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Currus Veliferi Illmi. Pr. Mauritii Nassouvii. (Prince Maurits' sailing-carriage, designed by Simon Stevin. )
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- Maker :
- BLAEU, J.
- Place :
- Amsterdam
- Date :
- 1649
- Color :
- Colored
- Height mm.:
- 431
- Width mm.:
- 565
- Condition :
- With Latin text on verso. In very fine condition.
- Bibliography :
- -
- Seller's ref. :
- 00921-(1)
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Prince Maurits' sailing carriages had been designed by Simon Stevin. The Prince, always accessible to new inventions of his old instructor, could not please the foreign ambassadors more than by inviting them for a ride in his carriage.The big sailing-carriage could seat 28 persons and could reach a speed of seven miles per hour.
Land sailing : The Chinese had "wind-driven carriages" since the 6th century AD, during the Liang Dynasty, and eventually mounted masts and sails on large wheelbarrows.The earliest text describing the Chinese use of mounting masts and sails on large vehicles is the Book of the Golden Hall Master written by the Daoist scholar and crown prince Xiao Yi, who later became Emperor Yuan of Liang (r. 552–554 AD).He wrote that Gaocang Wushu invented a "wind-driven carriage" which was able to carry thirty people at once.
There was another built in about 610 for the Emperor Yang of Sui (r. 604–617), as described in the Continuation of the New Discourses on the Talk of the Times.
The precursor to the modern land yacht was invented in the autumn of the year 1600 by the Flemish scientist Simon Stevin in Flanders as a commission for Prince Maurice of Orange. It was used by Prince Maurice for entertaining his guests. In 1898, the Dumont brothers of De Panne, Belgium, developed a land yacht whose sails were based on contemporary Egyptian sailboats used on the Nile River.
The first races were held on the beaches of Belgium and France in 1909. Land yachts were also used in the late 19th century and early 20th century to transport goods on dry lakes in the United States.
Inferior Germania.
Very rare map of the Benelux, centered on the Netherlands. According to van der Heijden only known in 6 examples. Two compass-roses with rumb lines but without the names of the wind directions. Very decorative title cartouche with legend, and underneath a large escutcheon with the coats-of-arms of all the XVII Provinces.The maps shows a striking resemblance, also in details, the one by Jodocus Hondius of 1593 and to the map in four sheets of 1602. For the greater part the text in the title carto...
$4.500
Maker : ANONYMOUS / HONDIUS, J. ?
Place : Amsterdam
Date : ca. 1600
India quae Orientalis dicitur, et Insulae adiacentes.
A fine map of South East Asia, extending from India to Tibet to Japan to New Guinea. Formosa appears on this map, and even parts of Japan and Australia are seen. A handsome map in the typically baroque Dutch style.Noteworthy for being the second map to include the discoveries made in New Guinea and northern Queensland, Australia by the Dutch vessel Duyfken in 1605-06. Under the command of Willem Janzoon, the Duyfken explored the eastern shore of the Gulf of Carpentaria, just below the Cape York ...
$1.850
Maker : JANSSONIUS, J. / HONDIUS, H.
Place : Amsterdam
Date : 1640
Arcenal de l'Amirauté.
A decorative print of the 'T Landts Magazyn , or 'Scheepvaart Museum' (Naval Museum).
$80
Maker : ANONYMOUS
Place : Amsterdam
Date : ca. 1700
Soil map - Virginia Norfolk Sheet.
Soil map printed by Julius Bien & Co. in New York for the Department of Agriculture. The map gives great detail of the area centered on Norfolk, Potsmouth, Chesapeake, Virginia Beach in the year 1903. Soils are surveyed by J.E.Lapham in the same year. To the left and right, color keys to the different soil types.Upper left: U.S.Department of Agriculture, Bureau of soils, Milton Whitney, Chief.Julies Bien (later Bien & Co) was born and educated in Germany, and moved to America in 1849. He started...
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Maker : U.S. DEPT. OF ARGICULTURE
Place : New York 1903
Date : 1903
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