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| CORNETTE, A.H. - Iconographie van Antwerpen. Antwerp, 1933, Uncoloured. 500x340mm. Portfolio worn on the outside. Plates in very good condition. Clean and nice. Dividing papers with fraying not affecting the plates or wrappers! Important and monumental work on Antwerp! Folio sized plates and maps, loosely inserted in original plain wrappers with printed descriptions. Inside a contemporary half buckram portfolio. 
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| SKELTON, R.A. - Decorative Printed Maps from the 15th - 18th Centuries. London: Staples Press, 1952, Coloured and b & w reproductions, some full page.. 315x240mm. Boards generally good with sunning/fading to the spine. but otherwise book is very sound. First edition. Hardcover, vii + 80 pp., and 84 map reproductions, some in colour. From the Superintendent of the Map Room, British Museum, and a leading expert in antique maps. This illustrated book provides a survey of maps printed from copper plates or wood blocks from the 15th to the 18th centuries. The introduction describes the techniques used for engraving and printing map... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| Coronelli, Vincenzo. with foreword by Helen Wallis - Theatrum Orbis Facsimile of Coronelli GoresCoronelli, Libro Libro Dei Globi, Venice 1693 (1701) Chicago & London, 1969, Uncoloured. 500x350mm. Folio. XXXII, 296 pages, including 9 double page and 124 single page engravings of globes and globe gores, and 4 other plates including a portrait of Coronelli. Very Fine Book: Pages clean with tight, hardback red binding. Dustjacket damaged. From the "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Series of Facsimile Atlases, 1969. A scarce book. The facsimile of Coronelli's Libro Dei Globi of 1693 (1701) is part of the fourth series of facsimiles produced by Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. This book contains a detailed analysis of Cornelli and his ... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| TOOLEY, R.V. - Collector's Guide to Maps of the African Continent and Southern Africa. London: Carta Press, 1969, Five coloured plates of maps, rest uncoloured.. 255x190mm. Boards covered in red buckram, gilt lettering to spine, a fine copy, with some wear to dust jacket. This exhaustive study of the cartography of Africa by the noted antiquarian map expert, RV Tooley, includes cartobibliographic descriptions and one hundred black and white plates of the maps of Africa from 1713 to 1872. An important book for the collector of maps of Africa. xvi + 128pp, b/w il... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| KLEMP, Egon - Africa On Maps Dating From The Twelfth To The Eighteenth Century. New York: MacGraw Hill, 1970, Coloured with some black & white reproductions.. 530x355mm. Fine. Maps are clean. Some light wear to slipcase. A fine copy of this important work showing and describing antique maps of Africa dating from the twelfth to the eighteenth century by the leading German authority on antique maps of Africa. In English Two volumes including the elephant folio of the cartographic plates (cloth) and an ... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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| SHIRLEY, Rodney. - Maps in the Atlases of the British Library: A Descriptive Catalogue c. AD 850-1800. Vol I & II with CD index. London: The British Library. 2004, Uncoloured. 280x220mm. Very Fine. 4to, 1,923 pages with CD-Rom index, red cloth. This monumental study describes the map contents of over 3,000 pre-1800 atlases, including general works of geography, history, and travel which contain nine or more maps that are housed in The British Library, one of the world's foremost collection... (Click on title or image to go to item page) |
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