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Important Cartography from the Niewodniczanski Collection
BLAEU, Willem Janszoon (1571-1638)
Appendix Theatri A. Ortelii et Atlantis G. Mercatoris, continens tabulas geographicas diversarum orbis regionum, nunc primum editas cum descriptionibus. Amsterdam: G. Blaeu, 1631.
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BLAEU, Willem Janszoon (1571-1638)
Appendix Theatri A. Ortelii et Atlantis G. Mercatoris, continens tabulas geographicas diversarum orbis regionum, nunc primum editas cum descriptionibus. Amsterdam: G. Blaeu, 1631.
Rare first edition with the map of Lithuania on 4 map sheets, and with the map of the British Isles in its earliest state with its figurative borders, as in the 1630 Appendix. Shirley, British Library T.BLA-1b; van der Krogt II, 2:021
Folio (483 x 305mm). Latin text. Engraved allegorical title, and 97 (of 98) mostly double-page engraved maps on 100 map sheets (lacking map 78 ‘Provincia’, maps 5 and 17 with slight printer’s crease, map 26 with small loss of engraved area (repaired hole), map 35 with arms in upper left corner restored in facsimile with commensurate loss of text on the reverse, expert repairs and restoration to margins of maps 21 and 45, a few other maps and final text leaves (not into engraved area or text), small repaired hole on map 95 affecting a few letters). Modern vellum with yapp edges, flat spine with red leather lettering piece, new endpapers, cream leather ties.
Appendix Theatri A. Ortelii et Atlantis G. Mercatoris, continens tabulas geographicas diversarum orbis regionum, nunc primum editas cum descriptionibus. Amsterdam: G. Blaeu, 1631.
Rare first edition with the map of Lithuania on 4 map sheets, and with the map of the British Isles in its earliest state with its figurative borders, as in the 1630 Appendix. Shirley, British Library T.BLA-1b; van der Krogt II, 2:021
Folio (483 x 305mm). Latin text. Engraved allegorical title, and 97 (of 98) mostly double-page engraved maps on 100 map sheets (lacking map 78 ‘Provincia’, maps 5 and 17 with slight printer’s crease, map 26 with small loss of engraved area (repaired hole), map 35 with arms in upper left corner restored in facsimile with commensurate loss of text on the reverse, expert repairs and restoration to margins of maps 21 and 45, a few other maps and final text leaves (not into engraved area or text), small repaired hole on map 95 affecting a few letters). Modern vellum with yapp edges, flat spine with red leather lettering piece, new endpapers, cream leather ties.
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Eugenio Donadoni
Senior Specialist, Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts