5090 - 5322 FINE ARTS - FOREIGN TOPOGRAPHY. MAPS, PLANS and VIEWS
- Two map sl. yellowed.
- Flattened oblique fold in upper right corner; a few very vague brownish stains; nevertheless a fine copy.
= Van den Broecke 169; Van der Krogt/ Koeman IIIB, 8100: 31B. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCIV.
- Fine. = Van der Krogt/ Koeman IV-A.2, 64:21.
- A few closed tiny tears along green borders; trifle foxed; nevertheless fine.
= Shows i.a. (also) the islands Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao and Isla Margarita. Koeman IV, Keu 20 B and p.393 [123].
- Very fine.
= Also showing i.a. Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Isla Margarita and Martinique. Van der Krogt/ Koeman II, 9830:2.2.
- Trifle browned; lacks sm. portion in centre of outer lower blank margin.
- Creases near middle-fold; tear on middle-fold.
= Finely engraved wind chart, surrounded by wind heads. The wind heads are arranged in successive ages from young to old, and four large heads, blowing winds on the compass and seasons. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCIV.
= A prominent feature of the map is the division within the world by religion (Judaism, Christianity, Mahomaetism and Paganism) and skin colour (white, brown, yellow and olive).
"Mappe-monde ou Carte générale du Globe terrestre". Engr. double-hemisphere worldmap, 27x44 cm., Paris, R. Vaugondy and Delamarche, 1795 (sl. foxed). - ADDED: 3 (engr.) maps, of the North and South Pole (early 20th cent.) and of Europe (late 18th cent.).
- Some (closed) marginal tears.
- A few sm. (closed) tears touching the edges of the image; sl. foxed; a few tiny superficial spots nibbled by silverfish. Still an attractive copy. Not examined outside frame.
= Hollstein (Johannes Visscher) 24 (for the borders); Shirley 406: "Nicolaas Visscher's new world map in two hemispheres can be regarded as the master forerunner of a number of highly decorative Dutch world maps produced throughout the remainder of the century. (...) The distinctive attractiveness of the later seventeenth cent. world maps is to be found in their border decorations and Visscher's is no exception. His artist Nicolaes Berchem has introduced dramatical classical scenes representing the rape of Persephone, Zeus being carried across the heavens in an eagle-drawn chariot, Poseidon commanding his entourage, and Demeter receiving the fruits of the Earth. (...) Visscher's map is to be found in several different atlases. It appears in Jansson's Novus Atlas of 1658 in both the Latin- and German-text versions and was later used, in unchanged state, in later atlases compiled by the Visscher family (...)." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCV.
- Careful repairs of small tears and creases; left and right margin doubled/ cut on/ just outside the border line; trifle browned; paper partly thin. Good copy.
= Shirley 177: "Most of the maps prepared by Plancius are uncommon, if not rare, as they were not reprinted in standard atlas form. One of his earliest productions is this world map (...) It incorporates the improvements found on the post-1587 world map of Ortelius including a reshaped South America and the insertion of the Solomon Isles. (...) Japan is shown for the first time (not entirely correctly) as one small and three larger Islands". Decorative and with rare handcolouring. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCV.
- A few foxed spots; some wormholes in lower blank margins.
= Fine worldmap, depicting California as an island (Shirley p.613, in note to 622).