Travel, Atlases, Maps & Natural History - L10401

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Travel, Atlases, Maps & Natural History

06 May 2010 • London

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Sale Number: L10401

47. A large collection of costume plates collected by Catherine Hutton. Birmingham, [1795-1805]

Estimate: 10,000 – 15,000 GBP

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50. The Seamans kalender, or An Ephemerides of the Sun, Moone, and certaine of the most notable fixed Starres. Together with many most needfull and necessary matters, to the behoofe and furtherance principally of Marriners and Seamen: but generally profitable to all Travailers, or such as delight in the Mathematicall studies. The tables being for the most part calculated from the yeare 1601, to the yeare 1624. London: Printed by E. Allde for John Tapp, 1602

Estimate: 12,000 – 18,000 GBP

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51. A pair of celestial charts. [Amsterdam, 1660], together 2 double-page engraved celestial charts, each 440 x 520mm., hand-coloured, framed and glazed

Estimate: 3,000 – 5,000 GBP

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52. Typus orbis terrarum... 1587. [Antwerp, 1588 or later], 330 x 485mm., double-page engraved world map on an oval projection enclosed within a strapwork border, containing quotations from Cicero and Seneca, hand coloured, [Shirley 158], framed and glazed

Estimate: 3,000 – 4,000 GBP

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54. Nova orbis terraquei tabula accuratissime delineata [title repeated in French]. [Leiden, c.1713], 498 x 662mm., large double-page engraved twin-hemispherical map with allegorical spandrel vignettes of the four continents and the creation, dark impression, small repair at lower fold

Estimate: 4,000 – 6,000 GBP

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55. ...Sacrae geographiae tabulam ex antiquissimorum. [Antwerp, c.1650], 305 x 510mm., double-page engraved map, [Shirley 125 (addenda)], repaired tear at lower edge (just affecting engraved surface), slight discoloration at fold

Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP

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56. Untitled world map. Strassburg, 1504], 305 x 425mm., folding woodcut map of the world, [Shirley 23(A)], narrow margins, 2 large large repaired tears

Estimate: 3,000 – 4,000 GBP

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57. Set of four wall maps. Paris: Longchamps [and Janvier], 1754, 4 large wall-maps, engraved by Chambon, each on 4 sheets and 6 half-sheets, totalling 1020 x 1080mm., fully hand coloured, the maps surrounded by elaborately engraved panels, some soiling and abrasions, some restoration, backed on new linen

Estimate: 10,000 – 15,000 GBP

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58. Novae Insulae XVII nova tabula. [Basel, 1545], 290 x 370mm., double-page woodcut map, Latin text on verso, [Burden 12], one small stain, and small hole at upper fold (not affecting image)

Estimate: 2,000 – 2,500 GBP

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60. Americae et proximar[um] regionum orae descriptio. [Venice, c.1589], 332 x 460mm., engraved general map, [Burden 73], some creasing and margins discoloured and chipped

Estimate: 10,000 – 15,000 GBP

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61. A Draught of New York from the Hook to New York Town. Dublin: George Grierson, [1730], 455 x 560mm., engraved map, hand-coloured, loss of printed areas at the sides, reinstated in manuscript (see footnote)

Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP

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65. Printing plate for a map of north-western Africa with the Canaries, 502 x 730mm., the plate cut diagonally across the corners, presumably for decorative purposes, the plate burnished in the top left corner, presumably to remove the title, van Loon's signature along the lower right border, the plate worn and stained

Estimate: 4,000 – 6,000 GBP

BIDDING IS CLOSED

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