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Atlas usuel de Géographie Moderne…
Complete with title page, contents page, and all 32 double-page maps of European and regional maps of the world, including Oceania, the Americas, Asia, Africa, etc. All i...
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1865
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2024
Pascaarte, van de Zuijderzee, Vliestroom, Vlie, en Amelandergat…
Very rare chart of the Dutch Zuiderzee, here in its rare 5th state (o f6). Showing the coastlines along the Dutch inner sea. Two compass roses indicate north to the left ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1660
Asia recens summa cura delineata.
This is the rare early issue with decorative paneled borders of four sides. It is surrounded by elaborate borders incorporating twelve bird's eye views of cities and te...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, H.Hondius,1623
![[HAWAII] - Plan de la baye de Karakakooa.](/uploads/cache/48173-250x250.jpg)
[HAWAII] - Plan de la baye de Karakakooa.
Beautiful map showing the islands forming the Hawaiian archipelago, drawn up during Cook's third voyage: Oneeheow or Ni'ihau, Atooi or Kauai, Woahoo or O'ahu, Morotoi or ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1774
Moris Beneficio Comendatus Tabaci usus. Der durch die Mode beliebt gemachteTaback
Copper-plate engraving showing a group of fashionably dressed men and women smoking long-stemmed pipes around a table in front of a garden hedge. "Paulus Decker inv....
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1700
![[Concert at time of Handel] Dulcissimum Melos Bona Fama.](/uploads/cache/47201-250x250.jpg)
[Concert at time of Handel] Dulcissimum Melos Bona Fama.
Copper-plate engraving of the rehearsal of a chamber cantata by Johann Christoph Steudner, after Paul Decker the elder, in the Handel-Haus, Halle. (Musikgeschichte in Bil...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1700
Les Isles Britanniques, l'Espagne, la France, l'Italie, & l'Allemagne, Descrites en plusieurs cartes & divers Traictés… ("Les cinq royaumes").
First edition of the atlas of the "Five Kingdoms" (Great Britain, Spain, France, Italy and Germany) bound with the description and maps of the Eastern and Weste...
Place & Date: Paris, Pierre Mariette, 1644
![[2 maps] Nieuwe Hemels Spiegel waer door den hemel, aerde en zee dadelik kan afgemeten werden. Noyt gesien en dat op alles Polus hooghten seer noodig voor Stierlieden.](/uploads/cache/49049-250x250.jpg)
[2 maps] Nieuwe Hemels Spiegel waer door den hemel, aerde en zee dadelik kan afgemeten werden. Noyt gesien en dat op alles Polus hooghten seer noodig voor Stierlieden.
Copper engraving made by Andreas van Luchtenburg in Rotterdam, published separately by Cornelis Danckerts. Dimensions. 60.5 x 52.8 cm.We see the starry sky from the nor...
Place & Date: Rotterdam, Amsterdam, 1695
![[A unique, made-to-order edition, of the Parergon, in quo Veteris geographiae aliquot tabulae.]](/uploads/cache/49049ZG-250x250.jpg)
[A unique, made-to-order edition, of the Parergon, in quo Veteris geographiae aliquot tabulae.]
This is a unique, made-to-order atlas of Ortelius's Atlas, "Parergon" or "Atlas of the ancient world." In 1579, Ortelius published his first Parergon ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca. 1601-1640
Leo Belgicus.
Among the greatest decorative works of early cartography is a series of arresting maps showing The Netherlands and Belgium in the shape of a lion. The various versions of...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1617