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Floride.

A charming map of Florida, also showing Cuba, Golf of Mexico & St Augustine.Title in curtain draped at top. French text on verso.From the original 1683 text edition o...

$200 / ≈ €175
Maker / Publisher: MANESSON MALLET, A.
Place & Date: Paris, 1683

 


A fan combining views of Hong Kong (right), Canton (center), and Macau.

The fan shows nice images of Macau, Hong Kong and Canton on onside and on verso a garden with 45 characters welcoming a rider on his white horse. Their clothes are height...

$5500 / ≈ €4818
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: China, ca. 1850-1860

 


Americae Nova Descriptio.

Final state. According to Philip Burden, "this scarce map is America's first single-sheet map with decorative borders." A re-issue of the 1614 plate by Pieter v...

$16000 / ≈ €14017
Maker / Publisher: VISSCHER, N.J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1652

 


Astéries.

Decorative engraving of a star fish, engraved by Boquet. Marie Jules César Lelorgne de Savigny (April 5, 1777 - October 5, 1851) was a French zoologist. In 1798 he trave...

$450 / ≈ €394
Maker / Publisher: LELORGNE DE SAVIGNY, M.J.C.
Place & Date: Paris, 1822