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Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.

A more than 600 years old antiphonary leaf, written in Besançon, in 1370. Musical notation on 4 bars, the staves are in red and the notes in black: numerous pen-flourish...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: ANTIPHONARIUM
Place & Date: Besançon, 1370

 


Nova Africae Tabula.

An attractive map of the continent, added by Hondius when he took over publication of Mercator's Atlas. Although it is based on Mercator's map, Hondius improved the outli...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: MERCATOR, G. / HONDIUS, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630

 


Carte Réduite Du Golphe Du Mexique Et Des Isles De L' Amérique..

A well engraved and highly detailed chart prepared by Bellin of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. In addition to a magnificent title cartouche and a color key to the ...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: DÉPÔT GÉNÉRAL DE LA MARINE / BELLIN, J.N.
Place & Date: Paris dated year 17, or 1808

 


Carte Réduite Des Côtes Orientales De L' Amérique Septentrionale Contenant Partie du Nouveau Jersey.. Virginie.. Georgie..

Uncommon chart that extends from Delaware Bay and Philadelphia south through much of Georgia to Island Amelia and St. Johns River. Fleur-de-lis and rhumb lines fill the s...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: DÉPÔT GÉNÉRAL DE LA MARINE / DE SARTINE,A.
Place & Date: Paris, 1778

 


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...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: DE LETH, H.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1720

 


Capitolii sciographia ex ipso exemplari Michaelis Angeli Bonaroti a Stephano Duperac Parisiensi accurate delineata…

View of the Roman Capitol as re-designed by Michelangelo, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", first published in 1569, this example edited by Giovanni Orlan...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: DU PÉRAC, Étienne.
Place & Date: Rome, Orlandi, 1602

 


Botanibay, Englischer Verweisungs Ort fur Verbrecher. / Laijene Franzosicher Verweisungs Ort fur Verbrecher.

Copper engraving with four scenes and one portrait of Frederick III of Saxony on one sheet. In the upper part fanciful views of Botany Bay with English and French settlem...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED BAUMANN and CO.
Place & Date: Zittau, 1798-1800

 


De golf van Bengalen.

Rare chart of the Indian Ocean, with nice detail on Ceylon (Sri Lanka) with compass roses and a system of rhumb lines, soundings and anchorage's. Many place names. The pl...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: DONCKER, H.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1669-1712

 


Pascaerte Van't Westelyckste der Middelandsche Zee. . .

An eye-catching chart of the western part of the Mediterranean Sea.Pieter Goos (ca. 1616-1675) was one of the most important cartographer, engraver, publisher and print s...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: GOOS, P.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1666

 


La Piovra Russa. Carta Serio-Comica Pel 1878.

Variant of the very rare political caricature map by Grossi of the nations of Europe, published in Bologna in the supplement of the newspaper "Le Perroquet / Al papa...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: GROSSI, Augusto.
Place & Date: Bologne presso il Giornale colorato in Papagallo, 1878

 


Chungguk-do

Chungguk-do [Map of China] taken from a Korean printed Ch’onha chido [Atlas of all under Heaven] which is a 19th century version of the traditional Korean atlas produce...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: Korea, ca. 1820

 


Middelbourg Ville la plus considerable de l'Isle de Walcheren et du Comté de Zelande l'une des huit provinces Unis des pais-bas . .

A very decorative and extremely rare of Middelburg, including a numbered (1-19) key in lower part. Published by Jacques Chéreau, (1688 - 1776). Engraved by Aveline and ...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: CHEREAU, J. / AVELINE, P.A.
Place & Date: Paris, ca.1750

 


Miniature of The Crucifixion of Christ.

Page fragment from a Book of Hours with a miniature of the Cruxifiction with Saint Mary and Mary Magdalene in prayer in front of Jesus hung on the cross. This miniature c...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: Master de Liénart Barronnat
Place & Date: Paris, 1492 - 1494

 


Launa vulgo Laun Bohemiae civitas.

Bird's-eye views of Louny in Bohemia by G. Hoefnagel. The copperplate was made for Braun and Hogenberg's town book. However there the print has been transformed by the en...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: BEEK, A. / BRAUN,G / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: The Hague, 1700

 


Tabula electoratus Brandenburgici, Meckelenburgi, et maximae partis Pomeraniae, ex variis, famosissimisq[ue] auctoribus summo studio concinnata. . .

Uncommon "carte à figures"- map engraved by the master engraver Abraham Goos and published by Claes Jansz. Visscher (1587-1652). Showing the area of Brandenbur...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: VISSCHER, N. J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630

 


Ulma Folio CXCI [With view of Ulm.]

Double-page panoramic view of Ulm.An imaginary view, however, is the earliest obtainable view of this period.Two pages from the richest illustrated Incunabel, the famou...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493

 


Mappa Humoristico da Europa.

A really unusual and lovely map, published in Portugal at the outbreak of The Great War in 1914. This outbreak of war in Europe was the result of a complex sequence of ev...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: SOARES, A.
Place & Date: Lisbon, 1914

 


Boats of the Friendly Islands. [together with] A Sailing Canoe of Otaheite.

Early view of Queen charlotte's sound, taken from "Views in the South Seas" being a very important and early views depicting scenes encountered while employed a...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: WEBBER, J.
Place & Date: London, Boydell and Co., 1808

 


A Toopapaoo of a Chief, with a priest making his offering to the Morai, in Huoheine. [Huaheine - the Society Islands]

A view of a chief's raised burial chamber in Huaheine, Society Islands, taken from "Views in the South Seas" being a very important and early view depicting sce...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: WEBBER, J.
Place & Date: London, Boydell and Co., 1808

 


Saique batiment dont les turcs se servent. . .

A very decorative engraving of a Turkish vessel. From Mortier's famous maritime Atlas "Neptune François". Engraved by Jan van Vianen after a design by Henri Sb...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: MORTIER, P.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1690

 


Hongkong Piratenstrasse. [Pirate Street]

Finely executed watercolor made by Henri Dieth of a charming street scene at "Pirate Street" in Hong Kong. The watercolor is made after Eduard Hildebrandt (1818...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: DIETH, H.
Place & Date: Germany, 1882

 


Gezigt op de haven en de baai van Nagasaki.

A very rare birds-eye view showing Deshima and Nagasaki bay. Von Siebold was born in Würtzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In J...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: VON SIEBOLD, P.Fr.B.
Place & Date: Leiden 1832-1852

 


Rotterdam Lloyd, Royal Mail Line. La Méditerranée - L' Egypte - Ceylan - La Malaysie - Les Indes Néerlandaises - L' Australie - L' Indo-Chine - La Chine - Le Japon.

Johann von Stein made this iconic poster for the Rotterdam Lloyd in 1930. This is the rare French version for the tour from Rotterdam to Australia.Johann von Stein (Dutch...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: VON STEIN, J.
Place & Date: Rotterdam, 1930

 


Schat-Kamer ofte konst der stuurlieden, behelzende een duidelyke onderwyzinge in de navigatie. . . [bound with] Tafelen bevattende De Sinussum, tangenten en Secanten. . . [bound with] Geographische Tadfel...

Schat-Kamer ofte konst der stuurlieden, behelzende een duidelyke onderwyzinge in de navigatie. . . [bound with] Tafelen bevattende De Sinussum, tangenten en Secanten. . ....

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: VRIES, KLAAS DE
Place & Date: Amsterdam, J. v. Keulen en Zoonen, 1777

 


Noordoost Cust van Asia van Japan tot Nova Zembla.

Important for its early depiction of Hokkaido and the Islands to the North of Japan. Ships navigate the seas around the Siberian, Chinese and Japanese coast extending as ...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: GOOS, P.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1666

 


Tractus Danubii, Fluminis in Europa Maximi, A Fontibus, Per Germaniam. . .

This is Blaeu’s first map of the Danube and surrounding regions. The Danube River runs through the map from the top left with its headwaters in the German Black Forest ...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634

 


North Pacific.

Huge three sheet so-called Blue-back sailing chart of the Northern Pacific including China, Korea (with Matu Is. and Liancourt), Japan, Philippines, Kamchatka, Hawaii, Al...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: IMRAY AND SON, J.
Place & Date: London, 1868

 


Schat-Kamer ofte konst der stuurlieden, inhoudende Een duidelyke onderwyzinge in de navigatie. . . [bound with] Geographische Tadfel vande Graaden.. Voornaamste Zee-haavens. . .

Rare and important manual originally prepared by Klaas de Vries and improved by Evert Floryn and S.Hollander of the "Schat-Kamer ofte konst der stuurlieden" (Tr...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: VRIES, KLAAS DE
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Wed. Gerard Hulst van Keulen, 1802

 


Destruccio Iherosolime.

The view shows the destruction of Jerusalem. Major points in the city are identified with Latin notations. Of interest, in the upper left of the image are two figures...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493

 


Le comte de Namur et partie des Duchez de Brabant. . .

Decorative map centered on Namen and including the towns of Liege, Leuven, Charleroi, Dinant, Luxemburg, etc. by François Jollain (ca. 1641 – 18 April 1704).Rare "...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: JOLLAIN, F.
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1692

 


Carte du Palatinat du Rhin.

Decorative "carte à figures"- map centered on Koblenz, Metz, Strasburg, Manheim and Heidelberg, with the river Rhine by François Jollain (ca. 1641 – 18 Apri...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: JOLLAIN, F.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1688

 


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 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: HOLTZENDORFF, baron de.
Place & Date: Geneva, Paris, Mérigot le jeune, 1784

 


Vaisseau du premier rang portant pavillon d'amiral.

Fine double-page engraved plate of a naval vessel, with the various parts of the ship numbered and identified. From Mortier's "Neptune François". From Mortier'...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: MORTIER, P.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1695

 


Histoire de la Guerre Civile en Amerique par M. Le Comte de Paris, Ancien Aide de Camp du General Mac Clellan (McClellan). ...

Vorzet made these 30 maps to accompany Louis Phillipe d'Orleans' (Comte de Paris) multi-volume "Histoire de la Guerre Civile en Amérique". The set includes all...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: VORZET, Ed. Dumas
Place & Date: Paris. Michel Levy Freres, 1875

 


[Europe, Eastern, Sarmatia, Ukraine]

Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of Europe, Eastern, Sarmatia, Ukraine prepared L. Fries after Martin Waldseemüller.Based on the slightl...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY, C . / WALDSEEMÜLLER, M. / FRIES, L.
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541

 


.[Near east with Cyprus]

Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of Near east with Cyprus prepared by Martin Waldseemüller. Based on the slightly larger map from 1513 p...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY, C . / WALDSEEMÜLLER, M. / FRIES, L.
Place & Date: Vienna, 1525 -1541

 


.[India]

Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of India prepared by Martin Waldseemüller. Based on the slightly larger map from 1513 published in &quo...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY, C . / WALDSEEMÜLLER, M. / FRIES, L.
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541

 


.[Bangladesh, Burma, India, Thailand]

Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of Bangladesh, Burma, India, Thailand prepared Martin Waldseemüller. Based on the slightly larger map f...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY, C . / WALDSEEMÜLLER, M. / FRIES, L.
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541

 


.[Georgia (Republic), Sarmatia, Ukraine]

Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of Georgia (Republic), Sarmatia, Ukraine prepared by Martin Waldseemüller. Based on the slightly larger...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY,C ./ WALDSEEMÜLLER, M. / FRIES, L.
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541

 


[India and China]

Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of India and China prepared Martin Waldseemüller. Based on the slightly larger map from 1513 published ...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY,C ./ TRECHSEL, G.
Place & Date: Vienna, 1525 -1541

 


Xantung, sinarum imperii provincia quatra.

A map of the northern province ‘Xantung’ of China after the Jesuit Martino Martini.Shows the Great Wall and is centered on the Bohai Sea, and the Shandong and Liaonin...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1660

 


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...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: RIDINGER, J.
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1732

 


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...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: OSTEND COMPANY
Place & Date: Antwerp / Ostend 1723

 


Madeburga [ Maagdenburg Folio CLXXX ]

Double page panoramic view of Magdeburg. A imaginary view, however the earliest obtainable view of this period.Two page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493

 


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...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: OSTEND COMPANY
Place & Date: Antwerp / Ostend, 1723

 


Novissima et Accuratissima Totius Americae Descriptio.

Second state of Visscher's map of the Americas, this decorative map greatly influenced the cartography of the Americas both geographically and artistically.Although it di...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: VISSCHER, N.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1677

 


Kiepert's Physikalische Wandkarten IV. ASIEN. . .

Wall map of Asia printed in chromo lithography. Published by "Stich und Druck der lith. Anst. Von Leopold Kraatz in Berlin". Physical map showing the Asian cont...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: KIEPERT, Heinrich.
Place & Date: Berlin, D. Reimer, 1873

 


View of Singapore

Very rare view of Singapore from the Singapore River Basin. With a numbered key (1-19) underneath the illustration. In the center Government Hill with Governer's House (1...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: ca. 1850

 


Tabula electoratus Brandenburgici, Meckelenburgi, et maximae partis Pomeraniae, ex variis, famosissimisq[ue] auctoribus summo studio concinnata. . .

Uncommon "carte à figures"- map engraved by the master engraver Abraham Goos and published by Claes Jansz. Visscher (1587-1652). The map shows the part of west...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: VISSCHER, N. J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630

 


Magnus Ducatus Finlandiae Auct. Andrea Bureo Succo.

The first printed survey map of Finland, composed by the Swedish cartographer Anders Bureus (1571-1661). The map was published in 1662 in the second volume of Joan Blaeu'...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660

 


Palatinatus Rheni Nova et Accurata Descriptio.

Early state (1630) of Visscher's "carte à figures"- map of the German Rhine River Valley. Inset views of Frankfurt am Main, Mainz, Speyer, Worms and Heidelberg...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: PISCATOR, N.J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630

 


China Veteribus Sinarum Regio.

Based on Jesuit surveys, the map represents the next major revision in the cartography of China after Ortelius' 1584 map. Korea, however, is still an island, and Japan co...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: JANSSONIUS, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640

 


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...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: Paldobundo Province.
Place & Date: 1710-1718

 


World Flight Routes (all in Japanese).

A large very decorative Japanese world map published as sugoroku (a Japanese game which might be compared to backgammon) published as a supplement to the 1930 New Year’...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: OSAKA MAINICHI SHINBUN
Place & Date: Osaka, 1930

 


The Coast of New Found Land From Salmon Cove to Cape Bonavista. . . [together with] The Coast of New Found Land from Cape-Raze to Cape St-Francis.

Two charts showing the coast of New Found Land from Salmon Cove to Cape Bonavista and from Cape-Raze to Cape St-Francis. With inset chart of Trinity HarborGrierson publis...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: MOUNT & PAGE / BOULTER GRIERSON
Place & Date: Dublin, 1767

 


Accuratissima totius Asiae tabula..

The map includes a detailed depiction of South East Asia and the Far East. The northern tip of Australia (Hollandia Nova) is shown as are the important discoveries made t...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: DE WIT, F.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680

 


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...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: BAECK, E.
Place & Date: Augsbourg, 1730

 


Archipelague du Mexique ou sont les Isles de Cuba..

Scarce map of Caribbean. A visually stunning map with a large title cartouche. This large one-sheet map was produced by the Venetian cosmographer Vincenzo Coronelli when ...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: NOLIN, J.B. / CORONELLI, P.
Place & Date: Paris, 1688

 


Het Hooge Heemraedtschap van Schielandt.

This beautiful wall map of "Het Hooge Heemraedtschap van Schielandt" is on nine attached leaves (each leaf 49x58,5 cm. ) engraved by J. VINGBOOMS after J.J. STA...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: J.J. STAMPIOEN (the Elder)
Place & Date: Rotterdam, A. van Hoorn, 1684

 


L'Arabia delineata sulle ultime osservazioni.

First edition on laid paper. Cassini’s splendid early map of Arabia.

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: CASSINI, G.M.
Place & Date: Rome, 1797

 


Asiae Minoris nova descriptio. Geographische Beschryvinge aller Landen... ende sendbrieuen der Apostele...

Extremely rare map from a Dutch bible, published by Dancker Danckerts. This map was included in a Dutch bible including several maps signed by C.Danckerts and one dated 1...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: DANCKERTS, D.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1643

 


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...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: DORN, F.
Place & Date: The Peiyang Press, Ltd. Tientsin-Peiping, 1936

 


Bamberga. Folium CLXXV [Bamberg]

Double page panoramic view of Bamberg. One of the earliest obtainable view of this period.Two page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Nuremberg Chronicl...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493

 


Venise (Venetia).

Scarce and detailed bird's-eye view of the town of Venice by Giacomo Lauro (active about 1584-1637), taken from "Heroico Splendore delle Città del Mondo", a ra...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: LAURO, G.
Place & Date: Rome, ca. 1642

 


AIR France - Super constellation, Lockhead L - 10 - 49.

Promotional poster attributed to Lucien Boucher showing of a Lockhead L - 10 - 49 on a Mercator projection world map. The map depicts a pictorial map of the entire world ...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: BOUCHER, L.
Place & Date: Perceval, Paris, 1953

 


AIR France - Réseau Aérien Mondial.

Original pictorial lithograph advertising planisphere poster from AIR France. The poster has a black background. In the lower right below the border '016/P/AF Printed in ...

$2000 / ≈ €1778
Maker / Publisher: BOUCHER, L.
Place & Date: Imprimerie Perceval, Paris, ca. 1950

 


A new map of the English Empire in America. . .

This fine English map of eastern North America including Canada engraved by John Harris and first published by Robert Morden. John Senex acquired and made minor alteratio...

$2100 / ≈ €1866
Maker / Publisher: SENEX, J.
Place & Date: London, 1720

 


Prof. Dr. A. Krause, Neuer Handels- u. Verkehrsglobus, Verlag Paul Räth.

Art-Deco German Table Globe, on a scale of 1:38 600 000, designed by Prof. Arthur Krause with 30 centimeters in diameter, made by the company Paul Räths, Nachf. KG, Leip...

$2100 / ≈ €1866
Maker / Publisher: KRAUSE, A.
Place & Date: Leipzig, Paul Räth, ca. 1930

 


Isole dell'Indie. . .

A beautiful and flamboyantly engraved large-scale map of the East Indies, including the Malay Peninsula, Cambodia, the Philippines and all of Indonesia and the Spice Isla...

$2100 / ≈ €1866
Maker / Publisher: CORONELLI, V.M.
Place & Date: Venice, 1696

 


[Lot of 9 maps] Plan général de Sébastopol avec indication des travaux du siege et de la defense au 28 mars - 9 avril 1855. Feuille 10. xiii

A group of nine (of 14) very rare panoramic town-plans of the siege of Sebastopol or maps of the Crimea. In lower margin : "Gravé au Dépôt topographique de la Gue...

$2200 / ≈ €1955
Maker / Publisher: DEPOT TOPOGRAPH. DE LA GUERRE
Place & Date: St. Petersburg, N. Thieblin, 1863

 


Etas Prima Mundi. Folium VII. [Adam and Eve, eating the apple and being expelled from paradise]

Latin text page with a large woodcut of Adam and Eve, eating the apple and being expelled from paradise.One of the most sought-after prints from the richest illustrated I...

$2200 / ≈ €1955
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493

 


Isola del Giapone e penisola di Corea.

A most attractive and decorative map by Vincenzo Coronelli. An elaborate central title cartouche garlanded with intertwined flowers and dedicated to the Rev.de Fontaine o...

$2200 / ≈ €1955
Maker / Publisher: CORONELLI, V.M.
Place & Date: Venice, 1692

 


[East Asia]

Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of East Asia and centered on Amenia, prepared Martin Waldseemüller. Based on the slightly larger map fr...

$2200 / ≈ €1955
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY,C ./ TRECHSEL, G.
Place & Date: Vienna, 1525 -1541

 


Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.

A more than 600 years old antiphonary leaf, written in Besançon, in 1370. Musical notation on 4 bars, the staves are in red and the notes in black: numerous pen-flourish...

$2200 / ≈ €1955
Maker / Publisher: ANTIPHONARIUM
Place & Date: Besançon, 1370

 


Poli Arctici, et circumiacentium terrarum descriptio novissima. . .

A re-issue of the Hondius' plate. A particularly decorative map of the North Pole with Iceland. Several Dutch names in Labrador. The toponymy in Canada reflects the conti...

$2200 / ≈ €1955
Maker / Publisher: HONDIUS, H. / DE WIT, F.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660

 


COGNAC PELISSON.

Original advertising poster for the French cognac brand Pellisson, printed by Imprimerie Vercasson, in Paris, designed by Leonetto Cappiello. Leonetto Cappiello, born in ...

$2200 / ≈ €1955
Maker / Publisher: CAPPIELLO, L.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1900

 


Le Royaume de Siam avec Les Royaumes Qui Luy sont Tributaries & c. / La Royaume de Siam avec les royaumes qui luy sont Tributaires, et les Isles de Sumatra, Andemaon, etc. . . [two sheet map]

Influential map of Southeast Asia and the East Indies including modern day Thailand, southern Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, Borneo, Sumatra and Java. Ottens inc...

$2200 / ≈ €1955
Maker / Publisher: OTTENS, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1710

 


Delfi Batavorum vernacule Delft.

Detailed plan of the city Delft from Frederick de Wit's town book of the Netherlands. The plates are first published by Joan Blaeu one year after the peace of Münster an...

$2200 / ≈ €1955
Maker / Publisher: DE WIT, F.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1698

 


French Line CGT Poster.

French Line CGT Poster showing the Normandie cruise ship travelling from Southampton to New York, advertising an express luxury service on both the Ile de France and the ...

$2200 / ≈ €1955
Maker / Publisher: Attrib. Walter Thomas.
Place & Date: England, ca. 1936

 


India quae Orientalis dicitur, et insulae adiacentes.

Extending from India to Japan and showing parts of Australia. It is indeed one of the first printed maps to show identifiable parts of Australia. It was not revised until...

$2200 / ≈ €1955
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644