[A fine set of miniature World and Continents maps]

Abraham Ortelius.
Typus Orbis Terrarum. [&] Americae sive novi orbis nova descriptio. [&] Europa. [&] Africa ta bula nova. [&] Asia.

Antwerp, 1593, Italian edition. Set of five maps, each c. 80 x 110mm. Coloured.
The World and four continents from the first Italian edition of Ortelius's Epitome, using the plates engraved by Galle.
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[World & continents miniature set, with two World maps]

Petrus Bertius.
(Untitled double hemisphere); Typus Orbis Terrarum (oval projection); Europa; Asia; Africa; America,

Amsterdam, c1606, Six plates, each c.85 x 125mm. Coloured.
A fine set of miniature maps, consisting of two world maps (a double-hemisphere and an oval. both signed by Jodocus Hondius, and four maps of the continents. These are printed from the first set of printing plates, with the narrow borders without longitude and latitude marks.
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[Set of World and 5 Continents]

Nicolas Sanson.
Mappe-Monde...; Europe; L'Asie; Amerique Septentionale; Amerique Medidionale; Afrique.

Paris, c.1692. 6 maps, sheet 220 x 320mm. Coloured.
The set of world and continents, engraved by A. de Winter for the quarto edition of Sanson's atlas. The world is a double-hemisphere, with the title on a banner and allegorical figures of the continents in the borders. The North America map has California as an island and the Great Lakes open to the west.
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[Set of maps of the World & 6 Continents]

Victor Levasseur.
Planisphère; Europe; Afrique; Amèrique Septentrionale; Amèrique Méridionale; Asie; Océanie.

Paris, c.1845. Seven steel engravings, printed area c.320 x 430mm. Original body colour.
A fine set, each map with bright body colour on the maps, within a highly decorative engraved border, with vignettes of views, costumes and animals. Published in one of the last decorative atlases, the 'Atlas Universel Illustré', which, unlike earlier sets, has grouped the East Indies, Australasia and the Pacific on one plate, 'Océanie'. On the map of the Americas Texas is a republic: the population table gives it a population of only 200,000.
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