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(Publicity poster) Amer Besset Sans Rival.

Original chromo-lithographed in-store display for alcoholic drink Amer Besset. Printed by Joseph-Charles in Paris.

$100 / ≈ €86
Maker: JOSPH-CHARLES
Date: Paris, ca.1933

 


Bowles's new four-sheet map of England and Wales. . .

Bowles's new four-sheet map of England and Wales: Comprehending all the Cities, Boroughs, Market and Sea-Port Towns, Villages, Lakes, Rivers, Forests, Ruins, Canals, and ...

$600 / ≈ €517
Maker: BOWLES, C. / CARVER
Date: London, 1801

 


Present Britain.

A fully colored map of England and Wales from An Universal Atlas Consisting of a Complete Set of Maps, peculiarly adapted to illustrate and explain ancient and modern geo...

$100 / ≈ €86
Maker: STACKHOUSE, Thomas.
Date: London, 1797

 


Carte de la Mer Rouge, depuis Moka jusqu's Gedda. . . .

Chart of the Red Sea. With 3 inset maps of Shake Omare, Goofs and Gedan. D'Après De Mannevillette (1707-1780) was one of France's first hydrographers. When the first edi...

$750 / ≈ €646
Maker: APRES DE MANNEVILLETTE, J.
Date: Paris, 1753

 


Les vallées du Piemont. Habitees par les Vaudois ou Berbets. . .

Detailed map of Piedmont region covering French and Italian territories. Surrounded by a French text description "Description des vallées du Piemont qu'habitent par...

$750 / ≈ €646
Maker: NOLIN, J-B.
Date: Paris, 1690

 


Arabia Felice Nuova Tavola.

Fine early map of Arabian peninsula, being one of the earliest modern maps of the region.Girolamo Ruscelli first published the map in his "La Geographi di Claudio To...

$700 / ≈ €603
Maker: RUSCELLI, G.
Date: Venice, 1561

 


Descriptio Regni Ormuzii / Ormus.

A lovely miniature map of the Kingdom of Ormus, published by Petrus Bertius, and published in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century. With an attractive st...

$450 / ≈ €388
Maker: LANGENES, B. / BERTIUS, P.
Date: Amsterdam, 1606

 


Arabia Felice Nuova Tavola.

Fine early map of Arabian peninsula, being one of the earliest modern maps of the region.Girolamo Ruscelli first published the map in his "La Geographi di Claudio To...

$500 / ≈ €431
Maker: RUSCELLI, G.
Date: Venice, 1598

 


Arabia

A lovely  miniature map the Arabian Peninsular, published by Petrus Bertius, and published in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century. With an attractive s...

$300 / ≈ €258
Maker: LANGENES, B. / BERTIUS, P.
Date: Amsterdam, 1606

 


Ormus. (Hormuz)

This very interesting early engraving shows the ships of the Dutchman Van den Broecke, who in December 1628 left his directorship in Surat. Before returning to Batavia he...

$100 / ≈ €86
Maker: DE RENNEVILLE, R.A.C.
Date: Amsterdam, F. Bernard, 1725

 


El Indostan por D. Juan Lopez.

Uncommon map of India and Shri Lanka published by Juan Lopez (1765-1830) and included in his "Atlas Universal o collection de mapas nuevos. . ." first published...

$300 / ≈ €258
Maker: LOPEZ, J.
Date: Madrid, 1817

 


Planiglobii Terrestris Cum Utroq Hemisphaerio.

Vibrantly decorative world map surrounded by vivid engravings of natural phenomena such as waterspouts, a rainbow, earthquakes, and a volcano. Windheads occupy the starry...

$4000 / ≈ €3445
Maker: HOMANN, J.B.
Date: Nuremberg, c. 1720

 


Hành Chính Việt Nam.

Uncommon map of Vietnam published in 1976, one year after the end of the Vietnam War. In April 1976, the National Assembly decided to reiterate Hanoi as the capital of th...

$300 / ≈ €258
Maker: ADMINISTRATIVE MAP.
Date: Hanoï, 1976

 


Vue de l Hotel du Lord Maire, qui comprend la Façade, et le Cot' Occidental de Londres.

Shows the famous Lord Mayor's coach driving through London. The Lord Mayor's coach is famous for its role in the Lord Mayor's Show, which is one of the longest-establishe...

$200 / ≈ €172
Maker: ACADEMIE
Date: Augsburg, 1750

 


Le Royaume D'Angleterre, divise selon les sept Royaumes ou Heptrachie des Saxons, avec La Principaute De Galles, et subdivisie en Shires ou Comtes…

Decorative map of British Isles divided into the 7 ancient Heptarchies of the Saxons and also showing the more modern counties or shires. With Rococo title cartouche. Eng...

$75 / ≈ €65
Maker: VAUGONDY, R. de
Date: Paris, 1753

 


Notice sur la Rage.

Broad sheet etchings each with two vignettes and extensive descriptive text about rabies. Composed by François Chaussier and etched by L. Baltard. Francois Chaussier (17...

$200 / ≈ €172
Maker: BALTARD, LP.
Date: Paris, ca. 1825

 


Les Isles Britanniques Comprenant les Royaumes D'Angleterre, D'Ecosse et D'Irlande divisée en grands provinces. . .

Detailed map encompassing present day British Isles. An inset in the upper right details the Shetland and Orkney Islands. Venetian edition of the map by Janvier, to whom ...

$100 / ≈ €86
Maker: SANTINI, P. / REMONDINI, M.
Date: Venice, 1776 - 1784

 


Le royaume d'Angleterre divise en comtez et baronnie. . .

Beautiful map of England, published by le Rouge.

$100 / ≈ €86
Maker: LE ROUGE,.
Date: Paris,1745

 


Vonder Indien.

Map of India with two inset maps, one of Upper Asam, and the other of Ceyland.

$200 / ≈ €172
Maker: WEIMAR GEOGRAPHSCHER INSTITUT/ Carey & Lea.
Date: Weimar, 1822-1825

 


Astronomy. Figures 26 & 29. Plates LXV & LXV.

A lovely pair of copperplate astronomical plates displaying "The Principal fixed Stars in the North Hemisphere [and the South Hemisphere] Delineated on the Plane of ...

$50 / ≈ €43
Maker: BELL, A.
Date: London, 1792

 


Planisphere ou Représentation du Globe Céleste en deux Plans Hémisphères Coupés par l'Ecliptique.

Representation of two celestial hemispheres with an exhaustive key list of constellations and main stars.From Atlas de la Géographie de toutes les parties du monde .. Ou...

$50 / ≈ €43
Maker: DELAPORTE, L'Abbé.
Date: Paris, Prudhomme, Levrault, Debray, 1806

 


Planisferii Celesti, Calcolati Per L'Anno MDCC, Corretti, Et Aumenati Di Molte Stelle . . .

Double-hemisphere celestial map showing a new, more scientific depiction of the heavens.  The remarkable Vincenzo Coronelli (1650-1718), was a Franciscan Friar and appoi...

$1500 / ≈ €1292
Maker: CORONELLI, V.
Date: Venice, 1700

 


Planisphaerum coeleste.

A very decorative double hemisphere celestial chart. The 10 smaller circular diagram showing the rotation of the Planets, according to Tycho Brahe, Ptolemy and Copernicus...

$1500 / ≈ €1292
Maker: LOTTER, T.
Date: Nurenberg, 1750

 


Hemisphaerium Coeli Australe in quo Fixarum. . .

Magnificent celestial chart drawn by the famous scientist Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr. Large circular charts of the southern hemisphere constellation, with decorative vign...

$1800 / ≈ €1550
Maker: DOPPELMAYR, J.G. / HOMANN, J.B.
Date: Nuremberg, 1747

 


De Werelt Caart.

This is Cornelis Danckerts' second world map; his first being a re-engraved version of his father's map, published by Wetstein & Smith in Amsterdam and Luchtmans in L...

$1100 / ≈ €947
Maker: DANKERTS,C, II
Date: Amsterdam, 1720

 


Mappamondo Carta d'Insieme.

Uncommon double hemisphere pole projection prepared by Francesco Costantino Marmocchi. Above the map "Geografia Commerciale". With a color code underneath the m...

$150 / ≈ €129
Maker: MARMOCCHI, F.C.
Date: Genova, Paolo Rivara fu Giacomo, 1858

 


Universalis Cosmographia.

A very desirable cordiform (heart-shaped) world map from Johann Honter's 'Rudimentum'. The map is a reduced version of Waldseemüller's and Apianus' earlier world maps. T...

$2000 / ≈ €1722
Maker: HONTER, J.
Date: Zurich, Froschauer, ca. 1546/1548

 


[Figura del Mondo universale].

Münster's map of the World is one of the most recognized world maps of the 16th Century. Italian text edition published in Cologne without the title. This example is fro...

$3500 / ≈ €3014
Maker: MUNSTER, S.
Date: Arnold Birckmann heirs, Cologne, 1575

 


Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula.

Two hemispheres surrounded by six robust statuesque figures representing Day and Night and the four elements, each, except for Mother Earth, proudly unclothed. Subsequent...

$15000 / ≈ €12917
Maker: DONCKER, H.
Date: Amsterdam, 1688-1697

 


Charte von China nach Murdochischer Projection entworfen. ... Berichtiget, und gezeichnet von H.F.A. Stieler. . .

Uncommon map of China prepared by H.F.A.Stieler, with parts of Taiwan, Tibet, Mongolia and the Korean peninsula, with a great many place names, a key to (and brief explan...

$750 / ≈ €646
Maker: GEOGRAPH. INSTITUTS
Date: Weimar, 1804

 


Die Insel Formosa neu abgemessen auf Befehl Kaysers Kamhi.

One of the earliest obtainable printed maps of Taiwan or Formosa Island. It was issued around 1726 to illustrate Joseph Stöcklein's [Stoecklein] compilation of Jesuit mi...

$900 / ≈ €775
Maker: STOCKLEIN, J.
Date: Augsburg, 1726

 


Fokien Imperii Sinarum Provincia undecima.

The province of Fokien lies opposite Taiwan and south of the region described in the above map. The coast is shown from Wen-zhou in the north to Fu-zhou and as far south ...

$1100 / ≈ €947
Maker: BLAEU, J.
Date: Amsterdam, 1660

 



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