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ACTION N° 1155. Société du Commerce d'Asie & d'Afrique.

Share of 1 000 Florins d'Allemagne (1 000 Guilder) of the "Triester Handelsgesellschaft" (Société du Commerce d'Asie & d'Afrique) signed by duke Charles d...

$850 / ≈ €741
Maker: COMPAGNIE IMPERIALE & ROYALE
Date: Triest / Antwerpen, 1 October 1781

 


Parte Orientale dell'Elvezia divisa ne'suoi Cantoni di nuova projezione.

Antonio Zatta's detailed map of the eastern part of the Confederation of Switzerland divided into its Cantons. Shows political and administrative boundaries, cities, town...

$50 / ≈ €44
Maker: ZATTA, A.
Date: Venice, 1781

 


L'Elvezia divisa ne suoi Tredici Cantoni e suoi Alleati di nuova projezione.

Antonio Zatta's detailed map of the Confederation of Switzerland divided into its thirteen Cantons and their allies. Shows political and administrative boundaries, cities...

$50 / ≈ €44
Maker: ZATTA, A.
Date: Venice, 1781

 


MARS Rejouissances du Papeguay. Les Triomphes d'un conquerant

Etching published by Louis Charles Desnos (1725-1805) with address of rue St.Jacques au Globe. He is also known for his output of wall maps and atlases.

$75 / ≈ €65
Maker: DESNOS, L. Ch.
Date: Paris, 1782

 


Russian Empire in Europe from the Dr. D'Anville of the Royal Academy. . .

Rare map of Russia, prepared by John Bayly (active 1755-1794) after D'Anville. In the lower-left corner parts of the Caspian and Black Sea. In the upper right corner Nova...

$750 / ≈ €654
Maker: BOWLES, T.
Date: London, ca. 1782

 


Carte Geo-Hydrographique du Golfe du Mexique et de ses Isles..

Map of the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico showing the various islands and continental coastlines according to the 18th century Venetian cartography of Rizzi Zannoni.Illustr...

$450 / ≈ €392
Maker: LATTRÉ / ZANNONI, R.
Date: Paris, ca 1783

 


Carte du Mexique et des Etats Unis d'Amérique...

A later edition of De l'Isle's foundation map of 1703, is widely regarded as one of the most influential maps in the history of American Cartography. This updated version...

$1200 / ≈ €1046
Maker: L'ISLE, G. de. / DEZAUCHE.
Date: Paris, 1783

 


Share of 1000 Florins to Michel de Knyff. N° 135.

Share of 1000 Florins, paid in four tranches at 250 Florins of Vienna, from "Compagnie Imperiale & Royale Octroyee d'Assurance de Commerce & d'escompte."...

$1500 / ≈ €1308
Maker: COMPAGNIE IMPERIALE & ROYALE
Date: Trieste, 1782 - 1783

 


[Title page for] Recueil de cartes sur la geographie ancienne . . .

Title-frontispiece of "Recueil de cartes sur la geographie ancienne", published by Rigobert Bonne in 1783, engraved by Louis Legrand.More about title pages [+]

$250 / ≈ €218
Maker: BONNE, R.
Date: Paris, 1783

 


L'Italie distinguée suivant l'estendue de tous les Estats, Royaumes, républiques, Duchés, Principautés, &c.

Decorative map of Italy including Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily engraved by Cordier and published by Desnos. A text at lower right refers to the earthquake of Messine in 1...

$200 / ≈ €174
Maker: SANSON, N. / JAILLOT, H.
Date: Paris, Desnos, 1783

 


Nouvelle Mappa Monde.

State 2 of this fine double hemisphere world map, from an unusual perspective, with a "Mer de L'Ouest" or "Sea of the West". Paris is located at the c...

$3350 / ≈ €2920
Maker: SANTINI, P. / REMONDINI, M.
Date: Venice, 1776 - 1784

 


[2 maps] Partie Septentrionale.. Partie Meridionale du Royaume de Portugal..

A detailed two sheet map of Portugal showing the roads, prepared by N.Bellin.Venetian edition of the map by Bellin, to whom Santini gives credit in the cartouche.From &qu...

$250 / ≈ €218
Maker: SANTINI, P. / REMONDINI, M.
Date: Venice, 1776 - 1784

 


Carte de l'Empire de Perse. . .

Map of the Persian empire by the Venetian cartographer and publisher François (Père) Santini and first published in Santini's 'Atlas Universel dressée sur les meuilleu...

$200 / ≈ €174
Maker: SANTINI, P.
Date: Venice, 1784

 


La Tartaria Chinese.

With decorative title cartouche. Covering north eastern part of China, with good detail in Korea and a curious shape for Hokkaido (here called Jeso-Gasima ).Engraved by G...

$600 / ≈ €523
Maker: ZATTA, A.
Date: Venice, 1784

 


La Tartaria Chinese.

With decorative title cartouche. Covering north eastern part of China, Korea and Hokkaido (here called Jeso-Gasima, Tartary including the Gobi Desert; also Peking and the...

$450 / ≈ €392
Maker: ZATTA, A.
Date: Venice, 1784

 


Campagne du Roi de Prusse de 1778 à 1779.

The book is illustrated with a two-sheet folding map "Carte d'une partie du Royaume de Bohême et de la Moravie ainsi que d'une partie de la Silésie". Prepared...

$2000 / ≈ €1743
Maker: HOLTZENDORFF, baron de.
Date: Geneva, Paris, Mérigot le jeune, 1784

 


Tablaeu de l'Univers premiere partie/ .. seconde partie.

Uncommon and interesting manual containing a double hemisphere world map (with fine outer decoration and showing an imagined great sea in West America, easily the size of...

$750 / ≈ €654
Maker: DESOER, F.J.
Date: Luik, Belgium, 1784

 


M.Merian, l'Ancien célébre graveur . . .

Portrait of Matthäus Merian (1593-1650) by Hubert. Matthäus Merian der Ältere was a Swiss-born engraver who worked in Frankfurt for most of his career, where he also ...

$75 / ≈ €65
Maker: HUBERT
Date: Paris, 1784

 


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 ...

$9000 / ≈ €7845
Maker: CLOUET, J. B. L. abbé / MONDHARE, L.
Date: Paris, Cadiz, 1785

 


ETATS-UNIS DE L'AMÉRIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE Avec LES ISLES ROYALE, DE TERRE NEUVE, DE S.T JEAN, L'ACADIE, &c. 1785. Supplement a l'Atlas de M. Robert de Vaugondy a Paris Ches Boudet Ingenieur du Roi.

A map of the eastern United States with "Supplément à l'atlas de M. Robert de Vaugondy à Paris chez Boudet Imprimeur du Roi", in place of the attribution to ...

$1750 / ≈ €1525
Maker: BOUDET. / DE VAUGONDY, R.
Date: Paris, 1785

 


[Title page] Atlante Novissimo, illustrato ed accresciuto . . .

Decorative Venitian frontispiece from Antonio Zatta's Atlas Atlante Novissimo, illustrato ed accresciuto . . . . The outer decoration of this title page has a wealth of c...

$225 / ≈ €196
Maker: ZATTA, A.
Date: Venice, 1785

 


Mariner’s compass

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

$7500 / ≈ €6538
Maker: MANN
Date: Liverpool, ca. 1785

 


Prospectus Insulae S: Spiritus.

View depicting Burano after Francesco Tironi (Venise, 1745 - 1797), engraved by Antonio Sandi (1733 - 1817).The problems of Canaletto’s school and studio practice remai...

$500 / ≈ €436
Maker: TIRONI, Francesco.
Date: Venice, c. 1785

 


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 / ≈ €17434
Maker: ANVILLE (Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'
Date: Paris, 1771-1786

 


Coupon 94 voor een jaar interest voor f 1000 by hunne hoog vorstelyke doorluchtigheden de heere Frederik regeerende furst von Waldek. . .

9 Coupons for one year interest of 1000 florins being 50 florins payable on January 1796, 1797, 1798, 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803, 1804. For a loan made out by The Hague...

$300 / ≈ €262
Maker: BOAS, A. / S.
Date: The Hague / Amsterdam, 1786

 


Bond and 8 coupons # 93 against a one year interest of 1000 Dutch Florins by Frederik ruler of Waldeck.

Bond for 10 years against one year interest of 1000 florins being 50 florins payable on January 1795 until 1804. With 8 pay-out coupons for one year interest of 1000 flor...

$1900 / ≈ €1656
Maker: BOAS, A. / S.
Date: The Hague / Amsterdam, 1786

 


Bond # 86 against a one year interest of 1000 Dutch Florins by Frederik ruler of Waldeck.

Bond for 10 years against one year interest of 1000 florins being 50 florins payable on January 1795 until 1804. For a loan made out by the The Hague bankers Abraham and ...

$1500 / ≈ €1308
Maker: BOAS, A. / S.
Date: The Hague / Amsterdam, 1786

 


Mappemonde ou carte générale du globe terrestre dessinée suivant les règles de la projection des cartes réduites…

Large world map showing the sea tracks of Captain Cook in his three Pacific voyages published by C. F. Delamarche.Rare state 4, dated 1786, of this large world map, featu...

$3750 / ≈ €3269
Maker: ROBERT DE VAUGONDY-DELAMARCHE, C. F.
Date: Paris, Robert de Vaugondy/Delamarche, 1786

 


[Crimea]. Carte de la Cromée.

Mapmaker, Captain Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen (1735-1819). Published by H. Friesman in 1787. This map first appeared in 1776 and was the first Russian map of the newly ann...

$3000 / ≈ €2615
Maker: KINSBERGEN, J.H. van
Date: Amsterdam, H. Frieseman, 1787

 


Carte d'Asie divisée en ses principaux Etats.

Uncommon and decorative "carte à figures" - wall map, prepared by Clouet, with superb decoration, including a wonderful rococo border with 20 decorative vignet...

$7500 / ≈ €6538
Maker: CLOUET / MONDHARE.
Date: Paris, Mondhare, 1787

 


Calendrier de la cour, tiré des éphémérides, pour l'Année bissextile.. / Notebook bearing silver plates with the VOC monogram.

A personal gift, only made for the trustees of the V.O.C. The silver plate was probably made by Drick van Hengel and Company because an entry in the diary of mintmaster J...

$4500 / ≈ €3923
Maker: HÉRISSANT, Ve.
Date: Paris, 1787

 


Tableau des guerres de Frédéric le Grand: ou plans figurés de vingt-six batailles rangées, ou combats essentiels donnés dans les trois guerres de Silésie. . .

The book includes a large folded map "Tableaux des Guerres de Frédéric le Grand", showing a map of Prussia, with present-day Poland and Eastern Germany surrou...

$5000 / ≈ €4359
Maker: MULLER, L.
Date: Potzdam, Strasbourg, Paris, 1788

 


Matelot Hollandais [Dutch sailor]

Etching showing a typical Dutch sailor, after Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (1757–1810). Taken from "Costumes Civils actuels de tous les peuples connus, dessin...

$80 / ≈ €70
Maker: (After) GRASSET DE SAINT-SAVEUR, J.
Date: Paris, Pavard, 1788

 


Map of Louisiana from D'Anville's Atlas.

This map presents a highly detailed treatment of the region from Cabo Del Norte to the Apalachiola River, centered on the mouth of the Mississippi and extending inland to...

$750 / ≈ €654
Maker: BOWEN, Th.
Date: London, 1788

 


Carte d'Europe divisée en ses Empires et Royaumes.

Uncommon and decorative wall map of Europe, prepared by Clouet. Superb decoration including a wonderful rococo border with vignettes describing historical scenes. Below t...

$4000 / ≈ €3487
Maker: CLOUET / MONDHARE.
Date: Paris, Mondhare, 1788

 


Neue Karte von den gegenwärtigen Kriegs-Schauplatze zwischen den Russisch-Kayserl.

Very rare separately published map showing the Russian War seat including Finland, Lithuania, Denmark and parts of Poland, Norway and Sweden. In lower part inset maps of ...

$2200 / ≈ €1918
Maker: LANGE, J.E.
Date: Leipzig, 1788

 


L'Afrique divisée en ses principaux Etats, assujettie aux observations astronomique.

Rare and attractive map of Africa, ornated with a decorative title cartouche showing luxuriant nature and a lion. With two inset maps : "Carte particulière du Cap ...

$350 / ≈ €305
Maker: JANVIER, Sr.
Date: Paris, Lattré, 1788

 


Karte von dem groessten Theil des Landes Jemen Imame, Kaukeban &c.

Large map of Yemen from "Allgemeiner grosser Atlas" published by P. J. Schalbacher - 1786-1800. Based on the observations of the Danish explorer Carsten Niebuhr...

$250 / ≈ €218
Maker: SCHRAEMBL, F.A.
Date: Vienna, 1789

 


Karte von dem groessten Theil des Landes Jemen Imame, Kaukeban &c.

Large map of Yemen from "Allgemeiner grosser Atlas" published by P. J. Schalbacher - 1786-1800. Based on the observations of the Danish explorer Carsten Niebuhr...

$100 / ≈ €87
Maker: SCHRAEMBL, F.A.
Date: Vienna, 1789

 


[Title cartouche from Carte de la France]

Title cartouche from "Carte de la France", prepared by Captaine and published by Pierre D. Belleyme.

$150 / ≈ €131
Maker: DE BELLEYME, P
Date: Paris, ca. 1789

 


A ship's hour glass

The element common to celestial position-finding, the calculation of speed for dead reckoning and even everyday life at sea is the time: hence ways of determining and kee...

$1750 / ≈ €1525
Maker: The Low Countries
Date: ca. 1790

 


Otago Capo dell'Isola d'Amsterdam nel Mare Pacifico del Sud. / Otago Chef de l'Isle d'Amsterdam dans la Mer Pacifique du Sud. .. [Tongatapu, Tonga]

Otago was a native of the island of Tongatapu, Tonga. The island was first sighted by Europeans in 1643 by Abel Tasman, commanding two ships. “Tasman named the island &...

$150 / ≈ €131
Maker: VIERO, Th.
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790

 


Uomo del Paraguai nell' America Meridionalle. / Homme du Paraguai dans l'Amerique Meridionalle.

Full portrait of a person from Paraguay.  From "Raccolta di stampe." a series of historically significant eighteenth-century copper plate engravings by Venetia...

$200 / ≈ €174
Maker: VIERO, Theodorum.
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790

 


Indiana del Perù. / Indienne du Perou.

Portrait of a Peruvian Indian woman holding a fruit basket and a lama in the background.  From "Raccolta di stampe." a series of historically significant eight...

$200 / ≈ €174
Maker: VIERO, Theodorum.
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790

 


Dona del Regno di Granata. / Femme du Roy.me de Granade.

A full portrait of a woman from Granada, situated at Lake Nicaragua or Cocibolca.  From "Raccolta di stampe",  a series of historically significant eighteenth...

$150 / ≈ €131
Maker: VIERO, Theodorum.
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790

 


Donna dell' Isola d' Erramanga una delle nuove Ebridi nel Mar Pacifico. / Femme de l'Isle d'Erramanga une des nouvelles Hebrides dans la Mer Pacifique. [Vanuatu]

Full portrait of a woman, native of the island of Erramanga in the New Hebrides, officially the New Hebrides Condominium, the colonial name for the island group in the So...

$150 / ≈ €131
Maker: VIERO, Theodorum.
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790

 


Donna dell' Isola di Mallicolo una delle nuove Ebridi nel Mar Pacifico del Sud. / Femme de l' Isle d'Erramanga... [Vanuatu]

Full portrait of a woman, a native of the island of Mallico in the New Hebrides, officially the New Hebrides Condominium, the colonial name for the island group in the So...

$150 / ≈ €131
Maker: VIERO, Theodorum.
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790

 


Donna dell' Isola di Tanna, una delle nuove Ebridi nel Mar Pacifico. / Femme de l' Isle de Tanna, une des nouvelles Hebrides dans la Mer Pacifique. [Vanuatu]

Full portrait of a woman, a native from the island of Mallico in the New Hebrides, officially the New Hebrides Condominium, the colonial name for the island group in the ...

$100 / ≈ €87
Maker: VIERO, Theodorum.
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790

 


Uomo dell' Isola di Tanna, una delle nuove Ebridi nel Mar Pacifico. / Homme de l' Isle de Tanna, une des nouvelles Hébrides dans la Mer du Pacifique. [Vanuatu]

Full portrait of a man from the island of Tanna in the Pacific. New Hebrides, officially the New Hebrides Condominium was the colonial name for the island group in the So...

$100 / ≈ €87
Maker: VIERO, Theodorum.
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790

 


Capo della flotta degli Otahiti nel Mar Pacifico del Sud. / Chef de la flotte des Otahiti dans la Mer Pacifique du Sud.

Full portrait of the captain of the Otahiti flotilla, from Tahiti.  A rare engraving from "Raccolata di stampe ... di varie nazioni". From the original drawing...

$250 / ≈ €218
Maker: VIERO, Theodorum.
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790

 


Potatow Capo dei Tahiti Isola nel Mare Pacifico del Sud. / Potatow Chef de Tahiti Isle dans la Mer Pacifique du Sud.

Full portrait of the Hawaiian chief Potatow.  A rare engraving from "Raccolata di stampe ... di varie nazioni". From the original drawing by William Hodges, w...

$150 / ≈ €131
Maker: VIERO, Theodorum.
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790

 


Otoo, Re di Tahiti Isola nel Mar Pacifico del Sud. / Otoo, Roi de Tahiti Isle dans la Mer Pacifique du Sud.

Full portrait of King Otoo from Tahiti. A rare engraving from "Raccolata di stampe ... di varie nazioni". From the original drawing by William Hodges, who acco...

$200 / ≈ €174
Maker: VIERO, Theodorum.
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790

 


Donna dell' Isola di Pasqua, o terra di Davis nel Mar del Sud. / Femme de l' Isle de Pâques ou terre de Davis dans la Mer du Sud.

Full portrait of a woman, a native of Easter Island, a Chilean territory, is a remote volcanic island in PolynesiaFrom "Raccolta di stampe." a series of histori...

$250 / ≈ €218
Maker: VIERO, Theodorum.
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790

 


Uomo dell' Isola di Pasqua o Terra di Davis nel Mar del Sud. / Homme de l' Isle de Pâquesou Terra de Davis dans la Mer du Sud.

Full portrait of a native from Easter Island. Easter Island, a Chilean territory, is a remote volcanic island in Polynesia.From "Raccolta di stampe," a series o...

$250 / ≈ €218
Maker: VIERO, Theodorum.
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790

 


Donna dell' Isola di S.a Cristina una delle Marchesi nel Mar del Sud. / Femme de l' Isle de S.e Christine une des Marquises dans la Mer du Sud.

Full portrait of a woman from the Saint Christina Island. A rare engraving from "Raccolata di stampe ... di varie nazioni". From the original drawing by Willia...

$250 / ≈ €218
Maker: VIERO, Theodorum.
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790

 


Capo dell' Isola di S.a Cristina una delle Marchesi nel Mar Pacifico del Sud. / Chef de l'Isle de Ste. Christine une des Marquises dans la Mer Pacifique du Sud.

Full portrait of the Chief of the Saint Christina Island. A rare engraving from "Raccolata di stampe ... di varie nazioni". From the original drawing by William...

$300 / ≈ €262
Maker: VIERO, Theodorum.
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790

 


Uomo della nuova Caledonia Isola del Mar Pacifico. / Homme de la nouvelle Calédonie Isle dans la Mer Pacifique.

Full portrait of a native from New Caledonia. A rare engraving from "Raccolata di stampe ... di varie nazioni". From the original drawing by William Hodges, who...

$300 / ≈ €262
Maker: VIERO, Theodorum.
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790

 


Portrait of Jan Maatzuiker.

Portrait of Jan Maatzuiker, Governor-General of the East Indies from 1653 till 1678. From Kok's Woordenboek . Engraved by Reinier Vinkees in 1790.

$90 / ≈ €78
Maker: VINKELES, R.
Date: Amsterdam, 1790

 


Muitery op het O:I: Comp. schip Barbestein in Duins.

Anonymous engraving of a mutiny of the VOC ship Barbestein .

$75 / ≈ €65
Maker: ANONYMOUS
Date: Amsterdam c.1790

 


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 / ≈ €26151
Maker: Anonymous
Date: Korea, ca. 1790

 


The Russian Empire in Europe and Asia . . .

Detailed map of the whole of Russia, extending from Poland to the Pacific and from Nova Zembla to Tartaria.The map is of interest for the use of Corea Gulf for the sea be...

$400 / ≈ €349
Maker: BOWEN, T.
Date: London, 1790

 


[Tableau Général de l'Empire Ottoman]. 11 plates with the panoramic view of Mecca.

A collection of 11 engraved plates (3 folding) from "Tableau Général de l'Empire Ottoman", Paris, Imprimerie de Monsieur, 1790, comprising the famous panorami...

$4000 / ≈ €3487
Maker: MOURADJA D'OHSSON, Ignace.
Date: Paris, 1790

 


An elegant couple with a caged bird in a landscape.

Folding fan made of skin sheet and mounted in English style, with a painted scene of an elegant couple with a caged bird in a landscape.Painted verso of a man among ancie...

$900 / ≈ €785
Maker: ANONYMOUS
Date: Paris, 1790

 


ИНДIИ [Map of India in Cyrillic].

A map of India. This Cyrillic version of the map appeared in one of the first world atlases published in Russia, "Novy Atlas, ili sobranie kart ..." which trans...

$750 / ≈ €654
Maker: MINING SCHOOL OF USE OF YOUGHTS / BONNE, R.
Date: Paris / St.Petersburg, ca. 1790

 


Le Curieux.

A risqué but delightful French engraving produced in the late eighteenth century. It is simply titled The Curious, and shows a young lady lying on her side on a divan, w...

$125 / ≈ €109
Maker: BAUDOUIN / MALEUVRE.
Date: Paris, ca. 1790

 


Dutchman and a Maruyama prostitute.

An explicit scene of a Dutchman and a Maruyama prostitute featuring a gray-bearded westerner coupling with a courtesan. The woman protests that she doesn't understand wha...

$7500 / ≈ €6538
Maker: CHOKOSAI EISHO
Date: Late Edo, 1790

 


Huile de Calamite.

Oil to heal all ailments, only distributed by François Giramo, who alone owns the secret. Surrounded by a decorative border and the Royal coat-of-arms.With privilege of ...

$120 / ≈ €105
Maker: Broad sheet advertising poster.
Date: France, c.1790

 


Prospectus novi Circi pro Nundinis in Solemnitate Ascensionis Venetiis in Foro maximo.

After a painting by Francesco Guardi, preserved at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, the engraving depicts the wooden scenographic structure created in 1776 by Maccar...

$850 / ≈ €741
Maker: GUARDI, Francesco.
Date: Venice, after 1791

 


S. Georgii Majoris Ecclesiae prospectus.

S. Georgii Majoris Ecclesiae prospectus". S. Giorgio with the church and quay in sharp perspective.From the series "Prospectum Urbis Venetiarum" (Views of ...

$1500 / ≈ €1308
Maker: BRUSTOLON, Giovanni Battista / CANALETTO.
Date: Venice, ca. 1791

 


Veduta della Magnifica REGATA seguita in Venezia li 2. Aprile 1791 alla quale intervennero li Augusti Viaggiator.

Decorative engraving of a Venice regatta on the Grand Canal, by Teodoro Viero (1740-1819) after a paining by Canaletto.The tradition of Venetian origin of the race is lin...

$1500 / ≈ €1308
Maker: VIERO, Teodoro.
Date: Venice, c. 1791

 


[ 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 / ≈ €26151
Maker: ANONYMOUS
Date: Japan, Kansei 4, 2nd month, 9th day, 30 March? 1792

 


't dorp Aalst.

Rare print of the old church of Aalst (near Eindhoven), from Vaderlandsche gezichten of afbeeldingen.. by J.Bulthuis, printed by H.Gartman in Amsterdam.

$60 / ≈ €52
Maker: BULTHUIS, J.
Date: Amsterdam, 1786 / 1792

 


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 / ≈ €13076
Maker: DE LA CONCEPTION, J.
Date: Manilla, Seminario Conciliar, y Real de San Carlos, 1788-1792

 


Bison Iubatus.

Etching of a bison by Leendert Brasser (1727 - 1793) after a painting of the Dutch artist Gerrit van den Heuvel.An early portrait of a bison, etched by Leendert Brasser (...

$750 / ≈ €654
Maker: BRASSIER, L
Date: Rotterdam, 1766-1793

 


Imperium Russicum, cum regionibus adiacentibus duabus Tabulis ex optima quae A. 1784 tribus foliis comparavit Mappa geographica, aliisque subsidiis delineatum a C. Mannert, Tabula Ima. . .

A detailed map of the European part of the Russian Empire. Scarce map. Copper etching by C. Mannert and edited by Adam Gottlieb Schneider and Johann Christoph Weigel. Man...

Maker: MANNERT, C.
Date: Nuremberg, 1794

 


L'Europe divisée en des Etats, Empires, Royaumes et Républiques.

Large wall map of Europe with inset map of Iceland and cartouche drawn and etched by Arrivet. Revised edition by Charles François Delamarche (1st ed.: 1767), entitled &q...

$1450 / ≈ €1264
Maker: ROBERT DE VAUGONDY, Didier / C.en LAMARCHE.
Date: Paris, (n.d.) c. 1793/1794

 


Karte von Asien.

An attractive map of Asia. With a decorative title cartouche in the upper left-hand corner. Engraved by Aarons.Franz Johann Josef von Reilly (Vienna 18 august 1766 - 6 ju...

$900 / ≈ €785
Maker: VON REILLY, F.J.J.
Date: Vienna 1795

 


Two sheets for constructing an armillary sphere.

Two sheets for constructing an armillary sphere. Cassini was a geographer and cartographer, but also perspective and architecture carver - one of Giovanni Battista Pirane...

$2700 / ≈ €2354
Maker: CASSINI, G.M.
Date: Rome, 1795

 


Passeport.

Passport for the United States in the name of Madeleine Lavit Femme Lory, issued by the Commission of Interior Relations and approved by the Committee of Public Safety.Th...

$750 / ≈ €654
Maker: République Française..
Date: Paris, 1795

 


Carte des découvertes fautes en 1787 dans les Mers de Chine et de Tartarie par les Frégates Françaises la Boussole et l'Astrolabe. . . ée. Feille.

La Pérouse's important large-scale of Northern Japan, Hokkaido, the Kuriles, the tip of Kamschatka, and the northern part of Korea.Showing the track of Perouse from 27 ...

$1400 / ≈ €1220
Maker: LA PÉROUSE, J.F.G
Date: Paris, 1797