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PROBST

Emre Gürçay — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 13:50:44 +0000

SECONDE FEUILLE DU THEATRE DE LA GUERRE ENTRE LES RUSSES ET LES TURCS contenant la Bulgarie la Macedonie la Thracie la Natolie ou petite Asie les Isles de Morea de Candie de Cypre et les autres Isles de l’Archipel avec la reste de la Mer noire et celle de Marmore dresée suivant la Carte de Mr. Hase corrigée d’apres les observations et les Cartes de Mr. Pocock faites de ses voyages dans ces pais la.

Jean Michel PROBST

Augsburg, 1771

76 x 52 cm., framed.

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MORTIER

Emre Gürçay — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 08:52:27 +0000

BYZONDERE KAART VAN DE LANDEN DAAR DE APOSTELEN HET EVANGELIUM GEPREDIKT

Pieter MORTIER

Amsterdam, 1729

48 x 39 cm.

Large original engraving from: Afbeeldingen der merkwaardigste geschiedenissen van het oude en nieuve testament.

Fine old color example of the first edition of of Mortier’s map showing the travels of the Apostles, through the Eastern Mediterranean, etc., based upon the prophecies.

Paul’s route by sea to Sicily and the Bay of Naples is shown.

Pierre Mortier Biography:

Pierre, or Pieter, Mortier (1661-1711) was a Dutch engraver, son of a French refugee. He was born in Leiden. In 1690 he was granted a privilege to publish French maps in Dutch lands. In 1693 he released the first and accompanying volume of the Neptune Francois. The third followed in 1700. His son, Cornelis (1699-1783), would partner with Johannes Covens I, creating one of the most important map publishing companies of the eighteenth century.

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PORCACCHI

Emre Gürçay — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 09:10:07 +0000

DESCRITTIONE DELL’ISOLE O SCOGLI CURZOLARI

Tomaso PORCACCHI

1574 (published) Venice

26.7 x 17.8 cm.

This is an authentic antique map of the Gulf of Lepanto and the surrounding environs by Tomaso Porcacchi. The map was published in the book L’Isole piu Famose del Mondo in Venice, circa 1576.

This map of southwestern Greece exhibits lovely old color. Large cities such as Patras (Patrasso) are noted, as well as smaller towns and islands. The map itself is about 4.25 x 5.5 inches on a page that includes Italian text on the front and back.

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STOOPENDAAL

Emre Gürçay — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 14:19:46 +0000

DE GELEGENTHEYT VAN’T PARADYS EN’TLANDT CANAAN

D. STOOPENDAAL

Rotterdam, 1686

Publisher: Pieter and Jacob

44 x 48 cm.

from “Biblia, dat is De gantsche H. Schrifture”

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DELAMARCHE

Emre Gürçay — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 14:09:19 +0000

MAPPE-MONDO, ou CARTE GENERALE DE TOTES LES PARTIES DE GLOBE

Map Maker/Publisher: C. DELAMARCHE/R. De VAUGONDY

Paris, c.1781

32 x 45 cm.

This Small Folio Geographical Map is an original copper engraving from around 1780.

This is the edition of VAUGONDY published in about 1780 in his Atlas, which bears the name of: “NOUVEL ATLAS PORTATIF Destiné Principalement pour L’instruction de la Jeunesse. Par Robert de Vaugondy Géographe. Revu, corrigé et augmenté par C. F. Delamarche Géographe. ….. Paris, circa 1780”

Map published in PARIS, with excellent coloring, wide margins, and geographically well detailed in every point.

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SANSON

Emre Gürçay — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 12:12:15 +0000

ESTATS DE L’EMPIRE DES TURQS EN EUROPE ou sont LES BEGLERBEGLICZ ou GOUVERNEMENT de ROMELIE, de la MER, de BUDE, de TEMESWAR et de BOSNIE…

S. SANSON

Amsterdam, chez Pierre Mortier & Compagnie, c.1690

58,5 x 87 cm.

Hand Colored

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LAURIE & WHITTLE

Emre Gürçay — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 13:48:49 +0000

A NEW MAP OF TURKEY IN EUROPE DIVIDED INTO ALL ITS PROVINCES; WITH THE ADJACENT COUNTRIES OF EUROPE AND ASIA…

Richard Holmes LAURIE & James WHITTLE

London, 1794

61 x 58 cm.

Striking map of the eastern Mediterranean, Greece, Turkey & Cyprus, bounded by Cyprus and the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, the Adriatic and Crete, centered on Greece and Turkey.

Excellent detail on the Isle of Cyprus and throughout.

RICHARD HOLMES LAURIE BIOGRAPHY:

Richard Holmes Laurie (1777-1858) was the son of mezzotint engraver Robert Laurie, who had taken over Robert Sayer’s publishing house with James Whittle in 1794. Richard Holmes Laurie joined in a partnership with Whittle when his father retired in 1812. The name of the firm then switched from Laurie & Whittle to Whittle & Laurie. Whittle died in 1818, leaving Richard Holmes to continue publishing alone as R. H. Laurie.

When the Hydrographic Office opened in 1795, it was tasked with creating and producing all the nautical charts for the Royal Navy so as to wean the Navy off dependence on foreign charts. By the 1820s, private publishers were augmenting HO charts and competing with them, including Richard Holmes Laurie. Richard gave up publishing anything except nautical materials by 1830. He also sold charts to Trinity House, the lighthouse and maritime safety fraternity. He died in 1858.

The firm continued to print under the name R.H. Laurie even after 1858. Later, the firm was managed by Laurie’s draughtsman, Alexander George Findlay, and, later, Daniel and William Kettle.

JAMES WHITTLE BIOGRAPHY:

James Whittle (1757-1818) was a British engraver and map printer. Whittle was employed by Robert Sayer (ca. 1725-1794). Together with Robert Laurie (1755?-1836), he took on Sayer’s business when the older man died in 1794. The two traded together as Laurie & Whittle until 1812, when Laurie retired. They had specialized in sea charts and maritime atlases. Whittle then partnered with Laurie’s son, Richard Holmes Laurie, until he died in 1818.

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BALKAN-HALBINSEL

Emre Gürçay — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 12:43:21 +0000

ZUR LAGE AUF DEM BALKAN. -ENDE 1912.

Toussaint-Langenscheidt -Atlas

Karte Nr. 10

Berlin

19 x 21 cm.

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ORTELIUS

Emre Gürçay — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 15:51:41 +0000

ALEXANDRI MAGNI MACEDONIS EXPEDITIO

Abraham ORTELIUS

Antwerp, 1624

45,7 x 35,5 cm.

Detailed map of Alexander the Great’s expedition to Macedonia.

Includes an inset: Iovis Ammonis Oraculum, the oracle in Lybia which Alexander visited before he went to India.

Several decorative cartouches, sailing ships, sea monsters, etc.

Abraham Ortelius Biography

Abraham Ortelius is perhaps the best known and most frequently collected of all sixteenth-century mapmakers. Ortelius started his career as a map colorist. In 1547 he entered the Antwerp guild of St Luke as afsetter van Karten. His early career was as a business man, and most of his journeys before 1560, were for commercial purposes. In 1560, while traveling with Gerard Mercator to Trier, Lorraine, and Poitiers, he seems to have been attracted, largely by Mercator’s influence, towards a career as a scientific geographer. From that point forward, he devoted himself to the compilation of his Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World), which would become the first modern atlas.

In 1564 he completed his “mappemonde“, an eight-sheet map of the world. The only extant copy of this great map is in the library of the University of Basel. Ortelius also published a map of Egypt in 1565, a plan of Brittenburg Castle on the coast of the Netherlands, and a map of Asia, prior to 1570.

On May 20, 1570, Ortelius’ Theatrum Orbis Terrarum first appeared in an edition of 70 maps. By the time of his death in 1598, a total of 25 editions were published including editions in Latin, Italian, German, French, and Dutch. Later editions would also be issued in Spanish and English by Ortelius’ successors, Vrients and Plantin, the former adding a number of maps to the atlas, the final edition of which was issued in 1612. Most of the maps in Ortelius’ Theatrum were drawn from the works of a number of other mapmakers from around the world; a list of 87 authors is given by Ortelius himself

In 1573, Ortelius published seventeen supplementary maps under the title of Additamentum Theatri Orbis Terrarum. In 1575 he was appointed geographer to the king of Spain, Philip II, on the recommendation of Arias Montanus, who vouched for his orthodoxy (his family, as early as 1535, had fallen under suspicion of Protestantism). In 1578 he laid the basis of a critical treatment of ancient geography with his Synonymia geographica (issued by the Plantin press at Antwerp and republished as Thesaurus geographicus in 1596). In 1584 he issued his Nomenclator Ptolemaicus, a Parergon (a series of maps illustrating ancient history, sacred and secular). Late in life, he also aided Welser in his edition of the Peutinger Table (1598).

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VAUGONDY

Emre Gürçay — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 13:59:39 +0000

ETATS DU GRAND SEIGNEUR, EN ASIE, EMPIRE DE PERSE, PAYS DES USBECS, ARABIE et EGYPTE

Didier Robert De VAUGONDY

Paris, 1753

57 x 48 cm.

Detailed map of the Ottoman Empire, published by De Vaugondy in Paris.

The map extends to the Black Sea, Georgia, the Caspian, Uzbekistan, The Indian Ocean, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the Red Sea.

The Ottoman Empire was a vast and powerful state that at its height stretched from Eastern Europe to North Africa and included much of the Middle East. In the middle of the 18th century, the empire was facing a number of challenges, both internal and external.

One of the major internal challenges facing the Ottoman Empire at this time was a decline in central authority. The Ottoman sultans had traditionally exercised a great deal of power, but by the mid-18th century, they had become increasingly weakened and isolated. The empire was also facing a crisis of succession, with a number of rival factions vying for control. This political instability had a number of negative consequences, including a decline in the military and economic power of the empire.

Externally, the Ottoman Empire was also facing a number of challenges. The empire was at war with a number of European powers, including Russia and Austria, and was also under threat from the expanding Russian Empire. In addition, the Ottoman Empire was facing a number of rebellions and uprisings within its own borders, as various ethnic and religious groups sought greater autonomy or independence.

Didier Robert de Vaugondy (ca. 1723-1786) was the son of prominent geographer Gilles Robert de Vaugondy and Didier carried on his father’s impressive work. Together, they published their best-known work, the Atlas Universel (1757). The atlas took fifteen years to create and was released in a folio and ¾ folio edition; both are rare and highly sought-after today. Together and individually, father and son were known for their exactitude and depth of research.

Like his father, Didier served as geographer to King Louis XV. He was especially recognized for his skills in globe making; for example, a pair of his globes made for the Marquise de Pompadour are today in the collection of the Municipal Museum of Chartres. Didier was also the geographer to the Duke of Lorraine. In 1773, he was appointed royal censor in charge of monitoring the information published in geography texts, navigational tracts, and travel accounts.

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