Dec 6, 2024 10:00 EST

Rare Books, Autographs & Maps

 
Lot 564
 

564

A finely colored example of Visscher's double hemisphere world map, with a figured border

Estate / Collection: Property from a Distinguished Greenwich Collector

[MAP - WORLD]

VISSCHER, CLAES JASZOON. Orbis Terrarum Typus de Integro Multis In Locis Emendatus… Amsterdam: Nicolaes Visscher (using his Latinized name N. I. Piscator), 1652. Fourth state (of four). Hand-colored engraved map, signed in the plate by the engraver Pieter Goos; 17 1/4 x 22 1/4 inches (44 x 56.5 cm). Framed. One very short edge tear, the map has been expertly restored with closed tears, the edges have been partly remargined, the verso likely reinforced, the neatline with areas of infill, and the central fold has been flattened, remnants of archival adhesives to the map's verso, trimmed close to the neatline, altogether a very competently conserved and attractive copy of this map.

A rare, separately published, double hemisphere world map by the Visschers, featuring a decorative surround that contains two celestial maps, eight allegorical figures (the seasons and the elements), and twelve groups of paired figures representing different nations from all over the globe. This map was first published in 1638, and there were three additional states dated 1639, 1650, and 1652, as well as undated states (Koeman, Vol. III p. 176). The map's cartography is largely derived from Hondius' 1630 world map. It includes California as an island, a large unconnected northwest coastline just above California, and a part of the North Australian coastline.

Shirley #346.

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Sold for $14,080
Estimated at $12,000 - $18,000

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Estate / Collection: Property from a Distinguished Greenwich Collector

[MAP - WORLD]

VISSCHER, CLAES JASZOON. Orbis Terrarum Typus de Integro Multis In Locis Emendatus… Amsterdam: Nicolaes Visscher (using his Latinized name N. I. Piscator), 1652. Fourth state (of four). Hand-colored engraved map, signed in the plate by the engraver Pieter Goos; 17 1/4 x 22 1/4 inches (44 x 56.5 cm). Framed. One very short edge tear, the map has been expertly restored with closed tears, the edges have been partly remargined, the verso likely reinforced, the neatline with areas of infill, and the central fold has been flattened, remnants of archival adhesives to the map's verso, trimmed close to the neatline, altogether a very competently conserved and attractive copy of this map.

A rare, separately published, double hemisphere world map by the Visschers, featuring a decorative surround that contains two celestial maps, eight allegorical figures (the seasons and the elements), and twelve groups of paired figures representing different nations from all over the globe. This map was first published in 1638, and there were three additional states dated 1639, 1650, and 1652, as well as undated states (Koeman, Vol. III p. 176). The map's cartography is largely derived from Hondius' 1630 world map. It includes California as an island, a large unconnected northwest coastline just above California, and a part of the North Australian coastline.

Shirley #346.

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Auction: Rare Books, Autographs & Maps, Dec 6, 2024

  • 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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