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Vasten avonds Vreugde krans en tooneel stuk. . .
Page taken from "Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid : vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der actie, bubbel en windnegotie, in Vrankryk, Engeland, en de Ne...
- $150 / ≈ €143
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Amsterdam aan de Waterkant vanaf 't IJ te Sien.
A panoramic view of the town from 't IJ. Engraved by Daniël Stoopendaal.
- $300 / ≈ €285
Date: Amsterdam, 1694
Politica Maramea Inglese - Rugantino - n°419 - Roma 17 Gennaio 1892.
Satirical print relating to the British Conquest of Egypt (1882), also known as Anglo–Egyptian War, between Egyptian and Sudanese forces under Ahmed ‘Urabi and the Un...
- $200 / ≈ €190
Date: Rome, January 17, 1892
AIR France - Le plus grand réseau du monde.
Created in 1959 by the artist Lucien Boucher, showing all of the DC-7 Air France Routes. The Blue Pink Poster is one of a series of eight posters commissioned by Air Fran...
- $2750 / ≈ €2613
Date: Imprimerie Perceval, Paris, 1959
La Flamboyante Colomne des Pays-Bas. Autrement dict les XVII Provinces. Chez Jacob Colom.
Rare atlas of the Low Countries, by Jacob Colom, in an early – first- French edition. The atlas was first printed in Dutch (1635) and than in 1636 in French, using the ...
- $3500 / ≈ €3326
Date: Amsterdam, 1636
Walachia Servia, Bulgaria, Romania.
The cartographer of this map was Gerard Mercator. This attractive map of the Eastern Balkans is centered on Bulgaria and includes the Bosphorus and Constantinople. The Da...
- $350 / ≈ €333
Date: Oxford, 1680
L'Europe en Sept 1939. Ille terrarum mihi angulus ridet.
A rare oversized serio-comic map of Europe at the start of the Second World War depicting stereotypes of 31 countries, as listed in the key lower right, including Brit...
- $9000 / ≈ €8553
Date: Bruges, Leon Burghgraeve, 1939
Franciae orientalis../ Monasteriensis et osnaburgensis..
From 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [Atlas of the Whole World]' published in Antwerp. French text on verso.The map of Frankenland is prepared by Sebastian Rotenhan (1478-1532) ...
- $250 / ≈ €238
Date: Antwerp, c.1574
Descriptio Arabie / Arabia.
A rare miniature map of the Arabian Peninsular. Title cartouche on the lower right corner.First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were executed by the m...
Date: Amsterdam, Cornelis Claes, 1606
Terra Firma et Novum Regnum Granatense et Popayan.
A handsome map of modern-day Panama and Colombia. The cartouches and decoration are colored in an artistic way. Very fine and rare with this type of coloring.From "l...
Date: Amsterdam, 1635-1638
The Dutch are attacked by giant crabs.
During their return voyage, the Portuguese were wrecked on a sandbank (the Seychelles?) From the debris they began building a smaller ship in which they hoped to return t...
Date: Frankfurt, 1598
Black Sea.
Decorative steel engraved map of the Black Sea with inset views of Sebastopol and Odessa. There are also vignettes of Constantinople, Sinope and Varna. Taken from "T...
Date: London, London Printing and publishing Company of London, ca. 1851
Pascaerte vande Caribische Eylanden, vande Barbados tot aende Bocht van Mexico ‘t Amsterdam By Hendrick Doncker. . .
First state. Rare. “This chart appeared in the first edition of Hendrick Doncker’s Zee-Atlas, of which no surviving example is known” -- Burden. This is an example ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1659
![[ Original Chinese advertising poster for a cigarette brand.] Red Lion cigarette brand.](/uploads/cache/45068-500x500.jpg)
[ Original Chinese advertising poster for a cigarette brand.] Red Lion cigarette brand.
This poster, an advertisement for Red Lion Cigarettes brand from the 1930s, melds the meticulous detail of traditional Chinese painting with the craft of color lithograph...
Date: Shanghai, 1934
![[ Original Chinese advertising poster for a cigarette brand.] Jintan cigarette brand.](/uploads/cache/45070-500x500.jpg)
[ Original Chinese advertising poster for a cigarette brand.] Jintan cigarette brand.
This poster, an advertisement for Jintan Cigarettes brand from the 1930s, melds the meticulous detail of traditional Chinese painting with the craft of color lithography....
Date: Shanghai, 1934
Concours international de chant . . .
Chromo lithographed poster, "Concours international de chant . . . .", by DONNAY, A. Plate 59, published in Maître 15, on Fébruary 1897. The "Les Maitres...
Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, April 1897
Manoeuvres executées du 7 au 13 mai sous le Commandement du général Koeltz,par le XIXe Corps d'Armée. . .
Poster by Gaston Ry [aka René Rostagny] (1902-1978) showing the allied manouvers in Tunesia. On May 4, 1943, the nineteenth CA offensive drew most of the German tanks to...
Date: Alger, Bacconnier, 1943
Malte Vue prise de la Mer. - Malta Vista lomada del mar.
Very decorative view of the Grand Harbour of Malta by Louis Lebreton, published in "Ports de Mer d’Europe" in 1859 by L. Turgis in Paris.This lithography show...
Date: Paris, Turgis, 1859
French composite atlas made up of rare maps published by Parisian editors from the 17th century , mainly by G. Jollain including scarce maps of America.
A rare French composite atlas including 90 maps, published by Parisian publishers from the 17th century, mainly by Gérard I Jollain, or by maps bought from Dutch...
Date: Paris, ca. 1675
Secours pour les enfants qui naissent sans donner signe de vie.
Broadsheets etchings with two vignettes and extensive descriptive text about child born without sign of life.Composed by François Chaussier and etched by L. Baltard. Fra...
Date: Paris, ca. 1825
Secours à donner aux noyés.
Broad sheet etchings with two vignettes and extensive descriptive text about how to rescue a flooded person.Composed by François Chaussier and etched by L. Baltard. Fra...
Date: Paris, ca. 1825
Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid, vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der Actie, Bubbel en Windnegotie, in Vrankryk, Engeland, en de Nederlanden, gespleegt in den Jaare MDCCXX...
AN EARLY ISSUE of this biting and vulgar satire on the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles and an extraordinary visual record with 78 plates of the first banking crash, sho...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Het stadhuis, van vooren.
The former Amsterdam Town Hall, now the Royal Palace. Copper engraving by Frans de Bakker after Reinier Vinkeles (1741-1816).From the well-known description of Amsterdam ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1765
Sexta etas Mundi. Folium. CCXLV
The Latin text page is illustrated with a depiction of two lovers happened to have lived in Italy: a knight named Eurialus, who was the personal attendant of Emperor Sigi...
Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Нам знания станут опорой в труде (= Nam znaniia stanut oporoi v trude = Knowledge will become a support in our workforce).
Original vintage Soviet motivational poster by Y. Tupitsyn, with in top Нам знания станут опорой в труде (= Nam znaniia stanut oporoi v trude) ...
Date: Moscow, 1977
Londinum Feracissimi Angliae Regni Metropolis.
Very desirable and early plan of London - in a second state - shown from the Tower to Westminster, with the City already built-up and a ribbon development westwards along...
Date: Cologne, (1572) 1577
![[Title page colored by Georg Mack Jr. to : Hortus Eystettensis, Sive Diligens et Accurata Omnium Plantarum, Florum, Stirpium,. . .]](/uploads/cache/39343-500x500.jpg)
[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...
Date: Nuremberg, ca 1613
Vue d'une Rue Nanking.
A well-known publisher of optical prints, established in Augsburg. After a design by P.van Blankaert.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular sp...
Date: Augsburg 1760
Carte de l'Amerique Septle. Pour Servir a l'intelligence de la Guerre entre les Anglois et les Insurgents...
Second state of this extremely rare separate publication. This separately issued map is one of the most beautiful of the thirteen American Colonies from the Revolutionary...
Date: Paris, ca. 1756
Les Costes Aux Environs De La Riviere De Misisipi Decouvertes par Mr. De la Salle en 1683, et reconnues par Mr. Le Chevallier d'Iberville en 1698 et 1699 . . . 1705
A historically significant map of Florida and the Gulf Coast shows especially the Mississippi's estuary in some detail, more or less correctly located.The locations of ma...
Date: Paris, 1705
Provincie Noord-Braband.
Decorative and uncommon costume plate lithographed by Desguerrois & Co. and published by Frans Buffa & Zonen in Amsterdam. 12 illustrations of Brabant costumes: 1...
Date: Amsterdam, 1857
Quantung, e Fokien, Provincie della China...
A beautifully engraved decorative map of Southern China extending from Hainan in the West to Formosa in the East and centered on the Pearl River Delta with Macao and the ...
Date: Venice, 1691
Carte Des Detroits De Singapour Durian, Jombol et Rhio Dressee d'apres les travaux Anglais et Hollandais les plus recents . . . 1866
Rare separately issued chart of Singapore, extending to Johore, Battam, Bintang, Rempang, Galang, Jombol, Suji, Sanbon and neighboring islands, depicting coastal features...
Date: Paris, 1870
Nous vaincrons parce que nous sommes les plus forts. Souscrivez aux bons d'armement.
We win because we are the strongest. Support good armaments". Quote by the French Prime Minister Paul Reynaud. French wartime propaganda poster. colored world map - ...
Date: Pars, ca. 1939
![[Original Chinese advertising poster for Gande, Price & Co., Ltd. Hong Kong]](/uploads/cache/45059-500x500.jpg)
[Original Chinese advertising poster for Gande, Price & Co., Ltd. Hong Kong]
Original vintage Chinese poster for "GANDE, PRICE & CO. LTD., based in Hong Kong, promoting Haig Whisky (from Scotland), Moet & Chandon, Taylor’s London Dr...
Date: Shanghai, 1934
![[ Original Chinese advertising poster for ] Hataman cigarette brand.](/uploads/cache/45060-500x500.jpg)
[ Original Chinese advertising poster for ] Hataman cigarette brand.
This poster, an advertisement for Hataman Cigarettes from the 1930s, melds the meticulous detail of traditional Chinese painting with the craft of color lithography. It d...
Date: Shanghai, 1934
Use of Liége.
Contents of the Book of Hours : 1. ff. 2-7 : calender. In red and brown ink. Justification 115 x 75 mm. 2. ff. 8-11 : 4 passages des Evangiles : - Saint Jean 1, 1-...
Date: c.1480
Certificaat N° 230
Na primo januarij 1872 is houder dezes geregtigd voor 2/2147 tot hetgeen, ter zake van verjariing, zoude kunnen worden gereclmeerd, uiy gelden bij de Associatie-Cassa alh...
Date: Amsterdam, 1841
Jeu Royal de la vie d'Henri IV.
Large sheet with an animated game of goose of 63 numbered squares, spiral, counter clockwise, centripetal focused on the French king Henri IV.André Basset offers a life ...
Date: Paris, ca. 1816-1820
Carte Generale de la Terre Napoleon (à la Nouvelle Hollande)... par M.L. Freycinet an 1808.
Fine map of part of Australia prepared by Louis Freycinet during his voyage under Captain Thomas Baudin in 1800-1803. The longitude is calculated from Paris.The cartouche...
Date: Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1811
Fly TWA (Miami).
This Miami poster was created in the early 1960's by David Klein (1918 -2005) for TWA. It depicts “hotel row” along Collins Avenue leading to the corridor of South Be...
Date: 1965
(World map). Americus Vespucio novo te Duce Ducta Freto Ambivi Meritoqs Vocor.
Manuscript world map showing the American and African continent and the southern parts of Asia. In the Indian Ocean a large depiction of Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512) o...
Date: Italy, ca. 1954
Carte de la Charte de L'Antique . . .
The rare French version of this decorative pictorial world map by MacDonald Gill. "This magnificent map drawn up while the Second World War still raged is already en...
Date: London, Alf Cooke Ltd, 1943
Le Neptune Oriental ou routier general des Cotes des Indes orientales et de la Chine..
THE RARE FIRST EDITION of this important French Sea Atlas of the Red Sea, India, the East Indies, Indochina and Formosa.2° (640 x 490 mm). Title printed in red and b...
Date: Paris, 1745
Atlas des Missions de la Société des Missions-Étrangères. . .
This scarce atlas contains maps showing the locations of the Catholic missions belonging to the Société des Missions Étrangères in Asia. It covers India, Burma, Siam,...
Date: Lille, 1890
French Line CGT Poster.
French Line CGT Poster showing the Normandie cruise ship travelling from Southampton to New York, advertising an express luxury service on both the Ile de France and the ...
Date: England, ca. 1936
Untitled wartime propaganda map poster depicting Roosevelt & Churchill stuggling between each other over the African Continent.
This powerful image shows US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill in a tug-of-war over Africa. This original war poster was created by ...
Date: Paris, Bedos et Cie, 1942-1943
![[The world can be saved only by joint efforts of all states and all peoples.]](/uploads/cache/47074-500x500.jpg)
[The world can be saved only by joint efforts of all states and all peoples.]
Uncommon Soviet propaganda poster.Read more about the Soviet propaganda poster. [+]
Date: Moscow, 1986
Nova Africae Tabula.
An attractive map of the continent, added by Hondius when he took over publication of Mercator's Atlas. Although it is based on Mercator's map, Hondius improved the outli...
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
A view of the Admiralty at Amsterdam of the store houses, wharfes.. To the East India Company of Holland..
So-called optical print showing a mirror image depiction of the headquarters of the V.O.C. in Amsterdam (present-day Maritime Museum) and their wharfs' and docks, with ex...
Date: London / Paris, ca. 1752
Ville de Nimes - Concours hippique - 16, 17, 18 Juin 1895.
Belle époque original chromo lithographed poster published by A. Gautherin & J. Berndard. Together with a text panel giving information's about an Concours Hippique ...
Date: Paris, Nimes, 1895/1896
![Tutte le strade conducono a Roma. [All roads lead to Rome]](/uploads/cache/44998-500x500.jpg)
Tutte le strade conducono a Roma. [All roads lead to Rome]
Game board of the game "All roads lead to Rome" from the Fascist era, offered by the chocolate or cocoa company Talmone-Unica. Showing a world map surrounded by...
Date: Turin, 1928
![Le Royaume de Siam avec Les Royaumes Qui Luy sont Tributaries & c. / La Royaume de Siam avec les royaumes qui luy sont Tributaires, et les Isles de Sumatra, Andemaon, etc. . . [two sheet map]](/uploads/cache/40698-500x500.jpg)
Le Royaume de Siam avec Les Royaumes Qui Luy sont Tributaries & c. / La Royaume de Siam avec les royaumes qui luy sont Tributaires, et les Isles de Sumatra, Andemaon, etc. . . [two sheet map]
Influential map of Southeast Asia and the East Indies including modern day Thailand, southern Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, Borneo, Sumatra and Java. Ottens inc...
Date: Amsterdam, 1710
Réseau aérien mondial.
"Sur les ailes d'Air France, découvrez le monde à votre tour" lithograph poster from AIR France. A great mid century design by Air France advertising poster b...
Date: Imprimerie Perceval Paris, ca. 1940-1950
Everything that the party has designed, we will do. 12 and five years of specific action.
Uncommon Soviet propaganda poster.Read more about the Soviet propaganda poster. [+]
Date: Moscow, 1986
Recueil de cartes géographiques pour la description de l'Indostan . . .
First French edition, the maps revised by Jean Nicholas Buache. The English original edition was published in London in 1783 by Brown under the title "Memoir of a ...
Date: Paris, Poignée, an VIII = 1800
Save means to increase.
Uncommon Soviet propaganda poster.Read more about the Soviet propaganda poster. [+]
Date: Moscow, 1986
Mer de Chine - Detroit De Singapour Partie Comprise Entre Singaour et Le Dett. De Malacca d'apres les travaux du Commr. J.W. Reed de la Marine Royale d'Angleterr, executes de 1865 a 1869 et les documents Hollandais . . . 1873
A detailed chart of Singapore Strait, drawn from an English Chart by J.W. Reed, who surveyed Singapore and environs between 1865 and 1869, aboard the H.M.S. Rifleman.The ...
Date: Paris, 1873
Mappemonde contenant les parties connues du globe terrestre dressée suivant de nouvelles observations
Wall map of the world in two hemispheres printed on two sheets, depicting the Eastern and Western hemispheres supported by two male figures, decorated at the bottom right...
Date: Paris, Longchamps et Janvier, 1754
ST MORITZ.
An original Swiss travel poster for St. Moritz, 1948, lithograph in color on paper, depicting a smiling yellow sun skiing (the symbol of the Engadine region of Switzerlan...
Date: Zürich, 1948
Mexico.
Unusual poster for Mexican tourism, published by Asociacion Mexicana de Turismo, The artist is unknown and the design is surreal and modern at the same time.The popularit...
Date: Mexico, ca. 1935
Excelsiori (Rana N. 28 - Cent. 20).
"After so many wars and so many troubles, young Russia, in a more serene glaze all the beautiful sun of freedom you will enjoy ... ". Fascinating allegorical sa...
Date: Bologna, 1905
ADSEC in Action from Thames to Rhine.
A pictorial map showing the allied movement from London on 14 March 1944 thru the conquest of Germany. Showing the track from London along Bristol, crossing the British C...
Date: London, 1945
A folding fan showing Cleopatra at the Gates of Alexandria, circa 1750-1760.
The fan shows Cleopatra at the Gates of Alexandria, where she welcomes Julius Caesar who came to visit her in 48BC. Her suite is made up of soldiers and maids. The arriva...
Date: English, ca. 1750-1760
![[Anti capitalism Soviet Union propaganda poster]](/uploads/cache/47032-500x500.jpg)
[Anti capitalism Soviet Union propaganda poster]
Propaganda mini anti-capitalism poster published in Russia during The Cold War. By the 1960’s and 1970’s, outrageous practices in Soviet bureaucracy flourished. Poor ...
Date: Leningrad, 1974
Chinae, olim Sinarum regionis. . .
The first printed map of China. It is signed by Ludovico Georgio, whose real name was Luis Jorge de Barbuda. He was a Portuguese Jesuit cartographer and besides that a sp...
Date: Antwerp, 1598
Illuminated leaf from a Psalter.
Very fine 20 lines illuminated leaf from a liturgical Psalter in Latin with the reading from the Vulgate Bible, Deuteronomy 32:16 - 32:27. Lines in a slightly irregular g...
Date: England, c. 1280
Casino d'Enghien.
Chromo lithographed poster, "Casino d'Enghien.", by CHERET, Jules. Plate 129, published in Maître 33, on August 1898. The "Les Maitres de l'Affiche" ...
Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, April 1890
Pacific Stars and Strips Map of the War.
A detailed map of the Korean War. Several silhouetted flying military aircraft are shown in formation. The map shows the Korean Peninsula from its northern border with Ru...
Date: America, 1953
Cartes pour le tom V de mineraux. (Atlas des cartes des déclinaisons et inclinaisons de l'aiguille aimantée, rédigées d'après la Table des observations magnétiques faites par les voyageurs depuis l'année 1775).
Published to accompany Buffon's treatise on magnetism and magnets the atlas contains 8 maps of the "de´clinaisons et inclinaisons de l'aiguille aimante´e re´dige...
Date: Paris, 1783-1788
Novi Belgii novae que Angliae nec non partis Virginiae..
The third state with Fort Kassimier and Philadelphia and nearby placenames added. To the south the Dutch colony of Nieu Amstel. New nomenclature and a key appear around t...
Date: Amsterdam, 1684
This is our biography.
Uncommon Soviet propaganda poster.Read more about the Soviet propaganda poster. [+]
Date: Moscow, 1986
Glaucus, Cantharus, Salpa, Rarus. (Piscium Vivæ Icones - Fish)
Depiction of Glaucus, Cantharus, Salpa, Rarus. Fish set against a mountainous landscape in the manner of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Plate number 12. The engraving is copi...
Date: Antwerp, after 1598
A new & accurate map of Asia, drawn from the most approved Modern Maps & Charts.
An excellent engraving of Asia. The map renders the entire continent in excellent detail with mountains, rivers, lake and forests. The map is of interest for the use of S...
Date: London, ca 1771
Faber piscis, Asellus minor, Conger, Alburinus. (Piscium Vivæ Icones - Fish)
Depiction of Faber piscis, Asellus minor, Conger, Alburinus. Fish set against a mountainous landscape in the manner of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Plate number 14. The eng...
Date: Antwerp, after 1598
Gladius piscis, Galeus piscis, Araneus, Mugil. (Piscium Vivæ Icones - Fish)
Depiction of Gladius piscis, Galeus piscis, Araneus, Mugil. Fish set against a mountainous landscape in the manner of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Plate number 15. The engr...
Date: Antwerp, after 1598
La Corvette la recherche au milieu des glaces.
Beautiful lithograph by A. Mayer and Bayot of the corvette "La recherche" surrounded by Ice. Published by Arthus-Bertrand and Lemercier in Paris.From Joseph Pau...
Date: Paris. Arthus-Bertrand, 1838-1852
Dutchman and a Maruyama prostitute.
An explicit scene of a Dutchman and a Maruyama prostitute, featuring a gray-bearded westerner coupling with a courtesan. The woman protests that she doesn't understand wh...
Date: Late Edo, 1790
![[TAI travel poster]](/uploads/cache/44894-500x500.jpg)
[TAI travel poster]
A whimsical travel poster for "Transport Aeriens Intercontinentaux" (TAI), published in Paris in 1960, design by François Lesourt (Périgueux, 1913 - 1997). Th...
Date: Paris, Hubert Baille & Cie Paris, 1960
Temperance (Temperantia) from The Virtues.
Very decorative engraving by Philip Galle (Haarlem 1537–1612 Antwerp) after Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Breda (?) ca. 1525–1569 Brussels). The print was published by Hi...
Date: Antwerp, Hieronymus Cock, 1580