Antique maps brought to you by Art Post Gallery, located in Glenview (north of Chicago).
Featuring...Chiquet, De Fer, DeWit, Homann, Levasseur, Merian, Moll, Ortelius
Tallis, de Vaugondy, Visscher, and Zatta
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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.
Region:
Africa
Map Makers:
Claes Janszoon Visscher - Nicolaes Visscher I (son) - Nicolaes Visscher II (grandson) - (Amsterdam)
Date:
1670
Title:
"Africae Accurata Tabula ex Officina"
Size:
17" x 21.2"
Price:
$1650.00
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.
Region:
Americas
Map Maker:
Victor Levasseur
Date:
 1849
Title:
Amerique Septentrionale
Size:
22" x 26" (framed)
Price:
$900 (framed)

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.
Region:
Britain
Map Maker:
Jan Jansson
Date:
1639
Title:
"Anglia Regnum"
Size:
16" x 20.5"
Price:
$600

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. 
Region:
Britain
Map Maker:
John Tallis
Date:
1639
Title:
"England and Wales"
Size:
25" x 21" (framed)
Price:
$760 (framed)

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.
Region:
Europe
Map Maker:
Blondel La Rougery
Date:
1927
Title:
"Paris"
Size:
27" x 38.5"
Price:
$400.00

Folding tourist pocket map including transit lines, Metro stations, major sights and numbered Arrondissements.
Region:
Europe
Map Maker:
John Tallis
Date:
1850
Title:
"Northern Italy"
Size:
9.5" x 13"
Price:
$340.00

Original outline color and colored vignettes of St. Peter's, the Pope and the Grand Canal of Venice.
Region:
Europe
Map Maker:
John Tallis
Date:
1850
Title:
"Southern Italy"
Size:
9.5" x 13"
Price:
$280.00

Original outline color and colored vignettes of Naples, Visuvius, and a wine festival.
Region:
Ireland
Map Maker:
Rigobert Bonne
Date:
1771
Title:
"Carté D'Ireland"
Size:
23" x 28"
Price:
$1,140.00 (framed)

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.
Region:
Scotland
Map Maker:
Johann Baptist Homann (Nuremberg)
Date:
1689
Title:
"Regnum Scotia"
Size:
35" x 31" (framed)
Price:
$1,890 (framed)

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.

Region:
World
Map Maker:
Nicholas De Fer (Paris)
Date:
1702
Title:
"Mappe-Monde ou Carte Universelle"
Size:
8.9" x 13.31"
Price:
$990
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. 
Region:
Planisphere
Map Maker:
Victor Levasseur
Date:
1849
Title:
"Nouvelle Carte du Mond Suivant l'Idee de Mercator"
Size:
22" x 26" (framed)
Price:
$975 (framed)
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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Antique maps brought to you by Art Post Gallery, located in Glenview (north of Chicago).
Featuring...Chiquet, De Fer, DeWit, Homann, Levasseur, Merian, Moll, Ortelius
Tallis, de Vaugondy, Visscher, and Zatta