Carte Generale du Monde, ou Description du Monde Terrestre & Aquatique by van Luchenburg, Jan - [1729]
by van Luchenburg, Jan
Carte Generale du Monde, ou Description du Monde Terrestre & Aquatique
by van Luchenburg, Jan
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Amsterdam: Jean Covens et Corneille Mortier, [1729]. Loose leaf. Fine. Pierre Mortier, Jan van Luchenburg, Jean Covens, Corneille Mortier. Image size: 16 x 18 1/2 inches. Pierre Mortier's unique world map drawn on Mercator's projection with CALIFORNIA AS AN ISLAND and the "Detroit d'Anian" connected by dotted lines through the NORTHWEST PASSAGE to Buttons Bay located to the west of Hudson Bay. In the Pacific is a small coastline of New Zealand. The northeast coast of Asia is severely truncated. Australia's northern coast is shown connected to New Guinea, along with a part of Van Diemen's Land. Across the top of the map are five spheres depicting Day and Night, the Flood, the phases of the moon, and a double hemisphere of the globe depicting the Western and Eastern hemispheres. The map was precisely engraved by Jan van Luchenburg, with his name at the lower left and the Covens and Mortier imprint at the lower right. Text in French and Dutch. A clean and well struck copy in fine condition, professionally conserved matted (dark blue) and framed. See Shirley #427, #622. Frame size: 22 1/8 x 25 inches. A fine Covens & Mortier world map with depictions of the legendary Northwest Passage and California as an Island.
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- Illustrator Pierre Mortier, Jan van Luchenburg, Jean Covens, Corneille Mortier
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- Publisher Jean Covens et Corneille Mortier
- Place of Publication Amsterdam
- Date Published [1729]
- Keywords world map framed mercator travel engraving illustrated 18th
Paralleles de Latitude, from Description de L'Univers
by [Mallet, Allain Mannesson]
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Cercles de Longitude, from Description de L'Univers
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Chios. "Chios Maris Aegæ ieiusdem nominis Insulae Civitas
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Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed under the direction and patronage of the african association, in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797. with an appendix, containing illustrations of Africa by Major Rennel
by PARK, Mungo
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4º. xxviii,(2),372 pp., xcii. Bound to style in a fine later calf. Title-and tomelabels with gilt lettering. Blindtoolings to bands and compartments of spine. Engraved portrait as frontispiece, 2 engraved plates with music, 5 engraved plates (of which 3 are views) and 3 large folded engraved maps. One map strenghtened in foldings and edges, one map with a closed tear to folding. Wide-margined, a few margins slightly brownspotted. Light offsetting to title and portrait.
Second edition - the same year as the first - of this classic work of travel litterature.
"Until the publicationof Park's book in 1799 hardly anything was known of the interior of Africa, apart from the north-east region and coastal areas....the real opening up of Africa by the white races began with the African Association, founded in 1788 with the express purpose of exploring Africa and furthering British tradee and political influence onthe continent...Parks travels had an immediate success and was… Read More
Hudson River and the Hudson River Railroad: with a complete map and wood cut views of the principal objects of interest upon the line
by HUDSON RIVER RAILROAD
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A Large Draught of the North Part of China Shewing the Passages and the Chanells into the Harbour of Chusan
by THORNTON, John (1641-1708) & Samuel (fl.1703-39)
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Property Map of Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey, Prepared by Hudson Maxim for the Morris Canal Investigation Commission, November 16, 1912, Compiled from Various Maps and Actual Surveys by P. E. Boomer, C. E.
by Maxim, Hudson; & P. E. Boomer
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Paralleles de Latitude, from Description de L'Univers
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Cercles de Longitude, from Description de L'Univers
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Survey of Pakistan Kashmir
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Bath, Maine, United States
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The Sky and the Forest
by Forester, C.S
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Alaska and Klondike Region; [With inset of Klondike Region on the Upper Yukon detail] [From an atlas, "Gazetteer of Alaska and Yukon Region " pp. 105 and 106]
by Miller, J. Martin
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Last Tales
by Dinesen, Isak
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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Zemepis Sveta - Monsunova Asie
by De La Blache, P. Vidal; Gallois, L
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Zemepis Sveta - Monsunova Asie
by De La Blache, P. Vidal; Gallois, L
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The Adventure of Wrangel Island
by Vilhjalmur Stefansson
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Seven Pillars Of Wisdom, A Triumph
by Lawrence, T.E
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North America from the Best Authorities, Russell, ca.1800
by Russell
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Asia from the Best Authorities, Russell, ca.1800
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MAP OF UTAH [Territory]
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