Original antique copper engraving, hand colored in outline when published. This map shows the Black Sea region with Southern Ukraine, Georgia and Armenia. Detailed engraved are rivers, cities, villages, forests, etc. Gabriel Bodenehr the Elder (1664-1758 or 1673-1765) was a German map maker and member of a famous engraver and publisher family of Augsburg. His main work was "Atlas Curieux" first published 1704. He was the son of Johann Georg Bodenehr (1631-1703). Gabriel's son was Gabriel Bodenehr the Younger (1705–1792).
Original copper engravings, hand colored in outline and wash. Decorative antique map of Siberia with neighboring regions, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Central Russia towards the East Siberian Sea. Interesting antique map with engraved political borders, rivers, lakes, woods and mountains. Published in an atlas volume of Nicolaus Bellin s Histoire generale des Voyages around 1760 in Paris.
Steel engraving, hand colored in outline when published. Interesting small map of China published around 1849. Many engraved place names, rivers, mountains and other details.
Copper engraving, uncolored, published in Allain Manesson Mallet s description of the world. This antique map shows us Moscau. Inside the map are many place names, rivers, etc. In the upper side we look to the title cartouche.
Copper engraving, uncolored, published in Allain Manesson Mallet's description of the world. This map shows us Moscau. Inside the map are many place names, rivers, etc. The map shows us also the neighbouring land from Moscau.
Original antique copper engraving, hand colored in outline and wash when published. The map is divided into three sections to follow the course of the river from its source in the Vologod Province as it empties into Dvina Bay of the White Sea near Archangle. Along the way smaller tributaries and towns. A beautiful title cartouche is included in the top left with another cartouche illustrated with a reindeer's head is included in the bottom right. On the right side is a group of reindeers engraved. Joan Blaeu (23 September 1596 – 21 December 1673) was a Dutch cartographer born in Alkmaar, the son of cartographer Willem Blaeu. In 1620 he became a doctor of law but he joined the work of his father. In 1635 they published the Atlas Novus (full title: Theatrum orbis terrarum, sive, Atlas novus) in two volumes. Joan and his brother Cornelius took over the studio after their father died in 1638. Joan became the official cartographer of the Dutch East India Company. Blaeu's world map, Nova et Accuratissima Terrarum Orbis Tabula, incorporating the discoveries of Abel Tasman, was published in 1648. This map was revolutionary in that it "depicts the solar system according to the heliocentric theories of Nicolaus Copernicus, which show the earth revolving around the sun.... Although Copernicus's groundbreaking book On the Revolutions of the Spheres had been first printed in 1543, just over a century earlier, Blaeu was the first mapmaker to incorporate this revolutionary heliocentric theory into a map of the world." Blaeu's map was copied for the map of the world set into the pavement of the Groote Burger-Zaal of the new Amsterdam Town Hall, designed by the Dutch architect Jacob van Campen (now the Amsterdam Royal Palace), in 1655. Blaeu's Hollandia Nova was also depicted in his Archipelagus Orientalis sive Asiaticus published in 1659 in the Kurfürsten Atlas (Atlas of the Great Elector). and used by Melchisédech Thévenot to produce his map, Hollandia Nova—Terre Australe (1664). As Joan Blaeu, he also published the 12 volume "Le Grand Atlas, ou Cosmographie blaviane, en laquelle est exactement descritte la terre, la mer, et le ciel". One edition is dated 1663. That was folio (540 x 340 mm), and contained 593 engraved maps and plates. In March 2015, a copy was on sale for £750,000. Around 1649 Joan Blaeu published a collection of Dutch city maps named Toonneel der Steeden (Views of Cities). In 1651 he was voted into the Amsterdam council. In 1654 Joan published the first atlas of Scotland, devised by Timothy Pont. In 1662 he reissued the Atlas Novus, also known as Atlas Maior, in 11 volumes, and one for oceans.[citation needed] A cosmology was planned as their next project, but a fire destroyed the studio completely in 1672. (Wikipedia)
Original copper engraving, hand colored in outline, when published. Printed and published in Reilly`s "Schauplatz der fünf Teile der Welt". Map of Eastern or Northern Europe and Western Russia. In the north the Arctic Sea, in the south the Black and Caspian Seas, in the west Poland and Lithuania, in the east the rivers Ob and Irtysh in western Siberia.
Original antique lithograph, hand colored when published. Detailed map, colored by counties and showing townships, towns, villages, post offices, canals, roads, railroads (projected and completed), towns, etc. A highly detailed map. In the upper left corner is an inset map of St. Petersburg.
