Video: Unique collection of vintage maps by Jonathan Potter
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
World renowned 58-year-old collector Jonathan Potter, who has decided to retire soon, is ready to sell his famous catalog of antique cards, worth 3 million pounds sterling.
Jonathan Potter began collecting old maps almost forty years ago. Subsequently, this exciting hobby grew into a business. An enterprising collector founded a gallery that currently houses one of the largest collections of antique maps in the world. The most expensive piece for sale is the globe by master Mattaeus Greuter, created in 1632. It is priced at £ 90,000.
This magnificent 16th century map of Iceland was printed by Abraham Ortelius in Antwerp. It is famous not only for its vivid images of mountainous territory with the erupting volcano Hekla, but also for the numerical creatures, real and fictional, that are drawn around the map of the island itself. The cost of the card is £ 7,500.
The world map from Ptolemy's Geography, printed in Ulma in 1482, was sold by Potter for £ 12,000. Now its value reaches an incredible amount of £ 150,000.
John Speed's decorative world map, depicting two hemispheres, was published in 1627 under the title A New and Accurate Map of the World. This is the first map to illustrate the misconception that California is a separate island and Australia is a huge beach. Its price is £ 12,800.
A wooden tablet is a reproduction of a Ptolemy map depicting Great Britain, made in Strasbourg in 1522.
Map of North America by Pierre Mortier from Atlas Nouveau, printed in 1692. The map is interesting in that it depicts California as a separate island.
Map of Africa from "Cosmography" by Sebastian Münster (1540-1550), based on the assumptions and calculations of Ptolemy.
Map of Japan, based on numerous sources compiled in the East Indies. It was published by JB Tavernier in Paris in 1679. The cost of this card is £ 3200.
In the humorous map of William Harvey, who wrote under the pseudonym Aleph, Spain is shown as the original inhabitant of this strange woman, whose face is covered with a veil, and in her hands she holds a bunch of grapes. The woman turned to face the dressed and noble bear that symbolizes Portugal.
Of his next creation, Aleph writes: "The hook-nosed woman represents France, the empress of food, fashion and dance. She is a symbol of victory, power, wealth, art and imperial heritage."
Moon map created in 1720 by astronomer, geographer, mathematician and physicist Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr. A satellite map of the Earth was printed by Johann Baptist Homann in some of his atlases.
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