Travel, Atlases, Maps & Natural History - L11401

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Travel, Atlases, Maps & Natural History

10 May 2011 • London

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Sale Number: L11401

90. Typus cosmographicus universalis. [Basel, 1532], 365 x 650mm., large woodcut world map on an oval projection, printed on two sheets joined, two large panels of inset type, some major place names also inset, [Shirley 67; Harrisse 171], light overall browning

Estimate: 15,000 – 20,000 GBP

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91. La figure du monde universel. [Basle, 1578], 275 x 380mm., double-page woodcut map, French text on verso, annotations in ink on verso, very small printers crease at left hand side

Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP

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92. Vniversale descrittione di tvtta la terra conoscivta fin qvi. Donato Bertelli In Venetia alla libraria del segno del S. Marco. In Merzaria, 1570. Venice, 1570, large engraved world map on 2 sheets joined, size at greatest extent 416 x 750mm., slight separation at old folds, one small area of loss infilled in manuscript

Estimate: 100,000 – 150,000 GBP

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93. Tipus orbis terrarum. Valladolid, [1603], 330 x 490mm., general engraved folding map, after Ortelius, insets of the continents at four corners, [Shirley 242], light staining, strengthened at fold

Estimate: 3,000 – 4,000 GBP

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94. 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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95. Pascaerte van 't Westelycke Deel van Oost Indien. Amsterdam, [1666], 438 x 535mm., double-page engraved map from the Cape of Good Hope to the Indian coast and centering on Arabia, contemporary outline colour, very light browning

Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP

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96. Tabula tertia di Libya. [Florence: Francesco Berlinghieri, 1480-1482], 300 x 490mm., double-page engraved map depicting Egypt and including Alexandria and detail of the Nile, dark impression, light marginal soiling

Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP

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99. Three views in Egypt.

Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP

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101. Vera delineatio hodierni situs almae civitatis Ierusalem cum omnibus viis intra et extra muros. Paris: [Alexis Hubert Jaillot], 1687, wall map on 2 sheets joined, total dimensions 565 x 887mm., contemporary wash and outline colour, backed on linen with original rollers, some manuscript reinstatement affecting right hand border

Estimate: 12,000 – 18,000 GBP

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102. [The Madaba Map, Jerusalem, 1899], large manuscript map in ink and colours on paper, oriented east to the top, 900 x 1460mm., backed on hard board, presentation label in ink "Copy of A Mosaic of Medeba East ot the river Jordan in a church built in the 3rd Century. Given to us by Sheik Saleem Said, Effendi, Jerusalem, 1899", [cf. Laor, 452], some wear with loss

Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP

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103. Verissimo retratto delli siti et luoghi delle parte d'Austria... [Rome, c.1558], 343 x 340mm., engraved perspective view, dark impression, [Novacco 13], trimmed to neatline and inlaid

Estimate: 3,000 – 4,000 GBP

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104. Tabula quinta de Asia. [Florence: Francesco Berlinghieri, 1480-1482], 345 x 500mm.; Ibid. Quinta Asiae tabula. [Rome: Petrus de Turre, 1478-1490], 350 x 530mm.

Estimate: 4,000 – 6,000 GBP

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