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Carte de l'Ile de Java.
An inset plan of Batavia and clearly indicated rice fields, mountains, forests, towns in profile and even elephants suggest the wealth of detail found on this map. Modele...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Carte de la Nouvelle France, ou se voit le cours des Grandes Rivieres de S. Laurens & de Mississipi..
Derived from de Fer's 1718 map, from west of the Mississippi it contains a mass of inland detail with notes and vignettes of the indigenous peoples and fauna of North Ame...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
![Spiegel der Reden Voor de Wanhopende Actionisten. [Mirror for the reason of the despairing stockbrokers. ]](/uploads/cache/28094-250x250.jpg)
Spiegel der Reden Voor de Wanhopende Actionisten. [Mirror for the reason of the despairing stockbrokers. ]
Text page with copper engraving (150 x 100mm.) taken from Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid : vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der actie, bubbel en windnego...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
![Waare afbeelding van den vermaarden Heer Quinquenpoix. [True portrait of the reknowed Mr. Quinquenpoix]](/uploads/cache/27965-250x250.jpg)
Waare afbeelding van den vermaarden Heer Quinquenpoix. [True portrait of the reknowed Mr. Quinquenpoix]
Page taken from Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid : vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der actie, bubbel en windnegotie, in Vrankryk, Engeland, en de Nederlan...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Beschrijving Gezicht van den Ykant af bezyden den Schreiers hoex Toren langs de Keulsche en Geldersche Kaei naer de Nieuwe Markt
This large engraving (560x920mm.) comes from a are series of 25 beautiful large views of Amsterdam and gives a colorful picture of the life and business of the city at th...
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1720
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 ...
Date: Paris c.1720
Norimberga.
A spectacular panoramic town-view of Nuremberg, with legends numbered from 1-39 in German. With the title in a banderol.After a design by Friedrich Bernhard Werner (1690...
Date: Augsburg, ca. 1720
Riga metropolis Livoniae.
A spectacular panoramic view of Riga, with legends numbered from a-z and 1-16 in German. With the title in a banderol.After a design by Friedrich Bernhard Werner (1690-1...
Date: Augsburg, ca. 1720
Nouvelle carte du Roiaume D'Alger divisée en toutes ses provinces, avec une partie due cotes D'Espagne . . .
Rare and detailed map of the coast of Algeria. Large inset map of the Bay of Alger (El-Jazir). Shows a coastline of Spain around Alicante. Two compass roses in the Medite...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Amsterdam Capitale de la Hollande.
A panoramic of Amsterdam seen from 't IJ. Set within a decorative border, printed from a separate plate. Rare.
Date: Leiden, 1720
Stoel des Oorlogs in America Waar in Vertoont Werden Alle Desself Voornaamste Eylande . . .
Large impressive map of the West Indies with the Gulf of Mexico and Florida. The map shows prominently in the center Cuba, Haiti, the Bahamas and Florida, which is here m...
Date: Amsterdam, c. 1720
A New Map of Asia from the latest Observations Most Humbly Inscrib'd to the Right Honbl. George Earl of Warrington &c.
Fine map of Asia, with decorative title cartouche flanked by two figures in Asian dress, along with flora and fauna of the continent., based on the work of Guillaume De L...
Date: London, 1721
Waere Affbeeldinge Wegens het Casteel ende Stadt BATAVIA Gelegen opt Groot Eylant Java.
A good impression of this finely engraved and detailed plan of Batavia, present-day Jakarta, the Dutch center of trading activities in the East Indies. Copied after Cleme...
Date: Amsterdam, 1721
Very rare share in the Ostend Company. (4527)
Upper left hand corner share number 4527 in manuscript. In top emblem of the Ostend Company in copper engraving. Text: De Directeurs van de generale Keijserlijche- Indisc...
Date: Antwerp / Ostend 1723
Very rare share in the Ostend Company. (299)
Upper left hand corner share number "299" in manuscript. In top emblem of the Company in copper engraving. Text: " De Directeurs van de generale Keijserlij...
Date: Antwerp / Ostend, 1723
Carte des Cotes de Malabar et de Coromandel..
Detailed and attractive map of India and the northern tip of Sri Lanka. With decorative title cartouche and two compass roses.Rare edition with address : A Paris chez lâ€...
Date: Paris, 1723
Plan de la ville de Malthe ses Forts, ses Nouvelles Fortiffications. . .
Detailed plan of Valletta. In upper right corner a key (A-Z & 1-32) to the principal places in town. Prepared by N.de Fer and re-issued by Danet.
Date: Paris, 1723
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[The Philippines]
Fine chart depicting the Islands of the Philippines. Little interior detail is given but the coastlines, settlements and principal coastal features are identified. An att...
Date: Amsterdam, 1724
Kaart van het Eyland Formosa en de Eylanden van Piscadores.
The earliest printed map of Taiwan or Formosa. Oriented to the east, with north at the left, covering the entire island and the nearby Pescadores, now known as the Penghu...
Date: Amsterdam, 1724
Malacca.
Fine print showing Dutch vessels offshore the city of Malacca, between Singapore to its south and Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia to its north.From the French reiss...
Date: Amsterdam, J.F. Bernard, 1725
Ormus. (Hormuz)
This very interesting early engraving shows the ships of the Dutchman Van den Broecke, who in December 1628 left his directorship in Surat. Before returning to Batavia he...
Date: Amsterdam, F. Bernard, 1725
![[12 volumes] Recueil des voyages qui ont servi à l'établissement et aux progrez de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales, forméedans les Provinces-Unies des Païs-Bas...](/uploads/cache/43700-250x250.jpg)
[12 volumes] Recueil des voyages qui ont servi à l'établissement et aux progrez de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales, forméedans les Provinces-Unies des Païs-Bas...
An important, richly illustrated compendium of the first Dutch voyages to East India, of great interest for the history and establishment of the Dutch global trade, parti...
Date: Rouen, Pierre Le Boucher, 1725
Nova Persiae Armeniae Natoliae et Arabiae.
This fine map shows the area East from Cyprus to Iran, including The Saudi Peninsula, Red Sea, Nile River, Cyprus, Asia Minor, the Gulf of Aden, Indian Ocean, Armenia, th...
Date: Amsterdam, 1725
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...
Date: Paris, ca. 1725
De Kust van Nova Guinea tot aan deze bogt . . .
De kust van Nova Guinea tot aan deze bogt.De Kust van Nova Guinea ofte Salomon Sweers hoek. Het Landt van Nova Guinea in de Groote Bocht daar wy vergeefs hoopten een doo...
Date: Amsterdam, 1726
Insulae Palaos seu Novae Philippinae 87 Alias Archipelagus S. Lazari ven Carolinae . . .
Map of Philippine archipelago. Stöcklein's work is a compound of letters of the Jesuit missionaries from all over the world and here particularly the ones stationed at t...
Date: Augsburg, 1726
Nieuwe Caart der Eylanden van Banda.
Decorative map of the Banda Islands. Until the mid-19th century the Banda Islands were the world's only source of the spices nutmeg and mace, produced from the nutmeg tre...
Date: Amsterdam, 1726
Nieuwe kaart van 't Koninckryk Bengale. . .
Rare map Bangladesh with the Ganges delta, including Calcutta. Giving great detail with trade routes, European trade settlements, etc. Prepared by Joh. Van Leenen who was...
Date: Amsterdam, 1726
Nieuwe Kaart van het Eyland Sumatra..
Fine chart depicting the Island of Sumatra and the southern coasts of Malaysia from Quedo to Johore. North is orientated to the left of the page. Singapore is probably id...
Date: Amsterdam, 1726
Die Insel Formosa neu abgemessen auf Befehl Kaysers Kamhi.
One of the earliest obtainable printed maps of Taiwan or Formosa Island. It was issued around 1726 to illustrate Joseph Stöcklein's [Stoecklein] compellation of Jesuit m...
Date: Augsburg, 1726
De Landvoogdy der Moluccos met de Aangrenzende Eylanden . . .
Two charts on one sheet depicting the Moluccas islands. Little interior detail is given but the coastlines, settlements and principal coastal features are identified. To ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1726
Great or Asiatick Tartary, Agreable to Modern History.
Map of Tartary to Peking. The eastern coastline of Asia is almost flat, with no attempt to mark Kamchatka. The Caspian Sea in the lower left, with present-day Uzbekistan...
Date: London, 1727
Great or Asiatick Tartary, Agreeable to Modern History.
A map from the Frozen Ocean in the north to Usbec Tartary in the south, from Moscow in the west to China Tartary and Peking in the east. Rivers and mountains feature prom...
Date: London, ca. 1727
Genealogie des empereurs Mogols . . .
Text sheet with two inset maps of "Carte de l'empire du grand Mogol (122x158mm.) and inset map of Kahsmire "carte nouvelle du royaume de Kachemire" (120x15...
Date: Amsterdam, 1728
L'Inde de la le Gange, suivant les nouvelles observations...
Uncommon edition of this map of Malaysia, Thailand, Indo China and the Northern parts of the islands of Sumatra and Borneo. Singapore marked as Sincapour. With decorative...
Date: Amsterdam, 1728
L'Asie suivant les nouvelles observations...
Uncommon edition of this map of Asia. From Le Nouveau Theatre du Monde, ou la Geographie Royale.The map is of interest for the use of Mer Orientale, the sea between Kor...
Date: Amsterdam, 1728
Tabula Americae Specialis Geographica Regni Peru, Brasiliae, Terra Firmae & Reg: Amazonum, Secundum relationes de Herrera, de Laet & PP d Acuña & M. Rodriguez . . .
A good and clean copy of Homann's map of the northern part of South America. The map is on the Valley of the Amazon and delineates the Amazon and its labyrinth of tributa...
Date: Nuremberg, 1728
![[Printed on silk] Nieuw Wassende Graaden Paskaart Vertoonende alle de bekende Zeekusten en Landen op den geheelen Aard Boodem of Werelt door Gerard van Keulen. . .](/uploads/cache/31640-250x250.jpg)
[Printed on silk] Nieuw Wassende Graaden Paskaart Vertoonende alle de bekende Zeekusten en Landen op den geheelen Aard Boodem of Werelt door Gerard van Keulen. . .
A very scarce and beautiful chart on Mercator's projection printed on silk. With the name of Gerard van Keulen and the privilege. The map shows great interior detail, inc...
Date: Amsterdam, 1728
Carte nouvelle des Terres de Cucan..
Prepared by H.Reland (1676-1718) a professor active in Utrecht and specialized in Asian languages, geography and religions. His first map was a map of Japan copied after ...
Date: The Hague, 1728
De Reede en stadt Batavia is geleegen aan de Noord Kust…
A chart of the bay of Batavia with in lower left corner a plan of Batavia (120x147mm). This very rare and influential chart gives a fine representation of Batavia, now kn...
Date: Amsterdam, 1728
Carte qui contient..Iles & Terres..L'Amerique..Jamaique..
Eight maps on one sheet. From Chatelain's Atlas Historique et Méthodique . Including maps of Bermuda, Jamaica, New England with Long Island, Carolina, Chesapeake and Del...
Date: Amsterdam 1728
Habillement de l'Empereur de la Chine & des Dames de son Palais..
This impressive engraving is a wonderful example of Chatelain’s elegant plates.Divided in 3 panels, showing examples of costumes of Chinese ladies and those of the king...
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1728
Carte du Gouvernement de Provence, suivant les nouvelles observations...
Fine copper engraved and decorative map of the Provence region in the south of France. It includes the cities of Nimes, Viviers, Avignon, Aix and Nice. The pictorial cart...
Date: Amsterdam 1728
![Lutece conquise par les François sur les Romains ou second plan de la ville de Paris [...] par M.L.C.D.L.M.](/uploads/cache/42141-250x250.jpg)
Lutece conquise par les François sur les Romains ou second plan de la ville de Paris [...] par M.L.C.D.L.M.
Engraved plan of Paris, published in "Traité de la police de Nicolas de Lamare". Oriented to the North with a compass rose and equipped with a double scale (40...
Date: Paris, 1729
Historic Map - Naaukeurige Kaart Van Tartaryen, Soo als dat door W De Rubruquis doorreyst.
This attractive map published by Pieter van der Aa, shows Tartary abd the ancient Silk Road region. The map shows the track of William of Rubruck (Willem van Rubroeck or ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1713-1729
Histoire Naturelle, Civile, Et Ecclésiastique..'
First French edition, published by P. Gosse, J. Neaulme and B. Lakeman. The basic work on Japan from the second half of the 17th century when it was still forbidden for f...
Date: Amsterdam, 1729
Grande Pologne et Prusse avec les frontières de la Misnie, Lusace, Moravie et Lithuanie.
Detailed map of Poland and Prussia. Published by Pieter van der Aa who published a.o. "Naauwkeurge versameling der gedenkwaardigste zee- en land-reysen", a seri...
Date: Leiden, 1729
Virginie, Grande Region l'Amerique Septentrionale...
Pierre van der Aa used the old copper plate of Meurs and re-did the engraving, changed the large pictorial cartouche, a new scale of German and French leagues is provided...
Date: Amsterdam, 1729
Florentia Pulcherrima et Ruriae Civitas.
Detailed bird's-eye view of the town of Florence in Tuscany region, first published in Frederick de Wit's rare town book. With two keys 1-17 and 1-228 to important spots ...
Date: Amsterdam, Leiden, 1697 / 1729
Mappe-Monde pour connoitre les progres & les conquestes..
Unusual double hemisphere map with California as an Island. Dutch text describes the expeditions and colonial possessions of the Dutch East India Company. The map origina...
Date: Amsterdam, 1729
Cazal. (Casale Monferrato)
A rare panoramic of Casale Monferrato in the Piedmont region. Engraved by Pierre Aveline (Paris, c.1656 - 23 May 1722). He was also a print-publisher and print-seller. H...
Date: Paris, 1690-1730
![Baltick or East Sea]](/uploads/cache/49464-250x250.jpg)
Baltick or East Sea]
A Chart of the Baltic or East Sea. Gulf of Finland & c. (date ca.1730). Image size: 357mm x 283mm.Herman Moll (1678-1732) was a German emigre from the Hanseatic port...
Date: London, ca. 1720-1730
Plan de la Ville et Port d'Antibes.
An attractive chart centered on the Mediterranean. With a scale and large compass-rose. Dated 1727, with the privilege of the King. From : Recueil des Plusieurs plans des...
Date: Marseille, 1730
A New Map of the World according to the New Observations.
Double hemisphere world map showing Australia and New Zealand with the discoveries made by Tasman on his tow voyages 1642-1644. California shown as an island. Depicts the...
Date: London, ca. 1720-1730
Insularum Moluccarum Nova description.
Exquisite map of the famous Spice Islands based. This map was the first large-scale map of the region and depicts the islands which provided first the Portuguese and then...
Date: Amsterdam, 1730
Rare collection of costume plates.
Rare collection of costume plates published in Augsburg by the famous publishers Martin Engelbrecht, Ioh. Georg Hertel and the Jeremias Wolff Heirs.Composition :2 plates ...
Date: Augsburg, ca. 1730
Carte du Canada ou de la Nouvelle France.
A later edition of Guillaume De l'Isle's map. It still includes the fictitious discoveries of Baron de Lahoutan: the legendary River Longue etc. The northwest corner of H...
Date: Amsterdam, 1730
Algercum munita Metropolis Regni Algeriani…
Scarce bird's-eye plan of Algiers and its harbour, with two large galleons, and a panoramic view below, from "Atlas Novus", engraving with very fine strong hand...
Date: Augsbourg, 1730
Plan de la Ville et du Chateau de Batavia en l'Isle de Iava / Ware affbeeldinge wegens het Casteel ende Stadt Batavia gelegen opt groot Eylant Java.
Detailed East oriented plan of Jakarta former Batavia on Java / Indonesia. With bird eye view from sea side, various ships and a lion. Two inset keys with detailed descri...
Date: Leiden, 1730
Plan de la Baye de Ville Franche et de celle de St. Souspir.
An attractive chart centered on the Mediterranean. With scale and large compass-rose. Dated 1727, with the privilege of the King. From : Recueil des Plusieurs plans des p...
Date: Marseille, 1730
Cygnus.
Uncommon celestial print of Cygnus, published by Corbinianus Thomas in the Manuductio ad Astronomiam, Juxta modum Bayeri, Mathematici celeberrimi, concinnata, multis,…e...
Date: Frankfurt / Leipzig, c.1730
Colossus Monarchic. Statua Danielis
Fantastic double page allegorical map of a colossus figure representing the great world empires as Daniel interpreted in Nebuchadnezzar's dream. The warrior stands stolid...
Date: Augsbourg, 1730
![[St Peter's Square].](/uploads/cache/44864-250x250.jpg)
[St Peter's Square].
View of St Peter's Square and Vatican probably featuring a solemn blessing. The square is crowdy, the Pontifical Swiss Guard is present. A beautifully colored lithography...
Date: Italy ?, 1732
Vorstellung der Evangelisch-Ostindischen Kirche Augsburger Protestanten.
It is a very decorative and rare print to commemorate the 200-year Confession of the Augsburg Protestant Confession. Engraved by J. Kleinschmidt after a design of E. Ridi...
Date: Augsburg, 1732
Oriens, Persia, India etc.
Uncommon map of Persia, Armenia, Arabian Peninsular and part of India. Prepared by Christoph Cellarius (1638-1707). From Geographia Antiqua...
Date: Leipzig, Gledisch, 1732
![[Title page for ] Atlas Novus Terrarum orbis Imperia.](/uploads/cache/47938-250x250.jpg)
[Title page for ] Atlas Novus Terrarum orbis Imperia.
Title page from Atlas Novus printed by Johann Ernst Udelbulner. Large elaborately engraved sheet with numerous allegorical figures. A large globe, showing the Eastern Hem...
Date: Nuremberg, 1732
Great Tartary, with the tract of the Moscovite Ambassador's Travels from Moscow to Pekin in China.
An interesting map illustrating the route taken by the Russian Ambassador on his travels east to Beijing. Shows the Great Wall, "Somer Houses" and "parts u...
Date: London, 1732
Der Hollaendisch-Ostindianischen Compagnie Weltberühmte Haupt - Handels und Niederlags stadt BATAVIA..
Very fine decorative plan of Batavia showing the City and its immediate environs, the surrounding rice fields intersected by a network of waterways, canals and outlying f...
Date: Nuremberg, 1733
Hedendaegsche Historie of tegenwoordige staet van alle volkeren 1 deel. (Volume 1 - China, Japan, Phillippines, Moluccas)
This provides an interesting illustrated description of China, Japan, the Phillippines, Moluccas. Including a map of China, Korea, and Japan, with the Sea between Korea a...
Date: Amsterdam, 1734
Imperii Russici tabula generalis quo ad fieri potuit / accuratissime descripta opera et studio Ioannis Kyrilow, …
General 1734 large-format map of the Russian Empire compiled by Ivan Kirilov (1689/1695]-1737), the Chief Secretary of the Governing Senate in St. Petersburg in 1734.  ...
Date: Saint Petersburg : [Academy of Sciences], 1734
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Lo Stati Presente di Tutti i Paesi e Popoli del Mondo..
This most uncommon work provides an interesting focus on the dissemination of the outline of Japan provided by Kaempfer. Beside the description of Japan, the book include...
Date: Venice, 1734
Nova Maris Caspii et Regions Usbeck. . .
This is the first printed map specifically of the Uzbek region. It shows the area around the Caspian Sea and northern Iran. The area eastward from the Caspian is marked '...
Date: Nuremberg, 1735
Description geographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise.
First edition of this cornerstone of any collection of books on China, which is also among the rarest and most desirable of important Americana, included in Rare American...
Date: Paris, P. G. Le Mercier, 1735
Potentissimo Borussorum Regi Friderico Wilhelmo Maiestate, Fortitudine Clementia Augustissimo Hancce Lithuaniam Borussicam : in qua luca coloniis Salisburg., ad incolendum Regio nutu...
Potentissimo Borussorum Regi Friderico Wilhelmo Maiestate, Fortitudine Clementia Augustissimo Hancce Lithuaniam Borussicam : in qua luca coloniis Salisburg., ad incolendu...
Date: Nuremberg, 1735
Potentissimo Borussorum Regi Friderico Wilhelmo...
Large and sought-after 2-sheet map of an area of Lithuania and Eastern Prussia (Russian province of Kaliningrad) stretching from Klaipeda (Memel) in the north to Goldap i...
Date: Nuremberg, 1735
![[World and 4 continents] Carte Geographique Astronomique Chronologique et Historique du Monde.](/uploads/cache/63024-250x250.jpg)
[World and 4 continents] Carte Geographique Astronomique Chronologique et Historique du Monde.
French wall map of the world in 4 sheets published by Crépy "à l'entrée du Cloistre de St. Benoist du côté des maturins". A decorative wall map of the worl...
Date: Paris, 1720-1735
Plan du Tien-tang ou du temple, où l'empereur sacrifie à Chang-ti sous le titre de souverain seigneur de la terre.
Nice example of d'Anville's plan of Tien-tang temple, from "Atlas général de la Chine..."" prepared by Jesuit missionaries and commissioned by Emperor Ka...
Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735
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...
Date: London, 1736
Description geographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise . . . du Thibet, & de la Coree. . .
Without the separately published atlas. Lacking 2 plates in vol.2 (Obseques at p.149 and Gin seng at p.180), one plate torn without a loss (vol.1, p.230), d4 vol.1 with a...
Date: The Hague, H. Scheurleer, 1736
Urbium Londini et West-Monasterii nec non Surburbii Southwark Accurata Ichnographia ,., Neuester Grundris der Staedte London und West-Munster, Samt der Vorstadt Southwark ,.,
Detailed plan of London, extending from Grosvenor Square in the west to Mile End to the east, To the right inset views of St, James's Square, and Custom House, elevations...
Date: Nuremberg, 1736
