Dec 08, 2022 - Sale 2624

Sale 2624 - Lot 78

Unsold
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(MACARONESIA.) Group of 8 seventeenth-to-eighteenth-century engraved maps relating to Northern Atlantic archipelagos. Vp, vd

Additional Details

- Pierre du Val; and Pierre Mariette. Les Isles Terceres. Double-page engraved map of the Azores with an inset of Terceira. 13 3/4x19 1/4 inches sheet size, ample margins, mounted to a slightly larger sheet of laid paper; original hand-color in outline; minor foxing. Paris, circa 1660.

- Olfert Dapper. Insulae Promontorii Viridis, Hispanis Issas de Cabo Verde, Belgis de Soute Eylanden. Hand-colored double-page engraved chart of the Cape Verde Islands with allegorical decoration. 13 1/2x15 1/2 inches sheet size, wide margins; minor edge foxing. Amsterdam, circa 1670.

- Vincenzo Coronelli. [Untitled globe gore]. Hand-colored engraved globe gore showing the Azores and Cape Verde Islands. 19 1/2x13 1/2 inches sheet size, wide margins; stain at lower right. Venice, circa 1690.

- Gilles and Didier Robert de Vaugondy. Les Isles Canaries. Hand-colored engraved map of the Canary Islands with an inset of Madeira. 8 1/4x9 3/4 inches sheet size, wide margins; light age tone, small hole in image. Paris, 1749.

- George Child. Island of Madera/The Dragon Tree. Hand-colored engraved chart of Madeira with a landscape view featuring the strange subtropical dragon tree. 10 1/2x8 inches sheet size, wide margins; desiccated tape stains at each corner. London, circa 1750.

- Jacques Nicolas Bellin. Carte des Isles Açores ou Terceres Partie Occidentale. Double-page engraved chart of the Azores. 12 1/2x17 inches sheet size, wide margins; original wash hand-color; very good. Paris, circa 1760s.

- Jacques Nicolas Bellin. Port et Ville d'Angra dans l'Isle de Tercere. Engraved plan of the town of Angra on Terceira Island, Azores. 12 1/2x9 1/4 inches sheet size, wide margins; original wash hand-color; small tear at left edge. Paris, 1760s.

- John Mount and Thomas Page. The Western Isles. Hand-colored double-page engraved chart of the Azores. 18x22 inches sheet size, wide margins; edge wear. London, circa 1770.