5491 - 5697 FINE ARTS - FOREIGN TOPOGRAPHY. MAPS, PLANS and VIEWS
- Trifle foxed and w. some brownish waterstains.
= One of a set of two maps showing the Eastern half of North America.
- Doubled; some unobtrusive stains; nevertheless fine. = Koeman IV, Van Keulen C, 8 [25]. Rare.
- Heavily creased and foxed; some marginal repairs on verso.
= This decorative celestial chart was published 5 times between 1684 and 1792. Whitfield p.81: "An ingenious application of the Mercator-type projection to the celestial map."
- A few tears in image closed on verso (one tear ±12 cm.); a few marginal tears (mainly in blank margin).
= Nice map depicting the circular solarsystem (Ø 44 cm.) according to Copernicus and Constantijn Huygens, with the signs of the zodiac, and with a large cartouche with additional information in each corner.
= One of 6 celestial charts showing the heavens as seen in 1730, also delineating the paths of various comets.
- A few marginal tears (1x touching the image),
= Decorative celestial chart of the northern skies, depicting the signs of the zodiac in the centre and 4 observatories (i.a. of Paris and Nürnberg) in the corners.
- Flattened fold in right margin; tape along margins on verso.
ADDED: 3 other maps, i.a. two engr. worldmaps: "Homerische Welttafel" and "Weltkarte".
- Trife age-toned. Otherwise fine. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVI.
= Chart of part of the gulf of Arguin on the coast of Mauritania.
"Afbeeldinge vande vermaerde seehaven ende stadt van Duynkercken met der omliggende plaetsen, sanden ende droochten (...). Pourtraict de la fameuse ville et havre de Duynkercke (...)." Engr. chart after P. CODDE, w. cartouche, small inset profile showing Waldamme and Calais and w. numerous ships, 44x69 cm., printed on 3 attached sheets, from BLAEU, Atlas Maior, ±1664.
- Slightly dampstained in centre; a few foxed spots.
= Van der Krogt/ Koeman II, 9950:2B. Klein, Kaap Hoorn, 49.
- Some soiling in lower blank margin. = These Atlas Minor maps are rare.
- Cut to the borderline; vertical fold (as published); a few sm. stains.
= New Hollstein 2039, prob. 2nd state; Pennington 693. From: Johannes NIEUHOFF, An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperor of China (London: 1669).
- All maps laid down on thin board and (except for a some irregular mounted spot on one map), fine.
= Very rare. The complete set of maps consists of 64 detailed maps (1:200.000), showing southern Hebei Province and all of Shandong Province. No complete copy traced on the market, and no separate maps either. The United Nations Library at Geneva and ERIC (Education Resources Information Centre) have a (near) complete copy of the map in their holdings. Both can be referenced online. The history of the creation of this map is as follows: The Kiautschou Bay Leased Territory was a German leased territory of 552 km2 in Imperial and Early Republican China from 1898 to 1914. From 1860 onwards the Germans became interested in gaining influence and a foothold in Asia, and especially in China. Surveyors were sent to Kiautschou Bay (Jiaozhou Bay). After negotations and the signing of the Prussian-Chinese Treaty of Peking in 1861, the Germans decided to establish a naval base in Jiaozhou Bay. The murder of two German Roman Catholic Priest by angry Chinese peasants belonging to the Big Sword Society in 1897, resulted in German miltary retaliation and occupation of the area in Kiautschou Bay (Jiaozhou Bay). After negotations with the Chinese, a deal was struck by which Germany was given the leasehold of the bay for 99 years in 1898. Germany lost the bay in 1914 to the Japanese at the outbreak of World War I. The Japanese returned the territory to China in 1922, but reoccupied it again between 1937-1945. After World War II the territory was returned to China again. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXVII.
- Trifle yellowed; w. a few sm. tears in outer blank margins.
AND 2 handcol. views of Constantinople: "Vue de la Place et des Casernes de Top-Hané" and "Vue de la Ville de Constantinople avec un Pont Galata appele aussi Pera" (both ±1800).
- A few tiny closed holes in centre; otherwise fine.
= Detailed view of the sea battle near Havana, Cuba, between ships of the Dutch Republic and the Habsburg Spanish monarchy. Pieter Adriaensen conquered 13 ships in total before returning to the Netherlands.
- False fold right from middle fold; vague oblique fold in upper right part; lower part of middle fold strengthened w. sellotape on verso; left edge sl. frayed.
= Van der Krogt/ Koeman II, 1530:2.
- Partly doubled; a few foxed spots; tiny tear in upper edge just touching the image.
= Koeman IV, Van Keulen S, 13 [177]. Rare.
- Partly doubled; a few foxed spots; upper margin partly trimmed just outside the border line.
= Koeman IV, Van Keulen S, 10 [40]. Rare.