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De Haven en Straat von Gibraltar, Niewlyks getekend, en in`t licht gebracht door Johannes Covens en Cornelis Mortier tot Amsterdam.

Tue, 10 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0400

Decorative map showing the siege of Gibraltar during the Spanish war of succession. This highly interesting map is richly ornated with three additional inset maps and views. The map provides information on fortifications, harbor places, villages, mountains, etc. Further a scene of decorative battle ships is engraved at the bottom.

Plan de Constantinople, non compris ses faubourgs. Grave d'apres les documents du ministere de la Guerre par E. Olivier.

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500

A very rare lithographic large-scale town-plan of Istanbul, Scale 98 yards to one inch., printed in Pera, Istanbul by E. Olivier. The ornate design on the top of the title is a tughra, which is a highly stylized and individualized signature (or monogram) of the reigning Ottoman Sultan. This print has on cover a gold manuscript "Tughra" of Abdülmecid I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1839-1861). Abdülmecid I was a well-educated, liberal minded, and the first sultan to speak French...

COLLECTION OF HONG KONG MAPS, BOOKS & FLYERS. Including CHINA - HONGKONG surveyed by Captn. Sir Edward Belcher, in H.M.S. Sulphur 1841. Corrected to 1901.

Tue, 11 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0400

A collection of 30 maps, prints, and publications relating to Hong Kong. Including : - BELCHER, E. Sir, An updated version of this most important nautical chart of Hong Kong. Engraved by J. & C. Walker, and based on the observations of Sir Edward Belcher, a British naval officer and explorer.Belcher entered the royal navy in 1812. In 1825 he accompanied Frederick William Beechey's expedition to the Pacific as a surveyor on board the bomb vessel HMS Sulphur. In 1841 the Commander Belcher land...

Currus Veliferi Illmi. Pr. Mauritii Nassouvii. (Prince Maurits' sailing-carriage, designed by Simon Stevin. )

Tue, 13 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0400

Prince Maurits' sailing carriages had been designed by Simon Stevin. The Prince, always accessible to new inventions of his old instructor, could not please the foreign ambassadors more than by inviting them for a ride in his carriage. The big sailing-carriage could seat 28 persons and could reach a speed of seven miles per hour. Land sailing : The Chinese had "wind-driven carriages" since the 6th century AD, during the Liang Dynasty, and eventually mounted masts and sails on large whe...

Quarta etas mudi Folio LVIII [Rome]

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Double text page in German with a woodblock print of Rome (23x53cm.) On verso, a view of Genova (193x222mm). Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous Nuremberg Chronicle, published the year that Columbus returned to Europe after discovering America.The woodblock cutters were Michael Wolgemut, the well-known teacher of Albrecht Dürer, and his stepson Wilhelm Pleydenwurff. Wohlgemut was Albrecht Dürer's tutor between 1486 and 90, and recent scholarship has shown Albrecht Dürer...

Carte d'unne partie de l'Arabie Septentrionale Pour suivre les Voyages de Mr. G.A. Vallin. . .

Tue, 13 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0500

This is the original hand-drawn map by Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun of "Carte d'unne partie de l'Arabie Septentrionale Pour suivre les Voyages de Mr. G.A. Wallin", of which the printed version was published in Nouvelles Annales des Voyages VI Série in November 1856.With the initials of Malte Brun underneath the title, who based his information on a map published by the London Geographical Society from the same year.Georg August Wallin (1811-1852) - Yrjö Aukusti Wallin - alias Abd al-Wal...

Map of Louisiana from D'Anville's Atlas.

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0500

This map presents a highly detailed treatment of the region from Cabo Del Norte to the Apalachiola River, centered on the mouth of the Mississippi and extending inland to the District of the Chatas or Flatheads and the Alibamons on the Alibamons River.Issued shortly after the conclusion of the American Revolutionary War, the map includes several political/historical notations, including Adayes, a Spanish Garrison of the Province of Texas and St. Peter's Fort, destroy'd by the Indians in 1729. In...

Tierra Nueva.

Tue, 14 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0500

Uncommon first edition of this early map of the east coast is an enlarged version of Giacomo Gastaldi map published in 1548. Nomenclature and cartography are unchanged, with the exception of the depiction of the rivers. Here he borrowed the assumption of Ramusio that the Hudson and St.Laurence River, as we know to-day, were connected upriver. Both rivers are depicted crudely, however still one of the earliest available maps depicting these rivers.Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geograph...

The Coast of New Found Land From Salmon Cove to Cape Bonavista. . . [together with] The Coast of New Found Land from Cape-Raze to Cape St-Francis.

Tue, 14 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0500

Two charts showing the coast of New Found Land from Salmon Cove to Cape Bonavista and from Cape-Raze to Cape St-Francis. With inset chart of Trinity HarborGrierson published only one edition of the pirated "The Fourth book of the English Pilot" in 1749. This is the second issue of the chart by Boulter Grierson published in 1767 and has no watermark, an edition almost as rare as the first. The charts are from the same plates without change, even to the imprints.After his death in 1753 h...

Runde Strasse in Peking.

Tue, 10 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0400

Finely executed watercolor made by Henri Dieth of a charming street scene in Peking. The watercolor is made after Eduard Hildebrandt (1818-1869). Hildebrandt, was born in Gdansk, and made numerous journeys visiting the Americas, most of the Mediterranean countries, Asia Minor, India, China, Japan and crossing the Pacific: the present watercolor of a bustling thoroughfare in the cosmopolitan city of Peking is from a sketch that was probably made as a result of his visit to China in between 1862 t...

Hark ! Hark ! The dogs do bark.

Tue, 15 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0500

This very rare political caricature map of Europe depicts the continent at the outbreak of World War I, or as it was called at the time the Great War. Designed by Johnson, Riddle & Company Ltd. The Johnson, Riddle & Company Ltd was a well-known printing company that worked with a team of lithographic artists. They played an important role in the production of posters.The size of the map is 490 x 700mm., with underneath 4 columns of text. Size of the paper is 550 x 755mm. We also offer a ...

Driving chart of Hartford and vicinity : 15 miles around.

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Road map by Albert A. Hyde & Co. of Hartford and vicinity, with the Connecticut River in the center. Published by Albert A. Hyde & Co., in New York and lithographed in Philadelphia by Packard, Butler & Pertridge in 1884.Relief shown by spot heights. Shows landowners. Printed in black and red, with roads in red. County boundaries are hand colored.More about

Protect the globe!, 1989.

Tue, 11 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0400

USSR propaganda poster, with the slogan "protect de globe". A child holding a globe with flowers and birds.

Christophorus Columus Ligur Indiarum Prim invet A°1492

Tue, 19 May 2020 00:00:00 -0400

Very decorative portrait of Christopher Columbus (c. 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506), engraved by Theodor de Bry (1528-1593) and published in Jean Jacques Boissard, "Icones Virorum Illustrium". Columbus was an explorer, colonizer, and navigator, born in the Republic of Genoa, in north-western Italy. Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean that led to general European awareness of the American continents in the Western H...

Terra Promissions.

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500

A beautifully executed and very rare map of the Promised Land, divided into the 12 Tribes. The shore line runs in north-southwesterly direction from Sidon as far as Pelusium. The Haifa Bay does not appear at all and Haifa, not mentioned by name, just out into the sea. The Carmel Mountain reaches as far as the Lake of Tiberias. In the south, the Sinai, shown as a mountainous region, is crossed by the way of the Wandering of the Jews from Ramesses in Egypt through the Red Sea until they reach the ...

Cunard to Canada.

Tue, 14 May 2019 00:00:00 -0400

Poster by Charles Eddowes Turner for Cunard lines. The poster shows The NEW SYLVANIA, one of the four new 22,000 - ton Cunarders which are the largest ever built for service to and from Quebec and Montreal. The SYLVANIA and her sisters, SAXONIA, IVERNIA and CARINTHIA, maintain regular sailings in the Canadian service.Charles Eddowes Turner was born in Lancaster on the 14 September 1883 and described by E.H.H. Archibald in his Dictionary of Sea Painters (1982)as "a reticent man, it is diffic...

Folies Bergere - Folies de Paris. La revue de Hélène Martin . . .

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0500

Original advertising poster for Les Folies Bergère cabaret in Paris. The Théâtre des Folies Bergère is a famous Parisian performance hall inaugurated on May 2, 1869 and is still active. Today, it presents musicals, musical shows and current music concerts. Published by Ets Saint-Martin. Founded in 1869 and still in operation today, the Folies Bergere became popular in the 1890s and attracted star artists like Charlie Chaplin, Edith Piaf, Josephine Baker, Ella Fitzgerald, WC Fields, Frank Si...

[Magazine including pictorial world map, Carriers of the New Black Plague by William Cotton.]

Tue, 11 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0500

Front cover with color illustration of Moroccan male sheik and yellow lettering.Oversized magazine, features analysis of English justice, map of Herr Hitler's heaven (full page cartoon, Nazis and Mexico, fascism's New World trust and Latin America by Carleton Beals, Mussolini, cartoons on Hitler, Norway's next, many topical full page b/w photos, Sam Berman caricature of Mussolini in color, Ernest Hemingway on dying, Ataturk-hoodlum as hero, the Theatre Guild's decline, inside the Third Reich by ...

Xantung, sinarum imperii provincia quatra.

Tue, 18 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0400

A map of the northern province ‘Xantung’ of China after the Jesuit Martino Martini.Shows the Great Wall and is centered on the Bohai Sea, and the Shandong and Liaoning Provinces.Ornamental figured cartouche and mile scale. In the centre of the map we find the bay of Xang with the neighboring peninsula of Korea. The inland is not filled in but it is one of the earliest representing of showing and naming Korea as an peninsular. Many larger cities are engraved: Tungchang, Cinan, Yencheu. Laiche...

Histoire de la Guerre Civile en Amerique par M. Le Comte de Paris, Ancien Aide de Camp du General Mac Clellan (McClellan). ...

Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400

Vorzet made these 30 maps to accompany Louis Phillipe d'Orleans' (Comte de Paris) multi-volume "Histoire de la Guerre Civile en Amérique". The set includes all three original fascicle covers (this was issued in parts and often bound later).The author, Prince Philippe, served as a diplomatic aide de camp to General George McClellan from September 1861 to July 1862. He served with distinction during the Peninsular Campaign with the Army of the Potomac. D'Orleans was the pretender to for...