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Stipple. Plate 140 x 90mm (5½ x 3½"). Cut toplatemark. £95Tobias Mayer (1723-62), German astronomer whosechart of the full moon published in 1775 wasunsurpassed for half a century. The lunar crater T.Mayer was named after him.The portrait was published in 'AllgemeineGeographische Ephemeriden' (Universal GeographicalEphemerides (i.e. encyclopedia)) by Friedrich Bertuchet al.Stock: 29597238. Edme Mentelle. Mitglied des Instiutnational de France. Gebohr. zu Paris 1730.Cless im Natur. Westermayr S. [Weimar: n.d., c.1810.]Stipple with large margins. Plate 140 x 90mm (5½ x3½"). Tear in left margin taped. £95Edme Mentelle (1730-1815), a French geographer,historian and cartographer, a professor at the ÉcoleNormale. With Conrad Malt-Brun he produced the'Géographie mathématique, physique et politique detoutes les parties du monde' (6 vols., published between1803 and 1812). Cape Mentelle in south-west Australiawas named after him by Nicolas Baudin.The portrait was published in 'AllgemeineGeographische Ephemeriden' (Universal GeographicalEphemerides (i.e. encyclopedia)) by Friedrich Bertuchet al.Stock: 29612239. Gerardus Mercator, CosmographusNasc, Rupelmundæ An. 1572 5 May obijtDuijsburgi An 1593 2 Decemb.[c.1600.]Engraving, very fine. 140 x 110mm (5½ x 4½").Trimmed close to printed border. £320Gerardus Mercator (1512-94), holding the Globe,philosopher, mathematician and cartographer famed forthe flat projection of the spherical world which bearshis name. W: 1981.Stock: 29721240. Sebastianus Munsterus Cosmographus.[French, c.1600.]Engraving with very large margins. 135 x 105mm (5¼x 4¼"). £180Portrait of the German cartographer, SebastianMünster. (1488-1552), best known for his work'Cosmographia', one of the most successful and popularbooks of the 16th century. Although Lutheran he wasProfessor of Hebrew at the University of Basel, andedited a Hebrew bible, adding a a Latin translation.This portrait was published in Robert Boissard's'Bibliotheca, siue thesavrvs virtvtis & gloriæ'.Stock: 29717241. Karsten Niebuhr. Konigl. Dän.wirklicher Justizrath. Geb. zu Ludingwohrt imLande Hadeln d. 17t. Mrtl. 1735.[Weimar: n.d., c.1808.]Stipple with large margins. Plate 140 x 90mm (5½ x3½"). Faint crease. £120Carsten Niebuhr (1733-1815), a German cartographerfamed as the only European survivor of the DanishArabia Expedition, 1761-7. His 'Beschreibung vonArabien' was published in Copenhagen in 1772.The portrait was published in 'AllgemeineGeographische Ephemeriden' (Universal GeographicalEphemerides (i.e. encyclopedia)) by Friedrich Bertuchet al.Stock: 29550242. S.r William Petty. 1683.Edwin Sandys Sculp. [Dublin: William Petty, c.1685.]Engraving, rare. 265 x 180mm (10½ x 7"). Repairedtear, creased and soiled, impression weak, laid onsheet. £220Sir William Petty (1623-1687), a political economist &philosopher, a founder member of the Royal Society.He also studied medicine at Oxford University and by1651 he had become an anatomy instructor atBrasenose College. In 1652 he went to Ireland withCromwell's army, where he made a fortune surveyingthe land to be confiscated and distributed amongst thevictors. This work became known as the 'DownSurvey', which he published in 1685 as 'HiberniaeDelineatio', with this portrait as the frontispiece.The engraver, Edwin Sandys, is regarded as the firstIrish engraver of any note. In 1705 he received alicense from the Lords Justices to print the 'DublinGazette' at 'the Custom-House Printing-House in CraneLane'.Stock: 29707243. Conrad Peutinger. Geb.d 14 Oct. 1465,Gestorb.d 24 Nov 1547.C.A. Schwerdgeburth sculps. Weimar. [Weimar: n.d.,c.1808.]Stipple. Plate 150 x 95mm (6 x 3¾"). £90Konrad Peutinger (1465-1547), a German humanistand antiquarian best known for his ownership of thePeutinger Table, a 13th-century manuscript copy of aroad map of the Roman Empire. It is believed thatAgrippa (64/63 - 12 BC, grandfather of EmperorCaligula) ordered the original to be drawn, but it seemsto have been continally updated, as it marks Pompei(destroyed AD 79) and Constantinople (founded 328).It remains one of the very few example of Romanmapping to survive, having passed from the Peutingerfamily to Prince Eugene of Savoy and to the HabsburgImperial Court Library.The portrait was engraved by Carl AugustScwerdgeburth (1785-1878) and published in'Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden' (UniversalGeographical Ephemerides (i.e. encyclopedia)) byFriedrich Bertuch et al.Stock: 29548244. Franz Ludwig Pfyffer.Generallieutenant in französischen Diensten.geb. 1716 Verfaser des berühmten Reliefs vonder Schweiz; in seiner Alpen Tracht, auf demPilatus berge zeichnend.C. Westermayr f. [after Joseph Reinhard] [Weimar:n.d., c.1808.]