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HEYNS, Zacharie.  Le Miroir du Monde, ou, Epitome du Theatre d'Abraham Ortelius. Amsterdam, Z. Heyns, 1598.   Oblong 8vo (155 x 208 mm) ; ff. (1), 16-97, (1) and 80 woodcut maps. Contemporary limp vellum binding decorated with a gilt central medallion, flat spine with gilt fleurons and fillets. Gilt edges.

The first edition, published in Amsterdam in 1598, illustrated with 80 woodcut maps. Unusual Zacharias Heyns's edition, in French, of Ortelius' "Epitome".

PLACIDO CALOIRO et OLIVA [or workshop]. [Portulan de la Méditerranée]. Messine, ca. 1621 et 1665. 71,5 x 44,5 cm. Manuscript sea chart pen and ink drawn on vellum measuring 71.5 x 44.5 cm.

Elaborately decorated in the traditional style of portulan charts. In very good condition except for two sections where the vellum is missing. On the western edge, a strip about 30 cm wide has been lost and in the southeast a small section of the corner has been torn away.
Despite these losses, the actual coverage area of the chart has not been significantly impacted.

CHAMBON, Gobert-Denis. Mappemonde contenant les parties connues du globe terrestre dressée suivant de nouvelles observations. Paris, Longchamps et Janvier, 1754.

Wall map printed on two sheets and surrounded by borders with biblical vignettes in six sheets, laid down on linen, and mounted at the time on two wooden poles.
Paper browned, with crease marks and tears but without loss of paper. Sold as is. 1140 x 1450 mm.

DÉPÔT DES CARTES ET PLANS DE LA MARINE / SARTINE. Neptune américo-septentrional contenant les cotes, iles et bancs, les baies, ports, et mouillages, et les sondes des mers de cette-partie du monde, depuis le Groenland inclusivement, jusques et compris le golfe du Mexique. Paris, Dépôt des Cartes et Plans de la Marine, [1780].

Folio. Engraved title-page, 26 engraved maps and plans of the Atlantic seaboard on 13 full sheets and 5 half sheets. Blue paper boards.

SANSON, N. - Le Monde par Nicolas Sanson d’Abbeville, Geographe ordinaire du Roy. A Paris chez N. Langlois rue St. Jacques à la Victoire, c. 1662-1664.

Unrecorded edition by Nicolas Langlois of Nicolas Sanson’s world atlas, probably published ca. 1662-1664.

MOST PROBABLY THE 4th KNOWN EXAMPLE IN MANUSCRIPT OF ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS MAPS OF CHINA produced by the Polish Jesuit Michael Boym, to convey Jesuits’ knowledge of the country to Europeans.
BOYM, Michal Piotr. (1612-1659).
…mperii Mappa…num Catay Appellabatur (Map of china). Rome ?, ca. 1652-1656

Part of a larger manuscript wall map on paper produced in black and brown pen and ink. Longitudes and latitudes are drawn in red ochre. Dimensions of the map: 780 x 810 mm, total dimensions: 1100 x 1070 mm. ( 43x41 inches)

Pair of terrestrial and celestial globes by G.M. Cassini, diameter 33cm, height with stand 59cm. Rome, terrestrial dated 1790, celestial 1792.

Each globe covered by 12 printed, hand-coloured, gores, with polar calottes. The meridian circle, paper laid on wood, the horizon ring with zodiac and calendar scales on a octagonal frame supported on fruit-wood stand, the four legs united by cross-strechers carrying the centrepost.

WAGHENAER, Lucas Janszoon. (c. 1534 - c. 1606) (Speculum nauticum). (Leyde, Franciscus Raphelengius pour Luca Johannes Aurigarius, 1586).

Deux parties en 1 vol. in-folio : Première partie : (1) f. de titre, (2) ff., 36 pp. et 22 cartes en coloris d’époque ; Seconde partie : - (1) f. de dédicace et 23 cartes en coloris d’époque. Reliure de l'époque, veau brun, dos à nerfs orné, plats ornés d’un motif central de tapis persan repris dans les angles, tête et tr. dor. (reliure de l’éditeur).

Exemplaire de luxe de cette première édition en latin du « Spieghel der Zeevaerdt » dont les cartes ont été gravées par Baptist et Joannes van Deutecum. La traduction en latin est due à Martin Everart.

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