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BERCKENRODE, Balthasar Floriszoon van (1591-1645)

[Holland] Comitatus Hollandiæ novissima descriptio Designatore Balthazaro Florentio a Berckenrode

Amsterdam: Henricus Hondius, 1629 [but 1633]. Engraved by Salomon Rogiers with period colour. First French edition. Image size (including text): 15 3/8 x 20 inches.

A superb map of Holland from L'Appendice de l'Atlas, published by Henricus Hondius in 1633, a French edition of the maps Jansson and Hondius added to the original Atlas. based on the work of the leading surveyor in the Netherlands at the time, Balthasar van Berckenrode.

As it is a map of the homeland for the mapmaker and publisher, we are not surprised to see the County of Holland coat of arms, a red lion standing in his ferocity in a crowned, yellow shield, encircled by an ornate wreath with ribbons at the top center of the map. He serves as the focal point of a compass from which radiate lines in every direction, like the lightbeams of the sun. The map itself is also extraordinary for its highly detailed account of the coastal dunes, dikes, polders, canals, rivers and roads, which enabled Holland to live and thrive.

Holland is often thought to be synonymous with the Netherlands generally, but properly speaking it is comprised of the western portion pictured here. The greater part of Dutch political, commercial and artistic history occurred here.

van der Krogt, p. 160

#23257$850.00
 
 
BLAEU, Jan (1596-1673)

[Hertfordshire] Hertforida Comitatus, vernacule Hertfordshire

[Amsterdam: Blaeu, 1662]. Copper-engraved map, with full original colour and gilt embellishments, mild discolouration at center fold, overall very good condition. Sheet size: 20 1/4 x 26 inches.

A handsome example of Blaeu's English county map with exceptional original colour and highlights in gold

This beautifully presented county map of Hertfordshire from Johan Blaeu's Atlas Mayor, sino Cosmographia Blavania...is from the only Spanish edition of this great work.

The map itself is based on John Speed's map, published in 1612, though without the town plans. Blaeu's map includes the coats of arms of two prominent families. The title cartouche illustrates Hertfordshire's relationship to London in that the county supplied corn and hay to the pleading Londoners pictured on the right hand side of the title. Because of its proximity to London, Hertfordshire had many country houses, reflected in some of the placenames on the map: Waterford Hall, Aldbery Hall, Shingle Hall, and, of course, Waymer Castle.

Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, Bl 60A, #199

#13463$2,750.00
 
 
BRAUN, Georg (1541 - 1622) & Frans HOGENBERG (1536-1590)

[Delft] Delphum urbs Hollandiæ cultissima, ab eiusdem nominis fossa, vulgo, Delfft appellata

Cologne: 1588. Engraved with period color. Loss to lower left corner of image very skilfully repaired with facsimile. Latin text. Plate mark: 13 7/8 x 18 7/8 inches. Sheet size: 19 x 23 inches.

From Braun & Hogenberg's monumental "Civitates Orbis Terrarum"

This is one of the earliest obtainable and most desirable images of Delft. An elegant composition, carefully coloured with great skill by a period hand, it provides a fascinating panorama of the beautiful Netherlands town.

The town is oriented so that north is to the right or more exactly, the top right corner. Due to the river and canals, which are not easily changed, the outline of the town is very much today as it was in the late 1500s. The drawing Hogenberg used is thought to be based on an anonymous panel in the Prinsenhof in Delft, probably done in the 1570s. The drawing is quite accurate, details of the two major churches while disproportionately large depict the great spires as they were, and as they remain, having had a few alterations.

The large church in the center of town is Nieuwe Kerk, in which the Netherlandish Royal Family has been buried since 1574, when William the Silent became the first, assassinated at the command of Philip II of Spain.

The town was founded in the Middle Ages and seems to have enjoyed intelligent city planning with its alternating canals and streets, central church and city hall, river moat, walls and gates, all of which can be studied in this splendid bird's-eye view.

It comes from Braun & Hogenberg's magnificent series of town plans, Civitates Orbis Terrarum, printed in six volumes in several languages from 1572 to 1618, incorporating 546 prospects of cities on four continents. Frans Hogenberg, who had engraved many of the maps in Abraham Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum of 1570, conceived of the Civitates as a worthy companion to the groundbreaking first modern atlas. Printed in Cologne, its scope and polarity has never been rivaled, and its signature application of the bird's eye view perfectly married cartography with the long tradition of landscape painting of the northern renaissance.

True to the signature style of the Braun & Hogenberg series, handsome figures in period costume adorn the lower corners, while the surrounding pastureland is inhabited by grazing cows. The arms of Delft are depicted in the upper left corner.

R. A. Skleton, introduction Braun & Hogenberg, 1966; Koeman, B&H 3

#23277$1,500.00
 
 
CHATELAIN, Henri Abraham. (1684-1743)

[Ancient Switzerland] Carte Ancienne de la Suisse avec des Remarques Abregées sur les Divers Evenemens et Revolutions...

Amsterdam: Chez L'Honoré & Châtelain, 1719. Copper-engraved map, in excellent condition. Sheet size: 18 x 21 5/8 inches.

An important and fascinating map of Canada from Châtelain's celebrated 'Atlas Historique'

This very finely engraved and interesting map with illustrations was included in Châtelain's Atlas Historique. It is Switzerland in ancient Roman times with Latin nomenclature. The beautifully engraved illustrations at the bottom depict events in Swiss history: establishing independence and unification including the exploits of the legendary patriot, William Tell, particularly the famous shooting an arrow through an apple on the head of his son.

#22035$750.00
 
 
COVENS & MORTIER

Land-Charte Des Chur-Fürstenthums Brandenburg/ Nova Electoratus Brandenburgici Tabula, edita per I. P. Fr. von Gundling.

Amsterdam: Cóvens & Mortier, after 1757. Engraved by G.P. Busch with period colour in outline. Collection stamp on verso. Image size (including text): 18 1/2 x 23 1/2 inches. Sheet size: 21 1/2 x 25 3/4 inches.

Jean (Johannes) Covens and Corneille (Cornelius) Mortier were brothers-in-law, who carried on the book publishing business established by Pierre Mortier in Amsterdam in 1685. The elder Mortier died in 1711, his wife contined the firm until she died in 1719. In 1721, Covens and Mortier formed a partnership, Covens having married Agatha Mortier in the same year. Pierre Mortier's house owed much of its success to his access to French publishers and publications in which he collaborated or re-issued. Covens and Mortier contined in this way publishing enlarged editions of Sanson, Jaillot and De L'Isle, as well as some of the later Dutch cartographical masters:De Wit and Allard, and of course Pierre Mortier.

This map of the electorate of Brandenburg is based on a map by von Gundling (1673-1731), who produced an atlas of the region. It is a detailed map that includes the post roads, clusters of trees to indicate forests, notations for cloisters and universities. It has a beautifully engraved and intricate cartouche celebrating the Hohenzollern family, who having been the Electors of Brandenburg were to become the Kings of Prussia, beginning with Frederick I in 1701.

Koeman C&M #58

#11157$400.00
 
 
DE L'ISLE, Guillaume/ Cóvens & Mortier

Carte De La Champagne Et Des Pays Voisins ou l'on voit la Generalite de Chalons partie de celle de Soissons &c.

Amsterdam: Cóvens & Mortier, 1742. Engraved by Lieues with period outline colour. Mild discolouration at center fold. Collection stamp on verso. Image size (including text): 18 x 24 inches. Sheet size: 21 1/2 x 26 inches.

This highly detailed map of northern Champagne is from a Dutch edition of De L'Isle entitled, Atlas Nouveau, Contenant Toutes Les Parties Du Monde, Ou sont exactement Remarquées les Empires, Monarchies, Royaumes, Etats, Republiques &c. Par Guillaume de l'Isle. Premier Géographe de sa Majesté. It was published by Covens and Mortier, brothers-in-law who continued the firm established by Pierre Mortier.

Guillaume de l'Isle (1675-1726) was son of a cartographer and a pupil Jean Dominique Cassini, who among other important contributions, aligned the study of astronomy to the study of geography. Under Cassini's direction, observations were made from locations all over the world that enabled longitudinal calculations to be made with much greater accuracy. De l'Isle carried on this exacting work with remarkable dedication and integrity, constantly revising and improving his maps. While precision was his primary goal, his maps are invariably elegant and attractive.

This map is the northern half of a two sheet map depicting Champagne and its neighbors. Each map is complete in and of itself.

Koeman, C & M 7, #24

#11697$450.00
 
 
DE L'ISLE, Guillaume/ Cóvens & Mortier

Partie Meridionale De Champagne Par Guillaume Del'Isle de l' Academie Royale des Sciences.

Amsterdam: Cóvens & Mortier, 1742. Engraved by J. Condet with period outline colour. Discolouration at center fold. Collection stamp on verso. Image size (including text): 19 1/4 x 24 1/2 inches. Sheet size: 21 1/2 x 26 inches.

This highly detailed map of southern Champagne is from a Dutch edition of De L'Isle entitled, Atlas Nouveau, Contenant Toutes Les Parties Du Monde, Ou sont exactement Remarquées les Empires, Monarchies, Royaumes, Etats, Republiques &c. Par Guillaume de l'Isle. Premier Géographe de sa Majesté. It was published by Covens and Mortier, brothers-in-law who continued the firm established by Pierre Mortier.

Guillaume de l'Isle (1675-1726) was son of a cartographer and a pupil Jean Dominique Cassini, who among other important contributions, aligned the study of astronomy to the study of geography. Under Cassini's direction, observations were made from locations all over the world that enabled longitudinal calculations to be made with much greater accuracy. De l'Isle carried on this exacting work with remarkable dedication and integrity, constantly revising and improving his maps. While precision was his primary goal, his maps are invariably elegant and attractive.

This map is the southern half of a two sheet map depicting Champagne and its neighbors. Each map is complete in and of itself.

Koeman, C & M 7, #25

#11698$450.00
 
 
DE L'ISLE, Guillaume/ Covens & Mortier

[Swabia, Germany] Partie Septentrionale De La Souabe [and] Partie Meridionale De La Souabe

Amsterdam: Cóvens & Mortier, [1742]. Engraved with period outline colour. Collection stamp on verso. Image size (including text): 19 x 24 1/2 inches. Sheet size: 21 1/2 x 24 3/4 inches.

This attractive pair of maps of Swabia is from a Dutch edition of De L'Isle entitled, Atlas Nouveau, Contenant Toutes Les Parties Du Monde, Ou sont exactement Remarquées les Empires, Monarchies, Royaumes, Etats, Republiques &c. Par Guillaume de l'Isle. Premier Géographe de sa Majesté. It was published by Covens and Mortier, brothers-in-law who continued the firm established by Pierre Mortier.

Guillaume de l'Isle (1675-1726) was son of a cartographer and a pupil of Jean Dominique Cassini, who among other important contributions, aligned the study of astronomy to the study of geography. Under Cassini's direction, observations were made from locations all over the world that enabled longitudinal calculations to be made with much greater accuracy. De l'Isle carried on this exacting work with remarkable dedication and integrity, constantly revising and improving his maps. While precision was his primary goal, his maps are invariably elegant and attractive.

This pair of maps form at large, detailed view of Swabia, one of the ten circles of the Holy Roman Empire and containing some of the historically most interesting and culturally rich parts of Germany. The region includes towns prosperous and important in the Northern Renaissance : Nuremberg, Augsburg, Ulm, and others, the Necker and Danube Rivers and the Bodensee at the border with Switzerland.

Koeman, C & M 7, #54 & #55

#11113$650.00
 
 
DE L'ISLE, Guillaume (1675-1726)

[Bourdelais] Carte du Bourdelois du Perigord et des Provinces voisines

Paris: chez G. Del'Isle sur le Quai de l'Horloge..., 1714 [but, with revisions, 1731]. Engraved with period outline colour. Printed on thick laid paper. In very good condition, mild soiling near the top edge at fold, mostly marginal . Sheet size: 20 x 25 3/4 inches.

An excellent 18th century map of the Bordeaux wine producing region in southwestern France by the celebrated French cartographer, Guillaume de L'Isle.

Guillaume de L'Isle (1675-1726) was the son of a cartographer and a pupil of Jean Dominique Cassini, who, among other important contributions, aligned the study of astronomy to the study of geography. Under Cassini's direction, observations were made from locations all over the world that enabled longitudinal calculations to be made with much greater accuracy. De l'Isle carried on this exacting work with remarkable dedication and integrity, constantly revising and improving his maps. While precision was his primary goal, his maps are also invariably elegant and attractive.

This map is from an edition of De L'Isle's Atlas de Geographie, which was re-issued posthumously from 1730 to 1774. This map of the region from which Bordeaux wines comes. The map extends from the Atlantic in the west to Limosin in the east, from La Rochelle in the north to Bazadois.


Moreland and Bannister, Antique Maps p. 132; Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers, 395

#18754$400.00
 
 
DE L'ISLE, Guillaume (1675-1726)

Carte de France Dressée pour l'Usage du Roy en Avril 1721.

Paris: Chés la Veuve de l'Auteur sur le Quay de l'Horloge al'Aigle d'Or, 1731. Engraved with period outline colour. Printed on thick laid paper. In excellent condition. Sheet size: 20 x 26 3/8 inches.

An important early map of south eastern France by the celebrated French cartographer, Guillaume de L'Isle.

Guillaume de L'Isle (1675-1726) was the son of a cartographer and a pupil of Jean Dominique Cassini, who, among other important contributions, aligned the study of astronomy to the study of geography. Under Cassini's direction, observations were made from locations all over the world that enabled longitudinal calculations to be made with much greater accuracy. De l'Isle carried on this exacting work with remarkable dedication and integrity, constantly revising and improving his maps. While precision was his primary goal, his maps are also invariably elegant and attractive.

This map is from an edition of De L'Isle's Atlas de Geographie, which was reissued posthumously from 1730 to 1774. This was the France that Louis XIV had secured by the time he died in 1715.

Moreland and Bannister, Antique Maps p. 132; Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers, 395

#18726$600.00
 
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