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Sterrenkaart van de noordelijke sterrenhemel (ca. 1722–1750) by Carel Allard. Original from The Rijksmuseum. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.
Old map of Poland in excellent state of preservation. By Ortelius, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Antwerp, 1570
Cover and a few selections from a favorite reference work of mine. I actually rescued this from a discard pile at the library where I had my first part-time job, years ago.
Cyprus and Crete old maps in excellent state of preservation. By Ortelius, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Antwerp, 1570
Title: Orbis Terrarum
Artist: Hendrik Hondius
Manufacturer: Star Game Sets (Star Oyun Aletleri), Turkiye
Other: # 1100998
Collection: Museum Collection
Piece Count: 1000 Pieces
Dimensions: 19V x 27L / 48x68cm
Time: 9H 31M
Item Description:
Full title of the map is: Nova totius terrarum orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula
The image used is a scan of the copy belonging to the State Library of New South Wales.
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Old map of Belgium and Netherlands in excellent state of preservation. By Ortelius, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Antwerp, 1570
Title: Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio (1587)
Artist: Abraham Ortelius and Franz Hogenberg, engraver
Manufacturer: Puzzles Plus, Inc.
Other: # 9123
Collection: Alan M. Voorhees Map Collection at the Library of Virginia
Piece Count: 500 Pieces
Dimensions: 18V x 24L
Time: 3H 21M
Item Description:
Third edition of 1587, state 1. The first edition was published in 1570 in Antwerp, and subsequent editions published consistently until 1612.
Relief shown pictorially includes latitude and longitude. Title set in decorative cartouche. Shows Western Hemisphere set in decorative frame with settlements and major rivers. Includes illustrations of ships and a monstrous fish. Thought to be the first printed map on which Chesapeake Bay appears. Includes index to cities in Peru.
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The charting and further discovery of the New World was such a big deal, that if one had access to an early version of a map like this, it was guarded with their life to keep it out of the hands of explorers and mapmakers from other countries. It meant all the difference between control of land, resources and prestige for the royalty and nobles that funded the expeditions. It was not until later that the charted information of the Western Hemisphere was shared in published atlases.
Other historical information:
One of the earliest instances of "Gulf of Mexico" on an antique map was printed in 1595. This map edition from 1587 expectedly does not include the name, but on other notes is considered the first printed map to show the Chesapeake Bay.
The original size of the map as published in its atlas is in the range of approximately 17x22 inches. The puzzle is 18x24 inches.
Title: Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica
Artist: Andreas Cellarius
Manufacturer: Galison Books NY, c1993
Other: # 0-53-1, printed in Japan.
Collection: Galison Books Museum Puzzle, in assoc. The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Piece Count: 500 Pieces
Dimensions: 14.75V x 18.25L
Time: 5H 21M
Item Description:
Full title of the celestial map this came from: Coeli Stellati Christiani Haemisphaerium Prius, c1660. (Northern Hemisphere.)
From the 1708 reprint of the 1661 Cellarius Atlas Harmonia Macrocosmica, depicting the Christianized constellations by Julius Schiller, showing the northern hemisphere with the autumnal equinox point.
Instead of being projected from the pole, the map is centered on the vernal equinox and the ecliptic bisects the map instead of encircling it. The following major constellations are shown as follows:
Gemini = James (Jacobus), son of Zebedee
Cancer = St. John
Leo = St. Thomas
Virgo = St. James (Jacobus) the Less
Libra = St. Phillip
Scorpio = St. Bartholomew
Centauri = Abraham and Isaac
The Argonaut = Noah's Ark
Canis Minor = King David
The Harmonia Macrocosmica of Andreas Cellarius is widely regarded as the most beautiful and finely executed celestial atlas ever published. The atlas appeared in two early editions of 1660 and 1661, and was also intended as part of Jansson's Atlas Maior. Schenk & Valk re-issued the atlas in 1708, using the original Cellarius plates, without alteration, except for the addition of their names in the title cartouche.
info: www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/64554op/coeli-stellati-ch...
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The puzzle came with a dual-sided poster. The first side being the complete puzzle image, and on the reverse an ad displaying various other puzzle style available within the Museum Puzzle collection but was not the entire collection.
There is no year indicated on the outside of the box as it is on other puzzles in the Museum Puzzle collection.
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Old map of Netherlands in excellent state of preservation. By Ortelius, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Antwerp, 1570
This is one of the earliest maps featuring Rockwell demesne and townland (a long time before Rockwell had any college, seminary or congregation). It was produced in 1777 and published the year later. The maps were intended to help in the commuting from a town to another, and therefore has very little details of the geography at the time.
#rockwellcollege #education #tipperary #heritage #archives #heritageweek #ireland
Old map of Africa in excellent state of preservation. By Ortelius, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Antwerp, 1570
Old map of Transylvania in excellent state of preservation. By Ortelius, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Antwerp, 1570
Report of the Executive Commissioner for New South Wales to the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893
Title: Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio (1587)
Artist: Abraham Ortelius and Franz Hogenberg, engraver
Manufacturer: Puzzles Plus, Inc.
Other: # 9123
Collection: Alan M. Voorhees Map Collection at the Library of Virginia
Piece Count: 500 Pieces
Dimensions: 18V x 24L
Time: 3H 21M
Item Description:
Third edition of 1587, state 1. The first edition was published in 1570 in Antwerp, and subsequent editions published consistently until 1612.
Relief shown pictorially includes latitude and longitude. Title set in decorative cartouche. Shows Western Hemisphere set in decorative frame with settlements and major rivers. Includes illustrations of ships and a monstrous fish. Thought to be the first printed map on which Chesapeake Bay appears. Includes index to cities in Peru.
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The charting and further discovery of the New World was such a big deal, that if one had access to an early version of a map like this, it was guarded with their life to keep it out of the hands of explorers and mapmakers from other countries. It meant all the difference between control of land, resources and prestige for the royalty and nobles that funded the expeditions. It was not until later that the charted information of the Western Hemisphere was shared in published atlases.
Other historical information:
One of the earliest instances of "Gulf of Mexico" on an antique map was printed in 1595. This map edition from 1587 expectedly does not include the name, but on other notes is considered the first printed map to show the Chesapeake Bay.
The original size of the map as published in its atlas is in the range of approximately 17x22 inches. The puzzle is 18x24 inches.
Old map of Lombardy, Italy, in excellent state of preservation. By Ortelius, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Antwerp, 1570