The americas wall map (2 resultados)

"[Nova et accurata totius Americae tabula auct. G. I. Blaeu] America quarta pars orbis quam plerunq, nuvum orbem apellitant primo detecta est anno 1492 a Christophoro Columbo []. A hand-coloured engraved wall map, printed on 4 joined sheets. Size: 86 x 110 cm. / 33.9 x 43,3 inch. Large, very rare, hand coloured copy of Willem Blaeu's famous wall map of the Americas, which is considered "one of the most influential maps of America ever made" (Burden). The map is based on the latest explorations and shows everything known at the time about the American continent, as well as the north and south poles, which are included on two inset maps. As the wall map was in great demand, but expensive and difficult to transport, it was also printed by various French and Italian publishers for the local market. Like Blaeu's edition, the French and Italian editions are very scarce, as it is highly unusual for wall maps from this period to survive. We have only been able to trace 4 other copies of the present edition in sales records of the past hundred years, of which only 1 is also hand coloured. Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638) first published the wall map in 1608, together with similar maps of Asia, Africa, and Europe. He spared no expenses for this project and hired Hessel Gerritsz (1580-1632), a great cartographer in his own right, to both design the maps and research the latest sources exhaustively, to create the most accurate depiction of the continents possible. Although the Americas were drawn too wide due to the inadequate methods of determining longitude at the time, the shapes and most of the coastline are already very well defined. Central and South America were drawn according to Portuguese and Spanish sources, and "Nova Scotia" on the Atlantic coast was based on the voyages of Samuel de Champlain and Pierre Gua de Monts from 1604. After the first edition in 1608, the four continents were subsequently published in 1612, and in 1624 they were reissued by Hendrik Hondius and in 1655 by Nicholas Visscher. The third state included changes to the Strait of Magellan based on Le Maire's findings from his expedition in 1615-1617. The map has been beautifully decorated with cartouches and small engravings. The cartouche in the lower right tells how the New World was discovered, and is flanked by the figures of Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci. Below are four roundels containing the portraits of the four circumnavigators: Ferdinand Magellan, Sir Francis Drake, Sir Thomas Cavendish, and Olivier Van Noort. The Atlantic features a beautiful depiction of King Philip III of Spain riding a sea chariot, supposedly on a figurative visit to his New World possessions, and in the Pacific Poseidon with his wife Amphitrite and son Triton can be found, amidst battle ships and sea monsters. Elephants, rhinoceroses, camels, and ostriches roam the continent. Some copies of the present map include a decorative border with illustrations of native people, and sometimes also a textual border with descriptions, which are not present here. It appears that these borders were engraved on separate copper plates and were not always included. Blaeu's wall maps were first printed in Italy in 1646, probably by Stefano Mozzi Scolari (1598-1650) in Venice, which were based on the third state from 1624. The present copy was engraved by Pietro Todeschi (dates unknown) around 1670, and published in Bologna in 1673, probably by Giuseppe Longhi, who had worked on similar projects with Todeschi before. It closely resembles the Venetian edition, which was most likely used as the model. Todeschi's edition is, however, clearly recognizable because of the misspelling of Mar del Norte as Mar del Noi, and the fact that California has been drawn as an island. It is the only edition known to do so. The map has been reinforced on the back, and is somewhat browned and stained; the surface has faded, the work has been professionally restored: the colouring has been retouched, some of the losses have been filled in. Otherwise, in good condition. Burden II, 433; Schilder, Monumenta cartographica Neerlandica V, p. 195; cf. Burden I, 156 (Blaeu map).". …

Very good. Folds as issued. Four panels, joined by publisher. Very clean with a strong dark impression. Size 31 x 56 Inches. One of the most spectacularly decorative maps of the 18th century, this is Henri Chatelain's magnificent 1719 map of the Americas and the Pacific. This sumptuously engraved map is centered on the American continent but extends west to include all of the Pacific as far as Beijing (Peking), China and Australia, and eastward to include much of Europe and the western half of Africa. Longitudinally it extends from the Hudson Bay to the southern tip of Tierra del Fuego. The map is graphically rich with a wealth of lush inset maps and vignette illustrations throughout. The whole is further embellished with copious annotations offering Chatelain's insights on local traditions, flora and fauna, political commentary, and notes on trade. A Closer Look Cartographically, Chatelain based this map heavily on De Fer's map of 1713. There is much of interest throughout. This map was issued just as the world was being opened to international commerce and Chatelain has much to say on the subject. Chatelain doubtless imagined himself on the cusp of an age of discovery and exploration unlike any before imagined - and he was right! Still, one cannot ignore his hopeful thinking. Here both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans are remarkably foreshortened, suggesting that passage and trade between these widely divided continents to be a matter of ease. The routes of the many explorers who made these passages are noted with their ships illustrated. These include Columbus, Vespucci, Magellan, Drake, Schouten, La Salle, and Dampier, among others, all of whom are further lionized by a serious of medallions filing the unexplored northwestern quadrants of America. Vignette Work The elaborate decorative vignette work, too, contributes to Chatelain's message. In North America he borrows from Herman Moll to illustrate the American fur trade (with a backdrop of Niagara Falls) and the seemingly boundless cod fisheries off the Grand Banks. The even more elaborate illustrations in the southern quadrants are equally suggestive of the wealth to be had by venturing not just to the Americas but into the Pacific and thence to Asia. The vignettes include illustrations of tribal life, rich mines, overflowing hunting grounds, native industry (such as the grinding of manioc), and of course whaling. Among this rich imagery are smaller maps and plans detailing the Spice Islands (Moluques), the apparently easily traversable Isthmus of Panama, and the port of Acapulco in Mexico from which the Spanish galleons set sail for Manila, as well as the bustling ports of Baldavia, Veracruz, Conception, Buenos Aires, Havana, and San Sabastian, among others. Among these, of course, we cannot ignore the many dangers illustrated in the form of vicious animals, unfriendly indigenous populations, and one particularly grizzly image of human sacrifice before a stylized Aztec pyramid. Insular California This is importantly one of the first maps to bring into question the popular convention of rendering California as an island. While California is here presented roughly on the Luke Foxe model popularized by Nicholas Sanson in 1657, one notes that the northern portions of the island are ghosted in an expression of uncertainty. Around this time, word of the Jesuit missionary Eusebio Kino's discoveries in and around Baja were beginning to circulate in learned circles. Although the myth of an insular California was slow to disappear, Chatelain here notes Que Quelques Modernes Croyent être attache au continent de l'Amérique par la Partie Septent. What some moderns believe to be attached to the continent of America by the northern part. Pacific and Australia Chatelain's rendering of the Pacific is of considerable interest. The wildly overlarge mapping of the Solomon Islands, referencing the navigations of Mendana and Quiros, stand out. Australia itself, appearing here as Nouvelle Ho.…