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Featuring...Chiquet, De Fer, DeWit, Homann, Levasseur, Merian, Moll, Ortelius Tallis, de Vaugondy, Visscher, and Zatta |
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In the Middle of Lovely Carillon Square 1452 Waukegan Road Glenview, Il. 60025 847-657-9492 www.ArtPostGallery.com Monday-Friday, 10:00 to 5:00 Saturday, 10:00 to 4:00 Sunday & Evenings, by appointment |
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In 2005, we added an attractive collection of authentic, original, antique maps from the 16th through the 19th Centuries. The collection includes maps of Africa, the Americas, the British Isles and World maps. Through our affiliated map dealer, Mapcarte (www.mapcarte.com), we have access to a broad inventory of beautiful maps as well as the capability to locate rare maps of particular geographic regions, countries, cities etc. Please contact us with any questions you may have.
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The Visscher family was an important art dealer and map publisher in Amsterdam for almost a century. Claes J. Visscher (1587-1652), his son and grandson, Nicolaes Visscher I (1618-1679) and Nicolaes Visscher II (1649-1702), published a number of atlases, regularly updated with newly discovered information.
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Victor Levasseur (1838-1854) was a French cartographer widely known for his distinctive decorative style. Produced numerous maps more admired for the artistic content of the scenes and data surrounding the map than for the detail of the map. |
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Jan Jansson Jr. (1588 -1664) married Jodocus Hondius’ daughter Elisabeth in 1612. In direct competition with the Blaeu’s, he re-issued the Mercator-Hondius Atlas beginning in 1633. They redrew or replaced many of the maps in the original atlas. |
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John Tallis (1838-51) founder of Tallis and Co., London map publishers flourished between 1838 and 1851. The Illustrated Atlas of the World, published in 1849 with the maps and decorative vignette’s engraved and drawn by J. Rapkin, was one of the last atlases to be truly decorated and is therefore highly prized. |
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Folding tourist pocket map including transit lines, Metro stations, major sights and numbered Arrondissements. |
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Original outline color and colored vignettes of St. Peter's, the Pope and the Grand Canal of Venice. |
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Original outline color and colored vignettes of Naples, Visuvius, and a wine festival. |
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Rigobert Bonne (1729 1795) served as Royal Hydrographer and also produced maps for an atlas by Guillaume Raynal and for a Historical Atlas and Encyclopedia published with Nicholas Desmaret. |
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The Homann family was the most important map publisher in Germany in the eighteenth century. The business was established by Johann Babtist Homann (1663-1724) in 1702 and bequeathed to his heirs on the condition that it continued to trade under the name Homann Heirs. |
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French cartographer, Nicholas De Fer (1646-1720) was a prolific producer of over 600 sheet maps, wall maps and atlases. Appointed “Geographer to the King” of France.
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Victor Levasseur (1838-1854) was a French cartographer widely known for his distinctive decorative style. Produced numerous maps more admired for the artistic content of the scenes and data surrounding the map than for the detail of the map.
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Art Post Gallery
In the Middle of Lovely Carillon Square 1452 Waukegan Road Glenview, Il. 60025 847-657-9492 ph + fax www.ArtPostGallery.com |
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Featuring...Chiquet, De Fer, DeWit, Homann, Levasseur, Merian, Moll, Ortelius Tallis, de Vaugondy, Visscher, and Zatta |