Very decorative double hemisphere map with depiction of the sun and moon in the top corners and the name of the Lord written in Hebrew between the hemispheres. The four elements at the bottom of each hemisphere.

HÜBNER, Johann:  

n.t.

c1750; 21 x 23,5 cm; orig. hand col. copper engraving; ex: Hübner's Staatszeitung und Conversations Lexicon.

Very decorative double hemisphere with various astronomical insets and putti.

MERCATOR, R./ MAGINI, G.:  

Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio…

1596; 16,5 x 24,5 cm; copper engraving; Shirley 194; excellent condition.

Beautifully decorated double hemisphere map, surrounded with scroll work and two small insets. This map is a reduced but still very detailed version of Girolamo Porro's world map. A nice collector's item!

BODENEHR, Gabriel:  

Carta Hydrographica oder Algemeine Welt…

C1710; 15 x 23 cm; orig. outline col. copper engraving; some staining around the margins and some very faint spots within the map; a small cluster of worm holes in lower centrefold; o/w good condition.

Mercator projection with California as an island.

JANVIER, Sieur Jean Denis Robert:

Mappe Monde ou Description du Globe Terrestre

1774; 48,5 x 66,5 cm; orig. outline col. copper engraving; some old rest. to lower centrefold; o/w good condition.

Nicely decorated double hemisphere map with large cart. by Janvier, a French geographer and cartographer, active in the later part of the 18th century.

VAUGONDY, Robert de:

Mappe-Monde dressee suivant les nouvelles relations…

1778; 48 x 76,5 cm; orig. outline col. copper engraving; some fine rest. in centrefold and within the paper due to old paper damage.small rust spot on right hand side within plate mark but outside image; one paint spot .

Large double hemisphere map with large cart and vignette. - The family were established map and globe makers in Paris. The son Dider succeeded his father Gilles in the business before the company was taken over by J.B.Fortin in 1778 and later by Ch.F.Delarmarche. The vignette actually identifies Delarmarche as

Geographer and states as date 1774.

WALCH, Johann:

Mappa Totius Mundi…per G. de Lisle…apud Ioannem Walch…Lotteranis in officina Ioan. Martin Will.

C1820; 47 x 64 cm; orig. wash col. copper engraving; excellent condition.

Walch (1757-1824) was a cartographer and map publisher in Augsburg and son-in-law of J.M.Will who he succeeded in 1806.

DE PRETOT, Etienne Andre Philippe de:

Le Globe Terrestre.

1769; 27 x 42 cm; orig. col. copper engraving; one stain in upper right hand corner; paper fold lower left hand bottom; o/w exc. condition.

This map is from Pretot's Atlas Universel, Paris, Nyon, 1787, engraved by M.-A. Moithey. It shows the two polar region with a small cartouche.

TIRION, Isaak:

Wereld-Kaart.

1744; 35 x 44 cm; orig. outline col. copper engraving; exc. condition..

Double hemisphere map with polar insets and scroll type cartouche. – Tirion (c1705 – c1769) was a bookseller and publisher in Amsterdam. He was succeeded inbusiness by his second wife.

MYRTIUS, Joannes:

Universalis Orbis Descriptio.

1590; 27 x 40 cm; woodcut; Shirley 175; well executed rep. to centrefold.

Lovely wood cut map by the German cartographer Myrtius, decorated with scroll work and wind heads with insets and quotes by Cicero.

BRION DE LA TOUR/ DESNOS, Louis Charles:

Hemisphere Oriental/ Hemisphere Occidental.

1768; 28 x 31 cm; orig. wash col. copper engraving with mod. hand col. in the dec. border; rep to lower centrefold in both maps; some discol. in centrefold; shaved to the top platemark; some spots; o/w good condition.

Ex: Atlas Generale methodique et elementaire…