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40 STOOPENDAAL,D. Mappemonde. Amsterdam, 1748. Col. Coupé au filet d’encadrement,<br />

renmargé, doublé. Restauration de déchirures horizontales, verticale et de fentes aux niveau<br />

des plis. - Cut till neat line and remargined. Entirely underlaid as the map was separated in<br />

two. Two tears in the center 3 cm into the image. Sold as is. 303 x 450 mm. 400 - 500 ¤<br />

wo Beautiful double hemisphere world map from a Dutch Bible. Surrounded by allegorical representations of the<br />

continents, based on Visscher. California is depicted as a peninsula. Australia is partially mapped, blend with<br />

New Guinea and there is only a hint of Tasmania. The northwest American and east Asian coastlines are incomplete.<br />

Diagrams of the Copernican and Ptolemaic solar systems rest between the hemispheres. This is the small<br />

version of this world map, without the banner title. - Shirley, World, 498<br />

41 BROUCKNER, I. Carte Generale du Globe Terrestre… Venise, Remondini, 1761. Plis verticaux<br />

et horizontaux légèrement jaunis, infimes trous le long des pliures. - Horizontal and vertical<br />

folding marks slightly age-toned with a few minor holes. 220 x 325 mm. 300 - 400 ¤<br />

wo Carte… construite et publiée par le Sr Isaac Brouckner Geographe de S.M.T.C. Examinée et approuvée par<br />

Mr Daniel Bernoulli. Remondini’s reduction of the Brouckner’s highly influential map of the World. Includes a<br />

massive Bay of the West, partial New Zealand and Australian coastlines, and nice detail in the Northern<br />

Pacific.The world map including notes on the Russian voyages in the 1740s and the Acapulco Trade Route.<br />

Interesting naïve engraving style. Brouckner’s map is very rare on the market.<br />

42 BUACHE / DE L’ISLE / DEZAUCHE Planisphere Physique Où l’on voit du Pole Septentrional.<br />

Paris, 1785. Col. ancien. Importantes mouillures marginales. Infimes rousseurs, traces<br />

de pliures. - Marginal water staining. Several creases. Two minor spots. 340 x 440 mm.<br />

400 - 500 ¤<br />

wo Projection au pôle nord. Flanquée de tables explicatives. - Uncommon world map on a north pole projection<br />

prepared by G.de l’Isle and published by Phil. Dezauche. This map is most notable for it’s depiction of Mer de<br />

L’Ouest or Sea of the West, a great sea, easily the size of the Mediterranean, to flow from the then-known Strait<br />

of Juan de Fuca. He also shows an opening to the ocean from this great sea at roughly in North California or<br />

Oregon and Quivira somewhere in Idaho. Showing tracks of Tasman, Magellan, Drake, Quiros, etc. Only<br />

Australia’s west coast is drawn in.<br />

43 MENTELLE. Mappe-Monde. Paris, 1798. Limites en col. d’époque. Infimes rousseurs.<br />

190 x 365 mm. 100 - 150 ¤<br />

Joint : AA, P. van der. L’Europe.<br />

44 DOPPELMAYR,J.G./ HOMANN,J.B. Theoria Eclipsium. Nuremberg, 1740. Beau col.<br />

ancien. Pâles mouillures en haut de la carte, infimes rousseurs. - Dark impression. A few<br />

small light-brown spots. Water staining in upper part. Good condition. 485 x 568 mm.<br />

500 - 700 ¤<br />

wo Carte céleste dessinée par J. G. Doppelmayr, gravée et publiée par Homann dans “l’Atlas Coelestis”. - One of<br />

a series of celestial charts drawn by Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, engraved by Homann and published in the<br />

“Atlas Coelestis” by Homann’s Heirs.Doppelmayr was an astronomer of high repute. He was born at Nuremberg<br />

in 1671 and was educated at Halle University. He was a professor of mathematics in his native city for nearly fifty<br />

years, and for some time made a speciality of lunar observations’ (Brown, Astronomical Atlases, Maps and Charts<br />

p. 51). His reputation was such as to gain him memberships in the Academia Caesarea Leopoldina, the academies<br />

of Berlin and St. Petersburg, and the Royal Society of London… His major work is the Atlas novus coelestis…<br />

The positions of the stars on the maps are correct for the year 1730.<br />

45 BENARD. Astronomie. Paris, ca.1780. Col. Infimes rousseurs. 230 x 365 mm. 200 - 250 ¤<br />

wo Représente les hémisphères Boréal et Austral avec leurs constellations.<br />

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