GLOBES 

NEUSE, Dr.
[Terrestrial Globe]
Jordglob. Stockholm: Svenska Bokhandelcentralen, c.1930.
Terrestrial globe, 34cm diameter, with wooden stand, brass meridian, total height 58cm.
[Ref: 8538]  

PARAVIA, G.B.
[Terrestrial Globe]
Globo Terrestre... Torino, G.Pugno, c.1920. Terrestrial globe, 16cm diameter, with wooden stand, total height 27cm. Some cracking on globe.

[Ref: 9209]  

  WORLD 

 World & Continent Sets 

ORTELIUS, Abraham.
[Set in Fine Original Colour]
[Set of World and Four Continents]. Antwerp, 1612, Spanish text, full original colour. Each plate c. 365 x 500mm. Narrow lateral margins on 'Africa'.
The set comprises: Typus Orbis Terrarum. Third plate of 3, with roundels in the corners instead of clouds. Europae. Second plate of two. Asiae Nova Descriptio. Second plate of two. Africae Tabula Nova. First state of two, with crack almost joining all four lines of the title. Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio. Third plate of three, first state of two. VAN DEN BROECKE: 3, 5, 7, 8 & 11.
[Ref: 8400]  

SPEED, John.
[One of the most famous antiquarian world maps]
A New and Accurat Map of the World... London, Bassett & Chiswell, 1676. Coloured. 395 x 515mm.
A landmark map from Speed's 'Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World', the first English atlas of the world. The world has decorative borders illustrated with the Elements, portraits of explorers, astronomical diagrams and celestial hemispheres in the cusp. SHIRLEY: World, 317.
[Ref: 9777]  

SPEED, John.
[World & Four Continents]
A New and Accurat Map of the World...; Europ...; America...; Asia...; Africæ... London, Bassett & Chiswell, 1676. Coloured. Five plates, ea. c.395 x 515mm. Tiny restoration in lower centrefold of each plate.
A set of landmark maps from Speed's 'Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World', the first English atlas of the world. The world has decorative borders illustrated with the Elements, etc., and each of the continents has costume vignettes down each side and prospects of famous cities along the top. Complete sets of these decorative maps are becoming increasingly uncommon. SHIRLEY: World, 317.
[Ref: 5495]  

LA FEUILLE, Daniel de.
[World & Continents]
Mapemonde Planisphere ou Carte Generale Du Monde.; L'Europe Selon Les Autheurs Les Plus Modernes.; L'Afrique Selon Les Autheurs Les Plus Modernes.; L'Amerique Septentrionale.; L'Amerique Meridionale.; L'Asie. Amsterdam, 1709. coloured. each approx; 160 x 220mm. Original binding folds flattened, good margins, good impressions on heavy paper.
A set consisting of a double hemisphere world and five continents, from 'Les Tablettes Guerrieres...', a military pocket atlas. A number of cartographical curiosities are present in these maps, California is shown as an island, Australia has unresolved coasts, New Zealand is denoted by an indefinite single coastline and the mythical "Terre de Jesso" is marked.
[Ref: 10866]  

JANVIER, Jean.
[Set of World & 4 Continents.] Paris, Lattré, 1762. Coloured. 5 plates, ea. c. 305 x 450mm.
A double-hemisphere world map and four continents, each with a fully-coloured title cartouche.
[Ref: 8334]  

VUILLEMIN, Alexandre A.
[Set of World and Continents]
Planisphère Elementaire et Illustré... Paris, Fatout, 1865-6. Original colour. Seven plates, each c. 640 x 850mm. A few small signs of wear.
A fine set of seven large maps, with the world on Mercator's Projection (British Empire in red), and six continents (including South America and Oceania). Each map is decorated with informative vignettes.
[Ref: 9507]  

 World Maps 

BERLINGHIERI, Francesco de Nicola.
[A very fine example of a rare incunable world map]
[Untitled Ptolemaic World Map.] Florence, 1482. Two sheets joined, as issued, total paper size 425 x 570mm. One of the best examples we have seen for sale in the last 20 years.
Rare antique world map from the third edition of Ptolemy's Geography to include printed maps, the first to be printed in the vernacular and the first with ‘modern' maps. Francesco Berlinghieri (1440-1501), an Italian scholar and humanist, started work on a revision of Ptolemy in 1464, updating the Ptolemiac maps, supplementing them with modern maps (France, Italy, Spain and the Holy Land) and writing a commentary in Italian verse. The maps were engraved by Niccolò Tedesco, a German printer, unusually with equidistant meridians and parallels, and rectangular borders rather than trapezoid. The completed work was published as "Septe Giornate della Geographia di Francesco Berlinghieri" ("The Seven Days of Geography"). Around the edge are twelve named wind heads, all with long, flowing hair. On the map the Indian Ocean is completely land-locked: 'Terra Incognita' joins southern Africa and south east Asia. SHIRLEY: 9, "the engraving is clear and of commendable elegance"; TOOLEY et al, Landmarks of Mapmaking: p.21, illus.
[Ref: 10337]  

PTOLEMY, Claudius.
[Copper-engraved Incunable World Map]
[Untitled Ptolemaic World Map.] Rome: Petrus de Turre, 1478-90. Printed area 330 x 535mm. Joined at the centre, as issued; a few small repairs to edges.
A very early printed map of the world, published in the second edition of Angelus & Caldarini's version of Ptolemy, first published 1478. The map is indistinguishable from the first edition. An unusual feature of the series is the lettering, which is not engraved with a burin but stamped onto the plate. SHIRLEY: World 4. "Many consider the Rome plates to be the finest Ptolemaic plates produced until Gerard Mercator engraved his classical world atlas of 1578".
[Ref: 3969]