38 QUAD, M. Typus Orbis Terrarum. Cologne, 1596. Col. Sans texte au verso. Pli central légèrement jauni. 216 x 310 mm.

1600 - 1800 €
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¤ Rare world map by Matthias Quad, reduced from Mercator's planispherical map of 1596, with the addition of the figure of Christ in an oval frame in top left-hand part and a quotation from Cicero at the bottom. Verso blank. The map features a large "Terra Australis Nondum Cognitae", which occupies much of the southern hemisphere.
New Guinea is included. Including the mythical islands of Groclant, Thule, Frischlant and S.Brandam around Greenland. - Shirley, World, 197.

39 KEUR, H.J. Orbis Terrarum Tabula Recens Emendata et in Lucem Edita. Dordrecht, 1682. Col. Coupé au filet d'encadrement, bord de l'angle sup. gauche redessiné. Renmargé, doublé. Restauration de déchirures et de fentes aux niveau du pli central et des plis latéraux. - Margins cut into the border with small loss, carefully redrawn. Re-margined and entirely underlaid due to tears at the extremities of centerfold, 5 and 9 cm into the image. Splits at the extremities of the centerfold, max 3 cm into the image. Col. Sold as is. 360 x 465 mm.

1200 - 1500 €
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¤ The Keur family produced a number of different bibles from their press at Dordrecht and later at Rotterdam. This finely executed world map in two hemispheres with in each corner classical scenes representing the rape of Persephone, Zeus being carried across the heavens in an eagle-drawn chariot, Poseidon commanding his entourage, and Demeter receiving the fruits of the Earth. The northern part of California (as an island) is flat. A small piece of land 'Anian' appears adjacent to a strait leading within striking distance of the west shores of Hudson's Bay. Australia is depicted with both the western and the northern coastline (as it joins on to New Guinea) drawn uninterruptedly. With two astronomical diagrams. (voir reproduction 3 de couverture) - Shirley, World 513.

40 STOOPENDAAL,D. Mappemonde. Amsterdam, 1748. Col. Coupé au filet d'encadrement, renmargé, doublé. Restauration de déchirures horizontales, verticale et de fentes aux niveau des plis. - Cut till neat line and re-margined. Entirely underlaid as the map was separated in two. Two tears in the center 3 cm into the image. Sold as is. 303 x 450 mm.

400 - 500 €
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¤ Beautiful double hemisphere world map from a Dutch Bible. Surrounded by allegorical representations of the continents, based on Visscher. California is depicted as a peninsula. Australia is partially mapped, blend with New Guinea and there is only a hint of Tasmania. The northwest American and east Asian coastlines are incomplete.
Diagrams of the Copernican and Ptolemaic solar systems rest between the hemispheres. This is the small version of this world map, without the banner title. - Shirley, World, 498

41 BROUCKNER, I. Carte Generale du Globe Terrestre… Venise, Remondini, 1761. Plis verticaux et horizontaux légèrement jaunis, infimes trous le long des pliures. - Horizontal and vertical folding marks slightly age-toned with a few minor holes. 220 x 325 mm.

300 - 400 €
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¤ Carte… construite et publiée par le Sr Isaac Brouckner Geographe de S.M.T.C. Examinée et approuvée par Mr Daniel Bernoulli.
Remondini's reduction of the Brouckner's highly influential map of the World. Includes a massive Bay of the West, partial New Zealand and Australian coastlines, and nice detail in the Northern Pacific.
The world map including notes on the Russian voyages in the 1740s and the Acapulco Trade Route. Interesting naïve engraving style. Brouckner's map is very rare on the market.

42 BUACHE / DE L'ISLE / DEZAUCHE Planisphere Physique Où l'on voit du Pole Septentrional. Paris, 1785. Col. ancien. Importantes mouillures marginales. Infimes rousseurs, traces de pliures. - Marginal water staining. Several creases. Two minor spots. 340 x 440 mm.

400 - 500 €
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¤ Projection au pôle nord. Flanquée de tables explicatives. - Uncommon world map on a north pole projection prepared by G.de l'Isle and published by Phil. Dezauche. This map is most notable for it's depiction of Mer de L'Ouest or Sea of the West, a great sea, easily the size of the Mediterranean, to flow from the then-known Strait of Juan de Fuca. He also shows an opening to the ocean from this great sea at roughly in North California or Oregon and Quivira somewhere in Idaho. Showing tracks of Tasman, Magellan, Drake, Quiros, etc. Only Australia's west coast is drawn in.

43 MENTELLE. Mappe-Monde. Paris, 1798. Limites en col. d'époque. Infimes rousseurs. 190 x 365 mm.

100 - 150 €
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¤ Joint : AA, P. van der. L'Europe.

44 DOPPELMAYR,J.G./ HOMANN,J.B. Theoria Eclipsium. Nuremberg, 1740. Beau col. ancien. Pâles mouillures en haut de la carte, infimes rousseurs. - Dark impression. A few small light-brown spots. Water staining in upper part. Good condition. 485 x 568 mm.

500 - 700 €
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¤ Carte céleste dessinée par J. G. Doppelmayr, gravée et publiée par Homann dans l'"Atlas Coelestis". - One of a series of celestial charts drawn by Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, engraved by Homann and published in the "Atlas Coelestis" by Homann's Heirs.
Doppelmayr was an astronomer of high repute. He was born at Nuremberg in 1671 and was educated at Halle University.
He was a professor of mathematics in his native city for nearly fifty years, and for some time made a speciality of lunar observations' (Brown, Astronomical Atlases, Maps and Charts p. 51).
His reputation was such as to gain him memberships in the Academia Caesarea Leopoldina, the academies of Berlin and St. Petersburg, and the Royal Society of London ... His major work is the Atlas novus coelestis ...
The positions of the stars on the maps are correct for the year 1730.

45 BENARD. Astronomie. Paris, ca.1780. Col. Infimes rousseurs. 230 x 365 mm.

200 - 250 €
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¤ Représente les hémisphères Boréal et Austral avec leurs constellations.

46 WALCH. Neue Himmelsbeschreibung. Augsbourg, Walch, 1804. Col. Bel exemplaire. - Coloured, stars heightened with gold. 460 x 580 mm.

400 - 500 €
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¤ Rare carte des 2 hémisphères célestes surmontant une représentation linéaire des étoiles pour chaque mois. - Celestial chart in double hemispheres.

47 VINCENDON-DUMOULIN. Carte des explorations exécutées par les Corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée dans les régions Circum-Polaires. Paris, 1840. Bel exemplaire. Cachet : Service hydrographique Majoration 600%". 590 x 880 mm.

200 - 300 €
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¤ Carte levée et dressée par Vincendon-Dumoulin Ingénieur Hydrographe de la Marine à bord de la Corvette l'Astrolabe, réalisée pour le voyage "Expédition au Pôle Austral et dans l'Océanie, commandée par Dumont d'Urville, Capitaine de Vaisseau". Carte ornée de 2 vues : Vue de la côte Clarie - Vue de la Terre Adélie. - French Admiralty chart based on Dumont d'Urville voyage. 2 inset views : Vue de la côte Clarie - Vue de la Terre Adélie.
Le français Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville, à bord de l'Astrolabe et de la Zélée, est le premier à aborder le continent en janvier 1840 et donne le nom de sa femme à la terre qu'il découvre, la terre Adélie. L'hydrographe de l'expédition, Vincendon Dumoulin, localise le pôle Sud magnétique.