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[Title page] De Praecipuis, Totius Universi Urbibus, Liber Secundus.
Allegorical title page, from Volume 2 of Braun & Hogenberg's Civitatus Orbis Terrarum.At the top are figures representing Religion and Politics, placed on either side...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1582
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...
Place & Date: Venice, ca. 1591
[Title page] Perspective die hooch-gheroemde conste..
Title page from Perspective, Dat is, de hooch-gheroemde conste eens schijnende in oft door-siende ooghen-ghesichtespunt ... (&c.) by Hans, or Johannes Vredeman de Vri...
Place & Date: Leiden, 1604
[Title page] Geographiae libri octo Graeco-Latini . . .
Fine decorative titlepage from the 1605 edition of Ptolemy. The plate is adorned with allegorical figures, fruits and architectural motifs. This 1605 edition was based on...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1605
[Title page for] Atlas Minor de Guerard Mercator. . .
Title page from a 1608 French edition of the Atlas Minor (351:11). The title page is similar to that in the Latin edition of 1607, but a slip of paper with the engraved t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
[Title page colored by Georg Mack Jr. to : Hortus Eystettensis, Sive Diligens et Accurata Omnium Plantarum, Florum, Stirpium,. . .]
Title page to the first edition, one of about 300 copies printed, from one of the largest and most magnificent of the great flower books, depicting more than 1000 flowers...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, ca 1613
[Title page] Les plans et profils de toutes les principales villes et lieux considerables de France . . .
Title page of the first part of the atlas "Les plans et profils de toutes les principales villes et lieux considerables de France", by Nicolas Tassin.Nicolas Ta...
Place & Date: Paris, 1634
[Title page from ] Le Theatre du Monde ou le nouvel atlas mis en lumière par Guillaume et Jean Blaeu. Troisieme partie.
Frontispiece of " Le Theatre du Monde ou le nouvel atlas mis en lumière par Guillaume et Jean Blaeu. Troisieme partie." Very clear print with nice cartouches a...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
[Title page from ] Le Theatre du Monde ou le nouvel atlas mis en lumière par Guillaume et Jean Blaeu.
Frontispiece of the second part of this fine atlas. At top, a coat of arms surmounted by a crown and surrounded by two golden chains, the bigger carrying a pendant which ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644
[Title page from ] Le Theatre du Monde ou le nouvel atlas mis en lumière par Guillaume et Jean Blaeu. La seconde partie de la seconde.
Frontispiece of the second part of the second part of this fine atlas. At top, a coat of arms surmounted by a crown and surrounded by two golden chains, the bigger carryi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644
[Title page from ] Le Theatre du Monde ou Nouvel Atlas . . .
A very decorative frontispiece by Willem Blaeu from the second part of this fine atlas. At top, a coat of arms surmounted by a crown and surrounded by two golden chains, ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644
[Title page from ] Le Theatre du Monde ou le nouvel atlas mis en lumière par Guillaume et Jean Blaeu. La seconde partie de la premiere.
Frontispiece of the second part of the first part of this fine atlas. At top, a coat of arms surmounted by a crown and surrounded by two golden chains, the bigger carryin...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644
[Title page from Theatrum orbis Terrarum, with past-on]
The frontispiece of the third part of the 'Theatrum', by Johan Blaeu. Heightened with goldDecorated with terrestrial and celestial globes and to the left Ptolemy (with sp...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1650
[Title page for ] Atlas de la Terre ou Monde Terrestre - Tome premier]
Title page of " Atlas de la Terre ou Monde Terrestre - Tome premier" by J. Jansonius. This is the updated version of 1:42B. The figures of the king, queen, daup...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1650
[Title page] Atlas Tot Amsterdam Bij Iustus Danckers in de Calverstraet inde Damcbaerhrijt.
Decorative title page with the figure of Atlas, standing on a globe of the Old World. The left and bottom right corners have animals and people from different parts of th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1680
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[Title page] Le Nouveau & Grand Illuminant Flambeau de la Mer. La troisième partie. …Par Nicolas Jans Vooght.
Allegoric frontispiece of the third edition of the "Zee-Fakkel" with French text. The "4" from the date 16"89" is in manuscript.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1689
Illustriss et excellentiss D.Paulus Quirini divi Marci procurator.
Fine text page from Isolario Dell'Atlante Vento. with two copper engraved portraits printed within letter press. In top portrait of "Hieronymus Quirinus" (60x55...
Place & Date: Venice, 1691
[Title page] Isolario.
Fine title page from Isolario Dell''''Atlante Vento..More about Coronelli. [+]
Place & Date: Venice, 1691
[Title page] Le Nouveau Theatre du Monde.
The fine engraved frontispiece by F. Bleiswyk entitled "Le Nouveau Theatre du Monde" for Pieter van der AA. Shows Atlas carrying the world on his shoulders acco...
Place & Date: Leiden, 1713
[Title page] La Sphere Royale.
Title page from Nicolas de Fers "La Sphere Royale", published in 1717. Showing a sphere, surrounded by Neptune, Europe, the elements and scholars.
Place & Date: Paris, 1717
[Title page for ] Atlas Novus Terrarum orbis Imperia.
Title page from Atlas Novus printed by Johann Ernst Udelbulner. Large elaborately engraved sheet with numerous allegorical figures. A large globe, showing the Eastern Hem...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1732
[Title page] Atlas Novus Terrarum Orbis Imperia. . .
The lovely title page from Homann's Grosser Atlas uber de Gantsa Welt (Grand Atlas of all the World)with striking color and features. It shows Atlas and Hercules / Herakl...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, ca 1737
[Title page] Atlas Minor Praecipua Orbis Terrarum Imperia, Regna et Provincias , Germaniae Potissimum. . .
An attractive and highly decorative title page to Seutter's Atlas Minor. Engraved by Martin Crophius after Jacob Weyerman. The engraving is packed with lively figures fro...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1744
D. Cassini. Né en 1625. mort en 1712.
Very rare stipple engraved portrait of Jean Dominique Cassini. Dominique Cassini was the son of César-François Cassini de Thury, the grandson of Jacques Cassini and the...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1750
[ Text / title page Charts of the coasts and harbours of New England . . .]
Letter press text page, taken from the "Atlantic Neptune".The Atlantic Neptune is universally recognised as one of the most magnificent atlases ever made.Exampl...
Place & Date: London, 1777
[Title page] Atlante Novissimo, Tomo I . . .
Decorative Venitian frontispiece from Antonio Zatta's "Atlante Novissimo tomo I".
Place & Date: Venice, 1779
[Title page for] Recueil de cartes sur la geographie ancienne . . .
Title-frontispiece of "Recueil de cartes sur la geographie ancienne", published by Rigobert Bonne in 1783, engraved by Louis Legrand.More about title pages [+]
Place & Date: Paris, 1783
M.Merian, l'Ancien célébre graveur . . .
Portrait of Matthäus Merian (1593-1650) by Hubert. Matthäus Merian der Ältere was a Swiss-born engraver who worked in Frankfurt for most of his career, where he also ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1784
[Title page] Atlante Novissimo, illustrato ed accresciuto . . .
Decorative Venitian frontispiece from Antonio Zatta's Atlas Atlante Novissimo, illustrato ed accresciuto . . . . The outer decoration of this title page has a wealth of c...
Place & Date: Venice, 1785
[Title cartouche from Carte de la France]
Title cartouche from "Carte de la France", prepared by Captaine and published by Pierre D. Belleyme.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1789
[Title page] Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes éxécuté par ordre de S.M l'Empereur et Roi.
Set of two title pages from the atlas part of "Voyage de decouvertes aux terres australes", Freycinet and Peron's accounts of the French cartographic expedition...
Place & Date: Paris, Langois, 1811
Courtiers and Cannibals, Angels and Amazons: The Art of the Decorative Catographic Titlepage
This book aims to preserve and bring forward for wider appreciation the outstanding works of art that many engraved title pages and frontispieces represent. Over the time...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 2009
[Title page for] Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.
A decorative title page of the first atlas ever made shows five female figures as allegorical representatives of the continents, grouped around the title. According to P...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1570 or later.