76 4706 Ant arctica Nieuwe kaart van de Noord Pool

- Fine copy, sm. repaired tear in outer lower blank margin.

= Shows the upper half of the northern hemisphere from the North Pole down to California (as an island), northern Africa, the Caspian Sea and Japan, with i.a. all of Europe, Russia and Canada.

76 4707 Antilles Carte des Antilles Françoises et des Isles Voisines

- Frayed; image is fine.

76 4709 Asia Alexandri Magni Imperium et Expeditio Tabula conspectum

= Large map showing the extent of Alexander the Great's conquests between his homeland in Macedonia through the Persian Empire and northern Africa.

76 4710 Asia Carte des Indes et de la Chine

- Fine state; folds as issued.

= Nice map, depicting India, Thailand etc., China, Japan and Indonesia.

76 4712 Asia India quae orientalis dicitur et insulae adiacentes

- Fine copy.

= Van der Krogt/ Koeman II, 8400:2, 3rd and final state (w. the cartouches filled w. letterpress text). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LX.

76 4713 Asia Indiae orientalis nec non Insularum Adiacentium Nova Descriptio

- Cut on/ just outside/ inside the borderline; frayed/ marginal tears affecting the image; browned along middle fold/ in the left figure of the cartouche; sl. waterst. in lower margin. Sold w.a.f.

= Extremely rare map. Cf. Koeman III, p.182 [183]; Tooley, Early maps of Australia 35. Decorative early map showing the northern part of Australia in lower right corner and India in upper left corner. Noteworthy is the treatment of the discoveries of Abel Tasman during his two voyages in the region from 1642 to 1644, which resulted in the discovery of Tasmania (Antoni van Diemen's landt) among other highly important discoveries in the region. This map is most likely the first state of the more well known editions by Visscher and De Wit.

76 4714 Atlantic Ocean Paskaerte van 't in comen van 't Canaal hoemen dat sal aen doen als men uyt de West comt

- Doubled; sl. dustsoiled.

= From the Zee-Atlas, Ofte Water-Weereld by Pieter Goos. Koeman IV, Goos 1B (15).

76 4715 Atlantic Ocean Terra Nova ac Maris Tractus circa Novam Francam Angliam Belgium Venezuelam Novam Andalusiam Guianam et Brasiliam

76 4715 Atlantic Ocean Terra Nova ac Maris Tractus circa Novam Francam Angliam Belgium Venezuelam Novam Andalusiam Guianam et Brasiliam

76 4715 Atlantic Ocean Terra Nova ac Maris Tractus circa Novam Francam Angliam Belgium Venezuelam Novam Andalusiam Guianam et Brasiliam

- Frayed; a few sm. marginal tears just touching the image; sl. browned; trifle waterst. in outer blank margins; nevertheless a fine chart.

= Originally appeared in Renards sea atlas, one of the most attractive publications of Dutch maritime cartography. Although the atlas originated with De Wit in 1675, a great number of the charts were corrected by Renard. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LX.

76/4716 Atlantic Insulae Açores

- Browned. = Van der Krogt/ Koeman II, 6350:2.

76 4717 Atlases Gerardus Mercator Iudocus Hondius

- Fine copy.

= The famous double-portrait of Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius. It was engraved by Coletta Hondius (born Van der Keere), in tribute to her late husband, who had died in 1612, and appeared in the Mercator/ Hondius atlas from 1613 onwards. Van der Krogt/ Koeman I, p.34-35. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXI.

76 4718 Azores Insulae Flandricae olim Azores Dictae

- Small tear along green col. island in the centre; tipped to passepartout on recto.

76/4720 Belgium Afbeeldinge vande vermaerde seehaven ende stadt van Duynkercken met der omliggende plaetsen sanden ende droochten Pourtraict de la fameuse ville et havre de Duynkercke

- Trifle browned.

= Apart from the profile of Dunkirk, the chart also shows small profiles of Wynoxbergen, Kassel, Groot and Klein Sinten, Maerdijk, St. Goris, Grevelinge, De Hoijen, Waldamme and Calais. Van der Krogt/ Koeman II, 3295:2.

76 4721 Belgium Antverpia

- Yellowed; closed tear near upper right edge.

= A very atttractive large view. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXI.

76/4723 Belgium Carte Chorographique des Pays Bas Autrichiens

76/4723 Belgium Carte Chorographique des Pays Bas Autrichiens

76/4723 Belgium Carte Chorographique des Pays Bas Autrichiens

- Lacks leaf XVI; all lvs. w. stamp of the Topografische Dienst, Kaartenarchief in blank margin; a few lvs. trifle/ sl. duststained in blank margins; a few leaves (sm.) tear in blank margin.

= Excellent map with a fine armorial title-cartouche by M.A. Stagnon after C.N. Cochin II, and a large vignette by C.-E. Patas after C.D.J. Eisen depicting the presentation of the map to emperor Joseph II. Sheet XXI presents a plan of Brussels: "Plan Topographique de la Ville de Bruxelles et de ses environs". The map was first produced in three coloured manuscript copies, each on 275 sheets, between 1771 and 1777 on the scale of 1:11.520. It was inspired by and based on the geometrical method used for the large Carte de France surveyed by C.F. Cassini thirty years earlier. The manuscript maps then led to the publication of an engraved reduction on the scale of 1:86.400 and named Carte Chorographique, or Carte Marchande since this edition was meant for sale. Koeman, Geschiedenis van de Kartografie p.162-164.