Maps / Globes

[ASPIN] GAULTIER, Abbe.
Asia for the Elucidation of the Abbe Gaultier's Geographical Games.
London, John Harris, 1832.

Engraved map, 345 x 432 mm. (image size), original hand-colouring; mounted.

An attractive children's educational map of Australia, Asia and the east coast of Africa.

The map is based on...

Tooley, 132 (1823 issue).

Australian: $1850 (Approx. US $1692, Euro €1239) Quote ref.

CASSINI, Giovanni.
L’ Isola O-Taiti Scoperta del Cap. Cook con le Marchesa di Mendoza.
Rome, Presso la Calcografia Camerale, 1798.

Engraved map, 370 x 420 mm. (plate size), attractive original handcolouring; a little wear, and some watermarking, but...

Cassini's beautiful map of Tahiti, perhaps the most significant port in Cook's explorations in the Pacific. Tahiti had...

Australian: $2750 (Approx. US $2515, Euro €1841) Quote ref.

CASSINI, Giovanni.
Le Isole Della Societa e di Noel Delineate sille ultime Osservazioni del Capitan Cook.
Rome, Presso la Calcografia Camerale, 1798.

Engraved map, 375 x 410 mm. (plate size), original handcolouring; a little watermarked and embrowned; an attractive...

An attractive map by Cassini, depicting the "Leeward Isles" of the Society Islands, so named by Cook when he first...

Australian: $2750 (Approx. US $2515, Euro €1841) Quote ref.

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[COOK: FIRST VOYAGE] ZATTA, Antonio.
Nuove Scoperte fatte nel 1765. 67. e 69 nel Mare del Sud Venezia.
Venice, presso Antonio Zatta, 1776.

Engraved map, 405 x 300 mm., original handcolouring; in excellent condition, framed.

First edition of the first decorative map to show Cook's tracks in the Pacific. It records discoveries made during the...

Clancy, 'Mapping of Terra Australis', p.101; Tooley, map 1431, plate 103.

Australian: $3600 (Approx. US $3293, Euro €2411) Quote ref.

DE WIT, Frederick.
Tabula Indiæ Orientalis Emendata a F. de Wit.
Amsterdam, c. 1680.

Engraved map, 460 x 560 mm., in superb handcolouring; in fine condition.

This fine map of the East Indies was published by Frederick de Wit, at a time when he was one of the foremost...

Not in Tooley.

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HONDIUS, Henricus.
India quae Orientalis dicitur et Insulae Adiacentes.
Amsterdam, 1649.

Engraved map, handcoloured, 390 x 482 mm.; in fine condition, mounted.

A fine early map, showing Dutch discoveries in northern Australia. The map-maker Henricus Hondius (1597-1651) inherited...

Tooley, 721.

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JANSSON, Jan.
Indiæ Orientalis nova descriptio.
Amsterdam, J. Jansson, 1630.

390 x 500 mm., with central fold, with two compass roses and an attractive cartouche, early handcolouring; a very good...

A very good copy of this important and rare early map, the only early Dutch printed chart to show traces of Jansz's...

Clancy, Terra Australis Discovered, pp. 77-79; Parry, The Cartography of the East Indian Islands, pp. 104-105; Van der Krogt, I: 202 (79).

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OTSUKI, Bankei.
Shinsei Yochi Zenzu [New Map of the World].
Edo [Tokyo], 1845.

Double-hemisphere map, woodblock print on paper with outline colouring mounted on linen scroll, 304 x 1220 mm.; a fine...

This very attractive double-hemisphere scroll map, surrounded with extensive calligraphic text, was prepared by Otsuki...

Australian: $3850 (Approx. US $3521, Euro €2578) Quote ref.

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[VICTORIA].
Philips’ New Series of Travelling Maps. Victoria with Index (cover title).
London & Liverpool, George Philip & Son, c. 1885.

Slim octavo pocketbook map, map disected and mounted on linen, 655 x 540 mm., printed index; in the original red cloth...

An attractive pocket map from Philips' New Series of Travelling Maps, showing late nineteenth-century...

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