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Imperii Sinarum nova descriptio.
Schenk and Valk's rare early 18th century issue of Janssonius milestone map of China, Korea and Japan after Martino Martini. Engraved by Johannes van Loon. The overall ba...
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1720
Diocesi Padovana Con Tutta La Sua Estensione Ne Vicini Territori.
This large map depicts the entire extent of the Diocese of Padua and the surrounding territories, with a detailed topographical rendering. It features rich Baroque ornam...
Date: Padova, 1720
![Flessingue Ville de l'Ile de Walcheren. [Vlissingen]](/uploads/cache/13105-250x250.jpg)
Flessingue Ville de l'Ile de Walcheren. [Vlissingen]
A very RARE panoramic view of the city of Vlissingen. The plate is numbered in red pencil in the upper right corner.Engraved by Jean Crepy (the father), who was active as...
Date: Paris, 1690-1720
Kort Begryp van Duytsland, de drie Ryx Collegien in hunne Wapens en Zittingen. Kreits Verelingen en Aantekenigen door C. Specht't Utrectht.
Second state of this decorative table of family escutcheons, crests and coats of arms, for various German and Dutch princes and nobles of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centurie...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
![Malines. [Mechelen]](/uploads/cache/13125-250x250.jpg)
Malines. [Mechelen]
A very RARE panoramic town view of Mechelen, including a numbered legend in the left lower corner.Published by the brothers Chéreau, active in Paris at rue st.Jacques au ...
Date: Paris, c.1720
Nova tabula geographica complectens borealiorem..
A finely engraved pair of maps designed to be cut and joined together to provide a continuous coastline of North America from the Carolinas to Newfoundland and along the ...
Date: Amsterdam 1720
Vue et Description de Quelques-Uns des Principaux Forts des Hollandois dans les Indes .
Interesting sheet with seven detailed views illustrating the most important Dutch V.O.C. trading outposts and fortified colonial possessions in the East Indies, including...
Date: Amsterdam, 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
Utrecht.
A very RARE panoramic view of Utrecht, including a numbered legend in the lower part.Engraved by Jean Crepy (the father) who was active as an engraver and publisher at th...
Date: Paris, 1690-1720
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
Uitlegginge der tytelplaat voor Arlequyn actionist.
Decorative print. Harlequin stockholder. The engraving (230x180mm.) depicts a kneeling conjuror with cups, balls and cards, Harlequin and Scaramouche drawing back curtain...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
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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
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
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
Carte nouvelle de Moscovie represente la partie Septentrionale dressée par G.De L'Isle. . .
Uncommon map covering the area north of Moscow, including Lapland. Prepared by G. de L'Isle.Joachim Ottens (1663 - 1719) and his sons Renier and Joshua were prominent Dut...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
D' Admiralyteyts Huys - La maison de l'Amirauté.
Decorative print of the Admiralty House of the V.O.C., now-a-days Maritime Museum in Amsterdam.
Date: Amsterdam, c.1720
Carte des Principales Ports de Mer Bancs de sable &c: qui sont dans la Mer Rouge..
Some cities existed along the western coast of the Arabian peninsula, where they served as entrepots for transcontinental trade between Europe and Asia. Mecca, founded by...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Arabiae Felicis, petrae et desertae.
A very striking map with a finely decorated title cartouche, published by Valk & Schenk, utilizing Jansson's original plate. Interestingly, this map uses the names th...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Bronwater of geneesmiddel voor de zieke actionisten.
Springwater or potion for the sick shareholder, taken from Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid : vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der actie, bubbel en windneg...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Het Oost Indisch Huys op de Suyd hock..
A decorative print of the East Indian House , the headquarters of the V.O.C., a place for meeting, trading and storage of spices and ship equipment.The maps and charts we...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Harlekin en Bombario en den rouw.
Harlequin and Bombario in mourning, taken from Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid : vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der actie, bubbel en windnegotie, in Vra...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
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
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
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 l’A...
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
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
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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
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.
1725 DE WIT, F. / OTTENS, R. / J. - Shows the Saudi Peninsula and the area east of Cyprus to Iran.
Date: Amsterdam, 1725
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
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] compilation of Jesuit mis...
Date: Augsburg, 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
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
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
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
Kaart van de Zuyd-Wester Eylanden van Banda.
Early and detailed map of the Banda Islands, prepared by François Valentijn (1666–1727), a Dutch missionary who spent years in Amboina and traveled extensively through VO...
Date: Amsterdam, 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
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 th...
Date: Augsburg, 1726
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
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
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 Dela...
Date: Amsterdam 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
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 Kore...
Date: Amsterdam, 1728
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
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
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 o...
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 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
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
![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 (400...
Date: Paris, 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
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
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
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
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 and the ancient Silk Road region. The map shows the track of William of Rubruck (Willem van Rubroeck or i...
Date: Amsterdam, 1713-1729
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
Carte du Congo et du Pays des Cafres. . .
Detailed copper-engraved map of southern Africa providing numerous particulars and comments concerning European trade, native kingdoms, and mineral wealth. Includes Madag...
Date: Amsterdam, c. 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
Imperii Persici in omnes suas Provincias . . . Exacte Divisi Nova Tabula Geographica. . .
Showing the eastern part of Turkey and Cyprus, Palestine, Persian Gulf, including Gulf of Oman, Caspian Sea, Iran and the north-west territories of India.Embellished with...
Date: Ausburg, 1730
Cygnus.
Uncommon celestial print of Cygnus, published by Corbinianus Thomas in the Manuductio ad Astronomiam, Juxta modum Bayeri, Mathematici celeberrimi, concinnata, multis,…edi...
Date: Frankfurt / Leipzig, c.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
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
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
Algercum munita Metropolis Regni Algeriani…
Scarce bird's-eye plan of Algiers and its harbor, with two large galleons, and a panoramic view below, from "Atlas Novus", engraving with very fine, strong hand...
Date: Augsbourg, 1730
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
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
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
![[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
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
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
![[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
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
