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Travel, Atlases, Maps & Natural History

09 May 2017 | 2:00 PM BST | London

SALE TOTAL

983,191GBP
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  • 93
    Blaeu, Joan
    Archipelagus Orientalis sive Asiaticus. Amsterdam: Joan Blaeu, [1659]
    LOT SOLD.248,750GBP
  • 128
    Thomson, John
    Illustrations of China and its People. A series of two hundred photographs, with letterpress descriptions of the places and people represented. London: Sampson Low, Marston Low, and Searle, 1873-1874
    LOT SOLD.93,750GBP
  • 94
    Blaeu, Joan
    Asiae descriptio novissima. Amsterdam: Joan Blaeu, [1659]
    LOT SOLD.87,500GBP
  • 26
    Ortelius, Abraham
    Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1579
    LOT SOLD.43,750GBP
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Sale Number: L17401 Lots : 127

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This sale will offer some of the greatest Dutch atlases ever produced: Johannes Blaeu’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Amsterdam: 1640-1654), Abraham Ortelius’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Antwerp: 1579), as well as L'Atlas ou Meditations Cosmographiques (Amsterdam: 1613), by Hondius and Mercator. The sale also features a rare hand-coloured copy of The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain and Prospect (London: 1676) by John Speed, one of the most famous English map-makers. These landmark cartographic works are among the most well-known of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Offered alongside these are two large and exceptionally scarce wall maps by Blaeu, the Archipelagus orientalis sive Asiaticus and Asiae descriptio novissima (Amsterdam: [1659]). Another highlight is a monumental Ming dynasty wall map of China and an 1803 printing of the famous “Blue Map”.

The sale also contains the extensive photographic work Illustrations of China and its People (London: 1873-74) by John Thomson and a stunning collection of 240 original drawings of costume designs for Rudolph Ackermann's Repository of Arts magazine.

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Dr David Goldthorpe
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Books & Manuscripts
+44 20 7293 5303
david.goldthorpe@sothebys.com
Richard Fattorini
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Books & Manuscripts
+44 20 7293 5301
richard.fattorini@sothebys.com
Cecilie Gasseholm
Specialist
Travel and Atlases
+44 20 7293 5292
cecilie.gasseholm@sothebys.com
   
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