{"title":"1721","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"stellarum-fixarum-hemisphaerium-boreale-northern-sky-star-chart-senex-c1721-map-p-7-012407","title":"Stellarum Fixarum Hemisphaerium Boreale. Northern Sky star chart SENEX c1721 map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Stellarum Fixarum Hemisphaerium Boreale. The Northern Hemisphere projected on the plane of the Aequator in which all the stars containd in the Britannick catalogue (as published by Dr Halley) are carefully laid down and adapted to the beginning of the year 1690, the Afterismes being drawn to answer the description of the Ancients'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50722586362203,"sku":"P-7-012407","price":1220.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-7-012407a.jpg?v=1748731956"},{"product_id":"britannicae-insulae-in-quibus-albium-sanson-covens-mortier-c1721-old-map-p-8-005049","title":"Britannicae Insulae in quibus Albium… SANSON COVENS\/MORTIER c1721 old map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eBritannicae Insulae in quibus, Albium sive Britannia Maior, Iuernia sive Britannia Minor, tum et Orcades, Edubes, Cassiterides. Autore N. Sanson. Amstelodami apud I. Covens \u0026amp; C. Mortier cum Privilegio [The British Isles which include Albion, or Great Britain and Hibernia, or Ireland, as well as the Orkneys, the Hebrides, and the Scilly Isles. Author N. Sanson. Amsterdam at Johannes Covens and Cornelis Mortier with privilege]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50723237593435,"sku":"P-8-005049","price":180.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-005049a.jpg?v=1748727223"},{"product_id":"a-map-of-new-philippine-islands-palau-carolines-micronesia-andrew-johnston-1721-p-6-111782","title":"A Map of New Philippine Islands—Palau—Carolines—Micronesia—Andrew Johnston 1721","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'A Map of the New Philippine Islands'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn early English map of the western Pacific, focused on island groups then loosely associated with the “New Philippines.” The plate reflects European efforts to reconcile Jesuit, Spanish and Dutch reports from a still imperfectly known region, naming numerous small islands across the Caroline and Palau groups and placing them in relation to Mindanao, Samar and the Moluccas. The numbered figures are not simple island labels: numbers set within an island indicate how many days’ sailing were thought necessary to circumnavigate it, while numbers between islands give the estimated sailing time from one to another. This makes the map a compact digest of missionary and navigational intelligence, preserving obsolete names and uncertain geography within the spare, information-led style of early Royal Society publication.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53342829511003,"sku":"P-6-111782","price":140.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-6-111782a.jpg?v=1780947923"},{"product_id":"a-new-santorini-island-nea-kameni-1707-8-eruption-map-eyewitness-account-1721-p-6-111783","title":"A new Santorini Island—Nea Kameni 1707-8 eruption map \u0026 eyewitness account 1721","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eThe New Island, or Black Island [in the Bay of Santorini]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA vivid Royal Society record of the 1707–8 Santorini eruption, accompanied by Father Goree’s eyewitness account of the island’s sudden emergence within the caldera. The plate shows Santorini not as picturesque scenery, but as geology in action: smoke and fire break from the new volcanic mass, while the surrounding islands and settlements anchor the event within the familiar harbour of Thera. Goree’s text adds considerable force, describing the sea-floor rising into firm land, the formation of “White” and “Black” islands, and earlier eruptions that had shaped the archipelago. The result is a fascinating early printed document of volcanic observation — part map, part natural history report, part wonder story — and especially resonant for collectors of Santorini, Aegean travel and the beginnings of geological science.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53342829609307,"sku":"P-6-111783","price":280.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-6-111783a.jpg?v=1780947924"},{"product_id":"a-passage-by-land-to-california-kino-insular-california-disproof-baja-1721-map-p-6-111784","title":"A Passage by Land to California—Kino—Insular California disproof—Baja 1721 map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'A Passage by Land to California Discover'd by the Rev. Father Eusebius Francis Kino Jesuite between ye years 1698 and 1701'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn important map in the history of the cartography of California, showing the result of Kino’s overland journeys and arguing against the long-lived European misconception that California was an island. The Gulf of California, Baja California, Sonora, Arizona and the missionary geography of northern New Spain are all treated with unusual confidence for the period. Missions, native groups, rivers and routes are identified, giving the map both geographical and ethnographic interest. Its importance is not in decorative embellishment but in its corrective power: it helped disseminate new Jesuit intelligence through the scientific network of the Royal Society. This example is accompanied by the approval\/imprimatur leaf for the Philosophical Transactions abridgement, within which the map was originally published, bearing the printed imprimatur of Isaac Newton as President of the Royal Society, giving it an unusually resonant Enlightenment scientific association. For collectors, it offers a compact, early and highly desirable witness to the final erosion of the California-as-island myth. It remains one of the most meaningful small-format California maps.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53342829642075,"sku":"P-6-111784","price":680.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-6-111784a.jpg?v=1780947924"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.antiquemapsandprints.com\/collections\/1721.oembed","provider":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}