Cellarius Valck (3 results)

Condition: Fine. This exceptional two volumes features two works: Nova totius geographica telluris projectio. Edita per Gerardum Valck, Amsterdam. (2nd title) Inleidinge tot de geographie, waar in begreepen zyn de astronomische geographie, verklaarende de overeenkomst der aardkloot met de sphere: de natuurlyke geographie. Geevende de verdeelingen van alle de deelen der Aarde en des waters . Door den Heer Sanson d'Abbeville . [bound with] Atlas Coelestis seu Harmonia macrocosmica Seu Atlas Universalis Et Novus, Totius Universi Creati Cosmographiam Generalem, Et Novam Exhibens. Nova totius geographica was published in Amsterdam by Johannes Covens and Cornelis Mortier. Atlas Coelestis was published by Valck & Schenk in Amsterdam. The works were published between c1700 and 1722.The volumes are bound in full calf with beautiful gold gilt details, spine with nine compartments, spandrels, and spheres, boards framed by gilded lace. Each volume is housed in modern portfolio style boxes. There are 198 maps and engravings, 197 feature original hand-coloring and 1 without, 29 of these engravings are celestial charts. Volume 1 includes title / frontispiece and 101 double page maps. Volume 2 includes 65 double page maps, 3 double page prints, and the celestial plates from Cellarius with title / frontispiece, 29 double page star charts, and 1 black and white map by Simon Janz. This is considered a composite atlas assembled according to the collector published and sold by Valck and Schenk from various authors and cartographers.Included in the terrestrial atlas are 169 maps and engravings: three maps of the world, two polar projections, 128 maps of Europe, 21 of Asia & Middle East, 6 of Africa, 7 of the Americas. There are also 3 plates depicting parts of warships, sea flags, and military architecture. Most of the maps are stamped or signed with Gerard Valck, Gerard and Leonard Valck, Petrus Schenk (I and II), or Gerard Valck and Petrus Schenk. The maps were engraved after maps by Jaillot, Blaeu, Visscher, Jansson, Sanson, Pirnacker, Moses Pitt, Labanna or Van Loon. Thirty-nine of the engravings from the atlas are from the rare Atlantis composite atlas sylloge compendiosa by Gerard and Lenard Valck published circa 1702. Ten of the engravings are from Petrus Schenk's Atlas Contractuspublished circa 1700.Pieter Schenk the Elder [Petrus or Peter] (1660-1711) was a German cartographer, engraver, and publisher. He studied under Gerhard Valck. The two families would be active print sellers, globe makers, and publishers.Included in Cellarius's celestial atlas is an allegorical frontispiece, title page, index sheet, and 29 originally hand-colored double page celestial engravings. Cellarius's engravings are remarkably decorated and some of the most visually appealing of the era. The frontispiece for the work was engraved by Frederik Hendrik van den Hove. At least ten of the engravings were done by Johannes van Loon. The classical constellations were illustrated after Jan Pieterszoon Saenredam."Among the most astonishing plates of the atlas are those of the "Christian sky" with, on the Christian planisphere showing the southern hemisphere (pl.24), the Ship Argo replaced by Noah's Ark, or on the boreal Christian planisphere (pl.25), the representation of six of the saints of the zodiac including Saint Andrew with his cross (replacing Taurus and the cluster of Hyades), the Sepulchre (replacing Andromeda) and the Red Sea (replacing the river aridanus). Similarly, the plate Hemisphaerium Australis Coeli & Terrae Scenographia (pl.28) depicts a never-before-used view of the sky, in which the constellations of the Southern Hemisphere are superimposed on the map of the globe. The arrangement was ingenious, but it is doubtful whether it was of practical use to astronomers of the time. Aesthetic concern therefore prevailed." (BnF, Figures du ciel, p. 159-164)Cellariusâs work is one of the most highly decorative and noted as one of the finest celestial atlases ever produced. His.

No Binding. Condition: Fine. A Pair of Celestial Maps, 1708. Cellarius/ Valck & Schenk Celestials. Valck & Schenk Amsterdam 1708 original copper engraved antique maps with original full colour in a dark wooden frame with some gold accents and corner decorations in cream coloured museums quality mount with golden slip. frame 71 x 79 cm, print 43 x 51 cm. A most amazing pair of original coloured celestial maps by Andreas Celarrius (1596-1665) and published by Petrus Schenk and Gerad Valk, from 'Harmonia Macrocosmica seu Atlas Universalis et Novus' (Harmonious Universe or New and Universal Atlas) - the finest celestial atlas ever produced! - , published in Amsterdam, 1708. The photos are not doing the maps any justice: the colours within the hemispheres are very vibrant and fresh, depicting the Zodiacs, whilst the area outside the circle is decorated with putti and windheads, coloured in off-green wash-colour. Each map presents a view of the constellations of the Northern or Southern Sky superimposed over the North or South Pole. According to classical astronomy, championed by Aristotle and Ptolemy, the stars were mounted on a huge, transparent crystal sphere part of a divine system in which all of the stars and planets orbited the Earth. The present images were originally engraved in 1660 by Jan Janssonius, during the greatest era of Dutch map-making, a period that saw the perfection of the art of representing scientific ideas in a graphic form using engravings. It was reprinted by Janssonius in 1661, and again in 1708 by Gerard Valk and Petrus Schenk, who added their names to the plates. Schenk was born in Germany but settled in Amsterdam where he became a pupil of Valck, the engraver. In 1687, he married Valck's daughter and thereafter, both families were active over a long period of time with a wide range of interests as print sellers, publishers of books, maps, topographical and architectural drawings and globe makers. Their work was finely presented and demonstrates the precision and elegance associated with maps and engravings produced during this period. Andreas Cellarius was born in about 1596 in Neuhausen, a small town near Worms in the Rhine-Hesse region of Germany. From 1625 to 1637 Cellarius worked as a schoolmaster in Amsterdam and The Hague, and in 1637 moved to Hoorn, where he was appointed as headmaster or rector of the Latin School. He published a number of works during his lifetime, but the last and greatest was the Harmonia Macrocosmica. Cellarius resigned from his post as headmaster in early 1665 and died in Hoorn in November of the same year. [ref: 2869 ].

No binding. Condition: Good. TYPUS ASCPECTUUM, OPPOSITIOMUM ET CONJUNCTIONNUM ETZ IN PLANETIS. Prostant Amstelaedami, apud Petrum Schenk, et GearadumValk. Amesterdão. S/d [1708] In folio (de 50x60 cm) Gravura colorida à mão na época mostrando o trânsito de Vénus ? apenas previsto dado não ter ocorrido na geração destes astrónomos. Esta gravura apareceu na impressão da Harmonia Macrocosmica de Andreas Cellarius, publicada em Amesterdão, 1708. Geógrafo e Gravadores: Andreas Cellarius (1595-1665). Peter Schenk (1661-1711) Gerard Valck (1651-1726) O mapa mostra o hemisfério norte com o Polo Norte no centro da Terra. O anel à volta é o círculo do Zodíaco com as linhas e pares dos lugares onde se pode observar o fenómeno. Querubins seguram as paralaxes escondidas e visíveis nos céus, e outros seguram diversas pequenas cartelas. No pé do fólio encontram-se dois diagramas trigonométricos científicos da paralaxe. O trânsito de Vénus é historicamente de grande importância científica, dado ter sido usado para calcular as primeiras estimativas realistas do tamanho do Sistema Solar. Num artigo publicado em 1691, Halley sugere que poderão ser efectuados cálculos mais precisos, usando as medições do trânsito de Vénus, apesar de esse evento estar, na altura, apenas previsto ocorrer em 1761. Halley morre em 1742, mas em 1761, num dos primeiros exemplos de colaboração científica, foram efectuadas diversas expedições a diferentes partes do mundo para que pudessem ser efectuadas medições precisas para efectuar os cálculos descritos por Halley. O último trânsito de Vénus ocorreu nos dias 5 e 6 de Junho de 2012, sendo o ultimo a ocorrer no século XXI. Os próximos trânsitos irão ocorrer nos dias 10 e 11 de Dezembro de 2117 e no dia 8 de Dezembro de 2125. Amsterdam. N.d. [1708] Dim.: In folio (50x60 cm) Contemporary hand-coloured engraving showing the predictable Transit of Venus - just previewed and not seen in this generation - Printed in Andreas Cellarius" Harmonia Macrocosmica. Amsterdam, 1708. Cellarius, Andreas. Peter Schenk (1661-1711) Gerard Valck (1651-1726) The engraving contains the Northern hemisphere. At the centre there is the planet Earth seen from the North Pole. The big ring is the Zodiac circle with the lines and pairs of places of the phenomena. Putti figures hold the hidden and the uncovered parallax in the skies, and other Putti figures hold several tittle cartouches. At the bottom left and right there are two scientific trigonometric diagrams of the parallax. The transit of Venus is historically of great scientific importance as they were used to calculate the first realistic estimates of the size of the Solar System. In a paper published in 1691, Halley proposed that more accurate calculations could be made using measurements of a transit of Venus, although such event was not due until 1761. Halley died in 1742, but in 1761, in an early example of international scientific collaboration numerous expeditions were made to various parts of the world so that thorough observations of the transit could be made to carry out the calculations described by Halley. The last transit of Venus took place on the 5th and 6th of June, 2012, being the last transit of Venus of the 21st century. The next transits of Venus will take place on the 10th and 11th December, 2117, and on the 8th December, 2125. Language: Latim / Latin Location/localizacao: Gravureiro Gav. 2-12.