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Property from an Important Swiss Collection Robert Mapplethorpe 1946 - 1989 Orchid the photographer's estate stamp, signed and dated by Michael Ward Stout, Executor, in ink, and with title, date, edition 5/10 and [MAP] 755 in pencil (on the reverse) gelatin silver print, flush-mounted 38.7 by 38.1 cm.; 15 ¼ by 15 in. Executed in 1982, printed in 2006, this print is number 5 from an edition of 10. ______________________________ Property from an Important Swiss Collection Robert Mapplethorpe 1946 - 1989 Orchid porte le cachet du photographe, signé et daté par Michael Ward Stout, Exécuteur, à l'encre, titré, daté, numéroté 5/10 et [MAP] 755 au crayon (au dos) tirage gélatino-argentique, monté 38,7 x 38,1 cm; 15 ¼ x 15 in. Exécuté in 1982, imprimé en 2006, ce tirage est le numéro 5 d'une édition en 10 exemplaires.

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An antique decorative map of France.<ul><li>Charles Inselin (French).</li><li>La France Dressée Suivant les Nouvelles Observations...</li><li>Paris: Bernard Jaillot, 1713. </li><li>Original color. </li><li>Two sheets conjoined.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A large and detailed map of France in fine color, decorated with a large title cartouche, and two others around engraved text descriptions of France and its provinces. Inselin is better known for his engraving for Nicolas de Fer's atlases.

Map Of France

A 17th century prospect of Lisbon.<ul><li>Gerard Jollain (French).</li><li>Lisbone.</li><li>Paris: circa 1650. </li><li>Colored.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A French prospect of Lisbon from the Tagus, with the landmarks named in the plate and the foreground filled with the merchant ships that gave the city its wealth. Underneath is a short description in Latin and French.

French Map Of Lisbon

An uncommon two-sheet map of the Turkish Empire.<ul><li>Giovanni Maria Cassini (Italian).</li><li>Gli Imperi Antichi Parte Occidentale; Gli Imperi Antichi Parte Orientale.</li><li>Rome: 1800. </li><li>Colored. </li><li>Two sheets conjoined.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A rare map of the Turkish Empire centered on Arabia , from the Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale, with a decorative title cartouche on each sheet.

Italian Map Of The Turkish Empire

A dramatic 18th century map of China.<ul><li>Matthaus Seutter (German).</li><li>Opulentissimum Sinarum Imperium juxta Recentissimam Delineationem in suas Provincias Distermunatum.</li><li>Augsburg: T.C.Lotter, circa 1760. </li><li>Original color. </li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A finely-engraved map of China divided into provinces, with an allegorical title cartouche representing European trade with China. Originally published circa 1730, this example was published by Seutter's son-in-law and successor, Tobias Conrad Lotter.

German Map Of China

A rare "carte à figures" map of France in fine original color.<ul><li>Pieter van den Keere (Dutch).</li><li>Amsterdam: Jan Jansson, c. 1630.</li><li>Borders containing 14 city prospects and eight costume vignettes.</li><li>Large title cartouche and a compass rose.</li></ul> The plate was engraved by Pieter van den Keere and first published as a separate issue map. However Jansson acquired the plate, re-engraved the figures and issued it in his 1630 "Appendix."

Dutch Altas Map of France

An 18th century <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/maps-&amp;-botanicals" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">map</a> of Liguria with a prospect of Genoa by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Johann%20Baptist%20Homann&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Johann Baptist Homann</a>.<ul><li>Johann Baptist Homann (German).</li><li>Status Reipublicae Genuensis nec non Prospectuum Celeberrimae eiusdem Urbis et Portus Geographica simul et Topographica Descriptio.</li><li>Nuremberg: circa 1730.</li><li>Original color with additions to the prospect.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A fine map of the Republic of Genoa. Beneath the map is an elaborate allegorical title cartouche depicting the achievements of the Republic. Below that is a prospect of the city with a key to important places.

German Map Of Genoa

A 17th century <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Maps%2520and%2520Atlases" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">map</a> of the British Isles on two sheets.<ul><li>Alexis-Hubert Jaillot (French).</li><li>Les Isles Britanniques; qui Contiennent les Royaumes d'Angleterre, Escosse, et Irlande.</li><li>Paris: 1692. </li><li>Original color. </li><li>Two sheets conjoined.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> Early edition of Sanson's map of the British Isles, redrawn on a larger scale by Jaillot at the request of Sanson's heirs, first published in the Atlas Nouveau from 1674. During the course of this map's life Jaillot had three pairs of plates engraved, with only minor changes. This is the second state of the second pair, with the lines of longitude and latitude that were added in the first year of issue. The third state has the date 1696. A very decorative map, with fine baroque title and scale cartouches and an inset of the Orkneys and Shetland Isles.

French Map Of The British Isles

A highly decorative map of South America for Linschoten's "Itinerario," a manual for sailing to the East Indies.<ul><li>Jan Huygen van Linschoten (Dutch).</li><li>Engraved by Arnold Florent van Langeren (Dutch).</li><li>Amsterdam: n.p., c. 1596.</li><li>Titles, in Latin and Dutch, are within strapwork cartouches.</li><li>In the sea are a finely engraved compass rose, sea monsters and galleons.</li><li>Vignettes of natives and animals based on de Bry.</li></ul>

Dutch Map of South America

First-edition maps from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition.<ul><li>Frank Debenham (Australian).</li><li>London: Harrison, 1923.</li><li>94 pages.</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>Includes 15 folding maps in a pocket at the end.</li><li>Bound in original red grained cloth gilt.</li></ul>

Report On The Maps And Surveys: British (Terra Nova) Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913

One of the most decorative maps of the British Isles, first published in 1646, which shows England before the Norman Conquests of 1066, with the country divided into the seven Saxon kingdoms.<ul><li>Jan Jasson (Dutch).</li><li>Britannia prout divisa suit temporibus Anglo-Saxonium presertim durante illorum Heptarchia.</li><li>Amsterdam: N.p., circa 1700.</li><li>Blank verso.</li><li>Old color.</li></ul> Down each side are vignettes in full color: on the left are full-length portraits of the founders of the kingdoms; on the right are the various methods used to convert their successors to Christianity, including violence and nagging.

Map of the British Isles with the Saxon Heptarchy

A colored 18th century German town plan of Paris.<ul><li>Friedrich Bernhard Werner (German).</li><li>Augsburg: Heirs of Jeremias Wolf (ie. Probst), circa 1730.</li><li>Two sheets conjoined.</li><li>Text in French.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A large-scale panoramic view of Paris by Friedrich Bernhard Werner. With a 50-point key underneath identifying important sites and buildings.

German Map Of Paris

Maps of Iraq, including maps of Baghdad and Environs, the Environs of Basrah and several road maps to Southern and Northern Iraq.<ul><li>Iraq: Government of Iraq, 1929.</li><li>Folio.</li><li>34 pages.</li><li>Includes photographic frontispiece, and eight folding maps colored in outline.</li><li>Revised and enlarged edition.</li><li>Scale: 1 inch = 15.78 miles (1: 1000,00).</li><li>Bound in the original red cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover.</li></ul>

Maps of Iraq With Notes for Visitors

An early English chart of the east coast of Newfoundland on two sheets, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Henry%20Southwood&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Henry Southwood</a>.<ul><li>Henry Southwood (English).</li><li>The Coast of New Found Land From Cape-Raze to Cape St-Francis. The Coast of New Found Land From Salmon Cove to Cape Bonavista.</li><li>London: W. &amp; J. Mount and T. Page, 1748. </li><li>Two sheets conjoined.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> The east coast of Newfoundland from Bonavista south to Trepassy, orientated with north to the right. Insets show St John's Harbor and Trinity Harbor. The chart was engraved by James Clark and first published in John Thornton's Atlas Maritimus in 1676. This example was published in an edition of Mount &amp; Page's The English Pilot. The Fourth Book Describing The West India Navigation... Also, a New Description of Newfoundland, New-England, New-York, East and West New Jersey, Dellevar-Bay, Virginia, Maryland, and Carolina. This was the first sea atlas of America containing charts only from English sources.

English Map Of Newfoundland

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/maps-&amp;-botanicals" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">map</a> of Classical Turkey and Cyprus by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Nicolas%20Sanson&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nicolas Sanson</a>.<ul><li>Nicolas Sanson (French).</li><li>Asia Minor in Epitomen Contracta, Magnas Regiones, seu Provincias Representans, in quibus Populi, Primariae Urbes, Locaque Praecipua Notantur.</li><li>Paris: Gilles Robert de Vaugondy, circa 1731. </li><li>Original outline color.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A map of Asia Minor, first published by Pierre Moullard Sanson in 1697, but this example published by Gilles Robert du Vaugondy, who took over his business in 1731.

French Map Of Ancient Turkey

Inscribed first-edition copy of Thomas's collection of poetry and prose.<ul><li>Dylan Thomas (English).</li><li>London: J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd, 1939.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Half-title, frontispiece portrait by Augustus John.</li><li>Inscribed on the flyleaf “Dylan Thomas / Jose Garcia Villa.”</li><li>Bound in publisher’s purple cloth lettered in gilt, top edge purple, with printed dustjacket in purple and gray.</li></ul> The poet, artist and writer José García Villa was born in Manila in 1908, before moving to New Mexico to pursue his studies, and ultimately to Greenwich Village in New York City. There, he joined a community of modernist poets, including e.e. cummings, Marianne Moore and W.H. Auden, among others, and was affectionately known as "The Pope of Greenwich Village." He wrote his poems under the pseudonym Doveglion (a composite of dove, eagle and lion) and was admired, according to Marianne Moore, for "the reverence, the raptness, the depth of concentration in [his] bravely deep poems." His 1933 story collection,&nbsp;Footnote to Youth: Tales of the Philippines and Others, was "the first work of fiction by a Filipino writer published by a major United States-based press." Villa received “numerous honors and awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Philippines Heritage Award, a Poetry Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship and a Shelley Memorial Award. In 1973, he was named a National Artist of the Philippines, and he also served as a cultural advisor to the Philippine government. He died in New York City on February 7, 1997.” This item is final sale and not eligible for return.

The Map of Love

Detailed <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Maps%2520and%2520Atlases" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">map</a> of Oman, with Muscat marked, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Philippe%20Vandermaelen&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Philippe Vandermaelen</a>.<ul><li>Philippe Vandermaelen (Belgian).</li><li>Partie de L'Arabie. Asie No 92.</li><li>Brussels: 1827.</li><li>Original color.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> Showing part of the Arabian peninsula, including Oman, with Muscat and the island of Marirah also marked. Published in the Atlas Universel de Geographie, the first atlas to have every map on the same scale, 1:1,641,836. Because of this standardization it was the first time that some areas of the world were shown with any detail. However, the interior of the peninsula is mostly blank and some of the coastal features are incorrect.

Belgian Map Of Oman

A 17th century colored, paneled map of the Holy Land.<ul><li>Jan Jansson (Dutch).</li><li>Palestina sive Terrae Sanctae Descriptio.</li><li>Amsterdam: Jan Jansson van Waesberge, c.1677.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> An example of one of the most decorative maps of the Holy Land, based on Adrichom and orientated with north to the left, with 18 inset scenes from Genesis, Exodus &amp; Numbers, and a nineteenth depicting Jesus approaching Jerusalem on the donkey. This map did not appear in many atlases, supplanted by Henricus Hondius's less decorative but more contemporary map. As this example has no text it is likely to have been published in Georg Horn's atlas of the ancient world, issued by Jansson's son-in-law.

Dutch Map Of Palestine

A map of Great Britain, by John Senex.<ul><li>John Senex (English).</li><li>A New Map of Great Britain Corrected from the Observations communicated to the Royal Society at London. By John Senex F.R.S. To the Right Hono[ra]ble William Connelly ESQ. One of the Commissioners of His Maj[es]ties Revenue, Speakerof the Hono[a]ble House of Commons, and one of His Maj[es]ties most Hono[ra]ble Privy Council for Ye Kingdom of Ireland. This Map is dedicated by John Senex.</li><li>England: John Senex F.R.S. 1710 (-1728).</li><li>Double-page engraved map on two sheets joined, with full contemporary hand-coloring.</li><li>This work is presented framed.</li></ul> John Senex (1678-1740) was one of the foremost mapmakers in England in the early eighteenth century. He was also a surveyor, globemaker and geographer. As a young man, he was apprenticed to Robert Clavell, a bookseller. He worked with several mapmakers over the course of his career, including Jeremiah Seller and Charles Price. In 1728, Senex was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, a rarity for mapmakers. The Fellowship reflects his career-long association as engraver to the Society and publisher of maps by Edmund Halley, among other luminaries. He is best known for his English Atlas (1714), which remained in print until the 1760s. After his death in 1740, his widow, Mary, carried on the business until 1755. Thereafter, his stock was acquired by William Herbert and Robert Sayer (maps) and James Ferguson (globes).

A New Map of Great Britain

A two-sheet map of Europe.<ul><li>Vincenzo Maria Coronelli (Italian).</li><li>Parte Occidentale dell'Europa...; Parte Orientale dell'Europa...</li><li>Venice: circa 1690.</li><li>Colored. </li><li>Two sheets conjoined.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A highly decorative map of Europe in two sheets, each with its own title cartouche. On this map Nova Zemblya still has an undecided coastline and the northern reaches of Siberia are marked as 'Piaggie non per anco conosciute'. Iceland is shown with erupting volcanos and the mythical island of Frisland is shown.

Italian Map Of Europe

De Fer's larger-format map of Tuscany.<ul><li>Nicolas de Fer (French).</li><li>Les Etats de L'Eglise, et de Toscane.</li><li>Paris: 1719.</li><li>Original outline color.</li><li>Rare map of Tuscany and the island of Elba.</li><li>Unframed.</li></ul>

French Map Of Tuscany

A scarce French map of Africa.<ul><li>Guillaume Danet (French).</li><li>L'Afrique Dressée Sur Les Relations &amp; nouvelles decouvertes de differens Voyageurs Conformes aux observations Astronomiques.</li><li>Paris: Louis Charles Desnos, 1760.&nbsp;</li><li>Original color.</li><li>Unframed.</li></ul> A large and rare map of Africa, not listed in either Tooley or Norwich. It is decorated with a large allegorical cartouche featuring a female Europe and a male Africa, both holding manacles, representing the slave trade. The engraved border is filled with four armorials, European and Asian as well as African, interspersed with shells. Danet was the son-in-law and successor of De Fer, and republished many of his maps, but this item is apparently a new work, one of a series of "World and Continents" originally published in 1729-32. The crack in the printing plate in the right border was present in the 1732 edition.

French Map Of Africa

A detailed 18th century map of Corsica after Jaillot.<ul><li>François Santini (Italian).</li><li>Carte Particuliere de L'Isle de Corse Divisée par ses Dix Provinces ou Juridictions et ses quatre Fiefs. Levée sur les Lieux par les Orders de la Republique de Genes et mise au Jour Par le S.r Bernard AntoineJaillot Gégraphe Ord.re du Roy.</li><li>Venice: Giuseppe Antonio Remondini, 1784.</li><li>Original outline color.</li><li>Unframed.</li></ul> A Venetian edition of the map prepared by Bernard Antoine Jaillot for the Republic of Genova in the 1730s, at the time the island's overlords. Brothers Francesco and Paulo Santini were the editor and engraver respectively of their "Atlas Universel," first issued in 1776, before selling the plates to Remondini in 1781. By the time this version was published, Corsica had been secretly sold to France because of Pasquale Paoli's resistance to Genovese rule.

Italian Map Of Corsica

The first map of the county of Cornwall, here published one and a half centuries after its original publication.<ul><li>Christopher Saxton (English).</li><li>Cornwall described by C. Saxton, corrected and many additions as the roads &amp; c. by P. Lea.</li><li>London: George Willdey, circa 1732.</li><li>Old color.</li></ul> Over the years, a number of changes had been made to the plate: the original title was replaced by the view of Launceston c. 1665; the arms of Elizabeth I were replaced by those of Charles I, then Charles II; the panel of armorials were added c. 1665 by an unknown publisher; Lea added his name and Ogilby's roads in 1689 and changed the title for the second time in 1694; and Willdey added his address c. 1732. Willdey seems to have been a jack-of-all-trades: his address reads "the Great Toy, Spectacle, China Ware, and Print Shop, the corner of Ludgate Street near St Paul's London." Still, this was not the end of the Saxton plates; they were issued again by Thomas Jefferys and Cluer Dicey into the 1770s.

Map of Cornwall

An English world map showing Cook's Voyages.<ul><li>William Faden (English).</li><li>A New General Chart of the World, Exhibiting the Whole of the Discoveries made by the late Captain James Cook, F.E.R.S. with the Tracks of the Ships under his Command: also those of Capt.n Phipps (the late Lord Mulgrave), Capt.n Ross and Capt.n Parry, in their Expeditions to the North Polar Seas.</li><li>London: James Wyld, 1838.</li><li>Unframed.</li></ul> A map of the world on Mercator's Projection, centered on the Pacific Ocean to highlight the discoveries of not only Captain James Cook, but also the polar expeditions of Constantine Phipps (1773-4, with Nelson in his crew), Sir John Ross and William Parry (1818).

English Cook's Voyages World Map

A map of the Peloponnese and part of Greece and the Greek Isles.<ul><li>Nicolas de Fer (French).</li><li>Cette Carte est faite Pour L'Intelligence des affaires Des Turcs et des Venetiens dans le Peloponese Aujourd'huy La Morée et les Isles de Zante, Cefalonie, Ste Maure, Cerigo. &amp;c.</li><li>Paris: circa 1715.</li><li>Unframed.</li></ul> Engraved by Liébaux, this detailed and finely rendered map of the Peloponnese is designed to show the respective possessions of the Venetians and Turks during the War of the Holy League (1683-98). Around the title cartouche are medallion-inset town plans of the towns captured by the Venetians. However, their dominion in the Morea was short-lived as it was returned to the Turks at the Treaty of Passarowitz in 1718 at the conclusion of the Turkish-Venetian war (1714-18).

French Map of the Peloponnese Region

A detailed map of Central London, based on the Ordnance Survey, overprinted with the routes of the Underground lines.<ul><li>George Washington Bacon (English).</li><li>London Transport Underground. Map of London.</li><li>London: Roadway Publications, 1934. </li><li>Color-printed map.</li></ul>

Quad-Royal poster map with Central London's Underground

Ortelius’ map of Japan, taken from the fifth, final and most complete French edition of Theatre de l’Univers.<ul><li>Abraham Ortelius (Belgian, 1527-1598).</li><li>Japoniae Insvlae Descriptio, from Theatre de l’Univers.</li><li>Antwerp: Christopher Plantin for the author, 1598.</li><li>Enriched with decorative cartouches and ships.</li><li>Cartouches for title and scale.</li><li>French text on verso.</li><li>Double-page copper engraved map, with later hand-coloring.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul>

Belgian Map of Japan

An early Georgian map of the environs of London.<ul><li>Henry Overton (English).</li><li>A New &amp; Correct Map of Thirty Miles Round London Shewing all the Towns, Villages Roads &amp;c with the Seats of the Nobility and Gentry and whatever else is remarkable. Done from the best Surveys Together with an Alphabetical Table for ye ready finding of all.</li><li>London: circa 1720. </li><li>Original color. </li><li>Two sheets conjoined.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A scarce circular map of the environs of London, reaching to Great Marlow in the West, clockwise to Baldock, 'Chlemsford', Canvey Island, Maidstone, Horsham and Godalming. The corners contain tables of distances and the charges for use of bridges and locks on the Thames. Down the sides are extensive keys of place names.

Map Of London

The famous fantasy map of Asia as Pegasus.<ul><li>Heinrich Bünting (German).</li><li>Asia Secunda pars Terrae in Forma Pegasir.</li><li>Hanover: 1581. </li><li>Woodcut. </li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A fantasy map depicting Asia as Pegasus, the winged horse of Perseus. The head is Turkey and Armenia, the wings Scythia and Tartary, forelegs Arabia, hind legs India and the Malay Peninsula. &nbsp;This strange map appears in Bünting's Itinerarium, in which the author, a theologian, rewrote the Bible as a travel book, with other fantasy maps including the World as a cloverleaf and Europe as the Virgin Mary. Although the title and text under the map are in Latin, the text on verso is German.

German Map Of Asia As Pegasus

An early 17th century town plan of Venice.<ul><li>Giovanni Antonio De Paoli (Italian).</li><li>Venetia.</li><li>Rome: de Paoli, circa 1620.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> A map of Venice presented as a bird's-eye view, with the buildings shown in perspective and the lagoon filled with galleys and galleons. Underneath are the key, inset views of Piazza de San Marco and the Rialto Bridge, and a scene of a procession of the Doge, pilgrims returning from the Holy Land and important women of Venice.

Italian Map Of Venice

A map of Yemen and Bab-el-Mandeb, the entrance to the Red Sea, marking Aden.<ul><li>Philippe Vandermaelen (Belgian).</li><li>Brussels: 1827.&nbsp;</li><li>Original color.</li><li>Unframed.</li></ul> This map was published in the "Atlas Universel de Geographie," the first atlas to have every map on the same scale, 1:1,641,836. Because of this standardization, it was the first time that some areas of the world were shown with any detail. Even before the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, the region was important to British shipping on route to India, which was falling prey to pirates. In 1839, twelve years after the publication of this map, the East India Company occupied Aden to use as a base to fight piracy. Vandermaelen's atlas contains a landmark map in the cartography of Arabia; one of the other sheets shows Riyadh for the first time on a Western printed map.

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