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New York State/ Land Speculation. ELLICOTT, J. & B. [Philadelphia: 1801/ 1804] Map of Morris's Purchase or West Geneseo in the State of New York: Exhibiting Part of the Lakes Erie and Ontario, the Straights of Niagara, Chautauque Lake and All the Principal Waters ... Purchased by the Holland Land.....
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Caelestem Hic Terram Inspicias Terrestre Q[uam] Caelum.
One of the earliest and rarest printed world maps; the first to be published in northern Italy. The Berlinghieri is certainly the rarest of the early Ptolemiac world maps, aside from the unobtainable 1477 Bologna edition. It is also the only early Ptolemaic world map to employ the same projection.....
MACROBIUS, A. T. Macrobii Aurelii Theodosii Viri Consularis in Somnium Scipionis Li-bri Duo: Et Septem Eiudem Libri Saturna Lioru…Apud Sanctam Coloniam Anno M. D. XXI. Cologne: Eucharius Cervicornus, August 1521. Small folio ( 31 x 22.5 cm.) in 19th c. quarter red morocco, marbled paper over boards with considerable wear.....
Jerusalem. MUNSTER, S./ CLAUSER, J. [Basel, 1550] Ierusalem civitas sancta, olim metropolis regni Iudaici, hodie vero colonia Turcae. 11 x 14 ¾ inches (image and text). Woodcut with fine hand color; fine condition. Original woodcut view of Jerusalem of the mid-1550s. Unlike most early depictions of the city, this.....
La Figure du Monde Universel.
An excellent example of this early, woodcut world map, rich in the imagery of the Discovery Period with its many sea monsters and surrounding wind heads. The map provides an overview of the known world of the mid-16th century, just after the first great wave of New World discoveries. The.....
Universale Della Parte Del Mondo . .
The rare first state of an important and in some ways groundbreaking map. The woodblock for this map was destroyed shortly after its publication in a fire in November of 1557, hence its rarity. The map was compiled by the great Venetian cartographer, Giacomo Gastaldi, and appeared in a three-volume.....
Tavola dell’ isole nuove.
Excellent example of the earliest separate map of the entire Western Hemisphere. This was also the earliest map to refer to the Pacific Ocean (along with Munster's world map) by a variant of its present name, Mare pacificum. It was one of earliest acquirable maps to show Japan prominently, which.....
Brasil Nuova Tavola.
First state by Ruscelli of one of the earliest separate maps of Brazil. An erupting volcano is pictured at top center on the west-orientated map. The map appeared in an edition of Ptolemy’s Geography.
Typus Orbis Terrarum.
A very early issue of the stately world map that appeared in the first modern atlas; it provided the picture of the world that would prevail for many decades to come. Using the freshest information available, Ortelius employed as his chief source Mercator’s profoundly important world map of 1569, on.....
Dantzigt.
This superb view of Poland’s primary seaport appeared in Braun & Hogenberg's Civitatis Orbis Terrarum, the first printed atlas of city plans and views. It accurately portrays the Town Hall Spire (marked Das Rhathaus on the view), the Church of Saint Mary (Die Phare Kirch) and more than a dozen.....
North America. PORCACCHI, Tomasso [Venice: 1572/ 1576] Mondo Nuovo. 4 ½ x 5 ¾ inches (map only). Faint tide mark upper left margin, else excellent. First state of the second earliest, obtainable map of North America, preceded only by Paolo Forlani's rare map of North America, published in Venice in.....
Napoli/ Italy. ORTELIUS, A. [Antwerp, 1579] Regni Neapolitani... 14 ¼ x 19 ¼ inches. Fine original color; oxidized area reinforced, minor loss lower centerfold & some creasing, overall fair condition. An attractive map of approximately the southern third of Italy encompassing the provinces of Apulia, Campania and Calabria and.....
World/ Jerusalem. BUNTING, H. [Magdeburg, 1581] Die gantze Welt in ein Rieberblat…10 ¼ x 14 ¼ inches. Fine early color, refreshed; excellent condition with full margins. An exceptional, full-margined example of one of the most distinctive cartographic curiosities ever produced: a woodcut, cloverleaf-shaped map of the world with Jerusalem at.....
Europae II Tab:.
An early edition, the second, of Mercator’s definitive presentation of Ptolemy’s map of Spain and Portugal. In this map, engraved by Mercator himself, was the meeting of two of the most important figures in the history of geography. Geographic data and mapmaking instructions left by the Alexandrian, Claudius Ptolemy (fl.....