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Denmark & Belgium

Carta Marina of Olaus Magnus

facsimile of the 1539 and 1572 map

1539

Cosmopraphia, per Gemmam Phrysius, apud Louanienses Medicum ac Mathematicum

Petri Apiani and Gemma Frisius: Cosmopraphia, per Gemmam Phrysius, apud Louanienses Medicum ac Mathematicum insignem,Denuo restituta. Additis de eadem re ipsius Gemma Phry. Libellis, quos sequens pagina docet. MD XL

1540

British Isles Map

Munster's Cosmographia

1544

De Principiis Astronomiæ & Cosmographiæ de Orbis Divisione & Insulis

Gemmae Phrsysii Medici ac Mathematici

1553

Carta Marina of Olaus Magnus

Woodblock map of Scandinavia with latitude and Longitude coordinates.

1567

Mercator's Worldmap

1961 Facsimile of the famous Worldmap from Rotterdam

1569

Gilded sundial or 'Horologiu Aequinocti '

Box-shaped gold-plated brass universal equinoctial sundial with lid and hanging eye. The lid serves as a universal equinoctial sundial. The engravings and decorations with leaf and flower motifs are blacked.
Dated 1572. Probably not used at sea.

1572

Nieuwe onderwijsinge op de principaelste puncten

Coignet Michiel, De Zeevaert oft Conste van ter Zee te varen + Nieuwe onderwijsinge op de principaelste puncten der Zeevaert. Very rare first edition of this important work for the navigation in the Low Countries

1580

Blocking the river Scheldt in Antwerp

Italian print of the sieg of Antwerp

1585

Lapis Polaris Magnes, Stradanus, Engraving by Philips Galle

1591 Phls Galle Engraving: Lapis Polaris Magnes. From Nova repertes illustrating the invention of the Compass

1591

Zelandicarum Insularum exactissima et nova descriptio

From Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern Atlas of the World: Zelandicarum Insularum exactissima et nova descriptio autoro d. Iacobo a Daventria (Deventer)

1600

Street of Magellan

from Hondius/Mercator Atlas

1613

Mercator and Hondius a double Portret

Frontpiece of the Mercator Hondius Atlas

1620

Orbis Longitudines Repertae e Magnetis a Polo Declinatione.

Discovery of the Longitudes method by Johannes Plancius from 'Nova Reperta

1636

Geographia Generalis, in qua affectiones generales telluris explicantur.

Varenius Berhardus, first edition

1650

Atlas Major sive Cosmographia Blaviana -Tome one.

Part one of first edition of the famous Atlas major, with all instruments of Thyco Brahe

1662

Sextans Astronomicus Thyco Brahe

from part one of first edition of the famous Atlas major, with all instruments of Thyco Brahe

1664

Insula Hvena

From Part one of first edition of the famous Atlas major, with all instruments of Thyco Brahe

1664

Sundial, Ian van Sÿchen Fecit Gandaui 5ien 24

Rare silver Belgian sundial signed by Jan van Sÿchen made circa 1670

1670

Single-handed dividers

17 th century Single handed dividers 15 cm

1700

Carte particulière des environs de Bruges. Ostende. Damme. l'Ecluse et autres

Map of the Belgian coast of Eugène-Henry Fricx

1744

Carte Reduite des Côtes des Pays Bas

Carte Réduite des Côtes des Pays-Bas, by Beautemps-Beaupré & Decrès. Description Nautique des Côtes de Pays-Bas (depuis Ostende jusqu’a Hellevoetsluis)

1817

7 Inch Quintant by A. Beaulieu à Bruxelles

Brass Quintant in nice Mahogeny box and instruments

1880

Small 5 Inch Souding sextant Fisch Brussel

Small sounding sextant from Brussel André Fisch in dark Box. from kapt. Victor Moulard

1920

A. Van der Voodt Sextant Vernier type

Belgian Vernier Sextant type. nr. 21 with box.

1920

7 1/2 Martin Petersen Danisch 'octant'

Martin Petersen Svendborg Nr 8504

1958

Zutphen kwadrant

facsimile of one of the oldest quadrants of the world, estimated to be from 1300. Most probably made in Flanders

2020

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