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Oost-Indis Zee Magazyn - Arçenal des Indes Orientalis.

Decorative view of the East Indian Arsenal, now-a-says the Maritime Museum.

$150 / ≈ €140
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1700

 


Arcenal de l'Amirauté.

A decorative print of the 'T Landts Magazyn , or 'Scheepvaart Museum' (Naval Museum).

$80 / ≈ €75
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1700

 


D' Admiralyteyts Huys - La maison de l'Amirauté.

Decorative print of the "D'Admiralyteits Huys", Het Prinsenhof, of the Dutch East India Company VOC. Located at the Oudezijds Voorburgwal 195-199, Amsterdam.

$150 / ≈ €140
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1700

 


A Map and History of Peiping; formerly known as Peking; capital of provinces, princedoms and kingdoms since 1121 B.C. . .

The uncommon second edition of this very decorative and informative pictorial map of Beijing and surrounding areas whimsically illustrates the Forbidden City, essential e...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: DORN, F.
Place & Date: The Peiyang Press, Ltd. Tientsin-Peiping, 1936

 


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...

$200 / ≈ €187
Maker / Publisher: DAPPER, O.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, J. van Meurs, 1663

 


Theatrum praecipuarum urbium Ducatus Brabantiae. / bound with : [Hogenbergs Geschichtsblätter].

Volume including two series :1st series : [Schut, Pieter Hendricksz]. Theatrum praecipuarum urbium Ducatus Brabantiae… Illustrated with an engraved title page and 43 pl...

$6000 / ≈ €5614
Maker / Publisher: [SCHUT, Pieter Hendricksz.] / VISSCHER, N. J.
Place & Date: (Amsterdam), N. Visscher, 1657 / Cologne, 1566-1579

 


Nieuwe kaart van het oostelykste deel van Holland. . .

Detailed map covering the area of Gouda, Iisselstein, s'Hertogenbosch, Zevenbergen, Dordrecht.

$200 / ≈ €187
Maker / Publisher: TIRION, I.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1749

 


Art arabe. - Mosquée d'el-Bordeyny. . .

Lithographed by Daumont. From the author's "L'Art Arabe d'après les monuments du Kaire…". Emile Prisse d'Avennes, Orientalist and Muslim convert, obsessive i...

$60 / ≈ €56
Maker / Publisher: PRISSE D'AVENNES, E.
Place & Date: Paris, 1877

 


Tabula Asiae XII (Sri Lanka, with Elephant)

The FIRST edition of Munster's first modern map of Sri Lanka, which appeared in his "Geographia Universalis", first published in 1540. The Geographia was a new ...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545

 


Siberie ou Russie Asiatique, Tartarie Chinoise, Pays des Eluts et Isles du Japon.

Map of the Kamchatka peninsula, Russian Far East., Korea, Japan, with Hokkaido labeled "Terre del Jeso".By C. F. Delamarche, successor of Robert de Vaugondy, Ge...

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: VAUGONDY, R. de / DELAMARCHE
Place & Date: Paris, 1794 - 1806

 


Romani Imperii Imago.

Very rare map in a first edition by Jacques Honervogt. Copied after a map by Ortelius but much rarer. The medallion portraits are of Romulus and Remus - the genealogical ...

$2500 / ≈ €2339
Maker / Publisher: HONERVOGT, J.
Place & Date: Paris, 1630

 


Carte des Isles d'Acores.

Uncommon and detailed map of the Azores. With inset maps of Port de St.Cruz and harbor and town of Angra on the island of Terceira. It was at the time an important port a...

$450 / ≈ €421
Maker / Publisher: COVENS, J. / MORTIER, C.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1730

 


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: &...

$500 / ≈ €468
Maker / Publisher: DU VAL, P.
Place & Date: Paris, 1684

 


Quinta Etas Mundi. Folium. LXXXII

Latin text page with woodcuts on recto and verso of Saints, Kings, and Queens. On verso a large wood cut of A giant colossus, executed by Chares of Lindus (Clare Lydo), t...

$80 / ≈ €75
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493

 


L'Asie suivant les nouvelles observations...

Uncommon edition of this map of Asia.  From Le Nouveau Theatre du Monde, ou la Geographie Royale.The map is of interest for the use of Mer Orientale, the sea between Kor...

$750 / ≈ €702
Maker / Publisher: AA, P. van der
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1728

 


Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.

21 lines of printed text, surrounded by Renaissance borders decorated with flowers and little miniatures with figures on both sides.From the press of the leading Parisian...

$125 / ≈ €117
Maker / Publisher: BOOK OF HOURS
Place & Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c. 1520-1540

 


Hyderabad Dn - See Indias, premier state (Taj Mahal).

Beautiful color lithographed travel poster promoting India, more precisely the Taj Mahal.Published by Azam Steam Press Hyd. Dn.active in India.

$1200 / ≈ €1123
Maker / Publisher: WOODSEY, C.A.
Place & Date: India, 1930

 


Nova Germaniae Descriptio..

A finely engraved carte à figures, with the side borders depicting emperors, while the upper and lower panels contain finely engraved miniature town prospects, among the...

$2500 / ≈ €2339
Maker / Publisher: JANSSONIUS, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1632

 


Café des gourmands E. Guittard - Excellent.

Original chromo lithographed coffee advertising poster by Gonthier-Dreyfus & Co., for E. Guittard & Co. The company was started by Eddy Guittard, who emigrated fr...

$380 / ≈ €356
Maker / Publisher: GONTHIER-DREYFUS et CO
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1880
Selling price: $380
Sold in 2023

 


AIR France - Gastronomie

An atypical Air France poster designed by Roger Bezombes in 1980 that turns traditional Air France poster art on its head: if the goal of an advertising poster is to crea...

$700 / ≈ €655
Maker / Publisher: BEZOMBES, R.
Place & Date: Murlot, Paris, 1981

 


Inde.

Decorative poster advertising flights to India made by Georges Mathieu. The poster is one of a series of 15 composed of posters of Greece, Israel, Germany, Great Britain,...

$200 / ≈ €187
Maker / Publisher: MATHIEU, G. / AIR France
Place & Date: Paris, 1967

 


Spoorweg Museum Thans in Het Rijksmuseum.

Interesting Art Deco style poster for the Railway Museum, now in the Rijksmuseum. Carolus Adrianus Maria Thole (20 April 1914 – 26 March 2000) was a Dutch-Italian paint...

$1400 / ≈ €1310
Maker / Publisher: THOLE, K.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1942

 


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 / ≈ €112
Maker / Publisher: Broad sheet advertising poster.
Place & Date: France, c.1790

 


[Voyage en Suisse / Reise die Schweiz.]

A first edition children's folding board game of Switzerland and its many places and sights to visit. Although it is missing most of its original components (dice, cards,...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS.
Place & Date: Switzerland, 1891

 


Key Map of Hong Kong Relative to Canton and Macao.

A nice folded map of Hong Kong and the surrounding areas. Produced by the British Crown Lands Survey Office just after WWII. Physical features are shown by contour. Railw...

$750 / ≈ €702
Maker / Publisher: CROWN LANDS & SURVEY OFFICE.
Place & Date: Hong Kong, 1948

 


Mappa Humoristico da Europa.

A really unusual and lovely map, published in Portugal at the outbreak of The Great War in 1914. This outbreak of war in Europe was the result of a complex sequence of ev...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: SOARES, A.
Place & Date: Lisbon, 1914

 


[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...

$4750 / ≈ €4445
Maker / Publisher: ALLARD, C.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1661

 


[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...

$6500 / ≈ €6082
Maker / Publisher: Dumoulin-Dumont d'Urville / Kiepert, H./ Weiland, C.F.
Place & Date: Germany, 1832-1852

 


A fine bronze cannon.

Cannon built up of two truncated conusses, differing in size, the steps marked by mouldings shaped as flat bands preceded by ogees: base ring similar; breech with ogee-sh...

$6000 / ≈ €5614
Maker / Publisher: V.O.C.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1755

 


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

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 a...

$1800 / ≈ €1684
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1649

 


Terrae Yemen Maxima Pars, seu Imperii Imami, Principatus Kaukeban nec non ditionum Haschid u Bekil, Nehhm, Chaulan, Abu Arisch et Aden Tabula ...

South-west Arabia, with the Saudi Arabian city of Jizan south to Aden. With a fine title, cartouche. Based on a map by Carsten Niebuhr. With the name Sinus Arabicus Mare ...

$700 / ≈ €655
Maker / Publisher: LOTTER, T. C.
Place & Date: Augsbourg, 1774

 


Candia cum Insulis.. Corfu Zante, Milo, Nicsia, Santorini.

Four views on one sheet: A large map of Crete, with three smaller views across the top showing the Ionian Islands of Kerkira (Corfu), Cephalonia and Zakinthos (Zante.) Th...

$500 / ≈ €468
Maker / Publisher: MERCATOR, G. / HONDIUS, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630

 


Botanibay, Englischer Verweisungs Ort fur Verbrecher. / Laijene Franzosicher Verweisungs Ort fur Verbrecher.

Copper engraving with four scenes and one portrait of Frederick III of Saxony on one sheet. In the upper part fanciful views of Botany Bay with English and French settlem...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED BAUMANN & CO.
Place & Date: Zittau, 1798-1800

 


Carte du Katay ou Empire de Kin. . .

The map is of interest for the use of Mer de Corée, for the sea between Korea and Japan .Fine map of Korea and China's Yellow Sea. Complete title in top: Carte du Katay ...

$500 / ≈ €468
Maker / Publisher: BELLIN, J.N.
Place & Date: Paris, 1750

 


Partie de la Chine. N°.74 (Including South Korea)

Covering the Mouth of the Yangtze area in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and southwestern Korea with the island of Quelpart (Jeju-do). Shows explorers' routes, including La Perou...

$550 / ≈ €515
Maker / Publisher: VANDERMAELEN, Ph.
Place & Date: Brussels, 1825-1827

 


Map of China.

Showing China, Taiwan and Korea, divided into provinces with the main cities marked. The map is of interest for the use of Sea of Corea, the sea between Korea and Japan, ...

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: NEELE, S. J.
Place & Date: London, 1804

 


Carte du Katay ou Empire de Kin. . .

The map is of interest for the use of Mer de Corée for the sea between Korea and Japan .Fine map of Korea and China's Yellow Sea. Complete title in top: Carte du Katay o...

$450 / ≈ €421
Maker / Publisher: BELLIN, J.N.
Place & Date: Paris, 1750

 


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...

$2200 / ≈ €2059
Maker / Publisher: ANTIPHONARIUM
Place & Date: Besançon, 1370

 


La China e Giapone.

Uncommon map of China, Korea, Japan and Taiwan (I.Formosa), only one town labeled, Tayoan. Very strange shape for Japan.The map is of interest for the use of Mar di Corea...

$500 / ≈ €468
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: Italy, ca. 1800

 


A Map of the most Inhabited part of New England containing the Provinces of Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire, with the Colonies of Connecticut and Rhode Island.

A copper engraving in four sheets, published in Georges Louis Le Rouge, in his "Atlas Ameriqua in Septentrional Contenant les details des differentes provinces, de c...

$4000 / ≈ €3743
Maker / Publisher: LE ROUGE, G. L.
Place & Date: Paris, 1777

 


Le Japon.

The map is of interest for the use of  Mer de Corée, for the sea between Korea and Japan. Small detailed map of Japan and Korea. Dated 1749. A note next to island &quo...

$250 / ≈ €234
Maker / Publisher: VAUGONDY, R. de
Place & Date: Paris, 1749

 


Carte du Golfe de Bengale, mer des Indes et rivieres du Gange . . .

Detailed scare map of the Southern part of India with Ceylon. Good detail along the coasts of Malabar, Coromandel, the Maldives islands and the Kingdoms of Visipour, Golc...

$500 / ≈ €468
Maker / Publisher: Van der AA, P.
Place & Date: Leide, 1719

 


Habiti delle Donne Venetiane . . .

Title page of the book Habiti delle Donne Venetiane" (Dress of Venetian Women) which consists of twenty numbered plates of ornately dressed women. This very decorati...

$1000 / ≈ €936
Maker / Publisher: FRANCO, G.
Place & Date: Venice, ca. 1591

 


Asia for the Elucification of the Abbe Gaultier's Geographical Games.

An unusual Children's educational map of Asia, Countries depicted in different colors, and with only some physical features engraved, like mountain ranges and rivers, som...

$350 / ≈ €328
Maker / Publisher: ASPIN, Jehoshaphat.
Place & Date: London, 1823

 


Histoire Socialiste.

Text includes “Imp. Centre de Propagande, des Républicains Nationaux, 102, rue Amelot, Paris (XIe), ou l’on peut se procurer cette affiche. Cette affiche ne peut êt...

$1750 / ≈ €1638
Maker / Publisher: CENTRE DE PROPAGANDE DES REPUBLICAINS NATIONAUX
Place & Date: Paris, 1931

 


Singapore.

Chart of Southern part of Malaysian peninsular showing good detail on of Singapore. Map with legend and scale.

$1250 / ≈ €1170
Maker / Publisher: War Office.
Place & Date: London, 1944

 


[World and 4 continents] Carte Geographique Astronomique Chronologique et Historique du Monde.

French wall map of the world in 4 sheets published by Crépy "à l'entrée du Cloistre de St. Benoist du côté des maturins". A decorative wall map of the worl...

$25000 / ≈ €23393
Maker / Publisher: (INSELIN, Charles / CREPY [Family]
Place & Date: Paris, 1720-1735

 


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...

$800 / ≈ €749
Maker / Publisher: DE LA POINTE, F.
Place & Date: Paris, 1638

 


(Sea-chart of Catalunia, Languedoc, Provence, Cote d'Azur, Riviera, Corsica with Marseille, Cannes, Nice, Monaco.)

This very rare chart is important as the first printed sea chart of France's Mediterranean coast, also depicting Catalunya's northern coast, the Italian Cote d'Azur till ...

$4000 / ≈ €3743
Maker / Publisher: BARENTSZ, Willem.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1607

 


'Art déco' illstration.

A beautiful art déco illustration depicting a nice landscape with a woman playing with a hind. A striking example of commercial artworks produced by the artist and graph...

$75 / ≈ €70
Maker / Publisher: PICHON, Robert (Workshop).
Place & Date: Paris, between 1925 and 1930

 


Le bon Quinquina - Robert Dubonnet Sport.

Advertising lithographed poster for Le bon Quinquina - Robert Dubonnet Sport.

$50 / ≈ €47
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: Paris, between 1925 and 1930

 


Limonades sodas - Fontenoy.

Advertising lithographed poster for Fontenoy.

$75 / ≈ €70
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: Paris, between 1925 and 1930

 


Un Reclutatore in India. Papagallo No. 42. Anno VI.

British in India. Design by Augusto Grossi. Taken from the Italian satirical newspaper Il Papagallo, a satirical magazine founded in January 1873 by Augusto Grossi (1835-...

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: GROSSI, A.
Place & Date: Bologne, 1878

 


Chosen Danpan - Korean negotiation.

A scene of a Japanese legation under the command of Hanabusa Yoshitada who is forcing the Korean King Kojong (1852-1919) to agree to Japanese demands during the Chemulpo ...

$1500 / ≈ €1404
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: August 8, MEIJI 27th year or 1894

 


Mariner’s compass

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

$7500 / ≈ €7018
Maker / Publisher: MANN
Place & Date: Liverpool, ca. 1785

 


A ship's hour glass.

Maritime hourglass with blown glass bulbs, orange sand, junction ring covered with cord, the circular ebony frame with six turned baluster columns. The invention of the ...

$2400 / ≈ €2246
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: Germany, ca. 1750

 


Nocturlabe in boxwood and brass.

Nocturlabe in boxwood and brass, the wheels maintained by a central nut presenting an annual calendar divided into months and days, an hour disc and a mobile alidade, the...

$12000 / ≈ €11229
Maker / Publisher: UNKNOWN
Place & Date: England, ca. 1700

 


Steel compass with a gilded radiating pattern.

Steel compass with a gilded radiating pattern.Provenance : Collection Henri-Claude Randier.

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: ca. 1760

 


Nocturnal in boxwood and brass.

Nocturlabe in boxwood and brass, the wheels maintained by a central nut presenting an annual calendar divided into months and days, an hour disc and a mobile alidade, the...

$15000 / ≈ €14036
Maker / Publisher: COOPER, Th.
Place & Date: England, Thomas Cooper, dated 1701

 


Transom of a ship in gilded carved wood bearing the inscription "DUMONT- DURVILLE"

Decorative transom sign in gilded carved wood bearing the inscription "DUMONT- DURVILLE" in a foliage environment. The transom usually kept the name of the ship...

$4500 / ≈ €4211
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: France, ca. 1880

 


A ship's hour glass.

Maritime hourglass with blown glass bulbs, orange sand, junction ring covered with cord, the circular ebony frame with six turned baluster columns.The invention of the ho...

$1750 / ≈ €1638
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: The Netherlands, Germany, ca. 1750

 


Nova et recens emendata totius Regni Ungariae una cum adiacentibus et finitimis regionisbus delineatio.

Engraved map by Jan van Deutecum, here the very rare first edition published by Cornelis Nicola in Asterdam in 1596. In very attractive original coloring.A re-issued was ...

$3000 / ≈ €2807
Maker / Publisher: DOETECUM, J. van.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornelius Nicol, 1596

 


Reine-Marguerite. Aster chinensis. L.

A bouquet of flowers. Engraved by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch-born Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "Fleurs dessinées d'aprè...

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: SPAENDONCK, Van. G.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1800

 


Neflier cultivé. Mespilus germanica. L.

A bouquet of flowers. Engraved by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch born Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "http://www.swaen.com/Fleu...

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: SPAENDONCK, Van. G.
Place & Date: Paris, ca.1800

 


Chêne commun.

Engraved by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch born Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "Fleurs dessinées d'après nature. . . receuil ...

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: SPAENDONCK, Van. G.
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1800

 


Seringat odorant. Philadelphus coronarius. L.

Bouquet of Seringats. A bouquet of flowers. Engraved by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch born Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "Fle...

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: SPAENDONCK, Van. G.
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1800

 


Grande Capucine Tropoeolum majus. L.

The true Nasturtium, stipple engraving by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch-born Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "Fleurs dessinées...

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: SPAENDONCK, Van. G.
Place & Date: Paris, c.1800

 


Franciae orientalis../ Monasteriensis et osnaburgensis..

From 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [Atlas of the Whole World]' published in Antwerp. French text on verso.The map of Frankenland is prepared by Sebastian Rotenhan (1478-1532) ...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS,A./ GALLE,T.
Place & Date: Antwerp, c.1574

 


Waschinga Sahba's Grab.. (Wakonda Creek.)

Original aquatint engraving for Travels in the Interior of North America between 1832-34 . Engraved by Ch. Vogel. The finest work on American Indian life and the American...

$250 / ≈ €234
Maker / Publisher: BODMER, Karl
Place & Date: London/ Paris/ Coblenz, 1839

 


Carte Réduite Des Côtes Orientales De L' Amérique Septentrionale Contenant Partie du Nouveau Jersey.. Virginie.. Georgie..

Uncommon chart that extends from Delaware Bay and Philadelphia south through much of Georgia to Island Amelia and St. Johns River. Fleur-de-lis and rhumb lines fill the s...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: DÉPÔT GÉNÉRAL DE LA MARINE / DE SARTINE,A.
Place & Date: Paris, 1778

 


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...

$500 / ≈ €468
Maker / Publisher: GOOS, P.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660

 


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...

$350 / ≈ €328
Maker / Publisher: JANSSONIUS VAN WAESBERGH, J.
Place & Date: Oxford, 1680

 


Vue de Boston vers le Cale du Port.

A view of the port of Boston, the center of New England shipping in the colonial period. The closing of the port after the Boston Tea Party led to the calling of the Firs...

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: HABERMANN, F.
Place & Date: Augsburg 1762

 


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...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: MORTIER, P.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1690

 


Ruremunda Gelriae opp.

A bird's eye town-plan of the town of Roermond. From the first Dutch translation of Guicciardini's description of the Netherlands.

$200 / ≈ €187
Maker / Publisher: GUICCIARDINI, L.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1612

 


Echelle pour trouver les jours de la semaine. . . / Scale om de Dagen van de Week te vinden. . . / Scale to find the Days of the Week. . .

Fine engraved plate showing eight different scales with explications in French, Dutch and English.Scale om de dagen van de week, de verschietende feest-dagen, de maan-tyd...

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: MORTIER, P.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1695

 


Carro, che uà à vela Su le Piagge di Schevelingue.

Italian version of Prince Maurits' sailing carriage designed by Simon Stevin. The big sailing-carriage could seat 28 persons and could reach a speed of seven miles per ho...

$150 / ≈ €140
Maker / Publisher: CORONELLI, V.
Place & Date: Venice, 1707

 


Vaisseau du premier rang portant pavillon d'amiral.

Fine double-page engraved plate of a naval vessel, with the various parts of the ship numbered and identified. From Mortier's "Neptune François". From Mortier'...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: MORTIER, P.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1695

 


Coupe d'une galère avec ses proportions - Quille d'une Galere sur le chantier.

Fine double-page engraved plate of a cutaway of a standard late 17th-century French galley with a detailed legend of parts (in French). Below is a representation of the k...

$1500 / ≈ €1404
Maker / Publisher: MORTIER, P.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1695

 


Urbium Londini et West-Monasterii nec non Surburbii Southwark Accurata Ichnographia ,., Neuester Grundris der Staedte London und West-Munster, Samt der Vorstadt Southwark ,.,

Detailed plan of London, extending from Grosvenor Square in the west to Mile End to the east, To the right inset views of St, James's Square, and Custom House, elevations...

$3500 / ≈ €3275
Maker / Publisher: HOMANN, J,B.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1736