Travel and Atlases - L11405

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Travel And Atlases

15 November 2011 • London

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Sale Number: L11405

62. A set of four celestial charts. Nuremberg, Homann Heirs, 1742, 4 double-page engraved maps, each approx. 500 x 590mm., hand coloured, 2 with small tear to upper right margin

Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP

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63. Planisfero del Mondo Vecchio [&] Planisfero del Mondo Nuovo. [Venice, 1691], pair of double-page engraved hemispherical maps, each approx. 450 x 605mm., [Shirley, 528], fine dark impressions

Estimate: 2,500 – 3,000 GBP

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64. A new and accurat map of the world. [London, 1659], 390 x 525mm., folding engraved map of the world, after John Speed, the third state with Walton's imprint erased, hand-coloured, [Shirley 397], narrow margins, repaired tear at left hand side

Estimate: 4,000 – 6,000 GBP

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65. Nova orbis tabula. Amsterdam, 1690, 465 x 555mm., double-page engraved twin-hemispherical world map, 2 smaller spheres and allegorical vignettes, contemporary hand colour, on thick paper, [Shirley 451, state 2], strengthened at lower fold

Estimate: 3,000 – 4,000 GBP

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66. Cosmographia universalis ab Orontio olim descripta. [Venice]: Giovanni Paolo Cimerlinus, 1566

Estimate: 100,000 – 150,000 GBP

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67. Rudimentorum cosmographiae libri duo. Cracow: Mathias Scharfenberg, 1530, title with woodcut globe, woodcut world map [Karrow 41/A, 41/1, 41/2; Nordenskiöld Collection 1:97; Shirley 65], map lacking eastern hemisphere (see footnote)

Estimate: 40,000 – 50,000 GBP

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68. Vitae et icones sultanorum turcicorum. Frankfurt: Theodore de Bry, 1596, first edition, small 4to (200 x 147mm.), engraved title with portrait of Boissard on verso, 45 (of 47) full-page portraits of Ottoman sultans and others within highly decorative borders, nineteenth-century vellum, [Atabey 124; Blackmer 159 ("this beautiful book"); Göllner 2185], lacking C2 and Z2, occasional slight soiling

Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP

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69. [first half nineteenth century]

Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP

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70. A Classical and Topographical Tour through Greece, during the years 1801, 1805, and 1806. London: Rodwell and Martin, 1819

Estimate: 1,500 – 2,500 GBP

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71. A collection of 58 volumes, mostly nineteenth-century French works in leather bindings and in good condition, including:

Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP

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72. Les ruines des plus beaux monuments de la Grèce. Paris: Guerin, Delatour et Nyon, and Amsterdam: Neaulme, 1758

Estimate: 10,000 – 15,000 GBP

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73. A Description of the East and some other countries. London: Printed for the author by W. Bowyer and sold by J. and P. Knapton [&c.], 1743-1745

Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP

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