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Portulano de la Ameririca Setentrional construido en la direccion de tabajos.
The Portulano de la America Setentrional, is an exceedingly rare Spanish sea atlas featuring charts of the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. It was developed by the astr...
Date: Madrid, 1818
![Sincapour. [Singapore]](/uploads/cache/23696-250x250.jpg)
Sincapour. [Singapore]
Early view of Singapore after Pâris, engraved in aquatint by Sigismond Himely (1801-1872). The view is drawn looking up the Singapore River from South Boat Quay. It sho...
Date: Paris, Finot, 1835
Exposé des travaux astronomiques en Russie (Atlas) with Supplément à l’exposé des travaux astronomiques et géodésiques exécutés en Russie contenant les noms, en langue russe de toutes les positions données au chapitre V (supplément I only).
Very rare atlas published to accompany Exposé des travaux astronomiques et géodésiques exécutés en Russie dans un but géographique jusqu’à l’année 1855. St.-P...
Date: St. Petersburg, Imperial Academy of Sciences: Eggers & Co., and Leipzig, Leopold Voss, 1858
Naples. 1699. Nouvelle et exacte description de la tres-celebre & ancienne Ville de NAPLES
Only recorded large-scale broad sheet panoramic view of Naples with underneath in letterpress a description of the town's history : "Nouvelle et exacte description d...
Date: Paris, 1699
KOUSHI NYUJO no Zu - HANABUSA Legation enters in Palace, Seoul.
A scene of Japanese legation HANABUSA who are entering the Royal Palace, Seoul.
Date: August 8, MEIJI 27th year or 1894
Chosen Danpan - Korean negotiation.
A scene of a Japanese legation under the command of Hanabusa Yoshitada who is forcing the Korean King Kojong (1852-1919) to agree to Japanese demands during the Chemulpo ...
Date: August 8, MEIJI 27th year or 1894
SETTSU MEISHO ZUE. Illustrations of famous places in Settsu.
Settsu Meisho Zue was printed in two series of 8 and 4 volumes. The principal illustrator was Takehara Shunchosai, but many illustrations in the 4 volumes supplement are ...
Date: Osaka, Yanagiwara Kibei, Kansei 8-10 or 1796-1798
![Morokoshi Meisho Zue [Illustrated Description of Famous Sites of China].](/uploads/cache/34118-250x250.jpg)
Morokoshi Meisho Zue [Illustrated Description of Famous Sites of China].
Published in Osaka, Kawachiya Genhichiro, et al. [8 book sellers], slightly later issue but apparently in Edo period, using all the same woodblocks of original first edit...
Date: Osaka, Edo, slightly later than Bunka 3, year of the tiger - 1806
Shinkan Nagasaki no Dzu.
The oldest of these so-called Nagasaki pictures (Nagasaki-zu) were two panoramic prints by the artist Chikujuken that served as guides to the city of Nagasaki for visitor...
Date: Nagasaki, 1801
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CH'ONHA CHIDO [Atlas of all under Heaven]
The Ch’onha chido [Atlas of all under Heaven] is a late 18th century copy of the traditional Korean atlas produced in the early Choson dynasty (1392-1910). One of the m...
Date: Korea, ca. 1790
Dutchman and a Maruyama prostitute.
An explicit scene of a Dutchman and a Maruyama prostitute featuring a gray-bearded westerner coupling with a courtesan. The woman protests that she doesn't understand wha...
Date: Late Edo, 1790
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Ch'onha chido. [Atlas of all under Heaven]
A late 18th-century Ch'onha chido atlas with 10 woodblock maps showing the World, China, and the 8 province maps of Korea (Hamgyeong, Gangwon, Jeolla, Gyeongsang, Pyeonga...
Date: Korea, ca. 1780
![Ch'onha chido.[Atlas of all under Heaven]](/uploads/cache/44639composition-world-250x250.jpg)
Ch'onha chido.[Atlas of all under Heaven]
A late 18th-century Ch'onha chido atlas with 13 woodblock maps showing the World, China, Korea, Japan, Okinawa, and the 8 provinces. The seas are in black.Slight wear, co...
Date: Korea, ca. 1760
Paldobundo Province.
Woodblock printed map of Jeolla Province which was one of the historical Eight Provinces of Korea during the Kingdom of The map is drawn in "Paldo Bundo," styl...
Date: 1710-1718
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Bunken Edo oezu. [Tokyo]
Based on map by Ochikochi Doin. Oriented with north to the right. An extraordinary wood block-printed town-plan of today's Tokyo, and a fine example of Edo cartography. T...
Date: Bunken Edo oezu : kan / zuko Kanamaru Hikogoro Kagenao. Kyowa 3 or 1803
![[Lot of 6 leaves] Civitas Augustana olim Vindelica…/Sueviae et Bavariae Descriptio/ Franckfordiae ad Oderam imago…/Franckofordianae civitatis…/Erdfordia magnifica …Thuringoru urbs…Fuldensis civitatis… / Lubecum una ex praeclarioribus. . .](/uploads/cache/48258-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 6 leaves] Civitas Augustana olim Vindelica…/Sueviae et Bavariae Descriptio/ Franckfordiae ad Oderam imago…/Franckofordianae civitatis…/Erdfordia magnifica …Thuringoru urbs…Fuldensis civitatis… / Lubecum una ex praeclarioribus. . .
Six text leaves with wood block printed views and maps of Augsburg, Frankfurt /Oder, Frankfurt am Main, Erfurt and Fulda, Lübeck and a map of Swabia and Bavaria. From th...
Date: Basel, 1552
Quita Etas Mundi. Folium.LXXI (Toulouse)
The Latin text page is illustrated with an imaginary of Toulouse, France. VERSO are portraits of poets and teachers.Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famo...
Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Carta terza Generale del' Asia.
Rare first state of this important chart showing part of the north coast of New Guinea and islands of the Pacific Ocean. To the north of Japan the landmass of Isola di Ie...
Date: Florence, 1646
Nova Italiae delineatio.
Originally engraved for Jodocus Hondius II, at his death in August 1629 this map was, among other copper plates,purchased by Willem Blaeu who trimmed the figured borders,...
Date: Amsterdam, 1638
L'Italie distinguée suivant l'estendue de tous les Estats, Royaumes, républiques, Duchés, Principautés, &c.
Decorative map of Italy including Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily engraved by Cordier and published by Desnos. A text at lower right refers to the earthquake of Messine in 1...
Date: Paris, Desnos, 1783
Carte Universelle, signed 'par S.de Caus Ingenieur et Architecte du Roy 1624
A magnificent manuscript map of the world, probably made for Cardinal Richelieu (1585-1642), the “father of the modern state system” (Kissinger), given the author a...
Date: Paris, 1624
![XIX. Venatio Elephantum in Pegu. [How elephants are caught in Pegu]](/uploads/cache/29795-250x250.jpg)
XIX. Venatio Elephantum in Pegu. [How elephants are caught in Pegu]
How elephants are caught in Pegu. The king of Pegu had a particular method of transporting elephants. He had a great enclosure built of strong wooden posts, with a trap d...
Date: Frankfurt, 1599
Paradigma XV Provinciarum et CLV Urbium Capitalium Sinensis Imperij Cum Templis quae Cruce X Signatur Et Domiciliis S.I.
First edition of this rare Jesuit map of China, published by Jean Baptiste Nolin in Paris and based on Philippe Couplet's map of 1686. The map shows China's 15 provinces ...
Date: Paris, 1686
Mission du Sin-Tchuen occidental.
Important missionary map showing part of China, prepared by Adrien Launay, who was a French Missionary and later chronicler of the history of the French Missions in Indo-...
Date: Lille, 1890
Mission du Kouy-Tcheou.
Important missionary map showing part of China, prepared by Adrien Launay, who was a French Missionary and later chronicler of the history of the French Missions in Indo-...
Date: Lille, 1890
Mission du Kouang-Si.
Important missionary map showing part of China, prepared by Adrien Launay, who was a French Missionary and later chronicler of the history of the French Missions in Indo-...
Date: Lille, 1890
![Sexta Etas Mundi. Foliu CXXXV [Text page with S. Hieronymus, the patron of theological learning].](/uploads/cache/25763-250x250.jpg)
Sexta Etas Mundi. Foliu CXXXV [Text page with S. Hieronymus, the patron of theological learning].
Text page with woodcuts of the following saints: S. Hieronymus, the patron of theological learning (100x80mm.)VERSO is printed with text and images of Popes and Kings.Pag...
Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
A very rare atlas by Guillaume De L'Isle, Paris, 1700, with his first address "Rue des Canettes".
His first Atlas, published in the year de l'Isle became the geographer to the French Academy of Sciences (1702). DE L'ISLE - (Atlas). Recueil de cartes géographique...
Date: Paris, 1701
Tabula nova Poloniae et Silesiae.
Second state, dated 1630 underneath the title. A finely engraved carte á figures with cartouche representing in the four corners of the map : Kings ( on the left side Si...
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Karte vom Koenigreiche Ungarn mit Einschluss der Königreiche Kroazien und Slavonien dann von dem Grossfürstenthume Siebenbürgen.
Wall map of the Kingdom of Hungary in 8 sheets mounted on canvas, preserved in their original case. The map has a graduated margin and is enclosed in a simple yet decorat...
Date: Vienna, 1809
Allegory of geography.
Two putty studying a terrestrial globe, one of them holding a pair of dividers. The information on the globe is clearly imaginary but the two cartouches and ships are typ...
Date: Bruges, ca. 1700
![[A unique, made-to-order edition, of the Parergon, in quo Veteris geographiae aliquot tabulae.]](/uploads/cache/49049-250x250.jpg)
[A unique, made-to-order edition, of the Parergon, in quo Veteris geographiae aliquot tabulae.]
This is a unique, made-to-order atlas of Ortelius's Atlas, "Parergon" or "Atlas of the ancient world." In 1579, Ortelius published his first Parergon ...
Date: Antwerp, ca. 1601-1640