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![POMPONIUS MELA / ORONCE FINE. - Pomponii Melae De Orbis Situ Libri tres…[with Oronce Fine double-cordiform worldmap].](https://www.loeb-larocque.com/eshop/image/cache/catalog/image/new_upload/49009-275x210w.jpg "POMPONIUS MELA / ORONCE FINE. - Pomponii Melae De Orbis Situ Libri tres…[with Oronce Fine double-cordiform worldmap].")
Location: 1530
Date: Paris, (Chretien Wechel), 1530
Format: 330 x 220mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
Condition: Folio, title page printed within ornate woodcut compartment, final leaf blank but for woodcut device; separate divisional title for commentary printed within the same compartment. Title within an ornamented border, one leaf; 13 preliminary leaves; text, pp. 196; ?Joachimus Vadianus Helvetius candido Lectori,? one leaf, verso blank; ?Loca aliquot,? etc., 28 leaves; colophon with the device of the printer and motto, one leaf, recto blank. With Oronce Fine woodcut world map. Contemporary brown calf over wooden boards, boards are blind stamped with fillets and scroll rolls. Spine decorated with six raised bands. Binding expertly restored. The book has been cleaned and restored, a few traces of dampstaining and soiling. Map restored and margins reinforced.
Third edition with the commentary of Joachim Vadian with some contemporary notes in Latin, issued with the first edition of O..
28 000€
Location: 1530
Date: Anvers 1571 (1572)
Format: 313 x 528mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
Condition: Size of paper: 43 cm x 56 cm overall. Verso: Partially backed with Japanese tissue, professionally mending a few splits/creases and mainly marginal worm holes. Dimensions: 43 cm x 56 cm overall. (map: 31,3 cm x 52,8 cm)
THE EXTREMELY RARE FIRST STATE landmark world map, edited by Benito Arias, known as Montanus after his birthplace. This well ..
20 000€
Location: 1587
Date: Amsterdam, 1587
Format: 282 x 524mm.
Color: Col.
Condition: Some minor paper thinness along centerfold. Paper slightly age-toned, as usual. Very good condition.
Gerard Mercator's great world map of 1569 was condensed into double hemispherical form by his son Rumold. It first appeared i..
9 500€
Location: 1605
Date: Leyde, 1605
Format: 295 x 495mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
Condition: Repair of a marginal upper and lower center fold split.In good condition. A strong and dark impression.
The engraver Jan van Doetecum has copied this world map from the double-hemispherical one engraved by his father Baptista for..
4 500€
Location: 1645
Date: Paris, 1645
Format: 435 x 555mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
Condition: Lower cut to neat line, upper margin cut to neat line and slightly into the engraved border line. Old repair along lower part center fold. Very good and dark impression.
Extremely rare and decorative world map published by Anthoine de Fer. The double hemisphere world map is surrounded by conste..
23 500€
Location: 1646
Date: Frankfurt 1646
Format: 257 x 354mm.
Color: Col.
Condition: Paper slightly age-toned and slightly spotted. Generally in good condition.
A reduced version of Blaeu's world map lacking the decorative borders. The engraving is neatly executed, with Germanic touche..
2 000€
Location: 1680
Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Format: 479 x 597mm.
Color: Beau col. ancien.
Condition: Pli central restauré et doublé. Papier légèrement jauni. Dimensions de la carte: 479 x 570 mm.
According to Shirley, De Wit's map is one of the most attractive of its time. The brilliant scenes in the corners combine ima..
4 000€
Location: 1690
Date: Paris, 1690
Format: 458 x 600mm.
Color: Col.
Condition: Some rimpling along centerfold and on the left part of the map. Repair of split and tear lower part centerfold 9cm and 3cm respectively into the engraved area. Localised paper thinness. <br />Good condition.
Coronelli, Vincenzo M. / De Tillemont. c.1690. Le Globe Terrestre Represente en Devx Plans Hemispheres, Et en Diverses Avtres..
3 000€
Location: 1704
Date: Venice 1704
Format: 380 x 537mm.
Color: Limites en col. ancien.
Condition: Bon exemplaire. Contrecollé à l'origine sur une grande feuille de papier.
Nicolas Sanson's map of the ancient world, engraved by Jean Somer Pruthenus was issued separately in 1657 before being incorp..
1 000€
Location: 1705
Date: Nuremberg, 1705
Format: 483 x 572mm.
Color: Beau col. ancien.
Condition: In good condition.
The world centred around the North Pole is depicted on the dial of a beautiful full size mantle-piece clock with California a..
1 500€
Location: 1705
Date: Paris, 1705
Format: 226 x 338mm.
Color: Limites en col. ancien.
Condition: Wide margins. Good and dark impression.
Uncommon world map in Mercator's projection, which first appeared in De Fer's Atlas Curieux.Showing California as an island. ..
800€
Location: 1710
Date: Kyoto, "Hoei 7" (= Year of the Tiger = 1710
Format: 1145 x 1415mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
Condition: Strong impression, printed on several sheets of native paper, joined. Some worming, and pin holes on old crossing of foldings. Folded as usual and mounted on 2 blue cardboards with title-piece. (size 240x180mm), in modern linen case.
This map is a great example for Japanese world maps representing Buddhist cosmology with real world cartography. It is the ea..
15 000€
![VALK, G. / L. - [A magnificent 18 inch. (46 cm.) diameter celestial globe] URANOGRAPHIA / SYDERUM ET STELLARUM / in Singulis Syderibus conspicuarum / exhibens Delineationem accuratissimam, / qua / ex Observationibus Astronomi plane Singularis / IOHANIS HE](https://www.loeb-larocque.com/eshop/image/cache/catalog/Lgimg/48959-275x210h.jpg "VALK, G. / L. - [A magnificent 18 inch. (46 cm.) diameter celestial globe] URANOGRAPHIA / SYDERUM ET STELLARUM / in Singulis Syderibus conspicuarum / exhibens Delineationem accuratissimam, / qua / ex Observationibus Astronomi plane Singularis / IOHANIS HE")
Location: 1711
Date: Amsterdam, 1711
Format: 550 x 550mm.
Color: Beau col.
Condition: A very rare 18 inch (46cm.) diameter celestial globe in very good condition. made up of two sets of twelve finely engraved and hand-colored gores and two polar calottes (70°) laid to the ecliptic poles of a papier-maché and plaster sphere, the axis through the celestial poles, the equatorial graduated in individual degrees and labelled every 10°, the ecliptic graduated in individual days of the houses of the Zodiac, with sigils and labelled every ten days.
RARE FIRST STATE OF THIS CELESTIAL TABLE GLOBE, 46 cm in diameter, produced by Gerard and Leonard Valk at the beginning of th..
95 000€
![[World and 4 continents] Carte Geographique Astronomique Chronologique et Historique du Monde.](https://www.loeb-larocque.com/eshop/image/cache/catalog/image/new_upload/63024-275x210w.jpg "[World and 4 continents] Carte Geographique Astronomique Chronologique et Historique du Monde.")
Location: 1720
Date: Paris, Crépy, 1720
Format: 950 x 1250mm.
Color: Limites en col. ancien.
Condition: World map in for sheets (when joined 37.4 x 49.8 inches) The 4 continent maps are in double sheets (18x25 inches) Original outline colors Very good and dark impression. Contemporary cut on neat line and pasted on a larger sheet of paper.
French wall map of the world in 4 sheets published by Crépy "à l'entrée du Cloistre de St. Benoist du côté des maturins". A d..
25 000€
Location: 1740
Date: Nuremberg, 1740
Format: 485 x 577mm.
Color: Limites en col. ancien.
Condition: In very good condition. With later colour addition.
Baroque period world map in double hemispheres showing the shapes of land masses exactly calculated from astronomical observa..
800€
Location: 1755
Date: Italy, ca. 1755
Format: 175 x 195mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
Condition: Wood block print. Good condition. Size of paper 175 x 195mm.
Double hemisphere world map with a broad banner carrying the title. In the ocean are currents shown and in top and bottom are..
750€
Location: 1758
Date: Nuremberg, 1758
Format: 250 x 290mm.
Color: Col.
Condition: Restauration en bas du pli central affectant une bonne partie de la gravure. Belle impression.
Decorative world map showing California as an island after the second Sanson model. The figures in each corner symbolise the ..
1 200€
Location: 1759
Date: Kopenhagen, 1759
Format: 163 x 244mm.
Color: Col. ancien.
Condition: Paper slightly age-toned. In good condition.
Rare double hemisphere world map printed in Copenhagen. Title and many names in Danish, from " Fra Holbergs Geographie". In ..
750€
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Location: 1774
Date: Venice, 1774
Format: 290 x 420mm.
Color: Col. ancien.
Condition: Two very small worm holes (lower center part) filled in. Very good condition.
Attractive Italian map presented on Mercator's projection and featuring the voyages of Cook and Bougainville. Greenland is sh..
450€
Location: 1784
Date: Venice, 1776 - 1784
Format: 460 x 648mm.
Color: Limites en col. ancien.
Condition: Printed on heavy paper with large margins. Good impression. Very good condition.
Double hemisphere world map, from an unusual perspective. Paris is located at the centre of the hemisphere, so that Europe, A..
3 000€
Location: 1786
Date: Paris, Robert de Vaugondy/Delamarche, 1786
Format: 985 x 1150mm.
Color: Limites en col. ancien.
Condition: Large map dissected in 20 sheets and mounted on linen. Slightly water staining.
Large world map showing the sea tracks of Captain Cook in his three Pacific voyages published by C. F. Delamarche.Rare state ..
3 500€
Location: 1789
Date: Paris, 1789
Format: 520 x 760mm.
Color: Col.
Condition: Short margins with some usual age toning.
Dated 1761, this state is unknown. "Desnos' includes a fine combination of up to date cartographic information and the routes..
4 000€
Location: 1803
Date: Augsbourg, 1803
Format: 455 x 615mm.
Color: Col.
Condition: Infime décoloration le long du pli horizontal supplémentaire.
Uncommon and detailed world map in double hemisphere. In upper corners insets of North- and South Pole projections. Detailed ..
1 400€
Location: 1838
Date: Paris, 1838
Format: 295 x 410mm.
Color: Limites en col. ancien.
Condition: In very good condition.
One of the last decorative maps of the area. In side panels representations of the four seasons. From his "Atlas Universel Il..
300€