SPAIN
Spain – Portugal – Hispania. With miles indicator and a large potentate title-cartouche. Colored map engraving, nominally after the Rodrigo Mendez Sylva map of 1730, by Matthäus Seutter I (1678-1757) at Augsburg. 49.7 x 57.5 cm.
Double full-page local index with privilege of 1735 as a special feature by Seutter added. – From the Vienna Seutter edition of 1736. – Cartouche uncolored as widely timely. – The Iberian Peninsula including Balearic Islands , South France , the Moroccoan coast. – See the complete description.
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Representative Colored Wall-Map
on the Landing of Charles III in Spain in 1704
Spain-Portugal – Valk (Valck), Gerard (1651/52 – Amsterdam 1726). Regna Hispaniarum atque Portugalliae: Ex recenti, summâ curâ punctorum charactere, Suas in Provincias, Territoria et Dioeceses; Geographicè, Politicè, Ecclesiasticè. With splendid decorated title- (25.5 x 32.5 cm) and dedication-cartouche (16.5 x 20.5 cm), both with Spanish-German and French-Italian miles indicator resp., a small separate map of Minorca (8.5 x 9 cm), and conventional signs. Colored wall-map engraved on 4 joined sheets. 1704. 97.5 x 115.5 cm.
Not in Koeman (1969) + Phillips (1909-1963), unknown to Tooley’s Dictionary (1979, there are only the wall-maps of world and continents of 1680; the Asia map mentioned in IMAGO MUNDI XXXV, p. 31 para. 5 as “ca. 1700”). – Whether it perhaps has been contained in the 6 vols. Valk-Atlas Nova totius geographica telluris projecto of ca. 1717 “with (its) 508 maps far larger than any recorded by Koeman” – Sotheby’s London April 4, 1989, lot 199 – must be left undecided. Also if the description of the British Library signature 18185 (12) concerns this map because is it not marked as a four sheet map as done in comparable cases. So, e.g., as to the Spain wall-map by Mortier K. 71.21, which is preceded by a later one of the same title, but without such addition, under 18315 (4). But also Valk’s wall-map set of world and continents emphatically recorded with their measures. – Apart from that
not in the 1971 established noble lists
edited by the British Library
of international Notable Acquisitions and Unusual Items that have come up for Sale resp. in I. M. The only one wall-map of the Iberian Peninsula there the Gastaldi map of 1544; known otherwise a copy of the already mentioned Mortier wall-map of ca. 1704-06 sold here into a Rhenish collection and after its reacquisition more than twenty years later immediately into a public library in 1993. Interesting especially as the statements of its cartouches follow those of Valk’s map offered here. In such a manner then not only a
CARTOGRAPHIC RARITY OF THE HIGHEST ORDER
but also thematically with respect to the Spanish War of Succession
of eminently historical importance :
in 1704 as the remarkable war year also in regard of other events the prospective Charles VI disembarked first in Lisbon, then in Catalonia, “after he had been proclaimed as Charles III to be King of Spain in Vienna in 1703” (Meyer’s Konvers.-Lex., 4th ed., vol. IX, p. 518). This event the map dedication follows :
“ PRINCIPI CAROLO LEOPOLDI CAESARIS
Filio, secundò genito;
IMPERATORVM MAGNO, et QVINTO …
Totus dum Acclamat Orbis;
VIVat HIspanorVM,. Penes EVropeos, InDos et VtrosqVe,
TertIVs ReX CaroLVs ” !
The date also given first – as in context with maps very scarce – as chronogram, then repeated by the fine leap-year reference “Annô hôc intercalari MDCCIIII”.
The map itself
highly decorative
though the cartouches remained uncolored as widely timely and as it is supported also by the Atlas of the Great Elector. Drawn in and to be mentioned as an early example the road net ( “‘s Heeren ofte Groote Weegen” ).
On heavy paper of perfect freshness and impeccable condition except for a few mostly quite tiny repaired tears in the 3-3,5 cm wide white margins. Centre and three long folds, one of them with a repaired finely little break.
Offer no. 28,680 / price on request
Spain and Portugal. With two cartouches for miles indicator and the list of conventional signs resp. Map colored in outline. Steel engraving by Majerski after Friedrich Wilhelm Streit (d. 1839). Berlin, Natorff & Co., (1833-37). 21.5 x 27.4 cm.
With Balearic Islands , South France up to Marseille and the Strait of Gibraltar together with Ceuta. – Some marks and additions by old hand.
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Spain and Portugal. NE-sheet. With threefold miles indicator and list of coventional signs. Map by Friedrich Wilhelm Streit (d. 1839) colored in outline. Steel engraving as before. 23 x 28.9 cm.
The Basque coast from Dega to Bayonne , the coast of the Mediterranian from Murviedro to Montpellier. With Minorca and the greater part of Majorca. – With road net, canals + harbour places.
Offer no. 9,837 / EUR 61. (c. US$ 80.) + shipping
– – – SW-sheet. Map steel engraving colored in outline as before. 23 x 29 cm.
The Portuguese-Spanish coast from Aulquia almost to the mouth of the Almoria. To the north up to the Sierra Guadeloupe, southerly comprising the Strait of Gibraltar together with Tanger + Ceuta. – With road net, canals + harbour places.
Offer no. 7,455 / EUR 61. (c. US$ 80.) + shipping
River Areas of Portugal , Spain , France , Belgium , Holland , Switzerland , Italy, and Great Britain. Synoptical table by Friedrich Wilhelm Streit (d. 1839). 1836. Sm.-2°.
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Worked one Year after the First Edition
of the 1st Part
of the “immortal Work” ,
“ of one of the Intellectual Great Feats of the World” ,
Cervantes’ Don Quixote
Castile – Castiliae Veteris et novae Descriptio Anno 1606. With title-cartouche with the arms of the kingdom of Castile and separate cartouches for miles indicator + meridian, all finely decorated in the ornament style of mannerism. Detail map of Old + New Castile 1 : 1.9 Mio. in colored engraving at the elder Jodocus Hondius in Amsterdam. 1606. Inscribed as before. 36.2 x 49.5 cm.
Keuning 111; Koeman 112. – With the historical-geographical back text in Latin with initial C (4.8 x 4.9 cm) in woodcut designed scenically-architecturally with two country-men in front carrying wine on a pole. – Almost untrimmed wide-margined with several minimal and most minimal resp. tears, only one with 3.5 cm in the 6 cm wide lower margin worthy of note, as then also the partly torn center-fold is professionally closed.
The fine map
with the Spanish capital as center from the MERCATOR ATLAS to which it had been added quite freshly after its change to Hondius in just 1606 and here available from the 1630 edition published by the son Henricus. – Up to the Portuguese border from Badajoz – Braganca – León, then further Burgos – Logrono and along the Rio Ebro with Zaragoza and Tortosa to its mouth . In the south still with the Estremadura and Andalusia with Córdoba as well as Baza and Murcia, it contains, regarding Cervantes, above all
all essential home stations
of this brave great man of Spain and the world .
Beginning with the
native town “Alcala de henares”
next to Madrid and typographically giving the importance then, over the educational stays Salamanca + Madrid up to
“Valadolid” as native place of the writing of the Don Quixote
whose area of action between Toledo – Ciudad Real – Albacete in southern New Castile situated nicely in the lower center field directly invites to follow the travel route to find, beside of the already mentioned ones, places like Malagón – Almagro – Sta. Cruz – La Solano (Solana) – Ruidera (Rueda) – Alcaraz – Alcázar de San Juan – Villacañas – Mota del Cuervo (La Mota) – El Toboso (Tavoso?) , ahead of all, however,
Villanueva de los Infantos
as the newly identified starting point in La Mancha.
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Don Carlos, Infante of Spain (1545-1568). With sword and ermine standing from the front. Colored woodcut after Jean Lulvès. Ca. 1877. 21 x 11.8 cm.
Lipperheide Ad 46. – SHEETS FOR COSTUME KNOWLEDGE NEW SERIES 303.
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Isabella Clara Eugenia, daughter of Philipp II of Spain, 1584. In fine wardrobe standing from the front. Colored woodcut as before. 22 x 12.5 cm. – Lipperheide Ad 46. – SHEETS FOR COSTUME KNOWLEDGE NEW SERIES 304. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 6,385 / EUR 48. (c. US$ 63.) + shipping
Velázquez, Diego Rodríguez de Silva y (Seville 1599 – Madrid 1660). Cardinal Dezio Azzolini. Sitting. Steel engraving by Albert Henry Payne (London 1812 – Leipsic 1902). C. 1845. 17.5 x 11.8 cm.
Offer no. 14,252 / EUR 46. (c. US$ 60.) + shipping
– – – – (Philipp IV of Spain), under whom “the bull-fights reached the culmination of their splendour” (Meyer’s Konversations-Lexikon, 4th ed., XV, 322 f.). Half-length portrait to the right. Steel engraving by William French (c. 1815 – East Grinstead 1898). 3rd quarter of the 19th century. 15.2 x 11.4 cm. – See the complete description.
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Early Representation
of the Spanish National Sport
Tempesta, Antonio (Florence 1555 – Rome 1630). Fiestas de Toros. The stations of the bull-fight in the arena as instructive didactic piece. In front as left-sided main group a bull with richly decorated banderilla in the back attacked by a lancer, separated by a barrel from the espada swinging for the coup-de-grâce. Right beside a done torero. Staggered up to the densely populated grand-stand further lancers and two bulls, the foremost kept at distance by the swinging espada by a two-wheeled axle, while a banderillero swings a second baton. The back one, outright bristling with banderillas, one burning, chasing three lancers, one of them still aiming at him. Left of this as centre piece richly figured vehicle, camouflaged with head mask with banderillas in the eyes, additionally burning ones in the side holes. Laterally left set back a phalanx of further lancers + toreros. Etching by Egbert Jansz (end of 16th century)? 9.8 x 14 cm.
Thematically as extremely rare as instructive ,
above all very early scenery , too ,
of chronologically at least great nearness to the culmination of bull-fighting under Philipp IV (1605-1665, accession to the throne 1621, see his portrait by Velasquez above). – See the complete description.
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Murillo, Bartholomé Esteban (1618 Sevilla 1682). Boys eating melons. “Murillo’s street urchins” with melons and other fruit. Besides them a lamb. Steel engraving by William French (c. 1815 – East Grinstead 1898). 3rd quarter of 19th century. 18.8 x 13.3 cm.
One of the three sympathetic depictions of urchins in Munich. – As depictions of melons rare.
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– – – St. Anthony of Padua. Kneeling to the left in dark night with the child in his arms. Before him two puttos with iris and opened book resp., in the slightly opening clouds further puttos. Steel engraving by Albert Henry Payne (London 1812 – Leipsic 1902). C. 1845. 15.2 x 15.6 cm.
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– – – The Flower Girl. Sitting, showing the flowers on her shawl. Steel engraving as before. C. 1845. 21.3 x 15.9 cm. – Lovable picture. – See the complete description.
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– – – Madonna and Child. Sitting. Steel engraving by D. J. Pound (England about 1859/60). 3rd quarter of the 19th century. 21.3 x 12.7 cm.
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Vitoria – The Market-Place in Vitoria / Spain. In the foreground rich trade scenery, behind it probably the fine Main Church. Steel engraving. Ca. 1855. 12.1 x 15.5 cm. – See the complete description.
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With Inset Brasiliae Regnum
Portugalliae et Algabriae Regna cum … Mappa Brasiliae Regnum in America Meredionali. With compass card, miles indicator, list of conventional signs, and a wonderful fugurative title-cartouche (24.5 x 26 cm) with both possessions of Portugal. Furhter with an
inset of Brazil ( 20.5 x 20.5 cm )
with its own decorated title-cartouche .
Colored map engraving by Matthäus Seutter I (1678-1757) at Augsburg. 50.5 x 58.3 cm.
Added a double full-page
LOCAL INDEX for PORTUGAL as well as for BRAZIL
as a very useful, but rare special. – From the Vienna Seutter edition of 1736. – Cartouches uncolored as widely timely and known also from the Mauritius Atlas, the gift of Johann Moritz of Nassau-Siegen, named the Brazilian, for the Great Elector.
In Europe up to Gibraltar – Málaga – Valladolid. – With Portuguese road net. – Of first quality. – See the complete description.
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Coimbra. General view. At the Mondego River in front horse, boat, and especially pottery trade scenery as characteristic for Portugal’s old capital with its university founded in 1290 as one of the oldest in Europe. Steel engraving. C. 1855. 11.5 x 15.5 cm. – See the complete description.
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Braganza – Catherine of B. – Jaspers (Caspers, Gaspers, Jaspars), Jan Baptist (perhaps Antwerp about 1620 – London 1691). Serenissima Catharina Mag: Brit: Fran: & Hiber: Regina. E(t)c. Catherine of Braganza, wife of Charles II of England. Full-length portrait, standing on top step of a loggia flanked by a column and enclosed by masonry on which the crown is put away. On the left the view goes into the park. All most richly draped. Engraving by Edward (Le) Davis (surely Wales about 1640? – 1684?). (1680/81.) Inscribed: Iohn Baptist Caspers Pinxit. / Ed. Davis Sculpsit. / Sold by Moses Pitt at the Angl in S. Pauls Church-yard, otherwise as above. 48.1 x 27.8 cm.
Thieme-Becker XVIII, 441 + VIII, 473; AKL XXIV (Davis), 505. – The fine portrait of the Braganza queen was engraved as frontispiece for the two-vol. Janssonius-Waesberghe Atlas (“English Atlas”) at Moses Pitt & Stefan Swart together with its pendant of Charles II and as such both mentioned by literature. – Splendid impression of shining chiaroscuro. – 5.5 x 0.8 cm tear out in the upper margin still reaching 2.5 cm into the subject restored professionally and completely unobtrusively.
The Braganza dynasty ruling in Portugal since the XVth century founded as a result of the Napoleonic interregnum (1807/21) a soon independent line by proclamation of Dom Pedro as Emperor of Brazil which later led to the House of Orléans while the Portuguese House became extinct in 1853, but involving Saxony-Coburg (Pedro V) by marriage. A Portuguese collateral line originating from a palace revolution resided in the Bavarian Heubach. – See the complete description.
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(Fedelissima, S. M.) Sammlung der Neuesten Schrifften, welche die Jesuiten in Portugal betreffen. From the Italian (by Anton Ernst Klausing). Collections 1 + 2 (of 4) in 1 vol. Frankfort and Leipsic, no printer, 1760. Sm. 4to. 100 pp.; title, 1 l., 96 pp. Contemp. marbled calf, richly gilt back, with marbled edges and marbled fly-leaf.
Wolf IV, 362; Holzmann-Bohatta IV, 318. – Anti Jesuiticum. – Collections 3 and 4 were published in 1762.
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Portuguese Bibliography 15th Century to 1999. – Available per niemeyer artbooks.
Spanish Bibliography 15th Century to 2004. – Available per niemeyer artbooks.
Archivo Biográfico de España, Portugal e Iberoamérica / Arquivo Biográfico de Espanha, Portugal e Ibero-América. – Available per niemeyer artbooks.
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