Original Antique Engraving of the Eastern Hemisphere, c.1700
€ 920
Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)
Date
1700
Sheet size
27 × 21.5 cm (10.6 × 8.5 in)
Condition
Good
Reference
PCT-58784
What the condition grades mean
Excellent
Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good
Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good
Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair
Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.
Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.
Condition
Given age. Small damp stain top right edge. Edges partly browned. One tiny spot in image. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
About this sheet
Antique map titled 'Proiectio Optica Aequinoctia lis Hemishaerii Orientalis' - Map of the Eastern Hemisphere with Africa, Europe, Asia and Nova Hollandia with the eastern and southeastern coast of Australia uncharted. Relief shown pictorially. Source unknown, to be determined.
Artists and Engravers: Made by 'Heinrich Scherer' after an anonymous artist. Heinrich Scherer (1628-1704) was a Professor of Hebrew, Mathematics and Ethics at the University of Dillingen until about 1680. Thereafter he obtained important positions as Official Tutor to the Royal Princes of Mantua and Bavaria. It was during his time in Munich as Tutor to the Princely house of Bavaria that his lifetime’s work as a cartographer received acclaim and recognition. Scherer’s world atlas, the Atlas Novus, first published in Munich between 1702 and 1710 and reissued in a second edition between 1730 and 1737, forms a singularly unusual, almost revolutionary work in terms of the development of European mapmaking at the beginning of the 18th Century.
Condition: Good, given age. Small damp stain top right edge. Edges partly browned. One tiny spot in image. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully. Date: c.1700 Overall size: 21.5 x 27 cm. Image size: 18.5 x 23.7 cm.
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