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Golfe du Mexique . . .
Map of the Gulf of Mexico, from Atlas moderne portatif composé de vingt-huit cartes sur toutes les parties du globe terrestre .. A l'usage des Colléges, des Pensions &a...
Place & Date: Paris, Prudhomme, Levrault, Debray, 1806
Traité de la Police. (8 plans of Paris).
Set of eight city plans of Paris, each map showing Paris from the time of Julius Ceasar to Paris in 1705. From Nicolas Delamare’s "La Traité de la PoliceQuarters&...
Place & Date: Paris, 1705-1738
Lutzenburgensis Ducatus Veriss. descript.
Decorative map of Lutzenburgensis Ducatus (Duchy of Luxembourg) by Flemish cartographer and engraver Kaerius, a protestant fugitive. From his famous Atlas “Germaniae In...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1617
CALENDAR. Circular luni-solar volvelle calendar of vellum.
A luni-solar calendar is a calendar in many cultures whose date indicates both the moon phase and the time of the solar year. If the solar year is defined as a tropical y...
Place & Date: Italy, ca. 1750-1770
Arabie Mer Rouge et Golfe Persique.
A very detailed map of Arabia and the surrounding regions by Rigobert Bonne. In 1773 Bonne succeeded Jacques Bellin as Royal Cartographer at the 'Depôt de la Marine'. He...
Place & Date: Paris, 1770
A Chart of the Isle of Java, with the Islands of Banca and Billiton. . .
An English edition, published by Robert Sayer in London, of the Island of Java, Banca, Billiton, and part of Sumatra and Borneo. With an iInset part of Lubeck Island. Lat...
Place & Date: London, 1787
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2021
Present Asia.
Map of sea of Korea.
Place & Date: United States, 1783
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2018
(Harbour scene).
Charming scene of a harbour in the French Provence region.The painter, orientalist and architect Edmond Pauty lived in Rabat (Morocco) until the 1960s. He also worked in ...
Place & Date: France, Provence, after 1960
Central America.
A superb map of Central America with two inset maps drawn and engraved by William Hughes – Sidney Hall steel engraved.Published by Adam & Charles Black in ‘Gener...
Place & Date: Edinburgh 1854
America sive India Nova.
This map was created by Michael Mercator, grandson of the great Gerard Mercator. It is the only map attributed to him. The map first appeared in 1595, one year after the ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1619
The third Dutch artic voyage by W.Barentsz.
Desirable scene showing Barentsz preparing his boat for his return, during the third Dutch arctic voyage in order to find the north-east passage to India.Barentsz made th...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1601
Carte Nouvelle de la Pologne Avant son demenbrement dirigee par Mr. Philippe . . .
A scarce antique map of Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Prussia, Belarus and Russia. Prepared by the historian Philippe de Pretot (Mr Philippe ), engraved by Jean Emmanuel Jé...
Place & Date: Paris, 1787
Germany's critical minerals
BONUS Map depicting Germany and its minerals around 1944 and 1944. Design by Jerry Muscott (Enlargement reprint for Life Magazine, April 2, 1945)."For report documen...
Place & Date: New York , Life Magazine, 1945
Cercle du Haut Rhin, suivant les nouvelles observations..
With decorative title cartouche upper 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: $20
Sold in 2023
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Dépt. De Lyonne. N°86. [ Auxerre ]
Map of the Lyonne region, centered on Auxerre.Lovely map from one of the last decorative atlases of the nineteenth century.The rather simple map is framed by medallion po...
Place & Date: Paris, A. Combette, 1852
View on Amsterdam from the River Amstel.
A combination of two fine views on Amsterdam by Solomon Savery. It shows the artifical island on the Amstel River during a royal visit of circa 1635. To the left we see t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1639
Bavaria Ducatus.
Map depicting Germany province of Bavaria.The plate was engraved by S.Rogiers for Jodocus Hondius. In 1629 Willem Blaeu acquired the copperplate and used the plate in his...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Capsicum Annum. L. Der jahrige Spanische Pfeffer.
Orginal colored copper engraving. paper size 48 x 33 cm; laid paper; watermarked, from: "Icones plantarum medicinalium:, Vienna, 1788-1803. Joseph Jacob Plenck (1735...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1788-1803.
Chile, La Plata and Bolivia.
An impressive example of Adam and Charles Black's 1844 map of Chile, the Argentine Republic and part of Bolivia. It covers from Bolivia south to the Gulf of St. Antonio i...
Place & Date: Edinburgh, 1844
(5 Plates) ‘Eventailliste, Contenant Quatre Planches.' (Fan making)
5 copper engravings drawn by L.J. Goussier, engraved by J. A.Defehrt. The etchings, with engraving and stipple, on cream laid paper. Excerpted from Diderot's "Encycl...
Place & Date: Paris, 1751
South America.
A detailed map of South America by William and Alexander Keith Johnston, a well-known publisher of maps who continually updated his maps. From his National Atlas of Histo...
Place & Date: Edinburgh, ca 1845
Froid court.
A very nice view of a castle. In the foreground, a man loosing his horse. With a verse in German and Latin underneath the picture.The poet and topographer from Comothau, ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1623-1678
Nova Hispaniae descriptio.
Very rare second state of the Jodocus Hondius map, being the first carte-a-figures map of Spain and Portugal. With the imprint : Amsterdam Everardus Cloppenburghius excud...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1610
Selling price: $2200
Sold in 2022
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PLAN DE NAPLES [Napoli].
A superb and scarce map of Naples [Napoli] by Lalande from 'Voyage en Italie' by LALANDE, J. J. DE.. with a detailed legend. Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande , 11 J...
Place & Date: Paris, 1769
The US intends to spend more then 2000 billion dollars on military purposes in 1985-1989.
An original Russian anti-American propaganda poster, published by 'Plakat', in Moscow 1985.
Place & Date: Moscow, 1985
Westphalia Ducatus.
Elegantly engraved map of Westphalia including Hamm and Lippstadt. The mountainous topography is graphically depicted and several small coats of arms dot the map. Strapwo...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
The Forty Years of Travels of the Children of Israel.
Rare English map showing the exodus out of Egypt and the 40 years travels through the desert to reach the Holy Land, promised by God to Moses and the Jewish tribes accord...
Place & Date: London, 1691
Belgii pars Septentrionalis vulgo Hollandia. . .
A fine map of Holland (with the 7 Northern Provinces and part of Belgium). A large, decorative colored title cartouche at top left. In an inset -122x140mm- under the titl...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1720
Virginiae Partis Australis, et Floridae Partis Orientalis.
Blaeu based this map on the Mercator-Hondius of 1606. A number of geographical improvements, however were incorporated, although two large fictions lakes accompanied by e...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
The Solar System - Theory of the Seasons.
The Solar System – Theory of the Seasons; The left hand side of the chart shows the solar system with extensive explanatory notes, the right hand side shows a number of...
Place & Date: London, 1873
Tootehill fields.
A view across Tothill Fields towards Westminster Abbey (marked 'S. Peter in westminster'), with the Parliament buildings to the right, and the old St. Paul's Cathedral (d...
Place & Date: London, 1644
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
Vistus Insula, vulgo VII ST, cum aliis minoribus
This scarce map of Barra and North and South Uist in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland by Joan Blaeu was based on the surveys done by Timothy Pont some half-century earlier....
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1654
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2023
Carta noua accurata del Passagio et strada dalli Paesi Bassi per via Allemagna per Italia et per via di Paesi Suizeri a Geneua, Lione et Roma ...
Nice map of central Europe from a composition atlas By Frederik de Wit.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1670
Insula Madagascar.
A nice miniature map of Madagascar.
Place & Date: Paris 1679
A Man of California fishing on his Bark Log , A Man of the same Country returned from fishing , A Californian Lady of Distinction
Print taken from "A New & Complete System of Geography".
Place & Date: London, 1778
A set of 15 humorous 19th century Punch prints with Irish interest.
Mostly engraved by Sir John Tenniel, Richard Doyle and Joseph Swain. Sir John Tenniel was one of the most important wood engravers of his time. Punch was responsible for ...
Place & Date: London, 1848 - 1868
Entwurff der Belagerung Belgrad und dabey vorgegangener Schlacht
Shows the siege of Belgrad of 1717
Place & Date: Frankfurt a. M. ca. 1738
Nouvelle Carte du Royaume d\'Alger divisée en toutes ses Provinces . . .
A map of the North African coast, with an inset featuring a bird's eyes view of the "Baye d'Alger".
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1780
Plan de la situation ou la bataille de Ramillis.
Battle plan map, with detailed view below, of the battle fought on 23 May, 1706 near the village of Ramillies-Offus, Belgium in the War of the Spanish Succession. Here, i...
Place & Date: The Hague, 1706
CITY AND UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
A highly decorative, nicely defined plan of the town of Oxford. The work contains the University of Oxford arms along with its various colleges, fourteen in all. There ...
Place & Date: London, ca 1840
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
VISAPOUR, capitale du Royaume de Decan une des plus grandes Villes de l'Asie.
A view of the ancient walled city of Visapour, southeast of Bombay. From Pieter van der Aa's in "Les Voyages du sieur Albert de Mandelslo". Plenty of activity i...
Place & Date: Leiden, ca 1710
S. Lorenzo.
Rare map from 'L'Isole Piu Famose Del Mondo' by Tomaso Porcacchi, his famous and beautiful isolario, containing maps of the islands of the world. First published in 1572,...
Place & Date: Venice, ca 1590
Planisphère terrestre.
A huge (2 meters) world map representing Asia and America in the center, Europe and Africa at left and right hand of the map. Published by the Service hydrographique in 1...
- $800 / ≈ €715
Place & Date: Paris, Service hydrographique, 1902-1914
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[Lot of 3 prints] Costume des Habitans des Port Francais. . ./ Femme du Port des Francais / Naufrage des Deux Chaloupes, au Port des Francais.
A set of three prints (2 landscape & 1 portrait) taken from the Atlas du Voyage de la Perouse.The first print shows the natives in costume in the interior of a hut. F...
Place & Date: Paris, 1787
Vue perspective de l'Interieur de l'Eglise de Notre Dame. . .
So-called optical print of the interior of the Notre Dame of Paris. With manuscript translation of title in Dutch in upper margin.Basset was a well-known publisher of opt...
Place & Date: Paris, 1760
East India archipelago Western route to China, chart No. 5.
Detailed heavenly updated 1894 edition of this impressive blue back chart of the South China Sea and the approaches to Hong Kong and the Pearl River. Several inset charts...
Place & Date: London, 1894
Sexta Etas Mundi. Folium. CXXXIIII
Latin text page with woodcuts on recto and verso of Saints, Kings, and Queens. RECCTO : portraits of four emperors: Gratian (Gracianus), Theodosius the Elder, Arcadius (A...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
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[Judge.] Philippine-A !!!
'Judge' was a weekly satirical magazine published in the United States from 1881 to 1947. It was launched by artists who had seceded from its rival Puck. The founders inc...
Place & Date: New York, 1898
Tafel in welcher.. Kriegs-Kunst vestings-bau und Artillerie.
An attractive instructional plate showing a collage of various systems of fortifications, both inland and coastal, and the weapons and techniques used to attack and defen...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Carte de la Barbarie, Nigritie et de la Guinee avec les Pays Voisins
Carte de la Barbarie, Nigritie et de la Guinee avec les Pays Voisins / Dressee sur les Memoires les plus Nouveaux & les observations les plus exactes. Detailed map o...
Place & Date: 1719
The Holy Land as Allotted by Joshua
A highly detailed map of The Holy Land, divided into the tribes of the nation.
Place & Date: London, 1885
Lolo - Phiphi. . .
An uncolored, satirical lithograph by Charles Tilt of Louis-Philippe, depicted as a disreputable travelling salesman carrying his wares. Louis-Philippe was King of the Fr...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1835
A map of New England, and Nova Scotia, with part of New York, Canada, and New Britain & the adjacent islands of New Found Land, Cape Breton &c.
Fine map showing the French and Indian War era in New England and Canada by Thomas Kitchin.The map shows the state of the Northern British Colonies. Showing "County ...
Place & Date: London, 1758
Americae Mappa generalis..
Johann Baptist Homann\'s well-engraved map has a large decorative cartouche. Detailed map of the western hemisphere.Johann Baptist Homann (1663-1724) was a German engrave...
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1746
Der Koenigliche Statt Neapels Abcontrafehtung.
One of the earliest woodblock map of bird’s-eye city view of Naples, Italy. The map of Southern Italy “Regn. Neapolit. Mare mediterraneu.” present on verso.Print co...
Place & Date: Basel, 1578
Japoniae insulae descriptio.
The first printed map of Japan to appear in an atlas, in a first state. It was drawn by the Portuguese Jesuit Luiz Teixeira and depicts Korea as an island. Japan was prob...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Trajectum
Decorative view of Utrecht, from the famous Civitates orbis Terrarum, Liber Tertius, by Georg Braun en Frans Hogenberg.
Place & Date: Cologne, ca 1590
Britiannicae Insulae in quibus. . .
Beautiful map of the British Isles; this is the second state. The map was first published by Tavernier and later by Mariette. Shows the British tribes, the towns, and the...
Place & Date: Paris, 1641
Carte d' Espagne et de Portugal en neuf feuilles. . .
Folding map of Spain and Portugal for the usage of travelers. Published by Edme Mentelle (1730-1815), geographer and historian at the Institut des Sciences, and Jean Bapt...
Place & Date: Paris, 1822
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2023
Manuscript leaf on vellum from a Dutch Book of Hours.
RECTO: One 2-line capital in burnished gold with extensive penwork in blue and red. Four 1-line capitals in red, blue or burnished gold with extensive penwork.VERSO: Thre...
Place & Date: Utrecht, c.1400-1410
A large Draught of the East End of Java and Madura..
Interestingly to the east of Madura in brown ink in pen and ink "Wharehouse Island" and "The two brothers" is drawn. All shows considerable detail, na...
Place & Date: London 1745
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L'AFRIQUE DISTINGUE EN SES PRINCIPALES PARTIES SCAVOIR . . [FIRST STATE OF FIRST PLATE]
This extra large, exquisitely original antique first edition map of Africa by Alexis Hubert Jaillot, after Nicolas Sanson, was engraved in 1674, the date is engraved in t...
Place & Date: Paris, 1674
York Shire.
A decorative and detailed late 17th century map of Yorkshire which was published in John Speed's Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine. On the reverse of the map there ...
Place & Date: London, 1676
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[JAPAN] SUCCESSION DES EMPEREURS DU JAPON AVEC. . .
This is an interesting and decorative folio sheet containing a small (4.5 x 6.2") map of Japan, titled Carte du Japon, and two larger engravings derived from Montanu...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1719
Venice/ Padua. Venecie.
An Extremely Early, Evocative View of Venice In Scarce, Superb Original color. One of the first printed views of Venice in an excellent example. This well-executed, doub...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1493
Mappa Monde ou description du globe terrestre . . .
Double hemisphere world map. California is not an island anymore, but a large Mer de l'Ouest is shown. Delineation between New Holland (Australia) and New Guinea is not y...
Place & Date: Venice, 1776 - 1784
Virginia Maryland and Delaware by H.S. Tanner.
First edition of this scarce and important map of Virginia, Maryland and Delaware by H.S. Tanner and published in his "New American Atlas" from 1823. There is ...
Place & Date: Philadelphia, Henry Tanner, 1823
*Japanese title*
Large and curious lithographic map. Showing the aircraft routes and shipping lanes around the world. It shows a direct flight path from Japan to Hawaii which is signific...
Place & Date: Japan, 1941
Afbeeldinge vande Cabo St. Augustin met Haer Forten.
This fine bird's-eye view portrays the Dutch fleet and the fortresses at Cabo Santo Agostinho. The strapwork title cartouche incorporates a numbered key identifying four ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1690
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2021
Sibinium,... Parens,... Modon,...
Three early engraved bird's-eye views of Sebenico (Sibenik) and Porec, both in Croatia, as well as Methoni which is a town on Morea (Peloponnese). Each city is shown w...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1580
Brasil.
A rare miniature map of Brazil from John Seller's 'A New Systeme of Geography'. With coastal settlements shown, plus mountains, rivers etc. Compass.
Place & Date: London, 1690
![[SINGAPORE] Nieuwe Kaart van het EYLAND SUMATRA. . .](/uploads/cache/84029-250x250.jpg)
[SINGAPORE] Nieuwe Kaart van het EYLAND SUMATRA. . .
A fine chart depicting the Island of Sumatra and the southern coasts of Malaysia from Quedo to Johore. North is orientated to the left of the page. Little interior detail...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1724
Amerique Meridionale / par M. Bonne, Ingén.r Hydrographe de la Marine.
South America is located in the Western Hemisphere and all but a portion of it lies in the Southern Hemisphere. It is the fourth largest continent on Earth, but due to it...
Place & Date: Paris, 1788
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Dépt. Des Htes. Pyrénées. N°64. [ Lourdes ]
Map of the Higher Pyrénées region, including the towns of Lourdes, Tarbes, etc.Lovely map from one of the last decorative atlases of the nineteenth century.The rather s...
Place & Date: Paris, A. Combette, 1852
Die Konigl. Prevs:u, Churf. Brandenburg. Residenz-Stadt Berlin. . .
A lovely, detailed town plan and panorama of the city of Berlin, published by Homann Heirs in Nuremberg. This extensive plan takes the form of a 'bird's-eye' view of the ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, ca 1740
Germania.
Map of Germany by Peter Van Den Keere after John Speed. Showing Germany from the North Sea to Italy and Croatia” With borders of France, Poland, Hungary, Italy and Croa...
Place & Date: London, 1646
Russiae Vulgo Moscovia Dictae Pars Occidentalis.
This is an attractive early 17th century map showing the region of Russia from Estonia to Moscow. Topographical features are displayed along with major cities, towns, riv...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Veduta di Napoli dalla parte di Ponente.
An exceptionally decorative, very rare, large view of the city of Naples. From a painting of Ricciarelli, engraved by A. Cardon in 1765. It belongs to four view of Naples...
Place & Date: Naples, 1765