R I C H A R D B . A R K W A Y , I N C . A N D C O H E N & T A L I A F E R R O L L C C A T A L O G 6 1 F I N E A N T I Q U E M A P S R I C H A R D B . A R K W A Y , I N C . A N D C O H E N & T A L I A F E R R O L L C Richard Arkway is pleased to announce that Paul Cohen and Henry Taliaferro have recent- ly established an antique map and rare book company. Cohen & Taliaferro LLC will oper- ate in partnership with Richard B. Arkway, Inc. and will share our premises at 59 East 54th Street. We hope that this is the first of many jointly issued catalogs that will follow. TO ORDER Please be sure to specify catalog and item numbers. If you do not find what you are looking for in this catalog, please let us know, as only a small portion of our stock is represented here. American Express, Visa and MasterCard are accepted. All maps are shipped on approval and may be returned for any reason within ten days of receipt. All returns must be insured for full value. GALLERY HOURS Monday to Friday 9:30 - 5:00. Saturdays and evenings by appointment. We are always interested in purchasing antique maps, atlases and globes, either individual items or collections. www.arkway.com Please visit us on the web. Our online catalog is updated regularly with fine antique maps, rare books, atlases and globes. R I C H A R D B . A R K W A Y , I N C . A N D C O H E N & T A L I A F E R R O L L C C A T A L O G 6 1 FORLANI, Descrittione. Di. Tvtto. Il. Perv, c.1562 [see item #17] FINE ANTIQUE MAPS, ATLASES, GLOBES AND VOYAGE BOOKS 59 EAST 54TH STREET, #62 • NEW YORK, NY 10022 (212) 751-8135 • (800) 453-0045 • FAX: (212) 832-5389 [email protected] • www.arkway.com EXCEPTIONAL MAPS AND VIEWS O F EUROPE 1482 ULM PTOLEMY MAP OF THE BRITISH ISLES IN STUNNING FULL ORIGINAL COLOR 1. ULM PTOLEMY, [Untitled map of The British Isles], 1482. 15” x 22” [including text]. Beautiful full original color. Excellent con- dition. $35,000. Among the earliest obtainable printed maps are those appearing in the famous Ulm Ptolemy. These maps are particularly desirable when they survive in striking full original color. This ptolemaic map of the British Isles is a superb example. A complete Ulm Ptolemy atlas has sold for well over a million dollars. ref: Campbell, The Earliest Printed Maps, pp. 135-137. EXCEPTIONAL MAPS AND VIEWS O F EUROPE THE LION OF BELGIUM 2. VAN DER KEERE, PIETER, Leo Belgicus, c.1617. 14 1/2” x 17 3/4”. Later hand color. Excellent condition. $24,000. A fine example of Pieter van der Keere’s renowned version of Michael Aitzinger’s concept of the Lion of Belgium. “Michael Aitzinger’s novel design was first printed in 1583 and was copied by many of the Low Countries’ engravers in various forms. Some ver- sions are fabulously ornate, others more plain, but this is one of the most decorative forms” -- Potter. ref: Potter, Antique Maps, p. 187; Van der Heijden, Leo Belgicus, #4.2. EXCEPTIONAL MAPS AND VIEWS O F EUROPE BOISSEAU’S MAP OF EUROPE WITH AN INSET OF CANADA 3. BOISSEAU, JEAN, Evrope Francoise Ov Description Generalle Des Empires, 1641. 16 3/4” x 22 3/4”. Uncolored. Trimmed close. Repairs with some loss to printed border. Otherwise very good condition. $9,500. Unrecorded Canadiana. A beautifully decorated map of Europe with an inset of Canada or Nouvelle France. The inset has been missed in the bibliographies of North America (not cited in Burden, Kershaw or Phillips), and the only reference we can find is a mention in Pastoreaux. The map was published in the Theatre des Gaules and pre- dates Boisseau’s famous 1643 map of Canada. Apparently designed to detail French influence in Europe, North Africa, and the New World, the map lists royalty throughout Europe which were decended from French ancestry, with the dates of their reigns. ref: Pastoureau, Boisseau II, pp. 69-70, #6. EXCEPTIONAL MAPS AND VIEWS O F EUROPE 4. JANSSON, JAN, Britannia prout divisa suit temporibus... Heptarchia, c.1646. 16 1/4” x 20 3/4”. Full original color. Excellent condition. $4,800. This decorative map shows the British Isles at the time of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy; the seven ancient kingdoms of Kent, the South Saxons, West Saxons, East Saxons, Northumberland, East Anglia and Mercia. The historical map is embellished with border panels depicting the seven Kings in full battle dress & armor, and with scenes illustrating the conversion of each of the seven kingdoms to Christianity in wake of St. Augustine’s arrival in England in the year 597 AD. Jansson’s map of the Heptarchy, first published in 1646, is almost identical to the Blaeu published a year earlier, but can be distin- guished by the addition of radiating compass lines across the sea areas of the map. ref: Shirley, Early Printed Maps of the British Isles, #577. EXCEPTIONAL MAPS AND VIEWS O F EUROPE GERMAN CITY PLAN OF PRAGUE IN ORIGINAL COLOR 5. SEUTTER, MATTHEUS, Praga celeberrima et maxima totius Bohemiae..., c.1680. 19 1/2” x 22 3/4”. Original color. Excellent condition. $2,800. Published in Augsberg, this stunning plan of Prague includes a view of the city at the bottom. An excellent example in fine original hand color. Seutter was a German cartographer and engraver who set- tled in Augsberg in 1707 after an apprenticeship to the great Johann Baptist Homann. EXCEPTIONAL MAPS AND VIEWS O F EUROPE FINE DECORATIVE MAP OF CORNWALL ENGLAND 6. HOOGHE, ROMEYN DE / MORTIER, Carte Maritime de L’Angleterre depuis les Sorlingues jusques a Portland..., 1693. 23” x 37 1/2”. Original hand color. Some light offsetting, otherwise excellent condition. $4,500. Romeyn de Hooghe was a famous Dutch artist employed by King William III of England. This sea chart of Cornwall is part of a small group of maps executed by him and published by Mortier. They are considered “the most spectacular type of maritime cartography ever produced in 17th century Amsterdam.” The map is embellished with fine decorative cartouches, and a number of inset maps and views. ref: Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, M.Mor.5, #8. EXCEPTIONAL MAPS AND VIEWS O F EUROPE MANUSCRIPT PLAN OF THE BRIDGE ST. LOUIS IN PARIS 7. ANON, Plan General D’un Projet de Pont entre isles St. Louis et notre dame, c.1790. 16 3/4” x 26 1/4”. Original manuscript plan in ink and watercolor. Some spotting, but generally very good condition. $2,400. This is a fine manuscript plan of the bridge between the Isle St. Louis and the Isle de Cite on which Notre Dame is located. A bridge between the islands was first built in 1630 and was rebuilt numerous times over the next two centuries. This manuscript appears to be the plan for the bridge constructed c.1790. DECORATIVE MAPS O F THE WORLD SEPARATELY PUBLISHED WORLD MAP BY ALLARD 8. ALLARD, CAREL, Novissima Totius Orbis Tabula, Per Carolum Allard., c.1683. 19 5/8” x 23 1/8”. Early hand color. Very good condition. $8,500. Although Carel Allard would not publish an atlas until 1696, his scarce, separately published world map was originally issued in Amsterdam sometime prior to 1683. The map uses the decorative bor- der scenes made popular by De Wit on his world map of c.1670. This is the second state of the map as defined by Shirley. ref: Shirley, The Mapping of The World, #517. DECORATIVE MAPS O F THE WORLD SUPERB CELESTIAL AND TERRESTRIAL SPHERES BY ROBYN 9. ROBYN, JACOB / DANCKERTS, CORNELIS, [pair] Nieuw Aerdsch Pleyn... Iacobus Robyn Cum Privilegio... [and] Nieuwe Hemels Spiegel..., 1696/c.1700. Pair of celestial and terrestrial spheres measuring 23” x 20 1/2” each. Full original hand color. Full margins. Excellent condition. $39,000. Unusual with full margins. We have never seen an example of either the terrestrial or celestial map that has not been trimmed on the sides with loss of printed surface, as the maps had to be trimmed to fit into the atlas. The examples being offered here must have been sepa- rately published, and were issued by Cornelis Danckerts c.1700. DECORATIVE MAPS O F THE WORLD The terrestrial map is a single-sheet version of Robyn and Doncker’s large four-sheet map of the world in a single circle. “It seems very likely that this single-sheet version by Jacob Robyn was also devised by Andreas van Luchtenburg whose participation is acknowledged on the companion celestial map. The new and distinc- tively drawn mythological scenes in the corners of the map were almost certainly engraved by Jacob Harrewyn who collaborated close- ly with both Robyn and Luchtenburg at this time” -- Shirley. The map is on the equidistant azimuthal projection centered on the north pole. The same projection was used by Nolin on his version of Cassini’s world map, published in 1696. Robyn has not updated the interior of North America, “where only one large Great Lake is indicated and Nieu Nederland is still marked rather than New York as it became in 1664” -- Shirley.