Maps/Views

MERCATOR, G. / H. HONDIUS
"Hispaniæ Novæ Nova Descriptio"
Contemporary handcoloured engraving, 35x48,5cm. AMSTERDAM c. 1630
A nice map of Mexico.
A split in the centrefold, a repaired tear extending 2 cm into the map.
#366

MERCATOR, G. / HONDIUS
"Fessæ et Marocchi Regna"
Contemporary handcoloured engraving, 36x48 cm. AMSTERDAM 1633
With an inset of the harbour "Penon de Velez" in the Meditteranean. Identical issue with the map in "Old Koeman" Me 36A. A fine example.
#368

BLAEU, WILLIAM J. (1571 - 1638)
"Peru"
Contemporary handcoloured engraving, 38x49cm. AMSTERDAM 1635
From a German text edition.
Remargined, sometimes close to the border line.
A 3 cm restored tear.
#371

BLAEU, WILLIAM J. (1571 - 1638)
"Asia noviter delineata"
Contemporary handcoloured engraving, 41x56cm. AMSTERDAM 1645 or later
THE POPULAR ASIA MAP WITH THE DECORATIVE BORDERS.
A companion piece to Blaeu's World map in the projection of Mercator, see no. 15.
The borders show "fashion plates" of various national costumes, and the frieze contains views of nine principal cities. Korea is depicted as an island and there is no hint of Australia.
A fine copy in original colour.
#730

DE WIT, FREDERICK (1610 - 98)
"Pascaert van Brasil"
Contemporary handcoloured engraving, 47,5x56cm AMSTERDAM c. 1680
A most decorative map/chart of Brazil from "Orbis Maritimus..." East at the top.
A small restored oxydizing crack, some weak folds along the centrefold.
#110

HOLM, THOMAS CAMPANIUS
"Kort Beskrifning Om Provincien Nya Swerige uti America, Som nu förtiden af the Engelske kallas Pensylvania. Af lärde och trowärdige Mäns skrifter och berättelser ihopaletad och sammanskrefwen / samt med åthskillige Figurer utgivad af Thomas Campanius Holm"
Complete book. Small 4to, 18,9x14,7cm. Bound in full morocco binding, the spine gilt with four raised bands. All edges painted in red. Preserved in a morocco box. Frontispiece, letterpress title printed in red and black with woodcut printer's device, 5 maps (four engraved plates, one folded, and one woodcut map within the pagination), 2 engraved plates and 4 woodcut illustrations in text. Other woodcut illustr Printed by J. H. Werner, STOCKHOLM 1702
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST AND BEST PRINTED ACCOUNT OF NEW SWEDEN, THE EARLIEST COLONIAL SETTLEMENT IN THE DELAWARE RIVER VALLEY IN TODAYS DELAWARE, PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW JERSEY.
We read in Sabin "A Dictionary of Books relating to America" volume 3 entry 10202: The author was never in America. His work is made up from verbal accounts received from his father, and notes left by his grandfather, to which he has added facts obtained from the manuscripts of Peter Lindström, an engineer - A very scarce work relating to the establishment of the Swedes in New Sweden, afterwards Pennsylvania".
The book contains valuable primary historical source material and is accompanied with important maps and views. Thomas' grandfather Johannes Campanius was chaplain of the Swedish colony from 1643 to 1648.
On the fly leaf several owner inscriptions from the 18th century until 1927, a few leaves and plates with minor strengthening restorations in the outer margin. Overall a very nice copy!
#745