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240 — (Atlas universel)
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[MERCATOR, Gerardus; HONDIUS, Henricus.- Atlas
sive Cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricati figura. Denuò
auctus [...] Editio quinta.
Amsterdodami, [Amsterdam], Sumptibus & typis aeneis Henrici Hondii, 1623].
7 parts in 3 vol. in-f° : 1 double-portrait and 4 engraved titles, 156 maps on double page (browned copy,
missing engraved general title and 1 preliminary text leaf with laudatory poems by Scriverius, Pontanus,
Montanus and Vrientius, margins of double-portrait and first lvs of vol. I. strengthened, edges of title "Galliae"
trimmed, idem of maps "Bolonia" and "Lacus Lemanni", a few small tears without loss to some taxt lvs, water
stain on upper corner vol. II, some errors in pagination, most of the maps wrinkled, central vows of a few maps
split in lower margin).
19
th
Century bindings : half calf with corners, flat spines (some lvs unbound, used).
Est.
:
28.000/ 33.000 €
First edition
of the famous "Mercator-
Hondius" atlas with the double-portrait
figuring Gerard Mercator (1512-1594)
and Henricus Hondius the Younger
(1597-1651) seated face to face at a
table, both with a globe in the hand,
a map of Europe hanging at the wall.
Divided in 7 parts (4 with an engraved
title in a cartouche) : 1° Continents,
Northern and Eastern Europe (with the
world map "Orbis Terrae Compendiosa
Descriptio" of 1587), 2° Spain and
Portugal, 3° France and Switzerland, 4°
The Netherlands, 5° Germany, 6° Italy
and Southeastern Europe and 7° Africa, Asia and America. IN ALL 156 old coloured maps
followed by 8 indexes. The first edition of Mercator's world atlas was published posthumous
in Duisburg in 1595 and contained maps.
# van der Krogt 1:105.
Copy enhanced
with 14 maps by Blaeu or by Janssonius, all uncoloured : Aragon/Navare,
Balearic Islands, Biscay, Brandenburg, Brescia/Crema, Ferrara, "Dominio Fiorentino",
Granada/Murcia (edges trimmed), Mecklenburg (idem), Normandy, "Nova Belgica & Anglia
Nova", Nuremberg, "Terra di lavoro Campania felix" and Vercelli.
▲ Provenance : de Stellingwerf "scabinus Leodis" (handwritten annotation).
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Édition originale du célèbre atlas au nom de Mercator et de Hondius renfermant outre le double portrait
et 4 titres intermédiaires gravés, 156 cartes rehaussées à l'époque. Ex.enrichi de 14 cartes par Blaeu
ou par Jansson (non rehaussées). Demi-veau du 19
e
siècle (ex. bruni, le titre général et 1 f. de texte lim.
manquent, marges des 1ers ff. renforcés, qqs pet. déchirures marginales, marges d'1 titre et de 2 cartes
rognées, rel. us.).
241 — (Atlas, Antiquité)
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MOLL, Herman.- Thirty two new and accurate maps of
the geography of the Ancients, as contained in the Greek and Latin classics [...].
[- Geographia antiqua Latinorum & Graecorum tabulis...].
London, T. Bowles, 1739.
In-8° : [12] pp., engraved title and 27 (on 32) plates (missing maps 3, 15, 20, 22 and 31).
Modern bradel binding : half brown cloth.
Est.
:
120/ 150 €
# Phillips 38 (1
st
edition : 1721).
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Réédition (éd. orig. : 1721) de cet atlas du monde antique comportant, outre un titre gravé, 27 (sur 32)
cartes dont 5 à déplier. (manquent 5 cartes). Bradel demi-toile moderne.
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