Cosmography & Navigation


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DODONAEUS, Rembertus
Cosmographica in astronomiam et geographiam isagoge. 1548. Facsmile of the original Latin text with an introduction by A. Louis 1963, 11x16 cm. Imitation vellum boards. 42 pp. (introduction), 112 pp. (facsimile)
Introduction and facsimile.
9789060040409
Related Subjects: Cosmography & Navigation - Dutch Classics on History of Science - History of Science
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HESS, Wilhelm
Himmels- und Naturerscheinungen in Einblattdrucken des XV. bis XVIII. Jahrhunderts. Leipzig, 1911. Reprint 1973, 4to. Cloth. With 30 facsimiles. (VI), 114 pp
9789060043196
Related Subjects: Bookhistory, Pamphlets - Cosmography & Navigation - Reprints
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KELLY, Sister Suzanne
The De Mundo of William Gilbert. Amsterdam, 1651. Fascimile 1965, 8vo. Cloth. With 12 plates. 2 volumes. 142 + (XIV), 316, (4) pp
I.Introduction - II. Facsimile reprint of the 'De Mundo nostro Sublunari Philosophia nova'. Amsterdam, Louis Elzevier, 1651.
Related Subjects: Cosmography & Navigation - Facsimiles - History of Science - Philosophy
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KLEINSCHMIDT, Harald
Ruling the Waves. Emperor Maximilian I, the Search for Islands and the Transformation of the European Wolrd Picture, c. 1500 2008. 16 x 25cm. Cloth with full colour dustjacket. 29 black and white illustrations. 480 pp. (Bibliotheca Humanistica & Reformatorica, Vol. LXIII)
In this work Kleinschmidt is tracing the political implications of the transformation of the European world picture in the age of Emperor Maximilian I. It is relevant for Renaissance political and cultural history. At closer inspection Maximilian turns out to have been a crucial though much underestimated figure in the context of the changes of the world picture during his time. Not only was he continuously and persistently involved in activities through which these changes were provoked. He also issued and authorized the most comprehensive sources relevant to the impact that the changes of the world picture had on politics and international relations. This work describes the exploration travels around the world, ordered by Maximilian, among which were the Portuguese expeditions to Ethiopia and India
The study proceeds chronologically in three parts, describing first (A) in brief the aspects of the emerging structure of territorial rule, concepts of universalism attached to the Roman Empire and the world picture during the Middle Ages, followed by part B which examines the changes of the world picture and Maximilian's role (the Portuguese and Spanish Expeditions) in it. The last section (C) surveys the emerging of the new world order, the transformation of the Roman Empire as an institution of universal rule and the consolidation of territorial politics during the first half of the sixteenth century
978 90 6194 020 3
Related Subjects: Cosmography & Navigation - Europe - Exploration - Humanism - Maps - 16th Century - Renaissance - World Maps
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LE MAIRE, Jacob & Willem SCHOUTEN
Mirror of the Australian Navigation. With an introductory essay by Dr. Edward Duyker. 1999 (The Australian Maritime Series, no. 5). Facsimile, 4to. Bound in quarter alum tawed goat skin with marbled papered sides designed by Margo Snape. 15 illustrations. 196 pp
Limited edition. After more than one hundred years of Portuguese monopoly, at the turn of the century, the Dutch responded by taking over control of the spice trade and they dominated trade and navigation to the Indies during the next centuries. In 1602 Dutch merchants trading in the East Indies joined together to form the VOC - the Dutch East Indies Company. It soon became by far the most powerful of Holland's trading houses. The wealthy and powerful Dutch merchant Isaac Le Maire from Hoorn, however, tried to break the VOC monopoly. He set up The Australian Compagnie and mounted an expedition, commanded by his son Jacob, to chart a new course to the Pacific and to find the great southland. As a result they established a new sailing route from the "old world" to the Pacific, around Cape Horn.Jacob Le Maire wrote a journal of this expedition, which was published posthumously in 1622, under the title Spieghel der Australische Navigatie. This journal provided the world with the details of the two-year's voyage, and ultimately led to due credit being paid to Le Maire for his remarkable achievements. The original book of 1622 contained many engraved illustrations and maps. In a very few copies of this first edition the plates are gorgeously coloured by hand. For the fist time ever, this beautiful and contemporary handcolouring is faithfully reproduced here in this Australian Maritime Series edition. In this book, the original Dutch edition is accompanied by a faithful facsimile of the English text prepared by one of the great Pacific historians of the eighteenth century, Alexander Dalrymple.
978 1 875567 256
Related Subjects: Cosmography & Navigation - Facsimiles - History of Cartography
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PETERS, Hubert J.M.W
The Crone Library. Books on the Art of Navigation left by Dr. Ernst Crone to the Scheepvaart Museum in 1975 and Books on the same subject acquired by the Museum previously.  Nieuwkoop, 1989. 8vo. Cloth. With portrait, 5 maps, and 54 facsimile plates. LX, 805 pp. Bibliotheca Bibliographica Neerlandica
More than 1220 entries elaborately described; five different indexes. "This catalogue is a welcome addition to the bibliographical literature of maritime history, a notably small body of material. One of its great services is to provide detailed descriptions of some of the fundamental early navigational works" (Thomas R. Adams in 'The Book Collector', Spring 1991). "With full collations and notes it is an essential reference work... The result is something near to a subject bibliography" (Nicholas Poole-Wilson in 'The Library' 6th series, 14, 1992).
978 90 6004 372 1
Related Subjects: Bibliography, Subjects - Bookhistory, Bookcollecting & Collectors - Cosmography & Navigation - Library Catalogues
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WISSEKERKE, Willem Gillisz van
Liber desideratus (super celestium motuum indagatione sine calculo). Facsimile with an introduction by D.J. Struik. Lyon, 1494. Facsimile 1965, 14,5x21 cm. Imitation vellum boards. 50 pp. (introduction), 48 pp. (facsimile)
Introduction and facsimile.
9789060041963
Related Subjects: Cosmography & Navigation - Dutch Classics on History of Science - Facsimiles - History of Science
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