Limited edition. A facsimile of the Spieghel der Australische Navigatie...: being an account of the voyage of Jacob Le Maire and Willem Schouten 1615-1616, published in Amsterdam in 1622.

Mirror of the Australian Navigation (Australian Maritime Series; No. 5)

History

Jacob, Maire, le

World

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Zwischen van de Velde und Bauhaus: Otto Dorfner und ein wichtiges Kapitel der Einbandkunst / De van de Velde au Bauhaus: Otto Dorfner et la reliure en Allemagne (German and French Edition)

Mechthild, Lobisch

Europe

Winner of the 2019 Menno Hertzberger Prize for Book History and Bibliography This book is an exposition of an important, yet previously unknown chapter in the history of Dutch maritime cartography. While Amsterdam was developing into Europe's most vital commercial hub in the seventeenth century, demanding and controlling the production of maps and sea-charts, a major School of Cartography was already flourishing in the so-called 'Kop van Noord-Holland' region just north of Amsterdam. This School specialised in the production of small-scale charts of larger areas, including the European coastlines and the Indian and Atlantic Oceans. Its masters used to call themselves 'caert-schrijvers' or 'map-scribes' when clarifying their profession. The cities of Enkhuizen and Edam were important trading ports and as such provided an ideal environment for developing into centres of cartography, serving sea-borne navigation. Apart from the well-known printed pilot guides by Lucas Jansz Waghenaer, the output of these 'caert-schrijvers' consists mainly of manuscript charts on vellum. Copies, though few they are, nowadays can be found across the globe. Sea-charts provided invaluable on-board navigation assistance to ship captains. However, another surprising contemporaneous purpose for financing these charts become popular. Rich ship owners and merchants would commission new charts to serve as wall-decoration as well as a reference point for their maritime-related conversations. They feature a decorative lay-out filled with magnificent colours. Moreover, many of these charts are embellished with miniature paintings, certainly making them some of the most beautiful exemplars ever produced by Dutch cartography during its Golden Age.

Early Dutch Maritime Cartography (Explokart Studies in the History of Cartography)

Günter Schilder

This book discusses the rare remaining printed charts on vellum by commercial Amsterdam chart-publishers, of which some 150 copies could be traced. The charts are described and analysed in an illustrated cartobibliography. An extensive introduction investigates the development of Amsterdam as a centre for map production and distribution in Europe.

Sailing Across the World's Oceans (Explokart Studies in the History of Cartography)

London, 1653. Facsimile 1969. Limited edition.

The Compleat Angler, or, the Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing not Unworthy the Perusal of Most Anglers (Homo Ludens)

Isaac, Walton

Americas

Reprint of the 1883 first edition which was published in Paris.

Essai d'un catalogue de la littérature épique de l'Irlande (French Edition)

Henri D., Arbois de Jubainville

Facsimile of this 17th century book. With portrait and folding plate.

On the Circulation of the Blood: Latin Text of His 65th Letter to the Royal Society (Sept. 7th, 1688) (Dutch Classics on History of Science)

Antoni, Leeuwenhoek, van

Facsimile reprint of this 1531 Lyon edition. First edition of the Collected Works of Joachim Fortius Ringelberg (1499-c. 1536), a group of treatises and manuals covering the entire field of contemporary scholarship and science.

Opera (Monumenta Humanistica Belgica)

Joachim Fortius, Ringelberg

Texts of 108 songs of the Dutch Reformed, with an introduction, a bibliography (63 entries), etc.

Lieder der niederländischen Reformierten aus der Zeit der Verfolgung im 16. Jahrhundert (German Edition)

Philipp, Wackernagel

Religion & Spirituality

Les artistes de Harlem (French Edition)

A., Willigen, van der

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