Eighteen engravings - maps, drawings and scientific schemes of the globe. [ca.16th, 17th and 18 th centuries].
Among the items:
• L'univers, a map colored by hand, engraving out of the book La cosmographie universelle (Paris, 1575).
• Typus Orbis Terrarum, map with the eastern and western hemispheres, an engraving by Jan Janssonius, apparently from the Latin edition of the book "Atlas Minor" (Holland, early 17th century).
• Aevi Veteris Usque Ad Annum Salutis Nonagesimum Supra Milles Quadringentos Cogniti Tantum Typus Geographic. Map of the eastern hemisphere, engraving by Vincenzo Coronelli, apparently from the book Atlante Veneto (Venice, ca. 1691).
• Den Aardkloot nade Zondvloed, in Haar Gebroken Stand, met Bergen en Dalen, Groote Zee-Boesem, en der Selver Eilanden en Ondiepten Vertoond, a map with the eastern hemisphere and below it the western hemisphere, an engraving after Thomas Burnet. [Amsterdam, ca. 1690].
• Astronomie, Hemisphere Boreal (astronomic map of the northern hemisphere) and Astronomie Hemisphere Austral (astronomic map of the southern hemisphere) apparently out of the book Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers [encyclopedia or systematic dictionary of sciences, arts and the professions ("The great encyclopedia")]. [ca. mid-late 18th century].
• and more.
Two items are colored by hand.
Size and condition vary. Good overall condition.