Jean Baptiste CLOUET

France, 1786

60 x 42 cm.

This Folio Geographical Map is an original copper engraving from 1786.

This is the edition of CLOUET, published in 1767 in his Atlas, which bears the name of: “Géographie moderni avec une introduction: ouvrage useful a tous ceux qui veulent se perfectionner dans cette science, on y trouve jusqu’aux notions les plus simples dont on a facility……PARIS, 1767”

Beautiful map published in FRANCE, with excellent watercolor painting, wide margins… and geographically well detailed at every point.
This map, as shown in the photo, contains the description on both sides of the geographical area represented.

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FRIES, Lorenz

Strasbourg, 1525

38 x 30.5 cm.

Nice example of the 1525 edition of Lorenz Fries modern map of Asia Minor, one of the earliest modern maps to focus on this region.
First published in Strasbourg by Johannes Gruninger in 1522, Fries map is based upon Waldseemuller’s map of 1513.

Lorenz Fries Biography
Lorenz (Laurent) Fries (ca. 1485-1532) was born in Mulhouse, Alsace. He studied medicine, apparently spending time at the universities of Pavia, Piacenza, Montpellier and Vienna. After completing his education, Fries worked as a physician in several places before settling in Strasbourg in about 1519. While in Strasbourg, Fries met the Strasbourg printer and publisher Johann Grüninger, an associate of the St. Dié group of scholars formed by, among others, Walter Lud, Matthias Ringmann and Martin Waldseemüller. From 1520 to 1525, Fries worked with Grüninger as a cartographic editor, exploiting the corpus of material that Waldseemüller had created. Fries’ first venture into mapmaking was in 1520, when he executed a reduction of Martin Waldseemüller’s wall map of the world, first published in 1507. While it would appear that Fries was the editor of the map, credit is actually given in the title to Peter Apian. The map, Tipus Orbis Universalis Iuxta Ptolomei Cosmographi Traditionem Et Americ Vespucii Aliorque Lustrationes A Petro Apiano Leysnico Elucubrat. An.o Dni MDXX, was issued in Caius Julius
Solinus’ Enarrationes, edited by Camers, and published in Vienna in 1520.

Fries’ next project was a new edition of the Geographia of Claudius Ptolemy, which was published by Johann Grüninger in 1522. Fries evidently edited the maps, in most cases simply producing a reduction of the equivalent map from Waldseemüller’s 1513 edition of the Geographie Opus Novissima, printed by Johann Schott. Fries also prepared three new maps for the Geographia, of Southeast Asia and the East Indies, China, and the world, but the geography of these derives from Waldseemüller’s world map of 1507.
The 1522 edition of Fries’ work is very rare, suggesting that the work was not commercially successful. In 1525, an improved edition was issued, with a re-edit of the text by Willibald Pirkheimer, from the notes of Regiomontanus (Johannes Müller von Königsberg).
After Grüninger’s death in ca. 1531, the business was continued by his son Christoph, who seems to have sold the materials for the Ptolemy to two Lyon publishers, the brothers Melchior and Gaspar Trechsel, who published a joint edition in 1535, before Gaspar Trechsel published an edition in his own right in 1541.

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[Duisburg, circa 1578 or Amsterdam circa 1584].

45×35 cm.

This delightful Ptolemaic map of Turkey and Cypress originally came out in Mercator’s second (1584) edition of Ptolemy’s great Geography. Only the first (1578) and second (1584) editions of the atlas were published during Gerard Mercator’s lifetime.

Gerard Mercator is most popularly known for being the first to use the word “atlas” when referring to a group of maps as well his creation of the Mercator projection where line of latitude and longitude are constrained to a grid like format. However he did spend much of his life working on renditions to Ptolemaic maps such as this one.

The map shows the ancient political division within the Asia Minor region and notes many towns and important cities throughout. In this particular map, the great city of Istanbul formerly known as Constantinople is labeled “Bizantium” from its roots as an ancient Greek city. The name was later changed to Constantinople around 330 A.D. when the Empire ruled the region under Constantine I.

The map feature a decorative cartouche, two viscous sea monsters and delightful old coloring. Latin text on verso.

Mercator’s map of Asia Minor and Cyprus, from Mercator’s edition of Ptolemy’s Geographia, first published in 1578. The map also appeared in Mercator’s second (1584) edition of Geographia. Only the first (1578) and second (1584) editions of the atlas were published during Gerard Mercator’s lifetime.

Very good condition.

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Full Title: Retraite des Dix Mille Tabula conspectum exhibens Regionum omnium quas Cyrus Junior, Artaxerxi fratibellum illaturus ac Cyro in acie caeso, auxiliares Graeci peragranunt, ad mentem Xenophontis consecta, at que hodiernis locorum nominibus illustrata. In usum studiorm Christianissimi Francorum Regis elaborata; a Guillelmo Delisle Primario Suae Majestatis Christianissimae Geographo, ac Regiae Scientiarum Academiae socio. Parisiis, apud Auctorem in Ripa vulgo dicta le Quay de l’Horloge, I. Oct. M.DCCXXIII.

Guillome De L’ISLE

Publisher: Paris: Guillaume DeLisle, Quai de l’Horloge, 1723

45 x 58 cm.

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Jan JANSSON

Amsterdam, 1661

38 x 49 cm., hand coloured…

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Giacomo Da Vignola CANTELLI (1643-1695)

Rome, 1686

42 x 57 cm.

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Gerard MERCATOR

Amsterdam, c.1623

34,5 x 48 cm.

Fine engraved map with later hand-coloring. Verso text Latin.

This highly decorative map depicts Turkey and Cyprus. Topographical features are shown and major cities, towns, islands, waterways and mountains are located.

The map is further enhanced with a sea monster, sailing ship and three elaborate strapwork cartouches.

Gerard Mercator is considered the “greatest name in geographical science after Ptolemy” and produced the most accurate and current maps of his day. He was the first to choose “Atlas” as the name for a collection of maps. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Mercator’s maps were mostly original work – drawn and engraved by him. This handsome map reflects Mercator’s abilities, in beautiful Renaissance style, as both artist and scientist. (REF: Tooley Maps & Map-Makers).

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Gerard MERCATOR

Amsterdam, c.1623

34,5 x 48 cm.

Fine engraved map with later hand-coloring. Verso text Latin.

This highly decorative map depicts Turkey and Cyprus. Topographical features are shown and major cities, towns, islands, waterways and mountains are located.

The map is further enhanced with a sea monster, sailing ship and three elaborate strapwork cartouches.

Gerard Mercator is considered the “greatest name in geographical science after Ptolemy” and produced the most accurate and current maps of his day. He was the first to choose “Atlas” as the name for a collection of maps. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Mercator’s maps were mostly original work – drawn and engraved by him. This handsome map reflects Mercator’s abilities, in beautiful Renaissance style, as both artist and scientist. (REF: Tooley Maps & Map-Makers).

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Eman BOWEN

London, 1747

43,18 x 35,5 cm., hand colored…

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CHATELAIN, Henri Abraham

Amsterdam, c. 1720

37.5 x 43 cm.

Detailed map of the Mediterranean Region, from Chatelain’s monumental Atlas Historique.

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