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Vasten avonds Vreugde krans en tooneel stuk. . .
Page taken from "Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid : vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der actie, bubbel en windnegotie, in Vrankryk, Engeland, en de Ne...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
KOUSHI NYUJO no Zu - HANABUSA Legation enters in Palace, Seoul.
A scene of Japanese legation HANABUSA who are entering the Royal Palace, Seoul.
Date: August 8, MEIJI 27th year or 1894
Le Chantier d'Amsterdam.
Decorative lithography representing the head quarters of the V.O.C. and shipyard in Amsterdam. The building serves nowadays as the Maritime Museum. After a painting by A....
Date: Brussels, J. B. A. Jobard, 1825
Insulae Indiae Orientalis.
One of the most decorative maps of the Indonesian Archipelago, centered on the Philippines, Malaya and further India. Ships in the sea and a beautiful title cartouche add...
Date: Amsterdam, 1607-1608
Tabula Anemographica seu Pyxis Nautica.
Impressive compass rose with a fleur de lis at the center and 32 wind directions flowing from it identified in six languages, Greek, Latin, French, Dutch, Italian, and Sp...
Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Very fine brass astronomical equinoctial ring with two brass circles.
Very fine brass astronomical equinoctial ring with two brass circles with engraved foliage decoration, signed "Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas Delure A Paris", on the han...
Date: Paris, undated, ca. 1690
A cordiform - heart-shaped - horary quadrant marked with Gunter scales.
A small and charming but very fine heart-shaped horary quadrant marked with Gunter scales. The scales are very finely engraved on both sides.The quadrant was a very pract...
Date: ca. 1720-1760
Marine parallel rulers in brass.
Very fine marine parallel rulers in brass. The parallel ruler is the oldest and most traditional way to measure and trace routes and bearings. The principle is simple: t...
Date: Paris, ca. 1880
Het Huisje door Czaar Peter den Grooten in den Jare 1697 te Zaandam bewoond.
Engraved by Cornelis van Baarsel (Utrecht 1761 - Amsterdam 1826-08-17) after a design of T. Monsieur M.Z. who made his drawing "after nature".A first state, the...
Date: Zaandam, 1823
Paskaerte van het inkoomen van de Maes, tot aen 't Eylandt Roosenburgh als mede 't Inkoomen van 't Goereesche Gat.. / Pascaert van 't Eylandt Roosenburgh door de Oude en Nieuwe Maes.
A very attractive sea chart on two sheets of the mouth of the river Maas. The left sheet shows Dordrecht, Rotterdam and the fortress at Willemstad. Rghthand sheet dep...
Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Early 19th century magnetic dry card compass with wooden bowl,
Brass dry rose marine compass, in its mahogany case. The mariner's compass, which enabled mariners to know the direction in which they were sailing, has always been one o...
Date: ca. 1800
Inverted nautical Compass, called "mouchard" (~ "spy")
Inverted maritime compass called "mouchard" (spy) in wood and brass, signed "A Van Vastenhoud In Amsterdam". This type of compass was found in the cap...
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1780
Karte von Katay od. dem Reiche Kin, zur Geschichte von Jenghiz Khan. Aus dem Englischen.
The map is of interest for the use of East Sea, the sea between Korea and Japan, here called "Meer von Corea".Copper engraving, hand colored in outline and wash...
Date: Leipzig, Schwabe, ca. 1750
Bateau Japonais. Two prints on one sheet.
Engraving of 18th century Japanese boat drawn by Lt. Blondela. Done during the expedition of comte de Jean-Francois de Galaup La Perouse in the Pacific Ocean in 1785-1788...
Date: Paris, 1812
Paldobundo Province.
Woodblock printed map of Jeolla Province which was one of the historical Eight Provinces of Korea during the Kingdom of The map is drawn in "Paldo Bundo," styl...
Date: 1710-1718
Quinta Asie Tabvla.
Woodblock map of Persia from Martin Waldseemüller's 1513 edition of Ptolemy, a landmark work that contributed to major advances in both Renaissance geography and map p...
Date: Strasbourg, J. Schott, 1513
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...
Date: London, 1821
![[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.](/uploads/cache/34482-500x500.jpg)
[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...
Date: Källa: J.Strang & E.- S. Harju: Suomen karttakirja 1799
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...
Date: Paris, 1870-1871
De kornet van vuil gewin of wortel en besse postiljon op zyn mager, doch niewlyks gemest varken uitschreewende de kompany is vol.
Page taken from "Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid : vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der actie, bubbel en windnegotie, in Vrankryk, Engeland, en de Ne...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Het Klooster ten Hage (Marienhage Eindhoven)
Very rare lithography of the ruin of the monastery of Ten Haghe in Eindhoven. Lithographed by M.Mouret, published in "oud-Nederland en de uit vroegere dagen overgebl...
Date: Nijmegen, 1837-1846
Voyage of his majesty’s ship Alceste, along the Coast of Corea, to the island of Lewchew, with an account of her subsequent shipwreck, by John M’LEOD. Surgeon of the Alceste.
Second and best edition, with frontispiece portrait of Captain Maxwell and five fine hand-colored aquatint plates, including a plate not present in the first edition of t...
Date: London, John Murray, 1818.
Rotterdamse Diergaarde. . .
Decorative view of Zoo of Rotterdam. To the right the house of the manager of the zoo. Decorated with personages in typical dress watching lions.
Date: Amsterdam, 1860
Official War map of Korea.
A large folding map of Korea published in the year of the outbreak of the Korean War, published by the Rand McNally Company. The map is extremely detailed and features a ...
Date: America, ca 1950
Zelandia Comitatus.
Based on the map by Van Deventer. For the first time a road connection between Flushing, Middelburg and Arnemuiden is shown. Mercator pays much attention to the area of s...
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
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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...
Date: Paris, 1967
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...
Date: Paris, 1967
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...
Date: Paris, 1967
Slusa, Teutonicae Flandriae opp. . . (Sluis)
Bird'eye view of the town of Sluis.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne Cathedral. Braun...
Date: Cologne, 1580
Siberia & Central Asia.
This map covers the eastern section of Russia as well as China, Japan, Korea, India and Tibet. The map is of interest for the use of Sea of Corea, the sea between Korea a...
Date: Boston, 1835
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Candia [Map of the island Crete]
Very rare map of the island Crete published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. Per Mare, e per Terra, & infieme quello di Terra Santa...
Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598
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Rodi [View of Rhodes]
Very rare view of the City of Rhodes on the island of Rhodes. Historically, Rhodes island was very famous worldwide for the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders o...
Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598
Jerusalem.
Very rare view of Jerusalem published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. Per Mare, e per Terra, & infieme quello di Terra Santa. Da G...
Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598
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Namphio. [Map of Anafi]
Very rare map of the island of Anafi Island published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. Per Mare, e per Terra, & infieme quello di T...
Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598
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Stampalia. [Map of Astypalaia]
Very rare map of the Greek island Astypalaia. The island is known in Italian as Stampalia. Published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. P...
Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598
Theatre Geographiqiue de L'Europe. . .
Atlas illustrated with 57 double-page maps (of 60). Maps 24 (Bourgogne), 25 (Bresse) and 49 (Allemagne) are missing. The maps are numbered in ink in the upper right-hand ...
Date: Paris, 1653
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...
Date: Paris, 1753
Plants, including the canior, diringuo, pucho and chiabe.
In the Indies there are many delightful plants, which include the ‘costus indicus’ (named by the Malays 'pucho') that has a wonderful aroma. Then there is the ‘cala...
Date: Frankfurt, 1598
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...
Date: Amsterdam, 1729
Painting made by a sailor, signed W.Welman.
Panel from a thee-box, with a painting of a ship. Signed in lower right "Hr. W. Welman". Complete with a naive painting of a square-rigged sailing ship rig...
Date: circa. 1960