5858 - 6000 FINE ARTS - FOREIGN TOPOGRAPHY. MAPS, PLANS and VIEWS
- Sl. foxed (mostly in blank margins); some sm. marginal tears.
- A few vague foxed spots. = Van der Krogt/ Koeman I, 8710:1. Rare.
- Portfolio trifle dustsoiled.
- Seven prints waterstained in lower left corner, 5x (nearly) touching caption and/ or just touching image.
= Nice series. Titles are as follows: 1. "Breitlawinen contre le glacier du Breithorn"; 2. "La Vallée de Lauterbrunn avec le Staubbach contre les Glaciers"; 3. "Schiltwaldbach contre le Staubbach, pris en hyver"; 4. "Premier Chûte du Staubbach dans la vallée de Lauterbrunnen"'; 5. "Seconde Chûte du Staubbach prise de sa gauche dans la Vallée de Lauterbrunn"; 6. "Second Chûte du Staubbach en hyver, de sa droite"; 7. "Glacier du Breithorn contre le couchant"; 8. "Chûte du Myrrenbach"; 9. "Glacier du Breithorn contre la Vallée de Lauterbrunnen vers le Sud" and 10. "Herrenbaechli, pris en hyver".
- Horizontal middle fold strengthened in blank margins; partly closed tear in middle section; two tiny wormholes in upper/ lower margin.
- Sl. yellowed, otherwise fine. = Rare edition of this impressive map (most copies traced were printed in 1862).
- Sl. foxed.
= Rare map. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey No. 190. Martin & Martin, pl. 50.
- Provisionally strengthened on verso of part of the folds.
- Middle fold sl. creased and strengthened on verso; portion of lower blank corner restored.
= Van der Krogt/ Koeman I, 0030:1,4. The decororations include penguins, boats, native people and landscapes. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXVIII.
- Two vague oblique folds in upper right corner; trifle dustsoiled in left part; a few foxed spots.
= The first detailed map of Aruba, "gevolgd naar de opmeting in den jare 1820 gedaan, onder directie van den Kapitein ter Zee W.A. van Spengler en in den jare 1825 met verscheidene nieuwe bepalingen verrykt door den Kapitein R.F. van Raders". In 1773 a large map on seventeen sheets was made, which showed only the island's coastline. The present map was made after the Netherlands regained possession of 'Curaçao en Onderhorigheden' in 1816. Up-to-date reports and maps of Curaçao and Bonaire were soon made, but a survey of Aruba had to wait until 1820, when Captain Van Spengler, port warden of Curaçao from 1816 onwards, offered to perform this task. A copy of his manuscript map eventually found its way to the 'Departement van oorlog of Koloniën' in The Hague. In 1824, news arrived in The Hague that gold was found on Aruba. Immediately, Captain R.F. van Raders was sent to the island to investigate. During his three visits to Aruba in 1824 and 1825, Van Raders carried Van Spengler's map or a copy of it, and added new information to it concerning the gold mining. In 1825, this manuscript map was made in print. For extensive information on the mapping of Aruba in this period, see Caert Thresoar 2009-3, p.65-70.
- Unevenly browned; foxed; laid down on modern paper; closed tear in lower margin, ±6 cm. within in the image. Sold w.a.f.
= Van den Broecke 7.
= With the accomp. engr. text leaf from the work.
AND 1 other, similar sized map: "Karte von Asien" (Leipsic, 1821).
= Rare and attractive map showing the entire continent from the Mediterranean to New Guinea. The Japanese island of Hokkaido is merged with mainland eastern Siberia.
- Closed tear of 19,5 cm. in lower half middle fold.
ADDED: "Aegyptus Hodierna Ex itinerario Celeberrimi viri Pauli Lucae" (partly handcol. engr. map, ibid., 1712. Waterstained; a few (closed) holes; yellowed) and 4 sm. handcol. engr. maps from C. BUFFIER, Géographie universelle, ±1800.
- A few neatly closed tears in/ along middle fold and in right part; some foxing.
= Van der Krogt/ Koeman I, 8400:1B.2.
- Both maps middle fold (partly) strengthened w. scotch tape on verso; some sl. foxing.
= The first map extending from the Persian Gulf to the Caspian Sea, showing parts of modern-day Iraq and Iran; the second from the Persian Gulf to the Imaus Mountains in the east and Ukraine and southern Russia to the north. Both with a table showing distances between larger towns and Alexandria, flanked by large woodcut columns and with putti (possibly by A. DÜRER) above and below on verso.
- Doubled; 5 yellow stains.
= Rare chart depicting the western and southern coast of Africa and the South American coast of Guiana, Brazil and Uruguay. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXVII.
- Various (sm.) defects.