List of Atlases, Books, Charts & Maps at Maastricht Antiquarian Book & print Fair 2008
6,7 & 8 March
De Sint Janskerk
 | UNIQUE MAGNUS ALMANAC WITH SILVERWORK & STYLUS RICHLY GOLD-TOOLED BINDING FOR ALBERTUS MAGNUS'S HEIRS [ALMANAC]. DAM, Jan Albertsz van.Nieuw Geinventeerde Koopmans Comptoir- en Schrijf-almanach, op het schrikkel-jaar onzes Heeren J. Christi MDCCXII.Amsterdam, heirs of Albertus Magnus [= Cornelis Danckertsz.], [1711]. 12mo. Title-page with Albertus Magnus's woodcut publisher's device (Atlas with armillary sphere). Printed in red and black throughout. Contemporary mottled calf over thin wooden boards, richly gold-tooled boards, spine and board edges, 4 silver catchplates with the arms of the province of Holland, held together by a stylus containing a pencil, gilt edges. With contemporary blank leaves bound in, many coated for writing with the stylus. Most likely bound in the workshop that worked for Albertus Magnus's widow before her death in 1706. Full description »
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 | RARE FRENCH SCHOOL ATLAS INCLUDING 6 MAPS OF AMERICA [ANVILLE, Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d’?].Atlas Moderne Portatif, composé de vingt-huit Cartes sur touts les parties du Globe Terrestre. Nouvelle édition, augmentée de trois nouvelles cartes astronomiques.Paris, [heirs of Joseph de?] Laporte, 1781. 8vo. With 3 unnumbered and 28 numbered plates, including 27 maps, 1 folding (27 x 33.5 cm) and the rest double-page. Coloured by a contemporary hand, mostly in outline. Contemporary tanned sheepskin. Full description »
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RARE FRENCH SCHOOL ATLAS INCLUDING 6 MAPS OF AMERICA [ANVILLE, Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d’?].Atlas Moderne Portatif, composé de vingt-huit Cartes sur touts les parties du Globe Terrestre, et de trois cartes astronomiques. Nouvelle édition.Paris, [heirs of Joseph de?] Laporte, 1786. 8vo. With 3 unnumbered and 28 numbered plates, including 27 maps, 1 folding (27 x 33.5 cm) and the rest double-page. Coloured by a contemporary hand, mostly in outline. Late nineteenth-century half tanned sheepskin. Full description »
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 | LIBRARIES OF THE DOGE OF VENICE & OTHERS[AUCTION CATALOGUE]. GRITTI, Andrea, and others.Catalogue d'une Bibliotheque, Curieuse & Nombreuse. Contenant une collection de livres precieux, ... Et enfin un belle collection des Medailles Antiques ... Recueillis ... par ... S.A.S.A. Gritti, ... D.A.J. Salanova, ... J.F. de Voisin, ... 28 Mars 1769.The Hague, Jean Gaillard, [1769]. 8vo. 3 parts in 1 volume. With 3 title-pages and several woodcut tailpieces. Nineteenth-century shell-marbled boards. Full description »
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 | VORSTERMAN BIBLE COMPLETE WITH FOLDING MAP & CA. 250 WOODCUTS [BIBLE - DUTCH - VORSTERMAN].Den Bibel. Tgeheele Oude ende Nieuvve Testame[n]t met grooter naersticheyt na den Latijnsche[n] text gecorrigeert. ... Met schoone figueren ghedruct, ende naerstelijck weder oversien. Item oock een schoone zeer profitelijcke tafel, ... Cum gratia et privilegio.[colophon:] Antwerp, Willem Vorsterman, 1542. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio (32 x 20 cm). With 2 title-pages, the first in red and black and each with a border of illustrative woodcuts; 1 folding woodcut map of the Holy Land after Lucas CRANACH (27 x 39 cm); a three-page calendar in red and black; about 250 woodcut illustrations in the text, 1 nearly full-page and 1 by Lucas VAN LEYDEN; the woodcut arms of the Holy Roman Empire with the Antwerp arms at the end; and hundreds of decorated woodcut initial letters and ornaments. Parchment with gold-tooled spine, ca. 1700. Full description »
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 | DELUXE ISSUE BOUND BY STADHOUDERLIJKE BINDERY, GOLD FASTENINGS[BIBLE - MINIATURE].Kern des Bybels.The Hague, Antony de Groot, 1750. 128mo in 4s (binding 4.5 x 3.0 x 1.0 cm). Title-page in red and black with woodcut device, woodcut frontispiece, 6 full-page (3.3 x 1.6 mm!) woodcut illustrations, and headpieces built up from fleurons. The drop-titles of the five chapters and the appendix are printed in red, as is the fleuron used as a tailpiece at the end of each. A much abbreviated Old and New Testament. Contemporary richly-tooled red morocco by the so-called first stadhouderlijke bindery, gold-tooled board edges, gold-brocade endpapers, gilt edges. Two gold clasps with catch-plates. In a modern half morocco box. Full description »
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 | 1ST ISSUE OF BLAEU'S ATLAS OF CITIES OF THE NETHERLANDSBLAEU, Joan.Toonneel der Steden van de Vereenighde Nederlanden, met hare beschrijvingen.[Amsterdam], Joan Blaeu, ca. 1652. Imperial folio (52 x 34.5 cm). Engraved armorial title-page with the title on a letterpress slip, 8 part-titles, 128 city plans, city views and architectural views, mostly double-page, and a few small engravings and woodcuts in the text. Contemporary gold-tooled vellum, red-sprinkled edges. Full description »
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 | LOW-COUNTRIES VOL. OF 1ST ED. ATLAS MAJOR; 63 COLOURED MAPSBLAEU, Joan.Geographiæ Blauianæ volumen quartum, quo libr IX, X, Europæ continentur.Amsterdam, Joan Blaeu, 1662. Atlas folio (55.5 x 35.5 cm). The Low Countries volume of Blaeu's Great Atlas, with 62 double-page maps and 1 smaller map in the text. Further with Blaeu's woodcut publisher's device on the title-page and numerous large woodcut decorated initials. All 63 maps and the publisher's device coloured by a contemporary hand. Lacking the two engraved part-titles with letterpress slips. Contemporary gold-tooled overlapping vellum in a panel design with a large central ornament, gilt edges, early nineteenth-century letterpress spine label. Full description »
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 | FINE COLOUR BOTANICAL DRAWINGS OF AGRICULTURAL PLANTS [BOTANICAL DRAWINGS]. [HUET, Jean Baptiste?].[Recueil d'Aquarelles Originales].[France or the Netherlands?], ca. 1787. A large album (31 x 26.5 cm) with 117 botanical drawings in watercolour and gouache (20 x 16 cm) showing European and American cultivated plants, mostly agricultural crops. Early nineteenth-century French(?) half morocco, marbled sides and endpapers. Full description »
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 | COLOURED AQUATINTS OF WATERLOO & SURROUNDINGSBOWYER, Robert, compiler.The Campaign of Waterloo, illustrated with engravings of Les Quatre Bras, La Belle Alliance, Hougoumont, La Haye Sainte, and other principal scenes of action; including a correct military plan, together with a grand view of the battle on a large scale. To which is added a history of the campaign, ...London, Robert Bowyer (printed by Thomas Bensley and son), 1816. Royal folio (48 x 33 cm). With 6 aquatint views on 3 full-page and 1 double-page folding plates, and 3 full-page engraved plates with a battle plan, 48 numbered portraits of the British and their allies, and 50 numbered portraits of the French, and a large wood-engraved view of the Island of St Helena in the text (plus 1 repeat). Printed on Whatman wove paper. The 6 aquatint views hand-coloured as published. Green half morocco (ca. 1870), marbled sides and endpapers, green morocco title-label on front board. Full description »
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 | RARE MILITARY SCHOOL ATLAS BRION [DE LA TOUR], [Louis].Atlas, et Tables Élémentaires de Géographie, Ancienne et Moderne; adopté par plusieurs Écoles Royales Militaires. Nouvelle Édition.Paris, J. Barbou, 1787. 8vo. With 20 numbered double-page engraved maps (15 x 17.5 cm), 6 wood-engraved head- and tailpieces and a wood-engraved ornament on the title-page, the maps coloured in outline. Modern marbled paper over boards. Full description »
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 | MINIATURE BOOK OF LOVE EMBLEMS, WITH 81 ENGRAVINGSCAMERARIUS (CAMERARIO, CALMER), Giorgius.Emblemata Amatoria.Venice, Pietro Paolo Tozzi (colophon: Venice, printed by Giacomo Sarzina, 1627). Small oblong 16mo (7 x 9 cm). A Latin emblem book, with 83 poems and 81 full-page engravings (4.5 x 6 cm) on integral leaves, namely the engraved title-page with 4 cupids, the full-page engraved arms of the dedicatee, Venetian Senator Dominico Molino, 75 love-emblem engravings and 4 engravings of tombs. Further with 1 woodcut tailpiece (plus 1 repeat), 2 woodcut decorated initials (2 series) and decorations built up from 5 different cast fleurons. Set in roman type with incidental italic and Greek. Contemporary tanned sheepskin, gold-tooled spine and board edges, edges sprinkled red. Full description »
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 | MAGNIFICENT PLATES OF AMSTERDAM CITY HALL & MAP OF AUSTRALIA WITH TASMAN'S DISCOVERIES CAMPEN, Jacob van.Afbeelding van 't Stadt Huys van Amsterdam, in dartigh coopere plaaten, geordineert door Jacob van Campen; en geteeckent door Jacob Vennekool.Amsterdam, Frederik de Wit, ca. 1664. WITH: QUELLINUS, Artus. Prima [-Secunda] Pars Praecipuarum Effigierum ac Ornamentorum, Amplissimae Curiae Amstelodamensis. Amsterdam, Artus Quellinus, 1655 (vol. 1) & Frederik de Wit, 1668 (vol. 2). 2 works in 3 volumes. Large folio (44.5 x 28 & 42.5 x 26 cm). The Van Campen with engraved title-page and 24 engraved architectural plates (2 full-page, 17 double-page and 5 larger folding) lettered A-Z (including W but not J & U), including plans, elevations and sections. The Quellius with 2 engraved title-pages, engraved privilege, 2 engraved lists of plates, and 100 engraved plates illustrating details of the sculpture and decoration (92 full-page, 6 double-page & 2 larger folding) lettered in 2 irregular series A-T & A-X with more than one plate for many letters and 4 unlettered, plus an engraved portrait of Artus Quellinus, not always included. Contemporary parchment. Full description »
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 | CURRENCY LIST OF 1627 CARTE OU LISTEContenant le prix de chacun Marcq, Once, Estrelin & As, poids de Troyes, de toutes les especes d'or & dargent deffendues, legieres, ou trop vseés, & moyennant ce declarées pour billon, comme les Maistres des Monnoyes & Changeurs fermentéz sont tenuz d'en payer pour icelles, selon l'Ordonnance de sa Maiesté, faicte par les Generaulx des Monnoyes, au mois de Mars 1627. auecq les figures desdictes especes.Antwerp, Jérôme Verdussen, 1627. 8vo. Arms of Philip IV within chain of golden fleece on title-page, 285 pages with illustrations of coins. Later overlapping vellum, title written in black ink on spine. Full description »
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 | MATHEMATICS FOR THE CANON OPERATOR, WITH 7 ENGRAVINGS CLAESZ., Willem.Arithmetische, ende Geometrische Practijcke der Bosshieterye [sic]. Waer inne gheleert ende aengeghewsen wort, alle het ghene dat een constapel soo te water als te lande sonderlinghe van noode is te weten. ... soo wel voor de gene die niet cyferen en kunnen, als voor de ghene die het kennen.Rotterdam, Jan Wolffersz. (Vleyser), 1641. Small 4to. With 1 folding engraved plate (15.5 x 23.5 cm), 6 engravings in the text plus a repeat on the title-page (1 full-page and most 2/3-page), 13 woodcut diagrams in the text and 3 built up from rules, letterpress tables of numbers, 1 woodcut tailpiece and 4 woodcut initial letters (2 series). Contemporary vellum. Full description »
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