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382 Carte de l'Ocean Meridional Dressee pour Servir a l'Histoire Generale des Voyages' Atlantic Ocean Jacques Nicolas Bellin 1746 B+   $120.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 18 x 13.5 inches) This attractive chart of the South Atlantic is centered on a large compass rose with rhumb lines radiating across the ocean. A good portion of the coastlines of South America and Africa are shown with major port cities named. The Prime Meridian is shown through l'Isle de Fer and the Meridian of Paris is shown just west of the coast of Africa.

383 Bowles's New Pocket Map of the Atlantic or Western Ocean, Laid down from the Latest Descoveries, and Regulated by Numerous Astronomical Observations Atlantic Ocean Carrington Bowles 1780 B   $375.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 21.7 x 17.7 inches) This is an uncommon map of the Atlantic Ocean, showing the trade routes from Europe to the various European colonies, including Virginia and the Carolinas, the Cadiz Galleon Routes, and tracks to the West Indies. There is good detail along the Atlantic Seaboard of North America, which is noted as the XIII United States. The Great Fishing Banks are noted off Newfoundland, good deta...

384 Carte Generale de l'Ocean Atlantique ou Occidental' Atlantic Ocean Depot de la Marine 1792 B+   $275.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 45.5 x 24 inches) This large-scale chart of the North Atlantic shows the northeast coast of North America, the West Indies, Central America and the northern coast of South America. Opposite it covers the coastlines of Europe and northwestern Africa. The center of the chart is crossed with rhumb lines on 17 centers, radiating across the Atlantic with the prime meridian running just west of the Canary Islands. Tabl...

385 Mappa Aestivarum Insularum, Alias Barmudas Dictarum' Bermuda Willem Blaeu 1631 B   $900.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 20.7 x 15.5 inches) This magnificent map is based on the famous survey by John Norwood of the Bermuda Company in 1618. The map shows the division into the original eight tribes and shows the various landowners, with their names in a table below the map. The beautiful title cartouche features Neptune astride the Royal Arms, holding a fine ship. Further adorned with scale cartouches, coats of arms and a compa...

386 Septentrionalium Partium Nova Tabula Arctic and Scandinavia Ruscelli 1561 B+   $325.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 9.5 x 7 inches) This is a reduced version of the landmark Zeno map showing the mythical islands in the North Atlantic and small coastlines of Labrador (Estotiland) and possibly Newfoundland (Drogeo). Frisland is depicted in considerable detail, with many place names indicated. The only cartographic difference between this and the woodcut map published by Zeno is that there is no land bridge between Green...

387 Septentrionalium Regionum Descrip Arctic and Scandinavia Abraham Ortelius 1588 B+   $2,200.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 19.4 x 14.2 inches) Ortelius based this influential map on the work of earlier authorities including Mercator, Zeno and Magnus. Of particular interest are the mythical islands of Brasil, Frisland, Drogeo, Icaria, and St. Brandan. Part of Mercator's imaginary polar continent is depicted with a Latin note that it is inhabited by pygmies. Iceland (Islant, Thule) is basically unchanged from Mercat...

388 Groenland et les Nouvelles Terres Descouvertes vers le Septentrion Arctic Ocean, Greenland, Iceland Philippe Briet 1649 A   $375.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 7.5 x 5.8 inches) This small and very rare map was based on the information from Jens Munks' expedition of 1619-20. Munk was sent by Denmark's King Christian IV to seek a Northwest Passage to the Orient. He left from Copenhagen in May of 1619 with two ships. They entered Hudson Bay in late August and wintered near present-day Churchill, (noted on the map as Port d'hyver de Munk). They spent a te...

389 Zusammen Gezogene Karte von den Nordlichen Theilen der Erd-Kugel Zwischen Asien und America Arctic Jacques Nicolas Bellin 1758 A+   $210.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 13.4 x 8.3 inches) Very unusual chart that shows only the northeast coastline of Canada with Baffin and Hudson Bay and the St. Lawrence River. On the other side is the northeast coastline of Asia with the Kamchatka peninsula. In between are a few small areas of coastline with notations concerning reported explorations, including those of Juan de Fuca, the Russian expeditions in 1728 and 1741, the reported West-...

390 Gronland so Weit es Bekant ist mit den Inseln Faeroer Greenland Franz Johhan Joseph Von Reilly 1791 A   $170.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 11 x 9 inches) This interesting Austrian map is one of the few 18th century maps devoted to Greenland. Due to a general lack of knowledge of the region, detail in confined along the coastline, which is portrayed as mountainous with numerous fiords and islands. There are several 17th century errors including two spurious sea passages. A large inset shows the Faeroe Islands. A panel of text describes the coun...

391 General Chart exhibiting the Discoveries of the Northmen in the Arctic Regions and America during the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, and 14th centuries North Atlantic and Arctic Regions Anonymous 1837 B passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 10.6 x 9.5 inches) This map covers the North Atlantic and a good portion of North America and western Europe. It shows the supposed discoveries of Norsemen prior to the voyage of Columbus. It is from N. Ludlow Beamish's Discovery of America by the Northmen.

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