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Carta Della California Suo Golfo E. Contracoste della Nueva Spagna.
Map featuring the California Peninsula and New Spain by Francisco Saverio Clavigero, engraved by J. Zambelly. Title cartouche within a landscape of cacti and palm trees.O...
Date: Venice, 1788
Venedig in Italien.
View of Venice with a numbered key 1-24. Lower right below the legend " Iohan Philip Steüdner ex Augusta". From "Theatrum Adriaticum, oder Schau-Platz deÃ...
Date: Augsburg, 1685
Canalis majoris caput qua Venetias ingreditur.
Canalis majoris caput qua Venetias ingreditur". A view of the Grand Canal with Santa Maria della Salute to the left after Canaletto.From the series "Prospectum ...
Date: Venice, c. 1763
Il theatro del mondo di Abraamo Ortelio…
Very rare first Italian edition issued in Brescia in 1598 by Pietro Marchetti. ; l theatro del mondo... Nel quale distinamenti si dimostrano in tavole tutte le provincie...
Date: Brescia (appresso la Compagnia Bresciana), 1598
Novissima et Accuratissima Totius Americae descriptio..
Third state of one of the classic Dutch maps of the Americas and one of the most often copied.Lower right hand corner F. de Wit excudit. Longitudinal lines numbered to th...
Date: Amsterdam, [1678
A new general map of America drawn from several…
The Pacific Northwest is left open with the note "Parts Undiscovered." The coastline stops around the area of Alaska and notes "The Supposed Straits of Ann...
Date: London, Bowen, 1747
![Carte de L'Amerique… / Carte Nouvelle de L'Europe Asie & Afrique… [Two sheets]](/uploads/cache/49267-250x250.jpg)
Carte de L'Amerique… / Carte Nouvelle de L'Europe Asie & Afrique… [Two sheets]
Rare. Two hemispheres printed on two sheets. A single decorative cartouche on each carries the title concluding with the imprint recorded above, and around each hemispher...
Date: Paris, 1661
L'Amerique suivant Le R.P.Charlevoix..
Interesting map of the Western Hemisphere. With decorative rococo cartouche and lower left an inset with the foreign possessions in America.Mentioning but no depiction of...
Date: Paris, 1746
Nova Totius Americae descriptio.
First state of de Wit's first map of America, with figured borders on three sides. North America has a good overall outline, with a completed Hudson Bay and Baffin Island...
Date: Amsterdam, 1665
America Septentrionalis et Meridionalis. T. XXXV.
Uncommon map in the style of Coronelli of the Western hemisphere. Map of America depicted as an elongated figure, oriented with North to West.This map is most notable for...
Date: Italy c. 1770
Nova Virginiae Tabula
Uncommon state of one of the most important maps of the Chesapeake Bay region, credited with disseminating knowledge of the English settlement in Virginia throughout Euro...
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1694
De Hertochdommen Gulick Cleve Berghe en de Graefschappen..
It is one of Blaeu's early maps: It was only published between 1630 and 1635 in three editions of the "Appendix" and one of the "Theatrum". In the lef...
Date: Amsterdam, 1635
Carte de l'Amérique, corrigée et augmentée…1640.
State 2. Re-edition of the map by Bertius of 1624, the name of Bertius removed and dated 1640. Inset maps of the Arctic and Antarctic. The map is based on the Jodocus Hon...
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Amerique ou Indes Occidentales..
Fine map of the Western Hemisphere with on right hand side geographical index tables with also mentioning the Spanish, English, French, Danish possessions. Prepared by Ro...
Date: Paris, 1812
L'Amerique Septentrionale qui fait partie des Indes Occidentales..
A handsome miniature-map showing California as an island after Sanson. Sanson's details are generally followed.The British colonies are shown confined east of the Appalac...
Date: Paris, 1719
Amstelodamum, Celebre Emporium Forma Plana.
Second state of this rare and decorative plan of Amsterdam with Visscher's imprint. With a panoramic view seen from the IJ and further insets of Council House, The Exchan...
Date: Amsterdam, c. 1636
Hydrograhica descriptio
This very rare chart is important as the first printed sea chart of the Mediterranean coast of Spain, Gibraltar, also depicting the northern coast of Marocco.Willem Bar...
Date: Amsterdam, W.Blaeu, 1612
Germania.
Second state of this rare "carte à figures"- map of Germany, The Netherlands, Poland and central Europe. Bordered on three sides with portraits and views. In t...
Date: Amsterdam, 1607
Peregrinatie Jesu Christu Een ordentliche beschrijvinge des Heijligen landts....
Very rare separately map of the Holy Land engraved by Joannes van Doetecum Jr. Oriented to the east. The shoreline runs from "Antaradus" in Syria to "Rhino...
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1595
Lutetia Furens. Das ist : Die wütende Statt PARIS.
Rarissime placard dirigé contre la Ligue et le duc de Mayenne. La gravure est signée I.S. (marque inconnue). Ce placard en latin et en allemand est une reprise de l’e...
Date: France ca.. 1594
Il vero ritratto di Nettvno al presente oaupato da gl'imperiali.
Rare and early town-plan of Nettuno, in the province of Rome, which is nowadays a touristic harbor.Issued by Joannes Orlandi who acquired many Lafreri plates, which he re...
Date: Rome, 1557 / 1602
Descrittione di M. Lodovico Guicciardini patritio Fiorentino, di tutti i Paesi Bassi,...
Second Italian edition (variant B) and first Plantin edition (1st Silvius 1567) and the most sought-after edition of the famous description of the Low Countries, updated ...
Date: Antwerp, Plantin, 1581
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Imposita saxo Jacob cervice quiescens Aligeros scalas vidit imre choros. Gene[sis] 28
A superb example of this illustration showing a blind Isaac blessing Jacob. Copper engraving published in " Thesaurus sacrarum historiarum veteris testamenti, elegan...
Date: Antwerp, 1585
Universe Europae Maritime Eiusque Navigationis Descriptio. Generale Pascaerte van Europa . . .
This general chart of north-western Europe and the surrounding coastal waters is from the rare pilot-guide De Spiegel der Zeevaerdt , printed by Christopher Plantin in Le...
Date: Leyden, 1584
Temperance (Temperantia) from The Virtues.
Very decorative engraving by Philip Galle (Haarlem 1537–1612 Antwerp) after Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Breda (?) ca. 1525–1569 Brussels). The print was published by Hi...
Date: Antwerp, Hieronymus Cock, 1580
Carte du theatre de la guerre L'Empire Ottoman ..
Very detailed and decorative map of the Ottoman Empire. Lower left a fine panoramic inset (185x80mm) with a view of Istanbul. Next to it a inset map of the Baltic Sea and...
Date: Rouen/ Paris, 1854
II Regno di Francia Diviso in Provincie e Governi ove su`Le Frontiere di esso Rappresenta il Teatro della Guerre di Flandria Germania Savoja e Lombardia.
Very rare wall map of France depicting "The Kingdom of France divided into Provinces and Governments with on its borders the Theater of War of Flanders, Germany, Sav...
Date: Naples, 1704
Malita
The map includes, at the top left, a text and imprint, and, in the lower left, a scale decorated with a compass.The second state of Antonio Lafreri's map of the island of...
Date: Rome, 1565
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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
China Sea - Singapore Strait principally from British Admirality
An exceptionally nautical British Admiralty nautical chart of Singapore and direct vicinity. Centered Singapore city and the narrow strait between Singapore Island and Pu...
Date: Admirality, London, [1865-1960] updated 1960
Plan of the City of Barcelona.
From Rapin's History of England , a nicely detailed plan of Barcelona, the capital of Catalonia. The plate contains a 19 point legend and the presentation is enhanced wit...
Date: London, c.1745
Carte Generale de la Terre ou Mappe Monde avec les quatres principaux systemes..
A rare double hemisphere world map, including the tracks of Tasman (1642) and Magellan (1520) and St. Antoine (1710) and surrounded with circular diagrams illustrating th...
Date: Paris, ca. 1729