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1 De Bello Belgico Decas Prina Famian Stradae Rom. Soc. Iesu Edition III Title Pages Strada 1640 B+   $900.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 3.8 x 5.7 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 ...

2 Globus Terraqueus Ecclesiastico Politicus In Suas Partes et Dominia Divisus Title Pages Scherer 1703 A   $500.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 7.3 x 9.2 inches) Stunning and inventive title page drawn by Johann Degler and engraved by Leonard Heckenauer. The page features the hand of God suspending the world from a cross attached at the Pole. The surrounding heavens are filled with winsome cherubs, some of whom hold crowns and the hats of popes, cardinals and bishops, with allegorical representations of the continents of Europe, Asia, Africa and America....

3 Atlas Homannianus Mathematico Historice delineatus Title Pages Homann Heirs 1762 B   $250.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 10.8 x 18.8 inches) An evocative title page with angelic figures mapping the world, while a classical muse stands by with a telescope and a compass. The top of the map is balanced with a pair of putti holding the banner title, while below Apollo in his sun-chariot greets a personification of the North Star as night passes into day. Engraved by Andr. Hoffer.

4 Atlas General, Civil, Ecclesiatique et Militaire' Title Pages Brion de la Tour/Desnos 1790 A passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 12.3 x 11.2 inches) A lovely title page printed with two plates; one for the text and another for the decorative border. The sheet is adorned with pennants featuring coats-of-arms, as well as the fleur de lys of the French royalty, which is uncommon to see after the French Revolution of 1789.

5 Atlas National Illustre des 86 Departments et des Possessions de la France' Title Pages Victor Levasseur 1845 B+   $100.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 16 x 11.5 inches) This attractive title page is from one of the last decorative atlases of the nineteenth century. The steel engraved scenes around the script title are enclosed in a border of tree branches and grapevines engraved by Eugene Duchez. The page is filled with infantry and naval battle scenes, portraits of Charlemagne and Napoleon, armor and weaponry, ballooning, an early railroad engine, a river god ...

6 Ferdinand Magellanus Portraits Arnoldus Montanus 1673 B       Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 6.5 x 11 inches) A strongly engraved portrait of the first circumnavigator, enclosed in an elaborately engraved cartouche-like frame. The background is a view of one of the exotic ports visited by Magellan.

7 [Lot of 3] Gerardus Mercator [and] Petrus Bertius [and] Petrus Plancius Portaits J. Buys/R. Vinkeles 1790 A   $160.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 3.5 x 5.8 inches) Set of three copper engravings of these famous cartographers, from a Dutch dictionary. The oval portraits are surrounded in handsomely engraved frames with titles below.

8 [Lot of 6] Mapemonde Planisphere ou Carte Generale du Monde [and] l'Amerique Septentrionale [and] L'Amerique Meridionale [and] Asia [and] Africa Selou les Autheurs les plus Modernes [and] Europa Selon les Auth. les plus Modernes World & Continents Daniel de la Feuille 1701 B passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 8.5 x 6 inches) A handsome set of small maps displaying some interesting cartographic myths. Sizes vary slightly. 1) Mapemonde Planisphere ou Carte Generale du Monde - Generale Wareld Kaart presents the world as a simple double hemisphere showing the island of California, partially mapped Australia and New Zealand and still a good bit of the southern continent labeled Terres Antarc...

9 [Lot of 5] Algemeene Wereldtkaart van den Aardkloot. / Noorder America / Asia / Africa / Europa World & Continents Nicolas Sanson 1705 B+   $1,700.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 12.3 x 8.8 inches) A fine set of maps from an uncommon Dutch edition of Sanson's pocket atlas engraved by Antoine de Winter. Image sizes vary slightly; dimensions given are for the page. 1) Algemeene Wereldtkaart van den Aardkloot is a double hemisphere map beautifully decorated with clouds at top and allegorical representations at bottom. California is shown as an island, Terre de Ies...

10 [Lot of 5] Orbis Terrarum Typus [with] America [and] Asia [and] Africa [and] Europa World & Continents Philipp Cluver 1727 A+   $1,100.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 7.2 x 5.7 inches) This is a beautifully engraved set of small maps from this immensely popular book that was first published in 1624 without maps. There were many editions throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with maps from several sets of plates. This edition, published in Nuremberg, is very uncommon. Sizes vary slightly. 1) Orbis Terrarum Typus shows California as an island

11 Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio' World Rumold Mercator 1587 B   $4,250.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 20.5 x 11.3 inches) This beautiful double hemisphere map is surrounded in an elaborate strapwork border with an armillary sphere and a 32-point compass rose tucked between the hemispheres. Rumold Mercator based this map on his father's great world map of 1569. The North Pole is depicted as a landmass surrounding a sea from which four rivers radiate and there is a well depicted Northwest Passage. The huge

12 Typus Orbis Terrarum World Abraham Ortelius 1598 A   $7,500.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 19.2 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 o...

13 Typus Orbis Terrarum World Petrus Bertius 1616 A   $850.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 5.3 x 3.7 inches) Charming miniature world map on an oval projection, based on Ortelius. The large, mythical continent of Terra Australis fills the southern portion of the map, incorporating New Guinea. There are just a few placenames noted in the map, including Anian, Tolm, Norumbega, Virginia and Florida. The map is similar to the one Bertius supplied for Barent Langenes' Caert-Thresoor exc...

14 Orbis Terrarum Tabula Recens Emendata et in Lucem Edita World Bastiaan Stoopendaal 1682 B+   $1,800.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 18.5 x 14.2 inches) First state of this striking twin hemisphere world map from a folio Dutch bible. Surrounded by fabulous scenes from the Visscher-Berchem map of 1658 with astronomical diagrams in place of 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 commanding his entourage, and Demeter receiv...

15 Den Aardkloot van water ontbloot, na twee zijden aante fien World Willelm & Jan Goeree 1690 A   $240.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 5 x 10 inches) This map is based on the controversial theories of Thomas Burnet whose popular treatise, Telluris Theoria Sacra California is an islan...

16 Mappe-Monde ou Carte Generale de la Terre' World Nicholas de Fer 1700 A   $650.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 13.2 x 9 inches) Fine double hemispheric 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 coastline labeled Ro...

17 Carte Generale du Monde, ou Description du Monde Terrestre & Aquatique World Pierre Mortier 1700 A+ passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 18.2 x 15.7 inches) Pierre Mortier's unique world map is drawn on Mercator's projection with California as an Island . The Detroit d'Anian is 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.

18 Typus Totius Orbis Terraquei Geographice Delineatus, et ad Usum Globo Materiali Superinducendus World Scherer 1700 A   $700.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 13.8 x 8.8 inches) This is an interesting and uncommon set of globe gores. It is one of eleven world maps that appeared in the Novus Atlas that was published between 1702 and 1710. California is shown as an island, Iedso is a part of Japan, and Australia, New Guinea and New Zealand are not yet fully formed. A small, strapwork title cartouche contains the date.

19 Nova Orbis Terraquei Tabula Accuratissime Delineata World Anonymous 1700 B+ passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 12.2 x 8 inches) A very scarce, small map of the world cartographically similar to Danckerts map of 1685, with the addition of a coastline to the large Terra Magellanica Australis on the South Pole. California is shown as an island, and in Asia the discoveries of the De Vries voyage appear in the water north of Japan with a large land of Yupia attached to Japan and the Terra Esonis or ...

20 Societas Iesu Per universum mundum diffusa Praedicat Christi Evangelium World Scherer 1702 A   $1,100.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 13.9 x 9.1 inches) An exquisite depiction of the world from the Jesuit mathematician's series of sharply engraved maps. The map is presented on a north polar projection and shows California as an island. Large shining, star-like symbols of the Jesuits mark the locations of Jesuit missions throughout the world. Each corner is richly engraved with allegorical scenes of four Jesuit saints: St. Ignatius Loyola...

21 Mappe Monde World Delisle/Schenk 1708 B+ passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 23 x 17.5 inches) This handsome double hemisphere map is a corrected version of Delisle’s first world map, issued in 1700. The address notation in the lower cartouche removes Delisle's address in favor of Schenk's imprint. In this edition, new information corrects the representation of the Great Lakes, South America, and the Niger River in Africa. In keeping with Delisle's desire for accuracy, the northwestern p...

22 Totius Orbis Terrarum Tabula, Ejusque Post Diluvium Divisio Inter Filios Noachi World Joseph Moxon 1710 A   $325.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 13 x 8.1 inches) This interesting 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. The map illustrates the division of the world among the sons of Noah. There is practically no detail other than rivers and mountain ranges, except for a tiny engrave...

23 Mappe-Monde pour connoitre les progress & les conquestes' World Henry Abraham Chatelain 1719 A   $800.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 18 x 13 inches) Very handsome, double-hemisphere map of the world. California is shown as an island, and the voyages and discoveries of the Dutch East Indies Company and other explorers are shown and described in French text surrounding the map. The Great Wall is shown in China, and the incomplete coasts of Australia and New Zealand are shown in the South Pacific. The map is beautifully decorated with ships, a ...

24 Navigationes Praecipuae Europaeorum ad Exteras Nationes World Scherer 1700 A   $2,000.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 13.4 x 8.6 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. It shows the sailing routes to the East Indies across the Pacific, around the Cape of Good Hope, and (optimistically) through a Northeast Passage to Japan...

25 Wereld Kaart na de alderlaatste Ontdekking in't Licht gebragt World Isaac Tirion 1744 A passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 16.5 x 13 inches) Handsome double hemisphere map with polar projections tucked between the spheres at the top and bottom. The Western Hemisphere shows the entire Northwest coast of North America blank with only the western shore of New Zealand mapped. In the Eastern Hemisphere, Nieuw Holland is shown for Australia with only the northern and western coastlines, which are connected to New Guinea. Tasmania (...

26 A New & Correct Chart of all the Known World Laid Down According to Mercator's Projection' World Emanuel Bowen 1744 B+   $450.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 17.8 x 14.3 inches) This attractive sea chart is filled with rhumb lines and compass roses. The northwest coast of North America is left blank and noted as Parts Undiscovered. Australia is misshapen and connected to Van Diemens Land with indistinct eastern and southern coastlines. New Zealand is mapped only on the west coast with no evidence of two islands. Near Japan, an odd piece of coastline is n...

27 Carte Reduite du Globe Terrestre World Jacques Nicolas Bellin 1764 B+   $120.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 13.6 x 8.8 inches) A boldly engraved copper plate chart of the world on Mercator's projection. North America is shown with a large Mer de l'Ouest with two outlets to the Pacific. The entire region above the Sea of the West is blank with no shoreline, keeping alive the faint hope for a Northwest Passage. A short span of isolated coastline approximately located in the Alexander Archipelago is called <...

28 Nieuwe en Nette Zeekaart van de Geheele Waareld' World O. Lindemann 1775 B+   $800.00 Closed     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 rather outdated 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 Fr...

29 Globus Terrestris World Johann Michael Probst 1789 B+   $250.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 9.5 x 6.3 inches) Charming double hemisphere map based on the cartography of Johann Schreiber. The map is surrounded by engravings of the heavens and natural phenomena such as waterspouts, a rainbow, earthquakes, and a volcano. The map itself shows a typical 18th century geographical view with an incorrect northwest coastline in North America and most of the Pacific incompletely mapped. Nestled between the hemis...

30 [World] World Jean Baptiste Louis Clouet 1793 A passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 20 x 12.5 inches) The continents on this unusual map are shown with only the major river systems and lakes. In North America, there are faint outlines of the Sea of the West and the river and lake system making up the mythical Northwest Passage. Alaska is an elongated landmass stretching toward Asia. In Africa, the Nile is shown originating in twin lakes located north of the Equator. Australia is very mi...

31 [Lot of 2] Northern Hemisphere [and] Southern Hemisphere World David H. Burr 1836 A   $100.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 10.3 x 10.3 inches) A nice pair of first edition copper engraved, hand colored maps that were copyrighted, engraved and printed by the firm of Illman & Pillbrow, in 1836. These are plates 3 and 4 of Burr's atlas, and show numerous place names, rivers, and more. The Southern Hemisphere shows just a hint of Antarctica, here named South Shetland.

32 Planisphere World Victor Levasseur 1840 B   $180.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 15.5 x 11 inches) This lovely steel engraved map is from one of the last decorative atlases of the nineteenth century. It is presented on Mercator's projection and is surrounded by fine steel engravings; vignettes representing the four seasons, allegorical figures of the continents and several mythical figures, Adam and Eve as well as an astrological banner stretching across the night sky at the top. In North Ame...

33 Hyetographic or Rain Map of the World, with a Special Map of the Temperature and Rain Fall of India World A.K. Johnston 1854 A passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 23.5 x 20 inches) This fascinating, early thematic map meticulously notes patterns for precipitation across the entire world, with an inset map of India focused on the monsoons. The variable shading illustrates the amount of precipitation. The area on either side of the equator is noted as a zone of seasonal rain, while the northern and southern latitudes are both labeled as zones of constant precipitation throug...

34 [Lot of 7 - World] World 1795-1876   $170.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 0 x 0 inches) Nice group of maps depicting the world from the 18th-19th centuries. 1) Map of the World on the Mercator Projection, Exhibiting the American Continent As Its Centre. Shows transatlantic telegraph cables and the tracks of famous explorers. S. A. Mitchell, 1876, hand color. (18 x 14.2") on verso, "Map of North America" and "Eastern Hemisphere" (10.6 x 13.5"). A few edge tears....

35 [Lot of 3] A New Map of the World on the Globular Projection [and] Colton's Map of the World on Mercator's Projection [and] Gray's New Map of the World in Hemispheres' World 1856-79 B+   $70.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 0 x 0 inches) Collection of three world maps, all with original hand coloring. Lot includes the following: 1) A New Map of the World on the Globular Projection, from the Universal Atlas, Philadelphia, Desilver, 1856. (14.5 x 9.5") 2) Colton's Map of the World on Mercator's Projection is a well colored and fully engraved map that shows Alaska as the "U.S. Territory of Ala...

36 [Lot of 2] De Schepping der Wereldt Volgens de Beschryving van Mozes. 1. Plaat. / 2. Plaat. Ancient World Willelm & Jan Goeree 1690 A+   $300.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 7.5 x 12.5 inches) Charming and uncommon pair of maps describing the creation of the earth and cosmos according to Genesis, from a Dutch book on church history published by the Goeree brothers.

37 Universalis Tabula Iuxta Ptolemaeum Ancient World Gerard Mercator 1730 B+ passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 18.6 x 13.5 inches) This decorative map of the ancient world is the revised second state of Mercator's1578 Ptolemaic world map. The border was re-engraved, surrounded by allegorical figures representing the four elements of Fire (Zeus), Air (Hera), Water (Neptune), and Earth (Gaia), rather than the strapwork and windhead border of the earlier edition. There is a very large Taprobana (modern day Sri Lanka) in...

38 Afbeeldinge der Oude Waereld; benevens Derzelver verdeling onder de Nakomelingen Noachs Ancient World Willem Albert Bachiene 1749 A   $300.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 19.7 x 14.8 inches) An interesting and uncommon map of the 'Old World' showing the continents of Europe, Asia and Africa divided among Noah's sons. The continental outlines are shown according to 18th century knowledge with interiors reflecting Ptolemaic models. The map includes a key in a drape-style cartouche and the title cartouche incorporates a large landscape showing the migrations setting out from the Tower ...

39 Les Deux Poles Arcticque ou Septentrional, et Antarctique ou Meridional' Polar N. Sanson/Mariette 1679 B   $300.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 21 x 15.3 inches) This map is focused on the north and south poles and illustrates the extent of exploration in the regions. In the Northern Hemisphere, Greenland is depicted attached to the American continent, and it is hinted that Terre de Yezo, ou Iesso takes up the entire region between Buttons Bay and East Asia. In the Southern Hemisphere, the tip of South America is shown with the Strait of Magellan ...

40 Polus Arcticus / Polus Antarcticus Polar Pieter Van der Aa 1700 A   $550.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 8.2 x 12.6 inches) A very interesting map with vertical orientation showing twin polar projections. The South Pole shows Tierra del Fuego as the only land, 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 billowing clouds and vigorous windheads within.

41 Septentrionalium Terrarum Descriptio North Pole Gerard Mercator 1613 A   $1,900.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 15 x 14 inches) This influential map was the first devoted to the Arctic. The hemisphere is surrounded by a floral design with four roundels in each corner. These contain the title, the Faeroe Isles, the Shetland Isles, and the mythical island of Frisland. The North Pole is shown according to legend as a large rock in a giant whirlpool and surrounded by four islands that are separated by rivers. One of...

42 Septentrionalium Terrarum descriptio North Pole Mercator/Cloppenburgh 1630 A   $450.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 9.8 x 7 inches) First state of this reduced version of Mercator's famous map of the North Pole. The hemisphere is surrounded by a finely engraved design with four round insets in each corner. These contain the title, the Faeroe Isles, the Shetland Isles, and the mythical island of Frisland. The North Pole is shown according to legend as a large rock in a giant whirlpool surrounded by four islands separa...

43 Nova et Accurata Poli Arctici et Terrarum Circum, Iacentium Descriptio North Pole Jan Jansson 1649 B+ passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 21 x 16 inches) This beautiful map replaced Hondius' map of the North Pole and became the prototype for many later maps including those of Blaeu. Baffin Bay is named, and Hudson Bay carries the name of Buttons Bay. 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 coas...

44 Regiones Sub Polo Arctico North Pole Willem Blaeu 1662 A   $700.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 20.8 x 16 inches) This is one of the prototype maps of the Arctic. It incorporates new information from the explorations of Capt. Thomas James with the bay named for him labeled here James his Bay. The Arctic coast of Russia provides information from Willem Barentsz' voyage and Spitsbergen is shown according the Danish expedition of James Hall. Rhumb lines radiate from the North Pole and a large title car...

45 Regionum Circum Polarium Lapponiae et Groenlandiae Novae et Vetris Nova Descriptio Geographica North Pole Scherer 1701 A+   $600.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 13.5 x 9 inches) This captivating map of the North Pole is a visual delight. The map itself presents typical cartography for the period, leaving open the possibility of both a Northeast and Northwest Passage to the Far East. The map is literally filled with images of sea monsters, whaling, hunting and exploration. The title cartouche is engraved onto the hide of a polar bear held by two hunters, and at right is...

46 Chart of the Antarctic Polar Circle, with the Countries Adjoining, According to the New Hypothesis of M. Buache South Pole Philip Buache 1763 A   $300.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 8.7 x 7.6 inches) A circular polar projection including part of southern South America, South Africa and all of Australia (with Tasmania and New Guinea attached to the mainland). New Zealand is connected to the southern continent. The map provides a fascinating glimpse into Buache's imaginative cartographic theories, and notes the coastline according to the mapping of Ortelius as well. Many notations including: ...

47 [Monsters] Les Monstres Marins, et Terrestres, lesquels on Trouve en Beaucoup de Lieux es Parties Septentrionales Cartographic Curiosities Sebastian Munster 1550 A   $900.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 13.5 x 10 inches) This is one of the more fanciful cartographic curiosities and a unique view of Renaissance attitudes toward the unknown lands beyond the civilized world. This woodblock illustration presents a compendium of monsters thought to exist in the sixteenth century, and used by many subsequent mapmakers to illustrate the creatures thought to inhabit the seas and land of the unexplored world. Acro...

48 [Windheads ] Cartographic Miscellany Giovanni Antonio Magini 1608 B+   $150.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 4.8 x 4.8 inches) An uncommon diagram showing twelve named windheads around a contemporary terrestrial projection of the earth. This was included in Magini's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, first published in 1597. On a sheet of Latin text (6.1 x 8').

49 [Creation of Earth] Cartographic Miscellany Willelm & Jan Goeree 1690 A   $300.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 6.5 x 10.5 inches) This is a very unusual and very graphic engraving is from a Dutch book on church history published by the Goeree brothers. It illustrates the controversial theories of Thomas Burnet, the first Englishman to attempt a scientific account of the origin of the earth. His popular treatise focused on the breaking up of "the fountains of the great deep" as the cause of the flood, as described in Genesi...

50 Kalendarium Juliano - Romanum Perpetuum, auctum cyclis Solis & Lunae, Feriis dierum, Fastis seu Festis Vet. Rom. Diario Rerum memorabilium, Lunationibus, & Indice Dierum quotidiano & Viro celebrr: I. Georg: Graevio D.D.D. Nicolaus Haring Cartographic Miscellany Francois Halma 1710 A   $240.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 22 x 24 inches) This is a fine copper plate engraving of a perpetual Julian/Roman calendar. The large (22") circular calendar is filled with an amazing amount of information. It is surrounded with Latin text to the neat line. Along the bottom is Halma's name plus that of Constantini Magni and the placename Principis Nassoviae. A most uncommon issue.

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