5071 - 5229 FINE ARTS - FOREIGN TOPOGRAPHY. MAPS, PLANS and VIEWS
- Sm. foxed spot in right blank margin. Fine.
= Chart of the coast near of Mauritania near the island of Arguin.
- Yellowed. = Van der Krogt/ Koeman IV-2.2, 4510.
AND 2 others: a map of Northern Africa (18th cent.) and "Algiers, vermaerde Schuilplaats der Zeeroveren (...)" (engr. view by P. SCHENK, titled below, ±1700).
- Mounted along margins, under passepartout.
= Interesting map, showing the extent to which the West of America and Canada was still unexplored. This all changed after the great expeditions of Lewis and Clark, Pike and others in the wake of the Louisiana Purchase.
- Mounted on cardboard; browned; (closed) tears along the edges; sm. hole in centre. Sold w.a.f.
= Burden 332, 2nd ed. "Bearing privilege along the lower margin".
- Slightly mouldy/ waterst. in lower corners; lower blank margin partly brittle/ strengthened w. paper tape on verso.
= This rare map illustrates the theater of the Nine Years War, one of the inter-imperial conflicts of the early 18th century. It shows i.a. many shipping routes of the Spanish empire and many strategical harbours.
- Trifle yellowed; sl. waterst in outer (ample) blank margins. Fine copy.
= Van der Krogt/ Koeman I, 9400:1B; Burden 254.
- Some vertical creases caused by rolling.
AND an engr. view of "De Stadt Souratte" (Amst., J. van Meurs, 1671).
- Browned. = Van der Krogt/ Koeman II, 6350:2.
- Rectangular silver coloured piece of paper mounted over title.
AND 1 other: the engr. title by P. PHILIPPE after A.V. VENNE of "Groot Placaet-Boeck" (1658).
- All three w. central vertical fold; dustsoiled and frayed (mostly in left margins).
= Apart from the profile of Dunkirk, the chart also shows small profiles of Wynoxbergen, Kassel, Groot and Klein Sinten, Maerdijk, St. Goris, Grevelinge, De Hoijen, Waldamme and Calais. Van der Krogt/ Koeman II, 3295:2.
AND 6 miscellaneous others, incl. 1 dam. map, i.a. "Nieuwe Kaart van Duitsland verdeelt in zyn Thien Kreitzen" (handcol. engr. map, Amst., I. Tirion, ±1740. Partly split on centerfold).
- A few foxed spots; chafed spot in upper edge.
= Apart from the profile of Dunkirk, the chart also shows small profiles of Wynoxbergen, Kassel, Groot and Klein Sinten, Maerdijk, St. Goris, Grevelinge, De Hoijen, Waldamme and Calais. Van der Krogt/ Koeman II, 3295:2.
AND 1 engr. view of "Da Ville d'Anvers, en Brabant".