4666 - 5032 FINE ARTS - FOREIGN TOPOGRAPHY. MAPS, PLANS and VIEWS
- Sl./ vaguely foxed/ browned.
= Very decorative map, showing the West coast of Africa from the Gambia Rivers to Benin, with inset map of the island of Sao Tome.
AND 3 others, i.a. 3 engr. views on 1 leaf: "Del Mina. St. Iago"; "Carmantyn"; "Cabo Verde ofte t. Eijlant Goeree" (1665).
- Browned in blank margins; vague oblique crease in right part; middle fold sl. spltting at lower end.
= Sea chart of Southwest Africa and the Cape of Good Hope.
- Doubled. = Very rare anonymous chart w. attractive colouring.
- Trifle browned along middle fold; fold in lower left corner. = Koeman IV, p.384 [92].
AND 3 similar publ. by the same, i.a. "Nieuwe pascaert van de Kust van Maroca en Zahaga (...)" and "Nieuwe Paskaert, Van de Kust van Genehoa als mede een Gedeelte van Gambia" (Koeman IV, p.384 [93] and p.380 [95]).
- A few (clumsily) restored holes; sl. browned. = Cf. Koeman IV, p.158, [11].
- A few vague stains; otherwise fine.
= Attractive chart of the west coast of Africa, from Angola northwards to the Gambia.
- Both mounted on passepartout.
- A few tiny tears in blank margins; trifle yellowed. = Van der Krogt/ Koeman I, 9800:1B.1.
- Browned. = Van der Krogt/ Koeman I, 9800:1B.1.
- Yellowed. Not examined outside frame.
= Van den Broecke 9.2; Van der Krogt/ Koeman IIIB, 9000:31A, variant b. The first state of this map, i.a. with the original ships and with "Las Açores". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIX.
- Small spot in upper part latitudes; closed tear in lower part along fold due to printer's flaw.
= Decorative map. Based on Sansons and Jaillots maps depicting all five Great Lakes enclosed and California as a peninsula instead of an island. Cf. Tooley, The Mapping of America p.121, no.37 (ed. Sanson/ Jaillot 1674).
= With later mounted engr. title strip in upper left corner and engr. strips w. engraver's and cartographer's name in margin below map.
AND 1 other: "Nieuwe kaart Van het Westelykste Deel der Weereld, dienende tot aanwyzing van de Scheepstogten der Nederlanderen naar West Indië" (engr. map, Amst., I. Tirion, 1754. Folds as published).
- Paper flaws in left part.
- Mounted on cardboard; browned; (closed) tears along the edges; sm. hole in centre. Sold w.a.f.
= Burden 332, 2nd ed. "Bearing privilege along the lower margin".
- Slightly mouldy/ waterst. in lower corners; lower blank margin partly brittle/ strengthened w. paper tape on verso.
= This rare map illustrates the theater of the Nine Years War, one of the inter-imperial conflicts of the early 18th century. It shows i.a. many shipping routes of the Spanish empire and many strategical harbours.
- Trifle yellowed; sl. waterst in outer (ample) blank margins. Fine copy.
= Van der Krogt/ Koeman I, 9400:1B; Burden 254. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIX.