Sales catalogue: Francis Edwards

Date:
1934
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/5/21
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Francis Edwards. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    NE AD TS BE EE EG A EE LE FS ATLASES—continued. Bloazio] (Baptista ) : 1589, as it is not mentioned in the list of plates, but was published as a supplement. THE ONLY CONTEMPORARY MAP OF THE WHOLE COURSE OF THE EXPEDITION. It shows Virginia with the standard of St. George planted in the centre, Florida, Canada, Newfoundland, West Indies, S. America to the Rio de la Plata, the North and West Coasts of Africa, the British Isles and a portion of Europe. 6 [Quad (M.)] Europar Torus ORBIS TERRARUM PARTIS . descriptio, engraved emblematic title (margins cut and mounted) and 40 feel) (? out o of 60) zz rich contemporary colouring, measuring 103 by 74 in., oblong folio, vellum, Ex offictna J. Bussemechers, Cologne, 46 1592 A collection of decorative maps, including a RARE EARLY PRINTED MAP OF ScoTLAND, maps of England, Denmark, Holland, and many of Germany. This edition is not mentioned by Phillips, Brunet, or Graesse. FINE COLOURED COPY OF A FAMOUS ATLAS. 37 Ortelius (A.) THearrum Orpis TERRARUM (with Parergon and Nomenclator Ptolemaicis), engraved title, portrait of Ortelius and 134 double-page maps, ALL IN FULL CONTEMPORARY coLours, folio, origznal calf gilt, with sunk Lyonese centre- pieces on sides, Plantin, Antwerp, 470 1592 Phillips 396. Twelve preliminary leaves, including engraved title and portrait, both richly coloured, and 108 double-page maps, numbered 1-108; PArercon, four preliminary leaves, including title, and 26 double-page maps; N OMENCLATOR PTOLEMAICIUS, with title dated 1591, A-F 6, G 8, last leaf blank. The Atlas contains the following noteworthy maps :— RARE MAP OF PaciFic OcEAN (mar del Zur), 1589, showing America for the first time in two divisions as North and South, with New Guinea now divided from Terra Australis ; also Japan ; fine map of Africa ; America, North and ‘South, showing Quivir and Anian; West Indies; Cen. America; Florida, &e. G. BRAUN AND F. HOGENBERG. 38 Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Text in FrencH, 5 vols and the Supplementary (Sixth) Vol., containing 6 figured title-pages and 362 (out of 363) double-page views of all the principal cities, towns and harbours of the known world, 1N FULL CONTEMPORARY COLOURING, 6 vols in 2, folio, calf, gzlt backs (rubbed), Cologne, 4130 1593-94, 1613 A SUPERB COLOURED COPY OF THIS UNRIVALLED COLLECTION OF VIEWS, WITH THE SIXTH VOLUME, which was not issued until 1613, and is_very rarely found with sets. The last plate from the sixth volume, ‘‘ Strait of Messina,” is lacking. Here are shown the capitals and walled towns of Europe as they. were seen by Elizabeth’s ambassadors, with their palaces, towers, domes and steeples. Here are the ports and harbours of Europe, the Mediterranean, the Levant and spiced India, that Hakluyt’s merchant adventurers sailed to, gay with shipping, caravels, sloops, and high-pooped merchantmen; the ports of
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