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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...

$5000 / ≈ €4679
Maker / Publisher: JUSTEL, H.
Place & Date: Paris, Louis Billaine, 1674

 


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...

$7500 / ≈ €7018
Maker / Publisher: DUVAL, P.
Place & Date: Paris, l'Auteur, no date ca.1669

 


Aliae Formae Citrati Limonis Alios Includentis.

Decorative engraving representing a citrus fruit. Taken from the book "Hesperides sive de malorum aureorum" by Giovan Battista Ferrari (Italian botanist, 1584-1...

$200 / ≈ €187
Maker / Publisher: FERRARI, G. B.
Place & Date: Rome, Scheus, 1646

 


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...

$275 / ≈ €257
Maker / Publisher: FERRARI, G. B.
Place & Date: Rome, Scheus, 1646

 


Quinta Asie Tabvla.

Woodblock map of Persia from Martin Waldseemüller's 1513 edition of Ptolemy,  a landmark work that contributed to major advances in both Renaissance geography and map p...

$5000 / ≈ €4679
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY, C. / WALDSEEMÜLLER, M.
Place & Date: Strasbourg, J. Schott, 1513

 


Very rare share in the Ostend Company. (299)

Upper left hand corner share number "299" in manuscript. In top emblem of the Company in copper engraving. Text: " De Directeurs van de generale Keijserlij...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: OSTEND COMPANY
Place & Date: Antwerp / Ostend, 1723

 


Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini mathematicor[um] ...Octo libri Geographie. . .

Third edition of "Géographie" by Ptolemy and published in Strasbourg. Illustrated with 50 maps engraved in wood. One of the more important maps is showing the ...

$85000 / ≈ €79536
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMEE, C. / FRIES. L.
Place & Date: Strasbourg, J. Grüninger, 1522

 


[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

 


Carta militar das principaes estradas de Portugal.

Rare road map of Portugal in a scale of ca 1:470000. At the bottom right and left legends in Portuguese and French. Engraved by Romão Eloy de Almeida, who was a Portugue...

$500 / ≈ €468
Maker / Publisher: DE ALMEIDA, R.E.
Place & Date: Lisbone, 1808

 


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...

$225 / ≈ €211
Maker / Publisher: PAUTY, E.
Place & Date: France, Provence, after 1960