1706 (dated)
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This is Hubert Jaillot s magnificent 1703/06 map of the Kingdom of Naples. Jaillot, along with the rest of the mapmaking establishment, appears to be largely following the model set by Magini nearly a century before; his depiction of the islands of Tremiti suggest that his direct source - as with many of Jaillot s maps - was an Italy map produced by Nicolas Sanson. The present map, however, is engraved on a larger scale, and has superior detail to any Sanson we have handled. Moreover, Jaillot s map improves on nearly all of its predecessors by the correction of the Gulf of Taranto - here lacking the spurious island of M. Sardo appearing on virtually every map based on the Magini.
SouthAfrica-dudley-1647
$6,500.00
Title
Carta particolare che comincia con il capo Degortam e con il capo Buona Speranza e finisce in gradi 27 di latitudine Australe.
1647 (undated)
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Description
This is a superb example of Robert Dudley s 1647 coastal chart of South Africa. It was included in Dudley s
Arcano del Mare, hailed by Tooley as
the first sea atlas in which every chart was based on Mercator’s projection, the first to show prevailing winds and currents in the main harbours and anchorages, the first to give magnetic declination, and the first sea atlas by an Englishman.At least in principle, these navigational notes and the adherence to the Mercator projection would make Dudley s charts the first to be of any use at sea. The present chart exhibits all of these qualities.
1675 (undated)
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Description
This is John Ogilby s road map detailing the road between the cities of Oxford and Bristol. It is a strip-map, following the road from Oxford south and west in six lengths, presented as if on a single, unspooled sheet of paper. Smaller towns, bridges, forests, churches, and county borders are all noted along the way. Pastures, and even some coal mines are marked as well. Strip maps served to inform travelers of the distances, landmarks, obstacles and resting points along a given road between two destinations. Changes in direction along the way are indicated by the placement of attractive compass-roses. The wise traveler, of course, would never leave the high road; consequently, no further routes would require consideration.
USFC Albatross in scientific papers, was the first specifically built marine research vessel.
Albatross operated in the Atlantic between December 1882 and November 1887, when she began her voyage to the Pacific Ocean. She arrived at the Straits of Magellan on January 23, 1888, and then continued up the coast of South America, stopping in the Galapagos briefly in April 1888. She operated along the U.S. Pacific coast and as far north as the Bering Sea and as far south as Panama between 1888 and 1898, when she was converted into an auxiliary cruiser for service during the Spanish-American War. After this work was finished, she sailed for Mexico, but did not see combat before peace treaties were signed. She immediately underwent conversion back to being a research vessel. After the retrofit,
1919 (dated)
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This is a striking 1919 Alexander Petrov chromolithograph Map of Sofia, Bulgaria, issued at the end of World War I (1914 - 1918). The cartography here roughly corresponds to the Amadier Plan, a bold re-envisioning of Sophia, not only as a national capital, but also as a modern European city - rejecting nearly 500 years of Ottomanization. Bold chromolithograph color defines various neighborhoods, with important buildings indexed numerically. All text is in Bulgarian and French.
National Identity This map emerged as Bulgaria, having been a Central Power and thus on the losing side of World War I, was struggling with low national moral, staggering war indemnities, and a refugee crisis that threatened Bulgarian identity. The map is a lavish production meant to invoke national and local pride. It was issued through a sophisticated multi-color chromolithograph with gilding to set off the armorial lines it the corners and the Sof