuing the second and last edition of this version in 1486. See TIBBETTS: 8. [Ref: 14514]
P.O.A.

Atlantic: Woodcut map by Lorenz Fries after Waldseemueller, "Oceani Occidentalis Seu Terrae Novae Tabula.", published 1535, 28,5 x 43 cm. € 7.200,- Atlantic: Woodcut map by Lorenz Fries after Waldseemueller, "Oceani Occidentalis Seu Terrae Novae Tabula.", published 1535, 28,5 x 43 cm. € 7.200,- * Burden, The mapping of North America, No. 4. The first copy of Waldseemuellers famous "Admirals map" in the edition by Michael Servetus printed in Lyon 1535 by Trechsel. "In 1522 Laurent Fries published an edition of Ptolemy's Geography in which virtually all of the maps, including this one, were reduced versions of Waldseemüller's, 1513. Some of the more notable differences are the Columbus name PARIAS found in North America, misplaced from South America, the addition of a Spanish flag over Cuba, and a scene in South America depicting cannibals and an opossum both of which had been reported by Vespucci. The last map is taken directly from Martin Waldseemüller's great twelve sheet Carta Marina of the world, 1516. Here also the TERRA INCOGNITA has been replaced by TERRA NOVA, and the reference to America's discovery by Columbus is repeated. A large area of text below Hispaniola contains a description of that island's location, its discovery by Columbus, and its products. ... There were further editions published in Strasbourg 1525, Lyon 1535, and Vienne in the Dauphiné 1541. The last two editions were published by Michael Servetus who was burned alive for heresy. On the orders of Jean Calvin copies of this book were destroyed. The text on the reverse of the map in the last two editions, ends with a protest against the use of the name 'America' for the New World." (Burden) (327353)
€ 7.200

North America: Copper engraving, b. C. de Jode, "Americae pars borealis, Florida, Baccalaos, Canada, Corterealis.", 1593, 36 x 50 € 22.000,- * Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici, 9100:32; Burden 81; van Ortroy S. 96 (u. Nr. 17); Cumming 16; Wagner 169; Wolff, America 112; McCorkle 593.1. - The Second Printed Map of the Continent of North America. "De Jode drew on the eighteen sheet world map by Petrus Plancius of 1592 for the outline of North America. This was just the second printed map to encompass this area, the Forlani of 1565 being the first. Porcacchi's map of 1572 was a direct reduction of the Zaltieri. . . The map is most renowned for its first use of the two maps published by Theodore de Bry in 1590 and 1591, after John White and Jacques le Moyne respectively." (Burden) (327791)
€ 22.000

Unusual Geographical Board Game. Wallis, Edward (c.1787–1868) Wallis’s New Game, exhibiting a Voyage round The World. E.Wallis, 42 Skinner Street, and 12 High Street, Islington London c1820 copper engraved map with original colour, pasted onto linen in 10 segments. overall 40 x 61 cm, segment 20 x 12 cm. paper slightly toned; some light soiling; pin holes in all four corners; 2 paper slips pasted on verso. No slipcase. Decorative double hemispherical board game of a voyage around the World, starting in the British Isles (the earliest number is 6 in Dublin) and finishing in London (no. 120). The race crosses over to Europe, then around West and South Africa, North Africa and Arabia, across Persia and Russia, via India, South East Asia, Australia with Van Diemens Island and Port Jackson as stops, New Guinea, China, Japan, Kamchatka, Arctic Highlands, Canada. Onto North, Central and South America, crossing over to New Zealand, passing various islands in the Pacific, before crossing over to the Sandwich Islands, passing the Canary Islands and Azores and ending up in London. The hemispheres are surrounded by five further hemispheres: 'Geographical Circles,' 'Zones, ' 'Parallels of Latitude,' 'Meridians,' and an 'Explanation of Geographical Characters.' Wallis first published similar games in 1796 but with new discoveries, the boards were being updated and refined. He was the son of John Wallis, the earliest and leading English game-maker; as the oldest son, he stood to inherit the family business. NB: it is very rare to find early board games that mention Australia! [ref: 3932]
£2,500

London, The Bastion of Liberty Lee, Kerry Chromolithograph Devised and Drawn by Kerry Lee at the Blandford Studio for The Travel Association of Gt. Britain and N. Ireland. [London, c.1946] 940 x 1210 mm A superb quad-royal example of Kerry Lee’s decorative mid-century tourist map of London and Westminster, published for the Travel Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Like Kerry Lee’s other maps, the map is crammed full of vignettes, cartoons, and notes of historic, social, cultural, and natural interest. The names of main roads, attractions, and train stations are emblazoned across the map in ribbons, while notable people from London’s history are shown in places associated with them. Under the map’s title, an inscription from one of Churchill’s Blitz speeches reads ‘We would rather see London in ruins and ashes, than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved,’ a clear nod to Lee’s and the publishers’ intentions to foster and renew tourism as part of the recovery effort following the Second World War. Surrounding the map, a highly decorative border features vignettes of places further afield. This particular example is an excellent crisp impression of the first edition of Lee’s map. County Hall, replaced by ‘Festival Hall’ in subsequent printings, is still listed on the south bank, and the key railway stations of the capital still feature the acronymns of the ‘Big Four’ companies: GWS (Great Western), SR (Southern Rail), LMS (London, Midland, and Scottish), and LNER (London and North Eastern).
£1,250

Septentrionalium Regionum Descrip. Ortelius, Abraham Copper engraved with hand colour Cum privilegio [1579 edition] 358 x 485 mm An unusual map of ‘Northern Regions’, focussing on Scandinavia, but also encompassing parts of northern North America, Greenland, Iceland, Western Russia, Northern Europe, and the British Isles, from the 1579 Latin edition of Ortelius’ famous Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. The map is shown with an attempt to portray the curvature of the globe, from the perspective of the north pole at top centre, and lines of longitude and latitude arc across the plate. The polar regions are putative, shown as a large landmass featuring no detail aside from a curious note that ‘Pygmies live here.’ Iceland is identified with the mythical Thule of the classical geographers, and a number of spurious islands, such as Frisland, are shown in the northern Atlantic. The map is ornamented in beautiful hand colour, and principal cities and towns are picked out in red. Two ships sail in the waters of the Atlantic, and a large sea monster with a lute is included in the bottom left corner, near a scale in German miles. More sea monsters as well as a curious monkey-like figure sit atop the boxed title cartouche.
£2,000

A Scheme of the Solar System with the Orbits of the Planets and Comets... Senex, John Copper engraved Engrav’d by I. Senex. Printed for T.Bowles in St.Pauls Church Yard, Robt. Sayer in Fleet Street, & John Bowles & Son in Cornhil. [London, c.1760] 685 x 604 mm A large and impressive chart of the solar system, paying particular attention to the motions of the planetary bodies and the paths of comets. The chart was originally engraved in 1712 by Senex to accompany the lectures of the controversial theologian, astronomer, and polymath William Whiston. The chart was issued again in 1720 by Senex alone, and finally by Bowles and Sayer in the 1760s. The ‘System’ is shown as a number of concentric orbits with the Sun at centre, criss-crossed by the broad elliptical paths of a number of comets. At top, the planets are shown pictorially, clumped together in an attempt to demonstrate scale. As the chart was engraved at the beginning of the eighteenth century, the outer planets past Saturn are not included. Earth’s moon is accorded an honorary spot among the planets, while the moons of the other planets are shown in the grand scheme as ‘Satellites.’ The alchemical symbols for the zodiac are included along the outside ring of the System, and the chart is absolutely covered by explanatory text. Although this chart was separately published the centre fold suggests that this example likely derives from Senex’s very rare ‘Atlas Coelestis’.
£1,200

A baroque wind rose ZAHN, Johann. Venti Septentrionales.. Würtzburg, 1686. Coloured. 360 x 425mm Narrow top margin. A very decorative wind rose, published in Zahn's book 'Mundi Mirabilis Economia'. A central compass rose is surrounded by rings naming the winds in Dutch, Latin and Italian, with a final ring with Latin-text descriptions. The disk is set into an architectural caprice with a windhead on either side. Johann Zahn (1631-1707), a philosopher of the Præmonstratensian order in Würtzburg, wrote a number of pseudo-scientific works accompanied by engravings of the highest standard, produced for a European nobility eager to experience the 'Enlightenment'. [Ref: 17616]
£1,500.00

Map, in six sheets, depicting the territories of the United States of America outlined according to the latest observations. The first sheet shows part of Canada; in the second part of New England, Nova Scotia and part of Canada; in the third part of Virginia and Carolina; in the fourth part of New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and portion of Virginia and Carolina; in the fifth, Georgia, part of the Carolina and Florida; in the sixth portion of the Carolina, square of the Island of Terra Nuova and the other islands of the Gulf of S. Lorenzo. The engraving is characterized by a pleasant contemporary colouring. Some sheets, in particular the first one, have light spots that do not compromise the good state of general conservation. The paper is inserted in the third volume of the work "New Universal Geographic Atlas outlined on the last observations" published in 1792, which was commissioned to Cassini by the Calcografia Camerale of Rome. Author: Cassini Giovanni Maria Size: 1020x960 mm Title: Gli Stati Uniti dell'America delineati sulle ultime osservazioni Tecnique: etching on copper plate Date: 1792 [-1801].

A caricature of Churchill as an octopus produced for occupied France S.P.K. Confiance... Ses Amputations se Poursuivent Méthodiquement. France: Propaganda-Abteilung Frankreich?, c.1941. Chromolithograph, sheet 1190 x 790mm Some slight creasing, laid on canvas. A scarce poster showing a crude caricature of Winston Churchill as a cigar-chomping Octopus sitting on the British Isles, his tentacles reaching down across Africa and the Middle East.. However they are bloodied, their tips having been amputated over 'Dakar', 'Mers El-Kébir', 'Lybie-Egypte', 'Somalie' & 'Syrie', with two more at the unseen 'Norwege' & 'Allemagne'. This poster, probably produced by the German propaganda bureau, preys on animosity raised by British attacks on French forces after their surrender to Germany. The British attack on the French fleet at Mers-el-Kébir, intending to stop the ships falling into German hands, killed nearly 1,300 servicemen. An attempt by the British and Free French to get the Vichy forces in Dakar to join the Allies led to a full-scale battle. In Syria & Lebanon the Vichy French fought until the fall of Beirut was invevitable; of the 38,000 POWs. Only 6,000 agreed to join the French French, the rest preferring to be repatriated to enemy-controlled France. Elsewhere the Italian colonies of Libya and Somalia, two active theatres of the war, are also mentioned. CURTIS & PEDERSON; War Map, p 136-9. S/N: 19534
£2250

Satirical depiction of the Underground Tunnel of the English Channel, which was supposed to link France with England. Already in 1802, Albert Matthieu Favier, a French engineer, promoted a first proposal for the construction of a tunnel that could be traveled by passengers on horse-drawn carriages, but nothing came of it. During the nineteenth century new proposals were made, while the depiction in question refers in particular to the facts of 1882. In 1880 the South Eastern Railway company started experimental drilling on the side of the United Kingdom; in 1881 the South Eastern Railway began its work, but soon found itself without funds; then in 1882 the rival company Channel Tunnel Company succeeded in provoking a suspension of the works while the media spread authoritative opinions contrary to the realization of the work, like those of Robert Browing and Alfred Lord Tennyson. Finally the work was finally blocked due to the opinion of army men who believed that the tunnel could have facilitated an attack from the European continent (France) to the United Kingdom. Author: Lit. Sivilla Size: 388x557 mm (sheet) Title: Ao yees! mi temer una invasion Tecnique: litography Date: 1882.

KEN - [Magazine including pictorial world map, Carriers of the New Black Plague by William Cotton.] Published in: Chicago, April 7th, Vol.1 No.1 1938 140pp. With center fold as issued. Size of the magazine 340 x 265mm. Front cover with color illustration of Moroccan male sheik and yellow lettering. Front cover with colour illustration of Moroccan male sheik and yellow lettering. Oversized magazine, features analysis of English justice, map of Herr Hitler's heaven (full page cartoon, Nazis and Mexico, fascism's New World trust and Latin America by Carleton Beals, Mussolini, cartoons on Hitler, Norway's next, many topical full page b/w photos, Sam Berman caricature of Mussolini in colour, Ernest Hemingway on dying, Ataturk-hoodlum as hero, the Theatre Guild's decline, inside the Third Reich by Carl Marzani, other articles on the growing fear of war in Europe, Contains Ernest Hemingway's "The Time Now, The Place Spain"; Dorothea Lange; George Petty Pinup cigarette ad; bright clean pages. Ken was founded in March 1938 by publisher David A. Smart and editor Arnold Gingrich, who earlier had founded Esquire. Initial publication was delayed due to difficulties in assembling an editorial team. Jay Allen was the first editor hired, and he began to assemble a staff drawing heavily from the political left. Smart and Gingrich found his work unsatisfactory and quickly fired Allen and most of his new men, replacing him with George Seldes; but as Seldes's left-wing views provoked little sympathy from potential advertisers, he was soon downgraded although not fired. Microbe Hunters author Paul de Kruif was brought on as an editor, but was not able to devote full-time to the project. Smart and Gingrich then took more direct editorial control and launched the magazine with contributors including Seldes, Ernest Hemingway, John Spivak, Raymond Gram Swing, Manuel Komroff, critic Burton Rascoe, and sportswriter Herb Graffis. Sam Berman contributed caricatures, and David Low cartoons. Some of the politicians with photo layouts in the magazine included Presidents Calvin Coolidge, Grover Cleveland, Thomas Harding, Franklin D. Roosevelt and as well as many prominent people in German politics. The publication was investigated 1938 for being Communist leaning. However its editor Arnold Gingrich denied that the publication had any political slant. Ken ceased publication in the fall of 1939. The first fourteen issues of Ken featured articles by Ernest Hemingway on the Spanish Civil War. In the first issue, of which his article begins on page 36, it is revealed in a caption that Hemingway was initially contracted and announced to be an editor of Ken, but had thus far taken no part in the editing of the magazine, nor in the formation of its policies. The caption goes on to reveal "If he sees eye to eye with us on Ken, we would like to have him as an editor. If not, he will remain as a contributor until he is fired or quits." The disclaimer was written at Hemingway's insistence, as he felt that Ken's politics might be "liberal-phoney" and did not wish to be too closely associated with it. This debut issue of the magazine features an article by Ernest Hemingway, "The Time Now, The Place Spain," which is accompanied but a note from the editors stating that while Hemingway was originally announced as an editor for the magazine he is not only though it would have him and until then "he will remain as a contributor until he is fired or quits." The magazine has several articles on the Nazi's and Hitler ("Hitler Hunts a Wife") as well as large black and white photos, including Dorothea Lange's haunting photo Migrant Mother. - the inaugural issue of perhaps the most political magazine of the pre-war era. This pictorial map is colour-coded to show the extent of the "black plague" across the world. A key at bottom shows three categories of free speech: dictatorial control (black), varying degrees of control (gray), and relative freedom (tan). The map reveals that slightly more than half of the globe is in "Totalitarian Eclipse." Within the map image are ten of these dictators "whose ten totaled brains wouldn't counterbalance that of one Einstein in the measurement of man's distance from the anthropoid ape" including Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, and Stalin (by himself). Drawn by William Cotton and issued in the very first edition of Ken Magazine (April 7, 1938), a controversial anti-fascist magazine. The verso contains a satirical portrait of Hermann Goring, a powerful military figure in the Nazi Party who eventually became Hitler's second in command, and a wartime illustration based upon a painting by George Grosz. An excellent description of this map and additional background on Ken Magazine can be found at the PJ Mode Persuasive Map Collection (Cornell University)

Atlas of England by Joan Blaeu. Vierde Stuck der Aerdrycks-Beschryving, welck vervat Engelandt, i.e. Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. vol 4, England & Wales.. Amsterdam, 1648. Contemporary red morocco, elaborately gold-tooled. The spine in compartments, the second showing the title of the book. Large folio (565 x 370 mm.). Dutch text, engraved title border with printed text label hand-coloured and heightened with gold, 58 engraved maps, all but one double page, also hand-coloured and heightened with gold, engraved and woodcut text-illustrations, many hand-coloured. An outstanding example of Joannes Blaeu's "Vierde Stuck der Aerdrycks-Beschryving, welck vervat Engelandt, i.e. Theatrum Orbis Terrarum": being volume 4, England & Wales, with Dutch text. The engraved title border with printed text label, 58 engraved maps hand-coloured and heightened gold most probably by the master colourist Dirck Jansz. Van Santen. The binding in contemporary red morocco and attributed to Albertus Magnus or his work shop. Albert Magnus (Amsterdam 1642-1689) is generally considered the most important Dutch bookbinder. Albert Magnus started making his luxury bindings around 1667. Herman de la Fontaine Verwey's pioneering research has yielded much information on Magnus's professional activities. Mirjam Foot has examined the tools of many bindings attributed to Magnus and proved that a large part of them cannot have been made by the master himself. The colouring of the maps has been attributed to the master colourist Dirk Jansz Van Santen (1637/38-1708) who worked for Kings and rich merchants. His manner is signified by rich and exotic colour combinations, added elements such as flowers to clothing, marbling to masonry. Goedings : "Van Santen applied transparent and opaque colours at the same time in both mixed and pure tints. He often painted the whole surface of the map or illustration, transforming the graphic light and dark contrasts into colour. He applied his characteristic shiny varnish, this had the effect of brightening the colour, frequently making use of the same colour progression." "Atlases and books coloured by van Santen are found in the libraries of the most prominent collectors of the golden age of Dutch cartography ". Bibles and atlases, bound in deluxe bindings by Albert Magnus (1642-1689) and decorated by van Santen were considered gifts worthy of princes. Travelers and poets wrote about this work" (Goedings). Read more about Dirk Jansz van Santen Both attributions are made by Mrs. T. Goedings, who after studing HR images adds that the volume could have been part of a Multi volume Blaeu Atlas only known in the literature. Atlas of England by Blaeu The contents of the atlas is derivided by Blaeu from various editions of John Speed’s Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain originally published in 1611. The texts derive largely from William Camden’s Britannia. Blaeu originally published this as Volume IV of the Atlas novus in 1645. Each map epitomised the craftsmanship and artistry of the Blaeu workshop being beautifully ornate with fine cartouches, heraldic shields and calligraphy. Later in 1662 the maps reappeared in volume five of his Atlas Maior, perhaps the finest cartographic work ever produced. Remarks : The map of Cheshire with Spanish text on verso, and slightly smaller in size, but coloured and heightened with gold by the same hand as the other maps. Several maps with marginal tears, repaired, some paper degradation and water staining throughout, affecting both text and maps. Contemporary red morocco, elaborately gilt, with some repairs to spine and corners. Reference : van de Krogt, Atlantes Neerlandici, Vol. 2, 2:231, K. The binder Albert Magnus and the collectors of his age in Quaerendo.
£ 42,000

[World Map of Pomponius Mela] n.p. / 1520 circa "Let No One Frown If This Map Is Different From All The Other World Maps That Circulate . . ." A Unique Early World Map – The Earliest Surviving Map of the World Based on the Geographical Ideas of Pomponius Mela (with a research essay by Chet Van Duzer) This remarkable map provides a fascinating look at the world prior to Columbus. With its open Indian Ocean, circumnavigable Africa, lack of a Southern Terra Australis and no dragontail image of India after Martellus, the initial appearance of the map suggests that it is influenced by a combination of fifteenth-century mappamundi. However, the text below the map reveals an even earlier primary source. It explains that the map is drawn directly from the work of the Roman geographer Pomponius Mela, who flourished around 43 A.D. Mela is without question one of the most influential writers on geography of ancient times. Along with the work of the Greek geographers Strabo and Ptolemy, Mela's work was actively taught and published in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Europe. However, curiously, while the writings of Ptolemy and Strabo were faithfully mapped in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in both manuscript and printed editions, the maps which invoked Mela's name did not tend to incorporate his geographical teachings. For example, the first printed edition of Mela's work to include a map (1482) depicts the world according to Ptolemy, with a closed Indian Ocean, rather than follow Mela's geography. Similarly, the 1414 manuscript map of Pirrus de Noah largely ignores Mela's geographical text. While the maker of the present map is not known, our initial research suggests that the most likely source is the Nuremberg-based German humanist scholar Johann Cochlaeus. In the introduction to his 1512 edition of Mela's Cosmographia, Cochlaeus described his use of printed and manuscript maps which he had created in order to teach Mela's geography. These maps were based directly on Mela and illustrate his ideas, rather than being Ptolemeic adaptations. The only exception to Mela’s geography on this map is the omission of a large southern continent, which Mela hypothesized. Historically, there has been a general consensus that the first faithful reconstruction of Mela's geography was the 1628 Petrus Bertius World Map, making the present map significant and worthy of thorough study.
$125,000.00

Carte Generale De La Terre Appliquee A L'Astronomie pour L'Etude de La Geographie Terrestre et Celeste, Dressee par Le Sr. Flecheux, D'Apres Les Nouvelles Observations. Paris / 1782 Striking World Map with Astronomical Instruments by Renowned French Inventor and Astronomer -- Includes A Remarkable Note on the Existence of Antarctica Fine, innovative world map by the astronomer, mathematician, and inventor Louis Flecheux. The map is surrounded by Flecheux’s theories about celestial phenomena and their courses relative to the earth’s surface, as well as descriptions of two of his inventions, the Loxocosme and the Quart de Cercle. The map is a dual-hemisphere depiction of the world, with the Pacific hemisphere bisected. The hemispheres are displayed vertically, rather than horizontally, making this map quite distinct from other contemporary projections. Flecheux is aware of the novelty and remarks in the Observations that the arrangement and his inversion of the usual arrangement of north and south makes this projection “contrary to all other maps.” The purpose of the map is to show the mutual dependence of geography and astronomy. The world map is detailed and information-dense. Rhumb lines radiate from several coastal points, including the Cape of Good Hope. Political entities are separated by dotted lines, while rivers and significant towns fill the interior of the continents. At sea, several explorers’ tracks wend their way around the world, including James Cook’s three voyages and the Spanish treasure galleon of 1743, which was captured by Commodore George Anson. Toward the North Pole, Flecheux includes a note about prospective Arctic islands as indicated in the letters of Admiral de la Fonte. As described in two letters originally published in London in 1708 and discussed throughout the eighteenth century, Fonte supposedly sailed from the Pacific northeast across waterways in the interior of what is today Canada. Later, the voyage was found to be apocryphal, but the veracity of the letters was still a matter for debate in Flecheux’s time. At the South Pole, Flecheux suggests the existence of Antarctica when he says: The ice can only be formed by rivers that feed them from neighboring lands. We must therefore think that there is an immense cap of land enclosed by this Polar Circle and which, according to the configuration of the ice, announces that the diameter of this cap cannot be less than 40 degrees, which would make more than 3000 leagues of circumference. Whereas the existence of a large southern continent had long been hypothesized, Cook’s second voyage (1772-5) into far southern latitudes had gone a long way toward reducing the expectations that such a landmass would ever be found. In 1782, Flecheux still believed that the evidence suggests a continent over the south pole and, after Bellingshausen’s voyage in 1820, Flecheux would be proven correct. Geographic hypotheses and features are far from the only information shared on this map. At left and right of the equator are zodiac signs, some marked with suns, and the height of the sun at various times of year. In the left column are two sketches of inventions. The top instrument is a loxocosm, which is designed to show how the inclination of the earth’s axis causes the days to lengthen and shorten according to the season. The other drawing is of a quarter circle, a type of quadrant used to measure altitude. To the right of the projection is an explanation of the placement of the sun and earth in the ecliptic, followed by a climate table. Then, there is an explanation of the course of fixed celestial bodies across the earth due to its rotation, followed by a table illustrating the concept. At bottom, Flecheux explains antipodal points on the globe. The map was engraved by Charles Picquet in Paris in 1782. It is highly original and an excellent example of Enlightenment geography and astronomy. Rarity The map is extremely rare. We locate only the copies in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Munich), Library of Congress and New York Public Library.
$24,500.00

NETHERLANDS: 'Spectaculum. Constantissimorum. Martyrum. Ordinis. S. Francisci. De Observantia. Sub. Archityranno. Ac. Sacrilego. Principe. Auriacense. In. Partibus. Flandriae. Passi. - Napulis, cum Licencia Superiorum. 1583.', engraving from Lafreri-Atlas printed in Neapel / Napoli, dat. 1583, 37,5 x 43 cm *Representation of the Dutch uprising which led to the Eighty Years' War. - In the background is the town of Enkhuizen, which in 1572 stood on the side of Prince Ludwig of Nassau (the brother of William of Orange) - the town of Alkmaar, which was abolished after siege by the Spaniards in 1573 (the town became a symbol of the Dutch fight for freedom in 1573) and the town of Gouda (in 1572 the town was occupied, plundered and partly burnt down by the watergeuzen). - In the foreground mistreatment of monks and their executions by the gallows (the martyrs each named by name). - In the foreground execution of Fr. Engelbertus Laicus and Fr. Ioannes Amstorodam. - In the sky 4 large coats of arms (in the middle the coat of arms of Philip II.). - Under the view 3-column latin text. - Under the sheet dedication to "Hlmo. ac Reverendißniq. Pat. P. Francisco Gonzaga, Generali Ministro. F.T.B. Penitentianus Latereranens." (Francesco / Francisco Gonzaga 1538 - 1566 was an Italian nobleman, Duke of Arianus, Cardinal and Bishop of the Catholic Church. - Extremely rare Italian broadsheet from a Lafreri collection atlas printed in Naples (Napoli) (engravings printed in Naples in the 16th century are very rare!) - Bibliographically not provable for us! (408962)
€ 15000,-

America,Asia,Africa,Europa,World.Set of wall maps. Author Bailleul, Nicolas Date Lyon 1752 Set of five Wall maps with their original wooden red lacquered rollers.Lyon 1752.Each map 102 x 76 cms.Outline original color.The map of each continent decorated with 30 vignettes related to historical events, battles,etc. Nicolas Bailleul was a parisian geographer of whom very little is known. Son of Gaspard Bailleul also a cartographer active in the early XVIII century.The maps were printed by Daudet a map and bookseller at Lyon in the middle of XVIII century. We have not tracked any copy of these maps in Gallica or British Library catalogue.At worldcat we have not been able to trace a set similar to this one. These maps are one of the most rare printed in France during the XVIII century. In the map of America at the Southeast of the continent appears the « Cap des Terres Australes » with the note « Indes méridionales découvertes par le Sieur Binot Paulmier en 1503 ». Binot Paulmier was a French navigator who was in the 17th and 18th century, credited as the discoverer of Terra Australis, a view now rejected by the historians.Ref: Mcguirk,The last great cartographic myth Mer de l’Ouest, 2011. The world map has three text panels describing the continents. Asia map represents the Carpentaria peninsula. The maps have been expertly rebacked on museum quality linen.The condition is very good with minimal staining at the maps of America and Asia. We have not found any record of a set of five wall maps by Bailleul for the last thirty years so the appearance a set like this one is of the utmost rarity.
46000 €

METHÓNI (Methone) / Peloponnes (Peloponnesus) / Greece: 'Disegno dove al presente si Ritrova l’armata della sacra lega contra la Turchesca, nel promontorio della Morea dirincontro a Modon, dove l’armata nemica si è retirata, luogo scoperto e sugetto a traversia, Assediata in buona parte dalla nostra et inoltre sua Altelza ha posto gente in terra, dalla banda di Navarino, et fatte alcune fattioni Dove per Dio gratia i Turchi per insni hora ne hano hauto la peggio. Sequitati dal grande animo de nostri Valorosi soldati e capitani come il tutto in questo disegno si vede per littere delli. VI. Ottobre. 1572. VI. - Antonij lafreri formis - Petri de Nobilibus Formis', engraving made by Pietro (Petrus / Petri) de Nobili (De Nobilibus) from Lafreri-Atlas printed by Antonio Lafreri in Roma, dat. 1572, 36 x 48 cm * Bifolco-Ronca, Tav. 825 - 2. state! - Shows the southwestern part of the Peloponnese between Pilos (Pylos / Navarino) and Koroni (Coron) with the offshore islands as well as views of the Turkish cities Methoni (Modone), Pilos (Pylos / Navarino) and Koroni (Coron) with the siege by the Venetians in 1572. - Below left title cartouche with date and publisher information. - In the map drawings of the ship fleets. - 2. state (only one copy known!) - Extremely rare Italian single-leaf print from a Lafreri atlas! (408973)
€ 15000,-

1. Extremely rare view of Adelaide! Hitchin, J. Adelaide, South Australia. North Terrace. J.C. Hailes London 1841 (?) tinted lithograph with original hand colouring and Gum Arabic. image 38 x 50 cm, with wide margins. some marginal tears not affecting image; some very soft creases; o/w vg cond. This very attractive print of the North Terrace of Adelaide is based on a painting by Edward Opie (1810–1894), a British painter, in 1840. The location of the painting is unknown. In 1841, Hitchin produced the design for this print which was lithographed by S.Straker in 118 Bishopsgate, London. On the right hand side of the print is the North Terrace with some side streets and the majority of main buildings. In the middle are the police station and the British Society’s Schoolhouse. On the other side of the Green towards the back of the view, is the Government House. In the foreground to the lft is a scene with indigenous people in front of a dwelling. A rider with a dog who is talking to another man, a couple taking the air and a shepherd are in the foreground; the background shows a chain of mountains and a wide area covered with trees. We could only find one copy at the National Library of Australia: https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2121711 . On 26th March 1910, a key to this print was published in the ‘Register’ magazine, though some version suggests an earlier publication. [see: State Library of South Australia: https://encore.slsa.sa.gov.au/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3119105]. [ref: 3949]
£7,000

Van Keulen volume II-III De Nieuwe Groote Lichtende Zee-Fackel, tweede und deerde deel Author Claas Jansz Vooght,Johannes van Keulen Date Amsterdam 1680-90 Amsterdam ,gedruckt voor Johannes Van Keulen 1680-90, 1680. Original vellum binding.Fine condition. Folio (530x320 mm),two parts in one volumen.Dutch text, two engraved allegorical titles dated 168 . 169 . (1681-1695) after Johannes van Luyken, privileges and dedications, 183 pgs of text including many coastal profiles, harbour plans and 57 double page engraved sea charts.Original unsophisticated vellum binding that has been cleaned and restored.There is a light browning in some maps of the first part.Some Browning affecting the last three maps of the second part.The back vellum cover with a hole affecting the last page of text that has been restored. This atlas contains the part two and three of the Van keulen Zee Fackel covering the western european coasts from Holland to Gibraltar straits including Britain and Ireland. The western african coast is also represented with some higly decorative sea charts. This part includes 41 sea charts most of them first issue 1682 and one of the addition of 1695. The second part includes 16 sea charts covering the Mediterranean sea all of them of the 1682 issue besides the title page has the date 169 . probably 1695. Van Keulen established as printer in Ámsterdam in 1678 and obtained a privilege for 15 years from the States General of Holland to print and publish nautical atlases. Van Keulen collaborated with the geographer Claes Jansz Vooght and Johannes van Luyken. The Zee fackel was printed from 1681-82 onwards and had a tremendous success. These two parts that we offer were included with other three forming a five parts set with over 130 sea charts covering the whole world but many atlases were assembled to order for navigators, traders, merchants with geographical interests in specific áreas. Van Keulen complete atlases are nowadays very rare to find in the book market and in the same way is very unusual to find complete parts like in this case with all maps and text. Ref .Schilder,De Vries, Van keulen cartography 2001 pgs 195-204. Koeman Keulen 57B, 87A.
43000 €

Partie Du Gange ou Sont Les Etablissements du commerce des Nations de l'Europe dans les Indes Orientales . . . 1726 Brussels / 1726 Very Rare Map Showing European Factories on the Lower Ganges River, including the Short-Lived Ostend Company Detailed and very rare map showing the Hooghly [Hugli] River, and coastal regions on the border between what is today India and Bangladesh. The map shows the outposts of the English, Danish, and French East India Companies, as well as the formidable and freshly minted Ostend Company in the Bengal region. The west-oriented map shows the winding Hooghly river, a distributary of the Ganges River, as it flows into the Gulf [Bay] of Bengal and the Indian Ocean. The large river, and many smaller streams, irrigate the lush landscape. Stands of trees, fields, and rolling hills fill the inland space. Many settlements dot the area, grouped mainly around the rivers. These towns and cities are designated by small buildings of varying size and detail, with larger clusters showing the larger population centers. Some of these are the factories where the European powers set up trading outposts. As you proceed upstream from the Bay of Bengal, one building symbol is different from all the rest. This is the English factory at “Coullicaffa”. Today, this is Calcutta, one of the largest cities in the world. Proceeding farther upstream, a smaller river proceeds east toward the bottom of the map. On this waterway are Hitsiapour [Hydisiapore] and Bankesbasar [Banquibazar, now Ichapore]. The latter was the Ostend Company’s base of operations, while the former contained the “Loge Flamande”, or the Flemish Lodge. Nearby is the French factory at Chandernagar [Chandannagar] and the Danish Lodge at Danemarnagor [Danemarnagore, now Gondalpara]. The latter was closed in 1714 but still appears on this map. The aforementioned Ostend Company is the subject of this map and one of its employees, Jacques André Cobbé, provided much of the information for it. Cobb’s fate is explained in a cartouche to the right, while a dedication to him is in another cartouche at the bottom. This second cartouche is surrounded by an idyllic profile of the river and surrounding countryside, melding into the picturesque map above and suggesting that this region was a prosperous and fertile one. The Ostend Company and European trade in Bengal The Ostend Company was the Indian trading monopoly of the Austrian Netherlands. In 1714, The Holy Roman Empire, ruled by the Habsburgs, received the former Spanish Netherlands in the Treaty of Rastatt. Today, the area forms Belgium and much of Luxembourg. Charles VI, the Holy Roman Emperor, sought to use the new holdings to compete with the Dutch, French, and English East India Companies. The Ostend Company received its charter in 1722; it was to control the trade with Bengal and was financed by the rich merchants of Antwerp and Ghent. The company’s ships sailed from Ostend, but its offices were in Antwerp, where seven directors oversaw operations. In India, the Ostend Company has two factories. One was on the Coromandel Coast and the other was Banquibazar, which is shown on this map. The Ostend Company and its rivals were interested in Bengal because of the rich textiles they could acquire there. Between 1724 and 1732, 21 Ostend Company ships were sent to the East Indies, with the majority stopping in Bengal; although young, the new company was proving steep competition for their rivals in France, Britain, and the northern Netherlands. At Banquibazar, the Ostend Company appointed Lieutenant-General Jacques André Cobbé to establish and lead the factory. While a proven military thinker, Cobbé proved to be an unscrupulous leader. Soon after he arrived in factory, Cobbé started to attack Bengali shipping on the Hooghly River. This affront was not allowed to pass and Cobbé had to barricade himself inside the former Danish factory at Danemarnagore, which is also on this map. While under siege from the Nawab’s forces, Cobbé was struck by a cannonball and killed, as explained in the cartouche to the right. The Ostend Company came to a similarly quick, if not so indecorous end. Its fate was sealed by its success; the British and Dutch felt threatened by the rival company, not least because it employed many former employees of their own companies. In 1727, just after this map was printed, the Emperor suspended his company’s charter. In 1731, he agreed to abolish it in the Second Treaty of Vienna in return for the recognition of his daughter, Maria Theresa, as his rightful heir. Rarity This is a very rare and separately issued map of the region. OCLC locates five examples in France, Israel, the United States, and Germany, while there is at least one example in India, at the Kalkriti Archives. This map is charmingly drawn and very detailed, but it also recounts a crucial moment of world history. Not only does it show the European commercial encounter with Bengal in the early-eighteenth century, but the Ostend Company celebrated here was to be sacrificed in order to maintain the Habsburg dynasty in the form of Maria Theresa, perhaps its most famous, and its final, ruler.

Amerique Septentrionale et Meridionale Divisee Suivant ses Differens Pays. Author Robert de Vaugondy and Delamarche Date Paris circa 1790 Description Wall map in four sheets, 118 x 100 cms. Outline original colour. The map is dissected and laid on linen. Some light waterstaining affecting central part of caribbean sea and Atlantic,Some light scattered foxing. Rare and scarce wall map printed by Delamarche based on an earlier state by Vaugondy firstly printed around 1760. The map reflects in detail the independent territory of the United States. The Louisiane territories were given to Spain in the treaty of Paris(1763) and to the west of the map there is a vast territory called : 2 province de Quivira et Teguaio". South America part is probably based on the Cano y Olmedilla accurate wall map of 1775. This state with the Delamarche imprint is unrecorded and we have tracked two copies in recent years ( Cohen and Taliaferro cat 2006 item 75) and a copy offered by barry Ruderman coming from the famous Nebenzahl collection.
6000 €

Very rare map of Ceuta! Bowles, Thomas II (1688-1767) A Plan of the Famous Town & Fortress of Ceuta, Besieg’d by the Moors in 1693 & raid by ye Spaniards after 26 Years Siege in 1720 - Drawn from an original brought from hence. Printed for and sold by Tho: Bowles next ye Chapter House in St. Paul’s Church Yard, London. Thomas Bowles Chapter House in St. Paul’s Church Yard, London 1721. copper engraved plan; plate 53 x 37 cm. paper slightly toned; some small marginal tears not affecting image; a few minute holes; o/w exc. cond. - A very rare separately published broad sheet map of Ceuta, with two insets of Gibraltar and explanatory text, as well as 29 keys, explaining the various strongholds and important sites; it was advertised in The Post Boy, 7th - 9th March, 1721. The map shows the city of Ceuta during the siege in 1720. Ceuta has always been a very important stronghold for military and commercial purposes since the 5th century BC, situated at the most Northern point of Morocco, North Africa. Having changed hands several times during its history, during the reign of Phillip II, King of Spain, it became part of Spain but was besieged by the Moroccan army under Moulay Ismail from 1694 to 1727. There is only one known copy which is in the British Library BLL01015581607. [ref: 3947]
£3,000

WORLDMAP: (no title) 'Secunda etas mundi Secunda etas mudi Foliu XIII': woodcut from Hartmann Schedel from "Registrum hujus operis libri cronicarum ..." published by Michael Wolgemut, Hanns Pleydenwurff and Anton Koberger in Nürnberg, 1493, 31 x 43,5 (38 x 52,3) cm * Shirley, The Mapping of the World - Early Printed World Maps 1472 - 1700, Nr. 19 u. Abb. Plate 25. - Copy from the first Latin edition of the Schedel Chronicle. (329752)
€ 12000,-