World and continents Archives - Daniel Crouch Rare Books https://crouchrarebooks.com/gallery-category/world-and-continents/ Rare Maps, Vintage Maps, Antique Maps, Rare Atlases, Rare Books Fri, 02 May 2025 11:10:36 +0000 zh-Hans hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/dcrb-favicon-100x100.png World and continents Archives - Daniel Crouch Rare Books https://crouchrarebooks.com/gallery-category/world-and-continents/ 32 32 238712441 “The greatest and finest atlas ever published” https://crouchrarebooks.com/zh-hans/browse/the-greatest-and-finest-atlas-ever-published-18463/ Wed, 26 Mar 2025 06:15:21 +0000 https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/the-greatest-and-finest-atlas-ever-published-4/ By BLAEU, Johannes, 1663.

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12 volumes. Folio. Letterpress title-pages with engraved vignette and divisional half-titles to each volume. Magnificent engraved allegorical architectural frontispiece title-pages to each volume, 597 engraved maps and plates, mostly double-page (some folding), engraved illustrations, all with mangnificent contemporary hand-colour, map of Holy Land supplied, lacking leaves Cc1-Cc2 from Asia volume, and divisional title from volume VI (as common) occasional browning and marginal staining. Superb publisher’s Dutch gilt-panelled vellum, each cover decorated with gilt stylised foliate roll-tool panels, arabesques at inner corners and surrounding a large central arabesque medallion, the smooth spines gilt ruled in eight compartments each decorated with fleur-de-lys corner pieces around a central rose tool, yapp fore-edges, remnants of green silk ties.

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Outlandish creatures and beings from the furthermost parts of the earth https://crouchrarebooks.com/zh-hans/browse/outlandish-creatures-and-beings-from-the-furthermost-parts-of-the-earth/ Tue, 11 Mar 2025 03:11:11 +0000 https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/outlandish-creatures-and-beings-from-the-furthermost-parts-of-the-earth/ By SCHEDEL, D. Hartman, June 1493.

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Double-page woodcut map with fine contemporary hand-colour in part.

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Blaeu’s Grand Atlas https://crouchrarebooks.com/zh-hans/browse/blaeus-grand-atlas-3/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 09:20:12 +0000 https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/blaeus-grand-atlas-3/ By BLAEU, Johannes, 1665 [but later]

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11 volumes. Folio (555 by 360mm). Three engraved allegorical frontispieces, architectural frontispieces, letterpress titles with engraved vignettes and divisional half-titles, 594 engraved maps and plates, mostly double-page, some folding, extra-illustrated with 18 engraved maps, engraved illustrations, coloured throughout in a contemporary hand, frontispieces and engraved titles heightened in gold, all edges gilt; publisher’s vellum gilt with yapp fore-edges, covers panelled with stylised foliate roll, and large centre and corner arabesques, with central armillary sphere tool, spine in eight compartments by horizontal rolls, decorated with foliate corner pieces around a central rose tool, remnants of original ties.

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The XIII United States of America’ https://crouchrarebooks.com/zh-hans/browse/the-xiii-united-states-of-america/ Mon, 03 Mar 2025 08:26:50 +0000 https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/the-xiii-united-states-of-america/ By ANONYMOUS, 1783-1789].

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42 engraved sketch maps, all contemporaneously backed on linen, with bright green selvedge, each map (except for the world map) with a key below, in original patterned paper chemise, and housed in original marbled-paper, slipcase

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Unrecorded state of William West’s two sheet world map https://crouchrarebooks.com/zh-hans/browse/unrecorded-state-of-william-wests-two-sheet-world-map-2/ Mon, 03 Mar 2025 07:41:12 +0000 https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/unrecorded-state-of-william-wests-two-sheet-world-map-2/ By WEST, William, April 1st, 1816.

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Large engraved map of the world, on two sheets joined with fine original outline hand colour, a few minor tears to margins, skilfully repaired.

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Blaeu’s first sea pilot https://crouchrarebooks.com/zh-hans/browse/blaeus-first-sea-pilot/ Thu, 27 Feb 2025 15:33:02 +0000 https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/blaeus-first-sea-pilot/ By BLAEU, Willem Janszoon, 1630.

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Three parts in one. Oblong folio (265 by 300mm). 42 engraved charts, numerous woodcut coastal profiles and illustrations in the text, charts with the engraved numbers 37 and 38 have been replaced by charts numbered 39 and 40 respectively, followed by 39 and 40; contemporary calf, rubbed.

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Cary’s rare wall maps of the world and four continents https://crouchrarebooks.com/zh-hans/browse/carys-rare-wall-maps-of-the-world-and-four-continents/ Thu, 27 Feb 2025 02:40:02 +0000 https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/carys-rare-wall-maps-of-the-world-and-four-continents/ By CARY, John, Jan.y, 1st, 1827 & 1828.

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Set of five hand-coloured engraved maps, dissected and mounted on linen, each folding into original green paper slipcase, with publisher’s labels, rubbed.

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A Goos’s view of the world https://crouchrarebooks.com/zh-hans/browse/a-gooss-view-of-the-world/ Wed, 26 Feb 2025 15:50:28 +0000 https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/a-gooss-view-of-the-world/ By GOOS, Pieter, 1666].

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Double-page engraved double-hemisphere map of the world, with contemporary hand-colour in outline to map, with decoration in full.

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A game plan for the whole world https://crouchrarebooks.com/zh-hans/browse/a-game-plan-for-the-whole-world/ Tue, 28 Jan 2025 00:57:23 +0000 https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/a-game-plan-for-the-whole-world/ By GAULTIER, Abbe; and Jehoshaphat ASPIN, 1838

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Double-page engraved chart, with contemporary hand-colour in outline.

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The high watermark of the British Empire https://crouchrarebooks.com/zh-hans/browse/the-high-watermark-of-the-british-empire-2/ Mon, 27 Jan 2025 16:38:48 +0000 https://crouchrarebooks.com/browse/the-high-watermark-of-the-british-empire-2/ By [CRANE, Walter], 1886

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Chromolithograph map.

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