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Xantung, sinarum imperii provincia quatra.
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 Liaonin...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1660
Pascaarte, van de Zuijderzee, Vliestroom, Vlie, en Amelandergat…
Very rare chart of the Dutch Zuiderzee, here in its rare 5th state (o f6). Showing the coastlines along the Dutch inner sea. Two compass roses indicate north to the left ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1660
Sumatrae et insularum Locorumque nonnullorum circumiacentium. . .
Fine depicting the Island of Sumatra and the southern coasts of Malaysia from Quedo to Johore.North is orientated to the left of the page.Singapore is probably identifie...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
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[Map of river Rhine.]
Map of the River Rhine from Boden See until Wesel. Left hand part of a 2-sheet map.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
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De Texel Stroom met de gaten vant Marsdiep. [with] Caarte van De Mase ende het Goereesche Gat.
Two decorative charts on one sheet, one depicting Texel and the entrance of the Zuider Zee with an inset showing the north coast of West-Friesland, the other depicting th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Nova Africa descriptio.
A beautifully engraved and most attractive "carte à figures"- map of the African continent. Bordered, above, by panels showing panorama's of Cairo, Alexandria,...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1660
Fokien Imperii Sinarum Provincia undecima.
The province of Fokien lies opposite Taiwan and south of the region described in the above map. The coast is shown from Wen-zhou in the north to Fu-zhou and as far south ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Neapolis.
A rare panoramic of Naples with over the whole length of the lower part 3 columns of poems in Latin, Dutch and French.Published by Dancker Danckerts (1634-1666).
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
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Praga. [Prague]
A rare panoramic of Prague with over the whole length of the lower part 3 columns of poems in Latin, Dutch and French and a numbered key 1-34 to the principal buildings ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
De Texel Stroom .. vant Marsdiep./ Caarte van De Mase...
Two decorative charts on one sheet, one depicting Texel and the entrance of the Zuider Zee with an inset showing the north coast of West-Friesland, the other depicting th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Poli Arctici, et circumiacentium terrarum descriptio novissima. . .
A re-issue of the Hondius' plate. A particularly decorative map of the North Pole with Iceland. Several Dutch names in Labrador. The toponymy in Canada reflects the conti...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Situs Terrae Circulis Coelestibus circundatae..
A celestial chart showing a large globe centered on Australia and the Pacific, with California as an island, South East Asia, encircled by the zopdiacal band according to...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Janssonius, 1660
Tabula IV sequitur Farnesiana Posticus.
Ornamental representation of Temple St. Mariae in Rome by Petrus Aquila (1650-1692), after Annibale Carracci. Inscribed in the plate. "Petrus Aquila delin at sculp. ...
Place & Date: Rome, 1660
Xantung, sinarum imperii provincia quatra.
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 Liaonin...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1660
Magnus Ducatus Finlandiae Auct. Andrea Bureo Succo.
The first printed survey map of Finland, composed by the Swedish cartographer Anders Bureus (1571-1661). The map was published in 1662 in the second volume of Joan Blaeu'...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
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[Printed on silk] Nova Totius Americae Sive Novi Orbis Tabula, Auct. Hugo Allardt.
Hugo Allard’s ca. 1661 map of the Americas, showing California as an island printed on silk. This separately issued map printed on paper is quite rare on the market. T...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1661
Carta particolare del'mare del Zur che comincia con il capo S. Francesco nel Peru e finisce con il capo S. Lazaro nella nuova Spagnia.
FIRST EDITION Dudley’s magnificent chart of the Pacific Coast of Central and South America, from the coast of Columbia and Ecuador in the north to the Bay of Honduras i...
Place & Date: Florence 1661
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Itroductio. [with sphere.]
Introduction leaf from a French text edition of Atlas Ma1or
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1662
Norlandiae et quibies Gestricia et Helsingicae regiones Auct: Andrea Buraeo Sueco.
Uncommon map prepared by Anders Bure (1571-1646) with a dedicational cartouche to Gabriel Bengtsson Oxenstierna.The Atlas Maior is the epitome of decades of achievement b...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1662
Nova et Accuratissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula.
Since its appearance as an Appendix in 1630, the atlas launched by Willem Blaeu and continued by his son Joan had expanded greatly. But despite many new regional maps the...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1662
Arabia.
A handsome map of the Arabian Peninsula drawn on a large scale on which the three classical divisions are shown with some urban centers and topographical features. A cert...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1662
De Tesselstroom met de Gaten van Marsdiep./ De Mase met. . .
Three charts on one sheet depicting the entrances to the Zuiderzee between Holland, Texel and Vlieland. The entrances of the Maas with Rotterdam and in a small inset the ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1662
Nova XVII Provinciarum Inferioris Germaniae descriptio .
Extremely rare map of the Benelux by Frederick de Widt. Originally engraved and published by P.Kaerius in 1607. In 1662 the plate came in the possession of Frederick de W...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1662
Een ander gesicht van 'T LANDTS MAGAZYN.
A decorative print of the 'T Landts Magazyn, formerly the V.O.C. warehouse and arsenal for the Admiralty of Amsterdam, now-a-days the Scheepvaartmuseum (Maritime Museum) ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1663
Het West Indisch Huys.
A decorative print of the West Indian House , the headquarters of the WIC, a place for meeting, trading and storage of spices and ship equipment. The maps and charts were...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, J. van Meurs, 1663
Asiae Nova Apud Hudo Allardt. / Nova et exacta Asiae geograpicha descriptio.
Rare map of Asia, with relief shown pictorially. Shows Great wall of China and the mythical island of Yedso north of Japan. Title at head of map: Nova et exacta Asiae geo...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660-1665
Cajanie, ou Bothnie Orientale Tirée de celles d'Andr Burae et de Isaac Massa. . .
Map of the Northern part of Gulf of Bothnia, today's border area between Sweden and Finland. The map derive from the work of the Swedish cartographer Andreas Bureus and I...
Place & Date: Paris, P.Mariette, 1666
Pascaerte Van't Westelyckste der Middelandsche Zee. . .
An eye-catching chart of the western part of the Mediterranean Sea.Pieter Goos (ca. 1616-1675) was one of the most important cartographer, engraver, publisher and print s...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1666
Pascarte van Europa Beginnende vande Canael tot aen Spitbergen, en van Ysland tot aen Nova Zemla . . .
An eye-catching chart of northern Europe with a coastline from northern Russia to the Dutch English Channel in the south. Good detail on Iceland. North to the top.In the ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1666
Pascaert van Engelant Van t'Voorlandt tot aen Blakeney waer in te sien is de mont vande Teemse.
Two charts on one sheet. One decorative sea chart of the southeast coast of England with an inset of the Thames till London, embellished with two title cartouches, a ship...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1666
Cust van Hollant Tussen de Maes ende Texel.
Uncommon chart of the coast of Holland, including the southern tip of Texel. East at the top. Two fine compass cards, soundings and a large Bree Veerthien offshore.Piete...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1666
Pascaart..de Zuyder-Zee, Texel..Vlie-stroom..'t Amelander…
An eye-catching chart of the Zuiderzee with east to the top.Pieter Goos (ca. 1616-1675) was one of the most important cartographer, engraver, publisher and print seller o...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1666
Pas-Caart van de Oost Zee verthooende alle de ghelegenheydt tusschen t Eylandt Rugen ende Wyborg. . .
An eye-catching chart of the Baltic Sea. Engraved by Gerard Coeck.Pieter Goos (ca. 1616-1675) was one of the most important cartographers, engravers, publishers and print...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1666
Noordoost Cust van Asia van Japan tot Nova Zembla.
Important for its early depiction of Hokkaido and the Islands to the North of Japan. Ships navigate the seas around the Siberian, Chinese and Japanese coast extending as ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1666
Pascaerte Van't Westelyckste der Middelandsche Zee. . .
An eye-catching chart of the western part of the Mediterranean Sea.Pieter Goos (ca. 1616-1675) was one of the most important cartographer, engraver, publisher and print s...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1666
Paskaert vande Bocht van Vranckrijck Biscajen. . .
An eye-catching chart of the coast of Bretagne from Brest running south till the coast of Biscay in Northern Spain.Including the towns of Ferrol in the west, Gijon, Santa...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1666
Het Canaal tusschen Engeland en Vranciick.
An eye-catching chart of the Channel.Pieter Goos (ca. 1616-1675) was one of the most important cartographers, engravers, publishers and print sellers of Amsterdam. His wi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1666
Asie.
This rare map of Asia was published by Jollain in 1667. Published in "Trésor Des Cartes Geographiques Des Principaux Estats de Lunivers".This atlas is based up...
Place & Date: Paris, 1667
Hollandiae pars septentrionalis, Vulgo Westvriesland..
Based on the work of B.F.van Berckenrode, this fine map, orientated west to the top of the sheet, includes Kennemerland and Hollands Noorderkwartier and is a reasonably u...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1667
Incliti Cantonis Friburgensis Tabula, autore Francisco Petro VON DER WEID. Senatore et Commissario generale Friburgi. anno Domini 1668.
Very rare 2-sheet map and the first map of the canton Fribourg (Freiburg) in a scale of Scale 1:120.000. South to the top.The area shown on the map encompasses the whole ...
Place & Date: Fribourg, 1668
Impery sino Tartarici Supremus Monarcha.
Decorative costume plate showing Kam Hi son of the Shunzhi Emperor of China [1638 - 1661?], the second emperor of the Manchu Qing dynasty, who apparently supported the fo...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1668
Paskaerte Zynde t'Oosterdeel Van Oost Indien, met alle de Eylanden daer ontrendt geleegen van C. Comorin tota aen Iapan.
An eye-catching chart of Pieter Goos' sea chart of Australia, Southeast Asia, China, Japan, Korea and India. The chart shows the regions from Cape Comorin (Southern India...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1669
Guiana sive Amazonum regio.
This very rare map shows northwest Latin America with Surinam and French Guiana and was engraved by Johann Philipp Thelott. The map comes from the work of Johann Joachim ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1669
An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham, Emperor of China deliver'd by their excellencies, Peter de Goyer and Jacob de Keyzer, at his imperial city of Peking. . .
Very rare first English text edition of this most important and early resource on China and the Chinese. Three parts in one folio by John Macock for the author.Part I: An...
Place & Date: London : Printed by the Author at his house in White-Friers, 1669
Diverses cartes et tables pour la géographie ancienne, pour la chronologie et pour les itinéraires et voyages modernes.
Edition without date. Variant edition containing three parts : "Cartes géographiques dressées pour bien entendre les Historiens… / La Chronologie en plusieurs Ta...
Place & Date: Paris, l'Auteur, no date ca.1669
L’Atlas de la Mer ou Monde aquaticque.
Original blind-stamped vellum binding ; attractive ORIGINAL HAND-COLOR in outline with cartouches, windroses and decoration in full orginal color ; internally some usual ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, sur le Cay de Teexel, prez du Rams-Koy, au miroir de la Mer, 1670
Een ander gesicht van de Oost Indische Werf: uyt het Ye.
Decorative engraving giving good detail of the entrance of the IJ with in the background the ship building wharf of the V.O.C. and its ware house, presently the Maritime ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1670
La Chine d'Athanase Kirchere de la compagnie de Jesus, illustrée de plusieurs monuments tant sacrés que profanes et de quantité de recherches de la nature. . .
Athanasius Kircher, S.J., (1601 or 1602-1680) was a 17th-century German Jesuit scholar who published around 40 works, most notably in the fields of oriental studies, geol...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1670
Canibales Insulae.
Rare, early Dutch nautical chart of the Caribbean from Puerto Rico southward.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1670
Course de Baque et Disposition des Quadrilles, dans l'Amphiteatre seconde journée.
An early and intriguing engraving recording one of the most celebrated and spectacular festivals held at Paris by the young Louis XIV. The multi-day tournament took place...
Place & Date: Paris, imprimerie royale, 1670
Nova Virginia Tabula.
A beautifully engraved map, derived from the highly influential map by Captain John Smith in 1612, showing Chesapeake Bay and the surrounding area. The decoration of this...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, J.Meurs, 1671
![[Title page to] Atlas mayor, o geographia Blaviana : Que contiene las cartas, y descripciones de Partes Orientales de Europa.](/uploads/cache/29952-250x250.jpg)
[Title page to] Atlas mayor, o geographia Blaviana : Que contiene las cartas, y descripciones de Partes Orientales de Europa.
Title page from a Spanish text edition of the Atlas Major. Ionic portico with celestial and terrestrial globes. To the left is Ptolemy with a sphere and a pair of compass...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c.1672
Brasila.
Map of Brazil extending from C. Nasou and Parime Lago to the Mouth of the Rio de la Plata. Oriented with West on top.The cartography of the region is quite primitive. The...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1673
Yucatan . . . Et Guatimala Conventus Iuridicus.
Very attractive map encompassing the Mexican heartland, the Yucatan peninsula, and the old Spanish Audiencia of Guatemala including Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and pa...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1673
Nazareth.
Decorative view of Nazareth, below a decorative cartouche with numbered key and surrounded by 2 cherubins. Taken from a very rare travel book by Anthonius Gonsales, "...
Place & Date: Antwerpen, Michiel Cnobbaert, 1673
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Rama. [Ramah]
Town plan of Ramah, about 5 miles (8 km) from Jerusalem and near to Gibeah. Below a decorative cartouche with numbered key and surrounded by 2 cherubins.Taken from a very...
Place & Date: Antwerpen, Michiel Cnobbaert, 1673
Turckschemoniken die onder den goddelycken. . .
Decorative picture of three dervishes dancers. Their whirling dance, also known as the sema, is a serious religious ritual performed by Muslim priests in a prayer trance ...
Place & Date: Antwerpen, Michiel Cnobbaert, 1673
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Via Bethleem. [The route from Jerusalem to Bethlehem ]
The route from Jerusalem to Bethlehem. Below a lettered key. Taken from a very rare travel book by Anthonius Gonsales, "Hierusalemsche Reyse". The book describe...
Place & Date: Antwerpen, Michiel Cnobbaert, 1673
Recueil de divers voyages faits en Afrique et en l'Amerique, qui n'ont point esté encore publiez.
First edition of this collection of significant and interesting voyages, edited by a scholar and book collector who served in the employ of Louis XIV before being appoint...
Place & Date: Paris, Louis Billaine, 1674
Tractus Littorales Guineae a Promontorio Verde usque ad sinum Catenbelae.
Chart of the West coast of Africa from Mauritania up to Angola. In top centre a very decorative title cartouche.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1675
French composite atlas made up of rare maps published by Parisian editors from the 17th century , mainly by G. Jollain including scarce maps of America.
A rare French composite atlas including 90 maps, published by Parisian publishers from the 17th century, mainly by Gérard I Jollain, or by maps bought from Dutch publish...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1675
Carte de la Hongarie a l'Autriche. .
A detailed and scarce map showing Hungary and Austria engraved by de François Lapointe (Lépine). Dated 1664.With a dedication to Ferdinand-Ernest Comte d'Abensperg-Trau...
Place & Date: Paris, 1676
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'...
Place & Date: London, 1627 - 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...
Place & Date: Paris, 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...
Place & Date: Paris, 1676
Paris, Lutetia, Parisii, Ville Capitale du Royaume de France.
View of Paris seen from the hill "Belleville based on that of Merian (1616) but updated with the new gates Saint-Denis and Saint-Martin. With a key 1-78 and A-Z. Sur...
Place & Date: Paris, after 1676
Carte de L'Empire d'Alemagne par P. Duval. . .
Uncommon map of Germany and the eastern part of Poland. In upper right corner a dedicational cartouche with coat of arms and dedication to Saint-Laurens.
Place & 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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1677
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1678
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 ...
Place & Date: Zürich, M. Schauffelberger Erbin, 1678
(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...
Place & Date: Rome, 1679
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...
Place & Date: Paris / Amsterdam, 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...
Place & Date: Paris 1679
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
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...
Place & 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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 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...
Place & Date: Oxford, 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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680