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EUROP, and the cheife Cities contayned therin described. . .
A good impression from an early edition of this famous and decorative "carte à figures"- map from the first world atlas produced by an Englishman - John Speed'...
Date: London, 1627 - 1676
Coste de Guayane autrement Franc Equinoctale en la Terre-Ferme d'Amerique suivant les Dernières Relations . . .
Uncommon map of the French colony Guyana in southern American Guyana, with a detailed enlargement of Cayenne in the upper right corner ( 155X110mm.), with fine title cart...
Date: Paris, 1676
Arabie.
Uncommon miniature map of the Arabian peninsula, from Pierre Duval's La Geographie Universeille dated 1676. Following his Cartes de géographie in 1657, Pierre Duval publ...
Date: Paris, 1676
Novissima et Accuratissima Totius Americae Descriptio.
Second state of Visscher's map of the Americas, this decorative map greatly influenced the cartography of the Americas both geographically and artistically.Although it di...
Date: Amsterdam, 1677
Reiß in das Gelobte Land ... Mit nach dreyen andern Reißbeschreibungen vermehret, und schönen Kupfern gezieret.
Very rare first illustrated edition of collected travel accounts by citizens of Zürich, containing : Hans Jacob Amman, "Narrative of a trip to Palestine". The ...
Date: Zürich, M. Schauffelberger Erbin, 1678
Candie.
A panoramic view, showing the Turkish siege of Candia, with a numbered key (1-33) at the bottom locating 33 points of interest. of Crete coast and the Turkish vessels (33...
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1678
Carte des Isles du Japon Sequels est remarque la Route..
This uncommon map of Japan, a reduced version of his larger map, contains comments about the nature of the country. For instance, Ocsaqui (Okazaki, near Nagoya) is said t...
Date: Paris / Amsterdam, 1679
(Totius Americae nova et exacta tabula ex) optimis tum geographorum tum aliorum scriptis collecta et ad hodiernam regnorum principatuum et maiorum partium distinctionem accomodata.
Eastern part of a two-sheet map of America, with attribution to Willem Blaeu. According to Philip Burden, the map was derived from Cornelius Danckert's 1647 map of the sa...
Date: Rome, 1679
Carte des Isles du Japon Esquelles est remarque la Route..
This uncommon map of Japan, which is on a fairly large scale, contains comments about the nature of the country. For instance, Ocsaqui (Okazaki, near Nagoya) is said to h...
Date: Paris 1679
Turcicum Imperium.
Detailed map of the Turkish Empire by Holland's leading mapmaker at the end of the seventeenth century. The cartouche shows an Ottoman administrator or possibly the Sulta...
Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Veue de la Ville, et du Port de Calais, di côte de la terre.
Showing the town of Calais; landscape with, in the left foreground, group of cavalrymen led by an officer and going to right, at right two soldiers walking alongside a ca...
Date: Paris, ca. 1680
Walachia Servia, Bulgaria, Romania.
The cartographer of this map was Gerard Mercator. This attractive map of the Eastern Balkans is centered on Bulgaria and includes the Bosphorus and Constantinople. The Da...
Date: Oxford, 1680
Foederatae Belgicae Tabulae.
Fine, detailed map of the area of the modern Netherlands less the southern part of Limburg, of which the small area around the town of Maastricht is shown in the inset bo...
Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Nova et Accurata totius EUROPAE Descriptio Authore Frederico de Wit Amstelodami.
General map of Europe richly ornamented with small compass rose and Europa shown riding Zeus in the form of a bull, and several putti holding the title banner aloft.
Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Ducatus Lutzenburgi Novissima et Accuratissima Delineatio.
West to the top. Very detailed and fine map of Luxembourg, including the towns of Namur, Liege, Trier and Metz.
Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Ambassades mémorables de la Compagnie des Indes orientales des Provinces Unies vers les empereurs du Japon.
First edition in French of this important work on Japan, a work whose illustrations "represent a high-water mark in book illustrations of the 17th century" (Lac...
Date: Amsterdam, 1680
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[Title page] Atlas Tot Amsterdam Bij Iustus Danckers in de Calverstraet inde Damcbaerhrijt.
Decorative title page with the figure of Atlas, standing on a globe of the Old World. The left and bottom right corners have animals and people from different parts of th...
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1680
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Nova Persiae Armeniae Natoliae et Arabiae.
This fine map shows the area East from Cyprus to Iran, including The Saudi Peninsula, Red Sea, Nile River, Cyprus, Asia Minor, the Gulf of Aden, the Indian Ocean, Armenia...
Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Pas-kaart vande Zee kusten van Venecuela met de Byleggende Eylanden. . .
Rare chart of the coast of Venezuela, including the islands of Curaçao, Bonaire, Aruba, etc.The chart has two insets, one (15x22cm) with a map of Curaçao, one smaller w...
Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula.
A beautifully decorative world map taken from the 'English Atlas' by Moses Pitt and Steven Swart, based on an earlier engraved world map by Pieter van den Keere ca. 1630,...
Date: Oxford, 1680
Nova Orbis Tabula in Lucem edita A.F.de Wit.
According to Shirley, De Wit's map is one of the most attractive of its time. The brilliant scenes in the corners combine images of the four seasons, the elements, and th...
Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Ignographia candiae tertia a turcis obsessae in lucem edita a F. de Wit.
A scarce broadsheet plan and view of Heraklion on one sheet: prospect 180 x 495mm, map 395 x 495mm., in the lower part a printed description "Abbildung der starken S...
Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Accuratissima totius Asiae tabula..
The map includes a detailed depiction of South East Asia and the Far East. The northern tip of Australia (Hollandia Nova) is shown as are the important discoveries made t...
Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Tabula Ducatus Brabantiae.
Detailed map orientated west to the top.
Date: Amsterdam, 1680
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Hern Johann Baptisten Taveniers..Vierzig Jaehrige Reize..
This German edition includes Tavernier's map of Japan in a reduced form (210x315mm) and contains legends about the country's nature, e.g., where gold is mined and plottin...
Date: Nuremberg, 1681
Waere affbeeldinge wegens het casteel ende stadt Batavia.
A good impression of this finely engraved and detailed plan of Batavia, present-day Jakarta, the Dutch center of trading activities in the East Indies. Copied after Cleme...
Date: Amsterdam, 1681
Il regno della China detto presentente Catay e Magnin. . .
A rare and decorative Italian map of China and Japan, with Japan closely modelled on the indented Cardim outline and Hokkaido, called Yuppi , shown as an Asian peninsula....
Date: Rome, 1682
Asia.
Detailed map the Asian continent. The map is of interest for the use of Sea of Corea, the sea between Korea and Japan.
Date: Amsterdam, 1682
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Jerusalem.
Engraved by Bastiaan Stoopendaal from Juan Bautista Villapando's imaginary town-plan of Jerusalem. This bird's-eye view is surrounded by 12 scenes, views and portraits of...
Date: Amsterdam, 1682
DU GLOBE TERRESTRE - Figure XC. 253
Finely engraved plate of various types of sailing ships.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers.. (5 volumes), 1683. By Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706), ...
Date: Paris, 1683
(Ships on full sea)
A fine engraving of different sailing vessels at full sea.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers.. (5 volumes), 1683. By Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706)...
Date: Paris, 1683
GALERE
Miniature view of a galley. From the French text edition of Description d'Univers.. (5 volumes), 1683. By Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706), a well travelled military en...
Date: Paris, 1683
(Des Galeres - Shipping scene)
Miniature view of a vessel, showing the various types of sails. With key list in upper left corner.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers.. (5 volumes), 16...
Date: Paris, 1683
(Shipping)
Finely etched depiction of a vessel, with a lettered key. With explanatory text on verso.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers.. (5 volumes), 1683. By All...
Date: Paris, 1683
Floride.
A charming map of Florida, also showing Cuba, Golf of Mexico & St Augustine.Title in curtain draped at top. French text on verso.From the original 1683 text edition o...
Date: Paris, 1683
P.les de Virginie.
Attractive copper engraving, depicting a couple of native people of Florida.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers, 1683. by Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1...
Date: Paris, 1683
La Floride. . .
The map is derived from La Floride , 1657, by Nicolas Sanson. Several new rivers appear in Virginia. The Caroline listed is Ft. Caroline, not the Carolinas. The Florida n...
Date: Paris, 1683
Vienne.
Charming view of Vienna. Title in curtain draped at top. French text on verso.From the original 1683 text edition of "Description d'Univers. . ." by Allain Man...
Date: Paris, 1683
Indiae extra Gangem Pars Septentrionalis. Indiae extra Gangem Pars Meridionalis.
The map on the left depicts the northern portion of the India Ganges region, representing Burma (Myanmar), Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos. The right one depicts th...
Date: Utrecht / Amsterdam, J.Halma, 1683
Sigeth.
Panoramic view of Sigeth. Published in "Der Donau-Strand Mit allen seinen Ein- und Zuflüssen. . .". Published by Jacob Sandrart.
Date: Nuremberg, Jacob Sandrart, 1684
Le Cours de l'Elbe et de l'Oder où sont les Electorats de Saxe et de Brandebourg, les Duchés de Mekelbourg et de Pomeranie. . .
A detailed and scarce map showing the rivers Elbe and Oder in Germany and Poland. Dark engraving.This is one sheet of the four sheet wall map by Pierre Du Val entitled: &...
Date: Paris, 1684
Het Hooge Heemraedtschap van Schielandt.
This beautiful wall map of "Het Hooge Heemraedtschap van Schielandt" is on nine attached leaves (each leaf 49x58,5 cm. ) engraved by J. VINGBOOMS after J.J. STA...
Date: Rotterdam, A. van Hoorn, 1684
Novi Belgii novae que Angliae nec non partis Virginiae..
The third state with Fort Kassimier and Philadelphia and nearby placenames added. To the south the Dutch colony of Nieu Amstel. New nomenclature and a key appear around t...
Date: Amsterdam, 1684
Canischa. (Nagykanizsa / Kanizsa)
Panoramic view of Nagykanizsa / Kanizsa. Published in "Der Donau-Strand Mit allen seinen Ein- und Zuflüssen. . .". Published by Jacob Sandrart.
Date: Nuremberg, Jacob Sandrart, 1684
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Amerique Septentrionale divisée en ses principales parties. . .1685. [California as an Island]
Engraved by Cordier. Spectacular example of Jaillot's map of North America, showing California as an Island, based upon Sanson's landmark map of 1656. This map shows the ...
Date: Paris, 1685
La Reine de la chine.
Very rare and decorative costume plate. In the background : Palais Royal Peking. Beneath the plate a descriptive text about the Queen of China.Bears the address : Se vend...
Date: Paris, ca. 1685
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Lyste vande prysen der goederen ingekoft by de Kamer. . .
Rare price list of meat, bacon, wheat, rye, butter, cheese, olive oil, Spanish wines, Bordeaux, brandy etc.On front page in letter press Lyste Van de Pryfen der Goederen,...
Date: Amsterdam, 1685
A unique composite atlas with updated Porro maps.
Unique composite atlas containing in total 84 maps - 82 maps engraved by Girolamo Porro and heavenly reworked around 1686 and 2 newly engraved maps; Piccola Tartaria (Cr...
Date: Venice, 1686
Paradigma XV Provinciarum et CLV Urbium Capitalium Sinensis Imperij Cum Templis quae Cruce X Signatur Et Domiciliis S.I.
First edition of this rare Jesuit map of China, published by Jean Baptiste Nolin in Paris and based on Philippe Couplet's map of 1686. The map shows China's 15 provinces ...
Date: Paris, 1686
Le Grand Mongol. . .
Rare full portrait of the Mongol emperor of Indostan, published by map seller, François Jollain, the Elder (1641-1704), active in Paris, rue St. Jacques à la ville de C...
Date: Paris, ca. 1686
Les Provinces des Pays Bas.
RARE. From his first edition of his only folio atlas, the map is relied upon the map of his uncle, Nicolas Sanson. Engraved by I.Somer.A nice map of Netherlands.
Date: Paris 1687
Penisola Dell India di la dal Gange Diusa ne i Regni, che in essasi contengono et accresciuta di varie notizie. Da Giacomo Cantelli da Vignola e conforme le Relationi di alcuni Padri della Compa di Giesu di Monsu Tavernier . . . 1683
Giacomo Rossi's fine late 17th century map of Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia and part of Sumatra.. Engraved by Franciscus Donia. Issued in Il Mercurio geografico In lower r...
Date: Rome, 1683-1688
Carte du Palatinat du Rhin.
Decorative "carte à figures"- map centered on Koblenz, Metz, Strasburg, Manheim and Heidelberg, with the river Rhine by François Jollain (ca. 1641 – 18 Apri...
Date: Paris, ca. 1688
Archipelague du Mexique ou sont les Isles de Cuba..
Scarce map of Caribbean. A visually stunning map with a large title cartouche. This large one-sheet map was produced by the Venetian cosmographer Vincenzo Coronelli when ...
Date: Paris, 1688
Werelt Caert.
Beautiful double hemisphere from a Dutch Bible. Surrounded by allegorical representations of the continents, based on Visscher. CALIFORNIA IS AN ISLAND with a flat northe...
Date: Amsterdam, 1688
![[Title page] Le Nouveau & Grand Illuminant Flambeau de la Mer. La troisième partie. …Par Nicolas Jans Vooght.](/uploads/cache/47950-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Le Nouveau & Grand Illuminant Flambeau de la Mer. La troisième partie. …Par Nicolas Jans Vooght.
Allegoric frontispiece of the third edition of the "Zee-Fakkel" with French text. The "4" from the date 16"89" is in manuscript.
Date: Amsterdam, 1689
Abbild des sehr kleinen Männleins auß der Schweitz Hans Worrenberg genant, ist lang zwei Fuß und sieben zoll, alt 36 Jahr wie zu Hamburg Anno 1687 im Majo und Junio gesehen worden.
Engraving showing Hans Worrenberg, a dwarf of Switzerland at an age of 36 in the year of 1687. Worrenberg was actor and active in Hamburg 1687 and London 1688. The engrav...
Date: Hamburg, ca.1689
Ioannes III. Rex. Poloniae (Portrait of Johann III. Sobieski)
On verso a text in brown ink "1674 Giovanni Sobieski Gran Maresciallo della Polonia, che poscia lo fece suo Re, perchè a Cokrim vinse li Turchi, e la liberò dai tr...
Date: Ulm, ca. 1690
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Loandas St.Paulo [Luanda]
Engraved by Thomas Doesburgh (active between 1683 and 1714) for Carolus Allard's Orbis habitabilis oppida et vestitus, the print shows a distant view of the Angolese ci...
Date: Amsterdam, c. 1685-1690
Isola di Madagascar o di S. Lorenzo Scoperta dà Portoghesi nell anno 1506. . .
Decorative and highly detailed map of Madagascar, including 2 decorative cartouches and other embellishments.The remarkable Vincenzo Coronelli (1650-1718), was a Francisc...
Date: Venice, 1690
Iunan, Queichev, e Quangsi Provincie della Cina. . .
A beautiful map depicting the area of Beijing with decorative title cartouche and scale cartouche. Information about the area at the top of the map.The remarkable Vincenz...
Date: Venice, 1690
Isola d'Oleron, nella piaggie occidentali della Francia.
A beautiful and rare map showing île d'Oleron.The remarkable Vincenzo Coronelli (1650-1718), encyclopaedist, geographer, inventor and Doctor of Theology, was citizen of ...
Date: Venice, 1690
Citta, porto, e rada di Brest, e . . . Nella Bretagna . . .
A beautiful and rare map of Bretagne. In top right an inset with the town of Brest.The remarkable Vincenzo Coronelli (1650-1718), encyclopaedist, geographer, inventor and...
Date: Venice, 1690
Saique batiment dont les turcs se servent. . .
A very decorative engraving of a Turkish vessel. From Mortier's famous maritime Atlas "Neptune François". Engraved by Jan van Vianen after a design by Henri Sb...
Date: Amsterdam, 1690
Bocche del Fiume Negro et Isole di Capo Verde.
Double-page engraved map of the Cape Verde Islands and part of the coast of Senegal, with large decorative cartouche. One with inset of the island Goree. During three cen...
Date: Venice, 1690
Very fine brass astronomical equinoctial ring with two brass circles.
Very fine brass astronomical equinoctial ring with two brass circles with engraved foliage decoration, signed "Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas Delure A Paris", on the han...
Date: Paris, undated, ca. 1690
L'Africa divisa nelle sue Parti secondo le pui moderne . . .
A beautiful and rare two-sheet map of Africa. The title cartouche is depicted on a drape surrounded by native animals.A most noticeable feature of the decoration on the m...
Date: Venice, 1690
Tabula ducatus Limburch et comitatus Valckenburch. . .
The map describes the southern part of Limburg and reaches into Belgium (Liege, Verviers) and Germany. With two very decorative cartouches.
Date: Amsterdam, 1690
Les vallées du Piemont. Habitees par les Vaudois ou Berbets. . .
Detailed map of Piedmont region covering French and Italian territories. Surrounded by a French text description "Description des vallées du Piemont qu'habitent par...
Date: Paris, 1690
Mocha, in Arabien. (View of Mocha, Yemen.)
Magnificent bird's eye-town-view of Mocha in Yemen.. Etched by Gaspar Bouttats (1640-1695).The Antwerp based publisher Jacques Peeters published ca. 1690 a series of prin...
Date: Antwerp, c.1690
Quantung, e Fokien, Provincie della China...
A beautifully engraved decorative map of Southern China extending from Hainan in the West to Formosa in the East and centered on the Pearl River Delta with Macao and the ...
Date: Venice, 1691
Illustriss et excellentiss D.Paulus Quirini divi Marci procurator.
Fine text page from Isolario Dell'Atlante Vento. with two copper engraved portraits printed within letter press. In top portrait of "Hieronymus Quirinus" (60x55...
Date: Venice, 1691
Oost-Frise, ou Le Comté d'Embden . . .
Fine map of East Friesland with a decorative cartouche and small scale of miles.Alexis-Hubert Jaillot (1632-1712), was a French cartographer. He joined the Sanson heirs a...
Date: Amsterdam, 1692
Isola di Corsica, Dedicata all' Em;mo e Rmo: Principe, il Sr. Cardinale Carpegna, Vicario di Sua Santita. . .
One of the most decorative maps of Corsica, with in the upper right, a draped fabric that bears the map's scales is dressed with two angels, one holding the cross, a coat...
Date: Venise, 1692
Mastric ou Maëstricht, Ville du Brabant-Hollandois. . .
A very decorative and extremely rareof Maastricht, including a numbered key (1-23) in lower part. Engraved by Pierre-Alexandre Aveline. With "Fait par Aveline avec p...
Date: Paris, ca.1692
Amsterdam Ville du comté de Hollande. . .
A very decorative and very rare town-view of Amsterdam, including a numbered key ( A- T) in the lower part. Engraved by Pierre-Alexandre Aveline. With the signature "...
Date: Paris, ca.1692
Contado di Zelanda..
A most attractive and decorative map by Vincenzo Coronelli. An elaborate title cartouche garlanded with intertwined flowers and dedicated to Vincenzo Caualli. The remarka...
Date: Venice 1692
Gouvernement general de Champagne. . .
Fine map of Champagne with a decorative title and scale cartouche.Alexis-Hubert Jaillot (1632-1712), was a French cartographer. He joined the Sanson heirs and redrew Nico...
Date: Amsterdam, 1692
Seville ville Archiepiscopale et capitale du Royaume d'Andalousie en Espagne. . .
A very decorative and extremely rare town-view of Seville, including a numbered key ( 1- 37) in lower part. Engraved by Pierre-Alexandre Aveline. With "fait par Avel...
Date: Paris, ca.1692
Turin ville capitale du Piémont, et Résidence du Duc de Savoye. . .
A very decorative and rareof Turin, including a numbered key (A-M) in lower part. Engraved by Pierre-Alexandre Aveline. With "fait par Aveline avec privilege du Roy ...
Date: Paris, ca.1692