Greenland Archives - Daniel Crouch Rare Books https://crouchrarebooks.com/gallery-tag/greenland/ Rare Maps, Vintage Maps, Antique Maps, Rare Atlases, Rare Books Tue, 22 Apr 2025 11:49:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/dcrb-favicon-100x100.png Greenland Archives - Daniel Crouch Rare Books https://crouchrarebooks.com/gallery-tag/greenland/ 32 32 238712441 The most up-to-date sea atlas of the second half of the seventeenth century https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/the-most-up-to-date-sea-atlas-of-the-second-half-of-the-seventeenth-century-3/ Mon, 02 Sep 2024 03:31:41 +0000 https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/the-most-up-to-date-sea-atlas-of-the-second-half-of-the-seventeenth-century-3/ By DONCKER, Hendrik, 1666.

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]]> Folio atlas (500 by 320mm), title, preliminaries pages 14-22 text (complete), 34 double-page engraved charts, on laminated paper, fine original outline hand-colour, a list of previous owners of the atlas in manuscript to the upper paste-down, title-page margins skilfully repaired, some minor damp staining to margins, contemporary full calf, gilt fillet border, spine separated by raised bands, gilt.

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]]> 26460 One of the largest world maps ever printed https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/one-of-the-largest-world-maps-ever-printed/ Mon, 05 Feb 2024 17:22:26 +0000 https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/one-of-the-largest-world-maps-ever-printed/ By VERBIEST, Ferdinand, 1860].

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]]> Xylograph, printed on 6 sheets, the southern polar landmass embellished with animals, including a unicorn, a lion, a rhinoceros, a crocodile, a giraffe, a beaver and a turkey, the spandrels with eight large lozenges with text descriptions.

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]]> 14770 Salad Days https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/salad-days/ Thu, 11 Jan 2024 08:46:00 +0000 https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/salad-days/ By LA SALE, Antoine de, 1521].

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]]> Quarto (255 by 180mm), (4 ff.), lxiii ff. lxxiii, numerous illustrations within text, three folding plates, several leaves (mainly the last nine) with loss to upper corner, skilfully repaired in facsimile, some stains and wormholes on the last leaves, contemporary full panelled calf, blind fillet borders, with gilt foliate device to corner and centre, spine in six compartments separated by raised bands.

Collation: [sig. ?4 a-d6 e-f4 g6 h-i4 k6 l-n4].

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