Search Results: Balkans from Bryars and Bryars

Paris, 1683. Copper engraving, 15.5 x 11.5 cms, recent hand-colour, French text on verso, from Mallet’s ‘Description de l’Univers’. Map

Amsterdam, c. 1700. Copper engraving, 49 x 59 cms, original hand-colour, blank verso. The Lower Danube region on the western shore of the Black Sea, covering parts of modern Turkey and Bulgria; Romania is here used in its earlier form, referring to the hinterland of Constantinople, the new Rome. Map

Antwerp: Plantin-Moretus , 1624. Copper engraving, 36 x 46 cms, modern hand colour, Latin text on verso. Ancient Dacia and Moesia, modern Romania and Bulgaria on the Black Sea. Our example was published by Balthasar Moretus at the Plantin Press, in the final edition of the Parergon. Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum is generally considered the first modern atlas of the world, originally published in 1570. Ortelius gathered and selected the best available cartographic knowledge and presented it in a single volume, duly credited and finely engraved in a consistent style, with explanatory text. The Theatrum was very decorative and hugely popular amongst the wealthy and educated, running into over forty editions in Latin and the major European languages. For Ortelius himself, however, his accompanying atlas of ancient geography, the Parergon, was a "personal work" (Koeman). He seems to have regarded himself, first and foremost, as an antiquary and, rather than copying other people's… Read More

London, 1844. Copper engraving, 55.5 x 75.5 cm, original hand colour, blank verso; published in Wyld's ‘New General Atlas’. Greece had become an independent nation after the war of 1821-30, but most other Balkan states gained their independence between 1878-1912, after our map was printed. The cartouche features a fearsome array of weapons, reflecting the long history of warfare between the Ottoman Empire and its neighbours, but at the foot is an abundance of ripe fruit and one of the putti appears to be smoking an opium pipe. James Wyld senior established a highly successful firm of map publishers, which passed to his son when he died relatively young in 1836, apparently from 'overwork'. He hasd been apprenticed to William Faden, and this is one of the plates he took over with Faden’s business in 1823. Wyld senior introduced the new process of lithography to map printing, was a founder member of the Royal Geographical Society and was appointed Geographer to both George IV… Read More

Paris, 1683. Copper engraving, 15 x 11.5 cms, recent hand-colour, French text on verso, from Mallet’s ‘Description de l’Univers’. Map

Amsterdam, c. 1630. Copper engraving, 15 x 17.2 cms, recent hand colour, crease bottom left, French text on verso. Map

Amsterdam, Jodocus Hondius, 1616. Copper engraving, 9.5 x 13.5 cms, recent hand-colour, Latin text on verso. Map

Basel: Officina Henricpetrina,, 1578. Woodcut, 11.5 x 15.8 cms, black and white, set within descriptive German text, some spotting, sheet size 33.2 x 21.5 cms, old repair to corner, top right. Shows the confluence of the rivers Danube and Sava at Belgrade, Serbia, from Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia. “Griechisch Wyssenburg”, Greek (ie Byzantine) Weissenburg, was the common German name for Belgrade until the 16th century, when it began to be supplanted by the modern slavic name. A compendium of topographical information, folklore and travels, the Cosmographia was first published with a modest 26 maps in 1544, mostly borrowed from his Ptolemy of 1540. A substantial enlargement took place in 1550, and after Münster's death in 1552 his step-son, Heinrich Petri (and his son, Sebastian), continued to revise and augment the work. A major revision took place in 1588, replacing some of the original maps with new examples following those in Ortelius' Theatrum; in the 1590s… Read More

Paris: Charles François Delamarche, , c. 1780. Copper engraving, 49.5 x 56.5 cm, original hand colour in outline, blank verso. A later state of Robert de Vaugondy’s map of southeastern Europe, first published in 1751. It covers present day Hungary and Slovakia and parts of neighbouring states including Romania, Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia. Pedley does not specify a second state, but the date and privilege have been erased on our example of the map. Pedley, Bel et Utile: the Work of the Robert de Vaugondy Family of Mapmakers, 288. Map

Paris, 1719. Copper engraving, 16.3 x 22.2 cm, original hand colour in outline, marginal crease to top right hand corner, blank verso. Our map was published in Chiquet’s ‘Le nouveau et curieux atlas géographique et historique ...’. Chiquet (1673-1721) was a relatively successful Parisian engraver, print and mapseller. He published Antoine Menard’s ‘Le nouveau et curieux atlas’ in 1711, and reprinted it with Menard’s name burnished from the plate and replaced with his own and a new date, 1719, as here. Map

Paris, c. 1768. Copper engraving, 50 x 58 cm, original hand colour in outline, blank verso. The second state of Robert de Vaugondy’s map of the present day Czech Republic and parts of neighbouring Germany and Poland, first published in 1751. Pedley, Bel et Utile: the Work of the Robert de Vaugondy Family of Mapmakers, 285 (2). Map

Paris, 1683. Copper engraving, 15 x 11.5 cms, recent hand-colour, French text on verso, from Mallet’s ‘Description de l’Univers’. Map

Antwerp: Plantin-Moretus , 1624. Copper engraving, 36 x 46 cms, modern hand colour, Latin text on verso. The Dalmatian coast in antiquity. Our example was published by Balthasar Moretus at the Plantin Press, in the final edition of the Parergon. Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum is generally considered the first modern atlas of the world, originally published in 1570. Ortelius gathered and selected the best available cartographic knowledge and presented it in a single volume, duly credited and finely engraved in a consistent style, with explanatory text. The Theatrum was very decorative and hugely popular amongst the wealthy and educated, running into over forty editions in Latin and the major European languages. For Ortelius himself, however, his accompanying atlas of ancient geography, the Parergon, was a "personal work" (Koeman). He seems to have regarded himself, first and foremost, as an antiquary and, rather than copying other people's maps, he drew the originals himself;… Read More

Frankfurt, c. 1650. Copper engraving, 20.5 x 30.5 cms, black and white, slight spotting, blank verso. Dubrovnik and Chalcis, published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Archontologia Cosmica and Theatrum Europaeum. Map

Antwerp, 1595. Copper engraving, 36.5 x 50 cms, recent-hand-colour, Latin text on verso. The Lower Danube region and southeastern Europe, extending to the shores of the Black Sea, first published in a 1584 edition of the ‘Theatrum’. Jacob Gastaldi is credited as the source (his two and four-sheet maps of the region appeared in 1559-60). Map

Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus, 1595. Copper engraving, 33 x 46 cms, modern hand-colour, Latin text on verso. Ortelius’ map of the western Balkans drew on the cartography of Augustin Hirschvogel. Van den Broecke 145.3 Map

London, 1894. Lithograph, 60 x 47 cms, colour printed, blank verso; prepared for the London Atlas. Map

Frankfurt, c. 1650. Copper engraving, 25 x 35 cms, black and white, blank verso. Bratislava, capital of modern Slovakia, formerly known as Pressburg, for more than two centuries the capital of the Kingdom of Hungary; published by Merian and his heirs in various works, including the Archontologia Cosmica of 1638 and editions of the Theatrum Europaeum. Merian was born in Basel, but he learned his trade working for Johann Theodor de Bry in Frankfurt, and married de Bry’s daughter. His own business flourished: talented engravers who worked with him include Wenceslaus Hollar. After his death in 1650 the firm passed through three generations of his family. Map

Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus, 1595. Copper engraving, 33 x 45 cms, modern hand-colour, Latin text on verso. This is the second version of Ortelius’ map of Transylvania, now central Romania, which follows the cartography of the Hungarian humanist scholar János Zsámboky (or Johannes Sambucus). It was introduced to editions of the ‘Theatrum’ in 1575: van den Broecke speculates that the earlier plate, which is almost identical, developed a crack which made it unusable. Van den Broecke 153.2 Map

Paris, 1683. Copper engraving, 15 x 10.5 cms, recent hand-colour, French text on verso, from Mallet’s ‘Description de l’Univers’. Map