Antique Maps of the Mediterranean Islands

Archipelagi Insula:rum Aliquot descrip.

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ORTELIUS, Abraham.

Origin: Antwerp, 1606, English text edition.

Crete and other Greek islands including Santorini, Rhodes, Chios and Milos. From the rare English text edition of the 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum'. Marcel van den Broecke records that Skelton's estimate of a 1000 copies of this edition is probably much too high. A number of 250 seems more likely. Compare this number with up to 7000 examples of some of the other Ortelius maps produced. Unlike others editions of the atlas this one was produced by first printing the plates in Antwerp and then adding the text in London. The text was printed by John Norton and John Bill. RARE.

Condition: Fine original colouring; minor defects, but otherwise good to fine.

Size: 360 x 505mm (14¼ x 20 inches).

Reference: 6701

Price: £280

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Balearic Islands; Valetta, The Capital of the Island of Malta; Corsica and Sardinia.

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S.D.U.K.

Origin: London, 1831.

Three maps on one sheet. The Balearic Islands top left and below this a detailed plan of Valetta on Malta, and then to the right Corsica and Sardinia.

Condition: Original outline colour; light age-toning to the margins and minor soiling, otherwise a fine example.

Size: 310 x 380mm (12¼ x 15 inches).

Reference: 12162

Price: £40

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Balearic Islands; Valetta, The Capital of the Island of Malta; Corsica and Sardinia.

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S.D.U.K.

Origin: London, 1831.

Three maps on one sheet. The Balearic Islands top left and below this a detailed plan of Valetta on Malta, and then to the right Corsica and Sardinia.

Condition: Original outline colour; light age-toning to the margins and minor soiling, otherwise a fine example.

Size: 310 x 380mm (12¼ x 15 inches).

Reference: 12468

Price: £45

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British Possessions in the Mediterranean.

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TALLIS, John.

Origin: London, John Tallis & Co.1851.

The islands in the Mediterranean: including Malta, Gibraltar and Corfu, with engraved vignette views of Gibraltar, Valetta and Corfu. John Tallis is without question one of the most renowned cartographers and publisher of the C19th. His maps are the last of the lavishly decorated and ornamental maps, considered to be works of art as well as geographically accurate. He was born in Stourbridge in Worcestershire in about 1818 and it is likely that he stayed in the Midlands working as a publisher in Birmingham, until he moved to London in the early 1840′s.

Condition: Original outline colour; minor marginal soiling and light spotting to printed border, otherwise good.

Size: 355 x 255mm (14 x 10 inches).

Reference: 7447

Price: £58

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Candia, oli, Creta.

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BLAEU, Johannes.

Origin: Amsterdam, 1645, Latin text.

A fine map of the island of Crete.

Condition: Original colour; water staining to the edges of the margins, light soiling, otherwise a good example.

Size: 385 x 530mm (15¼ x 20¾ inches).

Reference: 10730

Price: £280

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Chart of the Mediterranean Sea.

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THOMSON, John.

Origin: London, 1821.

A detailed chart of the Mediterranean Sea, with insets of Marseilles, Genoa, Gibraltar, Leghorn Road (Northern Italy), Algezira, Algiers and the Gulf of Smyerna.

Condition: Original colour; minor age toning to the edges of margins, slight darkening of centrefold due to guard paste, short tear to edge of lower margin, otherwise very good condition.

Size: 490 x 600mm (19¼ x 23½ inches).

Reference: 11325

Price: £230

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Creta Iouis Magni, Medio iacet insula ponto.

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ORTELIUS, Abraham.

Origin: Antwerp, 1624, Latin text edition.

Four maps of islands in the Mediterranean Sea on one sheet: Crete, Corsica, Sardinia and and the Ionian Islands. Published in the Parergon.

Condition: Finely coloured; light creasing at centrefold, otherwise a fine example.

Size: 345 x 495mm (13½ x 19½ inches).

Reference: 10311

Price: £320

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Gruppo Delle Isole di Malta.

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ZUCCAGNI ORLANDINI, Attilio.

Origin: Florence, c.1845.

A rare map of Malta and Gozo from the "Atlante Geografico dell ' Italia". Engraved by G. Pozzi and drawn by G. Maina & V. Stanghi.

Condition: Original outline colour; sgort repaired tear to lower margin, well away from printed area, light marginal soiling, otherwise a fine example.

Size: 335 x 520mm (13¼ x 20½ inches).

Reference: 11988

Price: £340

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Isle de Corfo.

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MALLET, Alain Manesson.

Origin: Paris, 1684. German text edition.

A fine miniature map of the Island of Corfu. From the German text edition of the five volume work 'Description de l'univers'.

Condition: Uncoloured; light staining to the edges of the margins, otherwise a fine example.

Size: 150 x 105mm (6 x 4¼ inches).

Reference: 9976

Price: £95

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Isola di Malta, Gozzo Comino e Cominotto.

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ROSSI, Giacomo.

Origin: Rome, 1686.

A fine and decorative map of the Islands of Malta, Gozo and Comino.. A highly decorative rococo style cartouche surrounds the detailed plan of the fortifications and harbour of Valletta. Engraved by Franciscus Donia Messanensis and published in the Rossi atlas of 1715.

Condition: Uncoloured; minor waterstaining and light soiling to margins, light age-toning to the edges of the margins, slight darkening of centrefold due to guard paste, otherwise a fine dark impression.

Size: 405 x 555mm (16 x 21¾ inches).

Reference: 11989

Price: £2250

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Malta olim Melita.

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ORTELIUS, Abraham.

Origin: Antwerp, Jan B Vrients, 1602, Latin text edition.

A miniature map of Malta. From the 'Epitome theatri Orteliani' by Jan B Vrients

Condition: Uncoloured; very minor marginal staining, overall slight age-toning, otherwise very good.

Size: 90 x 115mm (3½ x 4½ inches).

Reference: 8250

Price: £190

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Orientalior districtus Maris Mediterranei Apuf Fred de Wit. t'Ooster gedeelte van de Middelandse Zee.

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WIT, Frederick de.

Origin: Amsterdam, c.1680.

Frederick De Wit's highly decorative sea chart of the Eastern Mediterranean, Italy to Syria and the Holy Land, centred on Greece. The chart shows great detail, including Sicily, the Greek Islands, Crete and Cyprus. Embellished with a fine large allegorical cartouche, 2 compass roses, sea monsters, sailing ships, etc. Frederick De Wit (1629 - c.1706) was a mapmaker and mapseller, born in Gouda and went on to work in Amsterdam.

Condition: Fine original colour; some age-toning, slightly darker at the edges of the paper, lower centrefold split and repaired with old paper, other short tears to the centrefold at the margin, otherwise good.

Size: 477 x 585mm (18¾ x 23 inches).

Reference: 16079

Price: £1150

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MUNSTER, Sebastian.

Origin: Basle, 1550 - Latin text edition.

This woodcut appears several times within the 'Cosmographia' and is of a collection of islands, on one example the reference is to Columbus and the Fortunate Island or Canaries, but on this one it appears to be of Rhodes, Delos and other Greek islands.

Condition: Uncoloured woodcut set in a page of text; light soiling, mostly confined to the text area, otherwisea good example.

Size: 105 x 145mm (4¼ x 5¾ inches).

Reference: 10377

Price: £52

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