Browse our titles > History of Cartography, Cosmography, Navigation & Travel




The Most Magnificent and Largest Globes of Blaeu, the World`s Greatest Globe Maker. Compiled by Peter van der Krogt.  cover art

The Most Magnificent and Largest Globes of Blaeu, the World`s Greatest Globe Maker. Compiled by Peter van der ...

Matching pair of terrestrial and celestial globes, with a diameter of 26 inches (68 cm), with text in Latin. The terrestial globe is composed of 36 half gores and two polar calottes; the celestial globe of 24 ecliptical gores. The gores are pasted on a plaster sphere rotating on brass pinions within... More info
Hollandia Comitatus. Een kartobibliografie van Holland.  cover art

Hollandia Comitatus. Een kartobibliografie van Holland.

With an extensive summary in English. This attractive and profusely illustrated book offers for the first time a complete survey of  all printed maps of the former county of Holland. The reader obtains an excellent insight into the development of the typically Dutch landscape through the ages. Over ... More info
Koeman’s Atlantes Neerlandici, Vol. II. The Blaeu-Atlases. cover art

Koeman’s Atlantes Neerlandici, Vol. II. The Blaeu-Atlases.

Please note: this is the price for a single volume (25% to the subscription price). When you would like to order the complete set for the subscription price, see http://www.hesdegraaf.com/Book/Detail/koeman-s-atlantes-neerlandici-set More info
Neatly Dissected for the Instruction of Young Ladies and Gentlemen in the Knowledge of Geography: John Spilsbury and Early Dissected Puzzles.  cover art

Neatly Dissected for the Instruction of Young Ladies and Gentlemen in the Knowledge of Geography: John Spilsbu...

HARDCOVER VERSION. Also available in softcover version. John Spilsbury, who styled himself an "Engraver and Map Dissector in Wood, in Order to Facilitate the Teaching of Geography," is credited with the invention of "dissected maps"•hand-colored maps, printed from copper plates, which were mounted o... More info
Neatly Dissected for the Instruction of Young Ladies and Gentlemen in the Knowledge of Geography: John Spilsbury and Early Dissected Puzzles. cover art

Neatly Dissected for the Instruction of Young Ladies and Gentlemen in the Knowledge of Geography: John Spilsbu...

SOFTCOVER VERSION. (hardcover version is out of print at the moment). John Spilsbury, who styled himself an "Engraver and Map Dissector in Wood, in Order to Facilitate the Teaching of Geography," is credited with the invention of "dissected maps" hand-colored maps, printed from copper plates, which ... More info
Abraham Ortelius and the first atlas.  Essays commemorating the Quadricentennial of his Death 1598-1998. cover art

Abraham Ortelius and the first atlas. Essays commemorating the Quadricentennial of his Death 1598-1998.

With an introduction by Leon Voet, and with 20 contributions by Günter Schilder, Rodney Shirley, Dennis Reinhartz, H.A.M. van der Heijden, Marijke Spies and others. More info
Koeman`s Atlantes Neerlandici, Vol. I. The Mercator-Hondius-Janssonius-Atlases. cover art

Koeman`s Atlantes Neerlandici, Vol. I. The Mercator-Hondius-Janssonius-Atlases.

Please note: this is the price for a single volume (25% to the subscription price). When you would like to order the complete set for the subscription price, see http://www.hesdegraaf.com/Book/Detail/koeman-s-atlantes-neerlandici-set
More info
The Atlas Blaeu-Van der Hem of the Austrian National Library. An illustrated and annotated catalogue. Editorial Committee: G. Schilder, B. Aikema and P. van der Krogt.  cover art

The Atlas Blaeu-Van der Hem of the Austrian National Library. An illustrated and annotated catalogue. Editoria...

A complete descriptive and illustrated catalogue of one of the largest and finest atlases ever assembled. More info
Results page:<1234567>