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[A magnificent 18 inch. (46 cm.) diameter celestial globe] URANOGRAPHIA / SYDERUM ET STELLARUM / in Singulis Syderibus conspicuarum / exhibens Delineationem accuratissimam, / qua / ex Observationibus Astronomi plane Singularis / IOHANIS HEVELII...

RARE FIRST STATE OF THIS CELESTIAL TABLE GLOBE, 46 cm in diameter, produced by Gerard and Leonard Valk at the beginning of the 18th century. The globe comprises of t...

$105000 / ≈ â‚¬96976
Maker / Publisher: VALK, G. / L.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1711

 


Militairy manuscript map of the end of Yangzi River across Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang areas, with 3 red seals of the Ever-Victorious Army.

In lower left corner an inset plan of Songjiang District with Shanghai with a grid and the area is divided with red doted border lines.The map has three red seals of the ...

$95000 / ≈ â‚¬87740
Maker / Publisher: MILITAIRY MAP
Place & Date: China, ca 1862

 


Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini mathematicor[um] ...Octo libri Geographie. . .

Third edition of "Géographie" by Ptolemy and published in Strasbourg. Illustrated with 50 maps engraved in wood. One of the more important maps is showing the ...

$85000 / ≈ â‚¬78504
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMEE, C. / FRIES. L.
Place & Date: Strasbourg, J. Grüninger, 1522

 


[Set of five maps] Carte Générale de la Terre ou Mappe Monde

Rare and decorative set of five wall maps of the world and the four continents, prepared by Clouet, in very fine bright contemporary coloring. Each map ca. 965 x 1230 mm ...

$80000 / ≈ â‚¬73886
Maker / Publisher: CLOUET, Jean Baptiste Louis (abbé).
Place & Date: Paris and Cadiz, Mondhare, 1785-1793

 


Histoire de la Navigation.

A fine example of Linschoten's classic illustrated travelogue to the East and West Indies, termed by Lach “the most important of the firsthand accounts published indepe...

$70000 / ≈ â‚¬64650
Maker / Publisher: LINSCHOTEN, J.H.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Evert Cloppenburgh, 1638

 


Matching set of four wallmaps of America, Asia, America, Europe.

Rare and decorative set of four wall maps published by Louis Charles DESNOS ( fl.1750-1770), including a border with vignettes describing native scenes. Each panel is acc...

$55000 / ≈ â‚¬50797
Maker / Publisher: DESNOS, L.C.
Place & Date: Paris, 1760-1761

 


Manuscript map of the Bay of Nagasaki.

An extremely rare manuscript chart in brown ink and wash color on a printed sheet of paper with a system of rhumblines and latitude scales. This chart shows the Bay of Na...

$50000 / ≈ â‚¬46179
Maker / Publisher: VAN KEULEN, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1750

 


Les Arts de la Femme . . .

Chromo lithographed poster, "Les Arts de la Femme . . .", by MOREAU, N. Plate 58, published in Maître 15, on February 1897. The "Les Maitres de l'Affiche&...

$49156 / ≈ â‚¬45399
Maker / Publisher: MOREAU, E.
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, April 1900

 


[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 ...

$49000 / ≈ â‚¬45255
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca. 1601-1640

 


(Chatelain "Atlas Historique" in 7 volumes.]

Henri Abraham Chatelain, whose Atlas Historique was one of the most expansive encyclopedias of the age. First published in 1705, Chatelain's Atlas Historique was part o...

$40000 / ≈ â‚¬36943
Maker / Publisher: CHATELAIN, H.
Place & Date: Amsterdam: Chez Zacharie Châtelain, 1732 - 1739

 


ATLAS RUSSICUS mappa una generali et undeviginti specialibus vastissimum Imperium Russicum cum adiacentibus regionibus [repeated in French].

After an unnumbered general map of Russia there are 13 numbered maps that cover European Russia (scale 1, 1.527.000). The other (last) 6 maps cover Asian Russia (Siberia,...

$40000 / ≈ â‚¬36943
Maker / Publisher: Akademie von Wissenschaften
Place & Date: St Peterburg, Akademie von Wissenschaften. 1745

 


Novus de Leone Belgico eiusq topographia atq. Historica descriptione liber (…). Rerumque in Belgio maxime gestarum, inde ab anno Christi M.D.LIX. Usque ad annum M.D.LXXXVII perpetua narratione continatus.

ENLARGED EDITION, with 207 (of 208) engravings of a famous eyewitness account of the Dutch Revolt, with the famous "Leo Belgicus" map, here in its second state...

$39000 / ≈ â‚¬36020
Maker / Publisher: AITSINGER (EYZINGER), Michael von.
Place & Date: Cologne, Gerardus Campensis for Frans Hogenberg, 1588

 


A unique composite atlas with updated Porro maps.

Unique composite atlas containing in total 84 maps - 82 maps engraved by Girolamo Porro and heavenly reworked around 1686 and 2 newly engraved maps; Piccola Tartaria (Cr...

$35000 / ≈ â‚¬32325
Maker / Publisher: PORRO, G./ MAGINI
Place & Date: Venice, 1686

 


Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae. Das ist: Ein Reisebuch...

Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae. Das ist: Ein Reisebuch, Uber die gantze heilige Schrifft, in zwey Bücher geteilet... Zuvor gemehret mit einem Büchlein De monetis et mens...

$30000 / ≈ â‚¬27707
Maker / Publisher: BÃœNTING, H.
Place & Date: Magdenburg, 1587

 


[ LANDSKROON ]. Oranda Fune no zu [= Depiction of a Dutch Ship].

A very large and extremely detailed Japanese drawing on rice paper of a Dutch ship at the artificial island Deshima, the VOC's outpost in Nagasaki harbour. In the drawing...

$30000 / ≈ â‚¬27707
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: Japan, Kansei 4, 2nd month, 9th day, 30 March? 1792

 


CH'ONHA CHIDO [Atlas of all under Heaven]

The Ch’onha chido [Atlas of all under Heaven] is a late 18th century copy of the traditional Korean atlas produced in the early Choson dynasty (1392-1910). One of the m...

$30000 / ≈ â‚¬27707
Maker / Publisher: Anonymous
Place & Date: Korea, ca. 1790

 


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...

$30000 / ≈ â‚¬27707
Maker / Publisher: DU HALDE, Jean Baptiste.
Place & Date: Paris, P. G. Le Mercier, 1735

 


Lion and Bull made of terracotta.

Very fine terracotta figure of a lion symbolizing the continent of Africa. The Bull symbolizing Europe.The items will be dispatched in 4 wooden crates from Belgium. Pleas...

$27500 / ≈ â‚¬25398
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: Netherlandisch , 1780~1800

 


Universe Europae Maritime Eiusque Navigationis Descriptio. Generale Pascaerte van Europa . . .

This general chart of north-western Europe and the surrounding coastal waters is from the rare pilot-guide De Spiegel der Zeevaerdt , printed by Christopher Plantin in Le...

$25000 / ≈ â‚¬23089
Maker / Publisher: WAGHENAER, L.J.
Place & Date: Leyden, 1584

 


COLLECTION OF HONG KONG MAPS, BOOKS & FLYERS. Including CHINA - HONGKONG surveyed by Captn. Sir Edward Belcher, in H.M.S. Sulphur 1841. Corrected to 1901.

A collection of 30 maps, prints, and publications relating to Hong Kong. Including : - BELCHER, E. Sir, An updated version of this most important nautical chart of Hong K...

$25000 / ≈ â‚¬23089
Maker / Publisher: BRITISH ADMIRALTY/ AMONG OTHERS
Place & Date: London, 1841 - 1901

 


Secunda etas mundi. Folium XIII.

Schedel's world map was based on the cartographic system of Claudius Ptolemy, the great second-century AD geographer whose scholarship formed the foundation for map produ...

$25000 / ≈ â‚¬23089
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493

 


[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...

$25000 / ≈ â‚¬23089
Maker / Publisher: (INSELIN, Charles / CREPY [Family]
Place & Date: Paris, 1720-1735

 


Beschrijving van Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien. Vervattende een Naukeurige en uitvoerige verhandelinge van Nederlands Mogentheyd [...] met meer dan thien honderd en vyftig Prentverbeeldingen verrykt...

"The most comprehensive work on Asia published in Europe during the early colonial period" (Landwehr). The first book to give a comprehensive account in text an...

$25000 / ≈ â‚¬23089
Maker / Publisher: VALENTIJN,
Place & Date: Dordrecht /Amsterdam, 1724-1726

 


Nouvelle et exacte description du globe terrestre reveue corrigée et augmente´e suivant les derniéres relations des Anglais et Hollandois. Par Guillaume Blaeu 1645.

Extremely rare and decorative "carte a figures" world map published by Anthoine de Fer. The double hemisphere world map is surrounded by constellations of the A...

$25000 / ≈ â‚¬23089
Maker / Publisher: DE FER, A.
Place & Date: Paris, 1645

 


Globe Terrestre Didié et Présénté a Monseigneur le Comté Maubec de Brancas...

A rare terrestrial globe dated 1741.  Complete title "Globe Terrestre  Didié et Présénté a Monseigneur le Comté  Maubec de Brancas Par Jacque  Hardy. Dres...

$25000 / ≈ â‚¬23089
Maker / Publisher: HARDY, Jacques
Place & Date: Paris, dated 1741

 


Benedict. Arias Montanus Sacrae Geographiae Tabulam Ex Antiq

THE EXTREMELY RARE FIRST STATE landmark world map, famed for its depiction of the Australian landmass.One of the earliest printed maps to depict the “terra incognitaâ€...

$21500 / ≈ â‚¬19857
Maker / Publisher: ARIAS (MONTANO), Benito:
Place & Date: Anvers 1571 /1572

 


Plan de Paris commencé l'année 1734, Dessiné et gravé sous les ordres de Messire Michel Etienne Turgot, prévost des marchands.

FIRST EDITION of Turgot's Monumental Joined View of Paris, stretching to over 10 Feet.This expansive engraved view of Paris covers the first eleven arrondissements of mod...

$21000 / ≈ â‚¬19395
Maker / Publisher: BRETEZ, Louis / TURGOT.
Place & Date: Paris, 1739

 


[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...

$20000 / ≈ â‚¬18472
Maker / Publisher: VAN KEULEN, G.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1728

 


Atlas in elephant folio.

Most of D'Anville's atlases were made up for the individual customer, so no two appear alike. Many of the 59 pages are multi-sheet maps, so the actual map sheet count is ...

$20000 / ≈ â‚¬18472
Maker / Publisher: ANVILLE (Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'
Place & Date: Paris, 1771-1786

 


Nouvel atlas de la Chine, de la Tartarie chinoise, et du Thibet.

First edition of "the principal cartographic authority on China during the 18th century". It was the second major atlas of China produced in Europe following th...

$19000 / ≈ â‚¬17548
Maker / Publisher: DU HALDE, J.-B.
Place & Date: The Hague, H. Scheurleer, 1737

 


Nova et Accuratissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula.

Since its appearance as an Appendix in 1630, the atlas launched by Willem Blaeu and continued by his son Joan had expanded greatly. But despite many new regional maps the...

$17500 / ≈ â‚¬16163
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1662

 


[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.

A set of two copper engravings made by Andreas van Luchtenburg in Rotterdam, published separately by Cornelis Danckerts. Nieuwe Hemels Spiegel waer door den hemel, aerd...

$17500 / ≈ â‚¬16163
Maker / Publisher: LUCHTENBURG, A.
Place & Date: Rotterdam, Amsterdam, ca. 1684

 


Le globe terrestre representé en deux plans-hemispheres, Dressé sur la Projection de Mr. De la Hyre...

“This splendid GlobeTerrestre originally published by J.B. Nolin is one of the finest large-scale world maps to be produced and is a fitting bridge between the geograph...

$17500 / ≈ â‚¬16163
Maker / Publisher: NOLIN, J.-B. / CREPY.
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1780

 


Carta prima Generale dell' Asia.

FIRST STATE of Robert Dudley's general chart of the Persian Gulf, going east through India to the southeastern coast of China showing Macau and the area of present-day Ho...

$17500 / ≈ â‚¬16163
Maker / Publisher: DUDLEY, R.
Place & Date: Florence, 1646

 


Nansenbushu bankoku shoka no zu.

This wall-map is a great example of Japanese world maps representing Buddhist cosmology with real-world cartography. It is the earliest one and - therefore - the prototyp...

$16000 / ≈ â‚¬14777
Maker / Publisher: ZUDA ROKASHI (Priest Motan)
Place & Date: Kyoto, (Hoei 7 = Year of the Tiger) 1710

 


Americae Nova Descriptio.

Final state. According to Philip Burden, "this scarce map is America's first single-sheet map with decorative borders." A re-issue of the 1614 plate by Pieter v...

$16000 / ≈ â‚¬14777
Maker / Publisher: VISSCHER, N.J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1652

 


Chorographica descriptio provinciarum, et conventum fratrum minorum S. Francisci Capucinorum...

All maps are good and dark impressions. Several maps with slight foxing and browning, the folding map with 2 splits (top right part 10 cm and lower left part 6 cm into en...

$15000 / ≈ â‚¬13854
Maker / Publisher: MONTECALERIO, Ioannis. A / GUCHEN, Maximus.
Place & Date: Turin, 1649

 


Mapa De la parte de la Isla Formosa sa perteneciente al Emperadotde la China sacado por Ord. De S.M.

Extremely rare map of the west coast of Taiwan, the Punghu or Pescadore Islands, and the Fokien or Fujian coast of China. Several ancient Taiwanese cities are noted, incl...

$15000 / ≈ â‚¬13854
Maker / Publisher: DE LA CONCEPTION, J.
Place & Date: Manilla, Seminario Conciliar, y Real de San Carlos, 1788-1792

 


20 advertising gouaches for tobacco industry.

A stunning collection of 20 original square and rectangular decorative commercial designs for the Tabaco industries in gouache and watercolor by the artist and graphic de...

$15000 / ≈ â‚¬13854
Maker / Publisher: PICHON, R. (Workshop).
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1930

 


Nocturnal in boxwood and brass.

Nocturlabe in boxwood and brass, the wheels maintained by a central nut presenting an annual calendar divided into months and days, an hour disc and a mobile alidade, the...

$15000 / ≈ â‚¬13854
Maker / Publisher: COOPER, Th.
Place & Date: England, Thomas Cooper, dated 1701

 


Les Provinces confederées du Pais-Bas

The first wall map of the Seven Provinces of 1651, re-issued as 'Stoel des Oorlogs' by Covens & Mortier. The first issue of the present wall-map is known to be includ...

$15000 / ≈ â‚¬13854
Maker / Publisher: COVENS / MORTIER
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1740

 


(China Atlas) Novus Atlas Sinensis, A Matino Martinio... Seste Deel van de Nieuwe Atlas, oft Toonneel des Aerdrijck, Uytgegeven door Joan Blaeu.

Dutch text edition of the First European Atlas of China. 17 engraved maps in original hand-color, and engraved title pages in original hand-color, heightened in gold. [6]...

$15000 / ≈ â‚¬13854
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1655

 


A Map of the British Empire in AMERICA with the French, Spanish and Hollandish Settlements Adjacent Thereto. by Henry Popple. / Nouvelle Carte Particuliere de L'Amerique . . .

The four sheet Dutch edition of Popple's monumental map of North America, in mint condition. Encompassing the West Indies, Florida, Louisiana, Texas and Central America.T...

$15000 / ≈ â‚¬13854
Maker / Publisher: POPPLE,H / MORTIER, J. and C.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1737

 


Asia carta di ciasete piu moderna. (Japan)

Rare FIRST STATE of this important map for Korea and Japan map of the Blancus/Moreira type, but adds a huge 'Jesso' filling the top of this old map. The map is of interes...

$15000 / ≈ â‚¬13854
Maker / Publisher: DUDLEY, R.
Place & Date: Florence, 1646-1647

 


[ Hong Kong / Canton ] Nieuwe Pas=Caart strekkende van Pta Cataon tot Pta. Lamtoan, langs de kusten van Cochinchina, Tonquin, Quangsi en Quantung [?] van Macao.

A finely engraved and detailed chart of Vietnam reaching to Macao and present-day Hong Kong..Very rare: only included in the 6th volume (so-called secret atlas) of Van Ke...

$12500 / ≈ â‚¬11545
Maker / Publisher: VAN KEULEN, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1753

 


De Bello Belgico, Decas PrimaDeces II.

Each volume contains an engraved title with a representation of the Netherlands and Belgium in the shape of a lion, with one paw resting on a shield bearing the title, a ...

$12000 / ≈ â‚¬11083
Maker / Publisher: STRADA, FAMIANI
Place & Date: Rome, Franciscus Corbelletus, 1632-1647

 


Atlas Universel Par M. Robert Geographe ordinaire du Roy

The first edition of one of the most important 18th-century atlases and one of the great achievements of the French Enlightenment and one of the first atlases based on sc...

$12000 / ≈ â‚¬11083
Maker / Publisher: VAUGONDY, R. de
Place & Date: Paris, 1757

 


[Manuscript map, mounted on linen and on rollers]

With a title in the upper right corner "Carta geographica generalatus carlostatuensiscum adgacentibus confinis turcicis et venetis martinimis dolmatio istrensibus.&q...

$12000 / ≈ â‚¬11083
Maker / Publisher: Anonymous
Place & Date: Venice, c. 1700

 


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...

$12000 / ≈ â‚¬11083
Maker / Publisher: CHAMBON, Gobert-Denis.
Place & Date: Paris, Longchamps et Janvier, 1754

 


Nocturlabe in boxwood and brass.

Nocturlabe in boxwood and brass, the wheels maintained by a central nut presenting an annual calendar divided into months and days, an hour disc and a mobile alidade, the...

$12000 / ≈ â‚¬11083
Maker / Publisher: UNKNOWN
Place & Date: England, ca. 1700

 


A new and correct map of the world.

The early eighteenth century was one of the most important periods for English cartography. One of the period's most intriguing world maps is this large-scale map, which ...

$12000 / ≈ â‚¬11083
Maker / Publisher: WILLDEY, G./ PRICE, Ch.
Place & Date: London 1714

 


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...

$12000 / ≈ â‚¬11083
Maker / Publisher: DU HALDE, J.-B.
Place & Date: The Hague, H. Scheurleer, 1736

 


Islandia.

Perhaps the most famous map of Iceland. On the south side of the island a collection of all possible sea monsters is depicted. Polar bears on ice flows and volcanoes in t...

$11000 / ≈ â‚¬10159
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1603

 


Carte D'Amerique Divisée en ses Principaux Pays. . .

Rare. Uncommon and decorative wall map of America, prepared by Clouet. With superb decorative borders, 170mm wide at the sides and 150mm at the bottom, containing twenty ...

$10000 / ≈ â‚¬9236
Maker / Publisher: CLOUET, J. B. L. abbé / MONDHARE, L.
Place & Date: Paris, Cadiz, 1785

 


Descrittione di M. Lodovico Guicciardini patritio Fiorentino, di tutti i Paesi Bassi,...

Second Italian edition (variant B) and first Plantin edition (1st Silvius 1567) and the most sought-after edition of the famous description of the Low Countries, updated ...

$10000 / ≈ â‚¬9236
Maker / Publisher: GUICCIARDINI, L.
Place & Date: Antwerp, Plantin, 1581

 


L'Art arabe d'après les monuments du Kaire depuis le VIIe siècle jusqu'à la fin du XVIIIe.

Prisse d’Avennes was one of the foremost scholars of Arabic art and architecture of the 19th century; this work represents the summation of his studies. From the aspect...

$10000 / ≈ â‚¬9236
Maker / Publisher: PRISSE D'AVENNES, Achille Constant.
Place & Date: Paris, Morel, 1877

 


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...

$10000 / ≈ â‚¬9236
Maker / Publisher: BREUGHEL, P.
Place & Date: Antwerp, Hieronymus Cock, 1580

 


L'Europe Dressée Sur les Nouvelles observations. . .

A rare and monumental wall map of Europe, with original outline color, of four joined sheets, surrounded by text and vignettes printed on separate sheets.Created in 1740 ...

$10000 / ≈ â‚¬9236
Maker / Publisher: [NOLIN, Jean-Baptiste / Jean-Baptiste NOLIN II
Place & Date: Paris, 1700-1740

 


Paskaerte Zynde t'Oosterdeel Van Oost Indien, met alle de Eylanden daer ontrendt geleegen van C. Comorin tota aen Iapan.

An eye-catching chart of Pieter Goos' sea chart of Australia, Southeast Asia, China, Japan, Korea and India. The chart shows the regions from Cape Comorin (Southern India...

$10000 / ≈ â‚¬9236
Maker / Publisher: GOOS, P.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1669

 


Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid.

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...

$9900 / ≈ â‚¬9143
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720

 


Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica..

The first of four states of the map. French text on verso. One of the most beautiful world maps ever engraved and one of the most influential in promulgating the Californ...

$9500 / ≈ â‚¬8774
Maker / Publisher: HONDIUS, H.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630-1633

 


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 ...

$9500 / ≈ â‚¬8774
Maker / Publisher: WOLFF, Jeremias (heirs) / ENGELBRECHT, Mart
Place & Date: Augsburg, ca. 1730

 


An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham, Emperor of China deliver'd by their excellencies, Peter de Goyer and Jacob de Keyzer, at his imperial city of Peking. . .

Very rare first English text edition of this most important and early resource on China and the Chinese. Three parts in one folio by John Macock for the author.Part I: An...

$9000 / ≈ â‚¬8312
Maker / Publisher: NIEUHOF, J.
Place & Date: London : Printed by the Author at his house in White-Friers, 1669

 


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 / ≈ â‚¬8312
Maker / Publisher: VLAANDEREN, Cornelis André
Place & Date: Bruges, Leon Burghgraeve, 1939

 


Nova XVII Provinciarum Inferioris Germaniae descriptio .

Extremely rare map of the Benelux by Frederick de Widt. Originally engraved and published by P.Kaerius in 1607. In 1662 the plate came in the possession of Frederick de W...

$9000 / ≈ â‚¬8312
Maker / Publisher: JACOBSZ.,Th. / DE WIDT, F.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1662

 


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...

$9000 / ≈ â‚¬8312
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720

 


Inverted nautical Compass, called "mouchard" (~ "spy")

Inverted maritime compass called "mouchard" (spy) in wood and brass, signed "A Van Vastenhoud In Amsterdam". This type of compass was found in the cap...

$8500 / ≈ â‚¬7850
Maker / Publisher: VAN VASTENHOUD, A.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1780

 


Recueil de costumes. Imagini degl'abiti con cui Va uestita la Nobiltà della Serenis.ma Republica di Venezia. Suivi de: [Augsburger Kleidertrachten].

Imagini degl'abiti con cui Va uestita la Nobiltà della Serenis.ma Republica di Venezia. Dedicate all'Illmo et Ecc.mo Sig.r Andrea da Leze Degnis.mo Proc.tor di S: Marco....

$8500 / ≈ â‚¬7850
Maker / Publisher: [BALDUINO (Giacomo)], ZUCHI (Andrea) / WOLFF (Jeremias).
Place & Date: Venezia, Ragheno, 1702 / Augsbourg, J. Wolff, ca. 1715

 


Very fine brass astronomical equinoctial ring with two brass circles.

Very fine brass astronomical equinoctial ring with two brass circles with engraved foliage decoration, signed "Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas Delure A Paris", on the han...

$8000 / ≈ â‚¬7389
Maker / Publisher: JEAN-BAPTISTE NICOLAS DELURE À PARIS
Place & Date: Paris, undated, ca. 1690

 


La dimostratione del luogo dove al presente sitrova l'armat di Barbarossa, et de Christiani detto il golfo dell 'Artha anti ch amente il sino ambracio…

The title cartouche at the top left reads: "La Dimostratione Del Luogo Dove Al Presente Sitrova L'Armat Di Barbarossa, et De Christiani Detto Il Golfo Dell' Artha An...

$8000 / ≈ â‚¬7389
Maker / Publisher: SALAMANCA, Antonio.
Place & Date: Rome, c. 1540

 


Disegno dove al presente si ritrova l'armata della santa legha contro la turchesca, nel promontorio della Morea dirincontro a Modon, dove l'armata nemica si è retirata… VI.Ottobre.1572.

Disegno dove al presente si ritrova l'armata della santa legha contro la Turchesca, nel promontorio della Morea dirincontro a Modon dove l'armata nemica si e retirata, lu...

$8000 / ≈ â‚¬7389
Maker / Publisher: LAFRERI, Antonio.
Place & Date: Rome, 1572

 


Plan de Constantinople, non compris ses faubourgs. Grave d'apres les documents du ministere de la Guerre par E. Olivier.

A very rare lithographic town-plan of Istanbul, Scale 98 yards to one inch., printed in Pera, Istanbul by E. Olivier. The ornate design on the top of the title is a tugh...

$8000 / ≈ â‚¬7389
Maker / Publisher: OLIVIER, E.
Place & Date: Péra, Istanbul, 1851

 


Set of four continents.

Fine set of 4 continents prepared by Gerard Mercator. The general map of Europe, as well as Americae Pars, Greenland, Iceland, a Polar landmass, along with the mythical i...

$7500 / ≈ â‚¬6927
Maker / Publisher: MERCATOR, G. / HONDIUS, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628

 


Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio.

Gerard Mercator's great world map of 1569 was condensed into double hemispherical form by his son Rumold. It first appeared in 1587 in Casaubon's edition of Strabo's Geog...

$7500 / ≈ â‚¬6927
Maker / Publisher: MERCATOR, R.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1595-1609

 


Mariner’s compass

Inverted compass called "snitch" in wood painted in imitation of tortoiseshell and brass, signed "Ing MANN Maker Water Street Liverpool".

$7500 / ≈ â‚¬6927
Maker / Publisher: MANN
Place & Date: Liverpool, ca. 1785

 


Diverses cartes et tables pour la géographie ancienne, pour la chronologie et pour les itinéraires et voyages modernes.

Edition without date. Variant edition containing three parts : "Cartes géographiques dressées pour bien entendre les Historiens… / La Chronologie en plusieurs Ta...

$7500 / ≈ â‚¬6927
Maker / Publisher: DUVAL, P.
Place & Date: Paris, l'Auteur, no date ca.1669

 


Nova et accurata Tabula Hispaniae. . .

Second state. The map shows the geographical image introduced by Hessel Gerritsz's 1612 wall map of Spain, based on information provided by the Coimbra University profess...

$7500 / ≈ â‚¬6927
Maker / Publisher: VISSCHER, C.J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1633

 


Illuminated leaf from a lithurgical Psalter with King David.

Very fine illuminated leaf from a lithurgical Psalter in Latin with the reading from the Vulgate Bible. Lines in a slightly irregular gothic hand, black ink, plummet ruli...

$7500 / ≈ â‚¬6927
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: Flanders, Rhineland, or possibly England, c. 1280

 


[Two vomlumes, with two Leo maps] De Bello Belgico, Decas Prima / Decas Secunda.

With 2 engraved titles of the 'Leo Belgicus', with one paw resting on a shield bearing the title, large woodcut printer's device on the colophons, and 30 richly engraved ...

$7500 / ≈ â‚¬6927
Maker / Publisher: STRADA, Famiano.
Place & Date: Rome, Franciscus Corbelletus, 1632-1647

 


United States of North America. Carte des Etats-Unis de l'Amerique Septentrionale / copiée et gravée sur celle d'Arrowsmith, corrigée et considérablement augmentée... par P. F. Tardieu...

FIRST EDITION. An impressive wall map here in 4 unjoined sheets and large margins. RARE in these untouched, full sheets. Recorded examples are usually offered as folding ...

$7500 / ≈ â‚¬6927
Maker / Publisher: TARDIEU, P.A.F.
Place & Date: Paris: An XI - 1802