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Description geographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise.

Cornerstone of any collection of books on China, which is also among the rarest and most desirable of important Americana.This, "the first definitive European work o...

$12000 / ≈ €10260
Maker / Publisher: DU HALDE, Jean Baptiste.
Place & Date: Paris, P. G. Le Mercier, (vol. 1-3) 1770 / (vol.4),1735

 


Quinta Etas Mundi. Folium.XCIII.

The Latin text page is illustrated with depictions of Caius Julius Caesar, Octavian (Octavianus) Augustus and Mark Antony (Marcus Antonius). VERSO : A wonderful woodcut (...

$150 / ≈ €128
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493

 


America.

A beautiful, large-scale map of the Americas. Alaska is named as 'Russian America', Texas is still a part of Mexico, yet to become a republic (1836), before finally becom...

$400 / ≈ €342
Maker / Publisher: ARROWSMITH, John
Place & Date: London, 1839

 


Secunda etas mundi. Folium XIII.

Schedel's world map was based on the cartographic system of Claudius Ptolemy, the great second-century AD geographer whose scholarship formed the foundation for map produ...

$25000 / ≈ €21374
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493