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Title: Geographische Kaarte van de Oude Weereld volgens de verdeeling der Kinderen van Noach na hunne verstrojinge voorgevallen omtrent Babel . . .
Map Maker: Augustin Calmet
Place / Date: Venice / 1726
Description:
Scarce map of the Ancient World, showing the locations of the Children of Noah.
Includes a decorative cartouche and a dedication to St. Leopold of Nancy.
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Title: Nova ac Verissima Maris Caspii ... ac Regionum Adjacentium Delineatio ... Jussu Invictissimi Principis Petri Alexii Fil. Magni Russorum Imperatoris . . .
Map Maker: Joachim Ottens
Place / Date: Amsterdam / 1723
Description:
Striking map of the Caspian Sea and neighboring countries.
A central compass rose orients this map with north to the left. The name of this important sea is shown in several languages and a passage of text is included from the classical geographer Pomponius Mela. The major trading ports and roads are well depicted. The decorative title cartouche attributes Reiner Otten and a smaller imprint at bottom left notes that the map was published by the widow of Joachim Ottens, who died in 1719.
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Title: Totius Europae Littora Novissime adita. Pascaert vertoonende alle de See-custen van Europa
Map Maker: Louis Renard
Place / Date: Amsterdam / 1715 ca
Description:
A beautiful Dutch Portolan style sea chart that shows an area from Morocco to the Scandinavian island of Spitsbergen and Iceland, based upon an earlier map of the same title by De Wit.
The map extends west to east from Iceland to Dalmatia and north to south from Spitzbergen to Morocco, continuation Chart of the Mediterranean inset to Africa, several decorative crests, numerous rhumb lines, vignette depictions of Elephants in North Africa and rutting Goats in Norway. The inset map on the left shows the continuation of the Mediterranean. Richly embellished with three scale and one title cartouche, two pairs of animals, goats in Scandinavia and elephants in Africa. Winged putti holding navigational instruments surround the title cartouche. This fine chart appeared in Renard's Atlas de la Navigation et du Commerce. On of the most decorative and fascinating sea charts of the period.
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![A New Map of the Eastern Parts of Asia Minor Largely taken as Also of Syria, Armenia, Mesopotamia &c . . .Dedicated to his Highness William Duke of Glocester [shows Cyprus]](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4044/4656915363_5d94f846de_m.jpg)
Title: A New Map of the Eastern Parts of Asia Minor Largely taken as Also of Syria, Armenia, Mesopotamia &c . . .Dedicated to his Highness William Duke of Glocester [shows Cyprus]
Map Maker: Edward Wells
Place / Date: Oxford / 1712
Description:
Decorative map of the region from Cyprus and the Holy Land to Armenia.
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Title: Vue et Description Des Principales Villes De L'Armenie et De La Georgie Avec Les Habillemens Des Femmes Du Pays, Et Ceux Des Pretres Et Religeux Armeniens
Map Maker: Henri Chatelain
Place / Date: Paris / 1710
Description:
Map of part showing views of the major Armenian and Georgian cities, plus costumes of female and religious figures of the region.
The map appeared in Chatelain's monumental Atlas Historique, published in Paris.
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Title: Turquie Septentrionale En Europe (shows Cyprus)
Map Maker: Allain Manesson Mallet
Place / Date: Paris / 1683
Description:
Interesting map of the region bounded by Cyprus and the Holy Land in the West and Babylonia in the east.
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Title: Turquie Septentrionale En Europe (shows Cyprus)
Map Maker: Allain Manesson Mallet
Place / Date: Paris / 1683
Description:
Detailed Globe Gore of the region from Russia to the Nile, centered on the Ukraine, Black Sea, Cypus, etc., from Coronelli's 42 inch Globe. Highly decorative.
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Title: Parte Orientale Dell' Europa
Map Maker: Vincenzo Maria Coronelli
Place / Date: Venice / 1692
Description:
Nice example of Coronelli's map of the Eastern half of Europe, extending from Russia to Cyprus.
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![Nova Persiae Armeniae Natoliae et Arabiae [shows Cyprus]](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4022/4657510280_2afc6e2c2e_m.jpg)
Title: Nova Persiae Armeniae Natoliae et Arabiae [shows Cyprus]
Map Maker: Frederick De Wit
Place / Date: Amsterdam / 1680
Description:
Decorative and highly desireable map of the region bounded by the Saudi Peninsula, Red Sea, Nile River, Cyprus, Asia Minor, the Gulf of Aden, Indian Ocean, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, Afganistan and the Indian Ocean, centered on the Persian Gulf. Includes two attractive cartouches, ships at sea and marvelous geographical detail within the map. One of the few available Dutch maps to mention Armenia in the title of the map and one of the most detailed of the region. Gorgeous example.
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Title: Turquie Septentrionale En Europe (shows Cyprus)
Map Maker: Allain Manesson Mallet
Place / Date: Paris / 1683
Description:
Detailed map of Turkey, Asia Minor, Cyprus and the Western Mediterranean.
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Title: De Gelegentheyt van t'Paradys ende t'Landt Canaan, Mitsgaders de Eerst Bewoonde Landen der Patriarchen uyt de H. Schrifture en verscheyden Auctoren by een gestelt door Iosua Offermans Anno 1648.
Map Maker: Josua Offermans
Place / Date: Amsterdam / 1648
Description:
Striking map, based upon Visscher's map from 1657 (see Poortman #120) but with German text and omitting the author's name.
Decorative map of the region between the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf with Paradise, depicted to the east of Babylon. Two engravings; Adam and Eve with the serpent, and the Expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Further decorated with compass rose, scale of miles cartouche and a depiction of Jonas and the whale.
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![Natoliam Moderni dicunt tam partem quam Asiam minrem appelauere veteres . . . Turcia Turci Cive Imperii [shows Cyprus]](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4014/4657491576_5e26ff6a70_m.jpg)
Title: Natoliam Moderni dicunt tam partem quam Asiam minrem appelauere veteres . . . Turcia Turci Cive Imperii [shows Cyprus]
Map Maker: Cornelis De Jode
Place / Date: Antwerp / 1593
Description:
Nice example of the 1593 edition of De Jode's regional map of the Eastern Mediterranean and Asia Minor, engraved by Van Deutecum.
The map includes two title cartouches and three sailing ships. Noah's Ark appears on on Mount Ararat.
In 1578, Cornelis De Jode published his Speculum Orbis Terrarum, with the intention of competing with Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, first issued in 1570. However, market forces and Ortelius' political contacts conspired to limite De Jode's success and the atlas did not sell very well. Undeterred, he made plans for another expanded edition, and upon his death in 1591 it was taken on by his son Cornelis. The Speculum Orbis Terrae of 1593 likewise did not sell well and was never reissued. Although more examples than the first edition have survived, it too is very scarce. Many of de Jode's maps are judged to be superior to those of Ortelius, both in detail and style.
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Title: Tabula Asiae V.
Map Maker: Girolomo Ruscelli
Place / Date: Venice / 1561Description:
Ptolemaic map of the region between the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea showing Babylon and Mesopatamia as well as several ancient religious sites. The map first appeared in the 1561 edition of Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geografia.
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Title: Tabula Asiae V
Map Maker: Sebastian Munster
Place / Date: Basel / 1542Description:
Excellent example of Munster's Ptolemaic map of the region between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea extending south to include all of Armenia Maior and part of Armenia Minoris.
Important early map of the region between the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea, extending from Armenia and Mesopotamia eastward.
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![Tabula Asiae III [Black & Capian Sea Region]](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4034/4657479100_0401daff0f_m.jpg)
Title: Tabula Asiae III [Black & Capian Sea Region]
Map Maker: Sebastian Munster
Place / Date: Basle / 1542
Description:
Excellent example of Munster's Ptolemaic map of the region between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea extending south to include all of Armenia Maior and part of Armenia Minoris.
Munster's map shows Noahs Arc in the Caspian Sea, believed to have come to rest in a mountain in Armenia according to the map. Shows Armenia Maior, Iberia, Albania, Colchis, Porte Albanie, the Euphratis River, the Tigris, Assyriae, and many other place names in the cradle of civilization. The map is unchanged from the 1540 edition.
Munster's Geographia was a cartographic landmark, including not only Ptolemaic maps, but also a number of landmark modern maps, including the first separate maps of the 4 continents, the first map of England and the earliest obtainable map of Scandinavia. Munster dominated cartographic publication during the mid-16th Century. Munster is generally regarded as one of the three most important map makers of the 16th Century, along with Ortelius and Mercator. Munster was a linguist and mathematician, who initially taught Hebrew in Heidelberg. He issued his first mapping of Germany in 1529, after which he issued a call geographical information about Germany to scholars throughout the country. The response was better than hoped for, and included substantial foreign material, which supplied him with up to date, if not necessarily accurate maps for the issuance of his Geographia in 1540.
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Title: Tabula Asiae II
Map Maker: Sebastien Munster
Place / Date: Basle / 1542
Description:
Rare first edition of Munster's Ptolemaic map of part of the Ukraine and the region between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea extending south to include all of Armenia Maior and part of Armenia Minoris.
Shows Noahs Arc in the Caspian Sea, believed to have come to rest in a mountain in Armenia according to the map. Shows Armenia Maior, Iberia, Albania, Colchis, Porte Albanie, the Euphratis River, the Tigris, Assyriae, and many other place names in the cradle of civilization.
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Title: Tabula Asiae V
Map Maker: Sebastian Munster
Place / Date: Basel / 1542
Description:
Important early map of the region between the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea, extending from Armenia and Mesopotamia eastward.
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Title: Tabula Asiae II
Map Maker: Sebastien Munster
Place / Date: Basle / 1540
Description:
Rare first edition of Munster's Ptolemaic map of part of the Ukraine and the region between the Black Sea and Caspian Sea extending south to include all of Armenia Maior and part of Armenia Minoris.
Shows Noahs Arc in the Caspian Sea, believed to have come to rest in a mountain in Armenia according to the map. Shows Armenia Maior, Iberia, Albania, Colchis, Porte Albanie, the Euphratis River, the Tigris, Assyriae, and many other place names in the cradle of civilization.
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Title: Tabula V Asiae
Map Maker: Lorenz Fries
Place / Date: Strassbourg / 1535
Description:
Important early map of the region between the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea, extending from Armenia and Mesopotamia eastward. From Fries edition of Waldseemuller's Atlas, one of the most sought after of all editions of Ptolemy.
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![Tertia Asiae Tabula. [The Caucuses & Armenia]](http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4003/4657457256_8ee2c67077_m.jpg)
Title: Tertia Asiae Tabula. [The Caucuses & Armenia]
Map Maker: Bernadus Sylvanus
Place / Date: Venice / 1511
Description:
Sylvanus' map of the Armenia, the Causus Mountains anthe rgion between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea and east of the Euphrates River, is one of the earliest obtainable maps of the region and the first printed in two colors. The map appeared in Sylvanus' Claudii Ptholemaei Alexandrini liber Geographicae . . ., publish in Venice in 1511. The Sylvanus edition of Ptolemy is one of the earliest to include maps with modern geographical updates. The map has been printed on two leaves, which have here been rejoined and backed with Japan paper on the verso. A nice example of a map which very rarely appears on the market.
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