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Nieuwe kaart van 't Koninckryk Bengale. . .

Rare map Bangladesh with the Ganges delta, including Calcutta. Giving great detail with trade routes, European trade settlements, etc. Prepared by Joh. Van Leenen who was...

$900 / ≈ €842
Maker / Publisher: VALENTIJN, F.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1726

 


Praga. [Prague]

A rare panoramic of Prague with over the whole length of the lower part 3 columns of poems in Latin, Dutch and French and a numbered key 1-34 to the principal buildings ...

$3000 / ≈ €2807
Maker / Publisher: DANCKERTS, D.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660

 


The town & harbour of Sevastopol with the batteries & approaches. . .

Rare colored linen backed map showing the harbour and town of Sevastopol, with soundings. In upper left corner a inset map (65x150mm) of the Black Sea. In bottom part a l...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: WYLD, J.
Place & Date: London, March 27th, 1854

 


20 small lithographed views of Washington DC and Georgetown.

20 small lithographed town-views of Washington DC and Georgetown, cut out from a larger sheet. Showing the East Front of the Capitol, Treasury, Smithsonian Institute, Pre...

$800 / ≈ €749
Maker / Publisher: WEBER, E.
Place & Date: Casimir Bohn, Washington, D.C.: 1849

 


Pascaart van Europa alsmede een gedeelte vande Kust van Africa. . .

An eye-catching chart of the entirety of Europe's coastline from northern Russia to Yugoslavia in the south. Also showing the West Coast of Africa as far as the Cape-Verd...

$2375 / ≈ €2222
Maker / Publisher: GOOS, P.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1666
Selling price: $2375
Sold in 2023

 


I Europa / Das dritteil der Welt.

Very early wood cut printed map of Europe with South to the top. In the lower-left corner we see Poland, Livonia and parts of England and Ireland in the lower right corne...

$4000 / ≈ €3743
Maker / Publisher: STUMPF, J.
Place & Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566

 


Tractus Littorales Guineae a Promontorio Verde usque ad sinum Catenbelae.

Chart of the West coast of Africa from Mauritania up to Angola. In top centre a very decorative title cartouche.

$1000 / ≈ €936
Maker / Publisher: DE WIT, F.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1675

 


Parliamentary Papers - Foreign Office - Annual Series - Diplomatic and Consular Reports on Trade and Finance.

Very scarce - Only for the British Parliament and the British Crown printed - and not for the trade! Accounts about the Korean country during the time span of the last th...

$5500 / ≈ €5146
Maker / Publisher: FOREIGN OFFICE
Place & Date: London, Harrison and Sons, 1882-1906

 


( 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 "...

$2500 / ≈ €2339
Maker / Publisher: STUMPF, J.
Place & Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566

 


London in Miniature With The Surrounding Villages. An Entire New Plan In which the Improvements both present and intended are actually reduced, by permission, from the surveys of the Several Proprietors. . .

Hand-coloured engraved map, dissected and mounted on linen, orange publishers label on one side, extending west to east from Kensington to East India and Greenwich Dock a...

$800 / ≈ €749
Maker / Publisher: MOGG, E.
Place & Date: London, 1821

 


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...

$2200 / ≈ €2059
Maker / Publisher: DE LETH, H.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1720

 


Poloniae, Lituaniaeq descriptio.

Fine general map of Poland. Rare; the second plate appearing in the post-1595 edition of the Theatrum. Only used until 1612.Based on the now-lost map of Waclaw Grodecki. ...

$1750 / ≈ €1638
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1612

 


.Tabula III Asiae. [Caucass and Armenia.]

Ptolemaic map of the region south of the Caucasus Mountains and between the Caspian Sea as far south as the headwaters of the Tigris River in the south and the Black Sea,...

$1800 / ≈ €1684
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY, C.
Place & Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1535

 


III. Gallia. Franckrych.

Very early wood cut printed map of France, North of river Rhine, Northern Italy. Coast of England from Dover to Cornwall. A ship, sea monsters and coats of arms are filli...

$1750 / ≈ €1638
Maker / Publisher: STUMPF, J.
Place & Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566

 


Lyste vande prysen der goederen ingekoft by de Kamer. . .

Rare price list of meat, bacon, wheat, rye, butter, cheese, olive oil, Spanish wines, Bordeaux, brandy etc.On front page in letter press Lyste Van de Pryfen der Goederen,...

$1750 / ≈ €1638
Maker / Publisher: V.O.C.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1685

 


Plan de la ville, cite universite et fauxbourgs de Paris comme il est jourddhuy. . .

Detailed town-plan of Paris.Top left and bottom right and left cartouches decorated with views of the top left, Notre Dame, Palace of Orleans, Sorbonne and Val de Grâce,...

$3500 / ≈ €3275
Maker / Publisher: DE FER, N.
Place & Date: Paris, 1694

 


San Diego Bay. (Chart 5107)

Nautical chart of San Diego Bay of 1945. Printed in black, yellow and purple the "Seaward limit defensive sea area". The water area within the indicated limits ...

$750 / ≈ €702
Maker / Publisher: U.S. COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY
Place & Date: Washington, 1945

 


Certificaat N° 230

Text reads "Na primo januarij 1872 is houder dezes geregtigd voor 2/2147 tot hetgeen, ter zake van verjariing, zoude kunnen worden gereclmeerd, uiy gelden bij de Ass...

$200 / ≈ €187
Maker / Publisher: CLIFFORD, W. / LE CHEVALLIER, R.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1841

 


The hanging of the head of police Jean Grauwels in Brussels, 11 february 1569.

Print relating to Brussels during the first decades of the eighty year war between Spain and the Low Countries: (plate 18). This plate shows the hanging of the head of po...

$80 / ≈ €75
Maker / Publisher: HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1590

 


Ducatus Lutzenburgi Novissima et Accuratissima Delineatio.

West to the top. Very detailed and fine map of Luxembourg, including the towns of Namur, Liege, Trier and Metz.

$600 / ≈ €561
Maker / Publisher: VISSCHER, N.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680

 


Vue de L'Hotel de Batavie. . .

A so-called optical print of Fatahillah Square in Jakarta, Indonesia, prepared for use in a light-box or an amusing light-show. This richly hand colored print is much per...

$600 / ≈ €561
Maker / Publisher: PROBST, G.B.
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1750

 


Hern Johann Baptisten Taveniers..Vierzig Jaehrige Reize..

This German edition includes Tavernier's map of Japan in a reduced form (210x315mm) and contains legends about the country's nature, e.g., where gold is mined and plottin...

$7500 / ≈ €7018
Maker / Publisher: TAVERNIER, J.B.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1681

 


Nankin [Nanjing, Jiangsu]

Very detailed (1:1.000.000) map showing the area north of Nanjing, Jiangsu. The French Service géographique des armées was founded in 1887 and provided the French milit...

$450 / ≈ €421
Maker / Publisher: SERVICE GEOGRAPHIQUE DE L'ARMEE
Place & Date: Paris, 1900

 


Hark ! Hark ! The dogs do bark.

This very rare political caricature map of Europe depicts the continent at the outbreak of World War I, or as it was called at the time the Great War. Designed by Johnson...

$3000 / ≈ €2807
Maker / Publisher: BACON, G.W.
Place & Date: London, Johnson Riddle & Co., 1914

 


VII. Das Ergow.

Very early wood cut printed regional map of Switzerland centered on Ergow.Originally engraved in 1548. The map was prepared by Johannes Stumpf (1500-1576). Included in &q...

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: STUMPF, J.
Place & Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566

 


Very rare share in the Ostend Company.

Upper left hand corner share number 2305 in manuscript. In top emblem of the Ostend Company in copper engraving. Text: De Directeurs van de generale Keijserlijche- Indisc...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: OSTEND COMPANY
Place & Date: Antwerp / Ostend, 1723

 


Het Beloofde Landt Canaan door wandelt . . .

A beautifully engraved map of the ancient land of Canaan which roughly corresponds to present-day Israel. Cherubs hold up a draped cloth of key symbols, also a scale pane...

$1400 / ≈ €1310
Maker / Publisher: STOOPENDAAL, B.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1682

 


Vue de Boston vers le Cale du Port.

A view of the port of Boston, the center of New England shipping in the colonial period. The closing of the port after the Boston Tea Party led to the calling of the Firs...

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: HABERMANN, F.
Place & Date: Augsburg 1762

 


Middle-sexia.

Double-page map of the old Middlesex County, including a marvelous depiction of London on the Thames in the lower right corner. Decorative cartouche and coat of arms. Lat...

$600 / ≈ €561
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1662

 


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 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: IMRAY AND SON, J.
Place & Date: London, 1868

 


Vue du village de Maarsen en Hollande.

Showing the river Vecht at the town of Maarsen. Published by Jacques Chereau, who was a well-known publisher of optical prints, established in rue St. Jacques in Paris. I...

$150 / ≈ €140
Maker / Publisher: CHEREAU, J.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1750

 


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 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: BAECK, E.
Place & Date: Augsbourg, 1730

 


A view of the town and castle of Macao.

A nice engraving that shows the attack of the English ship "Centurion" on Macau, during which she captured a Portuguese ship that had sailed from Manila. In up...

$700 / ≈ €655
Maker / Publisher: HARRIS, J.
Place & Date: London, 1746

 


LA RUSSIE NOIRE ou POLONOISE qui Comprend les PROVINCES DE LA RUSSIE NOIRE de VOLHYNIE et de PODOLIE divisées en leurs Palatinats Vulgairement Connües sous le Nom D'VKRAINE ou PAYS DES COSAQUES.

Very rare map of the Ukraine and Poland, prepared by Sanson in 1675 in a third state, published by the heirs of Sanson, in Paris in 1706. The imprint changed to: Par les ...

$2700 / ≈ €2526
Maker / Publisher: SANSON de ABBEVILLE, N.
Place & Date: Paris, 1706

 


Vue perspective de l'interieur de la Salle du spectacle de Veronne en Italie.

Showing the Opera of Verona. Optical print published Mondhare, who was a well-known publisher of optical prints, established in rue St. Jacques in Paris. In the eighteent...

$150 / ≈ €140
Maker / Publisher: MONDHARE, J.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1780

 


IX. Die Lepontier.

Very early wood cut printed regional map of Switzerland.Originally engraved in 1548. The map was prepared by Johannes Stumpf (1500-1576). Included in "Landtaflen. Hi...

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: STUMPF, J.
Place & Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566

 


The Empire of China and Island of Japan. . .

The map is of interest for the use of East Sea, the sea between Korea and Japan, here called "Sea of Corea". Some interesting notations are made. From his atlas...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: MOLL, Herman.
Place & Date: London, 1736

 


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...

$450 / ≈ €421
Maker / Publisher: MATHIEU, G. / AIR France
Place & Date: Paris, 1967

 


Account of a voyage of discovery to the west coast of Corea.

BRITAIN'S FIRST ACCURATE ACCOUNT OF KOREA & OKINAWANS. With an appendix containing charts and various hydrographical and scientific notices by captain Basil Hall and ...

$5000 / ≈ €4679
Maker / Publisher: HALL,B.
Place & Date: London, 1818

 


Horizon ring for globe.

Printed horizon ring for a 28cm diameter German globe. The ring is divided in quarters and engraved two by two on one copper plate. The size of the paper is 44 x 33cm. Th...

$950 / ≈ €889
Maker / Publisher: EIMMART, G.C.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1704/1705

 


Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.

A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...

$230 / ≈ €215
Maker / Publisher: ANTIPHONARIUM.
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520

 


A new & accurate map of Asia, Drawn from the most approved modern maps & charts / by Thos. Bowen.

The map is of interest for the use of Sea of Korea, the sea between Korea and Japan.Detailed map of Asia from Saudi Arabia, Persia, Russia, India, China, Japan to Southea...

$600 / ≈ €561
Maker / Publisher: BOWEN, Th.
Place & Date: London, J.Cooke, 1777-1778
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2023

 


AFGHAN de CABOULE. Costumes Persans 8.

A beautiful hand colored lithograph of an elegant Afghan from Kabul published in the French work "Galerie Royale de Costumes peints d´après nature par divers artis...

$350 / ≈ €328
Maker / Publisher: GALERIE ROYALE DE COSTUME.
Place & Date: Paris, Chez Aubert & Cie., 1842-1848

 


Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours In Latin and French.

24 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with flowers, vases and figures. Gothic type, text in Latin, numerous one and two-line initials in g...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: PRINTED BOOK OF HOURS (Use of Rome).
Place & Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c. 1520-1540

 


Arabia

A lovely  miniature map the Arabian Peninsular, published by Petrus Bertius, and published in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century. With an attractive s...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: LANGENES, B. / BERTIUS, P.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606

 


Marchionatus Sacri Romani Imperii.

A wonderfully decorative map showing in the middle of the image a town plan from Antwerp and in the lower part an inset with a panoramic view of the city and harbour of A...

$750 / ≈ €702
Maker / Publisher: KAERIUS, P. / VISSCHER, C.Jz.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1617- 1624

 


[Voyage en Suisse / Reise die Schweiz.]

A first edition children's folding board game of Switzerland and its many places and sights to visit. Although it is missing most of its original components (dice, cards,...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS.
Place & Date: Switzerland, 1891

 


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...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: MATHIEU, G. / AIR France
Place & Date: Paris, 1967

 


NEWTON'S New and Improved TERRESTRIAL GLOBE Accurately delineated from the observations of the most esteemed NAVIGATORS AND TRAVELLERS to the Present Time. . .

A very impressive Victorian 20-inch Library globe showing the "Gulf of Corea". On an exceptionally carved mahogany tripod stand with scrolling acanthus legs ter...

$25000 / ≈ €23393
Maker / Publisher: NEWTON and SON
Place & Date: London, January 1, 1867

 


[Set of 6 maps] Charta öfver Storfurstendömet Finland på Friherre S. G. Hermelins Anstalt och Omkostnad. Sammandragen och författad af C. P. Hällström. Philos. Magister och Auscultant i Kongl. BergsColl. 1799.

This is the beautiful set of key map and separate maps of Samuel Gustav Hermelins map of Finland. The maps have been engraved by Fredrik Akrel, a very skilled and product...

$4000 / ≈ €3743
Maker / Publisher: HERMELIN, SAMUEL GUSTAV
Place & Date: Källa: J.Strang & E.- S. Harju: Suomen karttakirja 1799

 


XI. Wallis.

Very early wood cut printed regional map of Switzerland with Wallis region.Originally engraved in 1548. The map was prepared by Johannes Stumpf (1500-1576). Included in &...

$250 / ≈ €234
Maker / Publisher: STUMPF, J.
Place & Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566

 


Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours In Latin and French.

24 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with flowers, vases and figures. Gothic type, text in Latin, numerous one and two-line initials in g...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: PRINTED BOOK OF HOURS (Use of Rome).
Place & Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c. 1520-1540

 


Traiectum ad Mosam. [Maastricht]

A birds-eye view of Maastricht seen from the south. Rising on Vrijthof square is the dominant complex of Sint-Servaas, in front of which - seen here in a distorted perspe...

$600 / ≈ €561
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN,G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1581

 


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...

$950 / ≈ €889
Maker / Publisher: MATHIEU, G. / AIR France
Place & Date: Paris, 1967

 


Illuminated leaf from a lithurgical Psalter with King David.

Very fine illuminated leaf from a lithurgical Psalter in Latin with the reading from the Vulgate Bible. Lines in a slightly irregular gothic hand, black ink, plummet ruli...

$7500 / ≈ €7018
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: Flanders, Rhineland, or possibly England, c. 1280

 


Paraguay, Chili, Terre Magellan ?

Map of Paraguay, Chili, and Argentina . By C. F. Delamarche, successor of Robert de Vaugondy, Geographer.

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: VAUGONDY, R. de / DELAMARCHE.
Place & Date: Paris, 1794 -1806

 


Tabula Prima Africa.

The map apart from depicting Morocco also shows southern Spain and the Balearic Islands. In north Africa the map extends eastwards toward modern day Algeria and to the we...

$4500 / ≈ €4211
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY, C. / WALDSEEMÜLLER, M.
Place & Date: Strasbourg, 1513

 


DANSEUSE. Costumes Persans 9.

A beautiful hand colored lithograph of an elegant dancing girl from Persia published in the French work "Galerie Royale de Costumes peints d´après nature par diver...

$350 / ≈ €328
Maker / Publisher: GALERIE ROYALE DE COSTUME.
Place & Date: Paris, Chez Aubert & Cie., 1842-1848

 


XII. Laurater Basler gelegenheit.

Very early wood cut printed regional map of Switzerland with Basel region.Originally engraved in 1548. The map was prepared by Johannes Stumpf (1500-1576). Included in &q...

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: STUMPF, J.
Place & Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566

 


Ormus

A lovely map of miniature map the Kingdom of Ormus, published by Petrus Bertius, and published in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century. With an attractiv...

$450 / ≈ €421
Maker / Publisher: LANGENES, B / BERTIUS, P.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606

 


Simori.

Portrait of Simori.Von Siebold was born in Wurtzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In Japan, where Von Siebold arrived in 1823 at ...

$200 / ≈ €187
Maker / Publisher: VON SIEBOLD, P.Fr.B.
Place & Date: Leiden, 1832-1852

 


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...

$4500 / ≈ €4211
Maker / Publisher: SANTINI, P. / REMONDINI, M.
Place & Date: Venice, 1776 - 1784

 


Manuscript map of the Bay of Nagasaki.

An extremely rare manuscript chart in brown ink and wash color on a printed sheet of paper with a system of rhumblines and latitude scales. This chart shows the Bay of Na...

$50000 / ≈ €46786
Maker / Publisher: VAN KEULEN, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1750

 


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 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: MORTIER, P.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1695

 


Carte de la Mer Rouge, depuis Moka jusqu's Gedda. . . .

Chart of the Red Sea. With 3 inset maps of Shake Omare, Goofs and Gedan. D'Après De Mannevillette (1707-1780) was one of France's first hydrographers. When the first edi...

$750 / ≈ €702
Maker / Publisher: APRES DE MANNEVILLETTE, J.
Place & Date: Paris, 1753

 


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 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: WEBBER, J.
Place & Date: London, Boydell and Co., 1808

 


Vue perspective edu fauxbourg et du port de Scheveningue a une lieue de la Haye, en Hollande.

Optical print showing the village and harbor of Scheveningen with the church at the right, in the background the North Sea. In the background the summer residence Nieuw S...

$250 / ≈ €234
Maker / Publisher: CHEREAU, J.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1750

 


The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Edward Fitzgerald translation)

Edward FitzGerald, an outstanding writer who has done more than anyone to popularise English poetry. His best-known work, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1859), began by be...

$5000 / ≈ €4679
Maker / Publisher: SMITH, B.
Place & Date: England, ca. 1930

 


Sumatrae et insularum Locorumque nonnullorum circumiacentium. . .

Fine depicting the Island of Sumatra and the southern coasts of Malaysia from Quedo to Johore.North is orientated to the left of the page.Singapore is probably identifie...

$1800 / ≈ €1684
Maker / Publisher: JANSSONIUS, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660

 


Vienna.. / Buda..

Pair of views on one sheet, the first showing the Austria capital of Vienna with fields, and figures in the foreground.Lower view shows the Hungarian capital of Budapest....

$1100 / ≈ €1029
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN, G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne 1580

 


A view of the Gerzay near Iside part. / Vue du port et rade de Gerzay.

A fanciful depiction of the port of Jersey. Engraved by the French engraver Paul Angier after a design by P.Brookes and published by Robert Sayer of London, a well-known ...

$200 / ≈ €187
Maker / Publisher: SAYER, R.
Place & Date: London, ca. 1760

 


Coupe d'une galère avec ses proportions - Quille d'une Galere sur le chantier.

Fine double-page engraved plate of a cutaway of a standard late 17th-century French galley with a detailed legend of parts (in French). Below is a representation of the k...

$1500 / ≈ €1404
Maker / Publisher: MORTIER, P.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1695

 


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...

$2500 / ≈ €2339
Maker / Publisher: VON HELDENSFELD, A. M. / BENEDICTI.
Place & Date: Vienna, (1808) after 1811

 


Course de Baque et Disposition des Quadrilles, dans l'Amphiteatre seconde journée.

An early and intriguing engraving recording one of the most celebrated and spectacular festivals held at Paris by the young Louis XIV. The multi-day tournament took place...

$800 / ≈ €749
Maker / Publisher: SYLVESTRE, I.
Place & Date: Paris, imprimerie royale, 1670

 


Insulae Indiae Orientalis.

Map of South East Asia with good detail on the Philippines from the rare Cloppenburg edition slightly larger format and more scarce edition of the Mercator/Hondius "...

$500 / ≈ €468
Maker / Publisher: MERCATOR, G. / CLOPPENBURGH, J.E.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630

 


Le Duché d'Aiguillon Tracé Par le Sr. Du Vall.

Home of the "Cahors” This AOC is the most famous of the sub-regions and home to the popular variety Malbec. These inky wines have been adored for centuries, especi...

$650 / ≈ €608
Maker / Publisher: JANSSONIUS, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650

 


[Il mondo a pezzi - Europa].

Satirical representation of the division of the world by the main European powers. At the center of the scene a globe on which is written "MONDO Maledeto Interesse ...

$3000 / ≈ €2807
Maker / Publisher: MITELLI, G.
Place & Date: Bologna, 1690

 


L'Homme A La Boule.

Satirical print in which Count Otto von Bismarck balances on the world with one spurred foot entering France, and wearing only his underpants which are marked with the Ge...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: DRANER.
Place & Date: Paris, 1870-1871

 


Tabula comitatus Hollandiae. . .

Fine map of the provinces of North and South Holland. In upper left hand corner an inset with the islands of Texel and Vlieland.

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: SEUTTER, M.
Place & Date: Augsburg 1760

 


Straat Riouw onder opzicht van de commissie tot verbetering der Indische Zeekaarten..

Very large and rare so-called Blue Back centered on the strait passing between the Riau Islands. It contains an inset map with enlarged details of Riouw Harbor on Bintang...

$1200 / ≈ €1123
Maker / Publisher: HULST VAN KEULEN, Wed.G.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1843