Browse Listings
The Dutch are attacked by giant crabs.
During their return voyage, the Portuguese were wrecked on a sandbank (the Seychelles?) From the debris they began building a smaller ship in which they hoped to return t...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1598
(Art déco gouache)
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The g...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1930
Carte Generalles des Royaumes & Provinces, de la haute et basse Allemagne, Reveües et Corigées, par le Sr. Tassin, Geographe Ordinaire de Sa Ma.té.
Illustrated with 51 (of 52) maps of The Netherlands, Belgiem, Germany, France, Poland, Bohemia...Christophe Tassin, who was active from 1633 till 1655, was appointed 'roy...
Place & Date: Paris, [Sébastien Cramoisy], 1633
Pas-Kaat vaneen gedeelte van de Aethiopische Zee behelsende de Kusten Zanguebar, Ajan en Abex, en een gedeelte van de Arabische Kust. . .
A finely engraved and detailed chart of the most eastern tip of Africa, including Somalia, Djibouti, Yemen, Mauritius, and many other islands in the Indian Ocean.Very rar...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1753
A manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours.
RECTO: Four 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds. colorful panel border of acanthus leaves and flowers, with black penwork.VERSO: One 2-line initial and seve...
Place & Date: Western France, ca. 1445
CCCP/USA, 1966
Original 1968 Cold War Superman Style Poster by Roman Cieslewicz (1930-1996). Published by Georges Fall, Paris. Printed by Serg, Paris.In 1968 the Parisian left-wing ar...
Place & Date: Serg, Paris, 1968
Imperii Sinarum nova descriptio.
Schenk and Valk's rare early 18th century issue of Janssonius milestone map of China, Korea and Japan after Martino Martini. Engraved by Johannes van Loon. The overall ba...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1720
Hydrograhica descriptio
This very rare chart is important as the first printed sea chart of the Mediterranean coast of Spain, Gibraltar, also depicting the northern coast of Marocco.Willem Bar...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, W.Blaeu, 1612
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...
Place & Date: Venice, 1690
Occidentalis Americae partis.
The most beautifully engraved early map of the Caribbean, including Florida and the Southeast. The map includes representations of Columbus' ships and various notes regar...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594
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
Solimannus Turcarum Imperator X. Ex Stirpe Ottomannicae.
The engraving depicts a half length oval portrait of "Solimannus Turcarum Imperator X", signed lower right corner N. de Cleck". Nicolaes de Clerck (de kler...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
(Art-déco gouache)
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The g...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1930
Morokoshi Meisho Zue [Illustrated Description of Famous Sites of China].
Published in Osaka, Kawachiya Genhichiro, et al. [8 book sellers], slightly later issue but apparently in Edo period, using all the same woodblocks of original first edit...
Place & Date: Osaka, Edo, slightly later than Bunka 3, year of the tiger - 1806
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
[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
Vue d'un Feu d'Artifice tiré devant l'Hotel de Ville en réjouissance de la Paix.
Optical view, illustrating a fireworks display in front of the Paris city hall.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular speciality establishment...
Place & Date: Paris 1760
De Bello Belgico, Decas PrimaDeces II.
Each volume contains an engraved title with a representation of the Netherlands and Belgium in the shape of a lion, with one paw resting on a shield bearing the title, a ...
Place & Date: Rome, Franciscus Corbelletus, 1632-1647
Virginie, Grande Region l'Amerique Septentrionale...
Pierre van der Aa used the old copper plate of Meurs and re-did the engraving, changed the large pictorial cartouche, a new scale of German and French leagues is provided...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1729
Arabia Felice Nuova Tavola.
Fine early map of Arabian peninsula, being one of the earliest modern maps of the region.Girolamo Ruscelli first published the map in his "La Geographi di Claudio To...
Place & Date: Venice, 1598
Nouvelle Carte De L'Asie Avec Des Tables Alphabetiques Pour Trouver Sans Peine Les Etats Des Principaux Princes De Cette Partie Du . . .
Chatelain's map of Asia. The title is in two lines across the map. On each side border appears an index to the map's contents.The map is of interest for the use of Mer Or...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1719
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A more than 600 years old antiphonary leaf, written in Besançon, in 1370. Musical notation on 4 bars, the staves are in red and the notes in black: numerous pen-flourish...
Place & Date: Besançon, 1370
Asia secunda pars in forma Pegasi.
UNRECORDED PLATE or STATE. Asia depicted as the flying horse Pegasus. Below the depiction 3 lines of engraved Latin text. Double page copper engraved map from Heinrich B...
Place & Date: Brunswick, ca. 1635
Politica Maramea Inglese - Rugantino - n°419 - Roma 17 Gennaio 1892.
Satirical print relating to the British Conquest of Egypt (1882), also known as Anglo–Egyptian War, between Egyptian and Sudanese forces under Ahmed ‘Urabi and the Un...
Place & Date: Rome, January 17, 1892
AIR France - Le plus grand réseau du monde.
Created in 1959 by the artist Lucien Boucher, showing all of the DC-7 Air France Routes. The Blue Pink Poster is one of a series of eight posters commissioned by Air Fran...
Place & Date: Imprimerie Perceval, Paris, 1959
[Collection of six maps of Australia and New Zealand.]
Collection of maps including 6 engraved maps by 19th century German, French and English cartographers depicting Australia and New Zealand.This made to order atlas contain...
Place & Date: Germany, 1832-1852
Beschrijving van Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien. Vervattende een Naukeurige en uitvoerige verhandelinge van Nederlands Mogentheyd [...] met meer dan thien honderd en vyftig Prentverbeeldingen verrykt...
"The most comprehensive work on Asia published in Europe during the early colonial period" (Landwehr). The first book to give a comprehensive account in text an...
Place & Date: Dordrecht /Amsterdam, 1724-1726
Dynastiae Comitat. Schoenburgici Penig, Remissa, Rochsburg, Wechselburg In Clientela Elect: Saxon Glaucha, Hartenstein, Lichtenststein, Walkenburg. . .
A very uncommon and superbly decorative map of Lower Saxony, the region southwest of Dresden. Including the towns of Rochlitz, Geringswalde, Mittweida, Frankenberg, Chemn...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1750
Novus XVII Inferioris Germaniae Provinciarum Typus.
Willem Blaeu published this map in 1608 as a wall map with figured borders. When later, in 1630 he needed a general map of the Netherlands for his first atlas, the Append...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634
Asia secunda pars terrae in forma Pegasi.
Asia depicted as the flying horse Pegasus. Thiscartographical curiosity, double page copper engraved map, was published in Heinrich Bünting's “Itinerarium Sacrae Scrip...
Place & Date: Brunswick, 1640
Carte Astronomique de L'Univers.
A large and decorative, informative chart illustrating and describing the Solar System, backed by the stars, printed in blue and black, surrounded by further 17 vignette ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1875
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.
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 publis...
Place & Date: Dublin, 1767
Het Friessche Doolhoff, het beruchte dorp Molk-Worren
Uncommon map made in 1718 by Johannes Hilarides, principal at the Latin School in Bolsward.. Probably the only printed plan of a Frisian village of that time. The map was...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1705
Asia By H.Moll Geographer.
Detailed map of Asia. From his "Atlas minor: or a new and curious set of sixty-two maps. . .", which was first published in 1729 and reprinted in 1732, 1736.The...
Place & Date: London, 1736
'T Eilandje Desima verblyf plaats der Hollanders in Japan.
Bird's-eye view of Dejima copied from a manuscript by Voogt, who was second-in-command on Deshima in 1713. The island is viewed from the landside, depicting the developme...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1739
Riga metropolis Livoniae.
A spectacular panoramic of Riga, with legends numbered from a-z and 1-16 in German. With the title in a banderol.After a design by Friedrich Bernhard Werner (1690-1776) ...
Place & Date: Augsburg, ca. 1720
The Harbour of Casco Bay and Islands Adjacent Bt Capt. Cyprian Southicke.
The earliest printed chart of Casco Bay, an inlet of the Gulf of Maine on the southern coast of Maine, New England. First issued in 1720 by Mount and Page, it remained in...
Place & Date: Dublin, 1767
Daniae regni typum . . .
Second Edition, now for the first time with a date (1630), this rare map which - like that of Janssonius-Kaerius - is based on John Speed's map of 1626. The side borders ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Fly TWA (Miami).
This Miami poster was created in the early 1960's by David Klein (1918 -2005) for TWA. It depicts “hotel row” along Collins Avenue leading to the corridor of South Be...
Place & Date: 1965
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
Carte de la Corée d'après la Carte du Dictionnaire coréen-français par les Missionnaires de Corée. . .
Map of Korea called "Corée", which was produced by the French organization Mission Etrangères de Paris (MEP) in 1880. Supposedly, the map was based on Father ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1880
(Publicity.) Thé Lyons. Renommé pur son Arome.
Original chromo lithography in-store display for Lyon's tea in Belgium and France. In 1902 the Lyons family started their little tea business on High Street in Dublin, ne...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1935
(Art-déco gouache)
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The g...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1930
Vue et description des principales villes de l'Armenie et de la Georgie avec les habillements des femmes du pays, et ceux des prêtres et religieux armeniens. . .Tom: V N° 11 Pag: 28
View and description of the principal Armenian and Georgian cities with illustrations of Armenian women's garments as well as priests' and monks' clothing. The views are ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1720
Sabena (USA - NYC).
Sabena Belgian World Airlines poster showing the skyline of New York in abstract style. Published by Rali Brisart in Belgium.La Sabena, acronym for Societé Anonyme Belg...
Place & Date: Brussels, ca. 1970
Pianta Geografia delle Isole di Malta, e Gozo della Sagra Religione Gerosolimitana di S. Giovanni delineata, ed incisa in quest anno 1761.
A rare map of Malta and Gozo printed by the priest Antonio Bova (1688 - 1775), who was active as engraver in Palermo ca. 1727-1773. He produced cartographic engravings, s...
Place & Date: Bova Ant., Palermo, 1761
Les Villes forts et châteaux de Malte capitale de l'isle de ce nom. Dessignée sur le lieu par un Ingr du roy.
A very decorative and extremely rare town-view of Valetta, including a numbered legend in lower part. Published by Jacques Chereau, (1688 - 1776). Engraved by Aveline and...
Place & Date: Paris, ca.1750
Parte orientale della China.. / Parte occidentale della China. (2 sheets)
The map depicts the eastern part of China with Korea -correctly- as a peninsula. Formosa is included as well. Japan is partly visible i.e. the area of Yamaguchi, strait K...
Place & Date: Venice, 1695
Norimberga.
A spectacular panoramic of Nuremberg, with legends numbered from 1-39 in German. With the title in a banderol.After a design by Friedrich Bernhard Werner (1690-1776) who...
Place & Date: Augsburg, ca. 1720
[Arabia]
A lovely miniature map of the region of Armenia and Georgia, showing both parts of the Black Sea and Caspian Sea. For such a small map it renders a wealth of detail, with...
Place & Date: Ulm, 1692
(Publicity poster) Amer Besset Sans Rival.
Original chromo lithographed in-store display for alcoholic drink Amer Besset. Printed by Joseph-Charles in Paris.
Place & Date: Paris, ca.1933
Il regno della Bossima diviso nelle sue provincie principali. . .
Rossi's map of Bosnia, based upon Sanson's map, but with revised Italian nomenclature. From a second edition of his 'Mercurio Geografico...'. The engraver was Cl. Botzot....
Place & Date: Rome, 1689
Tabula Russiae.
One of the most decorative maps of Russia, based on the work of Fedor Borisovich. Visscher's version of Hessel Gerritsz' rare map of Russia. In an inset -130x170mm- a pla...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1651
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Carte géologique détaillée. Zahle.
Geological map showing part of Lebanon with Zahle. , including a legend with signs of the different geological ages. Provenance : Fondation P. Fallot
Place & Date: Liban, Service geographique des F.F.L., 1945.
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Eadem Aurantia Dimidiata.
Decorative engraving representing a citrus fruit. Taken from the book "Hesperides sive de malorum aureorum" by Giovan Battista Ferrari (Italian botanist, 1584-1...
Place & Date: Rome, Scheus, 1646
Hundeliebhaberey.
Engraved by Joseph Stöber, (born in Vienna 13. June 1768, died 12 March 1852) after design of Matthäus Loder (1781-1828). From Castelli, "Zerrbilder menschlicher T...
Place & Date: Wien, 1818
Kunst is allemaal flauwe kul.
Joop Schafthuizen is a Dutch artist known for his prints. He inspired some of the books written by his partner, the famous writer Gerard Reve. "Kunst is allemaal fla...
Place & Date: Rotterdam, 1976
Carte geologique detaillee. Jbail.
Geological or soil map showing part of Lebanon with Jbail antique Byblos Ancien Port phenicien / scale 1 : 50 000., including a legend with signs of the different geologi...
Place & Date: Liban, Service geographique des F.F.L., 1945.
Nieuwe Kaart van de Westfaalse Kreits..
Isaac Tirion was born in Utrecht ca. 1705. He came to Amsterdam ca. 1725. Tirion published a number of important books, many of which are still in demand for their intere...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1745
Grimafsirter Tanz.
Engraved by Joseph Stöber, (born in Vienna 13. June 1768, died 12 March 1852) after design of Matthäus Loder (1781-1828). From Castelli, "Zerrbilder menschlicher T...
Place & Date: Wien, 1818
Carte des Royaumes de Siam, du Tunquin, Pegu, Ava, Aracan . . .
Map of Siam, du Tunquin, Pegu, Ava, Aracan. Across the top is an extensive list of 22 important sites and locations keyed to the plan with tiny letters and numbers.Jacque...
Place & Date: Paris, 1750
(Art déco gouache)
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The g...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1930
Indonesia.
Original vintage travel advertising issued by the Indonesian Council for Tourism featuring a colorful pictorial map marking the islands and oceans with images of local pe...
Place & Date: Jakarta, ca. 1955
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Souvenirs des Pyrénées. Vues prises aux environs des eaux thermales de Bagnères-de-Bigorre, Bagnères-de-Luchon, Cauteretz, Saint-Sauveur, Barèges, Les-eaux-Bonnes, Les-Eaux-Chaudes & Pau.
The thermal baths Bagnères de Bigorre, Bagnères de Luchon, Cauteretz, Saint-Sauveur, Barèges, Les Eaux-Bonnes and Pau in the Pyrenees. Beautiful collection of 24 litho...
Place & Date: Pau, A.Basset, ca. 1860
Forteresse Ile Ste Marguerite.
Nice drawing of a stronghold Ste Marguerite. The Île Sainte-Marguerite is the largest of the Lérins Islands, about half a mile off shore from the French Riviera town of...
Place & Date: France, Provence, after 1960
Modesucht.
Engraved by Joseph Stöber, (born in Vienna 13. June 1768, died 12 March 1852) after design of Matthäus Loder (1781-1828). From Castelli, "Zerrbilder menschlicher T...
Place & Date: Wien, 1818
L'Empire des Turcs.
Rare map of the Turkish empire, published by Jollain in 1667. Published in "Trésor Des Cartes Geographiques Des Principaux Estats de Lunivers".Showing "&q...
Place & Date: Paris, 1667
Nieuwe en zeer accuraate Zee-Caart van de Hollandse Wal strekkende van de Maas tot Texel opgenomen door Jan Rokusz Douw, , ,
A very fine and rare chart of the coast of Holland, Prepared by Jan Rokusz, Douw and Agge Roskam Kool.Embellished with a very decorative cartouche with a dedicational tex...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1750
Salzbourg.
Uncommon and decorative lithography published by Carl Johan Billmark and printed by Lemercier in Paris, 55 rue de Seine, the leading firm in Europe at that time. From: It...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1859
Vorstellung einiger Gegende und Plaetze in Nord America.
The title of the map in English: Picture of some surroundings and towns under French and English jurisdiction. With town plans of Louisburg on Isle Royal, Quebec and Hali...
Place & Date: Nurmberg 1756
Hippodrome de la porte Maillot. Paris Courses.
Chromo lithographed mini poster, " Hippodrome de la porte Maillot. Paris Courses. Pelouse 1 f. pesage 2 f. Nouveau sport. Grand prix : une rivière en diamants de 20...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, April 1897
(World map). Americus Vespucio novo te Duce Ducta Freto Ambivi Meritoqs Vocor.
Manuscript world map showing the American and African continent and the southern parts of Asia. In the Indian Ocean a large depiction of Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512) o...
Place & Date: Italy, ca. 1954
India Tercera Nuova Tavola.
The 1598 edition of this early map of South East Asia. Just to the west and south of Malacca one will notice ‘Camatra’ (Sumatra) and Java. China with Canton in the up...
Place & Date: Venice, 1598
(Art déco gouache)
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The ...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1930
ATLAS RUSSICUS mappa una generali et undeviginti specialibus vastissimum Imperium Russicum cum adiacentibus regionibus [repeated in French].
After an unnumbered general map of Russia there are 13 numbered maps that cover European Russia (scale 1, 1.527.000). The other (last) 6 maps cover Asian Russia (Siberia,...
Place & Date: St Peterburg, Akademie von Wissenschaften. 1745
Carte du Siège Présidial Dax... Nouvellement Deseignee Par le...
Very rare map including Bayonne and Dax in the southwest of France. With inset plan of "Plan de la ville Dax.". With the address "Chez F. Dela Pointe sur l...
Place & Date: Paris, 1638
Kiepert's Physikalische Wandkarten. VI. Nord-America.
Large folding school wall map of North and Central America printed in chromo-lithography. Published by Dieter Reimer and printed by Leopold Kraatz in Berlin. Three inset...
Place & Date: Berlin, Dieter Reimer, 1864