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53 - (Cartography – Portolan Charts) – 6 volumes
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Estimate €100 - €150
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(Cartography – Portolan Charts) – 6 volumes – KUPCIK (Ivan). Munich Portolan Charts ‘Kunstmann I–XIII’ and ten further Portolan Charts. Munich and Berlin, 2000. Folio, 176 pp, publisher’s cloth binding. “A revised and supplementary new edition of Friedrich Kunstmann’s original work of 1859, featuring 13 coloured plates and ten further sea charts from the early 16th century, drawn from the Munich Portolan Chart collections, including those that have been missing since 1945”. Bilingual German–English edition. The 23 colour plates are spread across two pages. Bibliography. Index. - *The World Encompassed*. An exhibition on the history of maps held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, 7 October to 23 November 1952. Baltimore, 1952. In-4, XIV, [63 ff], LX plates, paperback, illustrated cover. An exhibition catalogue describing 282 maps or atlases and reproducing a large proportion of them in 60 plates. - GRAVIER (Gabriel). Toscanelli’s Letter and Map to Fernão Martins and Christopher Columbus. Based on Henry Vignaud. Rouen, Caniard, 1902. In-8, 23 pp, paperback. Offprint. - WAGNER (Henry Raup). The Cartography of the Northwest Coast of America to the Year 1800. University of California Press, 1937 (Reprint, 2002). 2 volumes in one folio volume, XI, V, 543 pp, publisher’s cloth. Illustrations. One of the most important works on the history of cartography in the United States. It includes a comprehensive index, a bibliography, a list of place names and a list of maps. The descriptions of significant maps are accompanied by an analysis. See: Ristow, Guide to the History of Cartography No. 377. Fold-out maps included as inserts. - COUTO (D.) et al. Historical Atlas of the Persian Gulf (16th–18th centuries). Turnhout, 2006. In-4, 490 pp, publisher’s illustrated hardback. “The Historical Atlas of the Persian Gulf is a joint initiative of the École pratique des hautes études (Paris), the University of Tehran and the Documentation Centre of the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The aim of this trilingual publication (French, English and Persian) is to trace the evolution of representations of the Gulf between 1500 and 1750.” 150 reproductions of maps and portolans, half of which are in colour. Extensive index. - SKELTON (R. A.). Decorative printed maps of the 15th to 18th centuries. A revised edition of: Old decorative maps and charts by A. L. Humphreys. London and New York, 1952. Folio, VII, 80 pp, 84 plates (some in colour), publisher’s red cloth Bradel binding.
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About the sale In preparation – The Jean-Paul Delon Bookshop Collection, Part I (Bibliography – Scholarship – Bibliophilia)
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