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Chamonix - Mont Blanc - Chamonix N°5 Sud.

Magnificent 1:10,000 scale color printed map of Chamonix - Mont Blanc (Chamonix N°5 Sud) based on stereotopographic ground and aerial surveys carried out in the field in...

$1000 / ≈ €867

Maker / Publisher: INSTITUT GEOGRAPHIQUE NATIONAL.
Place & Date: Paris, 1953

The island of Formosa.

A small, but historically important map of Taiwan (the first American lithograph of Taiwan) made by the American Commodore Matthew C. Perry and published by Ackerman. The...

$110 / ≈ €95

Maker / Publisher: PERRY, M.C.
Place & Date: New York, 1856

Castello Sancto Angelo di Roma.

The print features the Castello Sant' Angelo in Rome, bound in an album, perhaps from the "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae." Copper engraving and published by A...

$1800 / ≈ €1561

Maker / Publisher: LAFRERI, Antonio.
Place & Date: Rome, Antonio Lafreri, ca. 1573

Panthei Fidelissime Dimensi Exterior et Interior…

The print features the Pantheon in Rome, broken away to show the interior. Complete title : " Panthei Fidelissime Dimensi Exterior et Interior pars ex antiquo romano...

$900 / ≈ €781

Maker / Publisher: LAFRERI, Antonio.
Place & Date: Rome, Antonio Lafreri, 1553

Equitum in Quirinali, aversa parte, marmorei colossi Romae; absolutissima Praxitelis et Fidiae manu.

Back view of the Dioscuri (or horse tamers, or Alexander and Bucephalus), formerly attributed to Pheidias and Praxiteles, with two figures nearby, one seated on a stone, ...

$1200 / ≈ €1041

Maker / Publisher: LAFRERI, Antonio.
Place & Date: Rome, Antonio Lafreri, 1550

Opus Praxitelis, Opus Fidiae.

Opus Praxitelis, Opus Fidiae [Work of Praxiteles, Work of Fidias]. With the Lafreri's imprint and date. Published in the "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae" (The ...

$1200 / ≈ €1041

Maker / Publisher: LAFRERI, Antonio.
Place & Date: Rome, Antonio Lafreri, 1546

Capitolii sciographia ex ipso exemplari Michaelis Angeli Bonaroti a Stephano Duperac Parisiensi accurate delineata…

View of the Roman Capitol as re-designed by Michelangelo, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", first published in 1569, this example edited by Giovanni Orlan...

$2000 / ≈ €1735

Maker / Publisher: DU PÉRAC, Étienne.
Place & Date: Rome, Orlandi, 1602

Naumaohiae [sic] id est navalis pugnae ex vetusteis lapidum et nummorum monumenteis graphica deformatio.

Naval engagement set inside an arena, spectators in the stands attending the event; reclining river god and nymphs in the lower part. From "Speculum Romanae Magnific...

$650 / ≈ €564

Maker / Publisher: [DUPÉRAC, Etienne].
Place & Date: Rome, ca. 1575

Venice.

A lovely steel engraved plan, on 2 sheets, of Venice by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (SDUK). This English philanthropic enterprise was entirely devot...

$150 / ≈ €130

Maker / Publisher: SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.
Place & Date: London, 1855

Place de l'Eglise de St.Marc et la grande Place terminee. . .

So-called optical print of St.Marco church in Venice.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular speciality establishments in Paris, Augsburg and L...

$90 / ≈ €78

Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: Paris, 1760

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...

$3500 / ≈ €3036

Maker / Publisher: BACON, G.W.
Place & Date: London, Johnson Riddle & Co.,1914

Visiting The Sick. (319).

Caricature by J. Gillray. Charles James Fox, dangerously ill, visited by an entourage of interesting factions: representing the social and ministerial conflict surroundin...

$100 / ≈ €87

Maker / Publisher: GILLRAY, James.
Place & Date: Henry G. Bohn, London, 1840

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 / ≈ €347

Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1645

La Piovra Russa. Carta Serio-Comica Pel 1878.

Variant of the very rare political caricature map by Grossi of the nations of Europe, published in Bologna in the supplement of the newspaper "Le Perroquet / Al papa...

$2000 / ≈ €1735

Maker / Publisher: GROSSI, Augusto.
Place & Date: Bologne presso il Giornale colorato in Papagallo, 1878

Werelt Caert.

Beautiful double hemisphere from a Dutch Bible. Surrounded by allegorical representations of the continents, based on Visscher. CALIFORNIA IS AN ISLAND with a flat northe...

$1500 / ≈ €1301

Maker / Publisher: STOOPENDAAL, D.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1688

Supplément by De Feure Georges.

Supplement Plate N°8, from Maitres de l'Affiche. Chromo lithographed plate, by De Feure Georges (French, 1868-1943), published in 1898. The "Les Maitres de l'Affich...

$100 / ≈ €87

Maker / Publisher: DE FEURE, G.
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, April 1898

Hippodrome au pont de l'Alma . . .

Chromo lithographed poster, "Hippodrome au pont de l'Alma . . .", by Jules Chéret (1836–1932). Plate 125, published in Maître 32, on July 1898. The "Le...

$200 / ≈ €173

Maker / Publisher: CHERET, J.
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, April 1897

The quest of the golden girl . . .

Chromo lithographed poster, " The quest of the golden girl . . .", after Miss Ethel Reed (American, 1876–d. ca. 1925). Plate 128, published in Maître 32, on ...

$50 / ≈ €43

Maker / Publisher: LANE, J.
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, April 1898

Province de Sardaigne.

Province de Sardaigne Contenant 9 Col. 1 Sem. 1 Noviciat, 2 Résidences 300 Jésuites". Publiée dans "Atlas Universel indiquant les établissemens des Jésuite...

$200 / ≈ €173

Maker / Publisher: DENIS, L.
Place & Date: Paris, Ambroise Dupont , 1826

Wilhem Hoffmann Dresden.

Chromo lithographed poster, "Wilhelm Hoffmann Dresden.", after Otto Fischer. Plate 127, published in Maître 32, on July 1898. The "Les Maitres de l'Affich...

$200 / ≈ €173

Maker / Publisher: FISCHER, O.
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, April 1896

Veterum Monumentorum Studiose Lector.../...Ant Lafreri aenea tabula nunc profert ex antiquo simulachro quod in vaticano adhuc conspicitur exacte effigiata.

The print feaures the Personification of the Nile, reclining, with an Egyptian sphinx and a cornucopia, after a Roman group in the 16th century installed as a fountain in...

$1500 / ≈ €1301

Maker / Publisher: BEATRIZET, Nicolas / LAFRERI, Antonio.
Place & Date: Rome, Antonio Lafreri, ca. 1573

Totius Regni HUNGARIAE, et adjacentium Regionum TABULA . . .

A beautiful, highly detailed map of southeastern Europe by Nicolas Visscher. Includes regions of Northern Italy (showing the cities Bologna, Padua, and Venice), Bohemia, ...

$500 / ≈ €434

Maker / Publisher: VISSCHER, N.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1689

A Humorous Diplomatic Atlas of Europe and Asia. / 滑稽欧亜外交地図 / Kokkei Ō-A Gaikō Chizu.

A wonderful example of the rare 1904 Kisaburo Ohara satirical 'Octopus Map' of Europe being swallowed by an octopus (Russia). Composed at the outbreak of the Russo-Japane...

$5000 / ≈ €4337

Maker / Publisher: OHARA, K.
Place & Date: Tokyo, April, 1904

[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...

$2200 / ≈ €1908

Maker / Publisher: DEPOT TOPOGRAPH. DE LA GUERRE
Place & Date: St. Petersburg, N. Thieblin, 1863

Ioannes III. Rex. Poloniae (Portrait of Johann III. Sobieski)

On verso a text in brown ink "1674 Giovanni Sobieski Gran Maresciallo della Polonia, che poscia lo fece suo Re, perchè a Cokrim vinse li Turchi, e la liberò dai tr...

$6000 / ≈ €5205

Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: Ulm, ca. 1690

Volume III of the monumental atlas, ‘L’Orbe Cattolico ossia Atlante Geografico Storico Ecclesiastico’.

PETRI Girolamo's extremely rare Atlas volume III of the monumental atlas, ‘L’Orbe Cattolico ossia Atlante Geografico Storico Ecclesiastico’, respectively depictin...

$25000 / ≈ €21687

Maker / Publisher: PETRI Girolamo
Place & Date: Rome, 1858

Comitatus Flandria.

Second state of this scarce Carte-a-Figures of Flanders, published by Peter Verbiest in Antwerp decorated with 3 side panels without bottom border (variant of the second ...

$3500 / ≈ €3036

Maker / Publisher: VERBIEST, P.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1637

Belgium, sive Inferior Germania post omnes…

Third state (only 3 recorded copies) of this scarce map of the 17 Provinces, published by Peter Verbiest in Antwerp. West at top. The maps by Pieter van den Keere in 1607...

$3500 / ≈ €3036

Maker / Publisher: VERBIEST, P.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1636

(Post Roads of Europe) Neueste Allgemeine Postkarte von Europa in welcher samtliche Postrouten aller europaischen Staaten nach den zuverlässigsten Postbüchern. . .

The largest postal map of Europe, published in Vienna in the midst of the Napoleonic Wars. This postal map of Europe first appeared in 1798 and is considered one of the e...

$750 / ≈ €651

Maker / Publisher: MOLLO, T.
Place & Date: Vienna, 1807

Les Forbans [Board game]

Game board designed by Lucien Boucher, without any randomness, which is rare for that time. The board which is cut in four parts show a world map drawn by Lucien Boucher....

$500 / ≈ €434

Maker / Publisher: BOUCHER, L.
Place & Date: Paris, Perceval, ca. 1950

[Sea monsters] De regni Settentrionali Monstri marini & terrestri…

Münster's plate of monsters of both land and sea, taken from an Italian text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summary of Renaissance kno...

$3600 / ≈ €3123

Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, 1558

Novissima et emendata delineatio Hungariae una cum adjacentibus et finitimis regionibus.

First state. With two inset views of Buda and Bratislava (Posoniensis vulgo Presburg) above the map, between the half-lenght portraits of Leopold I. and the Turkish Sulta...

$3000 / ≈ €2602

Maker / Publisher: MEYSSENS, Joannes.
Place & Date: Anvers ?, c. 1660

De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas suscepta ab Societate Jesu, ex P. Matthaei Ricci.

Very rare first edition of the most influential Western description of China since the 13th-century account by Marco Polo. Printed in Latin with an engraved title page in...

$4000 / ≈ €3470

Maker / Publisher: RICCI, Matteo - TRIGAULT, Nicolas.
Place & Date: Augustæ Vind. (Augsburg), C. Mangium, 1615

Grote Atlas van de Verenigde Oost-Indische [Complete set of 7 volumes] Compagnie/Comprehensive Atlas of the Dutch United East India Company

This seven volume atlas was published in a limited edition. It covers all territories and possessions under the Charter of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) from 1602-17...

$3500 / ≈ €3036

Maker / Publisher: BROMMER, R. / ORMELING, F. / SCHILDER, G., etc
Place & Date: Voorburg, Asia Maior/Atlas Maior, 2006-2010

[Rain Distribution].

A detailed map from Учебный Географический Атлас published by the very successful St. Petersburg publisher "Cartographic institution A.Ilin...

$75 / ≈ €65