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![Vlissingen,- Flissinga munitissimu Zelandiae oppidum, tutissimum Nautarum et Nauclerorum domicilium. [Vlissingen]](/uploads/cache/84991-250x250.jpg)
Vlissingen,- Flissinga munitissimu Zelandiae oppidum, tutissimum Nautarum et Nauclerorum domicilium. [Vlissingen]
A fine bird's-eye view of the town of Vlissingen in Zeeland. It is situated at the mouth of the western Schelde. You see an excellent overview of the town's layout, and i...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1598
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
Leaf on vellum from a French Book of Hours, written around 1470 in or near Rouen. The decoration on the verso is very elaborate with flowers and leaves in bright colors a...
Place & Date: France ca.1470
Civitatis Episcopalis Othenarum sive Otthoniae, ut vulgo dicitur, Fionae Insularum Daniae. . .
A very nice and early birds-eye view of the city of Odense on the island Fyn, in Denmark. Published by Braun & Hogenberg in their wonderful 'Civitatis Orbis Terrarum'...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1596
La France Comté divisée en Trois Grands Balliages?
Very fine map of Franche-Comté, prepared by Nicolas Sanson and published by Hubert Jaillot.
Place & Date: Paris, 1692
Plan général des environs de la ville de Sébastopol avec indication de la disposition générale de l'armée alliée au 24 octobre - 5 novembre 1854 et du mouvement du prince Gortchakow dans la direction du mont Sapoune. Feuille 8.
Panoramic town-plan of the siege of Sebastopol. Chromolithograph after A Cassagne and V. Adam, printed by Lemercier. With a key 1-24 in lower margin.
Place & Date: Paris, 1863
Grande Tartarie et Isles du Japon.
A nice map with decorative rococo style borders. A striking map of Northeastern Asia, including Japan, Korea, China, Tibet, Turkistan, Kazakstan,Tartarie and Russian Asia...
Place & Date: Paris, 1766
Plan de Brisach Assiegé par l'Armée du Roi, commandée par Mgr. Le Duc de Bourgogne..
Extremely fine and detailed plan depicting the siege of Vieux-Brisach which was conquered on September 7th 1703.Showing the foundation of the new town, created by Vauban,...
Place & Date: Paris, 1710
Die gantze Welt in ein Kleberblatt..
This extraordinary curiosity is referred to as the Clover-leaf, for obvious reasons. Heinrich Bünting's design was inspired by the trefoil form of the arms of Hanover, h...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, ca. 1581
GOA.
This southern oriented map depicts the Portuguese colony of Goa, which is situated on the west coast of India and was a key port of trade for merchants. The map is very d...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, ca. 1646
Carte du Detroit de Cook dans la Nle. Zelande. Tome III Pl. 11.
The map depicts Cook's Strait, that separates the north and south island of New Zealand. Present day Wellington (NZ's capital), Marlborough Sounds, and Cloudy Bay (famous...
Place & Date: Paris, 1774
Map of the Dominion of Canada.
Map of Canada.
Place & Date: 1914
Constancia.
The oldest panoramic view of Constance at the Lake Constance (Bodensee) from the Schedel’s Nuremberg Chronicle. Verso text and several little woodcuts including popes a...
Place & Date: Nurenberg, 1493
Carte des Déclinaisons et Inclinaisons de L'Aiguille Aimantée..Table 4.
An uncommon chart which displays magnetic declination and inclination in the Pacific. It shows part of America, Russia, China, Korea, Japan, Philippins etc.Published in B...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1780
Provincia ecclesiastica di Kalocsa in Ungheria (Tav LXXII)
This large-format Hungary Kalocsa province map is finely engraved and beautifully colored and was prepared by Girolamo Petri, a lawyer who served as a senior official wit...
Place & Date: Rome, 1858
Insula D. Helenae sacra coeli dementia et aequabilitate . . .
From Linschoten, Itinerario. 3 Renaissance cartouches, 1 compass rose and many sailig ships. -
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1589
![White Hall, Lake Champlain. . . [title in French, English, German & Latin] N°21. Pl. 1.](/uploads/cache/26655-250x250.jpg)
White Hall, Lake Champlain. . . [title in French, English, German & Latin] N°21. Pl. 1.
A view coastal of White Hall, Lake Champlain.From 6e Livraison Amérique Septentrionale - Etat de New York. After Jacques Milbert and lithographed by Bichebois, the figur...
Place & Date: Paris, E. Ardit, 1829
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2022
Nieuwe beschrijvinge van Oost en West Vrieslant
Decorative map of the East & West Friesland region by Flemish cartographer and engraver Kaerius, a protestant fugitive. From his famous Atlas “Germaniae Inferior id...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1617
Carte Itinéraire et Politique d'Europe...
Decorative and highly detailed wall map of Europe showing the major European reshufflings of borders in the beginning of the 19th century. Around the map included thirtee...
Place & Date: Paris, 1833
Negroponte.
Very rare plan of Chalkis, capital of the island Euboea. Published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. Per Mare, e per Terra, & infiem...
Place & Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598
Ager Parisiensis vulgo l'Isle de France.
Detailed map of Ile de France, shows Paris, with the River Seine running across the bottom part of the map. The map was based a manuscript map attributed to François de ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Paris, 1646-1649
Venetia Potentissima e la più Magnifica fiorentissima...
One of the most decorative views of Venice of the XVIII century. The two view of Piazza San Marco derived from those of Merian.
Place & Date: Augsburg, circa 1730
Leaf on vellum from a Dutch manuscript Book of Hours.
The text is from the Book of Hours translated into Dutch, probably by Geert Grote. Most Books of Hours were in Latin at that time, but Grote thought that even lay men sho...
Place & Date: Haarlem ca.1470
West Indies from the Best Authorities.
An attractive detailed map of the West Indies extends to cover parts of Florida, Central America, and the Northern coast of South America. Florida is divided into East an...
Place & Date: Bungay, 1806
Mappe-Monde Geo-Hydrographique, ou Description Generale du Globe Terrestre et Aquatique en Deux-Plans-Hemispheres…
This is very rare and decorative double-hemisphere world map decorated with vignettes representing the four seasons, after Jaillot’s similarly-titled world map publishe...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1686
![LE ROYAUME DE DANEMARK ou sont LES ISLES . . . [first issue]](/uploads/cache/85052-250x250.jpg)
LE ROYAUME DE DANEMARK ou sont LES ISLES . . . [first issue]
A very large, beautifully old colored original antique map of Denmark & Southern Sweden by Alexis Hubert Jaillot - after Nicolas Sanson. It was engraved in 1674, the ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1674
Suecia et Norvegia cum confiniis.
One of the oldest foreign maps of Scandinavia was designed by Lieven Algoet, a poet, calligrapher and cartographer from Ghent, who died in 1547. Mercator's map has the sa...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1619
Russia Asiatica Divisa nelle sue Provincie.
A striking, detailed map of the Russian part of Asia, from Nova Zembla and Turkmenistan, to Kamchatka and Sagalienula Hatka, including Russian Tartary. From Zatta's “ ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1784
An ACCURATE MAP of BERKSHIRE Divided into its HUNDREDS Drawn from the best Authorities assisted by Surveys . . .
An attractive copper engraving by Emanuel Bowen published in The Large English Atlas. The work was the first large scale atlas of English counties since the works of Blae...
Place & Date: London, 1756
Accurata Utopiae Tabula das ist der Neu entdeckten Schalck Welt. . .Schlarraffenlandes. . .
Despite the name in the title (Utopia), this exceptionally decorative, large map doe not depict Thomas More's ideal society: Schlarraffenlandes is the German Fool's Parad...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1730
Pl. 79. - Habit de paysan pour le bal.
From Galerie des modes et costumes français dessinés d'après nature 1778-1787. Réimpression accompagnée d'une préface par M. Paul Cornu.Beautiful reissue done by th...
Place & Date: Paris, 1912-1914
Xaintonge et Angoumois.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF THIS MAP. From the 1634 edition of Blaeu's Atlas Novus, the first edition of this work.Map of Province de Saintonge in the west of France. I...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634
Septentrionalium Terrarum descriptio.
This influential map was the first separately printed map devoted to the Arctic. The hemisphere is surrounded by a floral design with four roundels in each corner. These ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1619
s'Lands en Oost-Indische Lynbanen.
A decorative print of the Lynbanen a place were V.O.C. ship riggings and ropes were produced and kept.From J.Wagenaar: Amsterdam in zijne opkomst, aanwas, geschiedenisse....
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1760-1767
Barbaria.
Nice map of the whole of North Africa and the famed Barbary coast. Two large insets at bottom - Carthaginensis Sinus with the city of Tunis, and a map of the Nile Delta. ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1634
19th century bond with signature of famous inventor of sleeping coaches
City of Louisville, Kentucky, 10 July 1876, 7% First Mortgage Bond for US-$ 500, #518, 26.9 x 40.6 cm, brown, black, folds, tear of approx. 1 cm, hole cancellation, one c...
Place & Date: Louisville, Kentucky, 1876
Emisfero Terrestre Settentrionale. . .
Map presenting a polar projection of the northern hemisphere.
Place & Date: Venice, 1785
Opulentissimum Sinarum Imperium.
A large, extremely decorative and strongly engraved map of China by Seutter. It includes the islands of Hainan and Formosa (Taiwan), the Korean peninsula and western Jap...
Place & Date: Augsburg, ca 1730
![[Lot of 2 maps] Europa in Rilievo / Italia in Rilievo.](/uploads/cache/48404-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 2 maps] Europa in Rilievo / Italia in Rilievo.
A pair of maps published by Roux & Company in Turin during the last years of the 19th century. The map of Europe was presented as a 'Gift from the Piedmont Gazette'. ...
Place & Date: Turin, 1886-1890
Carte Generale des Isles Antilles des Iles et Bancs de Bahama des Etats-Unis de L'Amerique-Centrale.
A nice example of Brue's wall map of the Gulf Coast, Caribbean, and Central America, from a rare atlas edition of Brue's wall maps. Texas is a republic, with many early t...
Place & Date: Paris, 1858
Xantung, e Peking Provincie della China, divise nelle sue Reggioni. . .
A very detailed map of the Xantung (Shandong) and Peking (Hebei) provinces in China, based on Johannes Blaeu and the Jesuit Martino Martini. With a decorative title carto...
Place & Date: Venice, 1690
Nouvelle Carte de l'Amerique Septentrionale dressee sur les plus nouvelles observations...
Fascinating map of North America with some curiouse elements but also up to date cartography:It extends from Greenland to Central America and the West Indies.California i...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1710
Delineatio Tragoediae Illius, Qua Viceadmiralis Sebaldus de Weert.
Event during Jan Harmensz Bree's account of the voyage to the East Indies in 1602-1604, under the command of Admirals Sebald De Weert and Pietersz to Ceylon, where de Wee...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Les Indes Orientales suivant les nouvelles observations de Messrs. de l'Academie Royale des Sciences etc. augmentées de nouveau. . .
Fine and uncommon map of South East Asia, Japan, Korea, India and a the tip of Australia in lower right.Read more Early maps of South East Asia [+]
Place & Date: Leiden, 1719
L'Europe Dressée sur divers Relations Par N. de Fer.
An interesting small map of Europe by Nicolas de Fer. Engraved by Inselin. From his rare "Petit et Nouveau Atlas". The first edition was published in 1697 and w...
Place & Date: Paris, 1697
GEOGRAPHISCHE UNIVERSAL - ZEIG UND SCHLAG - UHR.
A decorative copper engraved map with a geographical clock by Zacharias Landteck, who manufactured it in the early 1700s in Nuremberg. The engraving was created by J. B. ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1720
Empire de la Chine et du Japon.
Pierre Lapie's map of the Empire of China and Japan as they were at the beginning of the 19th century. The Chinese Empire extends well beyond its borders to Korea, Tibet,...
Place & Date: Paris, 1812
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Sumatrae et insularum locorumque nonnullorum circumiacentium tabula nova.
Very rare early (1659) version of this large folio sized map of Sumatra and the tip of the Malaysian Peninsula by Janssonius. The 1700 Valk/Schenk edition is more availab...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1659
Carte des découvertes au Nord du Japon.
Chart of the discoveries to the north of Japan, in 1643 by the Dutch ships Castricum and Breskens. In two small insets in the top of the chart the province of Osju is dep...
Place & Date: Paris, 1798
America Septentrionalis a domino d'Anville in Galiis edita nunc in Anglia. . .
A first edition of the Homann Heirs map of the British Colonies in North America, made during the French and Indian war. It covers from Newfoundland in the North to Flori...
Place & Date: Nurnberg, 1756
![[Untitled Map of Münster Germany and Surrounding Regions: Westfalia Secunda Tabula]](/uploads/cache/92289-250x250.jpg)
[Untitled Map of Münster Germany and Surrounding Regions: Westfalia Secunda Tabula]
Map depicts the diocese of Münster as well as the surrounding regions. At the bottom left, Mercator included his home of Duisburg on the Rhine River. Like many of Merc...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, (1585-95) 1613
Pagode de dedans.
From Olfert Dapper mission to China, 1662-1663. Printed by Jacob van Meurs, title of the book: Gedenckwaerdig bedrijf der Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Maetschappye, op de ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1670
Asiae Nova Descriptio.
A beautiful colored map of Asia that comes from the rare Italian edition of the 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' by Abraham Ortelius. This map is the second edition of Ortelius...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1612
Andaluzia
Excellent early miniature map of a part of Spain; this map is from the first edition of the Langenes atlas (later well known under the name of Bertius). Dutch text on ver...
Place & Date: Middelburg, 1598
![ECONOMY N.EUROPE,- Nouvelle Carte Illustree Des Estats Du Nord De L'Europe Donnant La Russie D'Europe La Suede et le Danemark . . .[Incl. Poland Lithuania Livonia]](/uploads/cache/85136-250x250.jpg)
ECONOMY N.EUROPE,- Nouvelle Carte Illustree Des Estats Du Nord De L'Europe Donnant La Russie D'Europe La Suede et le Danemark . . .[Incl. Poland Lithuania Livonia]
Scarce decorative large format economical and political map of Scandinavia, Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic, and contiguous regions, including 20 decorative side panel vignet...
Place & Date: Paris, 1857
Illyricum
Excellent map of the area from Trieste and Villach until Brod, along the course of the Sava, centered on Zagreb. Includes great details in Istria and along the Dalmatia...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1603
The Cause of Eclipses and the Motion of the Earth Delineated.
This copper engraving gives various diagrams of "The Eclipse of the Sun as it will appear at London on July 14 1748" and of the motion of the Earth around the S...
Place & Date: London, 1748
Britannia prout divisa fuit temporibus Anglo-Saxonum praesertim durante illorum Heptarchia.
Large folio sized map of England, Wales and Scotland in pre-Roman times. Extensively decorated. The map shows Britain with the Anglo-Saxon empires by means of coats ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1654
Hispaniarum Portugalliae que coronarum..
Detailed map of Spain and Portugal with large uncolored title cartouche.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Homme de la Baÿe de Norton.
Hand-colored mezzotints of Native Americans drawn by Labrousse and engraved by Laroque after Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur.
Place & Date: Paris,1796
Kaartje van de Eilanden Boero, Amblau en Manipa...
Scarce map of Buru in the Maluku Islands of Indonesia which was part of the VOC - Dutch East India Company. Also showing the islands Ambelau and Manipa. One of the most d...
Place & Date: Deventer, c1750
Maison Prunier Paris.
Publicity fan for the famous Parisian fish restaurant Maison Prunier.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1930
The Countie of Radnor Described and the Shyretownes Sittuatione.
A nice full color example of John Speed's map of the County of Radnor in Wales, including coats of arms and a detailed town plan of Radnor. From the 1676 edition when it ...
Place & Date: London, 1676
Syria Coelesyria Phoenicia & Mesopotamia.
Syria Coelesyria Phoenicia & Mesopotamia by Christoph Cellarius c1755 from "Geographia Antiqua."
Place & Date: Leipzig, 1755
Americque Septentrionale.
Map of North and Central America, with California shown as an island, from the first edition of the atlas L'Amérique en plusieurs cartes, et en divers traittés de Géog...
Place & Date: Paris, 1657
Tercia Etas Mundi. Damascus. / Folio. XXIII
An imaginary presentation of the city of Damascus, the capital of Syria and one of the most ancient cities in the world. An imaginary view: however, the earliest obtainab...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Tout ce qu'on voudra. Au restaurant à 32 sous. Garçon . . . (Stone number 1279).
Caption in English : AT THE RESTAURANT AT 32 SOUS. - Waiter, a chicken with watercress. - Monsieur, we are out of chicken, but I could bring you a double portion of water...
Place & Date: Paris, 22 November 1849
STRASBOURG, Argentoratum, cuius ob antiquitatem Ptolemeus, ...
A fine antique copper engraved bird's-eye view / plan of Strasbourg, by Braun and Hogenberg. From the 'Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Liber Primus'. Cologne, 1572. Cartouche:...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1572
Karte von dem groessten Theil des Landes Jemen Imame, Kaukeban &c.
Large map of Yemen from "Allgemeiner grosser Atlas" published by P. J. Schalbacher - 1786-1800. Based on the observations of the Danish explorer Carsten Niebuhr...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1789
Imperia Antiqua. Pars Occidentalis/ Pars Media/ Pars Orientalis (Three Maps)
Three associated maps from Rigobert Bonne's "Atlas Encyclopedique", together depicting the eastern part of the Mediterranean, the Near East and the Indian subco...
Place & Date: Paris, 1787
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2023
Bergue St. Vinox 1646
A view of the siege of the city of Winoxbergen (or: Sint Winoxbergen, Bergues-Saint-Winoc) in Flanders(now Dep. du Nord/Hauts de France) by the French, and above a separa...
Place & Date: Paris, 1646
Descriptio Insularum Iapan.
An antique map of Japan by Barent Langenes, with cartography based on that of Ortelius, engraved by Jodocus Hondius, and published by P. Bertius in the pocket atlas “Ta...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Nieuwe Pascaert, Vande suyt syde van Yrlandt.
A nautical sea chart of the South coast of Ireland, from Dingle Bay to Waterford. Full title in a fine cartouche with gentlemen and peasants making bread and cheeses at ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1697-1709
D'Voornaamste Fortressen van Moraea . . .
A rare engraving by Justus Danckerts with 18 views of Morean fortified cities. Morea is the name of the Peloponnesus used from Middle Ages to the end of the 18th centur...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1688
Estates de Pologne Subdivisses suinant l'Estendue des Palatinats.
Large scale map of Poland and Lithuania, including the surrounding bordering regions of Hungary, Austria and Russia. Rivers, lakes, forest, mountains and major cities and...
Place & Date: Paris, 1690
Valesium Ducatus. Valois
A very decorative map with beautiful cartouches of a province of France by one of the most famous map publishers. Engraved by A.van den Broecke.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1645
China.
A lovely map of the region based on the folio map by Jodocus Hondius. The detail includes the eastern part of China (bounded in the west by the Great Wall) dominated by s...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1628
The Territory of New Guinea.
A map to accompany Annual Report for year ending 30th June 1939, it was compiled and drawn by J.D. Hutchison, who also did the surveying, in 1926. For the Department of t...
Place & Date: Canberra, 1940
Pont suspendu de Lorient.
Decorative lithography of a bridge in Clisson in the Loire region.
Place & Date: Nantes, Charpentier, ca. 1850
Americae Nova Tabula
Willem Blaeu's cornerstone map of America. One of the examples of a carte a figures, this map served as a prototype for maps of the Western Hemisphere for over half a ce...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1635
![Aou, Tōkei. Kokugun Zenzu [Atlas of Provinces and Counties of Japan]. (volume 1-2).](/uploads/cache/34111-250x250.jpg)
Aou, Tōkei. Kokugun Zenzu [Atlas of Provinces and Counties of Japan]. (volume 1-2).
Second edition. Very attractive early Japanese Atlas of detailed maps of Japanese regions compiled by six Japanese civilians in the eighth year (1837) of the Tenpo era (1...
Place & Date: [Nagoya]: Tōheidō, Tenpō 8 = 1837