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Campagne du Roi de Prusse de 1778 à 1779.

The book is illustrated with a two-sheet folding map "Carte d'une partie du Royaume de Bohême et de la Moravie ainsi que d'une partie de la Silésie". Prepared...

$2000 / ≈ €1730
Maker: HOLTZENDORFF, baron de.
Date: Geneva, Paris, Mérigot le jeune, 1784

 


Tablaeu de l'Univers premiere partie/ .. seconde partie.

Uncommon and interesting manual containing a double hemisphere world map (with fine outer decoration and showing an imagined great sea in West America, easily the size of...

$750 / ≈ €649
Maker: DESOER, F.J.
Date: Luik, Belgium, 1784

 


M.Merian, l'Ancien célébre graveur . . .

Portrait of Matthäus Merian (1593-1650) by Hubert. Matthäus Merian der Ältere was a Swiss-born engraver who worked in Frankfurt for most of his career, where he also ...

$75 / ≈ €65
Maker: HUBERT
Date: Paris, 1784

 


Carte D'Amerique Divisée en ses Principaux Pays. . .

Rare. Uncommon and decorative wall map of America, prepared by Clouet. With superb decorative borders, 170mm wide at the sides and 150mm at the bottom, containing twenty ...

$9000 / ≈ €7787
Maker: CLOUET, J. B. L. abbé / MONDHARE, L.
Date: Paris, Cadiz, 1785

 


ETATS-UNIS DE L'AMÉRIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE Avec LES ISLES ROYALE, DE TERRE NEUVE, DE S.T JEAN, L'ACADIE, &c. 1785. Supplement a l'Atlas de M. Robert de Vaugondy a Paris Ches Boudet Ingenieur du Roi.

A map of the eastern United States with "Supplément à l'atlas de M Robert de Vaugondy à Paris chez Boudet Imprimeur du Roi", in place of the attribution to D...

$1750 / ≈ €1514
Maker: BOUDET. / DE VAUGONDY, R.
Date: Paris, 1785

 


A scarce Real Compañia de Filipinas 250 Pesos deed issued in 1785

A scarce Real Compañia de Filipinas 250 Pesos deed issued in 1785. Share nº 23726, hand signed by several company officials.Engraved by Fernando Selma (1752-1810) after...

$1750 / ≈ €1514
Maker: REAL COMPANIA DE FILIPINAS
Date: Spain, 1785

 


[Title page] Atlante Novissimo, illustrato ed accresciuto . . .

Decorative Venitian frontispiece from Antonio Zatta's Atlas Atlante Novissimo, illustrato ed accresciuto . . . . The outer decoration of this title page has a wealth of c...

$225 / ≈ €195
Maker: ZATTA, A.
Date: Venice, 1785

 


Mariner’s compass

Inverted compass called "snitch" in wood painted in imitation of tortoiseshell and brass, signed "Ing MANN Maker Water Street Liverpool".

$7500 / ≈ €6489
Maker: MANN
Date: Liverpool, ca. 1785

 


Atlas in elephant folio.

Most of D'Anville's atlases were made up for the individual customer, so no two appear alike. Many of the 59 pages are multi-sheet maps, so the actual map sheet count is ...

$20000 / ≈ €17304
Maker: ANVILLE (Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'
Date: Paris, 1771-1786

 


Coupon 94 voor een jaar interest voor f 1000 by hunne hoog vorstelyke doorluchtigheden de heere Frederik regeerende furst von Waldek. . .

9 Coupons for one year interest of 1000 florins being 50 florins payable on January 1796, 1797, 1798, 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803, 1804. For a loan made out by The Hague...

$300 / ≈ €260
Maker: BOAS, A. / S.
Date: The Hague / Amsterdam, 1786

 


Bond and 8 coupons # 93 against a one year interest of 1000 Dutch Florins by Frederik ruler of Waldeck.

Bond for 10 years against one year interest of 1000 florins being 50 florins payable on January 1795 until 1804. With 8 pay-out coupons for one year interest of 1000 flor...

$1900 / ≈ €1644
Maker: BOAS, A. / S.
Date: The Hague / Amsterdam, 1786

 


Bond # 86 against a one year interest of 1000 Dutch Florins by Frederik ruler of Waldeck.

Bond for 10 years against one year interest of 1000 florins being 50 florins payable on January 1795 until 1804. For a loan made out by the The Hague bankers Abraham and ...

$1500 / ≈ €1298
Maker: BOAS, A. / S.
Date: The Hague / Amsterdam, 1786

 


Mappemonde ou carte générale du globe terrestre dessinée suivant les règles de la projection des cartes réduites…

Large world map showing the sea tracks of Captain Cook in his three Pacific voyages published by C. F. Delamarche.Rare state 4, dated 1786, of this large world map, featu...

$3750 / ≈ €3244
Maker: ROBERT DE VAUGONDY-DELAMARCHE, C. F.
Date: Paris, Robert de Vaugondy/Delamarche, 1786

 


[Crimea]. Carte de la Cromée.

Mapmaker, Captain Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen (1735-1819). Published by H. Friesman in 1787. This map first appeared in 1776 and was the first Russian map of the newly ann...

$3000 / ≈ €2596
Maker: KINSBERGEN, J.H. van
Date: Amsterdam, H. Frieseman, 1787

 


Carte d'Asie divisée en ses principaux Etats.

Uncommon and decorative "carte à figures" - wall map, prepared by Clouet, with superb decoration, including a wonderful rococo border with 20 decorative vignet...

$7500 / ≈ €6489
Maker: CLOUET / MONDHARE.
Date: Paris, Mondhare, 1787

 


Calendrier de la cour, tiré des éphémérides, pour l'Année bissextile.. / Notebook bearing silver plates with the VOC monogram.

A personal gift, only made for the trustees of the V.O.C. The silver plate was probably made by Drick van Hengel and Company because an entry in the diary of mintmaster J...

$4500 / ≈ €3893
Maker: HÉRISSANT, Ve.
Date: Paris, 1787

 


Tableau des guerres de Frédéric le Grand: ou plans figurés de vingt-six batailles rangées, ou combats essentiels donnés dans les trois guerres de Silésie. . .

The book includes a large folded map "Tableaux des Guerres de Frédéric le Grand", showing a map of Prussia, with present-day Poland and Eastern Germany surrou...

$5000 / ≈ €4326
Maker: MULLER, L.
Date: Potzdam, Strasbourg, Paris, 1788

 


Matelot Hollandais [Dutch sailor]

Etching showing a typical Dutch sailor, after Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (1757–1810). Taken from "Costumes Civils actuels de tous les peuples connus, dessin...

$80 / ≈ €69
Maker: (After) GRASSET DE SAINT-SAVEUR, J.
Date: Paris, Pavard, 1788

 


Map of Louisiana from D'Anville's Atlas.

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...

$750 / ≈ €649
Maker: BOWEN, Th.
Date: London, 1788

 


Carte d'Europe divisée en ses Empires et Royaumes.

Uncommon and decorative wall map of Europe, prepared by Clouet. Superb decoration including a wonderful rococo border with vignettes describing historical scenes. Below t...

$4000 / ≈ €3461
Maker: CLOUET / MONDHARE.
Date: Paris, Mondhare, 1788

 


Neue Karte von den gegenwärtigen Kriegs-Schauplatze zwischen den Russisch-Kayserl.

Very rare separately published map showing the Russian War seat including Finland, Lithuania, Denmark and parts of Poland, Norway and Sweden. In lower part inset maps of ...

$2200 / ≈ €1903
Maker: LANGE, J.E.
Date: Leipzig, 1788

 


L'Afrique divisée en ses principaux Etats, assujettie aux observations astronomique.

Rare and attractive map of Africa, ornated with a decorative title cartouche showing luxuriant nature and a lion. With two inset maps : "Carte particulière du Cap ...

$350 / ≈ €303
Maker: JANVIER, Sr.
Date: Paris, Lattré, 1788

 


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...

$250 / ≈ €216
Maker: SCHRAEMBL, F.A.
Date: Vienna, 1789

 


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...

$100 / ≈ €87
Maker: SCHRAEMBL, F.A.
Date: Vienna, 1789

 


[Title cartouche from Carte de la France]

Title cartouche from "Carte de la France", prepared by Captaine and published by Pierre D. Belleyme.

$150 / ≈ €130
Maker: DE BELLEYME, P
Date: Paris, ca. 1789

 


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...

$1750 / ≈ €1514
Maker: The Low Countries
Date: ca. 1790

 


Otago Capo dell'Isola d'Amsterdam nel Mare Pacifico del Sud. / Otago Chef de l'Isle d'Amsterdam dans la Mer Pacifique du Sud. .. [Tongatapu, Tonga]

Otago was a native of the island of Tongatapu, Tonga. The island was first sighted by Europeans in 1643 by Abel Tasman, commanding two ships. “Tasman named the island &...

$150 / ≈ €130
Maker: VIERO, Th.
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790

 


Uomo del Paraguai nell' America Meridionalle. / Homme du Paraguai dans l'Amerique Meridionalle.

Full portrait of a person from Paraguay.  From "Raccolta di stampe." a series of historically significant eighteenth-century copper plate engravings by Venetia...

$200 / ≈ €173
Maker: VIERO, Theodorum.
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790

 


Indiana del Perù. / Indienne du Perou.

Portrait of a Peruvian Indian woman holding a fruit basket and a lama in the background.  From "Raccolta di stampe." a series of historically significant eight...

$200 / ≈ €173
Maker: VIERO, Theodorum.
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790

 


Dona del Regno di Granata. / Femme du Roy.me de Granade.

A full portrait of a woman from Granada, situated at Lake Nicaragua or Cocibolca.  From "Raccolta di stampe",  a series of historically significant eighteenth...

$150 / ≈ €130
Maker: VIERO, Theodorum.
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790

 


Donna dell' Isola d' Erramanga una delle nuove Ebridi nel Mar Pacifico. / Femme de l'Isle d'Erramanga une des nouvelles Hebrides dans la Mer Pacifique. [Vanuatu]

Full portrait of a woman, native of the island of Erramanga in the New Hebrides, officially the New Hebrides Condominium, the colonial name for the island group in the So...

$150 / ≈ €130
Maker: VIERO, Theodorum.
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790

 


Donna dell' Isola di Mallicolo una delle nuove Ebridi nel Mar Pacifico del Sud. / Femme de l' Isle d'Erramanga... [Vanuatu]

Full portrait of a woman, a native of the island of Mallico in the New Hebrides, officially the New Hebrides Condominium, the colonial name for the island group in the So...

$150 / ≈ €130
Maker: VIERO, Theodorum.
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790

 


Donna dell' Isola di Tanna, una delle nuove Ebridi nel Mar Pacifico. / Femme de l' Isle de Tanna, une des nouvelles Hebrides dans la Mer Pacifique. [Vanuatu]

Full portrait of a woman, a native from the island of Mallico in the New Hebrides, officially the New Hebrides Condominium, the colonial name for the island group in the ...

$100 / ≈ €87
Maker: VIERO, Theodorum.
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790

 


Uomo dell' Isola di Tanna, una delle nuove Ebridi nel Mar Pacifico. / Homme de l' Isle de Tanna, une des nouvelles Hébrides dans la Mer du Pacifique. [Vanuatu]

Full portrait of a man from the island of Tanna in the Pacific. New Hebrides, officially the New Hebrides Condominium was the colonial name for the island group in the So...

$100 / ≈ €87
Maker: VIERO, Theodorum.
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790

 


Capo della flotta degli Otahiti nel Mar Pacifico del Sud. / Chef de la flotte des Otahiti dans la Mer Pacifique du Sud.

Full portrait of the captain of the Otahiti flotilla, from Tahiti.  A rare engraving from "Raccolata di stampe ... di varie nazioni". From the original drawing...

$250 / ≈ €216
Maker: VIERO, Theodorum.
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790

 


Potatow Capo dei Tahiti Isola nel Mare Pacifico del Sud. / Potatow Chef de Tahiti Isle dans la Mer Pacifique du Sud.

Full portrait of the Hawaiian chief Potatow.  A rare engraving from "Raccolata di stampe ... di varie nazioni". From the original drawing by William Hodges, w...

$150 / ≈ €130
Maker: VIERO, Theodorum.
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790

 


Otoo, Re di Tahiti Isola nel Mar Pacifico del Sud. / Otoo, Roi de Tahiti Isle dans la Mer Pacifique du Sud.

Full portrait of King Otoo from Tahiti. A rare engraving from "Raccolata di stampe ... di varie nazioni". From the original drawing by William Hodges, who acco...

$200 / ≈ €173
Maker: VIERO, Theodorum.
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790

 


Donna dell' Isola di Pasqua, o terra di Davis nel Mar del Sud. / Femme de l' Isle de Pâques ou terre de Davis dans la Mer du Sud.

Full portrait of a woman, a native of Easter Island, a Chilean territory, is a remote volcanic island in PolynesiaFrom "Raccolta di stampe." a series of histori...

$250 / ≈ €216
Maker: VIERO, Theodorum.
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790

 


Uomo dell' Isola di Pasqua o Terra di Davis nel Mar del Sud. / Homme de l' Isle de Pâquesou Terra de Davis dans la Mer du Sud.

Full portrait of a native from Easter Island. Easter Island, a Chilean territory, is a remote volcanic island in Polynesia.From "Raccolta di stampe," a series o...

$250 / ≈ €216
Maker: VIERO, Theodorum.
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790

 


Donna dell' Isola di S.a Cristina una delle Marchesi nel Mar del Sud. / Femme de l' Isle de S.e Christine une des Marquises dans la Mer du Sud.

Full portrait of a woman from the Saint Christina Island. A rare engraving from "Raccolata di stampe ... di varie nazioni". From the original drawing by Willia...

$250 / ≈ €216
Maker: VIERO, Theodorum.
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790

 


Capo dell' Isola di S.a Cristina una delle Marchesi nel Mar Pacifico del Sud. / Chef de l'Isle de Ste. Christine une des Marquises dans la Mer Pacifique du Sud.

Full portrait of the Chief of the Saint Christina Island. A rare engraving from "Raccolata di stampe ... di varie nazioni". From the original drawing by William...

$300 / ≈ €260
Maker: VIERO, Theodorum.
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790

 


Uomo della nuova Caledonia Isola del Mar Pacifico. / Homme de la nouvelle Calédonie Isle dans la Mer Pacifique.

Full portrait of a native from New Caledonia. A rare engraving from "Raccolata di stampe ... di varie nazioni". From the original drawing by William Hodges, who...

$300 / ≈ €260
Maker: VIERO, Theodorum.
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790

 


Portrait of Jan Maatzuiker.

Portrait of Jan Maatzuiker, Governor-General of the East Indies from 1653 till 1678. From Kok's Woordenboek . Engraved by Reinier Vinkees in 1790.

$90 / ≈ €78
Maker: VINKELES, R.
Date: Amsterdam, 1790

 


Muitery op het O:I: Comp. schip Barbestein in Duins.

Anonymous engraving of a mutiny of the VOC ship Barbestein .

$75 / ≈ €65
Maker: ANONYMOUS
Date: Amsterdam c.1790

 


CH'ONHA CHIDO [Atlas of all under Heaven]

The Ch’onha chido [Atlas of all under Heaven] is a late 18th century copy of the traditional Korean atlas produced in the early Choson dynasty (1392-1910). One of the m...

$30000 / ≈ €25956
Maker: Anonymous
Date: Korea, ca. 1790

 


The Russian Empire in Europe and Asia . . .

Detailed map of the whole of Russia, extending from Poland to the Pacific and from Nova Zembla to Tartaria.The map is of interest for the use of Corea Gulf for the sea be...

$400 / ≈ €346
Maker: BOWEN, T.
Date: London, 1790

 


[Tableau Général de l'Empire Ottoman]. 11 plates with the panoramic view of Mecca.

A collection of 11 engraved plates (3 folding) from "Tableau Général de l'Empire Ottoman", Paris, Imprimerie de Monsieur, 1790, comprising the famous panorami...

$4000 / ≈ €3461
Maker: MOURADJA D'OHSSON, Ignace.
Date: Paris, 1790

 


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...

$900 / ≈ €779
Maker: ANONYMOUS
Date: Paris, 1790

 


ИНДIИ [Map of India in Cyrillic].

A map of India. This Cyrillic version of the map appeared in one of the first world atlases published in Russia, "Novy Atlas, ili sobranie kart ..." which trans...

$750 / ≈ €649
Maker: MINING SCHOOL OF USE OF YOUGHTS / BONNE, R.
Date: Paris / St.Petersburg, ca. 1790

 


Le Curieux.

A risqué but delightful French engraving produced in the late eighteenth century. It is simply titled The Curious, and shows a young lady lying on her side on a divan, w...

$125 / ≈ €108
Maker: BAUDOUIN / MALEUVRE.
Date: Paris, ca. 1790

 


Dutchman and a Maruyama prostitute.

An explicit scene of a Dutchman and a Maruyama prostitute featuring a gray-bearded westerner coupling with a courtesan. The woman protests that she doesn't understand wha...

$7500 / ≈ €6489
Maker: CHOKOSAI EISHO
Date: Late Edo, 1790

 


Huile de Calamite.

Oil to heal all ailments, only distributed by François Giramo, who alone owns the secret. Surrounded by a decorative border and the Royal coat-of-arms.With privilege of ...

$120 / ≈ €104
Maker: Broad sheet advertising poster.
Date: France, c.1790

 


[ LANDSKROON ]. Oranda Fune no zu [= Depiction of a Dutch Ship].

A very large and extremely detailed Japanese drawing on rice paper of a Dutch ship at the artificial island Deshima, the VOC's outpost in Nagasaki harbour. In the drawing...

$30000 / ≈ €25956
Maker: ANONYMOUS
Date: Japan, Kansei 4, 2nd month, 9th day, 30 March? 1792

 


't dorp Aalst.

Rare print of the old church of Aalst (near Eindhoven), from Vaderlandsche gezichten of afbeeldingen.. by J.Bulthuis, printed by H.Gartman in Amsterdam.

$60 / ≈ €52
Maker: BULTHUIS, J.
Date: Amsterdam, 1786 / 1792

 


Mapa De la parte de la Isla Formosa sa perteneciente al Emperadotde la China sacado por Ord. De S.M.

Extremely rare map of the west coast of Taiwan, the Punghu or Pescadore Islands, and the Fokien or Fujian coast of China. Several ancient Taiwanese cities are noted, incl...

$15000 / ≈ €12978
Maker: DE LA CONCEPTION, J.
Date: Manilla, Seminario Conciliar, y Real de San Carlos, 1788-1792

 


Bison Iubatus.

Etching of a bison by Leendert Brasser (1727 - 1793) after a painting of the Dutch artist Gerrit van den Heuvel.An early portrait of a bison, etched by Leendert Brasser (...

$750 / ≈ €649
Maker: BRASSIER, L
Date: Rotterdam, 1766-1793

 


[Set of five maps] Carte Générale de la Terre ou Mappe Monde

Rare and decorative set of five wall maps of the world and the four continents, prepared by Clouet, in very fine bright contemporary coloring. Each map ca. 965 x 1230 mm ...

$80000 / ≈ €69215
Maker: CLOUET, Jean Baptiste Louis (abbé).
Date: Paris and Cadiz, Mondhare, 1785-1793

 


Imperium Russicum, cum regionibus adiacentibus duabus Tabulis ex optima quae A. 1784 tribus foliis comparavit Mappa geographica, aliisque subsidiis delineatum a C. Mannert, Tabula Ima. . .

A detailed map of the European part of the Russian Empire. Scarce map. Copper etching by C. Mannert and edited by Adam Gottlieb Schneider and Johann Christoph Weigel. Man...

Maker: MANNERT, C.
Date: Nuremberg, 1794

 


L'Europe divisée en des Etats, Empires, Royaumes et Républiques.

Large wall map of Europe with inset map of Iceland and cartouche drawn and etched by Arrivet. Revised edition by Charles François Delamarche (1st ed.: 1767), entitled &q...

$1450 / ≈ €1255
Maker: ROBERT DE VAUGONDY, Didier / C.en LAMARCHE.
Date: Paris, (n.d.) c. 1793/1794

 


Karte von Asien.

An attractive map of Asia. With a decorative title cartouche in the upper left-hand corner. Engraved by Aarons.Franz Johann Josef von Reilly (Vienna 18 august 1766 - 6 ju...

$900 / ≈ €779
Maker: VON REILLY, F.J.J.
Date: Vienna 1795

 


Two sheets for constructing an armillary sphere.

Two sheets for constructing an armillary sphere. Cassini was a geographer and cartographer, but also perspective and architecture carver - one of Giovanni Battista Pirane...

$2700 / ≈ €2336
Maker: CASSINI, G.M.
Date: Rome, 1795

 


Carte des découvertes fautes en 1787 dans les Mers de Chine et de Tartarie par les Frégates Françaises la Boussole et l'Astrolabe. . . ée. Feille.

La Pérouse's important large-scale of Northern Japan, Hokkaido, the Kuriles, the tip of Kamschatka, and the northern part of Korea.Showing the track of Perouse from 27 ...

$1400 / ≈ €1211
Maker: LA PÉROUSE, J.F.G
Date: Paris, 1797

 


New Jersey entworfen von D.F. Sotzmann. Hamburg bey Carl Ernst Bohn 1796 . . . NO.VIII

Extremely rare map of New Hampshire prepared by Daniel Friedrich Sotzmann for Christopher Ebeling's "Erdbeschreibung von Amerika", a project ended after only te...

$5000 / ≈ €4326
Maker: SOTZMANN, D.F.
Date: Hamburg, Carl Ernst Bohn, 1797

 


Rhode Island entworfen von D.F. Sotzmann. Hamburg bey Carl Ernst Bohn 1798 . . . NO.V

Extremely rare map of Rhode Island prepared by Daniel Friedrich Sotzmann for Christopher Ebeling's "Erdbeschreibung von Amerika", a project ended after only ten...

$5000 / ≈ €4326
Maker: SOTZMANN, D.F.
Date: Hamburg, Carl Ernst Bohn, 1797

 


Le Isole del Giappone e la Corea delineate sulle ultima osservazioni.

First edition on laid paper. Cassini’s splendid early map of Japan and Korea, with a large decorative title cartouche. The map has a very unusual, almost triangular, re...

$1000 / ≈ €865
Maker: CASSINI, G.M.
Date: Rome, 1797

 


La Penisola delle Indie di la' dal Gange con parte delle Isole della Sonda delineate sulle ultima osservazioni.

First edition on laid paper. Cassini’s splendid early map of Indochina, from Bangladesh in the west to central Borneo in the east, and southern China in the north, to B...

$2200 / ≈ €1903
Maker: CASSINI, G.M.
Date: Rome, 1797

 


L'Arabia delineata sulle ultime osservazioni.

First edition on laid paper. Cassini’s splendid early map of Arabia.

$2000 / ≈ €1730
Maker: CASSINI, G.M.
Date: Rome, 1797

 


Plan of part of the islands or archipellago of Corea seen in May 1787 by the Boufsole and Astrolabe.

This is a representing the visit of the French Admiral and explorer, le Comte de La Pérouse to Korea in 1786. The tracks of La Perouse are shown.From 'Atlas du Voyage d...

$750 / ≈ €649
Maker: LA PEROUSE, J.F.G.
Date: London, 1798

 


Vue de Malthe du cote du Fort.

A so-called optical print of Valletta seen from the castle. This rare optical print shows people in typical French dresses in the foreground and placed in boats.In the ei...

$450 / ≈ €389
Maker: BASSET.
Date: Paris, 1798

 


Costumes des habitans de Manille.

A very beautiful print, showing four elegant figures relaxing in a shady glade, two women recline and two stand chatting.After a design of Duché de Vancy and engraved by...

$225 / ≈ €195
Maker: LA PEROUSE, J. F. G.
Date: Paris, 1798

 


Vue de cavite dans la Baie de Manille.

Two boats and passengers with Cavite Philippines in the background as if was seen from Manila Bay in January 1787. After a design of Gaspard Duchè de Vancy and engraved ...

$225 / ≈ €195
Maker: LA PEROUSE, J. F. G.
Date: Paris, 1798

 


SETTSU MEISHO ZUE. Illustrations of famous places in Settsu.

Settsu Meisho Zue was printed in two series of 8 and 4 volumes. The principal illustrator was Takehara Shunchosai, but many illustrations in the 4 volumes supplement are ...

$3500 / ≈ €3028
Maker: AKIZATO, Rito - TAKEHARA, Shunchosai
Date: Osaka, Yanagiwara Kibei, Kansei 8-10 or 1796-1798

 


La nuova Zelanda delineate sulle ultima osservazioni del Capitan Cook.

First edition on laid paper Cassini’s splendid early map of New Zealand, being the most decorative version of Captain Cook's map of New Zealand, published in the very s...

$6000 / ≈ €5191
Maker: CASSINI, G.M.
Date: Rome, 1798

 


Le Isole di Sandwich delineate sulle osservazioni del Cap Cook. [Hawaii]

FIRST EDITION on laid paper. Cassini’s splendid map depicts the Sandwich Islands, the old name for the Hawaiian Islands, at the end of the eighteenth century. The splen...

$6000 / ≈ €5191
Maker: CASSINI, G.M.
Date: Rome, 1798

 


La Nuova Olanda e La Nuova Guinea delineate sulle ultima osservazioni.

Cassini’s splendid and rare map of Australia and New Guinea, from the 'Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale'. The emphasis of the map is the charting of Captain Cook dow...

$4500 / ≈ €3893
Maker: CASSINI, G.M.
Date: Rome, 1798

 


An Emblem of America / An Emblem of Africa / An Emblem of Asia / An Emblem of Europe.

An Emblem of America : This white female figure of Columbia, emblematic of the United States, represents America in a set of prints of the Four Continents. Standing besid...

$1900 / ≈ €1644
Maker: FAIRBURN, John.
Date: London, 1798

 


Carte d'Afrique divisée en ses Principaux Etats.

A rare and detailed map of Africa prepared by Jean-Baptiste Poirson (1761-1831). Includes an inset stating the European Possessions in Africa.Deserts are well highlighted...

$350 / ≈ €303
Maker: POIRSON, J.B.
Date: Paris, chez Jean, An VI 1798

 


[Set of 6 maps] Charta öfver Storfurstendömet Finland på Friherre S. G. Hermelins Anstalt och Omkostnad. Sammandragen och författad af C. P. Hällström. Philos. Magister och Auscultant i Kongl. BergsColl. 1799.

This is a beautiful set of a key map and five separate maps of Samuel Gustav Hermelin's map of Finland. The maps have been engraved by Fredrik Akrel, a very skilled and p...

$4000 / ≈ €3461
Maker: HERMELIN, SAMUEL GUSTAV
Date: Källa: J.Strang & E.- S. Harju: Suomen karttakirja 1799

 


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 ...

$6000 / ≈ €5191
Maker: SOTZMANN, D.F.
Date: Hamburg, Carl Ernst Bohn, 1799

 


(Title page) Campi phlegraei ou observations sur les volcans des deux Siciles, . . .

Etched and mezzotint title with in the center an eruption of volcano in Sicily.William Hamilton, an English diplomat in Naples to the Kingdom of The Two Sicily's, was a g...

$150 / ≈ €130
Maker: HAMILTON, W.
Date: Paris, Lamy, 1799