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Pas-kaart vande Zee kusten van Venecuela met de Byleggende Eylanden. . .
Rare chart of the coast of Venezuela, including the islands of Curaçao, Bonaire, Aruba, etc.The chart has two insets, one (15x22cm) with a map of Curaçao, one smaller w...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Pianta Geografia delle Isole di Malta, e Gozo della Sagra Religione Gerosolimitana di S. Giovanni delineata, ed incisa in quest anno 1761.
A rare map of Malta and Gozo printed by the priest Antonio Bova (1688 - 1775), who was active as engraver in Palermo ca. 1727-1773. He produced cartographic engravings, s...
Place & Date: Bova Ant., Palermo, 1761
Mappa Aestivarum Insularum alias Barmudas.
Blaeu based his work on John Speed's remarkably accurate map of 1626-1627. It shows the island divided into tribes and lots, and below the map itself appear the names of ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635
![.Taprobana Ins. Tabula XII Asiae. [Sri Lanka.]](/uploads/cache/27928-250x250.jpg)
.Taprobana Ins. Tabula XII Asiae. [Sri Lanka.]
Ptolemy's mythical island of Taprobana originally became associated with Sri Lanka although it was sometimes confused with Sumatra. Taprobana, as it was called on most ea...
Place & Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1535
Manuscript atlas.
Charming manuscript atlas with 6 maps, pen and ink and water color, showing France, Europe, Africa, Palestine, North America and South America.The atlas is done by a youn...
Place & Date: France, 1835
![Etas Prima Mundi. Folium VII. [Adam and Eve, eating the apple and being expelled from paradise]](/uploads/cache/29855-250x250.jpg)
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...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Japonia Regnum.
It is the first map to correctly show Korea as a peninsula. The rare Covens and Mortier issue of this important map of Japan and Korea, originally published by Blaeu. Thi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1655 - 1720
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...
Place & Date: Venice, 1692
![[Taprobana - Sri Lanka]](/uploads/cache/33847-250x250.jpg)
[Taprobana - Sri Lanka]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of Ceylon prepared Martin Waldseemüller.Based on the slightly larger map from 1513 published in "P...
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541
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[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...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1525 -1541
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 ...
Place & Date: England, ca. 1936
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...
Place & Date: Besançon, 1370
Riga metropolis Livoniae.
A spectacular panoramic view of Riga, with legends numbered from a-z and 1-16 in German. With the title in a banderol.After a design by Friedrich Bernhard Werner (1690-1...
Place & Date: Augsburg, ca. 1720
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Penisola Dell India di la dal Gange Diusa ne i Regni, che in essasi contengono et accresciuta di varie notizie. Da Giacomo Cantelli da Vignola e conforme le Relationi di alcuni Padri della Compa di Giesu di Monsu Tavernier . . . 1683
Giacomo Rossi's fine late 17th century map of Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia and part of Sumatra.. Engraved by Franciscus Donia. Issued in Il Mercurio geografico In lower r...
Place & Date: Rome, 1683-1688
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1698
![[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](/uploads/cache/33907-250x250.jpg)
[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...
Place & Date: St. Petersburg, N. Thieblin, 1863
![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]](/uploads/cache/40698-250x250.jpg)
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1710
La Penisola delle Indie di la' dal Gange con parte delle Isole della Sonda delineate sulle ultima osservazioni.
First edition on laid paper. Cassini’s splendid early map of Indochina, from Bangladesh in the west to central Borneo in the east, and southern China in the north, to B...
Place & Date: Rome, 1797
Der Hollaendisch-Ostindianischen Compagnie Weltberühmte Haupt - Handels und Niederlags stadt BATAVIA..
Very fine decorative plan of Batavia showing the City and its immediate environs, the surrounding rice fields intersected by a network of waterways, canals and outlying f...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1733
British Empire Trade Map WWII Eric Fraser.
Original vintage World War Two period British Empire trade map poster with the stylised text in Spanish reading: For more than two centuries the British fleets have kept ...
Place & Date: England, 1941
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644
India Orientalis.
Published in Hondius' editions of the Mercator Atlas from 1606 onwards, showing the Indian subcontinent, the Malay Peninsula, Siam and Cambodia, China and the Philippines...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
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 ...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1900
Belchrijuinghe vande zee custen van Engelandt. . .
A rare Dutch text edition of this detailed early chart of the northern coast of England. West to the top. The mileage cartouche has no Latin captures. Decorated by a colo...
Place & Date: Leiden, Plantijn, 1585
![Mexico, Regia et Celebris Hispaniae Novae Civitas ... [on sheet with] Cusco, Regni Peru in Novo Orbe Caput.](/uploads/cache/29013-250x250.jpg)
Mexico, Regia et Celebris Hispaniae Novae Civitas ... [on sheet with] Cusco, Regni Peru in Novo Orbe Caput.
Two bird's-eye views on one sheet: Mexico and Cusco.Showing Mexico City and Cusco, the capital cities of the Aztecs and Incas, with the major buildings shown in profile w...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1657
Leaf on vellum from a Missal.
A very fine Missal leaf, written in Latin. RECTO: A wonderful initial P decorated with pen work in red, purple and blue. The initial is 6x6cm. VERSO: 18 lines written in ...
Place & Date: France, c. 1410
Tweevoudigh onderwiis van de Hemelsche en Aerdsche Globen; Het een Na de meyning van Ptolemeus met een vasten Aerdkloot...
Tweevoudigh onderwiis van de Hemelsche en Aerdsche Globen; Het een Na de meyning van Ptolemeus met een vasten Aerdkloot; Het ander Na de Natuerlijcke stelling van N. Cope...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1655
Le Nouveau et Curieux Atlas Geographique et historique, ou Le Divertissement des Empereurs, Roys, et Princes. Tant dans la Guerre que dans la Paix. Dédié A Son A.R. Monseigneur le Duc d'Orléans Regent du Roîaume de France.
Charming world atlas with double hemisphere world and the North American map feature the Island of California. In Asia and the Pacific, Australia is incompletely mapped a...
Place & Date: Paris, 1719
Carte de la Nouvelle France, ou se voit le cours des Grandes Rivieres de S. Laurens & de Mississipi..
Derived from de Fer's 1718 map, from west of the Mississippi it contains a mass of inland detail with notes and vignettes of the indigenous peoples and fauna of North Ame...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Cigarettes Saphir.
Beautiful late Art Nouveau style poster for the tobacco brand Cigarettes Saphir. Printed by Imprimerie Moullot, in Paris and designed by Stephano. The poster shows a very...
Place & Date: Marseille, ca. 1920
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
Paradigma XV Provinciarum et CLV Urbium Capitalium Sinensis Imperij Cum Templis quae Cruce X Signatur Et Domiciliis S.I.
First edition of this rare Jesuit map of China, published by Jean Baptiste Nolin in Paris and based on Philippe Couplet's map of 1686. The map shows China's 15 provinces ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1686
AIR France - Sur les ailes d'Air France découvrez le monde à votre tour.
Promotional poster of a double hemisphere world map designed by Lucien Boucher for AIR France. The map depicts the entire world in rich blues and burgundies with gold hig...
Place & Date: Perceval, Paris, 1952
Insulae Americanae in Oceanus Septentrionali cum Terris..
General map of the West Indies extending from Virginia to the mouth of the Orinoco, and destined to be copied in various shapes by many other publishers. Title cartouche ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1647
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1666
Illuminated leaf from a lithurgical Psalter.
Very fine illuminated leaf from a liturgical Psalter in Latin with the reading from the Vulgate Bible, Deuteronomy 32:16 - 32:27. Lines in a slightly irregular Gothic han...
Place & Date: Flanders, Rhineland, or possibly England, c. 1280
![Posesiones de America : Isla de Cuba. [together with] Isla de Cuba. . .](/uploads/cache/23458-250x250.jpg)
Posesiones de America : Isla de Cuba. [together with] Isla de Cuba. . .
Wall size sea chart and map of land areas showing all of Cuba, part of Florida Keys plus San Adios and Salvador Grande in the Bahamas.Minute topographical, political, and...
Place & Date: Madrid, 1853 / 1851
Carte particulière des environs de St Peters-bourg. . . / Plan de la ville faubourg et environs de St Petersbourg. . . / Carte pour l'intelligence de la guerre de Moscovie et de Suede. . .
A scarce and unusual plan of Saint Petersburg shown at a large scale and also, in a separate compartment, shown in its geographical context between the Gulf of Finland an...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1741
Erfolgte Kapitulation zwischen dem General Bonaparte und den Gross Leister von Malta. Vor der Hauptstadt Walette zu Maltha, am 10 Juni 1798.
Copper engraving with three scenes and one portrait on one sheet. In upper a view of Bonaparte arriving at Valletta. Published in "Allgemeine Welt-Chronik oder neue ...
Place & Date: Zittau, 1798-1800
Mar del Zur, Hispanis Mare Pacificum.
Janssonius' fine chart of the Pacific including the west coast of America with California shown as an island, Japan and a small Australian coastline. This is the earliest...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
![Amerique Septentrionale divisée en ses principales parties. . .1692. [California as an Island]](/uploads/cache/27961-250x250.jpg)
Amerique Septentrionale divisée en ses principales parties. . .1692. [California as an Island]
A very good impression of Jaillot's large map of North America, showing California as an Island, based upon Sanson's landmark map of 1656. A first state.The map shows the...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c.1692
Europa, ad magnae Europae Gerardi Mercatoris. . .
General map of Europe, as well as Americae Pars, Greenland, Iceland, a Polar landmass, along with the mythical islands of Frisland, Drogeo, and Bradain. A large strapwor...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Nova Africa descriptio.
A beautifully engraved and most attractive "carte à figures"- map of the African continent. Bordered, above, by panels showing panorama's of Cairo, Alexandria,...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1660
Kaerte en Afbeeldinge vande Geheele Jurisdictie van Stantdarbuyten Gelegen in de Generaliteit onder Marquisaet van Bergen op den Zoom
With a large title cartouche with signature of the maker Adriaan van der Ende, : Kaerte en Afbeeldinge vande Geheele Jurisdictie van Stantdarbuyten Gelegen in de Generali...
Place & Date: Willemstad, 1737
Hollandiae pars septentrionalis, Vulgo Westvriesland..
Based on the work of B.F.van Berckenrode, this fine map, orientated west to the top of the sheet, includes Kennemerland and Hollands Noorderkwartier and is a reasonably u...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1667
![Hong Kong. [Queen's Road]](/uploads/cache/24362-250x250.jpg)
Hong Kong. [Queen's Road]
Finely executed watercolor made by Henri Dieth of a charming atmospheric street scene at Queen's Road in Hong Kong. The watercolor is made after Eduard Hildebrandt (1818-...
Place & Date: Germany, 1882
Plan de la ville de Malthe ses Forts, ses Nouvelles Fortiffications. . .
Detailed plan of Valletta. In upper right corner a key (A-Z & 1-32) to the principal places in town. Prepared by N.de Fer and re-issued by Danet.
Place & Date: Paris, 1723
Pascaerte van Brazil en Nieu Nederlandt van Cuorvo en Flores.
A rare chart of the Atlantic Ocean from the first edition of Hendrick Doncker's Zee-Atlas, of which no surviving example is known.Although the idea of its unusual coverag...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1658
Carte von West=Gallizien welche auf allerhöchsten Befehl Seiner Kaiserlich oesterreichischen und Königlich apostolischen Majestät in den Jahren 1801 bis 1804. . .
Important early map of Western Galicia, as given to Austria by the third Partition of Poland (1795). Due to its long development period, a rare map rich in detail shows t...
Place & Date: Vienna, (1808) after 1811
![.[Balkan region with Austria, Croatia, Slovenia, Switzerland, etc]](/uploads/cache/33858-250x250.jpg)
.[Balkan region with Austria, Croatia, Slovenia, Switzerland, etc]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of Balkan with Austria, Croatia, Slovenia, Switzerland, etc prepared Martin Waldseemüller. Based on the...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1525 -1541
Romani Imperii Imago.
Very rare map in a first edition by Jacques Honervogt. Copied after a map by Ortelius but much rarer. The medallion portraits are of Romulus and Remus - the genealogical ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1630
( II Germania) / Tütschland.
Very early wood cut printed map of Germany, Poland, The Low Countries, Alsace and part Europe with of Switzerland, Croatia. Originally engraved in 1548. Included in "...
Place & Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566
Karte von den Kusten von Arabien . . .
Manuscript map of Arabia. A close copy of Bellin's map of the Arabian Peninsula. In the lower right margin "Tom A, vol V."A title cartouche in the lower left co...
Place & Date: Germany, ca. 1760
La Basilica Vaticana consacrata al Principe de gli Apostoli . . .
Monumental engraving showing the Papal Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican, in its setting, with below a coat of arms with dedication to Cardinal Sigismondo Chigi. Obili...
Place & Date: Rome, 1693
(World map). Americus Vespucio novo te Duce Ducta Freto Ambivi Meritoqs Vocor.
Manuscript world map showing the American and African continent and the southern parts of Asia. In the Indian Ocean a large depiction of Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512) o...
Place & Date: Italy, ca. 1954
Carte de LA LOUISIANE et des PAYS VOISINS Dédiée a M. Rouillé Dediee a M. Rouille Secretairr 'd Etat ayant le Departement de la Marine... 1750
North America from the eastern seaboard to the Rocky Mountains. Based on Delisle's map of 1718 with additions from notes compiled by the Jesuit priest, explorer and histo...
Place & Date: Paris, 1750
Moscovia Sigismundi Liberi Baronis In Herberstein, Neiperg et Gutehnag Anno M.D XLIX
First Modern Map of Russia. A rare and important cornerstone map for any Russian collection.One of two maps of Russia compiled by Herberstein, who was ambassador from the...
Place & Date: Basle, 1556
Mer de Chine - Detroit De Singapour Partie Comprise Entre Singaour et Le Dett. De Malacca d'apres les travaux du Commr. J.W. Reed de la Marine Royale d'Angleterr, ...
A detailed chart of Singapore Strait, drawn from an English Chart by J.W. Reed, who surveyed Singapore and environs between 1865 and 1869, aboard the H.M.S. Rifleman.The ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1873
Petit solfège illustré. Illustrations de Pierre Bonnard. Deuxième mille.
30 compositions by Bonnard, mostly printed in colors, integrated with and surrounding the texts and musical passages. Publisher’s dec. boards, with full-cover illustrat...
Place & Date: Paris, 1893
![Le Sacre Hagard [Haggard-falcon]](/uploads/cache/44315-250x250.jpg)
Le Sacre Hagard [Haggard-falcon]
A beautiful elephant folio sized colored lithograph of a Hagard Falcon, taken from the famous book on Falconry Traite de Fauconnerie by Schlegel and A.H. Verster van Wulv...
Place & Date: Leiden, 1844-1853
Plan du Port du Nord de la Baie de la Recherche.
A French maritime chart of the plan of the northern portion of Recherche Bay on the S.E. tip of Tasmania. The chart has some physical detail, outlining trees and hills, b...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1807
Carte de la Baie des Chiens-Marins (Shark's Bay de Dampier). . .
A strikingly detailed chart of a portion of the coastline of Western Australia, titled 'Carte de la Baie des Chiens-Marins, which was also explored by William Dampier. Th...
Place & Date: Paris, 1807
Amstelodami veteris et novissimae urbis accuratissima deline
A decorative plan of the town with at left and right legends mentioning the most important buildings and streets. At bottom center a view of the town from 't IJ. From Atl...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1745-1754
Mer de Chine - Detroit De Singapour Partie Comprise Entre Singaour et Le Dett. De Malacca d'apres les travaux du Commr. J.W. Reed de la Marine Royale d'Angleterr...
Mer de Chine - Detroit De Singapour Partie Comprise Entre Singaour et Le Dett. De Malacca d'apres les travaux du Commr. J.W. Reed de la Marine Royale d'Angleterr, execute...
Place & Date: London, 1871
Indie moet vrij vecht ervoor.
War propaganda poster by Patrick (Pat) Cokayne Keely, distributed in the liberated South of the Netherlands, this poster concerned the Japanese occupation of Indonesia an...
Place & Date: London, J.Haworth / Brother Ltd, 1944
Cunard Cherbourg-New York.
Original vintage Cunard luxury cruise liner travel poster advertising Cunard Europe to all America fastest ocean service in the world. Stunning design featuring two color...
Place & Date: England, ca. 1930
Plan commercial de la Région Saïgon-Cholon.
Decorative publicity plan of Ho Chi Minh City, also known by its former name of Saigon and Cholon, prepared by Ngo-Trinh, surrounded by advertisements of local stores. Th...
Place & Date: Saigon, 1948
Air France dans tous les ciels.
Original lithograph advertising poster for Air France, by Badia Vilato Xavier. Signed in the upper right corner. The poster has always occupied a special place in Air Fra...
Place & Date: Imprimerie Perceval, Paris, 1951
Wine bottle 9498
The Onion-shaped wine bottle is of green glass and is sealed with cork and wax that the cork holds in place. The many years that the bottles spent under the water have l...
Place & Date: Dutch East India Company, Netherlands, ca. 1735-1750
Waere Affbeeldinge Wegens het Casteel ende Stadt BATAVIA Gelegen opt Groot Eylant Java.
A good impression of this finely engraved and detailed plan of Batavia, present-day Jakarta, the Dutch center of trading activities in the East Indies. Copied after Cleme...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1721
Novae Urbis Hierosolymitanae topographica delineatio . . .
A very rare plan of modern Jerusalem oriented to the east, according to a note on the map the map was drawn after a map by Peter Laicstain. A lettered key to the right.Up...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1571
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...
Place & Date: Rome, 1795
LA RUSSIE ROUGE ou POLONOISE qui Comprend les PROVINCES DE LA RUSSIE ROUGE de VOLHYNIE et de PODOLIE divisées en leurs Palatinats Vulgairement Connües sous le Nom D'VKRAINE ou PAYS DES COSAQUES.
A very rare Sanson map of Ukraine and so-called Russie Rouge, stretching from Lublin in the west to Kherson Oblast in the east (here called "Confin de La Petite Tart...
Place & Date: Paris, 1706
Nova Germaniae Descriptio..
A finely engraved carte à figures, with the side borders depicting emperors, while the upper and lower panels contain finely engraved miniature town prospects, among the...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1632
The Traveller's Guide. A Map Of The Roads, Canals And Steam Boat Routes Of The United States ... Designed for the use of Travellers, By H.S. Tanner.
Rare first edition of Tanner's travel map in pocket map form, in it original red leather covers, with the map and no text, as issued. Ristow says the first edition was 18...
Place & Date: Philadelphia, 1825
Allerneuester geographisch- und topographischer Schau-Platz von Africa und Ost-Indien. . .
An early issue of this important book by Johann Wolfgang Heydt's describing the Dutch factories, settlements and stations at the hands of the Dutch East India Company in ...
Place & Date: Wilhermsdorf, Tetscher u. Nürnberg, Homanns Erben, 1744
Daniae Regni Typum..
A first state. Very decorative "carte à figures"- map of Denmark with the signature of the engraver Abraham Goos. Printed on heavy paper, in spite of its repai...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629
Piazza e tempio di Santa Maria della Rotonda gia l'Antico Pantheon.
Monumental engraving showing the Pantheon in Rome, in its setting, with below a ground-plan and elevation. Fountain in front, adjacent buildings and carriages and people ...
Place & Date: Rome, 1693
Nova Virginiae Tabula.
A fine example of Blaeu's map of Virginia and the Chesapeake region is based on the first state of Smith's map, 1612, and is slightly larger and more expertly engraved.Th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640