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Divisione Militare di Novara. Pallanza / Ossola.
Very finely engraved and detailed map of the region of Novara, including Lago Maggiore to the right. Lower corners, two inset plans of Pallanza and Ossola. Upper right co...
Place & Date: Rome, 1860
Compartimento Pisano.
Very finely engraved and detailed map of the territory of Pisa, including the region of Lucca and Estense. Lower left corner, an inset plan of Pontremoli. In the lower ri...
Place & Date: Rome, 1860
![[Title page] Atlante Novissimo, Tomo I . . .](/uploads/cache/43898-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Atlante Novissimo, Tomo I . . .
Decorative Venitian frontispiece from Antonio Zatta's "Atlante Novissimo tomo I".
Place & Date: Venice, 1779
Carte des Missions Catholiques du Sud Africain.
Map of the Catholic Missions in South Africa. Inset map of L'Ile St. Hélène.Published as supplement of the Les Missions Catholiques. To the lower right an inset key to ...
Place & Date: Paris, Monrocq, 1902
Nieuwe Caart der Eylanden van Banda.
Decorative map of the Banda Islands.François Valentijn (1666-1727), a missionary, worked at Amboina from 1684 to 1694 and 1705 to 1713 and travelled extensively in the V...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1726
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Manuscript leaf on vellum from a Dutch Book of Hours.
A leaf from a medieval manuscript Book of Hours, written in Utrecht.Fourteen lines of monastic Textura script with 4 two-line initial "I" in liquid gold on a bl...
Place & Date: Utrecht, ca.1450 - 1460
Manuscript leaf on vellum from a Dutch Book of Hours.
A leaf from a medieval manuscript Book of Hours, written in Utrecht.Fourteen lines of monastic Textura script with fourteen 1-line initials in blue or gold with extensive...
Place & Date: Utrecht, ca.1450 - 1460
Kollumer land En het Nieuw Kruys land de vijfde gritenije van Oostergoo . . .
Very detailed map of "Kollumer land En het Nieuw Kruys land de vijfde gritenije van Oostergoo" in Friesland prepared by Bernardus Schotanus Steringa. Centered o...
Place & Date: Leeuwarden, F. Halma, 1718
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: One 2-lines initial decorated with flower in liquid gold on colored grounds and six 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and five line-fillers in same...
Place & Date: France, c. 1520
Typus Geographicus Chili Paraguay Freti Magellanici &c.
Detailed map covering the southern part of the continent based on the cartography of Delisle and the information gleaned from the voyages of Brouwer, Narbouroug and Beauc...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1750
Hippodrome de la porte Maillot. Paris Courses.
Chromo lithographed mini poster, " Hippodrome de la porte Maillot. Paris Courses. Pelouse 1 f. pesage 2 f. Nouveau sport. Grand prix : une rivière en diamants de 20...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, April 1897
Circoscrizione delle Provincie ecclesiastiche e Diocesi nei regni del Belgio, ed Olanda (Tav LXI)
This large-format map showing Belgium and Holland with its different dioceses. The map is finely engraved and beautifully colored and was prepared by Girolamo Petri, a la...
Place & Date: Rome, 1858
Part of South Australia.
Decorative steel engraved map of part of South Australia, surrounded by illustrations of Adelaide, natives on a catamaran, an Australian dog and a nymphicus bird illustra...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1851
Victoria or Port Phillip.
Decorative steel engraved map of Victoria or Port Phillip, surrounded by illustrations of Melbourne, indigenous people and the Glenelg River. Interlocking border design. ...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1851
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded Gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Région arctique.
Decorative map of the North Pole, prepared by Louis Vivien de Saint-Martin (* 22. Mai 1802 in Saint-Martin de Fontenay, died 3 January 1897 in Paris). He was one of the m...
Place & Date: Paris, Hachette, 1877
Karte von dem groessten Theil des Landes Jemen Imame, Kaukeban &c.
Large map of Yemen from "Allgemeiner grosser Atlas" published by P. J. Schalbacher - 1786-1800. Based on the observations of the Danish explorer Carsten Niebuhr...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1789
![[Battle of Szigetvár] Portraict de l'Armée de l'Empereur Turc Rangée en Bataille](/uploads/cache/49040-250x250.jpg)
[Battle of Szigetvár] Portraict de l'Armée de l'Empereur Turc Rangée en Bataille
An early wood block printed bird's-eye view showing the Battle of Szigetvár (Hungary). Below the wood block print is a 8-lines description in French. The battle was one ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1662
Nostre Dame de Lorette.
A very RARE panoramic of Lorette and the church, including a numbered legend in both lower corners.The plate is numbered in black pencil in upper right corner.Published ...
Place & Date: Paris c.1720
![[Title page for] Recueil de cartes sur la geographie ancienne . . .](/uploads/cache/47729-250x250.jpg)
[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
Designs for two porcelain bowls with Chinese design.
With numbers 4.601, 4.818. In top "Planche N° d'ordre : 03004.Original design created by the Sevres artist Gabriel Fourmaintraux ( 1886 - ) at about 1910 to serve a...
Place & Date: Desvres, 1905 - 1925
![[Moses and Joshua descending from Mount Sinai] Quita Etas Mundi. Folium. XXXI](/uploads/cache/46254-250x250.jpg)
[Moses and Joshua descending from Mount Sinai] Quita Etas Mundi. Folium. XXXI
The Latin text page is illustrated with a large woodblock cut depiction Moses and Joshua descending from Mount Sinai with the tablets of the Law broken and found the Isra...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Impery sino Tartarici Supremus Monarcha.
Decorative costume plate showing Kam Hi son of the Shunzhi Emperor of China [1638 - 1661?], the second emperor of the Manchu Qing dynasty, who apparently supported the fo...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1668
Vuë du dedans de l'Eglise de St. MARTIN à Londre.
So-called optical print illustrating a perspective view of the central aisle of St. Martin's church, in London.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1760
Brabantia.
Map of Brabant from Guicciardini's "Description de touts les Pais-Bais" edited by Plantin in 1582. The map drawn after Ortelius' map of Brabant, and after the l...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1582
Comitatus Zutphania.
A very detailed map of this area, including Arnhem, Nijmegen, Zutphen, Groenlo, etc. First imprint, from a Latin edition of the scarce Atlas Appendix.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1637
(Island of Pearls) Perlarum insula ob unionum copiam sic dicta.
A depiction of Cubagua as the Perlarum Insula (Island of Pearls), with in the foreground, two large ships send dinghies toward busy Native Americans collecting pearl oyst...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594
Vüe Perspective de l'Hospital de Greenwich prise de la Thamise.
So-called optical print illustrating a perspective view of Greenwich Hospital, illustrating its close proximity to the River Thames.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centu...
Place & Date: Paris, 1760
![[Magazine including pictorial world map, Carriers of the New Black Plague by William Cotton.]](/uploads/cache/43680-250x250.jpg)
[Magazine including pictorial world map, Carriers of the New Black Plague by William Cotton.]
Front cover with color illustration of Moroccan male sheik and yellow lettering.Oversized magazine, features analysis of English justice, map of Herr Hitler's heaven (ful...
Place & Date: Chicago, April 7th, Vol.1 No.1 1938
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1857
Aliae Formae Citrati Limonis Alios Includentis.
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
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
Carte du Golfe de Bengale, Mer de Indes, et Riviere du Gange, Avec les Pais et Iles d'alentour, Savoir les Cotes de Malabar, Cormandel, Ile de Ceylon, Les Maldives . . .
Detailed map of the Southern part of India with Ceylon. Good detail along the coasts of Malabar, Coromandel, the Maldives islands and the Kingdoms of Visipour, Golconda, ...
Place & Date: Leiden, 1719
Vue du sperbe Temple de St.Sophie .. a Constantinople.
A fanciful depiction of the Aya Sofya in Istanbul. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular speciality establishments in Paris, Augsburg and Lon...
Place & Date: Paris, 1800
![Vue de la Rivière d'Endeavour sur la Côte de la Nouvelle Hollande ou le Vaisseau fut mis à la bande. [Tome IV Pl. 1ère.]](/uploads/cache/26093-250x250.jpg)
Vue de la Rivière d'Endeavour sur la Côte de la Nouvelle Hollande ou le Vaisseau fut mis à la bande. [Tome IV Pl. 1ère.]
The first known landscape drawing of the east coast of Australia. A View of the Endeavour River, on the coast of New Holland, where the ship was laid on shore, in order t...
Place & Date: Paris, 1773
Sic leporem in laqueos agitnat per aperta fugacem - Gramina, siq canes rapidi sua terga sequutur
This is a plate from a series "Venationes ferarum, avium, piscium, pugnae bestiariorum & mutuae bestiarum". Published by Philippe Galle (Haarlem 1537 - 1612...
Place & Date: Antwerp, Philips Galle, ca 1596
![Figure 27 deuxieme partie a gauche.. [Hors riding].](/uploads/cache/14160-250x250.jpg)
Figure 27 deuxieme partie a gauche.. [Hors riding].
This fabulous illustration depicts formal movements of equitation for horse riding school movements. The print shows both A.de Pluvinel and the future King at the age of ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1629
![Nouvelle-Hollande: Terre dEndracht - Cabane des naturels de la Presqu'Ile de Péron. [plate XXIV]](/uploads/cache/46346-250x250.jpg)
Nouvelle-Hollande: Terre dEndracht - Cabane des naturels de la Presqu'Ile de Péron. [plate XXIV]
An aboriginal camp fire, after the original sketches by Lesueur, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François Péron, 1824.The French expedition under Ni...
Place & Date: Paris, 1824
Landgraviatus Alsatiae tam superioris..
Alsace, in the far north-eastern corner of France, stands out from other French wine regions thanks to its strong Franco-Germanic influences. Alsace is the only French wi...
Place & Date: Nurenberg, 1710
![Nouvelle-Hollande: Nelle. Galles du sud - Navigation. [plate XXIII]](/uploads/cache/46345-250x250.jpg)
Nouvelle-Hollande: Nelle. Galles du sud - Navigation. [plate XXIII]
An aboriginal camp fire, with a pirogue and two men navigating , after the original sketches by Lesueur, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François Pé...
Place & Date: Paris, 1824
Carte géologique détaillée. Beyrouth.
Geological or soil map showing part of Lebanon with Beyrouth, including in top a colored legend with signs of the different geological ages. Provenance : Fondation P. Fal...
Place & Date: Liban, Service geographique des F.F.L., 1945.
Province de Pologne contenant 22 Col. une M.on Prof 5 Pen. 2 Nov. 6 Rés. 30 Maisons 1050 Jésuites.
Rare map of Poland from "Atlas Universel indiquant les établissemens des Jésuites: avec la manière dont ils divisent la terre, suivi desévénemens remarquables d...
Place & Date: Paris, Ambroise Dupont , 1826
Ca-Ta-He-Cas-Sa-Black Hoof. Principal Chief of the Shawanoes.
Half-length portrait of Catahecassa wearing a dark colored jacked, grey vest, white shirt, and grey head scarf.A wonderful hand colored lithograph of Ca-Ta-He-Cas-Sa-Blac...
Place & Date: Philadelphia, 1837
Sic per secta repens venator consista dumis - Torquet et undosos anates, Fusicasp palustres
This is a plate from a series "Venationes ferarum, avium, piscium, pugnae bestiariorum & mutuae bestiarum". Published by Philippe Galle (Haarlem 1537 - 1612...
Place & Date: Antwerp, Philips Galle, ca 1596
Slusa, Teutonicae Flandriae opp. . . (Sluis)
Bird'eye view of the town of Sluis.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne Cathedral. Braun...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
![Imposita saxo Jacob cervice quiescens Aligeros scalas vidit imre choros. Gene[sis] 28](/uploads/cache/47690-250x250.jpg)
Imposita saxo Jacob cervice quiescens Aligeros scalas vidit imre choros. Gene[sis] 28
A superb example of this illustration showing a blind Isaac blessing Jacob. Copper engraving published in " Thesaurus sacrarum historiarum veteris testamenti, elegan...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1585
Contado di Zelanda..
A most attractive and decorative map by Vincenzo Coronelli. An elaborate title cartouche garlanded with intertwined flowers and dedicated to Vincenzo Caualli. The remarka...
Place & Date: Venice 1692
Caricature anti-cholérique.
Lithography with underneath the illustration "Moi je traite le choléra par le champagne, c’est le système Mayeux, nom de D... ! "In 1832, there was a devast...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1832
![Vincula dura Joseph pro falso crimine perfert. Sed deus a falsa hunc suspicione leuat. Gene[sis] 40](/uploads/cache/47693-250x250.jpg)
Vincula dura Joseph pro falso crimine perfert. Sed deus a falsa hunc suspicione leuat. Gene[sis] 40
A superb example of this illustration from the series of the Story of Joseph. Joseph in Jail.Copper engraving published in " Thesaurus sacrarum historiarum veteris t...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1585
Manuscript leaf, on vellum from a book of hours.
This vellum leaf has on each side a large 2-line initial illuminated in blue and red with white heightening, on a very heavily burnished gold ground. Illuminated borders...
Place & Date: Paris, 1450
![[Butterflies]](/uploads/cache/25587-250x250.jpg)
[Butterflies]
Plate CXXIV from Carl Gustav Jablonsky and J.F.W. Herbst: "Natursystem aller bekannten in- und ausländischen Insecten", engraved by Bodenehr. Carl Gustav Jablo...
Place & Date: Berlin, J. Pauli, 1785-1806
![Nititur ad vetitos iuuenem compellere amores Putephar, Gene[sis] 39,](/uploads/cache/47695-250x250.jpg)
Nititur ad vetitos iuuenem compellere amores Putephar, Gene[sis] 39,
A superb example of this illustration from the series of the Story of Joseph. Joseph Runs from Potiphar's Wife.Copper engraving published in " Thesaurus sacrarum his...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1585
Nieuwe kaart van America.
An attractive map of both the Americas, by one of the leading mapmakers in 18th century Amsterdam. Isaak Tirion (d. 1769) was a Amsterdam publisher. His "Nieuwe en b...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1765
Il regno della Bossima diviso nelle sue provincie principali. . .
Rossi's map of Bosnia, based upon Sanson's map, but with revised Italian nomenclature. From a second edition of his 'Mercurio Geografico...'. The engraver was Cl. Botzot....
Place & Date: Rome, 1689
(Art déco gouache)
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The ...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1930
Mocha, in Arabien. (View of Mocha, Yemen.)
Magnificent bird's eye-town-view of Mocha in Yemen.. Etched by Gaspar Bouttats (1640-1695).The Antwerp based publisher Jacques Peeters published ca. 1690 a series of prin...
Place & Date: Antwerp, c.1690
Persian miniature paintings, Mogul Dynasty.
Indo/Persian, Mogul Dynasty miniature painting in delicate Opaque watercolors on paper, with Islamic scripts on recto and verso. Miniature about 70 x 150mm. Painted in gi...
Place & Date: Northern Indian Mogul dynasty, ca 1800-1850
Tabula Asiae XII (Sri Lanka, with Elephant)
The FIRST edition of Munster's first modern map of Sri Lanka, which appeared in his "Geographia Universalis", first published in 1540. The Geographia was a new ...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
By the Dawn's Early Light.
Original 1940's WW II American liberation poster by Natacha Carlu, published by the French Press & Information Service, New York, N. Y.The poster shows a torch-bearin...
Place & Date: New York, French press and information service, 1945
Ce que les Anglo-Saxons ont perdu en Extrême-Orient.
Illustrated Vichy propaganda War & Propaganda poster showing a map of South East Asia, with Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, etc., among photos and explanations abou...
Place & Date: Paris, 1943
![Dum flaus in agro gaudet colligere spicas Ruth, forte affinis, venit in arua Booz. [ûRuth thanks Boaz for letting her glean his fields, from The Story of Ruth.]](/uploads/cache/47694-250x250.jpg)
Dum flaus in agro gaudet colligere spicas Ruth, forte affinis, venit in arua Booz. [ûRuth thanks Boaz for letting her glean his fields, from The Story of Ruth.]
A superb example of this illustration showing Ruth thanks Boaz for letting her glean his fields, from The Story of Ruth.Copper engraving published in " Thesaurus sac...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1585
Carte Marine De La Mer Caspiene levée suivant les ordres de S.M.Cz. En 1719, 1720 et 1721.
Detailed of the Caspian Sea, prepared by Karl van Verden in 1722. Van Verden was a Russian sailor and the Czar's Special Commander, who produced the first accurate map of...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1725
Coupon 94 voor een jaar interest voor f 1000 by hunne hoog vorstelyke doorluchtigheden de heere Frederik regeerende furst von Waldek. . .
9 Coupons for one year interest of 1000 florins being 50 florins payable on January 1796, 1797, 1798, 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803, 1804. For a loan made out by The Hague...
Place & Date: The Hague / Amsterdam, 1786
Olympia anciennes montagnes Russes.
Chromo lithographed poster, "Olympia anciennes montagnes Russes.", by CHERET, J. Plate 133, published in Maître 17, on April 1898. The "Les Maîtres de l'...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, April 1898
Asia By H.Moll Geographer.
Detailed map of Asia. From his "Atlas minor: or a new and curious set of sixty-two maps. . .", which was first published in 1729 and reprinted in 1732, 1736.The...
Place & Date: London, 1736
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...
Place & Date: Paris. Arthus-Bertrand, 1838-1852
![[Voyage en Suisse / Reise die Schweiz.]](/uploads/cache/48396-250x250.jpg)
[Voyage en Suisse / Reise die Schweiz.]
A first edition children's folding board game of Switzerland and its many places and sights to visit. Although it is missing most of its original components (dice, cards,...
Place & Date: Switzerland, 1891
Canada.
Decorative poster advertising flights to Canada made by Georges Mathieu. The poster is one of a series of 15 composed of posters of Greece, Israel, Germany, Great Britai...
Place & Date: Paris, 1967
![[ Original Chinese advertising poster for a cigarette brand.] Red Lion cigarette brand.](/uploads/cache/45068-250x250.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...
Place & Date: Shanghai, 1934
![[Arabia]](/uploads/cache/40143-250x250.jpg)
[Arabia]
A lovely miniature map of the region of Armenia and Georgia, showing both parts of the Black Sea and Caspian Sea. For such a small map it renders a wealth of detail, with...
Place & Date: Ulm, 1692
![[ Original Chinese advertising poster for ] Hataman cigarette brand.](/uploads/cache/45060-250x250.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...
Place & Date: Shanghai, 1934
Sic inter dumos, pregrandi corpore cerus. - In pecus extrorquent dumeta per auia, acuto.
This is a plate from a series "Venationes ferarum, avium, piscium, pugnae bestiariorum & mutuae bestiarum". Published by Philippe Galle (Haarlem 1537 - 1612...
Place & Date: Antwerp, Philips Galle, ca 1596
Saba, ville en Perse.
Decorative view of Sabā / Dakān Sorkh) which is a village in Vahdatiyeh Rural District in present-day Iran.In the foreground are camels and horses. This well-executed e...
Place & Date: Leiden, 1719
Arabia.
Steel engraved map of the Arabian Peninsular. It shows Arabia and Parts of Persia, Syria and Kurdistan. The regional boundaries are colored and relief shown by hachures. ...
Place & Date: London, 1841
The town & harbour of Sevastopol with the batteries & approaches. . .
Rare colored linen backed map showing the harbour and town of Sevastopol, with soundings. In upper left corner a inset map (65x150mm) of the Black Sea. In bottom part a l...
Place & Date: London, March 27th, 1854
Le Coupable.
Chromo lithographed poster, "Le Coupable.", by STEILEN, A. Plate 134, published in Maître 17, on April 1896. The "Les Maîtres de l'Affiche" containe...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, April 1896
Manuscript leaf on vellum from a Dutch Book of Hours.
VERSO: Two 2-line capitals in burnished gold with extensive penwork in blue and red. Two 1-line capitals in red, blue or burnished gold with extensive penwork.RECTP: One ...
Place & Date: Utrecht, c.1400-1410
Oursins.
Showing sand dollars, sea urchin, etc. engraved by Macret. Marie Jules César Lelorgne de Savigny (April 5, 1777 - October 5, 1851) was a French zoologist. In 1798 he tra...
Place & Date: Paris, 1822
Indochine française. Carte N° 29.
School map of Indochina by Pierre Deffontaines Agréée d'Histoire et de Géographie Docteur es Lettres, published c. 1940 by "Librairie Hatier". Scale : 1:1 60...
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1940