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Tombeau de Soultan Qalaoûn.
Lithograph by Bernard Schmidt representing the tomb of sultan Ibn Qalaoun, founder of the mamluk dynasty during the 13th century. The tomb has some rich stained glass and...
Place & Date: Paris, 1877
Sibyl d'Ahmed Hoceyn Margouch.
Lithograph by Fichou. From the author's "L'Art Arabe d'après les monuments du Kaire...". Emile Prisse d'Avennes, Orientalist & Muslim convert, obsessive in...
Place & Date: Paris, 1877
Calendrier de la cour, tiré des éphémérides, pour l'Année bissextile.. / Notebook bearing silver plates with the VOC monogram.
A personal gift, only made for the trustees of the V.O.C. The silver plate was probably made by Drick van Hengel and Company because an entry in the diary of mintmaster J...
Place & Date: Paris, 1787
Kiepert's Physikalische Wandkarten IV. ASIEN. . .
Wall map of Asia printed in chromo lithography. Published by "Stich und Druck der lith. Anst. Von Leopold Kraatz in Berlin". Physical map showing the Asian cont...
Place & Date: Berlin, D. Reimer, 1873
Wandkarte des Deutsches Reiches zum Schul und Comptoir-Gebrauch. . .
School wall map of Germany, Poland, Low Counties, Bohemia printed in chromo lithography with contemporary hand coloring to borders. Published by "Stich und Druck der...
Place & Date: Berlin, Dieter Reimer, 1878
Manuscript atlas.
Charming manuscript atlas with 6 maps, pen and ink and water color, showing France, Europe, Africa, Palestine, North America and South America.The atlas is done by a youn...
Place & Date: France, 1835
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...
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...
Place & Date: Paris, l'Auteur, no date ca.1669
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...
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...
Place & Date: Strasbourg, J. Schott, 1513