5071 - 5229 FINE ARTS - FOREIGN TOPOGRAPHY. MAPS, PLANS and VIEWS
- Central horizontal fold w. sm. tear at left end; blank margins sl. duststained/ a few foxed spots and sl. creased; sl. frayed.
- Mounted on linen; neatly closed hole in cartouche; sl. worn in blank margins in upper corners.
= Koeman IV, p.395 [80].
- Flattened middle fold. = Koeman II, p.59 (69).
- Trifle age-toned, otherwise fine.
- Lacks 1 plate; trifle/ sl. foxed, mostly on title and blank margins. Bindings sl. worn along extremities.
= Rossetti 361.
- Doubled (closing/ strengthening several weak/ dam. sections due to ink corrosion); lower margin sl. creased; top blank margin sl. chipped; sl. yellowed. Sold w.a.f.
= Rare 1st state of this important map, the first to show the newly discovered Sakhalin and Kyril islands, and famous for showing Korea as an island. Van der Krogt/ Koeman 8450: 1B; Walter 57; Cortazzi, H., Isles of Gold: Antique Maps of Japan, p.46 and 57 and plate 70. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCI.
- Seven dam. spots on folds (4x in top margin of plan); a few small sl. yellowed spots in image.
= The present day Wangan-doro Avenue is indicated in pink.
- Part of the textlvs only, without the maps and the views. Partly waterst. and some marginal tears/ false folds.
- Occas. w. some defects (mainly) in blank margins.
= Comprises i.a. "Planispheres celestes", "Carte de la peninsule comprenant l'Espagne et le Portugal", "Carte de la Turquie d'Europe et de la Grèce moderne", "Carte de l'Amérique septrentionale" and "Carte des Antilles du golfe de Mexique".
- Occas.sl. foxed, otherwise fine. = Espenhorst H 2.5.
- Vaguely waterst. in outer blank margins; 1 oblique crease.
- Contents mostly loose.
= I.a. Constantinople (Istanbul), Lille (Rijssel), Orvieto, Lissabon, Granada, Santander (Spain), St. Omer, Troyes (France), Tangier (Morocco).
- Sl. yellowed/ sl. foxed; verso stained.
- A few sm. closed tears in blank margins and a few false creases. Upper and lower margin trimmed to/ just inside the border.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XCI.
"Facies poli Arctici adiacentiumque ei regionum ex recentissimis itinerariis deineata". Engr. map of the North Pole w. handcol. borders by C. WEIGEL, 32x36 cm., Nuremberg, 1720.
- Large closed tear in top margin affecting image.
- Cut just outside the platermark on right and left side. = Poortman/ Augusteijn 134 GI.
AND 2 others: similar by the same: "De gelegenheyt van 't paradijs en 't landt Canaan" and "Perigrinatie ofte Veertich-Iarige Reyse der kinderen Israëls" (Poortman/ Augusteijn 138/ 140 KI).