5457 - 5633 FINE ARTS - FOREIGN TOPOGRAPHY. MAPS, PLANS and VIEWS
- Vague folds/ sm. part of paper restored/ trifle foxed in blank margins; sm. tear on middle fold.
= Koeman/ Van der Krogt II, 6000:2B.
- Under passeparout; mounted. = Rare map based on the Ptolomaeus map.
- Lacks portion of the lower right section; (unevenly) browned; some sm. pieces of paper flaked off.
= Comprises i.a. "Carte de l'Entree de la riviere de Berbiche. Suivant les plans des Hollandois" and "Carte de l'Embouchure des Rivieres de Copename et Sarameca".
- Slightly yellowed.
- A few vaguely foxed spots; nevertheless fine.
= Extremely rare map. S.A. Hedin, History of the Exploration in the Kara-Koraum Mountains (Leipzig, 1922, vol.7): "It is a very rough and clumsy sketch from a technical point of view, but it is interesting as a representation of geographical detail. The sources are not mentioned but, as far as Tibet is concerned, we easily find traces of D'Anville, Tieffenthaler and Rennell. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXV.
= Rare, earliest English map of Tibet.
"Carte du Grand Thibet". Engr. map, dec. cartouche, 21,5x31,5 cm., Paris, J.-N. Bellin, 1749.
- Browned; not examined outside frame.
= Showing parts or present day Uskudar and Istanbul. From C. DE BRUYN, Voyage au Levant (...) (1698 or 1700).
- Some vague browned/ waterst. stains; trifle frayed.
ADDED: an 18th cent. engr. view on Agra by J. VAN SCHLEY.