Johannes Jansonius

Cinquiésme Partie Du Grand Atlas Contenant Vue parfaicte Description Du Monde Maritime. Amsterdam 1650. Large folio (49,5×32,5 cm). Engraved historiated title-page frame by D. van Bremden, woodcut initials, arabesque woodcut tailpieces, 1 anemographic table and 30 (and a half) of 32 full-sheet engraved maps by Jansonius and others. All in cont. handcolouring in outline and cartouches fully coloured. Anemographic table half part loose. Antarctac map lacking half part. Map of Dalmatia lacking. With browning and foxing as nearly usual. A few leaves with heavy browning. Some maps with tears in the folding. Bound in (publisher's) Dutch cont. vellum, gilt-panelled with corner and central gilt arabesques, flat spine in seven compartments, gilt, edges gilt. No ties.

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Paintings, drawings & books, 20 September 2016

Books & manuscripts

60,000–80,000 DKK