CARICATURE MAP - WORLD WAR I:500. Johnson, Riddle & Co. ‘HARK! HARK! THE DOGS DO BARK!’ Large political cartoon style map of Europe with notes by Walter Emanuel, designed and printed by Johnson, Riddle and Co in London and published by G. W. Bacon ca. 1914 [24685] 53 x 70 cm. Printed in
colours. Many folds torn but expertly restored, a few small marginal areas of paper loss replaced and drawn in. Laid down on strong flexibel paper to
stabilise, but overall still very good. £950
Uncommon. - The map describes and illustrates as a political cartoon the tensions in Europe on the eve of World War I. |
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EUROPE:501. Aa, P. v. d. ‘L’EUROPE, SUIVANT LES NOUVELLES OBSERVATIONS’. Map of Europe with pictorial cartouche. Pieter van der Aa, Leiden 1714 [25054] 23 x 30 cm.
Uncoloured. Excellent condition. £225
Folio edition - no
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EUROPE (CONTINENT):502. Münster, Seb. UNTITLED map of Europe in the shape of a crowned woman, north orientated to the right. Sebastian Münster ca. 1545 [20892] 26 x 16 cm. Uncoloured as issued. £750
Known as the ‘virgin map’ or ‘virgo map’ of Europe. van der
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EUROPE (CONTINENT):503. Visscher, N. ‘EUROPA DELINEATA ET RECENS EDITA’. Map of Europe with small figurative title and armorial dedication cartouche. Nicolaas Visscher ca. 1660 [22167] 43 x 53 cm. Full original colour with recent additions. Very good condition. £850
From the private collection of a European aristocratic family. |
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EUROPE (CONTINENT):504. Schenk, P. ‘EUROPA EXCULTISSIMA’. Map of Europe with pictorial cartouche. Pieter Schenk ca. 1700 [22168] 49 x 58 cm. The map in full original
colour. Short split to lower centrefold old rebacked. Very good condition. £850
Uncommon. From the private collection of a European aristocratic family. |
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EUROPE (CONTINENT):505. De Fer, N. ‘L’EUROPE SUIVANT LES NOUVELLES OBSERVATIONS...’. Map of the continent of Europe. Nicolas de Fer 1717 [23996] 23 x 33 cm. Two cartouches. Full recent
colour. Excellent condition. £280
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EUROPE (CONTINENT):506. Euler, L. ‘TABULA GEOGRAPHICA EUROPAE AD EMENDATIORA EXEMPLA ADHUC
EDITA...’. Large map of Europe, printed on 4 map sheets and joined. Large title cartouche and smaller cartouche of scale of miles. Leonhard Euler for the Acad. Reg. scient. et litt. eleg. Boruss. (Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences) ca. 1753 [16556] 60 x 69 cm. Full original
colour, the two cartouches uncoloured. Excellent condition. Uncommon. £600
Leonhard Euler (Basel 1707 - St. Petersburg 1783), cartographer, physician and mathematician. Published ‘Atlas Geographicus’ for the Prussian Royal Academy of Sciences and Litterature in Berlin between 1753 and 1760. - Small printed original Prussian tax/privilege seal as always. |
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EUROPE (CONTINENT):507. Monath, P. C. ‘NOVAE EUROPAE DELINEATIO’. Map of Europe with figurative cartouche. Peter Conrad Monath in Nürnberg ca. 1760 [18070] 24 x 29 cm. Full original
colour. Uncommon. £240
From Abbé Lenglet DuFresnoy’s ‘Kinder-Geographie’. |
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EUROPE (CONTINENT):508. Thomson, J. ‘EUROPE’. J & G. Menzies for Thomson ca. 1816 [19361] 45 x 53 cm. Full original
colour. £100
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EUROPE (CONTINENT):509. Lizars, W. ‘EUROPE EXHIBITING ITS PRESENT POLITICAL DIVISIONS’. Large map of Europe, printed on 4 double sheets and joined. W. H. Lizars 1845 [19016] 76 x 90 cm. Original outline
Colour. £240
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EUROPE (CONTINENT):510. London Geographical Institute. ‘PHILIPS’ NEW COMMERCIAL MAP OF EUROPE’. Very large wall map of Europe incl. North African coast and Turkey. Decorative borders. Dissected into 48 segments and mounted on linen, folding into original boards. George Philip & Son for London Geographical Institute ca. 1930 [20363] 168 x 183 cm (= 66 x 72 inches). Full original
colour. £600
(detail illustrated)
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EUROPE (CONTINENT):511. Philip & Son Ltd. ‘EUROPE ILLUSTRATING THE ACTIVITES OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND TERRITORIAL CHANGES SINCE 1914’. George Philip & Son Ltd ca. 1938 [23442] Folding (but not dissected) map printed in
colours, 89 x 114 cms. £150
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EUROPEAN ATLANTIC ISLANDS:512. Thomson, J. ‘ATLANTIC ISLANDS’. ‘CAPE VERD’ / ‘CANARY’ / ‘AZORE’ / ‘MADEIRA’. Four maps on one sheet, in the centre a view of ‘The Peak of Teneriffe’ from Santa Cruz. Thomson 1814 [19299] 50 x 59 cm. Original outline
Colour. £150
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EUROPEAN ATLANTIC ISLANDS:513. Tallis, J. 'ISLANDS IN THE ATLANTIC'. Maps of the Azores, Madeira, Cape Verde, Canary and Bermuda Islands on one sheet, surrounded by decorative border. John Tallis ca. 1851 [7338] 34 x 25 cm. Original outline
Colour. £100
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MEDITERRANEAN:514. Visscher, N. / Schenk, P. ‘MAGNI TURCARUM DOMINI IMPERIUM IN
EUROPA, ASIA, ET AFRICA...’. Large detailed map of the Mediterranean and adjoining countries, reaching from Spain to the Caspian Sea and Arabia, printed on two sheets and joined. Large figurative cartouche. From the plate by Nicolaas Visscher published by Pieter Schenk junior ca. 1720 [22137] 50 x 84 cm. The map in full original
colour. Right vertical fold and short sections of upper and lower borders strengthened verso, otherwise in good condition. £950
From the private collection of a European aristocratic family. |
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MEDITERRANEAN:515. Johnston, Keith. ‘BASIN OF THE MEDITERRANEAN’. A detailed map, towards the end of the 19th century, with insets of Marseille, Genoa, Trieste,
Gibraltar, Maltese Islands, Valletta (Malta), Venice & Alexandria. W. &
A. K. Johnston 1892 [25306] Original colour. 44 x 57 cm. £125
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MEDITERRANEAN:516. Stanford, E. ‘MAP OF THE IONIAN ISLANDS AND MALTA’. Map of the Ionian Islands with inset of Cerigo Island and large inset of Malta & Gozo and large inset of map showing the chief routes from London to Bombay. Edward Stanford 1894 [24431] 61 x 52
cms. Full original colour. £100
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MEDITERRANEAN:517. Stanford, E. ‘MAP OF THE IONIAN ISLANDS AND MALTA’. A map of the Ionian Islands with inset of Cerigo Island and large inset of Malta & Gozo and large inset of map showing the chief routes from London to Bombay. Edward Stanford 1904 [24441] 61 x 52
cms. Full original colour. £100
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MILEAGE CHART:518. Schenk, P. ‘ERKLÄRÜNG ÜBER GEGENWÄRTIGE ANWEISUNGS-TABELL DER VORNEHMSTEN STÄDTE IN EUROPA’. Mileage chart of Europe, giving the distances between 115 European towns in German miles. Inset map of Europe (‘ACCURATISSIMA EUROPAE TABULA’, 23 x 26 cm). Pieter Schenk ca. 1720 [22028] 48 x 57 cm. Full original
colour. Excellent condition. £350
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MILEAGE CHART:519. Seutter, M. ‘POLIOMETRIA GERMANIAE AC FINITIMORUM QUORUNDAM LOCORUM EUROPAE / CURIOSER STÄDT-ZEIGER ZU DENEN VORNEMSTEN STÄDTEN IN TEUTSCHLAND AUCH ... IN
EUROPA...’. Table of distances in miles between 114 towns in Germany and Europe, with large pictorial cartouche. Matthaeus Seutter in Ausgburg ca. 1750 [23862] 49 x 57 cm. Full original
colour. Excellent condition. £450
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MILEAGE CHART:520. Steinberger, L. M. ‘DISTANZ ODER MEILEN-ZEIGER DER VORNEHMSTEN
RESIDENTZEN, HAUPT UND HANDELS STAEDEN IN EUROPA...’. Table of distances in miles between 88 towns in Germany and Europe, with pictorial vignette showing distance measuring methods. Engraved for Johann Huebner’s Reales
Staats-Zeitungs- und Conversations-Lexicon by Leonhard Michael Steinberger ca. 1782 [24949] 18 x 22 cm.
Uncoloured. £100
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NORTHERN EUROPE - GREENLAND - ICELAND:521. Bellin, N. ‘CARTE REDUITE DES MERS DU NORD’. Map of Scandinavia, British Isles, Greenland, Labrador, and Iceland in the
centre. Defined coastlines, but without much inland detail, in the manner of a sea chart. Nicolas Bellin 1758 [21409] 33 x 45 cm. Large cartouche. Full recent
colour. Excellent condition. £225
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ROMAN EMPIRE:522. Ortelius, A. ‘ROMANI IMPERII IMAGO’. Map of the Roman Empire, covering Europe, North Africa and the Near East. Four cartouches, table of explanations and genealogical tree of the founders of Rome. Abraham Ortelius ca. 1587 [23843] 35 x 49 cm. French text verso. Full original
colour, incl. cartouches. Excellent condition. £800
First of two similar plates, the second one used from 1592 onwards. van den Broecke 187. |
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ROMAN EMPIRE:523. Ortelius, A. ‘ROMANI IMPERII IMAGO’. Decorative map of the Roman Empire with four cartouches and two tables of historical explanations, one showing a genealogical tree with the descent of Roman emperors from Romulus and
Remus, and a quote in four lines from Vitruvius at the top right. Italian text verso. Abraham Ortelius ca. 1608 [24169] 35 x 50 cm. Full original
colour, incl. cartouches. Excellent condition. £800
Second of two similar plates, used from 1592 onwards. van den Broecke 188. |
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