Iava Maior (Java Major) Map by John van Linschoten - 1598 - CDS700

Iava Maior (Java Major) Map by John van Linschoten – 1598 – CDS700

Woodblock on page of text from ‘Iohn Huighen van Linschoten his discours of Voyages into ye Easte & West Indies’, (London 1598).

A map based on Portuguese charts, from the first English edition of van Linschoten’s ‘Itinerario: Voyages ofte schipvaert van Jan Huyghen van Linschoten naer Ooost ofte Portugaels Indien’, 1579-1592 (1596).

Van Linschoten was a Dutchman who had spent a lengthy period in Portuguese service in Goa. In gathering and publishing higherto unknown information and maps relating to the Spice Islands, he enabled the Dutch and English to challenge the Portuguese monopoly in the East Indies. The placenames on the maps in van Linschoten’s work are in Portuguese, and the last section is a brief history of Portugal, suggesting the possiblity that van Linschoten had perhaps obtained a manuscript copy of the Portuguese geographer Barros’ fabled, incomplete and unpublished work, ‘Treatise on Geography’.

[MAP] Ins Kleine gebrachte Karte von den Sud-Landern zur Historie der Reisen - CDS750

[MAP] Ins Kleine gebrachte Karte von den Sud-Landern zur Historie der Reisen – CDS750

Ins Kleine gebrachte Karte von den Sud-Landern zur Historie der Reisen Bellin, Jacques Nicholas [Leipzig], 1753.

Copperplate engraving, 205 x 275 mm, original folds, mild browning to left margin, otherwise fine.

The scarce German version of Bellin’s map of Australia, Carte reduite des terres Australes. The projected eastern coastline joins the charted territories on Van Dieman’s Land and Carpentaria.

First published in Prevost’s L’Histoire Generale des Voyages in the same year, editions in German, Danish and Dutch editions soon followed. Not in Tooley (although cf. Tooley 156/157/157a for French, Dutch and Danish editions); Clancy 6.28.

Middlesex - John Cary - 1789

Middlesex – John Cary – 1789

A map of Middlesex from The Best Authorities

John Cary 1754 – 1835

Engraved by E. Noble for Cary’s maps in Camden’s Britannia of 1789.

Original hand colour with water stain to top right. Otherwise fine condition. No repairs.

1789

40 cm x 52 cm

Rutlandshire - John Speed - 1646

Rutlandshire – John Speed – 1646

Rutlandshire with Oakham and Stanford her bordering neighbour Newely described.

Performed By Johan Speede, Solde by M.John Sudbury and George Humbell, in Popes head alley against the Exchange. Cum Privelegio.

John Speed 1552 – 1629

This map was first published in Speed’s Theatre of Empire Great Britain in 1611 – 1612.

English text on verso.

Good condition. Age toned. Early hand colour.

This edition 1646.

38.3 cm x 50.5 cm

Rare 15th -17th Century World Maps - CGW134490

Rare 15th -17th Century World Maps – CGW134490

Hand coloured Planiglob der Erde map published by Weimar 1857

Hand coloured Deventer map by Jan Delate Kaart Vandetwee Platte Warelds Joolen 1700

Pair of hand coloured Coronelli (map maker) Planisfer del Mondo maps of the world 1691

Hand coloured Moithey Le Globe terrestre map 1760

Hand coloured Brookes Gaz Ateer’s new map of the world, showing the latest discoveries 1791

Hand coloured Betts Western/Eastern hemispheres map

De Lat Der Warelds Zooals hand coloured map 1700