5858 - 6000 FINE ARTS - FOREIGN TOPOGRAPHY. MAPS, PLANS and VIEWS
- Not examined outside frame, but apparently fully mounted on board.
= Laor 960: "Imaginary plan of ancient Jerusalem (...) From: Biblia ... Durch Martin Luther (...) The plan itself is drawn after Villalpando."
- Three neatly closed tears.
- Lacks sm. portion in centre along middle fold; a few tiny tears caused by oxidation.
AND 3 engr. bird's eye views of German/ Dutch towns along the Rhine: Arnhem, Rheinberg and Wijk bij Duurstede.
- Sm. split/ rubbed spot on the island of Voorne. Otherwise fine.
= Monumenta Cartographica Neerl. VII, map 51 and (text vol.) p.440ff. The second state, before the addition of the publisher's name of Nicolaas van Geelkercken and with the addition of i.a. the name of the fort Crevecoeur in the course of the Rhine (Schilder suggests that Geelkercken may have published this second state too). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXI.
- Doubled; one portion (±6x5 cm.) lacking and partly reproduced in manuscript; a few closed marginal tears.
- Small closed tear in centre; sl. creased along middle fold.
AND 1 other.
- Three (sm.) (closed) tears near middle fold/ in upper left section and 2 sm. tears in lower blank margin; a few sm. stains.
= Depicts the region north of the Black Sea, i.a. Crimea, present day Ukraine and Tartaria.
- Sl. waterstained in right blank margin and sl. frayed.
"General Charte vom Königreich Daenemark nebst dem Herzogthum Holstein". Handcol. engr. map by F.L. GÜSSEFELD, 59x45 cm., ibid., idem, 1789.
- Tear of 11 cm. in lower middle fold; 2 sm. tears in lower margin, affecting image; false crease along middle fold; brownish stain in upper part.
- Small hole in lower middle fold. Otherwise fine. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXI.
= The ninth leaf (of 11) from the atlas Scenographia Urbium Silesiae, with views of Lauer, Hirschberg, Liebethal, Warmbad, Lemberg, Buntzlau, Schmiedeberg and Greiffenberg.
- Pinholes in corners. Otherwise fine.
ADDED: "New Plan of London". Fold col. lithogr. plan by J. BARTHOLOMEW, mounted on linen, ±59x82,5 cm., tipped in: Bartholomew, J. W.H. Smith & Son's Plan & Guide of London. With Index to Streets. London, W.H. Smith & Son, n.d. (±1870), 35p., orig. (sl. rubbed) limp cl.
- Two sm. wormholes in outer margins; a few sm. brown stains.
= The map shows the routes taken by various explorers, i.a. Magellan (1520); Francis Drake (1577); Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa (1579); Olivier van Noort (1600) and Schouten and Le Maire (1616), as well as various river systems and other speculative information about the unexplored interior of the Continent. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIV.
- Blank margins sl. creased and frayed.
= All views of (ruins of) castles, estates and stately homes, i.a. Kaegleholm, Kronoberg, Gripenbergh, Sjöö,
- Left and right blank margins frayed, dam. and dustsoiled; a few views sl. duststained and soiled in image.
= Very fine and delicately coloured series of views.
- One print (and mount) rather heavily stained/ soiled.
= Views of i.a. Angestein, Basel, Bellelay, Dornach, Liesberg, Le Pichox, Reichenstein and Reuchenette.
- Slightly yellowed, a few closed tears in ample outer blank margins.
= Van der Krogt/ Koeman I, 4920:1A.1. Shows i.a. the Jura, the eastern part of Lac Leman, Lac de Neuchâtel, the Thunersee and Bern.
"Stiria. Steijrmarck." Handcol. engr. map, dec. cartouche, 37,5x50,3 cm., ibid., W. Blaeu, ±1650.
- A few closed marginal tears; waterst. in blank margin upper right corner.
= Van der Krogt/ Koeman II, 2730:2.
AND 1 handcol. engr. map of France and Switzerland: "Burgundia Comitatus" (Mercator/ Hondius, ±1633. Van der Krogt/ Koeman I, 4880:1A).
- Vaguely waterst.; otherwise fine.
= Showing the siege by the German imperial troups under Prince Eugene of Savoy against the Turkish army on the 11th of September 1697.
- A few closed tears (mainly on central fold); yellowed (except for the area surrounding the central fold which is irregularly white); a few sm. thin spots.
= Finely engraved wind chart, surrounded by wind heads. The wind heads are arranged in successive ages from young to old, and four large heads, blowing winds on the compass and seasons.