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Polynesia or Islands in the Pacific Ocean.
A decorative and attractive map of the Islands in the Pacific Ocean. The map extent shows parts of California, Papua New Guinea, eastern Australia, and southern Japan.The...
Place & Date: London,1851
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2021
Wallis's Guide for Strangers Through London.
Engraved plan with original hand-coloring, with title and alphabetical list of the principal streets below. Published by Edward Wellis 42 Skinner Street.With "An alp...
Place & Date: London, E.Wallis, ca. 1840
A Vue of the Exchange at Petersburg in Russia.
So-called optical print illustrating a perspective view of the Stock Exchange and the harbour of St. Petersburg.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many...
Place & Date: Paris 1755
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A more than 600 years old antiphonary leaf, written in Besancon, in 1370. Musical notation on 4 bars, the staves are in red and the notes in black: numerous pen-flourishe...
Place & Date: Besançon, 1370
Transisalania vulgo Over-Yssel auct. N. ten Have. . .
Map of the central part of the Netherlands, prepared by N. ten Have with a decorative cartouche lower left.Joachim Ottens (1663 - 1719) and his sons Renier and Joshua wer...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1750
Johnson's China and Japan.
A detailed steel engraved map of China, Korea, Taiwan and Japan with inset maps of Vicinity of Canton and Hong Kong . The waterway between Japan and Korea is called "...
Place & Date: New York, 1867
(Lübeck) Lvbeca vrbs. imperialis libera. civitatvm. Wandalicarvm. . . .
Impressive, more than 3 meters wide panoramic town view after a woodblock engraving from Elias Diebel, initially made in 1552. Of this original woodblock, Bachmann mentio...
Place & Date: Germany, c. 1855
Les Chatiments / The Punishments.
Caption reads: "The only column he can claim". Napoleon III depicted in Roman gown and Prussian cask with the clyster (against his infamous intestinal problems)...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1860
Southern Italy.
A detailed and highly decorative map of Southern Italy including Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica. Vignettes show the Carnival, Benevento, Naples & Vesuvius and the Festi...
Place & Date: London 1851
![[Anti capitalism Soviet Union propaganda poster]](/uploads/cache/47023-250x250.jpg)
[Anti capitalism Soviet Union propaganda poster]
Propaganda mini anti-capitalism poster published in Russia during The Cold War. By the 1960’s and 1970’s, outrageous practices in Soviet bureaucracy flourished. Poor ...
Place & Date: Leningrad, 1979
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2022
Novissima et emendata delineatio Hungariae una cum adjacentibus et finitimis regionibus.
First state. With two inset views of Buda and Bratislava (Posoniensis vulgo Presburg) above the map, between the half-lenght portraits of Leopold I. and the Turkish Sulta...
- $2200 / ≈ €1927
Place & Date: Anvers ?, c. 1660
Ride the Roads to Romance along the Golden Coast and thru the Sunshine Empire of Southern California.
This striking touring map of Southern California was published in 1950 by the Roads to Romance Association in order to promote tourism to Southern California. It provides...
Place & Date: California, 1950
View of Black Fryers Bridge, from Sommerset Place.
Fine view of London, with St. Pauls and the Blackfriars Bridge. With numerous boats in the Thames, houses and details.A sepia colored aquatint by Joseph Constantine Stadl...
Place & Date: London, 1795-1828
T Hoogh-Heemraetschap van de Uytwaterende Sluysen in Kennemerlant ende West-Frieslant’
A very large format wall map of the province of North Holland made and published for the district water board of Kennemerland and West Friesland, on four leaves, combined...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1781
Selling price: $1100
Sold in 2021
![Nouvelle-Hollande. Terre d'Endracht. Cabanes des Naturels de la presqu' Ile Peron. [plate XXIV]](/uploads/cache/40113-250x250.jpg)
Nouvelle-Hollande. Terre d'Endracht. Cabanes des Naturels de la presqu' Ile Peron. [plate XXIV]
Aboriginal dwellings in the Northern Territory.After the original sketches by Lesueur, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François Péron, 1824.The Fren...
Place & Date: Paris, 1824
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2022
Assedio di Breda (Siege of Breda by Spinola 1624)
A very rare decorative showing the siege of Breda by Spinola in 1624.Gualdo Priorato (1606-1678) entered military service at a very young age and served in Flanders unde...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1672
Portrait de George Washington.
Portrait of the first president of the united states of America.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume ancien et moderne ou histoire du gouvernement, de la milice, de la ...
Place & Date: Milan 1827
L'amerique meridionale dressee sur les memoires le plus recens. . .
Rare and decorative map of South America with good detail and interesting notations concerning the explorations of the interior. With in the lower right corner a title ca...
- $550 / ≈ €482
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1757
Geographica descriptio Montani cujusdam districtus in ..
Detailed map including the towns of Thurnau, Bayreuth, Culmbach, etc. With fine panoramic view of Thurnau. Upper left and right splendid title cartouches.The map is paint...
Place & Date: Nurenberg, 1710
Vue de l'Entree de la Cour.. de la rue de l'Arno a Florence
So-called optical print of Arno Street in Florence, in Tuscany region. Probst was the best-known publishers of optical prints, established in Augsburg.In the eighteenth ...
- $150 / ≈ €131
Place & Date: Augsburg 1750
![Plan of Banta [together with] and Bantem Bay.](/uploads/cache/83768-250x250.jpg)
Plan of Banta [together with] and Bantem Bay.
1. Clear view of the city of Banta. The Houtman ships finally arrived at Banten, a northwestern port in Java. Houtman was introduced to the Sultan of Banten, who promptly...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1611
Junction of the Yellow Stone River with the Missouri.
An aquatint engraving done near Fort Union, just above the junction of the Yellow Stone and Missouri Rivers Fort Union was the uppermost point of steamer travel, and like...
Place & Date: Pars, Coblenz, London, 1839
Outposts of Empire. Ceylon.
A large colored lithograph by John Vickery (1906-1983), he was an Australian artist. He worked in the fields of painting, illustration and advertising. He is the only Aus...
Place & Date: London, ca 1937
Gesigt van den Vermaakelyken Overtoom Gelegen buyten de Leydsche Poort der Stad Amsterdam te sien naar de groote en kleyne overhaal. Vüe agreable de l'overtoom, hors de la porte de leide, pres de la ville d'astersdam…
A view of the Overtoom in the eighteenth century. Etching on two joined sheets of paper, after A.Rademaker. By the eighteenth century, numerous country villas had been b...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1760
AIR France - Le plus grand réseau du monde.
Created in 1959 by the artist Lucien Boucher, showing all of the DC-7 Air France Routes. The Blue Pink Poster is one of a series of eight posters commissioned by Air Fran...
Place & Date: Imprimerie Perceval, Paris, 1959
Timor. Vue de la rade, de la ville et du fort de Coupang, dans l'île de Timor.
Nice double page view of the town Kupang, formerly known as Koepang. In the center is the Dutch V.O.C. fort. From Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François...
Place & Date: Paris, 1807-1816
![Anverpia, nobile in Barbantia oppidum, parrim maritimum . . . [Antwerp]](/uploads/cache/26518-250x250.jpg)
Anverpia, nobile in Barbantia oppidum, parrim maritimum . . . [Antwerp]
The bird's-eye plan provides an excellent view of the citadel, city, docks and fortifications. The city was defended by a line of fortification and a moat constructed und...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1585
![[Title page] Le Petit Atlas Maritime recueil de cartes et plans. . .](/uploads/cache/47754-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Le Petit Atlas Maritime recueil de cartes et plans. . .
Title page of "Le Petit Atlas maritime recueil de cartes et plans des quatre parties du Monde - Cinquieme volume contenant Les costes de France" by Jacques Nic...
- $150 / ≈ €131
Place & Date: Paris, 1764
![[No title] Part of Eastern Europe, including Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Slovenia.](/uploads/cache/24266-250x250.jpg)
[No title] Part of Eastern Europe, including Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Slovenia.
Attractive map showing part of the course of the river Danube, from Germany to Hungary.Including Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Slovenia. Boundaries outlined in...
- $100 / ≈ €88
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1783
![Figure 38 troisieme partie. [Hors riding]](/uploads/cache/14164-250x250.jpg)
Figure 38 troisieme partie. [Hors riding]
This fabulous illustration depicts formal movements of equitation for horse riding school movements. The print shows both A.de Pluvinel and the future King at the age of ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1629
Descripcion de las Yndias Ocidentalis.
Rare early general map of America, the Pacific Ocean and the Eastern part of Asia. Showing "Meridiano de la demarcacion porla parte oscidental" - and "... ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Michel Colin, 1622
Early 19th century magnetic dry card compass with wooden bowl,
Brass dry rose marine compass, in its mahogany case. The mariner's compass, which enabled mariners to know the direction in which they were sailing, has always been one o...
Place & Date: ca. 1800
Carte du Gouvernement Civil de France.
This impressive engraving is a wonderful example of Chatelain’s elegant plates. It provides a detailed description of the infrastructure of the French government. Ornam...
- $75 / ≈ €66
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1728
Vue Interieure de la Bourse Royale à Londres.
So-called optical print of the London stock exchange. Daumont was a well-known publisher of optical prints, established in Paris. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuri...
Place & Date: Paris, 1760
Arabesques. - Pages jumelles d'un qorân mauresque. (XVIIIe siècle)
Lithographed by Daumont. From the author's "L'Art Arabe d'après les monuments du Kaire…". Emile Prisse d'Avennes, Orientalist and Muslim convert, obsessive i...
Place & Date: Paris, 1877
Carte Des Detroits De Singapour Durian, Jombol et Rhio Dressee d'apres les travaux Anglais et Hollandais les plus recents . . . 1866
Rare separately issued chart of Singapore, extending to Johore, Battam, Bintang, Rempang, Galang, Jombol, Suji, Sanbon and neighboring islands, depicting coastal features...
Place & Date: Paris, 1870
Landgraviatus Alsatiae tam superioris..
Alsace, in the far north-eastern corner of France, stands out from other French wine regions thanks to its strong Franco-Germanic influences. Alsace is the only French wi...
Place & Date: Nurenberg, 1710
Carta nuova dell' Arabia fatta in Amsterdam per Isauc Tirion.
Detailed map of Arabia and environs, prepared by Albrizzi and published in Thomas Salmon in " Lo Stato Presente di Tutti i popoli del mondo naturale, politico e mora...
- $650 / ≈ €569
Place & Date: Napels, Francesco Ricciardo, 1738 -1762
Vue du sperbe Temple de St.Sophie .. a Constantinople.
A fanciful depiction of the Aya Sofya in Istanbul. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular speciality establishments in Paris, Augsburg and Lon...
Place & Date: Paris, 1800
![[Title page] In medio mihi Caesar erit Templum que tenebit.](/uploads/cache/40241-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] In medio mihi Caesar erit Templum que tenebit.
Title page from "Histoire De La Campagne De M. Le Prince De Condé, En Flandre En 1674". In the center a globe surrounded with female figures. Engraved by Patas...
- $80 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Paris, 1774
M.Merian, l'Ancien célébre graveur . . .
Portrait of Matthäus Merian (1593-1650) by Hubert. Matthäus Merian der Ältere was a Swiss-born engraver who worked in Frankfurt for most of his career, where he also ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1784
18th century toll road share with signature of the first Dollar millionaire.
Important toll road share published in Philadelphia, 16 March 1795, 1 Share, #473. Vignette of an early toll road, toll house, gate and vans in top, original signature of...
Place & Date: Philadelphia, 1795
1st Lord Baltimore, Countess of Suffolk & Countess of Cumberland.
An attractive historical hand-colored copper engraving featuring: George Calvert - The First Lord Baltimore, The Countess of Suffolk and Margaret, Countess of Cumberland....
Place & Date: London, 1784
![[Title page] L'Hydrographie Françoise recueil des cartes matines dressées au dépôt des cartes, plans et journeaux.](/uploads/cache/48056-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] L'Hydrographie Françoise recueil des cartes matines dressées au dépôt des cartes, plans et journeaux.
Title page from L'Hydrographie Françoise. In the lower part of the globe, showing a part of Europe. To the left and right hand side instruments. A work of art in its ow...
- $75 / ≈ €66
Place & Date: Paris, 1798 but ca. 1920
![[Indians catching Whales in the West Indies.]](/uploads/cache/40069-250x250.jpg)
[Indians catching Whales in the West Indies.]
It was reported that the Indians paddled out to sea in their canoes to catch whales. If they got close enough they would climb onto the creature’s back and hammer two w...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
New York Ferry Boat. (Bac à vapeur de New York).
A very decorative print showing the New York Ferry Boat "Fulton," published by Currier & Ives. The Ferry boat "Fulton" sails to the right. A singl...
Place & Date: New York, ca. 1875
The State of New Hampshire. Compiled chiefly from actual Surveys. By Samuel Lewis, 1813.
This is an early map of the State of New Hampshire. Lewis introduces numerous town placenames on this map. Most of the important roads are also shown. The state is di...
Place & Date: Philadelphia, 1814
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries.
Engraving from Les cinq rangs de l'architecture, a savoir, Tuscane, dorique, ionique, corinthiaque et composée avec l'instruction fondamentale. by Paul Vredeman de Vries...
Place & Date: The Hague, 1606
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: Six 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and five line-fillers in same.VERSO: Five 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and one 2-lines i...
Place & Date: France, 1520-1550
Sommaire du n°32 - Juillet 1898.
Cover binder of Les Maitres de l'Affiche n°32 (3rd year of publication). It used to contains the plates 125, 126, 127 and 128. The "Les Maitres de l'Affiche" c...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, July 1898
Multa bona opera ostendi vobis ex Patre meo : propter quod eorum lapidatis me. Joan 10.
A superb example of this illustration from Memorabilium Novi Testamenti in templo gestorum (Events in and around the Temple) (Events in and around the Temple). Christ in ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1585
Carte Astronomique de L'Univers.
A large, decorative and informative educational chart, illustrating and describing the solar system. The top half of the chart consists of the solar system with the 12 mo...
Place & Date: Paris ca 1877
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2022
Donger deel.. derde grietenije van Ooster Goo. . .
This is a very decorative map of the area north of Dokkum from the Uitbeelding der Heerlijkheit Friesland prepared by Schotanus. With decorative title cartouche lower rig...
Place & Date: Leeuwarden, F.Halma, 1718
Golfe du Mexique Assujetti aux Observations Astronomiques Par J.B.Nolin.
Rare map of the Caribbean prepared by J.B.Nolin and published by L.J. Mondhare for his Atlas Général a l'usage des colleges et maisons d'education.. Louis Joseph Mondha...
- $200 / ≈ €175
Place & Date: Paris, 1781
![[Citta Di Ragusi]-[Citta Di Cataro]](/uploads/cache/32474-250x250.jpg)
[Citta Di Ragusi]-[Citta Di Cataro]
Uncommon map of the coast of Montenegro with the bay and town of Kotor (citta di Cataro) and Dubrovnik (cita di Ragusi) with Venetian war ships in the foreground. From Gi...
Place & Date: Venice, D.Bertelli, ca.1574
Terra Firma et Novum Regnum Granatense et Popayan.
Detailed map of Panama and northwestern South America derived from the Blaeu/Jansson map of the regionFeaturing ships at sea, two compass roses, and two cartouches depict...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1673
![Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Oceanie. . . [Planche 20].](/uploads/cache/14136-250x250.jpg)
Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Oceanie. . . [Planche 20].
"An attractive collection of shells. From Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842) ""Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les Corvettes L'...
- $150 / ≈ €131
Place & Date: Paris, 1833
Imperium Japonicum.
The map is based on Engelbert Kaempfer's map of 1727. It shows a much-distorted outline for the Island of Japan and a wonderful decorative cartouche top left.Tobias Conra...
Place & Date: Augsburg 1720
Potentissimae Helvetiorum Reipublicae Cantones Trediecim cum Foederatis et Subjectis Provinciis . . .
Detailed map of Switzerland, showing the 13 Cantons, by Johann Baptiste Homann, head of one of the most prolific German map publishing houses of the entire 18th Century. ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1732
Arabesques. - Mosaïques Murales.
Lithographed by Daumont. From the author's "L'Art Arabe d'après les monuments du Kaire…". Emile Prisse d'Avennes, Orientalist and Muslim convert, obsessive i...
Place & Date: Paris, 1877
![[Lot of 15 maps/plans of northern France] Gouvernement d' Orleans et la Generalite divisee en ses Elections.](/uploads/cache/19853-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 15 maps/plans of northern France] Gouvernement d' Orleans et la Generalite divisee en ses Elections.
Alexis-Hubert Jaillot (1632-1712), French cartographer. He joined the Sanson heirs and redrew Nicolas Sanson's maps on a larger scale. 'Atlas Nouveau' (1674), sea-atlas '...
- $500 / ≈ €438
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Paris, 1693
La Scandinavie et les environs, ou sont le royaumes de Suede de Danemarck, et de Norwege . . .
Fine map of Scandinavia and the Baltic States with rococo title cartouche with a dedication to Le Dauphin with his coat of arms. A separate scale cartouche in lower left ...
- $500 / ≈ €438
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1694
Cyprus Insulae.
Blaeu's beautiful map of Cyprus embellished with a very decorative title cartouche.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1640
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A very fine antiphonary leaf, written in Latin, probably Rome. RECTO: A wonderful initial "I" decorated with penwork in red, white and blue, in rich burnished g...
- $1000 / ≈ €876
Place & Date: Italy, 1480
18th century share of second largest Spanish trading company.
Sevilla, 23 August 1748, Share of 250 Pesos, #785, 29.6 x 40.6 cm, black, beige, copper engraving with seal, edge trimmed, condition VF, we can see the Saint Joseph with ...
Place & Date: Sevilla, 1748
L'Archeveché de Cologne, suivant les nouvelles observations..
With decorative title cartouche lower left corner.This example is unusual in having the additional separately engraved decorative framework border around the map, the res...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1728
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2023
Generaliteits Kruyt-Magasyn.
The print depicts the gunpowder storage in Rotterdam. A most decorative item.
- $50 / ≈ €44
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1703
A new & exact map of Asia. . .
An excellent map of Asia. Curious shape for Japan, with a large island north called Yedso and a coastline marked De Gamma's Land . Decorative title cartouche at bottom le...
Place & Date: London, 1747
Insula Candia olim Creta.
Superbly engraved and highly beautiful map of Crete, with a large panorama of Heraklion during the Turkish siege on top. The view is very detailed with a number of shi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c1680
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2023
DER GANTZE WELT KREIS ...
Fine hand coloured original antique twin Hemisphere World map which was published by Gabriel Bodenehr in the 1704 edition of Atlas Curieux .A bold border and decor...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1704
![[Anti capitalism Soviet Union propaganda poster]](/uploads/cache/47035-250x250.jpg)
[Anti capitalism Soviet Union propaganda poster]
Propaganda mini anti-capitalism poster published in Russia during The Cold War. By the 1960’s and 1970’s, outrageous practices in Soviet bureaucracy flourished. Poor ...
Place & Date: Leningrad, 1974
Portugallia et Algarbia uae olim Lusitania.
A popular Blaue map of Portugal, based on the work of Fernao Alvares Seco. Verso text: German. This very detailed map depicts Portugal with numerous ships and Neptune ad...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1642
Selling price: $355
Sold in 2008
Smyrna
A grand view at the city of Izmir in Turkey (the former Smyrna) as seen from the Mediterranean Sea at the end of the 17th century. After a drawing from nature by Cornelis...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1698
Carte éventail offert par Cinzano ( Gironde and Aveyron)
Edited map fans offered by alcohol Cinzano, n °11. Patented model SGDG, representing one a map of the Gironde and Aveyron region. Printed by Blondel La Rougery.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1930
![[Title page] Gli Argonauti.](/uploads/cache/23338-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Gli Argonauti.
Decorative title page illustrating allegorical and mythological figures. Engraved by Alessandro Dalla Via after a drawing by Lodovico Lanberti.At the top some cherubs car...
Place & Date: Venice, ca. 1720
Map of Senegal with part of the coast of Africa.
Uncommon miniature map of Senegal with part of the coast of Africa, engraved by Thomas Kitching for "A New General and Universal Atlas Containing Forty five Maps by ...
- $40 / ≈ €35
Place & Date: London, 1761-1763
Venice scene pochoir.
Lovely art deco pochoir showing Venice, with gondolas. Very nice romantic colors.Pochoir is a technique that was often used in French Fashion Journals to illustrates cost...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1930
EUTIN & TØNDER, Oitinense oppidulum et arx Episcopi Lubecensis sedes / Delineatio Civitatis Tonderensis.
Two bird's-eye plans on one sheet: Tønder (Denmark) and Eutin (Germany) by Braun & Hogenberg. From: 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum', ... Part 5. Köln, 1596.EUTIN CAPTIO...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1596
Calendar leaf for April from manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours.
Calendar leaf for April. RECTO: One 2-line initial in liquid gold on colored grounds. colorful panel border in he left margin of acanthus leaves and flowers, with black p...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1450
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2025