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Asia secunda pars terrae in forma Pegasi.

Asia depicted as the flying horse Pegasus. Thiscartographical curiosity, double page copper engraved map, was published in Heinrich Bünting's “Itinerarium Sacrae Scrip...

$4000 / ≈ €3743
Maker / Publisher: BÜNTING, H.
Place & Date: Brunswick, 1640

 


Langley's New Travelling and Commercial Map . . .

A highly desirable, detailed and uncommon map of England and Wales, published by Langley and Belch. The map is flanked by a pair of large and detailed explanation tables,...

$600 / ≈ €561
Maker / Publisher: LANGLEY, E. / BELCH, W.
Place & Date: London, 1817

 


Habillement de l'Empereur de la Chine & des Dames de son Palais..

This impressive engraving is a wonderful example of Chatelain’s elegant plates.Divided in 3 panels, showing examples of costumes of Chinese ladies and those of the king...

$150 / ≈ €140
Maker / Publisher: CHATELAIN, H.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1728

 


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

 


Coeli Stellati Christiani Haemisphaerium Prius.

Scarce first issue. This spectacular celestial chart presents the constellations according to Christian symbolism. The view of the constellations is based on the work of ...

$4500 / ≈ €4211
Maker / Publisher: CELLARIUS, A.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660

 


Pecheli, Xansi, Xantung, Honan, Nanking, In plaga Regni Sinensis. . .

A map of the northern provinces of China after the Jesuit Martino Martini, depicting of Hebei (Pecheli), Shanxi (Xansi), Shandong (Xantung), Henan (Honan), and Jangsu (Na...

$1500 / ≈ €1404
Maker / Publisher: JANSSONIUS, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1660

 


Mappe-Monde pour connoitre les progres & les conquestes..

Unusual double hemisphere map with California as an Island. Dutch text describes the expeditions and colonial possessions of the Dutch East India Company. The map origina...

$650 / ≈ €608
Maker / Publisher: CHATELAIN, H.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1729

 


Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.

21 lines of printed text, surrounded by Renaissance borders decorated with flowers and little miniatures with figures on both sides.From the press of the leading Parisian...

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

 


Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula.

A beautifully decorative world map taken from the 'English Atlas' by Moses Pitt and Steven Swart, based on an earlier engraved world map by Pieter van den Keere ca. 1630,...

$6000 / ≈ €5614
Maker / Publisher: PITT, M. / SWART, S. / JANSSONIUS VAN WAESBERGHE,
Place & Date: Oxford, 1680

 


Fossa Sanctae Mariae.

Detailed map of part of the country between rivers Rhine and Meuse showing a canal to be dug between 1626 and 1628 between Rheinberg in Germany and Venlo. A deficiency of...

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1645