Where we are showing, and the latest notable additions to the collection.
Many of the works that have joined the collection in recent weeks share a common thread. They are books and maps made to carry knowledge of the world beyond the scholar's study: an encyclopaedia for students, a vernacular commentary on the standard textbook of astronomy, a small atlas for the…
Five maps from one German atlas have joined the collection, and laid side by side they show a continent being redrawn in less than ten years. They come from the Hand-Atlas that Carl Flemming published in Glogau, in Prussian Silesia, under the name of "Dr. K. Sohr", a pseudonym most probably of the…
The seventh and last volume of Henri Abraham Chatelain's Atlas Historique has joined the collection: the Suplément à l'Atlas historique, Tome VII & dernier, Amsterdam, L'Honoré & Châtelain, 1720. Our copy is complete. As its title says, this volume gathers the pieces of chronology, genealogy,…
Two large folios have joined the collection, both concerned with the way seventeenth and eighteenth-century Europe tried to put the whole world into a single work: one through the history of the sea, the other through maps and family trees. Claude-Barthélemy Morisot's Orbis maritimi, printed at…
We are pleased to announce the acquisition of a complete copy of Arnoldus Montanus, De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld: of Beschryving van America en 't Zuid-Land, printed at Amsterdam by Jacob van Meurs in 1671. It is the first edition in its first issue, distinguished by the portrait of Joan…
We are pleased to announce the acquisition of a complete copy of Johan Nieuhof's L'Ambassade de la Compagnie Orientale des Provinces Unies vers l'Empereur de la Chine, the first French edition, printed at Leiden for Jacob van Meurs in 1665, the same year as the Dutch original. Nieuhof travelled as…
We have added to our stock the fifth volume of Henri Abraham Chatelain's Atlas historique, the volume devoted to Asia, in its first edition, printed at Amsterdam by L'Honoré & Châtelain in 1719 and opening with an allegorical frontispiece by Bernard Picart. The Atlas historique was the great…
We have added to the collection Joan Blaeu's Iaponia Regnum, the map of Japan and Korea from the Novus Atlas Sinensis, the atlas of China that the Jesuit missionary Martino Martini brought back from the East and that Blaeu published at Amsterdam in 1655 as the sixth part of his Theatrum Orbis…
Frederik Muller Rare Books has a new owner. Patrick van Rossum has acquired the firm from his good friend Frits Muller, great-great-grandson of the founder, who started his antiquarian business in 1993, formalised it in 1998 as Frederik Muller antiquarian bookseller BV and built it over…
We are pleased to announce the acquisition of a complete copy of Hartmann Schedel's Liber Chronicarum, the Nuremberg Chronicle, in the first Latin edition printed by Anton Koberger on 12 July 1493. With more than 1,800 woodcut illustrations by the workshop of Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm…
A complete copy of the Spanish edition of Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum has joined the collection. Printed at the Officina Plantiniana by Balthasar II Moretus in 1641, more than forty years after Ortelius's death, it is the very last edition of the Theatrum ever published: the closing chapter…