INDEX

World Maps

A world map with portraits of the Twelve Cæsars

VISSCHER, Claes Janszoon.

Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula.
Amsterdam, 1652. Fine original colour. 445 x 560mm.

Stock ID : 17720

£20,000

Johannes Blaeu's superb double-hemisphere world map

BLAEU, Johannes.

Nova et Accuratissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula.
Amsterdam, 1662, Latin text edition. Original colour. 415 x 540mm, with wide margins.

Stock ID : 22631

£16,500

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

MORTIER, Pierre.

Mappe-Monde Geo-Hydrographique, ou Description Generale du Globe Terrestre et Aquatique en Deux Plans Hemispheres [...]
Amsterdam: Pierre Mortier, c.1700. Original outline colour. Two sheets conjoined, total 580 x 980mm.

Stock ID : 24058

£16,000

The first atlas map of the world to show California as an island

SPEED, John.

A New and Accurat Map of the World Drawne according to ye truest Descriptions, latest Discoveries & best observations y.t have beene made by English or Strangers. 1651.
London: Thomas Bassett & Richard Chiswell. Coloured. 395 x 515mm.

Stock ID : 23983

£12,500

'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, Jan Jansson, 1641-, Latin text edition. Fine original colour. 380 x 540mm.

Stock ID : 24127

£8,000

The first plate of Ortelius's classic world map

ORTELIUS, Abraham.

Typus Orbis Terrarum.
Antwerp, 1584, Latin text. Original colour. 340 x 495mm.

Stock ID : 23568

£7,000

Pair of 17th century world maps in Coronelli's unique style

CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria.

Planisfero del Mondo Nouvo...; Planisfero de Mondo Vecchio...
Venice, c.1690. Coloured. Two sheets, each c.460 x 620mm.

Stock ID : 22715

£6,800

A Dutch world map with superb borders

MORTIER, Pierre.

Nova Orbis Tabula in Lucem Edita, A. F. De Wit.
Amsterdam: Covens & Mortier, c.1720. Fine original colour. 465 x 540mm.

Stock ID : 22261

£6,800

A scarce world map after Giuseppe Rosaccio

ROSACCIO, Alovisio.

Universale Descrittione di Tutto il Mondo del Ecc.te Gioseppe Rosaccio.
Florence, c.1610. 265 x 310mm.

Stock ID : 22849

£4,500

A scarce double-hemisphere map of the world on a polar projction

BLAEU, Johannes.

Novus Planiglobii Terrestris per Utrumque Polum Conspectus.
Amsterdam, Gerard Valk, c.1695. Original colour. 400 x 530mm.

Stock ID : 22926

£4,000

A rare American missionary map on linen

OHMAN, August R.

Missionary Map of the World Showing the Prevailing Religions of its Various Nations and the Central Stations of All Protestant Missionary Societies.
New York: August R. Ohman & Co. Inc, c.1906. Colour-printed wood engraving on two linen sheets stitched together, total 1250 x 2120mm.

Stock ID : 17967

£3,400

A scarce Dutch double-hemisphere world

VALK, Gerard & Leonard.

Orbis Terrarum Nova et Accurata Tabula.
Amsterdam: Gerard Valk, c.1720. Coloured. 485 x 570mm.

Stock ID : 22927

£3,200

16th century woodcut map of the world

MUNSTER, Sebastian.

Typus Orbis Universalis.
Basle, Henri Petri, c.1552, Latin text edition. Coloured woodcut. Printed area 265 x 380mm.

Stock ID : 22958

£3,200

De Fer's two-sheet world map

FER, Nicolas de.

Mappe-Monde, ou Carte Generale de la Terre. divisée en deux Hemispheres suivant la Projection la plus commune ou tous les points principaux sont placez sur la observations de m.rs de l'Academie Royale des Siences.
Paris, 1705. Coloured. Two sheets conjoined. 435 x 690mm.

Stock ID : 22570

£2,800

Mercator's map of the Ptolemaic World

MERCATOR, Gerard.

Universalis Tabula Iuxta Ptolemaeum.
Leiden, c.1700. Coloured. 350 x 490mm.

Stock ID : 21839

£2,400

A late-19th century double-hemisphere world map in Cyrillic

IL'IN, A.

[Cyrillic - Western Hemisphere. Eastern Hemisphere.]
St Petersburg, c.1890. Chromolithographic map, dissected and laid on linen as issued, total 910 x 1610mm.

Stock ID : 19431

£1,900

An 18th century world map with 'Terrestrial' and 'Maritime' hemispheres

SANTINI, Francesco & SANTINI, Paolo.

Nouvelle Mappe Monde dediee au progres de nos connoissances.
Venice: M. Remondini, 1784. Coloured. 490 x 680mm.

Stock ID : 23113

£1,800

An important world map, updated to include Cook's three voyages

ROBERT DE VAUGONDY, Didier.

Mappe-Monde dressée suivant les nouvelles relations et assujettie aux observations astronomiques Par le S. Robert de Vaugondy Géog. Corrigée et augmentée des Nouvelles Découvertes Du Capitaine Cook, Par Delamarche Géog.
Paris: Delamarche, c.1792. Coloured. 475 x 740mm.

Stock ID : 23209

£1,600

A fine double-hemisphere world map from 1800

DELISLE, Guillaume, & BUACHE, Philippe.

Mappemonde a l'usage de l'instr.on Par Guillaume Delisle et Philippe Buache Premiers Geographes et de l'Académie des Sciences. Revue et Augmentée des N.les Découvertes par Dezauche en 1800.
Paris: Jean André Dezauche, 1800. Coloured. 470 x 665mm.

Stock ID : 23949

£1,500

A wall map of the world between the World Wars

BARTHOLOMEW, John.

Bartholomew's Chart of the World on Mercator's Projection.
Edinburgh: John Bartholomew & Son Ltd, c.1950. Colour lithographic map, dissected and laid on linen, as issued, total 1185 x 1860mm.

Stock ID : 24074

£1,500

The second of Munster's Ptolemaic world maps

MUNSTER, Sebastian.

Ptolemeisch General Tafel die halbe Rugel der Welt begreissende.
Basle, Sebastian Petri, c.1588. German text edition. Coloured woodcut, printed area 320 x 360mm.

Stock ID : 22959

£1,400

A Victorian map of the British Empire

BARTHOLOMEW, John.

British Empire Throughout the World Exhibited in One View.
Edinburgh: A. Fullarton, c.1865. Lithographic map, printed in colours and hand-finished. Printed area 440 x 540mm.

Stock ID : 23833

£1,280

A mid-18th century Italian world map with allegorical figures of the continents

ALBRIZZI, Giovanni Battista.

Mappamondo, o sia Descrizione Generale del Globo Terrestre ed Acquatico.
Venice, c.1742. Coloured. 295 x 360mm.

Stock ID : 22318

£1,250

18th century double-hemisphere world map

MONATH, Peter Conrad.

Typus Orbis Terrarum.
Nuremberg, 1758. Original colour. 265 x 295mm.

Stock ID : 20464

£1,250

Double-hemisphere world with superbly decorated borders

BEAURAIN, Jean de.

Mappe-Monde dressée sur les Nouvelles découvertes dont les dernieres ont été faites en 1741.
Paris: Louis-Charles Desnos, 1766. Original outline colour. 255 x 340mm.

Stock ID : 22349

£1,250

A pictorial map of the world promoting Protestant Missionary work

GILBERT, John.

The Pictorial Missionary Map of the World.
London: James Nisbet & Co., c.1861. Chromolithograph, sheet 465 x 710mm.

Stock ID : 23150

£1,200

The World as known to the Ancients

CASSINI, Giovanni Maria.

Mappa Mondo Antico Diviso Nell'Uno e nell'Altro Continente secondo la mente di Guglielmo Sanson.
Rome, 1801. 360 x 510mm.

Stock ID : 13936

£1,200

An 18th century double-hemisphere world map

CHATELAIN, Henri Abraham.

Nouveau Mappemonde ou Globe Terréstre...
Amsterdam, 1718. Coloured. Two sheets conjoined, total 475 x 675mm.

Stock ID : 23390

£1,000

English world map showing Cook's Voyages

FADEN, William.

A New General Chart of the World, Exhibiting the Whole of the Discoveries made by the late Captain James Cook, F.E.R.S. with the Tracks of the Ships under his Command: also those of Capt.n Phipps, (the late Lord Mulgrave) Capt.n Ross and Capt.n Parry, in their Expeditions to the North Polar Seas.
London: James Wyld, 1838. Coloured. 460 x 600mm.

Stock ID : 23199

£900

18th century double-hemisphere world map

JANVIER, Jean.

Mappe-Monde ou Description du Globe Terrestre...
Paris: 1762. Coloured, 310 x 460mm.

Stock ID : 19321

£800

Decorative English double-hemisphere world map showing discoveries

BOWEN, Emanuel.

An Accurate Map of the World according to the best Authorities including some late Discoveries
London, c.1754. Coloured copper engraving. 160 x 295cm.

Stock ID : 23667

£750

An 18th century double-hemisphere world map

HEYDT. Johann Wolfgang.

Welt Charten, worauf die Reise nach Indien, und wider zuruck nach Europa, mit Puncten angewiesen nebst denen Konigreichen, vornehmsten Insuln, Gewassern, und Landern, so der er Benahmungen, das mehreste in Deutschen zu lessen ist
Wilhermsdorf: J.C. Tetschner, 1744. Coloured. 235 x 270mm.

Stock ID : 17069

£650

A world map celebrating the voyage of Willem Schouten

DE BRY, Johann Theodore.

[Guilhelmi Schouten in australem oceanum expeditio.]
Oppenheim: de Bry, c.1619. Engraved map 170 x 210mm, set in letterpress.

Stock ID : 17013

£650

An 18th century world map in a single sphere

BUACHE, Philippe.

Planisphere Physique Où l'on voit du Pole-Septentrional ce que l'on connoît de Terres ete de Mers Avec les Grandes Chaînes de Montagnes, qui, traversant le Globe...
Paris: Dezauche, 1781. Original colour. 345 x 450mm, with very wide margins.

Stock ID : 22532

£500

A double-hemisphere map of the world on two sheets

LAS CASAS, Emmanuel.

[World] Mappa A. Mappa B.
Venice, G. Tasso, 1832. Original colour. Map 375 x 630mm, with two panels of text, total 375 x 930m.

Stock ID : 21709

£450

Early 18th century double-hemisphere map of the world

BAECK, Elias.

Mapemonde Planisphere ou Carte Generale du Monde.
Augsburg, c.1710. Coloured. 160 x 215mm.

Stock ID : 21747

£400

An uncommon Ptolemaic world map

BERTIUS, Petrus.

Pinax Ptolemaicus Chlamydoeides..
Paris, c.1645. Old colour. 160 x 200mm.

Stock ID : 21189

£300

The Eastern Hemisphere

TALLIS, John.

Eastern Hemisphere.
London, J. & F. Tallis, 1851. Original outline colour. Steel engraving, 265 x 330mm.

Stock ID : 18509

£250