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A fine bronze cannon.
Cannon built up of two truncated conusses, differing in size, the steps marked by mouldings shaped as flat bands preceded by ogees: base ring similar; breech with ogee-sh...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1755
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Quarta etas mudi Folio LVIII [Rome]
Double text page in German with a woodblock Rome (23x53cm.)On verso a view of Genua (193x222mm). Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Nuremberg Chro...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Latium.
Based on classical authors' sources, specifically Virgilius, Plinius, Varro, Halicarnasseus, Festus and Ausonius.Philip Wingius in his letter to Ortelius from 1592 mentio...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1595
Chaerte vande Wieringer waert, de welcke inden jaere XVI… (Wieringerwaard)
Rare wall map of the Wieringerwaard polder, as raffled on 12 July 1611. The polder was laid dry in 1610. It border, and also the border of the municipality, were the Zuid...
Place & Date: 1741-1744
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Loandas St.Paulo [Luanda]
Engraved by Thomas Doesburgh (active between 1683 and 1714) for Carolus Allard's for his Orbis habitabilis oppida et vestitus the print shows a distance view of the Angol...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c.1685-1690
s'Lands en Oost-Indische Lynbanen.
A decorative print of the Lynbanen a place were V.O.C. ship riggings and ropes were produced and kept.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1760-1767
t'Oost-Indisch-Huys.
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1760-1767
s'Lands en Oost-Indische Lynbanen. & t'Oost-Indisch-Huys.
A decorative print of the Lynbanen a place were V.O.C. ship riggings and ropes were produced and kept.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1760-1767
Oost-Indis Zee Magazyn - Arçenal des Indes Orientalis.
Decorative view of the East Indian Arsenal, now-a-says the Maritime Museum.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1700
Arcenal de l'Amirauté.
A decorative print of the 'T Landts Magazyn , or 'Scheepvaart Museum' (Naval Museum).
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1700
D' Admiralyteyts Huys - La maison de l'Amirauté.
Decorative print of the "D'Admiralyteits Huys", Het Prinsenhof, of the Dutch East India Company VOC. Located at the Oudezijds Voorburgwal 195-199, Amsterdam.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1700
A Map and History of Peiping; formerly known as Peking; capital of provinces, princedoms and kingdoms since 1121 B.C. . .
The uncommon second edition of this very decorative and informative pictorial map of Beijing and surrounding areas whimsically illustrates the Forbidden City, essential e...
Place & Date: The Peiyang Press, Ltd. Tientsin-Peiping, 1936
![[Lot of 4 charts] Plan de la Baie et du Port de Camraigne / Plan de la Baie de Niatrang et du Golfe de Binkang / Plan de la Cote de Cochinchine. . . / Plan des Ports de Xuandai, Vung-Lam. . .](/uploads/cache/44795A-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 4 charts] Plan de la Baie et du Port de Camraigne / Plan de la Baie de Niatrang et du Golfe de Binkang / Plan de la Cote de Cochinchine. . . / Plan des Ports de Xuandai, Vung-Lam. . .
[A set of four French sea charts numbered consecutively]. A set of 4 basic coastal sea charts of parts of southern French Indochina (Vietnam).Chart 295 centers on the reg...
Place & Date: Paris ca 1780
Het West Indisch Huys.
A decorative print of the West Indian House , the headquarters of the WIC, a place for meeting, trading and storage of spices and ship equipment. The maps and charts were...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, J. van Meurs, 1663
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Israel.
Decorative poster advertising flights to Israel 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
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
Hong Kong.
Decorative poster advertising flights to Hong Kong made by Georges Mathieu. The poster is one of a series of 15 composed of posters of Greece, Israel, Germany, Great Bri...
Place & Date: Paris, 1967
Korea. Das Land des Morgenrots. Nach seinen Reisen geschildert von Angus Hamilton. Autorisierte Übersetzung aus dem Englischen.
With 114 illustrations after photographes and one map.
Place & Date: Leipzig: Spamer, 1904
Voyage of his majesty’s ship Alceste, along the Coast of Corea, to the island of Lewchew, with an account of her subsequent shipwreck, by John M’LEOD. Surgeon of the Alceste.
Second and best edition, with frontispiece portrait of Captain Maxwell and five fine hand-colored aquatint plates, including a plate not present in the first edition of t...
Place & Date: London, John Murray, 1818
Paldobundo Province.
Woodblock printed map of Jeolla Province which was one of the historical Eight Provinces of Korea during the Kingdom of The map is drawn in "Paldo Bundo," styl...
Place & Date: 1710-1718
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Ch'onha chido.[Atlas of all under Heaven]
A late 18th-century Ch'onha chido atlas with 13 woodblock maps showing the World, China, Korea, Japan, Okinawa, and the 8 provinces. The seas are in black.Slight wear, co...
Place & Date: Korea, ca. 1760
Tabula Anemographica seu Pyxis Nautica.
Impressive compass rose with a fleur de lis at the center and 32 wind directions flowing from it identified in six languages, Greek, Latin, French, Dutch, Italian, and Sp...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Chosen Danpan - Korean negotiation.
A scene of a Japanese legation under the command of Hanabusa Yoshitada who is forcing the Korean King Kojong (1852-1919) to agree to Japanese demands during the Chemulpo ...
Place & Date: August 8, MEIJI 27th year or 1894
KOUSHI NYUJO no Zu - HANABUSA Legation enters in Palace, Seoul.
A scene of Japanese legation HANABUSA who are entering the Royal Palace, Seoul.
Place & Date: August 8, MEIJI 27th year or 1894
Mariner’s compass
Inverted compass called "snitch" in wood painted in imitation of tortoiseshell and brass, signed "Ing MANN Maker Water Street Liverpool".
Place & Date: Liverpool, ca. 1785
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...
Place & Date: Paris, undated, ca. 1690
A cordiform - heart-shaped - horary quadrant marked with Gunter scales.
A small and charming but very fine heart-shaped horary quadrant marked with Gunter scales. The scales are very finely engraved on both sides.The quadrant was a very pract...
Place & Date: ca. 1720-1760
Marine parallel rulers in brass.
Very fine marine parallel rulers in brass. The parallel ruler is the oldest and most traditional way to measure and trace routes and bearings. The principle is simple: t...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1880
Early 19th century magnetic dry card compass with wooden bowl,
Brass dry rose marine compass, in its mahogany case. The mariner's compass, which enabled mariners to know the direction in which they were sailing, has always been one o...
Place & Date: ca. 1800
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1780
A ship's hour glass.
Maritime hourglass with blown glass bulbs, orange sand, junction ring covered with cord, the circular ebony frame with six turned baluster columns. The invention of the ...
Place & Date: Germany, ca. 1750
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...
Place & Date: England, ca. 1700
Steel compass with a gilded radiating pattern.
Steel compass with a gilded radiating pattern.Provenance : Collection Henri-Claude Randier.
Place & Date: ca. 1760
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...
Place & Date: England, Thomas Cooper, dated 1701
Transom of a ship in gilded carved wood bearing the inscription "DUMONT- DURVILLE"
Decorative transom sign in gilded carved wood bearing the inscription "DUMONT- DURVILLE" in a foliage environment. The transom usually kept the name of the ship...
Place & Date: France, ca. 1880
A ship's hour glass.
Maritime hourglass with blown glass bulbs, orange sand, junction ring covered with cord, the circular ebony frame with six turned baluster columns.The invention of the ho...
Place & Date: The Netherlands, Germany, ca. 1750
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1720
Ambassades mémorables de la Compagnie des Indes orientales des Provinces Unies vers les empereurs du Japon.
First edition in French of this important work on Japan, a work whose illustrations "represent a high-water mark in book illustrations of the 17th century" (Lac...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Europa recens descripta à Guilielmo Blaeuw.
On either side columns depicting the manner of dress in the major countries of Europe, surmounted by nine city views and plans.For European mapmakers their own continent ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644
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...
Place & Date: Cologne, Gerardus Campensis for Frans Hogenberg, 1588