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SPEED, John.
[Four Continents] Africa, America, Asia, Europe. 1627
£19,500
Magnificent set of maps of the four known continents, each map dated 1626 (but America actually 1631). "Africae, described the manners of their habits and buildinge; newly done into...
Framed size: 650 × 755 mm each. Copperplate engraving. Hand coloured. Very good condition, slight browning; Africa with central fold tear only affecting margin;... Read more
RENARD, Louis.
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula. 1715
£12,500
A striking and lavishly decorated double hemisphere world map, with smaller maps of the poles, above and below centre. These are coloured by region, and show routes of major...
Size: 560 x 485 mm. Framed size 770 x 700 mm. Copper engraving. Original colour. Fine condition, good margins. Read more
MAFFEI, Giovanni
INDIARUM ORIENTALIUM OCCIDENTALIUMQVE DESCRIPTIO 1588
£8,000
World map, with large unexplored 'Terra Australis' and westward bulge to South America. Stippled sea with ships and sea monsters. 'Giovanni Maffei's account of the Portuguese...
Size: 260 x 490 mm. Copper engraving. Uncoloured. Very good condition. Original fold lines as issued. Some light discolouration along central fold. Read more
VALCK, Gerald.
1. L'Asie. 2. Amerique Septentrionale & Meridionale. 3. L'Afrique. 4. L'Europe. c.1700
£7,500
A beautiful set of the four continents. Each map shows, in excellent detail, the extent of the exploration of the world up around the year 1700. Each map has separate decorated...
Set of four maps. Size: 585 x 500 mm. Mounted size: 730 x 630 mm. Copper engraving. Original colour. Fine condition. Crisp and clean impressions. Map of Europe has... Read more
WIT, Frederick de.
Nova Orbis Tabula in Lucem Edita, A.F. de Wit. c1680, Second state.
£7,400
A very beautiful and ornate world map. "De Wit's map is one of the most attractive of its time. The brilliant scenes in the corners combine images of the four seasons, the elements,...
Copper engraving. Original colour. Size: 56.2 x 48 cm. (22 x 19 inches). Framed size 85 x 77cm Good margins. Centrefold strengthened. Expert repair to worm hole on... Read more
CORONELLI, Vincenzo
Planisfero del Mondo Vecchio Maior. Planisfero del Mondo Nuovo... 1691
£6,950
A magnificent pair of maps, each hemisphere engraved on separate sheets, by the Venetian Vincenzo Coronelli: "a worthwhile addition to any collection. They combine the most...
2 maps, each 610 x 465 mm; mounted 645 x 790 mm. Copper engravings. Hand coloured. Central folds reinforced. Some browning to the central folds, otherwise in fine... Read more
VALCK, Gerald.
Mappe-Monde. c.1686
£6,750
A splendid, highly decorative mappemonde, a twin hemisphere map with smaller hemispheres of the poles; an early state of the map. California is shown as an island, fragments of the...
Size: 585 x 500 mm. Copper engraving. Original colour. Fine condition. Read more
SOLIS, Fernando de.
Tipus Orbis Terrarum. 1603
£6,500
A wonderfully decorative and impressive general world map, based on the earlier 1570 map by the famous Abraham Ortelius. The ornate strapwork that surrounds the map is mannerist in...
Mounted size: 520 x 645 mm. Copperplate engraving. Good condition. Light staining and strengthened at folds. Read more
WALDSEEMULLER, Martin & Laurent Fries.
Tabu Nova Orbis. 1535
£4,000
This wonderful world map "is one of the earliest … available to a collector, and is an unsophisticated but attractive rendering of what was generally known of the world at that...
Size: 385 x 535 mm. Woodcut. Uncoloured. Fine condition. Read more
MOLL, Herman
A New and Correct Map of the World [1730]
£3,950
Herman Moll was a German émigré who settled in London around 1680, where he became one of the most prolific and admired cartographers of his age. This wonderful twin...
2 sheets joined. Framed size: 770 x 1145 mm. Copperplate map with original outline colour. Some skilful paper restoration to map folds and to worm holes, however, the... Read more
HOMANN, Johann Baptist
Planiglobii Terrestris Cumutroq Hemisphaerio Caelesti. c1710.
£3,200
Sumptuously decorated twin hemisphere map with zephyrs and images of the heavens along the top edge, cherubs supporting the title banner. Dramatic depictions of volcanoes,...
Copper engraving. Original outline colour colour with later additions. Excellent condition. Framed size: 80 x 72 cm. Size: 55 x 48 cm. (21½ x 19 inches). Read more
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PTOLEMY, Claudius & Laurent Fries.
[Untitled world map] 1535
£3,000
This is a stunning early world map in magnificent condition by the French geographer and physician Laurent Fries. This map is based on Martin Waldseemuller's Ptolemaic map of 1513....
Size: 390 x 530 mm. Uncoloured woodcut. Fine condition. Read more
MUNSTER, Sebastian, & Sebastian Petri.
Die Erst General Tafel. 1588
£2,000
An attractive oval map showing the modern world after Ortelius, used in the later editions of Munster's Cosmographia. The corners are decorated with florid vine leaves. The title...
Size: 370 x 320 mm. Mounted size 575 x 535 mm. Wood engraving. Hand coloured. In fine condition with slight offset and show through of text from reverse. Read more
![Asia, Europe, Africa, America [a set of four maps of the continents].](/content/store/products/12336/2/19345.jpg)
MOLL, Herman
Asia, Europe, Africa, America [a set of four maps of the continents]. 1705
£2,000
An attractive set of maps of the four known continents. The map of Asia is divided into Tartaria, Arabia, Mogul India, China and the islands. The map of Europe extends from Iceland...
4 maps, size: 385 x 360 mm each. Copper engravings. Excellent later hand colour. Very good condition; some light browning to the central folds; remargined. Read more
HOMANN Heirs
Planiglobii Terrestris Mappa Universalis 1746
£1,800
A very beautiful and decorative map of the two hemispheres with two lovely title cartouches, one in Latin and the other in French, and in addition there are a four further...
Size: 540 x 460 mm. Mounted size: 760 x 690 mm. Copper engraving. Later colouring. In fine condition but bottom and right-hand margin close cropped and slight... Read more
CHÂTELAIN, Henri Abraham
Nouveaux Mappemonde ou Globe Terrestre 1719
£1,800
An attractive and informative world map. Two circular hemispheres, joined centrally, one depicting the Old World, the other the New. The maps are surrounded by numerous remarks and...
Size: 670 x 470 mm. Copper engraving. Later colour. Good margins, some very light offsetting on lower half of map, but a fresh and bright impression. Very good... Read more
CHÂTELAIN, Henri Abraham
Nouveaux Mappe Monde ou Globe Terrestre c.1730
£1,750
Handsome twin hemisphere mappemonde coloured by country. Like most of Chatelain's maps, there is a huge amount of additional information displayed - tables above and below the map...
Copper engraving. Later colour. Very good condition. The map itself is crisp and clean, closed tear on lower margin. Two minute holes where map was folded above... Read more
MOLL, Herman
A New Map of the World. 1705
£1,650
Attractive map of the world according to Mercator's projection, with improvements, showing the northern coast line and part of the west and south coasts of Australia together with...
Size: 545 x 300 mm. Copper engraving. Hand coloured. Fine condition. Read more
STANFORD, Edward.
Stanford's Library Map of the World on Mercator's Projection. 1886
£1,500
This a very handsome, large folding map of the world on Mercator's (flat) projection that has been dissected into 33 linen-backed sheets with burgundy marbled paper backs. There are...
Size : 970 x 1740 mm. Lithograph in original colour. Fine condition. Read more
MERIAN, Matthaeus.
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographia ac Hydrographia Tabula. c.1646
£1,500
A very attractive and detailed world map, laid out according to Mercator's projection; text in German in ornamented gothic and Latin scripts; two polar hemispheres in the lower...
Size: 350 x 260 mm. Mounted size: 520 x 435 mm. Copper engraving. Later colour. Excellent condition. Read more
DELISLE, Guillaume, & BUACHE, Philippe.
MAPPE MONDE a l'usage de l'instruction. Par Guillaume DELISLE et Philippe Buache. 1808
£1,500
When Guillaume De Lisle died in 1726, Philippe Buache succeeded him and revised many of his maps. Buache died in 1773, and was succeeded by Dezauche who, in 1808, revised and...
Size: 660 x 435 mm. Copper engraving. Later colour. Fine condition. Read more
(World Globe)
Colllingwood Table Globe
£1,350
Beautiful table globe which has a thin solid brass ring with no degrees. 12 inch ball with mahogany stand containing facsimile 19th century map.
Fine condition. Size with stand 45cm wide x 46 cm high Size: 30 x 30 cm. (12 x 12 inches) Read more
DANKWERTH, Kasper and MEYER, Johann.
Orbis Vetus. Cum Origine Magnarum in eo Gentium a Filiis et Nepotibus Noe. [ca. 1640], First Edition.
£1,200
A classical representation of the eastern hemisphere with original colouring.
Copper engraving. Original colour. Very good. Size: 43.5 x 53.5 cm. (17 x 21 inches) Read more
CORONELLI, Vincenzo
Aevi veteris usque AD Annum salutis monagesimum supra milles Quadringentos cogniti tantum typus Geographic 1690.
£1,200
A magnificent map of the Old World (Europe, Africa, Asia Minor, India, SE Asia) shown as a hemisphere, with cosmographical and astrological symbols and tables surrounding . Title at...
Copper engraving. Hand coloured. Excellent condition Size: 61 x 45 cm. (24 x 17½ inches) Mounted size 82 x 67cm. Read more
VUILLEMIN, A
NOUVELLE CARTE Illustrée de PLANISPHÉRE Elémentaire et Illustrée 1857
£1,200
A magnificent map of the world by French cartographer Alexandre Vuillemin. It depicts the world in extraordinary detail with numerous decorative embellishments and prolific...
Size: 845 x 620 mm. Steel engraving. Original outline colour with later additions. Good condition; a slight tear on the top and a tear in the bottom of centrefold,... Read more
