Cartography & Exploration / Atlases, Charts, Maps & Globes

ORTELIUS, Abraham. Theatrum orbis terrarum.
Including: Parergon, sive veteris geograpiae [!] aliquot tabulae ...
[Antwerp, Ex Officina Plantiniana = Jan Moretus I, 1595].
With: Nomenclator Ptolemaicus; omnia locorum vocabula quae in tota Ptolemaei geographia occurrunt, continens: ad fidem Graeci codicis purgatus; & in ordinem non minus utilem quàm elegantem digestus.
Antwerp, Ex Officina Plantiniana [= Jan Moretus I], 1595. 3 parts in 1 volume. Large folio (44.5 x 29 cm). With an engraved general title page to the Theatrum without imprint, a divisional title page for the Parergon, with letterpress text in a woodcut architectural cartouche; and a title page for the Nomenclator with the imprint and woodcut publisher's device. Further with a full-page engraved portrait of Ortelius, 147 double-page engraved maps with letterpress text (numbered 1-115 in the Theatrum and lettered A-Z, a-i in the Parergon, the i misprinted as an h but corrected by scraping part away), about 40 woodcut images of the obverse and/or reverse of coins, some woodcut tailpieces, numerous woodcut decorated initials, and decorations built up from arabesque typographic ornaments. All maps, the engraved title page and portrait, the woodcut divisional title, publisher's device, decorations except for the coin illustrations, and all initials fully and brightly coloured by a contemporary hand. The engraved title page and portrait, the divisional title, publisher's device and all the maps also highlighted in gold. 17th-century gold-tooled brown calf, sewn on 6 supports with corresponding raised bands on the spine, gilt edges. [24] pp., 115 double-page maps with letterpress text; [7], [1 blank] pp., A-Z, a-i [= 32] double-page maps with letterpress text; 30, [5], [1 blank] pp. Full description

OTTENS, Reinier and Josua OTTENS. Nieuwe kaart van de Vyf Heeren landen gelegen tusschen den Dief en Zouwen dyk.
Amsterdam, Reinier and Josua Ottens, 1741. Engraved map on 4 sheets (85 x 98 cm as assembled), with an engraved title ("Kaart van de Vyf Heerenlanden") with the coat of arms of the water district at the head, and surrounded by 14 engraved coats of arms at the left, right and foot (measuring 122 x 134 cm in total). The map with the title and publisher at the foot left, together with a scale (ca. 1:19,000) and the name of the engraver at the right (Jan van Jagen). Framed. Full description

OTTENS, Reinier and Josua OTTENS. Nieuwe kaart van de Vyf Heeren landen gelegen tusschen den Dief en Zouwen dyk.
Amsterdam, Reinier and Josua Ottens, 1741. Engraved map on 4 sheets (85 x 98 cm as assembled), coloured by a contemporary hand. With the title and publisher at the foot left, together with a scale (ca. 1:19,000) and the name of the engraver at the right (Jan van Jagen). Framed. Full description

[OTTOMAN ATLAS - MANUSCRIPT]. [Atlas of the western Ottoman Empire].
Ottoman Empire, ca. 1910. Oblong 4to (26.5 x 19.5 cm). 14 leaves with 10 pen-and-ink maps, hand coloured with watercolours. Tissue guards. Gold-stamped cloth with the tughra of Mehmed V (ruled 1908-18) on the front board (when reading right to left) and "Album" on the back board (the front when reading left to right), with an inscription below the tughra and the European numerals "16" and "2" flanking an ornament below the inscription, the whole framed by 4 large floral cornerpieces. Full description

OWEN, William Fitzwilliam (ed.) & Richard OWEN. Tables of latitudes, and longitudes by chronometer, of places in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans; principally of the west and east coast of Africa, the coasts of Arabia, Madagascar. &c. resulting from the observations of H.M.S. Leven and Barracouta, in the years 1820 to 1826 inclusive, ... To which is prefixed an essay on the management and use of chronometers ...
London, George Duckworth and William Ireland, 1827. 4to. Contemporary blue boards for the Danish Navy Library, later backed with cloth. [2], 33, [3], 16, [36], 8 pp Full description

OXLEY, John. Reizen in de binnenlanden van Australie, in de jaren 1817 en 1818, . . . Uit het Engelsch, met platen en kaarten.
Dordrecht, Blussé, Van Braam, 1821. 8vo. With 2 engraved views (1 folding) by J.C. Bendorp and 2 engraved folding maps by C. van Baarsel & son (30.5×62 and 21.5×63 cm). Contemporary sprinkled half sheepskin. XVI, 420 pp. Full description

PALLAS, Peter Simon. Observations faites dans un voyage entrepris dans les gouvernements méridionaux de l'Empire de Russie dans les années 1793 et 1794.
Paris, Strasbourg, Amand Koening; Leipzig, Godefroi Martini, 1799-1802. 2 text volumes and 1 atlas volume. 4to (text) and oblong folio (atlas: 24 x 40 cm). With 28 engravings in the text and 1 woodcut in each text volumes (23 hand-coloured), and 55 engraved plates and maps (43 hand-coloured) in the atlas volume. Text volumes in contemporary and uniform gold-tooled mottled calf. Atlas in matching contemporary mottled half calf. XXXII, 438; XVI, 452 pp. ; 55 ll. Full description

PAZ SOLDAN, Mariano Felipe. Atlas geografico del Peru.
Paris, Firmin Didot brothers, children and comp., 1865. Large folio (51.5 x 37.5 cm). With 50 engraved maps, plans and views (including 20 coloured) and 24 tinted lithographs by F. Delamare. Contemporary black half sheepskin, rebacked. [2], 82 pp. Full description

PINKERTON, John. Arabia.
London, Cadell & Davies, 1813. Engraved map (56 x 77 cm), hand-coloured in outline. Scale 1: 4,300,000. Full description

[PLAN - AMSTERDAM CITY HALL]. [CAMPEN, Jacob van]. Le pavé de la grand' sale des bourgeois.
[Amsterdam, Gerard Valk, 1719]. Very large engraved folding plan comprising 1 1/2 sheets (measuring 46 x 83 cm as assembled), engraved by Danckert Danckertsz. and his father after drawings by Jacob Vennekool, including the two hemispheres of the world map and a celestial map of the constellations of the northern hemisphere (each 10 cm in diameter). Full description