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Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
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"The first of many world maps with richly decorated borders" (Shirley)
Estate / Collection: Property from a Distinguished Greenwich Collector
[MAP - WORLD]
PLANCIUS, PETRUS. Orbis Terrarum Typus de Integro Multis In Locis Emendatus. Amsterdam: 1594. Hand-colored engraved map, signed in the plate by the engraver Jan Van Doetecum; 16 5/8 x 23 1/2 (42 x 60 cm). Framed. Three vertical folds, some light spotting and staining, two expertly repaired closed tears along the right edge, the right-hand fold is reinforced with Japanese tissue on the verso, evidently due to having split and been repaired.
This is a finely colored example of "the first of many world maps with richly decorated borders." It was issued separately around 1594 and, beginning in 1599, was incorporated unchanged into various editions of Linscoten's Itinerarium. The geography is based largely on a 1590 world map by Plancius, though with certain details updated. Some of the more notable revisions are in the Far East, with Korea shown as a peninsula rather than an island for the first time, and with Japan much-improved thanks to reports from the Portuguese explorer Luis Texiera. The regions around the Northern and Southern poles are also quite striking. The map includes information about the recent English voyages in the Arctic, and shows navigable Northeast and Northwest passages as well as the enormous though nonexistent southern continent of Magellanica.
The map is notable for its elaborate and influential pictorial borders, inspired by the illustrations in Theodore De Bry's recently published travel narratives. The borders include allegorical vignettes representing the major regions of the world, including Europe, Asia, Africa, Magallanica, Peruana, and Mexicana. Each country is represented by various attributes, including flora and fauna, and a symbolic female figure who is riding an unlikely animal, including unlikely beasts such as a rhinoceros, a crocodile, and a giant armadillo. This striking allegorical border helped establish the style of map decoration that became standard for the next hundred years.
Shirley #187
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Sold for $11,520
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000
Includes Buyer's Premium
Estate / Collection: Property from a Distinguished Greenwich Collector
[MAP - WORLD]
PLANCIUS, PETRUS. Orbis Terrarum Typus de Integro Multis In Locis Emendatus. Amsterdam: 1594. Hand-colored engraved map, signed in the plate by the engraver Jan Van Doetecum; 16 5/8 x 23 1/2 (42 x 60 cm). Framed. Three vertical folds, some light spotting and staining, two expertly repaired closed tears along the right edge, the right-hand fold is reinforced with Japanese tissue on the verso, evidently due to having split and been repaired.
This is a finely colored example of "the first of many world maps with richly decorated borders." It was issued separately around 1594 and, beginning in 1599, was incorporated unchanged into various editions of Linscoten's Itinerarium. The geography is based largely on a 1590 world map by Plancius, though with certain details updated. Some of the more notable revisions are in the Far East, with Korea shown as a peninsula rather than an island for the first time, and with Japan much-improved thanks to reports from the Portuguese explorer Luis Texiera. The regions around the Northern and Southern poles are also quite striking. The map includes information about the recent English voyages in the Arctic, and shows navigable Northeast and Northwest passages as well as the enormous though nonexistent southern continent of Magellanica.
The map is notable for its elaborate and influential pictorial borders, inspired by the illustrations in Theodore De Bry's recently published travel narratives. The borders include allegorical vignettes representing the major regions of the world, including Europe, Asia, Africa, Magallanica, Peruana, and Mexicana. Each country is represented by various attributes, including flora and fauna, and a symbolic female figure who is riding an unlikely animal, including unlikely beasts such as a rhinoceros, a crocodile, and a giant armadillo. This striking allegorical border helped establish the style of map decoration that became standard for the next hundred years.
Shirley #187
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Auction: Rare Books, Autographs & Maps, Dec 6, 2024
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Auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps on December 6, 2024
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NEW YORK, NY -- Doyle held a successful auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps onDecember 6, 2024 showcased is a wonderful diversity of Americana, maps, autographs, early books and landmarks of literature and science.
Highlighting the sale was the first edition of Spinoza's Tractatus theologico-politicus from 1670 that soared to $70,350. Spinoza’s Tractatus is his only work published during his lifetime and remains his most significant. It presents a clear theory of natural right, asserting that the love of God leads to love for others. The state exists to ensure liberty, not oppression, with justice, wisdom, and toleration as key. Influential to thinkers like Blake and Goethe, it shaped Romanticism.
The Jean Vounder-Davis Collection offered the largest trove of unpublished Raymond Chandler stories, poetry, letters, books and personal artifacts to come to market. Best known for his Philip Marlowe detective novels including The Big Sleep (1939) and Farewell, My Lovely (1940) and as screenwriter of film noir classics such as Double Indemnity (1944) and The Blue Dahlia (1946), Raymond Chandler is considered one of the top writers in the hardboiled fiction genre alongside Dashiell Hammett and James Cain. Held for decades, the archive belonged to Jean Fracasse [later Vounder-Davis] who was first hired in January 1957 as Chandler's personal secretary but quickly became his close friend, confidant, fiancé and muse to whom he dedicated his last book.
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