New Additions August 2011
Seutter Map of Love c.1730
Price: £ 2000
Matthaus Seutter's rare early 18th Century allegorical map depicting the Assault of Love on Man's besieged Island fortress.
Macdonald Gill Wonderground Map of London Town (smaller version) 1914
Price: £ sold
Macdonald (Max) Gill's increasingly scarce early 20th Century "Wonderground" map, a comic cartographic celebration of London Town.
Bacon-Johnson Riddle Dogs of War 1914
Price: £ sold
A wonderful political caricature map with distinctly canine credentials, depicting the "Dogs of War" at the outbreak of European hostilities in late 1914.
Breitkopf Map of the Kingdom of Love (Das Reich der Liebe) 1777/1795
Price: £ 865
A mid-1790's reissue of Johann Breitkopf's famous allegorical map of the Kingdom of Love (Das Reich der Liebe), first published in 1777.
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Portrait of Pieter Schenck c.1697
Price: £ 500
An extremely rare and significant self-portrait of the Dutch sculptor, etcher, engraver and map maker, Pieter Schenck [1660-1718/19]
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Portrait of Johann Elert Bode 1791
Price: £ 140
An attractive late 18th Century portrait of the important German astronomer, Johann Elert Bode [1747-1826]
K Lehmann-Dumont Humoristische Karte von Europa 1914
Price: £ sold
A wonderfully designed separately published German cartoon map of Europe published at the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.
Balbinus Rose map of Bohemia 1677
Price: £ 2250
Wolfgang Kilian's superb Rose map of Bohemia, based on the design of Christoph Vetter and published in Jesuit Bohuslav Balbinus' 1677 History of Bohemia.
Augustin Hirschvogel Self-Portrait 1548
Price: £ 1750
A superbly engraved 1548 self-portrait of the important 16th Century German artist, mathematician and cartographer, Augustin Hirschvogel [1503-1553].
Double portrait of Gerard Mercator & Jodocus Hondius 1613-
Price: £ 2350
Splendid double-portrait of two of the founding fathers of cartography - Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius - included in editions of the Mercator-Hondius Atlases from 1613 onwards.
Portrait of Christoph Weigel the Elder 1714
Price: £ 750
Bernard Vogel's superbly executed 1714 mezzotint portrait of Nuremberg artist, engraver, publisher and mapmaker, Christoph Weigel the Elder [1654-1725]
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Portrait of Romeyne de Hooghe 1733
Price: £ 225
An attractive early 18th Century portrait of the important Dutch engraver, etcher and illustrator, Romeyne de Hooghe [1745-1708]
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Portrait of Vincenzo Coronelli c.1700
Price: £ 300
Rare late 17th or early 18th Century portrait of the famous Franciscan priest and Italian globe and map maker, Vincenzo Coronelli [1650-1718]
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Portrait of Malthe Conrad Bruun (Conrad Malte-Brun) c.1860
Price: £ 150
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