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 damp staining 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..
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 ..
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..
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..
Published: Kyoto, "Hoei 7" (= Year of the Tiger = 1710
Size: 1145 x 1415mm.
Color: Uncoloured.
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..
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..