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Vue du Magazin de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales. . .
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- Maker :
- ANONYMOUS
- Place :
- France
- Date :
- 1780
- Color :
- In original color
- Height mm.:
- 300
- Width mm.:
- 412
- Condition :
- A good and dark impression.
- Bibliography :
- -
- Seller's ref. :
- 03900
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Description
So-called optical print of the formerly the V.O.C. warehouse and arsenal for the Admiralty of Amsterdam, now-a-days the Scheepvaartmuseum (Maritime Museum).In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular speciality establishments in Paris, Augsburg and London which produced optical viewing devices and special engravings to be viewed through them.
In the 18th century the optical print or vue optique came into existence, whose exaggerated converging lines were intended to produce the optical illusion of deep recession.
The viewing devices for which these perspective prints were produced consisted of a lens and a mirror, this requiring the use of reversed or mirror-image pictures.
Compass.
A sloop compass in the original wooden box with lit. The compass with floating rose (Cardan system). Slung in gimbals, the east point is decorated and graduated in half points and decorated N & E points.The cardan suspension system, also called a gimbal, is a pivotal support that allows the rotation of an object about a single axis. If simultaneously assembled three rings, one on another by orthogonal rotation axes, an object placed inside the third ring always remains horizontal, regardless of...
$650
Maker : ANONYMOUS
Place : Unknown
Date : c. 1890-1900
Early 19th century magnetic dry card compass with wooden bowl,
Brass dry rose marine compass, in its mahogany case. The mariner's compass, which enabled mariners to know the direction in which they were sailing, has always been one of the most important navigational instruments.This example is mounted in a wooden box to keep it safe.. The compass itself is mounted on brass gimbals to keep it steady on a moving ship. It has a single iron needle with a brass cap that rests on a spike projecting from the bottom of the bowl, which also contains some lead to wei...
$1.750
Maker : ANONYMOUS
Place : Unknown
Date : ca. 1800
Town of Yorktown.
Fine lithographed map of the town of Yorktown. The map provides the names of specific homeowners, as well as information about the occupations and physical locations of the various tradesmen in each village from Beer's famous county atlas "Atlas of New York and vicinity," "a documentary record of nineteenth-century life and delightful specimens of American folk art." F. W. Beers, along with other members of his family, were among the leading county atlas publishers in the period immediately fol...
$90
Maker : DE BEERS, F.W.
Place : New York
Date : 1867
Descriptio Transisalaniae.
An original early 17th century copper engraved miniature antique map of the eastern Dutch region of Overijssel by Petrus Bertius. The title is displayed in a simple strapwork cartouche with the further title in bold letters above the map. Zwolle the capital city is engraved, along with Lochem, Zutphen, Apeldoorn, Deventer, Hengelo and Enschede. From the Bertius atlas Tabularum geographicarum contractarum. Bertius (1565-1629) was a Flemish cartographer, theologian, historian and geographer. Altho...
$100
Maker : LANGENES, B. / BERTIUS, P.
Place : Amsterdam
Date : 1606
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