A natural complement to our specialist area of rare books on travel & exploration is maps and atlases, which appeal to cartographically curious collectors for a variety of reasons; for some maps are simply aesthetically appealing, for others they supply an invaluable insight into social and/or topographical history, mapping mankind’s exploration of the world and, in the case of celestial maps, beyond…
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Maps & Atlases
Contact Julian MacKenzie for more information about Antique Maps & Atlases For Sale at Shapero Rare Books.
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folio, (48 x 13 cm), Theatrum: 70 double-page engraved maps; rebound later Dutch gilt vellum, the covers with thin panels at the edges, the central panel with gilt-tooled arabesques in the corners and the central figure of Atlas carrying an armillary; the spine and covers remboitaged from different bindings;
£50,000 -
Folio (54.9 x 37.5cm). General title-page in English and French and printed in red and black, 2-page index, 2-page explanations, 11 (of 12) douple-page map-sheets incl. index map, double-page index map and 8 map-sheets, all maps hand-coloured in outline, 2 leaves of text and 2 index leaves in French, printed on rectos only; without the double-page engraved dedication, title a bit browned and spotted, first map of the republic of Genoa lightly stained, a few maps very lightly browned. Contemporary half russia; extremities lightly rubbed, corners bumped.
£7,500 -
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Hand-coloured double-page engraved map, Dutch text on verso, flanked at sides with 17 coats of arms of the colleges, plus a blank shield, and seven family coats of arms, plus a blank, near-fine; 430 x 525 mm (17 1/2 x 22 inches); framed glazed (modern) 540 x 645 mm (21 1/4 x 25 1/2 inches).
£850 -
Folio. 600pp., Red cloth gilt, pictorial dust wrapper. New.
£150
