5491 - 5697 FINE ARTS - FOREIGN TOPOGRAPHY. MAPS, PLANS and VIEWS
80/5491 Africa Africa ex magna orbis terre descriptione Gerardi Mercatoris desumpta 
- Fine. = Betz 31; Tooley p.75. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXI.
80/5492 Africa Africae in Tabula Geographica Delineatio 
- Trifle/ sl. yellowed, otherwise fine. = Nice. After the map by Nicolaes Visscher.
80/5493 Africa Africae nova Tabula 
- Some foxed spots; trifle browned.
= Betz 60.4, fourth state of 5, without the lower border and with the date "1632"; Van der Krogt/ Koeman I, 8600:1D.2. Very rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXII.
80/5494 Africa Africae Tabula nova 
- Fine. = Rare early pocket version after Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.
80/5495 Africa Descriptio totius Guineae tractus Congi Angolae et Monomotapae 
= Very rare.
80/5496 Africa Insula de s Laurety 
80/5496 Africa Insula de s Laurety 
80/5496 Africa Insula de s Laurety 
= All rare.
80/5497 Africa Refrisco Puorto Dale La Baye de l'Isle de Prince 
80/5497 Africa Refrisco Puorto Dale La Baye de l'Isle de Prince 
80/5497 Africa Refrisco Puorto Dale La Baye de l'Isle de Prince 
- The second print trimmed on the right border line. = Both very rare.
AND 1 other similar from the same work: "Ung Batteau de Iapan dit Champan".
80/5498 America Americae Mappa Generalis 
- Overall fine.
= With a sl. later engr. legend "Bedeutung der Farben" on 2 sm. pieces of paper laid down below.
80/5499 America Americae sive novi Orbis nova Descriptio 
- Fine. = Rare early pocket version after Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.
80/5500 America Carte generale des treize États Unis de l'Amerique Septentrionale Kaart van de dertien Verenigde Staaten in Noord Amerika 
= A very fine copy of this rare map, which is one of the earliest maps showing the flag of the USA with stars (13x) and stripes (in the cartouche). The title cartouche is dated in contemp. hand in pen and ink "14. Jul.1776" (American Declaration of Independence). The map has some other interesting contemp. annotations in French and Dutch, i.a. (below title cartouche) "903.040.000 acres" from which is detracted "94.040.000 d'eau" leaving "809.000.000 en terre"; the sea in front of Chesapeak Bay has the following in contemp. manuscript: "270 M.L. 17a 18. 6. en 8 a 9 Vad. diep" and to the West of Cape Fear in vague manuscript "C.F.L.C Y[?] D.M."; Lake Huron has an annotation in the middle reading: "1000 M.d.tour" and Lake Ontario has "600 M. de Tour" written the middle of the lake. Finally the place name(?) "Spelt" is written in the triangle formed by the Endless Mountains, the letters "vanie" (of Pensilvanie) and the word "Riviere" (of Delaware Riviere). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXII.
80/5501 America Quomodo Americus Vesputius in Pariam modò American 
= Showing the first landing of Vespucci in the Americas, in Venezuela.
80/5502 Ant arctica Nieuwe kaart van de Noord Pool 
= Shows the upper half of the northern hemisphere from the North Pole down to California (as an island), northern Africa, the Caspian Sea and Japan, with i.a. all of Europe, Russia and Canada.
80/5503 Aruba Kaart van het Eiland Aruba 
- Two vague oblique folds in upper right corner.
= The first detailed map of Aruba, "gevolgd naar de opmeting in den jare 1820 gedaan, onder directie van den Kapitein ter Zee W.A. van Spengler en in den jare 1825 met verscheidene nieuwe bepalingen verrykt door den Kapitein R.F. van Raders". In 1773 a large map on seventeen sheets was made, which showed only the island's coastline. The present map was made after the Netherlands regained possession of 'Curaçao en Onderhorigheden' in 1816. Up-to-date reports and maps of Curaçao and Bonaire were soon made, but a survey of Aruba had to wait until 1820, when Captain Van Spengler, port warden of Curaçao from 1816 onwards, offered to perform this task. A copy of his manuscript map eventually found its way to the 'Departement van oorlog of Koloniën' in The Hague. In 1824, news arrived in The Hague that gold was found on Aruba. Immediately, Captain R.F. van Raders was sent to the island to investigate. During his three visits to Aruba in 1824 and 1825, Van Raders carried Van Spengler's map or a copy of it, and added new information to it concerning the gold mining. In 1825, this manuscript map was made in print. For extensive information on the mapping of Aruba in this period, see Caert Thresoar 2009-3, p.65-70.
80/5504 Asia Asia Accuratissime Descripta 
- Doubled w. Japanese, closing tear along lower part of middle fold and sm. acid-tear along border of Japan; remnants of Japanese paper (used for former mounting(?)) on verso, but not visible on recto.
= Decorative map by Witsen, who was mayor of Amsterdam and administrator of the East India Company (VOC), whence came his extensive geographical knowledge of Asia. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIII.
80/5505 Asia Asia ex magna orbis terre 
- Occas. trifle browned; nevertheless fine.
= Van der Krogt/ Koeman I, 8000:1A. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIII.
80/5506 Asia Asia recens summa cura delineata 
- Trifle browned; sl. foxed; wormholes in centre professionaly retouched.
= Van der Krogt/ Koeman I, 8000:1C.2. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIV.
80 5507 Asia Asia Secundum novas celeberrimi de L'Isle proiectiones aliorumque recentissimorum geographorum observationes 
- Waterstain in centre lower margin, ±3,5 cm within the image.
80/5508 Asia Asiae nova descr 
- Fine. = Rare early pocket version after Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.
80/5509 Asia Descriptio Hydrographica accomodata ad Battavorum navagatione in Javam Insulam Indiae Orientalis Laetam ad quam postridie calendar Aprilis ann' 1595 ex Hollandia solverunt et ex qua d
= A fine copy of this important and rare map, showing the outbound and return voyage of the first Dutch fleet sailing from the Zuiderzee in Holland to Java in 1596-1597 undertaken under the command of Cornelis de Houtman. Despite the fact that this voyage proved to be very costly both in terms of the loss of life of crew members as well in financial terms, Houtman's journey laid the foundation for the rapid growth and eventually dominance of the Dutch trading empire in the 17th century. The map was intended to be published in Willem Lodewijcksz, Historie van Indien (1595), but publication was prohibited by the Dutch authorities, probably as a protective measure. In 1598 Cornelis Claesz. nevertheless published the map as a separate sheet and 1599 the map was included, with some small changes, in the third volume of De Bry's Indiae orientalis (...). Schilder, Monumenta Cartographica Neerlandica vol. VII, p.263f and illustration 11.56. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIV.
80/5510 Asia Tabula Asiae I 
- Some foxing.
= Map extends from Greece to Armenia and shows parts of Cyprus and the Black Sea. With on verso: a large table showing distances between larger towns and Alexandria, flanked by large woodcut columns with putti on top (likely by A. DÜRER).