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A plan of the City and Environs of Philadelphia. . .
The Lotter edition of Scull & Heap's seminal Philadelphia map, which map was first issued in 1752.Holmes' grid plan for the city is shown, situated between the rivers...
Publisher: LOTTER, M.A.
Date: Augsburg, 1777
Miniature of Suffrages to the Saints.
A fantastic miniature (70 x 50 mm.) in an arched compartment showing the Suffrages to the Saints. Depiction of the (50) martyrs being burnt before King''s orders. The sty...
Publisher: BOOK OF HOURS.
Date: France, Bretagne or Normandy, c. 1480
De golf van Bengalen.
Rare of the Indian Ocean, with nice detail on Ceylon (Sri Lanka) with compass roses and system of rhumb lines, soundings and anchorage's. Many place names. The plate was...
Publisher: DONCKER, H.
Date: Amsterdam, after 1669-1712
Tabula Russiae ex autographo, quod delineandum curavit Foedor filius Tzaris Boris desums... - Domino regionum Iueriae Kartalinie et Groefiniae Tzari etc: dedicata ab Heselo Gerardo M.DC.XIIII
A re-issue, by Willem Blaeu, of Hessel Gerritsz' rare and influential map of Russia. Dutch text on verso, extending west to east from Emden to Aspachan and north to south...
Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Date: Amsterdam, 1635
Mufle de veau. Antirrhinum majus L.
Bouquet of Common Snapdragons, engraving by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch born Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "Fleurs dessiné...
Publisher: SPAENDONCK, Van. G.
Date: Paris, c.1800
A manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours. (Calendar month of August)
RECTO : Calendar month of August with a 2-line initial in liquid gold on colored ground. colorful panel border in the left margin of acanthus leaves and flowers, with bla...
Publisher: BOOK OF HOURS
Date: Paris, ca. 1450
Helmond.
A panoramic view of the Helmond, seen from the Kromme Steenweg .
Publisher: GUICCIARDINI, L.
Date: Arnhem, 1613
Carte du Katay, ou Empire de Kin : pour servir a l'Histoire de Jenghiz Khan, raportée dans l'Histoire generale des voyages, tirée de l'Angloise.
The map is of interest for the use of East Sea, the sea between Korea and Japan, here called "Mer de Corée".Fine map of Korea and China's Yellow Sea. Complete ...
Publisher: BELLIN, J.N.
Date: Paris, 1750
Carte Réduite Du Golphe Du Mexique Et Des Isles De L' Amérique..
A well engraved and highly detailed chart prepared by Bellin of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. In addition to a magnificent title cartouche and a color key to the ...
Publisher: DÉPÔT GÉNÉRAL DE LA MARINE / BELLIN, J.N.
Date: Paris dated year 17, or 1808
An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham, Emperor of China deliver'd by their excellencies, Peter de Goyer and Jacob de Keyzer, at his imperial city of Peking. . .
Very rare first English text edition of this most important and early resource on China and the Chinese. Three parts in one folio by John Macock for the author.Part I: An...
Publisher: NIEUHOF, J.
Date: London : Printed by the Author at his house in White-Friers, 1669