Map/Chart of the Indian Ocean, including South Africa, India and New Holland (Australia) to the Gulf of Carpentaria and Northwards to China and Japan from Francois Valentijn’s book Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien (Dordrecht/Amsterdam 1724/26). With in the right bottom corner the imprint J. van Braam en G. onder de Linden. Including the area east of Cape of Good Hope till Australia and Japan. An area covered by the Dutch V.O.C.

507 x 677 mm. Full contemporary colouring. Good condition with minor soiling and marginal fraying; paper slightly brittle but skillfully backed with ricepaper. Tooley 1268 $3200

Elegant antique map of the Southern Hemisphere. It shows South America, the Southern part of Africa, Indonesia, Australia (joined to new Guinea and without an East Coast), Tasman’s coasts of Tasmania and New Zealand and many South Pacific islands, including two Solomon Islands archipelagos, many degrees of longitude apart.

The long chain of islands attributed to Magellan and Gallego, stretching from Tierra del Fuego right across the South Pacific and the as yet unsighted Southern continent, which featured so prominently on earlier maps, have been deleted.

By Guillaume de L’Isle (1675-1726). 1714. De l’Isle is the leading map maker of the 18th century. Building on the work of Sanson, he was instrumental in France taking over from Holland as the leader and trendsetter in map-making. His maps dominated by their accuracy, clarity and their incorporation of the latest geographical information. He did away with elaborate decoration (at a time when his German contemporaries were on the contrary making it ever more showy). He was also strongly opposed to drawing conjectural coast lines, and suspicious of uncorroborated reports.

This map is a leading example of his approach and served as a basis for maps of the South for the remainder of the 18th century. Although he was mistaken in duplicating the Solomons, his suppression of the Magellan/Gallego island chain and of the imaginary coast lines of the Terra Australis Incognita, makes this map a large incremental step forward in accuracy. As such it is a milestone in the mapping of Australia, Antactica and the South Pacific.

471 x 464 mm. Contemporary outline colouring. Excellent condition. Tooley 1512. $1750

Elaborate antique world map in two hemispheres surrounded by six smaller hemispheres and two large decorative cartouches.(Two of the hemispheres are polar, 2 are projections centered on Nuremberg and the last 2 show how the inclination of the Earth’s axis accounts fro the difference of seasons N and S of the equator. The cartouches are filled with text in Latin and French, respectively).

By Johan Matthias Hase (known as Hasius) (1684-c1742) after Georg Moritz Lowitz (1722-74), from an atlas by the heirs of J B Homann, Nuremberg. Dated in the plate 1746.

Johan Baptist Homann (c1663-1724) was the most important map publisher in Germany in the 18th century. After his death, his heirs continued his business. Hase was one of these.

Image size 457x547mm (21 ½ x17 7/8 in) Original period hand colour. Condition good, with unobtrusive overall aging. Extensive repairs to right and bottom margins. $3000.00

Large handsome antique map showing the Western Pacific from Thailand to the Marquesas and from Japan to New Zealand.

Tasmania is still attached to the mainland of Australia, which is labelled Ulimaroa (a Maori word, recorded by Capt. Cook, for a legendary land to the North West of New Zealand.).

By Fredrieck Gottlieb Canzler, Nuremberg 1795.

480 x 600 mm. Original colouring, cartouche uncoloured. Very good condition with only minor surface dirt. Tooley 278. $2500.00

Antique bird’s eye view map of the city of Jerusalem, based on the biblical Book of Ezekial.

Elaborate border composed of 12 vignettes related to the temple of Solomon. These include King Solomon, the High Priest, Solomon’s temple (rendered as a renaissance palace), the Arc of the Covenant etc. By Daniel Stoopendal, from a Dutch “Staten” bible published by Hendrick, Jacob & Pieter Keur, Dordrecht and Amsterdam, 1702.

The Dutch so-called ‘Staten’ bibles published between 1637 and c1760, contained 5 maps: the world, ‘ paradise’, the peregrinations, the Promised Land Canaan, the travels of St. Paul and a plan of Jerusalem.

The city plan is due to Juan Bautista Villalpando (1552–1608) and first appeared in a commentary on Ezekial published in 1604. It bears little resemblance to the physical reality of the Holy City.

Its main features are the Temple Mount in the centre of the map and a walled enclosure labelled “City of David. Surrounding the city walls are the encampments of the armies that besieged Jerusalem throughout the course of history.

356x461mm (14 x 18 1/8 in) Overall condition is very good. The hand colour is recent and attractive. Dutch text on verso, entitled Beschryvinge van Jerusalem (description of Jerusalem) $1000.00

Described Antique map of the Asian continent, in a decorative border with miniature bird’s eye views of Asian cities and, down the sides, costumes of the inhabitants of various parts of Asia.

Dated in the plate 1626, English text on verso. By John Speed, from his Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World, published 1627-1676 (probably the 1627 or 1631/32 edition as it bears the name of the publisher George Humble).

This was the first world atlas produced by an Englishman John Speed (1152-1629) who is almost certainly the most famous of all English map-makers, best known today for two atlases, including the Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine, published in 1612. S

peed imitated the style of the famous Dutch map makers and had his plates engraved in Amsterdam (this one is signed by Abraham Goos). 404 x 512 mm. Especially attractive contemporary colouring. Very good condition (top margin reinforced and tear has been repaired — visible only on verso) $5600.00

Antique map of China and S East Asia. It includes Japan, Indochina, Indonesia and the Philippines.

From Covens & Mortier, Atlas Major, Amsterdam c1725. These are the fabled East Indies, from which the Dutch East India Company (VOC) was producing vast wealth. 545 x 495 mm (21½ x 19½ in)

Good clear impression in excellent condition. Bright original full colour. No text on verso. $2400

Beautiful large antique map/chart of the Pacific Ocean, with California as an island, the parts of (E astern) Australia and New Zealand known to Europeans in the 17th Century, Japan (and its attendants, the large conjectural Landt van Eso and Compagnies Lant. and the Western coastline of North America; as well as a large decorative cartouche, rhumb lines, ships and compass roses By Frederick de Wit (1630-1706) published c1680

Image size : 492 x 571 mm (19 3/8 x22½ in) Old original colour , overall condition very good (browning in lower right and left corners and in margins, otherwise, fine) $4000.00

Japan and (outline) Korea. F de Wit, from Covens & Mortier, Atlas Major, Amsterdam c1725.

This map reproduces the geography of the 17th Century Jesuit Martino Martini, who was the first European to attempt methodical mapping of China and Japan – although it obviously relies heavily on Chinese sources.

416 x 568 mm (16 x 22 1/2 in). Original outline colour. Good clear impression in excellent condition. No text on verso. $2800

Fine antique map of the Dutch province of Groningen Blaeu, Willem [& Johannes]. c1640.

William Blaeu is the most famous map publisher of the 17th century. Together with his sons, Joan and Cornelis, he was the most prolific exponent of the distinctive Dutch style of map engraving, calligraphy, decoration and colouring.

The geography of many of his maps was taken from other mapmakers and some were out of date by the time they were published, but atlases and sheet maps by the Blaeus flooded Europe and set the benchmark for their many competitors and imitators.

Contemporary colouring, with silver highlights. 380 x 489 mm. Excellent condition $800