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Prospectus Castelli Boxtel.
One of the earliest views of the Castle of Boxtel. Engraved by Henricus Cause. With a description in Latin, French and Dutch.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1695
Plano de los Ferro-Carriles de Republica Argentina 1902.
Folding rail road map of Argentina, with inset of Buenos Aires in upper right corner.
Place & Date: Buenos Aires, ca. 1902
Leodiensis Dioecesis Typus. Baptista Doetecomius sculp.
Detailed map of Belgium centered on Leige. Highly map with numerous cities (including Maastricht, Wyck, Namur, etc.), towns, and villages depicted. Extends to Brabant wit...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, (1606) 1613
Habit et Manière ancienne des Peiches ou Laquais du Grand Seigneur. (14)
Sought-after copper engraved plate taken from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs." by...
Place & Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Pascaerte van 't Westelyckste Deel van Oost Indien, van Cabo de Bona Esperanca tot C.Comorin..
An eye-catching chart of the western part of the Indian Ocean and its adjacent coasts of East Africa, Arabia with the Red Sea and the Arabian Gulf, Iran, Pakistan and we...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1666
Carte des royaumes d\'Espagne et de Portugal ...
This map, from Robert de Vaugondy's "Atlas Universel", illustrates the major postal routes throughout the Iberian Peninsula. One of the earliest obtainable maps...
Place & Date: Paris, 1757
EROBERUNG DER STATT LOANDO DE SANCT PAUO IN BRASILIA.
An interesting and decorative map, the view shows Sao Paulo in Brazil. From Merian's Theatrum Europaeum.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1650
The new woman . . .
Chromo lithographed poster of Les Maitres de l'Affiche n°79. The "Les Maitres de l'Affiche" contained 256 small for lithographic prints of the best posters of ...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, 1896
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Flensburg and Itzehoe,- Flensburgum [on sheet with:] Itzhoa Florentissimae Holsatiæ Op.
Two bird's-eye views by Braun and Hogenberg: Flensburg and Itzehoe. FLENSBURG with COMMENTARY BY BRAUN (on verso): "This city lies between high mountains, on the sh...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1588
Prospectus Sanctae olim.. Hierosolymae.. Jerusalem. . .
Two bird's eye perspectives views of Jerusalem. Each with an extensive numbered key to principal buildings in town. Title in Latin and German. The print is published by M...
- $3000 / ≈ €2807
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1740
Venezuela cum parte Australi Novae Andalusiae.
Most decorative map with two large cartouches and compass-rose, large group of islands at the mouth of the Orinoco, other islands off Venezuela coast: Margarita, Aruba, C...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1673
Bonheur de la Grand-mère.
Uncommon and decorative lithography published by Carl Johan Billmark and printed by Lemercier in Paris, 55 rue de Seine, the leading firm in Europe at that time. From: It...
- $40 / ≈ €37
Place & Date: Paris, c.1859
Nova Totius Germaniae Descriptio.
Map of Germany, Low Countries and Poland.As Willem Blaeu died in 1638 most of his maps are actually published by his son Joan. This maps carries his (engraved) signature ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2022
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[ Mexican weapons ].
Aquatint depicting an Oaxaca monument representing a warrior engraved by Bonatti. Plate N°66.Oaxaca is the historic home of the Zapotec and Mixtec peoples, and contains ...
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
Funicolare Monte Brè Lugano Suisse. Cassarate-Catagnola.
Rare and authentic poster of Lake Lugano, situated in the Switzerland mountains, with a view of the Funicolare of Monte Brè.Designed by Otto Ernst and printed and publis...
Place & Date: Lugano, ca. 1930
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2024
Lithuania.
One of the earliest maps of Lithuania and Poland.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1610
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2023
Nieuwe gemeten kaart van de colonie de Berbice met der zelver plantagiën en de namen der Bezitters. . .
Re-issue of his map from 1740, without the printed list of owners, with a large added contemp. hand-colored cartouche Relaas van de rebellie, ontstaan op de plantagien in...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca.1763
Bal du Moulin Rouge Paris - Femmes Femmes Femmes.
Poster designed by René Gruau for Bal du Moulin Rouge Paris - Festival fantaisie de rêve avec les 40 Doris Girls. Signed in the upper right-hand corner with Monogram G....
Place & Date: Paris, Artis SA Paris, 1973
Quinquina Bourin Force l'apetit donne de la force.
Advertising poster for the French liquor brand Quinquina Bourin. Printed by De la Vasselais, Paris. Jacques Bellenger designed this original vintage poster in 1936. This ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1936
Inde.
Decorative poster advertising flights to India made by Georges Mathieu. The poster is one of a series of 15 composed of posters of Greece, Israel, Germany, Great Britain,...
Place & Date: Paris, 1967
Map of Formosa. My hunting place.
An unusual hand drawn map of Formosa with an inset plan ‘My hunting place’. The map has the major cities marked in red ink and was made during Japanese occupation. Th...
Place & Date: Chiayi, Formosa, ca. 1940
Outposts of Empire. Central Australia.
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
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[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, 1973
De Pen Gun Weekblad voor de Nederlandsche Strijdkrachten.
Poster designed by Willem Anthonie Oepts (1904 - 1988), published by the Dutch Military Government for "De Pen gun".The designer Willem Anthonie Oepts (1904 - 1...
Place & Date: Weert, Smeets, 1945
Tiger tamer.
Showing a tiger tamer with two tigers who apparently have more interest in his erotic, scarily dressed assistance.
Place & Date: ca. 1950
Kaart van Palestina voor oud- en nieuw testament behorend bij de weg met en naar Christus door Fr. M. Bellarminus.
Original vintage illustrated map wall map sized poster (166 x 118cm) of Palestine in the time of Christ featuring a map of the old and new testament of the Bible from The...
Place & Date: Utrecht, Sint Gregoriushuis, 1948
Philippines - The famous volcanic peak Mt. Mayon. . .
Mt Mayon Volcano Peak near Legaspi on the Philippines. Fine Pan American Airline mini poster.Pan American World Airways, originally founded as Pan American Airways and co...
Place & Date: 1956
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2023
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[Planisphère] - Crédit Lyonnais - Fondé en 1863. Afrique du Nord à Union Française.
Original pictorial lithographed advertising poster showing the western part of Africa. Published by the French bank Crédit Lyonnais.Design by Lucien_Boucher who is a fam...
Place & Date: Paris, 1950
ADSEC in Action from Thames to Rhine.
A pictorial map showing the allied movement from London on 14 March 1944 thru the conquest of Germany. Showing the track from London along Bristol, crossing the British C...
Place & Date: London, 1945
Robert Macaire. Règlement de comptes. Monsieur de Macaire . . . (Plate 5).
Translation in English of text title: SETTLEMENT OF ACCOUNTS. – Monsieur de Macaire, allow me to note that I find your accounts amazing. For a spy, who was charged to k...
- $350 / ≈ €328
Place & Date: Paris, 1840-1841
Schmetterlingsfang.
Engraved by Joseph Stöber, (born in Vienna 13. June 1768, died 12 March 1852) after design of Matthäus Loder (1781-1828). From Castelli, "Zerrbilder menschlicher T...
Place & Date: Wien, 1818
Carte des côtes du Golfe du Mexique compris entre la pointe sud de la presqu'Ile de la Floride et la pointe nord de la presqu'Ile d'Yucatan: Dresée d'après le observations et las plans des espagnols, ...
Detailed and important early chart of the Gulf Coast and Florida and dated 1800. First French edition of "the first printed [map] to show and name Galveston Bay&qu...
Place & Date: Paris, 1800
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[Atahualpa captured by Spanish.]
Accompanying Pizarro was a monk called Valverde, who confronted Atahualpa with a crucifix and breviary. The interpreter said the Spanish had been sent by their emperor to...
- $80 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Mariner’s compass
Inverted compass called "snitch" in wood painted in imitation of tortoiseshell and brass, signed "Ing MANN Maker Water Street Liverpool".
Place & Date: Liverpool, ca. 1785
Toujours des sangsues!
Lithograph depicting a corpulent physician diagnoses more leeches for a young woman, who lies drained. In 1832, there was a devastating cholera epidemic in Paris.Publishe...
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1832
Connecticut and Parts adjacent at Amsterdam. .
A nice example of this early map of the state of Connecticut with part of Rhode Island to the east, Long Island to the south, and New York to the east. Rivers, roads, t...
- $30000 / ≈ €28072
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1780
Nieuwe Paskaart Van de Kust van Portugal … C. Roxeur, tot aen C.dS.Vincente
Sea chart showing the coast of Portugal from Lisbon to Cape of St. Vincente and the Algarve coast to Albufeira.Title in a nice cartouche with figures at bottom centre, be...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1697-1709
30 million Americans of national minorities are subject to several forms of racial discrimination.
An original Russian anti-American propaganda poster, published by 'Plakat', in Moscow 1985.More about Soviet propaganda posters. [+]
Place & Date: Moscow, 1985
Stingemore's January 1926 Underground Railways of London map.
Stingemore’s January 1926 Underground Railways of London guide booklet. In 1926, a map-maker named Fred Stingemore set out to improve matters by regularising the spacin...
Place & Date: London, 1926
Carte du gouvernement de l'Amerique.
A double page sheet including a fine map of America, with California with indented northern coastline (130x92mm.) and New Mexico extending across most of western North Am...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1705
III. Repraesentatio Mullierum, et vestimentorum, Quibus Utuntur.
Inhabitants of the coast of the Ivory coast in Africa.Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a compilation of early voyages in 1590 and had published s...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Et Factum est ut dum Coloquerentur, et se mutuo Rogitarent, ip se Jesus accederet, et una iter feceret cum ipsis.
Biblical scene of the New Testament, Luc. Capt. 24, Ph.13, with beautiful and decorative view and staffage.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1730
Tidal Chart of the British Seas showing the progress of the Wave of High water .
From Alexander Keith Johnston's The Physical Atlas of Natural Phenomena, A New and Enlarged Edition, 1856. Steel engraved with hand outline coloring.A fine example showin...
Place & Date: Edinburgh, 1848
![[MANUSCRIPT] Carte nouvelle de la Crimée et des pays circonvoisins.](/uploads/cache/30484-250x250.jpg)
[MANUSCRIPT] Carte nouvelle de la Crimée et des pays circonvoisins.
A beautiful manuscript map on paper. Showing the northern part of the Black Sea region with Crimea.Interesting are the border lines of "New Serbia", shown in th...
Place & Date: ca. 1752-1764
L'Art arabe d'après les monuments du Kaire depuis le VIIe siècle jusqu'à la fin du XVIIIe.
Prisse d’Avennes was one of the foremost scholars of Arabic art and architecture of the 19th century; this work represents the summation of his studies. From the aspect...
Place & Date: Paris, Morel, 1877
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
21 lines of printed text, surrounded by Renaissance borders decorated with flowers and little miniatures with figures on both sides.From the press of the leading Parisian...
Place & Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c. 1520-1540
A Map of the most Inhabited part of New England containing the Provinces of Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire, with the Colonies of Connecticut and Rhode Island.
A copper engraving in four sheets, published in Georges Louis Le Rouge, in his "Atlas Ameriqua in Septentrional Contenant les details des differentes provinces, de c...
Place & Date: Paris, 1777
New Yok entworfen von D.F. Sotzmann. Hamburg bey Carl Ernst Bohn 1799 . . . NO.VII
An extremely rare map of New York prepared by Daniel Friedrich Sotzmann for Christopher Ebeling's "Erdbeschreibung von Amerika", a project ended after only ten ...
Place & Date: Hamburg, Carl Ernst Bohn, 1799
Konigliches Lust Hauss.
This magnificent, elaborate copper engraving is from Paul Decker's work entitled "Furstliche Baumeister, oder Architectura Civilis... Published in Augsburg, Germany ...
Place & Date: Augsburg, ca. 1715
Félix Potin poster - Toute l'alimentation.
Lithographed advertising poster for Félix Potin. Félix Potin is a French retail chain created by the grocer Félix Potin in the mid-19th century, which lasted until the...
Place & Date: Paris, between 1925 and 1930
Compass.
A sloop compass in the original wooden box with lit. The compass with floating rose (Cardan system). Slung in gimbals, the east point is decorated and graduated in half ...
Place & Date: c. 1890-1900
Globe terrestre d'après les découvertes..
Attractive and large (height 112cm) library globe by a prominent Paris globe maker, with a brass meridian circle, horizon ring and hour ring, supported by four brass quad...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1885
Marine parallel rulers in brass.
Very fine marine parallel rulers in brass. The parallel ruler is the oldest and most traditional way to measure and trace routes and bearings. The principle is simple: t...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1880
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Jules Verne Le Tour du Monde en 80 jours. [Goose game board inspired by Jules Verne's novel Tour du Monde en 80 jours.]
Goose game board inspired by Jules Verne's novel, whose boxes are illustrated with color lithographs and the center occupied by a world map. Vignette illustrations number...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1880
NEWTON'S New and Improved TERRESTRIAL GLOBE Accurately delineated from the observations of the most esteemed NAVIGATORS AND TRAVELLERS to the Present Time. . .
A very impressive Victorian 20-inch Library globe showing the "Gulf of Corea". On an exceptionally carved mahogany tripod stand with scrolling acanthus legs ter...
Place & Date: London, January 1, 1867
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[Macaire] Pensionnat Robert-Macaire. Mr le professeur. . . (Plate 4)
Macaire personified the clever businessman, who was willing at any time to throw moral and ethical principles overboard for a quick buck. His personality fitted exactly t...
Place & Date: Paris, 1864
Atlas Universel de Géographie. Sixième partie - Océanique.
Volume 6 including detailed maps of Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, Pacific islands, Indonesia and 3 maps of the Philippines. With title page and one general map.Supporte...
Place & Date: Brussels 1827
Country pleasures.
Folding fan made of a double sheet of lithographed paper, enhanced with gouache and watercolor, with a decoration of three cartouches with gallant scenes of French countr...
Place & Date: France, ca. 1850-1860
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
An elegant couple with a caged bird in a landscape.
Folding fan made of skin sheet and mounted in English style, with a painted scene of an elegant couple with a caged bird in a landscape.Painted verso of a man among ancie...
Place & Date: Paris, 1790
A ship's hour glass
The element common to celestial position-finding, the calculation of speed for dead reckoning and even everyday life at sea is the time: hence ways of determining and kee...
Place & Date: ca. 1790
Share of 1000 Florins to Michel de Knyff. N° 135.
Share of 1000 Florins, paid in four tranches at 250 Florins of Vienna, from "Compagnie Imperiale & Royale Octroyee d'Assurance de Commerce & d'escompte."...
Place & Date: Trieste, 1782 - 1783
A folding fan showing Cleopatra at the Gates of Alexandria, circa 1750-1760.
The fan shows Cleopatra at the Gates of Alexandria, where she welcomes Julius Caesar who came to visit her in 48BC. Her suite is made up of soldiers and maids. The arriva...
Place & Date: English, ca. 1750-1760
Steel compass with a gilded radiating pattern.
Steel compass with a gilded radiating pattern.Provenance : Collection Henri-Claude Randier.
Place & Date: ca. 1760
A ship's hour glass.
Maritime hourglass with blown glass bulbs, orange sand, junction ring covered with cord, the circular ebony frame with six turned baluster columns.The invention of the ho...
Place & Date: The Netherlands, Germany, ca. 1750
A ship's hour glass.
Maritime hourglass with blown glass bulbs, orange sand, junction ring covered with cord, the circular ebony frame with six turned baluster columns. The invention of the ...
Place & Date: Germany, ca. 1750
Globe Terrestre Didié et Présénté a Monseigneur le Comté Maubec de Brancas...
Terrestial globe dated 1741. Complete title "Globe Terrestre Didié et Présénté a Monseigneur le Comté Maubec de Brancas Par Jacque Hardy. Dressé sur ...
Place & Date: Paris, dated 1741
Horizon ring for globe.
Printed horizon ring for a 28cm diameter German globe. The ring is divided in quarters and engraved two by two on one copper plate. The size of the paper is 44 x 33cm. Th...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1704/1705
Nocturnal in boxwood and brass.
Nocturlabe in boxwood and brass, the wheels maintained by a central nut presenting an annual calendar divided into months and days, an hour disc and a mobile alidade, the...
Place & Date: England, Thomas Cooper, dated 1701
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...
Place & Date: Bruges, ca. 1700
Atlas des Missions de la Société des Missions-Étrangères. . .
This scarce atlas contains maps showing the locations of the Catholic missions belonging to the Société des Missions Étrangères in Asia. It covers India, Burma, Siam,...
Place & Date: Lille, 1890
The Family Atlas Containing Eighty maps Constructed by Eminent Geographers. . .
Un unrecorded later edition of the S.D.U.K. Family atlas, with 80 plus one extra map. Most maps are single sheet but several are double page maps. Printed on heavy paper ...
Place & Date: London Edward Stanford, 1874
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[Collection of six maps of Australia and New Zealand.]
Collection of maps including 6 engraved maps by 19th century German, French and English cartographers depicting Australia and New Zealand.This made to order atlas contain...
Place & Date: Germany, 1832-1852
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Aou, Tōkei. Kokugun Zenzu [Atlas of Provinces and Counties of Japan]. (volume 1 only)
First edition. Very attractive early Japanese Atlas of detailed maps of Japanese regions compiled by six Japanese civilians in the eighth year (1837) of the Tenpō era (...
Place & Date: [Nagoya]: Tōheidō, Tenpō 8 = 1837
Manuscript atlas.
Charming manuscript atlas with 6 maps, pen and ink and water color, showing France, Europe, Africa, Palestine, North America and South America.The atlas is done by a youn...
Place & Date: France, 1835
Atlas géographique des quatre parties du monde.
Interesting atlas printed during the French Revolution (1789-1799) by Ph. Dezauche. The title cartouche of the newly made map (6bis) "Carte de France, suivant sa nou...
Place & Date: Paris, Dezauche, De L'Isle et Buache, 1789-1799
Cartes pour le tom V de mineraux. (Atlas des cartes des déclinaisons et inclinaisons de l'aiguille aimantée, rédigées d'après la Table des observations ...
Cartes pour le tom V de mineraux. (Atlas des cartes des déclinaisons et inclinaisons de l'aiguille aimantée, rédigées d'après la Table des observations magnétiques ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1783-1788
Kort begrip der oude en nieuwe staatkundige Geographie: behelzende eene beschryving der heerschappyen, in welken de aarde verdeeld is, haare gelegenheid. . .
Sixth edition- Interesting geographical compendium, prepared by Johann Hubner en W.A. Bachiene. Of particular interest is the section starting with pages 589 with "O...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Covens / Mortier, Utrecht, Poolsum, 1758
't Hooge Heemraedschap van Delfland met alle de Steden, Dorpen, Ambachten, Litmaten, Polders, (etc.).
The so-called Kruquius map is a wall-map of the Delfland water board district. The map consists of 25 engraved map sheets. Several maps flanked by fine large armorial car...
Place & Date: Delft, 1712-1750
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Beschrijving van Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien. Vervattende een Naukeurige en uitvoerige verhandelinge van Nederlands Mogentheyd [...] met meer dan thien honderd en vyftig Prentverbeeldingen verrykt...
"The most comprehensive work on Asia published in Europe during the early colonial period" (Landwehr). The first book to give a comprehensive account in text an...
Place & Date: Dordrecht /Amsterdam, 1724-1726