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 MAP WORLD'S CATALOGUE OF ANTIQUE MAPS

 

THIS ESSENTIAL REFERENCE WORK LISTS ALL* ANTIQUE MAPS OF ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD IN DATE ORDER BY REGION, COUNTRY, STATE, COUNTY ETC, FROM THE YEAR 1472 TO 1850.

GIVES EVERY MAP'S 2010 REPLACEMENT COST, FROM £50 TO £6 MILLION, TOGETHER WITH NAMES OF MAP MAKERS, TITLES OF MAPS, SIZES, OTHER BASIC INFORMATION AND 1500 ZOOMABLE IMAGES.

INCLUDES THOUSANDS OF VALUABLE ANTIQUE MAPS THAT ARE NOT LISTED IN OTHER REFERENCE WORKS OR IN PAST DEALER / AUCTION CATALOGUES.

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Trying to find information about antique maps can be frustrating. It helps to have reference works on the maps of the regions one is interested in. Such works exist for antique maps of North America and the World ... but they only go up to the year 1700. What about the period 1701 to 1850? There is also a reference work for Scandinavian maps, but it only goes to 1601! A few reference works go to 1850, but antique maps of many countries do not have reference works at all. Collectors therefore cannot search for many maps, which are generally becoming rarer and more valuable, because they do not know of their existence. This unsatisfactory situation has now been resolved. Map World's Catalogue of Antique Maps gives the titles of all* antique maps of all parts of the world by region, sub-region, country etc in date order from the year 1472, when the first printed map was published, to the year 1850.

Map World's Catalogue of Antique Maps also solves another problem. It tells collectors what individual maps are likely to cost in 2010. Virtually no reference works give current replacement costs. Instead they often cryptically describe specific maps as being 'difficult to find' or 'scarce' and that they are only found in certain editions of an atlas. However, collectors also need to know how this sort of information translates into today's cost. The replacement costs of most maps are of course related to the prices of atlases, the vast majority of which have increased steadily in price over the past 25 years in spite of recessions. This latter factor often causes discrepancies between the prices of maps that a dealer may wish to sell to pay the rent and the replacement prices of maps, which are not readily available. These are the prices shown in Map World's Catalogue of Antique Maps.

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 *Antique maps that have not been selected for this catalogue include astronomical maps, diagrammatic route maps, maps of parts of counties, states or cities, different editions of the same map (unless they are especially important), maps of proposed developments, globe gores, puzzle maps, Ptolemaic maps printed after the year 1570 and maps of such rarity that none are known to exist in private hands. Topographical views of cities are not included unless they give ‘birds eye’ information about a whole city.

 

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                                                                     MAP WORLD'S CATALOGUE OF ANTIQUE MAPS 1472-1850 COPYRIGHT RESERVED 2010

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REFERENCE REGION DATE MAP MAKER PRICE (UK£)     HEIGHT WIDTH (cm.) TITLE OF MAP (Comments by the editor in brackets)
mww0001 world 1472 ISIDORE OF SEVILLE 48000 7   (Circular diagram, known as a T-O map. The first printed map)
mww0002 world 1475 BRANDIS                * 38   (Circular untitled map, north to the left. From the first travel book 'Rudimentum Novitiorum'. The first printed map to be more than a diagram, publ. by Lucas Brandis. See also under 'Middle East'.)
mww0003 world 1477 PTOLEMY (BOLOGNA)                * 35   53 (Untitled conical projection. 1st printed Ptolemaic map of the world.)
mww0004 world 1478 PTOLEMY (ROME) 120000 32   54 (Untitled conical projection, 1st edition of the Rome Ptolemy, reprinted in 1490 and 1507)
mww0005 world 1482 MELA-ANONYMOUS 8000 14   19 Novellae Etati ad Geographie Umiculatos Calles Humano Viro Necessarios Flores Aspirati Votubnmereti Ponif (Anonymous map, based on Mela, who lived during the 1st century AD)
mww0006 world 1482 PTOLEMY ( ULM) 165000 40   55 (Untitled map, as are all 1482 Ulm Ptolemy maps)
mww0007 world 1482 PTOLEMY (FLORENCE) 100000 41   57 Caelestem hic Terram Inspicias Terrestre q' Caelum
mww0008 world 1483 MACROBIUS 20000 14   (Circular map of the world according to Macrobius, who lived in the 5th century AD. Several reprints incl. a reversed white/black version were printed until c1640)
mww0009 world 1489 BRANDIS                 * 37   (Circular map, slightly reduced version of the 1475 map, publ. by Brandis)
mww0010 world 1491 BRANDIS 35000 31   (Circular map -  5 further editions until c1555. A reduced size version of the 1489 map.)
mww0011 world 1493 PTOLEMY (SCHEDEL) 15000 37   52 Secunda Etas Mundi (2 editions in 1493)
mww0012 world 1496 PTOLEMY (SCHEDEL) 4500 10   15 Secunda Etas Mundi (publ. by Schonsperger)
mww0013 world 1503 PTOLEMY (REISCH) 12500 28   41 (Untitled map with 12 windheads)
mww0014 world 1504 PTOLEMY (REISCH) 12000 27  40 (Untitled map with 4 windheads)
mww0015 world 1507 RUYSCH 225000 41   54 Universalior Cogniti Orbis Tabula ex Recentibus Confecta Orbservationibus (fan-shaped projection. 1st 'available' printed map to show America and complete Africa.)
mww0016 world 1507 WALDSEEMULLER 550000 18   34 (Set of globe gores, the earliest known unambiguous depiction of the earth as a three-dimensional globe)
mww0017 world 1507 WALDSEEMULLER 6000000 132   236 Universalis Cosmographia Secundum Ptholemaei Traditionem Et Americi Vespucii Alioruque Lustrationes (title below map, woodcut in 12 sheets. Sold in 2002 to the Library of Congress, US.)
mww0018 world 1511 PTOLEMY (SYLVANUS) 9000 27   57 (Untitled map)
mww0019 world 1511 SYLVANUS 72000 41   55 (Untitled heart-shape projection printed in black and red)
mww0020 world 1513 PTOLEMY (WALDSEEMULLER) 18000 44   62 Generale Ptholemei