5457 - 5633 FINE ARTS - FOREIGN TOPOGRAPHY. MAPS, PLANS and VIEWS
- Oblique printing flaw in the "Mer de Sargasse". = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVI.
= Attractive map showing Madagascar and surrounding islands and the coast of Mozambique.
"L'Afrique dressée suivant les auteurs les plus nouveap". Engr. map w. handcol. borders, 16,5x22,2 cm., Amst., H. de Leth, ±1760. "Carte de la Coste Orientale d'Afrique, Depies la Cap de Bonne Esperance, Jusqu'au Cap del Gada". Engr. map by J.N. BELLIN, 23,3x21,1 cm., Paris, 1749. "Carte des Entrées de la Riviere de Scherbo ou Cerbera (...)". Engr. map by N. BELLIN w. cartouche and compass rose, 20,5x28,5 cm., from L'ABBÉ PREVOST, Histoire Générale des Voyages, Paris, 1746. - AND 22 other (small) engr. maps of Africa, all from the above work.
- Sl. browned; 2 tears in upper part; 2 tears in right part/ margin, 1 repaired w. tape on verso (shining through); sm. hole in lower margin and lower right corner; folded; mounted under passepartout.
= Koeman IV, M. Wit 1 (18). Rare.
ADDED: 1 other.
= Map showing Morocco, the western Sahara and part of Algeria with the Canary islands.
AND 2 others, 1 similar by the same "Africa of Lybien (...)" and "Mittel- und Nord-Africa und Arabien" (engr. map w. handcol. borders by A. STIELER, Gotha, J. Perthes, 1830).
- Sl. yellowed on central fold. Fine copy. = Van der Krogt/ Koeman II, 8700:2A. Dedicated to Nicolaas Tulp.
= Shows i.a. Fort Nassau at Moure, Fort Amsterdam/ Cormantine, Fort Lijdzaamheid ("de la Patience") at Apam and Fort Sint George at Elmina.
= Comprises i.a. "Carte de la Rade de Benguela et Riviere de Cantonbelle"; "Carte de la Coste d'Angola" (both Bellin, 1748) and "Afrique ou Libie Ulterieure (...)" (Sanson, ±1700).
- Both trifle age-toned.
AND 1 other: "Nieuwe kaart Van het Westelykste Deel der Weereld, dienende tot aanwyzing van de Scheepstogten der Nederlanderen Naar West Indië" (engr. map, Amst., I. Tirion, 1754. Sl. foxed).
- Mounted along margins, under passepartout.
= Interesting map, showing the extent to which the West of America and Canada was still unexplored. This all changed after the great expeditions of Lewis and Clark, Pike and others in the wake of the Louisiana Purchase.
- Fine copy.
- Doubled; upper and lower margins extended.
AND 1 other: "Present Asia" (handcol. engr. map by S.I. NEELE, 36,8x36,2 cm., from Th. Stackhouse, Universal Atlas, London, 1796. Fine).
- Evenly yellowed (vertical middle fold less yellowed); two closed tears in blank margin. Otherwise fine.
= Van der Krogt/ Koeman II, 8000:2. Very attractive map. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVI.
- Small pinhole in centre of upper and lower blank margin; lower corners remargined.
= Attractive rare map. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVII.
- Folds as issued; a few tiny tears in outer blank margins.
- Lower edge remargined w. sm. parts of latitude bar retouched; a few sm. closed tears in lower margin.