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[Manuscript chart on vellum of the Java Sea]

One of the few manuscript charts on vellum in private hands, signed by Isaac de Graaf. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT MAP IN RED, GREEN AND BLACK INK showing the Java Sea centered o...

$290000 / ≈ â‚¬246617
Maker: GRAAF, I.
Date: Amsterdam, 1743

 


(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‚¬34016
Maker: CHATELAIN, H.
Date: Amsterdam: Chez Zacharie Châtelain, 1732 - 1739

 


Cary's New Terrestrial Globe Exhibiting The Tracks and Discoveries made by Captain Cook; Als...

An early Regency 21-inch terrestrial globe CARY, John and William. - Cary's New Terrestrial Globe Exhibiting The Tracks and Discoveries made by Captain Cook; Also those o...

$29500 / ≈ â‚¬25087
Maker: CARY, J. / W.
Date: London, 1815/1818

 


Volume III of the monumental atlas, ‘L’Orbe Cattolico ossia Atlante Geografico Storico Ecclesiastico’.

PETRI Girolamo's extremely rare Atlas volume III of the monumental atlas, ‘L’Orbe Cattolico ossia Atlante Geografico Storico Ecclesiastico’, respectively depictin...

$25000 / ≈ â‚¬21260
Maker: PETRI Girolamo
Date: Rome, 1858

 


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‚¬18284
Maker: ARIAS (MONTANO), Benito:
Date: Anvers 1571 /1572

 


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...

$15000 / ≈ â‚¬12756
Maker: ORTELIUS, A.
Date: Antwerp, 1603

 


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‚¬10205
Maker: WILLDEY, G./ PRICE, Ch.
Date: London 1714

 


Algemeene kaart van de Colonie of Provintie van Suriname : met de rivieren, districten, ontdekkingen door militaire togten. . .

Uncommon large scale map of Suriname, indicating the different plantations and their owners. Consists of two glued-together sheets. Completed with funding by the Directeu...

$9500 / ≈ â‚¬8079
Maker: DE LETH, H.
Date: Amsterdam, 1740

 


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‚¬6378
Maker: MERCATOR, G. / HONDIUS, J.
Date: Amsterdam, 1628

 


Ioannes III. Rex. Poloniae (Portrait of Johann III. Sobieski)

On verso a text in brown ink "1674 Giovanni Sobieski Gran Maresciallo della Polonia, che poscia lo fece suo Re, perchè a Cokrim vinse li Turchi, e la liberò dai tr...

$6000 / ≈ â‚¬5102
Maker: ANONYMOUS
Date: Ulm, ca. 1690