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Lot#		Title		Subject/Creator		Date/Cond		Sold for:

1		Atlas Minor Gerardi Mercatoris a I. Hondio plurimis aeneis Tabulis auctus et illustratus:		Title Pages Mercator/Jansson		1628 A		$170.00 Closed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 8 x 6 inches) Decorative title page that is filled with allegorical female figures of the continents, geographers measuring the globe, and Atlas holding it aloft.

2		Le Theatre du Monde, ou Nouvel Atlas, Mis en lumiere par Guillaume & Jean Blaeu. Troisieme Partie		Title Pages Blaeu Family		1650 A+		$220.00 Closed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 10.7 x 15.8 inches) Fine, decorative title page from this great atlas. Features two figures from cartographic history (one carrying an armillary sphere and calipers, and the other displaying a rolled map). Terrestrial and celestial globes complete the very attractive sheet with a strong architectural theme. Title imprint pasted onto sheet, as was common at the time of publication. A most lovely example.

3		[Lot of 2] Topographia Galliae		Title Pages Matthaus Merian		1655 B		$100.00 Closed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 6.7 x 11 inches) Matching frontispiece and title page from the atlas. The frontispiece features Neptune, a dolphin, medal, horn of plenty, and crown above the cartouche. A city is in the distance. The title page is printed in black only and includes the decorative publishers imprint. Uncommon pair of title pages.

4		Scheeps-Togt van Pedro da Nhaya na Oost-Indien'		Title Pages Pieter van der Aa		1706 A+		$140.00 Closed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 7 x 11.3 inches) Fine copper engraved title page to the narrative of Pedro da Nhaya's voyage to East Africa in 1505. It was the voyage that established the Portuguese trade dominance on the East African coast. The illustration, engraved by J. Goeree, depicts allegorical figures examining a globe centered on the North Pole. Overall page dimensions given, image is 7 x 5".

5		Atlas Historique Tome II		Title Pages Henry Abraham Chatelain		1720 A+		$275.00 Closed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 9.3 x 15.2 inches) A superbly engraved title page with a large grouping of people studying, numerous mythical and allegorical figures, and several geographical and surveying instruments. Drawn by Romain de Hooghe and engraved by Sluyter.

6		Atlas Novus Sive Tabulae Geographicae Totius Orbis Faciem, Partes, Imperia, Regna et Provincias'		Title Pages Matthias Seutter		1730 B		$190.00 Closed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 11.5 x 19.8 inches) This bold title page centers on a large globe that supports the allegorical figure of Europa with the other continents gathered around the globe with mythical figures, putti and soldiers. Despite its flaws, it is still a very graphic sheet that will display well framed.

7		[Lot of 2] Atlante Novissimo del Sig. Gugleilmo De l'Isle [and] Atlante Novissimo, Che Contiene Tutte le Parti del Mondo		Title Pages Giambatista Albrizzi		1740 B		$95.00 Closed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 8 x 11.4 inches) The frontispiece and title page from an Italian version of Delisle's atlas published by Girolamo Albrizzi. The engraved frontispiece features male and female soldiers, vignette of a city, architectural columns and cherubs holding up drapes. The text based title page is printed in red and black and has a rococo-style bowl of plenty at the bottom. Italian text on verso.

8		[Lot of 8 - World and Continents]		World and Continents LeSage		1828 B		passed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 24.3 x 20 inches) Nice group of maps from this interesting historical atlas. Each map includes extensive notations and German text describing the history, commerce, geography, and governments of the region. Size given is for each whole sheet including map and text. The lot includes the world and continents plus a nice map of the United States, and two other regional American maps. 1) Historische Weltkarte. 2) ...

9		[Lot of 7] Planisphere [with] Amerique Septentrionale [and] Amerique Meridionale [and] Europe [and] Afrique [and] Asie [and] Oceanie		World & Continents Victor Levasseur		1850 A		$850.00 Closed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 17 x 11 inches) Matching set of the world and continents from one of the last decorative atlases of the nineteenth century. All are in original pastel color with surrounding scenes uncolored, as issued. A fine set of seven matching maps, their sizes vary slightly.

10		Orbis Descriptio		World Ruscelli		1561 A		$1,200.00 Closed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 10 x 7 inches) This important map is the first double hemisphere world map to appear in atlas form. It is elegantly engraved in the characteristic Italian style, adapted from the oval projection used for Gastaldi's larger world map and presented on what is known as Roger Bacon's circular projection. Terra Incognita is distinctly shown as a land bridge linking Asia and North America with its coastline la...

11		Typus Orbis Terrarum [and] Turcici Imperii Descriptio		World and Turkish Empire Giovanni Botero		1596 B		$2,100.00 Closed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 11.8 x 7.5 inches) Both maps bound in a rare off-print published on the occasion of the Turkish Wars. The booklet bears the title "Tabula geographica impery magni Turcae'et tabula geographica, quae ob oculos ponit'" and is from Botero's Latin edition of Relationi Universale. This small pamphlet contains the title page, twenty-two pages of text and the two, double-page maps. Bound in thick, crude paper. Th...

12		Typus Orbis Terrarum		World Mercator/Hondius		1607 A		$600.00 Closed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 8 x 5.2 inches) Handsome double hemisphere map based on Mercator's famous world map with several updates. Terra Australis Incognita fills the Southern Hemisphere and connects to New Guinea in the region of Australia. Mercator's Northwest Passage and interesting polar islands have been replaced with a non-descript landmass. The eastern coast of Asia has been revised to include a Korean Peninsula. The ma...

13		Orbis Terrarum Typus de Integro in Plurimis Emendatus, Auctus, et Icunculis Illustratus		World Nicolas Visscher		1660 B		$1,700.00 Closed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 18.3 x 12.3 inches) This map is a direct derivative of Nicolas Visscher's first world map designed for inclusion in Dutch Bibles. It has been re-engraved, is nominally larger, and this example is from a German Bible. Identical engravings, including allegorical representations of the continents as well as native inhabitants and wildlife, surround the double hemisphere world map. Two celestial spheres are displayed ...

14		Orbis Terrarum Tabula Recens Emendata et in Lucem Edita		World Bastiaan Stoopendaal		1682 A+		$1,700.00 Closed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 18.3 x 14.2 inches) This is the first state of this striking twin hemisphere world map from a folio Dutch bible published by Hendrik en Jacob Keur. Surrounded by fabulous scenes from the Visscher-Berchem map of 1658, astronomical diagrams replace the north and south polar circles. These classic scenes depict the abduction of Persephone, Zeus being carried across the heavens in an eagle-drawn chariot, Poseidon comm...

15		Planisphaerium Terrestre cum Utroque Coelesti Hemisphaerio, sive Diversa Orbis Terraquei		World Adam Friedrich Zurner		1700 A		$4,000.00 Closed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 22.8 x 19.8 inches) This is a stunning double hemisphere world map with up-to-date cartography for the period. California is shown as an island with an indistinct Fretum Anian and Terra Esonis above it. There is a River of the West emptying into a small sea just northeast of California. Australia is shown to be separate from New Guinea, Carpentaria and Diemens Land. Nova ...

16		Navigationes Praecipuae Europaeorum ad Exteras Nationes		World Scherer		1700 A		$1,400.00 Closed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 13.5 x 8.8 inches) Splendid map of the world on an oval projection showing California as an Island and a partially mapped Australia and New Zealand. This map is from the series produced by Scherer who was a mathematics professor and devout Jesuit. Unusually centered on the Pacific, it shows the sailing routes to the East Indies across the Pacific, around the Cape of Good Hope, and (optimistically) around a<...

17		Orbis Terrarum Tabula Recens Emendata et in Lucem Edita		World Daniel Stoopendaal		1702 A		$1,500.00 Closed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 18 x 14 inches) This decorative double hemisphere world map was issued in a Dutch Bible published by the Keur family. It is based on Visscher's Bible map of 1663 and is surrounded by nearly identical engravings, which include numerous exotic animals and four female allegorical representations of the continents. At the top and bottom are two diagrams depicting the Copernican and Ptolemaic theories of the solar s...

18		Plan de l'Histoire universelle, ou l'on voit les quatre Monarchies du Monde'		World Henry Abraham Chatelain		1705 A		$400.00 Closed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 17.2 x 13.3 inches) This extremely interesting layout displays a large map of the Eastern Hemisphere, into which is inset a smaller Western Hemisphere with the Island of California. The map shows the extent of the empires of Rome and Alexander the Great. Below the map are seven vignettes depicting the seven wonders of the Ancient World. Tables of French text surround the entire map.

19		Totius Orbis Terrarum Tabula, Ejusque Post Diluvium Divisio Inter Filios Noachi		World Joseph Moxon		1710 A		$400.00 Closed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 13 x 8 inches) This lovely Bible map is presented on Mercator's projection with Europe, Africa and Asia at center and South America and part of North America at left. The island of California is placed at the extreme right of the map. There is practically no detail other than rivers and mountain ranges, except for a tiny engraved depiction of the Garden of Eden located just south of the Caspian Sea. La...

20		Universi Orbis Descriptio ad Usum Navigantium		World Giovanni Antonio Magini		1713 A		$325.00 Closed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 7 x 5 inches) Small mariner's map based on Gerard Mercator's large world map of 1569. Magini has added a fanciful range of mountains to the huge southern continent. The map is crisscrossed by rhumb lines and the oceans are stipple engraved in the Italian style. On a full sheet of Latin text (9.5 x 14.2") with text above and below the map.

21		Mappe-Monde ou Carte Generale de la Terre, Dressee sur les Observations de Mrs. de l' Academie Royale des Sciences'Geographe de Monseigneur le Dauphin		World Nicholas de Fer		1717 A		$750.00 Closed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 13.2 x 9 inches) Fine double hemispheric copper engraved map that features California as an Island. Surrounding the hemispheres are nine medallion portraits of explorers, including La Salle, Tachard, Dampier, Magellan, Drake, Columbus, Vespucci, Marco Polo, and Schouten. The map shows early mapping of North America with the Great Lakes not completely formed. The northeast coast of Asia includes a coastl...

22		A New and Correct Map of the World Laid down according to the newest discoveries, and from the most exact observations		World H. Moll		1720 C		$1,500.00 Closed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 38.5 x 22.5 inches) Large double-hemisphere world map featuring the island of California, and partially mapped Australia and New Zealand. The hemispheres are surrounded by representations of the planets, the moon, a north polar projection, and the solar systems theories of Ptolemy and Copernicus. The title is enclosed in a banner-style cartouche at top, and at bottom is a large dedication cartouche to George II. O...

23		Basis Geographiae Recentioris Astronomica		World Doppelmayr/Homann		1720 B		passed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 22.6 x 19 inches) First state of this scarce world map combining both scientific and decorative cartography. The continents are shown in outline form without political detail. California is an Island, only the western and northern coastlines of Australia are shown, and New Zealand is incomplete. There is a hint of a possible Northwest Passage from Hudson Bay to the Strait of Anian. The map is rich...

24		Planiglobii Terrestris Cum Utroq Hemisphaerio Caelesti		World Johann Baptist Homann		1730 A		$2,400.00 Closed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 22 x 19 inches) This is one of the most decorative eighteenth century world maps. The two hemispheres are surrounded by vivid engravings of natural phenomena such as waterspouts, a rainbow, earthquakes, and a volcano. Windheads occupy the starry heavens, and two cherubs hold the title banner aloft. The map itself shows a typical geographical view of the period with an incorrect northwest coastline in North Ame...

25		Carte Generale du Monde, ou Description Generale Waereld Kaart, of Beschryuing du Monde Terrestre & Aquatique. van de Land en Water Waereld		World Jean Covens & Corneille Mortier		1730 A		passed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 18.5 x 15 inches) Pierre Mortier's unique world map drawn on Mercator's projection with California as an island and the Detroit d'Anian connected by dotted lines through the Northwest Passage to Button's Bay located to the west of Hudson Bay. A small coastline of New Zealand appears in the Pacific. The northeast coast of Asia is severely truncated and shows Witsen's Cap de Glaces. Australia'...

26		Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula		World De Wit/Ottens		1745 A		passed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 22.5 x 19.8 inches) Stunning, large double hemisphere shows the island of California and partial shorelines of western Australia and New Zealand. An advanced depiction of the five Great Lakes includes Superior and Huron with open-ended western shores. The exquisite scenes surrounding the map are among the finest decorative motifs on early maps, rendered in lifelike detail. They were etched (rather than engr...

27		Planiglobium Terrestre ou Mappe-Monde		World Jan Christian Sepp		1747 B		passed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 4.7 x 9.3 inches) This rare miniature map of the world was drawn and engraved by Sepp and published by Arent van Huissteen. The map presents North America with a blank western coast above California. Australia and New Zealand are both only partially formed. A celestial sphere based on the Coperican theory is below the double hemisphere map, balanced by a decorative title cartouche at top.

28		Essay d'une Carte Reduite Contenant Les Parties Connues Du Globe Terrestre		World Jacques Nicolas Bellin		1748 B		$750.00 Closed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 25.3 x 18.6 inches) Early issue of this fine large world chart on Mercator's projection decorated with a large title cartouche and two compass roses. North America is shown with a very pronounced River of the West connecting through a series of rivers and lakes from Lake Superior to the Pacific - representing the elusive Northwest Passage. The Russian discoveries in the North Pacific are not yet shown...

29		Orbis Vetus in utraque Continente juxta Mentem Sansonianam Distinctus, nec non Observationibus Astronomicis Redactus '		World Didier Robert de Vaugondy		1752 A		$1,100.00 Closed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 28.3 x 18.8 inches) Impressive, large double hemisphere world map is beautifully engraved in the robust style characteristic of Robert de Vaugondy. The map presents a historical perspective by depicting 18th Century cartography but only those place names that were known to the ancients. The Western Hemisphere is labeled Atlantis Insula and the northwest coast of North America is completely blank. In the Eas...

30		Nieuwe en Nette Zeekaart van de Geheele Waareld'		World O. Lindemann		1775 B		passed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 18.5 x 7.5 inches) Very scarce chart derived from Edmond Halley's map of 1700 with wind and current directions and lines of magnetic variation. The island of California is prominent in North America. In the Pacific, Australia is partially mapped and there is only the western coastline of New Zealand. An inset features a partial hemisphere of the North Pole with the mythical island of Frisland still...

31		Mappe-Monde Geo-Hydrographique, ou Description Generale du Globe Terrestre et Aquatique, en Deux Plans - Hemispheres		World Brion de la Tour/Desnos		1790 A		$475.00 Closed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 25.2 x 18 inches) This large double-hemisphere world map is based on Jaillot's 1695 world map of the same title. It has been updated by Brion de la Tour to show the 18th century discoveries including the most recent ones of Captain Cook that provided the information required to complete the mapping of the northwest coastline of North America and the eastern coastlines of Australia and New Zealand. The tracks of C...

32		Map of the World		World		1811 C		$275.00 Closed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 29 x 19.3 inches) Student executed manuscript double hemispheric world map, signed by "Ermina Drury, Worthington" in Massachusetts. It is difficult to date precisely when in the 19th century this map was made, though the model the artist presumably worked from would have been published in the early part of the nineteenth century. There is a prominent Louisiana Territory, the area labeled N Mexico became Te...

33		Planisphere		World Victor Levasseur		1849 A+		$210.00 Closed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 15.5 x 11 inches) Gorgeous world map from one of the last decorative atlases produced in the nineteenth century. It is presented on Mercator's projection and is surrounded by fine steel engravings including vignettes representing the four seasons, allegorical figures of the continents and several mythical figures, Adam and Eve and much else of interest. In North America a very large Oregon Territory appears on th...

34		Colton's New Illustrated Map of the World on Mercator's Projection		World Joseph Hutchins Colton		1852 C		$375.00 Closed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 41.8 x 32 inches) Lovely, large wall map surrounded by numerous vignettes and a decorative border. Centered on North America, it features interesting territorial borders in the western U.S. Very decorative border with 12 engraved views of cities and wonders from around the world. The four views in each corner are larger and beautifully rendered. They include Havana, Venice, Ning Po, Bordeaux. Table of distanc...

35		Geographical Distribution of Indigenous Vegetation... / Map of Schouws Phyto-Geographic Regions with the Distribution of Plants'		World A.K. Johnston		1854 A		$190.00 Closed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 23.3 x 19.5 inches) This large map is a superb example of thematic mapping with various colors and diagrams used to illustrate the distribution of plants throughout the world. The chart at top provides a graphic display of the type of indigenous vegetation in the major mountain regions of the world. At bottom is a map of the world with the distribution of plants depicted through the use of color. This handsome cha...

36		Orbis Terrarum Tabula Recens Emendata et in Lucem Edita Per N. Visscher		World Nicolas Visscher		1867 A		$750.00 Closed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 18.5 x 12 inches) This is a very unusual nineteenth century edition of one of the most popular world maps of the seventeenth century. First produced in 1663, this map appeared in Dutch bibles as late as the 1780's (as noted by Shirley) and then reappeared in the mid-19th century. Classical engravings include allegorical representations of the continents as well as native inhabitants and wildlife surrounding the d...

37		Map of the World showing the Distribution of Active Volcanoes Regions of Earthquakes and of Coral Reefs & Islands		World Arnold Guyot		1872 B		$80.00 Closed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 17.7 x 0 inches) This very graphic and early thematic map focuses on volcanic activity. Varying shades of red indicate the force and frequency of earthquakes. Blue coloring in the ocean indicates the extent of reefs. Illustrations along the bottom depict the mountain ranges of the world in profile with the volcanoes shown in black. Engraved by E. Sandoz and J. Krumholz, and published by W. & A.K. Johnston.

38		Welt-Karte		World Stieler		1881 A+		$45.00 Closed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 15 x 13.5 inches) Map is on Mercator's projection with detailed information on climate and ocean currents. Beautifully and finely engraved as is characteristic with these maps. Two smaller maps at bottom depict the trade-winds. Nice 16-point compass rose. Originally drawn in 1867 this is the updated 1881 edition.

39		Map of the World on Mercator's Projection, Showing Seat of the War in the Spanish-American Conflict		World Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick		1898 A		$50.00 Closed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 37.5 x 23.8 inches) Large world map drawn on Mercator's Projection and decorated with a lovely compass rose. The verso of the map focuses on the current war with Spain with a large colored map of Cuba (19 x 12.5") that includes a detailed plan of Havana (7.5 x 5"), Philippine Islands (19 x 12.7"), Map of Porto Rico and the West Indies (10 x 7"), Puerto Rico (5.5 x 2.5"), and a Chart of the North Atlantic Ocean (19 x...

40		[T-O Map]		Ancient World Giacomo Foresti		1506 A		$1,900.00 Closed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 5.2 x 3.4 inches) This little map is a fine example of the medieval world concept expressed in a simple circular diagram containing the three known continents. The circle represents the boundary of the world with east oriented at the top. The 'T' is formed by the perpendicular axis representing the Mediterranean Sea and the horizontal line being the meridian running from the Don to the Nile. Asia fills the top w...

41		Ptolemaisch General Tafel Begreissend die halbe Rugel der Weldt		Ancient World Sebastian Munster		1540 B		$800.00 Closed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 12.2 x 14.2 inches) This woodcut, Ptolemaic world map is surrounded by clouds and eleven windheads (their names in banners). The continents are oddly shaped and all connected by a great southern continent Terra incognito secundum Ptolemaeum. There is a very large Toprobana (modern day Sri Lanka) in the Indian Ocean, and the Indian subcontinent is severely truncated. Only the northern part of Africa i...

42		Die Eigentliche und Warhafftige Gestalt der Erden und des Meeres. Cosmographia Universalis		Ancient World Heinrich Bunting		1582 A		$1,400.00 Closed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 14.5 x 10.7 inches) This unusual map focuses on the Old World showing Europe, Asia and Africa in outline with the locations of the principal cities noted. In Africa, the Nile originates in the Montes Lunae and a large island in the river is the location of Meroe, the mythical tombs of the Nubian Kings. A huge Caspian Sea and enlarged Ganges River dominate Asia. The most interesting parts of th...

43		Orbis Veteris Descriptio seu Ptolemaei Typus.		Ancient World Giovanni Antonio Magini		1713 A		passed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 7 x 5.3 inches) This Ptolemaic map is engraved in the Italian style. The landlocked Indian Ocean contains a huge Toprobana (present day Sri Lanka) and a virtually nonexistent Indian subcontinent. The source of the Nile is located in a range of mountains south of the Equator. The map is on the title page of the second volume with an engraved view of a fortification on verso.

44		[Untitled - Ancient world]		Ancient World Romain de Hooghe		1720 A		$600.00 Closed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 18.5 x 14 inches) This beautiful copper engraved map portrays scenes from the Bible. A hemisphere depicting the Old World is suspended above a scene of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, which is teeming with life. At the bottom, scenes from the Bible include: Eve offering the apple to Adam, Noah's Ark, Abraham offering his son, Jonah and the whale, the birth of Christ, The Last Supper, and the Crucifixion, cent...

45		De Oude Wereldt tot beter verstandt der Oude Geschiendenissen in het licht gegeven en nagezien door Isaak Verburg		Ancient World Wetstein		1730 A		$140.00 Closed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 27.6 x 14 inches) An unusual map of the Old World that covers most of Europe, Northern Africa and South-central Asia with insets of Greece and the coast of Italy centered on Rome. The sheet is beautifully engraved and filled with ancient place names.

46		Map of the World by Castorius Generally known as Peutinger's Tabula		Ancient World		1892 A+		$600.00 Closed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 180 x 11 inches) A very uncommon reproduction of the famous Peutinger Table in the Imperial Library at Vienna, printed by Williams and Norgate. The Peutinger Table is a Roman road map of the world. The chart depicts the imperial roads and posts within the Roman Empire throughout Europe, North Africa and Asia as far as Toprobana (Sri Lanka). The original parchment document was found by Konrad Celte...

47		Polus Arcticus cum vicinis regionibus		North Pole Mercator/Hondius		1608 A+		$600.00 Closed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 7.3 x 5.5 inches) This is a reduced version of the second state of Mercator's famous North Pole map. It depicts the region between the pole and the Arctic Circle. This is one of the most intriguing early maps, combining medieval geographic concepts with some of the most advanced cartography of its day. The North Pole is shown as a rocky island surrounded by 'indrawing seas' between four huge islands. The map sh...

48		Nova et Accurata Poli Arctici et terrarum Circum Iacentium Descriptio		North Pole Jan Jansson		1684 B		$750.00 Closed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 20.8 x 16.3 inches) This beautiful map, originally published in 1637, eventually replaced Hondius' map of the North Pole and became the prototype for many later maps including those of Blaeu. Rhumb lines radiate from the North Pole and several compass roses embellish the chart. A large title cartouche, with two figures and numerous wind heads, conveniently hide the northwest coast of America. The map is further de...

49		Nuova Carta del Polo Artico		North Pole Albrizzi/Tirion		1740 A		passed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 12.8 x 11 inches) Italian edition of this attractive copper engraved map on a north polar projection. California is shown as an island and the Pacific region is completely blank. Good detail in Europe and Asia, with even the Great Wall of China shown. Whereas, there is little detail in North America except for a rendition of Lahotan's ideas of a river and lake system connecting with the Mississippi River. ...

50		Northern Regions [together with] Southern Regions		Polar G. W. & C.B. Colton		1855 B		$60.00 Closed
Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot. (Size: 26 x 15 inches) Attractive pair of maps on a double sheet. Hand colored in the oceans and land with full wash in only two colors. Nicely detailed with notations of 19th century discoveries. Each is surrounded in the distinctive Colton scroll border. Dated 1855, but published in a later edition of this atlas, circa 1880.

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