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Nouvel atlas de la Chine, de la Tartarie chinoise, et du Thibet.
First edition of "the principal cartographic authority on China during the 18th century". It was the second major atlas of China produced in Europe following th...
Place & Date: The Hague, H. Scheurleer, 1737
[Printed on silk] Nieuw Wassende Graaden Paskaart Vertoonende alle de bekende Zeekusten en Landen op den geheelen Aard Boodem of Werelt door Gerard van Keulen. . .
A very scarce and beautiful chart on Mercator's projection printed on silk. With the name of Gerard van Keulen and the privilege. The map shows great interior detail, inc...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1728
Globe Terrestre Didié et Présénté a Monseigneur le Comté Maubec de Brancas...
Terrestial globe dated 1741. Complete title "Globe Terrestre Didié et Présénté a Monseigneur le Comté Maubec de Brancas Par Jacque Hardy. Dressé sur ...
Place & Date: Paris, dated 1741
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
Secunda etas mundi. Folium XIII.
Schedel's world map was based on the cartographic system of Claudius Ptolemy, the great second-century AD geographer whose scholarship formed the foundation for map produ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
NEWTON'S New and Improved TERRESTRIAL GLOBE Accurately delineated from the observations of the most esteemed NAVIGATORS AND TRAVELLERS to the Present Time. . .
A very impressive Victorian 20-inch Library globe showing the "Gulf of Corea". On an exceptionally carved mahogany tripod stand with scrolling acanthus legs ter...
Place & Date: London, January 1, 1867
Venise. 1700
Extremely rare panoramic broad sheet panoramic town-view of Venice with underneath in letter press a description of the town's history. The view measures more than 1 mete...
Place & Date: Paris, 1699
Nouvelle et exacte description du globe terrestre reveue corrigée et augmente´e suivant les derniéres relations des Anglais et Hollandois. Par Guillaume Blaeu 1645.
Extremely rare and decorative "carte a figures" world map published by Anthoine de Fer. The double hemisphere world map is surrounded by constellations of the A...
Place & Date: Paris, 1645
COLLECTION OF HONG KONG MAPS, BOOKS & FLYERS. Including CHINA - HONGKONG surveyed by Captn. Sir Edward Belcher, in H.M.S. Sulphur 1841. Corrected to 1901.
A collection of 30 maps, prints, and publications relating to Hong Kong. Including : - BELCHER, E. Sir, An updated version of this most important nautical chart of Hong K...
Place & Date: London, 1841 - 1901
[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...
Place & Date: Paris, 1720-1735
Lion and Bull made of terracotta.
Very fine terracotta figure of a lion symbolizing the continent of Africa. The Bull symbolizing Europe.The items will be dispatched in 4 wooden crates from Belgium. Pleas...
Place & Date: Netherlandisch , 1780~1800
[ 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...
Place & Date: Japan, Kansei 4, 2nd month, 9th day, 30 March? 1792
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...
Place & Date: Korea, ca. 1790
Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae. Das ist: Ein Reisebuch...
Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae. Das ist: Ein Reisebuch, Uber die gantze heilige Schrifft, in zwey Bücher geteilet... Zuvor gemehret mit einem Büchlein De monetis et mens...
Place & Date: Magdenburg, 1587
A unique composite atlas with updated Porro maps.
Unique composite atlas containing in total 84 maps - 82 maps engraved by Girolamo Porro and heavenly reworked around 1686 and 2 newly engraved maps; Piccola Tartaria (Cr...
Place & Date: Venice, 1686
Novus de Leone Belgico eiusq topographia atq. Historica descriptione liber (…). Rerumque in Belgio maxime gestarum, inde ab anno Christi M.D.LIX. Usque ad annum M.D.LXXXVII perpetua narratione continatus.
ENLARGED EDITION, with 207 (of 208) engravings of a famous eyewitness account of the Dutch Revolt, with the famous "Leo Belgicus" map, here in its second state...
Place & Date: Cologne, Gerardus Campensis for Frans Hogenberg, 1588
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
(Chatelain "Atlas Historique" in 7 volumes.]
Henri Abraham Chatelain, whose Atlas Historique was one of the most expansive encyclopedias of the age. First published in 1705, Chatelain's Atlas Historique was part o...
Place & Date: Amsterdam: Chez Zacharie Châtelain, 1732 - 1739
Manuscript map of the Bay of Nagasaki.
An extremely rare manuscript chart in brown ink and wash color on a printed sheet of paper with a system of rhumblines and latitude scales. This chart shows the Bay of Na...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1750
Matching set of four wallmaps of America, Asia, America, Europe.
Rare and decorative set of four wall maps published by Louis Charles DESNOS ( fl.1750-1770), including a border with vignettes describing native scenes. Each panel is acc...
Place & Date: Paris, 1760-1761
Histoire de la Navigation.
A fine example of Linschoten's classic illustrated travelogue to the East and West Indies, termed by Lach “the most important of the firsthand accounts published indepe...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Evert Cloppenburgh, 1638
[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 ...
Place & Date: Paris and Cadiz, Mondhare, 1785-1793
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 ...
Place & Date: Strasbourg, J. Grüninger, 1522
Composite atlas of the Low Countries.
A composite atlas comprising 18 double-page engraved maps by or after Hessel Gerritsz, Theodoor Galle, Jacob van Deventer, Gerard Mercator, Peter Verbiest, Jean Surhon, C...
Place & Date: [Antwerp, c. 1633
Le Théâtre du monde dédié au roi contenant les cartes générales et particulières des royaumes et états qui le composent.
The present example of the Théâtre du monde is the reissue of 1746 by Jean-Baptiste Nolin II. This scarce atlas is illustrated with 123 maps mostly double-page, in orig...
Place & Date: Paris, 1746
[Manuscript chart on vellum of the Java Sea]
One of the few manuscript charts on vellum in private hands, signed by Isaac de Graaf. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT MAP IN RED, GREEN AND BLACK INK showing the Java Sea centered o...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1743
AN EXCEPTIONAL AND VERY RARE PAIR OF CELESTIAL AND TERRESTIAL GLOBES.
BLAEU, Willem Janszoon (1571-1638) AN EXCEPTIONAL AND VERY RARE PAIR OF CELESTIAL AND TERRESTRIAL GLOBES, 9inch / 23cm, with an overall height of 38 cm, Amsterdam, dat...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, dated 1602, but published after 1621