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1 Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Title Pages Abraham Ortelius 1601 C+   $400.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 8.8 x 13.8 inches) A handsomely engraved title page from this important atlas surrounded by the female allegorical representations of the continents. Latin text on verso.

2 Nascentes morimur finisque ab origine pendet Frontis Mercator/Hondius 1610 C+   $65.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 7.9 x 5.7 inches) This very unusual print shows the three Fates from Greek mythology. One spins the thread of life, the second determines the length of the thread and the third cuts the thread when time has come for death. A terrifying, serpentine representation of original sin from Genesis prods the skein of life with a flaming arrow, and an angel pours sacramental wine on the flames while gazing at Heaven. La...

3 Le Theatre du Monde ou Novvel Atlas Contenant les Chartes at Descriptions de Tous les Pais de la Terre Title Pages Blaeu Family 1647 A   $475.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 9.3 x 15.4 inches) Extremely decorative title page from a French edition of the Blaeu family's famous atlas. The title is printed from a separate plate, and it is flanked with allegorical figures representing the continents, Asia and Europe on the left, and the Americas and Africa on the right. Atop the architectural structure, figures consult globes of the heavens and earth; Apollo and a mythical figure with six...

4 Le Theatre du Monde, ou Nouvel Atlas, Mis en lumiere par Guillaume & Iean Blaeu. La Seconde partie de la Premiere Title Pages Blaeu Family 1650 A+   $250.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 7.6 x 12.7 inches) Decorative title page from this great atlas. A knight in full armor and a nun flank the title. At the top are two maidens displaying coats of arms, and the allegorical figure of Mars with his ferocious hounds. French title pasted onto engraving, as was customary.

5 De Bello Belgico Title Pages Strada 1658 A   $650.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 2.8 x 5 inches) Among the most interesting decorative works of cartography is a series of arresting maps showing The Netherlands and Belgium in the shape of a lion. This wonderful, miniature version of the Leo Belgicus is based on the original 1538 Aitsinger form with the lion standing facing right with the right paw raised and holding a shield. The De Bello Belgico, written by Famianus Strada, a ...

6 Atlas Minor Sive Totius Orbis Terrarum Contracta delineata ex conatibus Title Pages Nicolas Visscher 1680 A   $325.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 10 x 15.8 inches) A beautifully etched title page that includes two women drawing maps with a lion representing Belgium curled at their feet, Neptune astride a large globe (showing the Atlantic Ocean), a trumpeting angel representing Fame, and the Titan Atlas bearing a celestial globe on his shoulders. Drawn and etched by Gerard de Lairesse.

7 [Atlas Novus Frontispiece] Title Pages Scherer 1700 A   $500.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 7 x 9.5 inches) This fascinating frontispiece was designed by Johannes Deger and engraved by Matthias Wolffgang. The central feature is an armillary sphere suspended by the hand of God above a harbor full of ships. Each corner is embellished with a scene representing exploration, astronomy and cartography.

8 Scheeps-Togt van Martin Pringe, Gedaan in 't Jaar 1603. Van Bristol na 't Noorder-gedeelte van Virginien Title Pages Pieter van der Aa 1706 A   $130.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 7.5 x 12 inches) An uncommon title page is from Peter van der Aa's pamphlet on Martin Pring's voyage to New England in 1603. This was included in a series on famous voyages published by Van der Aa. The illustration shows the Earth being unveiled by allegorical figures and was beautifully engraved by J. Goeree.

9 Atlas Novus Terrarum Orbis Imperia, Regna et Status' Title Pages Johann Baptist Homann 1720 A   $425.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 11 x 18.8 inches) Large elaborately engraved sheet with numerous allegorical figures gathered in front of a large globe showing the Eastern Hemisphere. In the background, a pair of Titans are standing on the globe supporting the heavens. On the left is a sunrise with several birds, and on the right is the night sky with the moon, owls and bats known to hunt under cover of darkness.

10 Atlas Moderne ou Collection de Cartes sur Toutes les Parties du Globe Terrestre Title Pages Jean Lattre 1787 A   $120.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 8.7 x 11.8 inches) Lovely title page has the title emblazoned onto a drapery being hung by two maidens with a globe, atlases and maps at their feet.

11 Atlas National Illustre des 89 Departments et des Possessions de la France' Title Pages Victor Levasseur 1869 A   $80.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 16 x 12 inches) Attractive title page from one of the last decorative atlases of the nineteenth century. The steel engraved scenes surrounding the script title are fully hand-colored and enclosed in a border of tree branches and grapevines engraved by Eugene Duchez. There are infantry and naval battle scenes, portraits, armor and weaponry, ballooning, an early railroad engine, a river god and goddess and a grou...

12 [Lot of 5] Typus Orbis Terrarum [with] Americae Descriptio [and] Asia [and] Africae Descriptio [and] Europa Nova Tabula World & Continents Jan Jansson 1631 A passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 7.8 x 6 inches) A fine, matched set of world and continent maps. Jan Jansson engaged Abraham Goos, one of the most accomplished engravers of the day, to create these plates for his continuation of the Mercator pocket atlas. This beautiful set is illustrative of the fluctuating cartographic theories prevalent during this period of discovery. All with German text on the verso. 1) Typus Orbis Terr...

13 Typus Orbis Terrarum World Abraham Ortelius 1592 B passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 19 x 14 inches) Ortelius' beautiful oval world map is a simplified version of Mercator's influential map of 1569. From surviving correspondence, it is known that Mercator encouraged Ortelius and provided him with information, particularly with co-ordinates of places in the Americas. This is the first state of Ortelius' third world map updated with the more correct shape of South America and the first depiction...

14 Typus Orbis Terrarum World Mercator/Hondius 1624 B+   $475.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 8 x 5 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...

15 Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula World Henricus Hondius 1630 A   $13,000.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 21.5 x 15 inches) Henricus Hondius created this splendid baroque-style world map when he updated the Mercator Atlas in response to competition from the Blaeu publishing firm. The map features hemispheres surrounded by voluptuous representations of the four elements: Fire by Apollo driving the Sun's chariot across the sky; Aeros, the goddess of Air, surrounded by clouds and birds; Mother Earth, surrounded b...

16 Typus Orbis Terrarum World Ortelius/Marchetti 1667 A+ passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 4.1 x 3.1 inches) Galle's miniature Ortelius atlas enjoyed so much success that it was copied by Pietro Marchetti for the Italian market. The map is based on Ortelius' oval map of the world with huge polar continents providing balance for the world's continents. A Northwest Passage is prominently featured. Italian text on verso.

17 Novus Planiglobii Terrestris per Utrumque Polum Conspectus World Blaeu/Valck 1695 A   $6,500.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 21.4 x 16 inches) This uncommon, beautifully engraved map showing the world on a polar projection was the final world map executed by Johannes Blaeu in circa 1672. A tragic fire destroyed the Blaeu company that same year before the map was published. The plate itself survived and was acquired by Gerald Valck, who replaced Blaeu's imprint with his own. Traces of the original imprint can still be discerned in the ...

18 Carte Generale du Monde, ou Description du Monde Terrestre & Aquatique World Pierre Mortier 1700 B+   $850.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 18.3 x 14.5 inches) This is the first state of Pierre Mortier's unique world map, drawn on Mercator's projection with California as an island. The Detroit d'Anianis connected by dotted lines through the Northwest Passage to Button's Bay, which is 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 ...

19 Beatam Medicent Omnes Generationes World Scherer 1700 A+   $1,300.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 13.8 x 9 inches) This very decorative map of the world is centered on the Pacific. In North America, California is shown as an island and there is a very distinctive Northwest Passage. The reports of the early Jesuits and French explorers are in evidence in the Great Lakes and Mississippi Valley. In Asia the eastern coast is truncated and Japan oversized. Australia and New Guinea are incomplete, ...

20 Societas Iesu Per universum mundum diffusa Praedicat Christi Evangelium World Scherer 1702 A+   $750.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 13.8 x 9 inches) An exquisite depiction of the world from this series of maps by the Jesuit mathematician. The map is presented on a north polar projection and shows California as an island. Large shining, star-like symbols mark the locations of Jesuit missions throughout the world. Each corner is richly engraved with allegorical scenes of four Jesuit saints: St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuit or...

21 Repraesentatio Geographica Itineris Maritimi Navis Victoriae' World Scherer 1703 A passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 14 x 9 inches) This very graphic map of the world is presented on a north polar projection and depicts all of the world except the South Pole. California is shown as an island and the track of Magellan's voyage around the world is noted. There is a distorted portion of Australia noted as Nova Hollandia. At left is a beautiful engraving of Magellan's ship Victoria, and sea monsters are sho...

22 Mappe-Monde avec la Route que les Fregates le Duc & la Duchesse ont suivie pou faire le Tour du Globe depuis 1708 jusqu'en 1711 World Anonymous 1712 B   $210.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 11.6 x 6.4 inches) Uncommon map of the world that shows Calfornia as an island and traces the route of Capt. Woodes Rogers in his voyages of 1708-11 on the ships the Duke and Duchess. English merchants, long harassed by pirates in the Pacific seas, hired Rogers to retaliate by attacking and looting the rich Spanish ships on the Pacific coast -- he was very successful in this enterprise, and even rescued the ...

23 Mapmonde ou Description Generale du Globe Terrestre World Henry Abraham Chatelain 1719 A   $650.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 17.5 x 13 inches) A handsome double hemisphere world map surrounded by a florid vine pattern with depictions of the sun, moon and a compass rose. The map has California as an island with the coastline above stretching nearly to Asia. This map includes a particularly extraordinary version of Terres Australes Inconnues; it is shown across the entire base of the map and is connected to Australia at ...

24 Mappa Mundi Plani-sphaerica oder Carta Generalis Mundi World F. de la Croix 1720 B+   $150.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 8.3 x 4.3 inches) An uncommon little double-hemispherical mapthat shows California as an island. The coastline of Australia is beginning to take shape as Nova Hollandia, and New Guinea is shown with an attachment to a large, amorphous landmass. Antarctica is named, and a large Ter. de Iesso is named off of the northwest coast of North America. Not in McLaughlin.

25 A New Map of the World from the Latest Observations World John Senex 1720 B   $2,200.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 21 x 16.5 inches) This handsome English world map was published during a period of extensive exploration and rapid geographical discoveries. Senex has used an unusual devise to show a comparison of new and old cartography; the out-dated concepts are lightly engraved and left uncolored. California is presented as an island on the main double hemisphere map, and shown as a peninsula in two small projections;...

26 Nova Delineatio Totius Orbis Terrarum per Petrum Vander Aa World Pieter van der Aa 1720 A+   $2,300.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 13.5 x 10.2 inches) Originally published by Jacob van Meurs in 1660, and reissued here by Vander Aa, this map is based on Arnold Colom's wonderfully graphic map from the first world maritime atlas. California is an island, separated from Nova Albion, which stretches towards Asia and off the map. The western coast of New Zealand appears, as do several other important Pacific islands. Australia is part...

27 Planiglobii Terrestris cum Utroq Hemisphaerio Caelesti Generalis Exhibitio World Johann Baptist Homann 1720 B   $1,600.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 21.8 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. Wind heads 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 unusually elongated northwest coastline i...

28 Le Globe Terrestre Represente en Deux Plans-Hemispheres' World Jacques Chiquet 1729 B   $275.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 8.5 x 6.4 inches) This delicately engraved double hemisphere world map features the island of California and a Northwest Passage. There is little interior detail with only major nations named. Ter. de Jesso appears off the east coast of Asia, Australia is incomplete and still attached to New Guinea, the west coast of New Zealand appears, and there is still a partial coastline for Terres Au...

29 De Aard-Kloot volgens de hedendaagse gedaante World Willelm & Jan Goeree 1730 A   $650.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 11.5 x 6.7 inches) An unusual world map that shows California as an Island and a rudimentary form of Australia. Tucked into the cusps of the double hemisphere map is a very inventive depiction of the earth as it would be seen from space,minus the oceans. At the bottom are allegorical female representations of the four continents with their animal escorts.

30 Mappe-Monde ou Description du Globe Terrestre, Assujettie aux Observations Astronomiques World Jean Janvier 1762 B+   $500.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 17.5 x 12 inches) This is an early edition of this charming double hemisphere map. In North America there is a distinct Northwest Passage connecting Hudson Bay with the large Sea of the West and the Pacific. Alaska is shown in dotted outline as an extremely lengthy peninsula based on the Russian discoveries of Bering and Tschirikow. Australia is shown attached to both Tasmania and New Guinea with a ...

31 [Lot of 2] Hemisphere Occidental [together with] Hemisphere Oriental World Brion de la Tour/Desnos 1766 B   $300.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 12.5 x 11 inches) Pair of very attractive hemisphere maps, each surrounded in a rococo style border that was printed from a separate copper plate. In the Western Hemisphere, Brion has devised an ingenious way to show the competing theories of the Pacific Northwest; one hypothesis is engraved in dotted lines and colored in green, another version, engraved in hachure and colored in yellow, shows the Sea of the We...

32 De la Geologie World Louis Brion de la Tour 1766 B   $150.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 18 x 11.5 inches) Charming, double-hemisphere map of the world flanked by text describing the geography and continents of the world. The continents are shown without much interior detail, and Australia and New Zealand are still just a partial coastline. There are a profusion of seas named along the coasts, including Mer de Jedso, M. de Californie, M. du Perou, Mer du Canada, and many more.

33 Algemeene Waereldkaart, volgens het Ontwerp van Mercator' World Bonne/Bachiene 1785 A   $250.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 12.5 x 8.2 inches) This handsome copper engraved world map on Mercator's projection shows the new discoveries of the latter part of the eighteenth century. Alaska is shown in a rudimentary shape with dotted lines for much of its coastline. Australia and New Zealand are fully formed, but Tasmania is still shown to be attached to the mainland. Numerous small islands are shown throughout the world, including Cook's...

34 Mappe-Monde Dressee pour l'Etude de la Geographie' World Brion de la Tour/Desnos 1790 B   $240.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 12 x 11.8 inches) This decorative double hemisphere map features a prominent Sea of the West and a Northwest Passage in North America. A conjectural shape for Australia incorporates Tasmania into the mainland. The title and dedication cartouches are tucked between the cusps of the hemispheres that are supported by two naked men. The map is surrounded in a rococo-style border.

35 Die Funf Theile der Erde in ihrer Ostlichen und Westlichen Halbkugel World Franz Johann Joseph von Reilly 1790 B+   $150.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 15.2 x 8 inches) Double hemispherical map of the world displays simple interior detail. The coastlines of Australia and New Zealand are fully mapped, but Tasmania is still shown attached to Australia. In the Antarctic, a small coastline of Sandwich Land can be seen.

36 De Oude en Nieuwe Waereld, Ontworpen door den Heer Bonne' World Bonne/Bachiene 1792 B+   $150.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 15.8 x 8.1 inches) This attractive double hemisphere world map features a nearly complete Alaska and the other discoveries of Capt. Cook in the Pacific. Australia still includes Tasmania and part of its southern and eastern coastlines are shown with dotted lines. The map is embellished with a nice title cartouche. The map is directly derived from Rigobert Bonne and was engraved for Bachiene by M. Schalekamp.

37 Mappe-Monde ou Carte Generale de toutes les parties du Globe, corrigee et augmentee des Decouvertes du Cap. Cook, de celles de la Perouse en 1801, de Vancouver, de Mackensie en 1802, auxquelles sont ajoutees celles faites dans la Mer du Sud' World Charles Francois Delamarche 1795 A+   $650.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 15.3 x 9.4 inches) This copper engraved map of the world is drawn on Mercator's projection. Considering the scale, there is good detail of political boundaries, watershed and islands of the world. Notations in the Arctic discuss recent explorations. Title cartouche notes that Delamarche is the successor to Robert de Vaugondy.

38 Weltkarte nach den Vorzuglichstein Hulfsmitteln und Neuesten Entdeckungen Verfasst World Tranquillo Mollo 1818 B+ passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 17.3 x 12.8 inches) This attractive and unusual map of the world is presented on Mercator's projection. The topography is interesting and is rather speculative, particularly in the American West, which has a number of mountain ranges converging at a point named Quelle des Missuri. Australia and New Zealand have their shorelines fully delineated. There are notes from various explorations throughout the map...

39 Map of the World: and Chart Establishing the Size of Each Country, Nation or Kingdom its Population as a Whole and to a Square Mile also the Different States of Society Forms of Government Religion &c. World David Burgess 1839 B+   $180.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 17.5 x 10.5 inches) A truly fascinating map of the world that includes a key at lower left with symbols denoting the 'state of society'. The symbols used are to denote whether or not a society is barbarous (bow & arrow), half civilized (plowshare), civilized (church) or enlightened (book). The key has additional symbols for various religions. Inset with a double polar projection and a map of Central Europe. The ...

40 Planisphere Elementaire et Illustre' World A. Vuillemin 1861 B   $400.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 33 x 23.5 inches) Splendid large chart of the world on Mercator's projection from this scarce nineteenth century atlas. A panel at bottom features vignette engravings of the races of man, heights of mountains and lengths of rivers. The map is filled with an impressive array of information illustrating the physical and geographical divisions, shipping routes, colonial possessions, roads and railways, and numerous ...

41 Orbis Terrarum Tabula Recens Emendata et in Lucem Edita per N. Visscher World Nicolas Visscher 1867 B+   $1,200.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 18.6 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 a Dutch bibles as late as the 1780's (as noted by Shirley) and then reappeared in this bible in the mid 19th century. Classical engravings including allegorical representations of the continents as well as native inhabitants and wildlife...

42 Planisphere World Victor Levasseur 1869 A   $325.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 15.5 x 11 inches) Gorgeous world map, presented on Mercator's projection, is from one of the last decorative atlases produced in the nineteenth century. It is surrounded by fine steel engravings including vignettes representing the four seasons, allegorical figures of the continents, several mythical gods, Adam and Eve and much else of interest. In North America, a very large Oregon Territory appears on the west ...

43 Altera Generalis Tab. Secundum Ptol. Ancient World Sebastian Munster 1545 B+   $1,100.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 13.5 x 10 inches) Clouds and eleven vigorous windheads surround this Ptolemaic world map. The continents are oddly shaped and all connected by a great southern continent, Terra incognito secundum Protemeum. There is a very large Taprobana (modern day Sri Lanka) in the Indian Ocean and the Indian subcontinent is severely truncated. Only the northern part of Africa is shown with the Nile originating i...

44 Geographia Sacra Ancient World Jan Jansson 1650 A   $650.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 18.7 x 14 inches) This map is based on the nearly identical map of the same title by Ortelius. It depicts the world known to the ancients and is based on the Old and New Testament, following the translation of the Septuaginata. Inset into the map is a small (4 x 2.5") modern world map on an oval projection. The map is decorated with a cartouche flanked by geographers and a scale of miles with two cherubs. The c...

45 Tabula Universalis Locorum, quae Phoenicum Navigationibus Maxime Frequentata Sunt, a Taprobana Thulen Usque. Ancient World Samuelis Bocharti 1692 C+   $100.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 15.8 x 12.3 inches) An uncommon map of the ancient world that shows the extent of the region the Phoenicians reportedly explored in their trading expeditions. The area ranges from Iceland to Sri Lanka. The placenames are given in Latin, Greek and Hebrew.

46 De Tweede Weereld door Noachs dry Zonen Bevolkt Ancient World Willelm & Jan Goeree 1730 B+   $100.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 11.5 x 6.8 inches) This charming Bible map shows the world as known after the Great Flood with Europe and parts of Asia and Africa. The title cartouche depicts Noah and his sons.

47 Polus Arcticus / Polus Antarcticus. Polar Pieter Van der Aa 1696 A   $650.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 8 x 12.7 inches) A visually arresting map is oriented vertically to show twin polar projections. Tierra del Fuego is the only land exhibited in the South Pole, and the North Pole includes a portion of the coastline of fictional Anian, with a well-developed Arctic for the period. Novaya Zemla is shown with a partial coastline. The spheres are surrounded with vigorous windheads within billowing clouds.

48 Imago Totius Orbis Terraquei cum suo Apparatu ab Auctore Naturae in Suas Partes Distributi Geographice Exhibita Polar Scherer 1700 A passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 14 x 8.8 inches) This unusual polar projection depicts the entire world except the South Pole. California is shown as an island and there is a suggestion of a Northwest Passage via Hudson Bay. There is a distorted portion of Australia noted as Nova Hollandia. The map has delightful depictions of birds and wind heads in the heavens as well as fish and monsters swimming the seas. The beautif...

49 Carte des Deux Regions Polaires' Polar Buffon 1750 A   $300.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 17.5 x 8.5 inches) Interesting map of the poles that shows numerous tracks of explorers, including those of Cook, Tasman, Furneaux, Halley and Marion. There is an unusual and utterly spurious Northwest Passage shown from Hudson Bay via Wager Inlet into a Grand Eau des Sauvages down into L. de Fonte and out into the Pacific.

50 Septentrionalium Terrarum Descript. North Pole Jan Jansson 1631 A   $400.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 8 x 5.6 inches) First state of this small map of the North Pole that was first issued in 1628. Jansson's map does not follow Mercator, but instead used the knowledge of the many recent exploratory voyages that attempted to locate a northern route to Asia. Several fictitious islands, including Frisland, appear in the North Atlantic. It is decorated with a strapwork title cartouche. German text on the ve...

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