5764 - 5864 FINE ARTS - FOREIGN TOPOGRAPHY. MAPS, PLANS and VIEWS
- Formerly rolled, otherwise fine. = Attractive map of the Mongol empire. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXV.
- A few sm. marginal holes/ (closed) tears; sl. browned/ foxed (mostly) in blank margins.
= Poortman/ Augusteijn 27, 6, 1st state (of 2).
- Both views trimmed to the border line (with loss of caption/ address); sl. yellowed and partly trifle frayed; first view doubled w. 3 restored spots/ tear in sky; second view w. neatly restored large horizontal tear and smaller tears/ dam. spots; some sm. stains and surface dam. (silverfish) in sky.
= SEE ILLUSTRATIONS PLATE LXVI.
= Koeman II, 94 (p.60). Covering Ukraine and the Baltics in the west and China, Korea, and the Pacific Ocean in the east, centered on Siberia and Independent Tartary; Nova Zembla joined with the mainland. Titled "Magnae Tartariae Tabula" at the top.
- Formerly folded twice; closed splits on folds; two stains from former waxseal in lower blank outer margins.
- Partly sl. waterst.; some underlining and sm. annots. in pencil/ pen and ink.
AND 1 other similar.
- Sl. waterstained in right blank margin and sl. frayed.
"General Charte vom Königreich Daenemark nebst dem Herzogthum Holstein". Handcol. engr. map by F.L. GÜSSEFELD, 59x45 cm., ibid., idem, 1789.
- Tear of 11 cm. in lower middle fold; 2 sm. tears in lower margin, affecting image; false crease along middle fold; brownish stain in upper part.
- Two sm. wormholes in outer margins; a few sm. brown stains.
= The map shows the routes taken by various explorers, i.a. Magellan (1520); Francis Drake (1577); Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa (1579); Olivier van Noort (1600) and Schouten and Le Maire (1616), as well as various river systems and other speculative information about the unexplored interior of the Continent.
- Lower middle fold split; (sl.) foxed.
- Waterst.; middle fold split at both ends (closed on verso); sl. frayed.
- All maps sl. soiled/ yellowed; 3 maps middle fold splitting at one end (closed on verso); a few maps sl. frayed/ w. occas. surface dam. (silverfish).
= 1. Stereographische Horizontalprojection der westlichen und oestlichen Halbkugel der Erde; 3. Asien; 5. Nord-Amerika und West-Indien (1848); 6. Süd-Amerika; 7. Australien oder Oceanien; 12. Schweden, Norwegen und Finland; 13. Das Königreich Dänemark und die Herzogthümer Schleswig, Holstein und Leuenburg; 15. Oestreichische Kaiserthum; 18. Baiern, Würtemberg, Baden und Hohenzollern; 19. Das Königreich Sachsen nach den Kreisdirectionen eingetheilt; 25. Die Europaeische Türkei, Griechenland und die Jonischen Inseln (1848).
- Left and right blank margins frayed, dam. and dustsoiled; a few views sl. duststained and soiled in image.
= Very fine and delicately coloured series of views.
- Trifle yellowed; nevertheless fine. = Cf. Koeman II, p.56: 2 and 3 (Covens and Mortier, ed. 1758).
- Lacks sm. portion of outer blank margins near/ in upper corners.
= Shirley 417. Rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXIII.




































