World from Donald Heald Rare Books

Amsterdam, 1594. Hand-colored engraved map. A milestone in the art of mapmaking: this stunning full-color double hemisphere world map is the first to include decorative allegorical figures as a border. This striking map of the world, engraved by the Dutch master Jan van Doetecum, holds the distinction of being the first world map to use allegorical decorated borders,… Read more about this item

Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 1482. Two volumes in one. 4to. (7 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches). Sixth edition. A-F8. 48 ff. 96 pp. 30 lines per page. Cosmographia: 1-29 ff. De situ orbis: 30-48 ff. Full-page woodcut map of the world on a Ptolemaic cone-shaped projection with architectural border and letterpress text. Woodcut and floriated initials. Rubricated throughout. Gothic letter… Read more about this item

Paris: Jean-Baptiste Nolin, 1690. Copper-engraved map, with full contemporary color in many parts, outline color in others. Sheet size: 20 x 25 1/4 inches. Several expertly repaired tears. A very beautiful and finely engraved world map, principally devised by one of the period's greatest cartographers. This very fine map is the result of the synergy of the talents… Read more about this item

London: H. Moll, D. Midwinter, T. Bowles, P. Overton, 1730. Copper-engraved map, on four joined sheets, with original outline colour. Marginal foxing, re-margined left and right margins, reinforced center fold, repaired tear bottom margin, toning at center fold. A magnificent and monumental World map, showing the globe in the early days of the Age of Enlightenment and European imperialism. … Read more about this item

Amsterdam: Peter Schenk, 1706. Copper-engraved map, with full original colour, in very good condition apart from one small expertly repaired tear to the old central fold, and two small repaired tears to coastlines. A significant milestone in the history of cartography between the highly decorated 17th century Dutch style and the more 'rational' style of cartography of the mid-18th… Read more about this item

Augsburg, 1730. Copper-engraved maps, with full original colour, world map with losses to bottom margin, and with re-enforcements to the top and bottom margins. Americas map has been re-backed along bottom margin and part of the right margin, trimmed close to or within platemark on right and left sides. Asia map water-stained near bottom of centerfold, and mild discoloration… Read more about this item

[Amsterdam: Visscher, 1658. Four hand-coloured copper engraved maps. A set of the four continental maps from the Golden Age of Dutch cartography. The Dutch were especially well equipped for the role they played in the European discovery and colonization of the wider world. Unencumbered by any desire to impose their religious or political beliefs, they simply wanted to… Read more about this item

Paris: Chez l'Auteur Rue des Canettes pres de St. Sulpice, 1700. Copper-engraved map, hand-coloured in outline. Good condition, cut to just within the plate mark, with expert repairs to margins and central fold. Sheet size: 17 1/8 x 26 1/8 inches. The rare first state of the celebrated world map by De l'Isle "one of the foremost cartographers of… Read more about this item

Paris: Jean-Baptiste Nolin, 1690. Copper-engraved map, with original outline colour. A very beautiful and finely engraved world map, principally devised by one of the period's greatest cartographers. This very fine map is the result of the synergy of the talents of Coronelli and his French colleague Tralage, popularly known as the Sieur de Tillemont. It principally depicts the… Read more about this item

London: H. Moll, T. & J. Bowles, P. Overton & J. King, 1730. Copper-engraved map, on four joined sheets, with original outline colour, in excellent condition. A fine copy of Herman Moll's monumental and highly engaging world map, charted on Mercator's Projection This fascinating global perspective depicts the latest state of knowledge of the world in the first… Read more about this item

Amsterdam: Jan Jansson, 1649. Copper-engraved maps, from the "Novus Atlas," German text edition, in excellent condition. An excellent set of the World and Continents, by Hondius and Jansson, two of the Netherlands' greatest cartographers. This handsome set of the World and Continents comes from the 1649 German edition of Jan Jansson and Henricus Hondius' Novus Atlas, Das Ist:… Read more about this item