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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...
Place, Date: England, ca. 1930
A half hour sand-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...
Place, Date: ca. 1790
Belgrad / Biograd.
A very RARE panoramic view of the city of Belgrade, including a numbered legend in the lower part.Published by the brothers Chéreau, active in Paris at rue st.Jacques au...
Place, Date: Paris, c.1720
Atlas composite.
A composite atlas including 93 double page maps on very sound paper and with fine contemporary out line color. The maps are dated between 1700 et 1727 except for one map ...
Place, Date: Paris, 1700-1727
De Cust van Zeelandt begrypende in sich de gaten als vande Wielingin, ter Veere. Ziericzee..
An eye-catching of Zeeland.Pieter Goos (ca. 1616-1675) was one of the most important cartographer, engraver, publisher and print seller of Amsterdam. His widow continued...
Place, Date: Amsterdam 1673
Allegory of geography.
Two putty studying a terrestrial globe, one of them holding a pair of dividers. The information on the globe is clearly imaginary but the two cartouches and ships are typ...
Place, Date: Bruges, ca. 1700
Carte du Gouvernement de Provence, suivant les nouvelles observations...
Fine copper engraved and decorative map of the Provence region in the south of France. It includes the cities of Nimes, Viviers, Avignon, Aix and Nice. The pictorial cart...
Place, Date: Amsterdam 1728
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: One 2-lines initial decorated with flower in liquid gold on colored grounds and seven 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and six line-fillers in sam...
Place, Date: France, ca.1530
Les jeunes voyageurs en Europe, ou description raisonnée des divers pays compris dans cette partie du monde.
Second edition of this fine travel companion illustrated with 16 very decorative maps, each map surrounded with local producs and specialities of the region. Included are...
Place, Date: Paris, Thiériot, 1827
![Posesiones de America : Isla de Cuba. [together with] Isla de Cuba. . .](/uploads/cache/23458-500x500.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