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Kaart van een gedeelte van de Noord Kust van Java en Straat Sunda van Tanjong Kaik tot den vierden hoek bij Anjer..
Very large and rare chart depicting Java's northern seacoast.Coastal profiles are present at the bottom of the map.The chart is prepared by B.H.Staring, J.A.G.Rietveld an...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1843-1844
Straat Sunda en Westkust van Java.
Very large and rare chart depicting Java's western seacoast close to the Sunda Strait.Showing part of Sumatra on top and the West Java tip, today hosting the Ujung Kulon ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam (1841)1846
Kaart van de Gaspar Straaten volgens opnemingen van J.Stolze, D.Ross, enz.
Very large and rare chart centered on the strait between Bangka's southeastern seacoast and Belitung's western shores.Short front views of the coastal relief are shown in...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1843
Kaart van de Reede van Batavia met de verschillende vaarwaters naar dezelve trigometrisch opgenomen op last van deb schout bijnacht E.Lucas.
Very large and rare so-called blue-black chart centered on Jakarta's harbor.The chart is prepared by B.G.Escher, I.A.C. Eschauzier, B.H.Staring and E.H.Boom during an exp...
Place & Date: Amsterdam (1841) 1847
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1843
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[Soil map] Virginia-Maryland-West Virginia, Leesburg sheet.
Early color lithographed soil map by Julius Bien & Co. in New York for Department of Agriculture. Legends at side give detail on soil type, etc. They also include int...
Place & Date: New York, 1903
Tableau Sphéroïdal de la Terre ou Mappemonde en deux Hémispères. . .
Large steel engraving presenting the whole World in different projections, namely showing the convexity of the Earth.At the bottom a temperature contour map of the world ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1860
Plan du Port de St Augustin dans la Floride.
This chart shows a plan of the Port of St. Augustine in Florida.The only issue of this version of Bellin's map, slightly larger than the common version. Depths shown by s...
Place & Date: Paris, 1764
'T Eilandje Desima verblyf plaats der Hollanders in Japan.
Bird's-eye view of Dejima copied from a manuscript by Voogt, who was second-in-command on Deshima in 1713. The island is viewed from the landside, depicting the developme...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1739
Carte qui contient..Iles & Terres..L'Amerique..Jamaique..
Eight maps on one sheet. From Chatelain's Atlas Historique et Méthodique . Including maps of Bermuda, Jamaica, New England with Long Island, Carolina, Chesapeake and Del...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1728
Sexta Etas Mudi. Symon Apostolus.. Folio CVII.
A very nice presentation of the martyr of Simon, sawn in half at Suanir, and Mathias stoned to death at Colchis in 80 AD. Overleaf, it shows the martyr of Matthew and Jud...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
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
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: Panel border of acanthus leaves and flowers on a partly liquid gold and dark red ground, one 2-line initial and one 1-line initial in liquid gold on colored ground...
Place & Date: France, c.1450
1) Le Kakatoës à Huppe Jaune. 2) Le Lori Tricolor. Le Perroquet Vert.
Noteworthy bird print from 1839 Furne edition of the Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon.Engraved by Fournier after ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1838 - 1839
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Itroductio. [with sphere.]
Introduction leaf from a French text edition of Atlas Ma1or
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1662
Nouvel atlas geographique & historique.. / Nieuwe en geographische en historische Atlas..
This second edition of this charming travel compendium is becoming relatively scarce nowadays.Illustrated with a charming frontispiece, two uncolored plates of a sphere, ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1778
The Crimea by James Wyld Geographer to the Queen & H.R.H. Prince Albert.
Fourth edition of this folding map of the Crimea. In upper right corner an inset map of the areas around the Black Sea; "The Town & Harbor of Sevastopol with the...
Place & Date: London, 1855
Carte de L'Isle de Caiene et de ses environs.
Uncommon edition of this accurate map of Cayenne. In lower right engraved "31."From Atlas Portatif pour servir a l'intelligence de l'Histoire Philosophique et P...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1773
Tabula Magellanica.
A map with Willem Blaeu's signature, but published by his son Joan, of South America's extremity with the Strait of Magellan and Le Maire Strait.The coastlines are depict...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1658
Arabie.
Uncommon miniature map of the Arabian peninsula, from Pierre Duval's La Geographie Universeille dated 1676. Following his Cartes de géographie in 1657, Pierre Duval publ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1676
Quinta Asie Tabvla.
Woodblock map of ancient Median and Persian lands in modern-day Iran from Martin Waldseemüller's 1513 edition of Ptolemy, a landmark work that contributed to major advan...
Place & Date: Strasbourg, J. Schott, 1513
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...
Place & Date: Flanders, Rhineland, or possibly England, c. 1280
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
Sexta Etas Mudi. / Simon Beatus .. / Folio CCLIIII.
A very fine presentation of the circumcision of Simon (192 x 223 mm.). RECTO: a falling star, a portrait of a King and an officer wearing armour. Page from the richest il...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Sibyl d'Ahmed Hoceyn Margouch.
Lithograph by Fichou. From the author's "L'Art Arabe d'après les monuments du Kaire...". Emile Prisse d'Avennes, Orientalist & Muslim convert, obsessive in...
Place & Date: Paris, 1877
La Feste du Poids au Mogol qui se célebre chez ses Peuples avec grande vénération.
So-called optical print illustrating a perspective view of a square in Mongolia.Mondhare, active at rue St.Jacques a l'Hotel Saumur, was a well-known publisher of optical...
Place & Date: Paris, 1760
Maria De Medices D. G Galliae et Navarrae Reg. Uxor Henr. IIII.
The engraving depicts a half length oval portrait of Marie de' Medici, queen consort of France .Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver and publisher in Delf...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Plan der Stadt Quebec Haupstadt in Neu Franckreich oder Canada.
Town-plan of Quebec, with an inset view of the town in the lower right corner. In the upper right a recapitulation of the main military actions prior to the surrender of ...
Place & Date: Nurnberg, 1770
III. Carte de la Hollande.. Over-Yssel.
Attractive small map centered on the delta of the River Ijssel, where it discharges into the Zuiderzee.From Atlas Portatif Universel, by Robert de Vaugondy. Unrecorded st...
Place & Date: Paris, later than 1748
VI. Partie du Duche de Gueldre où se trouve la Veluwe.
Attractive small map covering the northwestern part of Gelderland. In the center "'t Loo". From Atlas Portatif Universel, by Robert de Vaugondy.Unrecorded state...
Place & Date: Paris, later than 1748
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...
Place & Date: Venice, 1776 - 1784
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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
Sincapour.
Early view of Singapore after Paris and engraved in aquatint technique by Sigismond Himely (1801-1872). Published as plate 28 in Voyage autour du monde par les mers de l'...
Place & Date: Paris, Finot, 1835
Plan de Palma ville capitalle de l'Isle de Majorque.
Bird's eye-view of Palma de Majorca. Wind rose in the lower left corner. Nicolas de Fer [1646-1720] was one of the most prolific and influential French geographers and ca...
Place & Date: Paris, 1715
Southern - Concan.. - The falls of Gokank..
Hand colored lithography representing a view of the Gokak Falls, located on the Ghataprabha river. Plate N° 14. From Souvenirs d'un voyage dans l'Inde, exécuté de 1834...
Place & Date: Paris, 1843
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[The creation of the world - First day]
Attractive page from the Nuremberg Chronicle, showing the creation of the world: the First Day, showing the celestial choir (God\'s creation of the angels) surrounding th...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Matching set of four wallmaps of America, Asia, America, Europe.
Rare and decorative set of four wall maps published by Louis Charles DESNOS ( fl.1750-1770), including a border with vignettes describing native scenes. Each panel is acc...
Place & Date: Paris, 1760-1761
Chorographia Terrae Sanctae in Angustiorem. . .
Rare. Large visually rich map decorated with illustrations of the sacred objects and places of Judaism. In the bottom center is a plan of ancient Jerusalem, and the route...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1700
Les jeunes voyageurs en Europe, ou description raisonnée des divers pays compris dans cette partie du monde.
The second edition of this fine travel companion is illustrated with 16 very decorative maps, each map surrounded by local products and specialties of the region. Include...
Place & Date: Paris, Thiériot, 1827