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L'Isle Formose et parties des Costes de la Chine. . .
This well-known map of Taiwan was prepared by Jacques Nicolas Bellin and was based on Jesuit information. The text along the island's east coast claims: Of this coast, ...
Date: Paris, 1763
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Brevier.
RECTO: One 3-line illuminated initial in burnished gold on colored grounds. Panel border of acanthus leaves, flowers and birds on a partly liquid gold and dark red ground...
Date: Tours, c.1485
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Kantong [The Dutch Folly Fort off Canton]
Charming 18th water color on paper depicting The Dutch "Folly Fort" off Canton. Probably made by a western artist visiting China.Forts were built in several pla...
Date: Canton?, c.1750
Cochin (today: Ernakulam)
Small but charming 18th water color on paper depicting Cochin (today : Ernakulam) was from 1500, when the first Portuguese fleet called on its port, a firm ally of the Po...
Date: India? c.1750
Kancheu.
Charming 18th water color on paper depicting Kancheu. Probably made by a western artist visiting China.
Date: c.1750
Nangasakij.
Charming 18th watercolor on paper depicting a panoramic view of Nagasaki and the factory Deshima of the V.OC. Probably made by a Western artist visiting Japan.RARE. Due ...
Date: c.1750
An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham, Emperor of China deliver'd by their excellencies, Peter de Goyer and Jacob de Keyzer, at his imperial city of Peking. . .
Very rare first English text edition of this most important and early resource on China and the Chinese. Three parts in one folio by John Macock for the author.Part I: An...
Date: London : Printed by the Author at his house in White-Friers, 1669
Lutzenburgensis Ducatus veriss descript.
Prepared by Jacob Surhon who made a manuscript map of Luxembourg for which he received 500 Livres from Charles V in 1551. For security reasons the map was not published. ...
Date: Antwerp, 1609
Le cours entier du grand et Fameux Nil. . .
Scarce. A splendid map of ancient Egypt. West is at the top and the Nile bisects Egypt. A inset shows modern Egypt to good detail. With the Red Sea and part of the Arabia...
Date: Augsburg, 1760
Valletta ou Valete ville Forte, de l'Isle de Malta.
A beautifully engraved and richly detailed birds-eye plan of the harbour and city of Valletta seen from the northwest. In lower part extensive key, identifying 57 feautur...
Date: Amsterdam, 1705
Das Hertzogthum Braband. . .
Charming map of the Dutch and Belgium province of Brabant. With a fine cartouche.
Date: Leipzig, 1749
Die Republic Holland oder die Verenigte Niederlande..
Charming map of the Netherlands, with inset maps of Novi Belgium area in America and Indonesia. With a fine cartouche.
Date: Leipzig, 1749
De Stadt Jerusalem.
Plan of ancient Jerusalem from a Dutch bible after Villalpando. The print is in contemporary colors, which is extremely rare for a plate like this. Lower left the Temple ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1710
Horizon ring for globe.
Printed horizon ring for a 28cm diameter German globe. The ring is divided in quarters and engraved two by two on one copper plate. The size of the paper is 44 x 33cm. Th...
Date: Nuremberg, 1704/1705
Vue interiere de la Cathedrale de St.Paul a Londres.
So-called optical print, engraved by F.Leizelt. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular speciality establishments in Paris, Augsburg and London...
Date: Augsburg 1780
Ilse Paese de' Selvaggi.. Lago Superiore. (Florida and the Bahamas)
Antonio Zatta published an Italian version of the John Mitchell map in twelve sheet. This sheet depicts Lake Superior in the Bellin version, as it appeared on the Mitchel...
Date: Venice, 1778
Provincie Noord-Braband.
Decorative and uncommon costume plate lithographed by Desguerrois & Co. and published by Frans Buffa & Zonen in Amsterdam. 12 illustrations of Brabant costumes: 1...
Date: Amsterdam, 1857
Provincie Noord-Braband. / Breda, de Langstraat. . .
Decorative and uncommon custume plate lithographed by R. de Vries and published by Frans Buffa & Zonen in Amsterdam. A group of 4 women from the area of Baronie van B...
Date: Amsterdam, 1857
Prospectus Castelli Boxtel.
One of the earliest views of the Castle of Boxtel. Engraved by Henricus Cause. With a description in Latin, French and Dutch.
Date: Amsterdam, 1695
Prospectus veteris castelli Graviae.
One of the earliest views of the ancient Castle of Grave. Engraved by Casper Bouttats. With a description in Latin, French and Dutch.
Date: Amsterdam, 1695
Globe terrestre d'après les découvertes..
Attractive and large (height 112cm) library globe by a prominent Paris globe maker, with a brass meridian circle, horizon ring, and hour ring, supported by four brass qua...
Date: Paris, ca. 1885
Belgium Foederatum auctius et emendatius edit..
Map of the northern part of the Netherlands. With a decorative title cartouche, with an inset map of South East Asia.
Date: Augsburg 1760
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[Drawing of a Tulip]
Very detailed and well executed tulip drawing by an unknown artist belonging to the School of Anthony Claesz (1607/8-1649)This drawing was made for a 'Tulip book' painted...
Date: The Netherlands c.1700
Dongerdeel.. De vierde grietenij van Ooster Goo.
Very decorative map centered on Dokkum, Metzerwier, and Pasens from the Uitbeelding der Heerlijkheit Friesland prepared by Schotanus. With decorative title cartouche lowe...
Date: Leeuwarden, F.Halma, 1718
Over deese grietenije.. Eerste van Wester Goo..
Very decorative map centered on Menaam, Marsum and Boxum from the Uitbeelding der Heerlijkheit Friesland prepared by Schotanus. With ornamental title cartouche lower righ...
Date: Leeuwarden, F.Halma, 1718
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[Drawing of a Tulip]
Very detailed and well executed tulip drawing by an unknown artist belonging to the School of Anthony Claesz (1607/8-1649)This drawing was made for a 'Tulip book' painted...
Date: The Netherlands c.1700
Vue Interieure de la Bourse Royale à Londres.
So-called optical print of the London stock exchange. Daumont was a well-known publisher of optical prints, established in Paris. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuri...
Date: Paris, 1760
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[Title page] Le Theatre du Monde ou Nouvel Atlas.
Architectural frontage with the title and imprint printed on paste-on slips.Parts of the item are heightened in gold. Read more about maps heightened in gold
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Nieuwe kaart van 't Koninckryk Bengale. . .
Rare map Bangladesh with the Ganges delta, including Calcutta. Giving great detail with trade routes, European trade settlements, etc. Prepared by Joh. Van Leenen who was...
Date: Amsterdam, 1726
Isola del Giapone e penisola di Corea.
A most attractive and decorative map by Vincenzo Coronelli. An elaborate central title cartouche garlanded with intertwined flowers and dedicated to the Rev.de Fontaine o...
Date: Venice, 1692
Guyana, Surinam, Amapa.
Very rare Ottoman printed map of Guyana, Suriname and Amapa. With Trinidad, an inset map of the mouth of the Rivers Essequibo, Courantyne, Suriname with Paramaribo.From C...
Date: Uskudar (Istanbul), 1803
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Chirurgie, plate XII
Showing medical chair and physician at work from the medical section of Diderot's Encyclopaedia. Engraved by Bernard after a design of Goussier. Very important work as it...
Date: Paris 1779
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Vues du port de Llivourne. (set of 6 prints)
Sought-after complete suite of 6 engravings by S[tefano] Della Bella [1610-1664]. in a second state (of 2).Della Bella was born in Florence in 1610, and studied the art ...
Date: 1654-1655
Kasteel Croij.
Decorative lithography of the castle of Croij.
Date: Den Haag, 1880
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
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...
Date: Amsterdam 1728
Ruremunda Gelriae opp.
A bird's eye town-plan of the town of Roermond. From the first Dutch translation of Guicciardini's description of the Netherlands.
Date: Amsterdam, 1612
Vue de Nangasaki
View over the town from the water, identifying clearly Deshima with Japanese sloops in the fore ground. Engraved by Alp.Boilly.
Date: Paris, 1842
Tablaeu de l'Univers premiere partie/ .. seconde partie.
Uncommon and interesting manual containing a double hemisphere world map (with fine outer decoration and showing an imagined great sea in West America, easily the size of...
Date: Luik, Belgium, 1784
GLOBUS TERRESTRIS ad sphaeram obliquam delineatus. and the GLOBUS COELESTIS cum Astrodictico artificiali iunctus.
A very handsome, large copper engraving of a pair of globes. Ribbon style titles and German text panel at bottom.
Date: Augsburg, 1774
Bern in der Schweitz.
Very fine large-scale panoramic view of Bern. With a numbered key (1-25) of principal buildings in town. ¤
Date: Augsburg, 1740
Anglia Regnum.
Janssonius' map of England and Wales was one of the new maps prepared by him in 1636. His map closely copies the similar map issued two years earlier by Willem Blaeu.. Th...
Date: Amsterdam, 1642
Il regno della China detto presentente Catay e Magnin. . .
A rare and decorative Italian map of China and Japan, with Japan closely modelled on the indented Cardim outline and Hokkaido, called Yuppi , shown as an Asian peninsula....
Date: Rome, 1682
Itinera Varia Auctoris.
From A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, and of some other rare and undescribed Animals, Quadrupeds, Reptiles, fishes, insects, &c.. The map shows Edwards' journeys ...
Date: London, 1746
La Florida/ Peruviae Auriferae regionis Typus/ Guastecan.
The Chaves map of Florida is a prime example of an explorer's map since it records the recent discoveries of Cabeza de Vaca, De Soto, and Moscoso. The map revealed little...
Date: Antwerp, 1592
Insulae Americanae in Oceanus Septentrionali cum Terris..
General map of the West Indies extending from Virginia to the mouth of the Orinoco, and destined to be copied in various shapes by many other publishers. Title cartouche ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1647
Forest scene on the Tobihanna Alleghany Mountains.
Original aquatint engraving for Travels in the Interior of North America between 1832-34 . Engraved by L.Weber. The finest work on American Indian life and the American F...
Date: London/Paris/Coblenz, 1839
Waschinga Sahba's Grab.. (Wakonda Creek.)
Original aquatint engraving for Travels in the Interior of North America between 1832-34 . Engraved by Ch. Vogel. The finest work on American Indian life and the American...
Date: London/ Paris/ Coblenz, 1839
Tabula Episcopatuum Leodiensis et Coloniensis. . .
Rare issue of Cornelis Danckert's attractive map of Limburg, shows the area of Cologne, Mainz, Trier, Jülich, Mons, Antwerp and Liege in Belgium.Decorative title cartouc...
Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Novissima Flandriae Comitatus tabula. . .
Rare issue of Theodorus Danckert's attractive map of eastern Belgium provinces, Flanders, with Brugge, Oostende, Gent, Mons, Antwerp, Cambray, etc..Decorative title carto...
Date: Amsterdam, 1700
A new and accurate map of Mexico or New Spain with California New Mexico . . .
With inset of Galapagos islands. A wonderfully engraved map showing the entire American South from Carolina to California, as well as all of Mexico and Central America. A...
Date: London, 1747
A new & accurate map of Louisiana, with part of Florida. . .
An English view of North America compiled from available French maps, especially those of Bellin used in Charlevoix's History of New France. English cartographers had lit...
Date: London, 1744
Amerique septentrionale divisee en ses principales parties, ou sont distingues les vns des autres les estats suivant qu'ils appartiennent presentemet aux Francois, Castillans, Anglois, Suedois, Danois, Hollandois...
This handsome map shows California as an island, open-ended Great Lakes, and other details based mainly on Sanson. A large decorative cartouche occupies the area of the n...
Date: Paris, after 1694
Cygnus.
Uncommon celestial print of Cygnus, published by Corbinianus Thomas in the Manuductio ad Astronomiam, Juxta modum Bayeri, Mathematici celeberrimi, concinnata, multis,…e...
Date: Frankfurt / Leipzig, c.1730
Paradigma XV Provinciarum et CLV Urbium Capitalium Sinensis Imperij Cum Templis quae Cruce X Signatur Et Domiciliis S.I.
First edition of this rare Jesuit map of China, published by Jean Baptiste Nolin in Paris and based on Philippe Couplet's map of 1686. The map shows China's 15 provinces ...
Date: Paris, 1686
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...
Date: Paris, 1676
Tabula Asiae I.
Uncommon first edition of this classical map of Turkey, prepared by Ptolemy.Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia included newly engraved copperplates by Gi...
Date: Venice, 1561
Landgraviatus Alsatiae tam superioris..
Alsace, in the far north-eastern corner of France, stands out from other French wine regions thanks to its strong Franco-Germanic influences. Alsace is the only French wi...
Date: Nurenberg, 1710
Planiglobii Terrestris Cum Utroq Hemisphaerio.
Vibrantly decorative world map surrounded by vivid engravings of natural phenomena such as waterspouts, a rainbow, earthquakes, and a volcano. Windheads occupy the starry...
Date: Nuremberg, c. 1720
IV Compartimento Aretoni. . .
Very finely engraved and detailed map centered on Arezzo and Lago Trasimeno. Lower part three inset plans of Cortona, Arezzo and Chiusi. In upper corners plans of Montepu...
Date: Rome, 1860
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De Texel Stroom met de gaten vant Marsdiep. [with] Caarte van De Mase ende het Goereesche Gat.
Two decorative charts on one sheet, one depicting Texel and the entrance of the Zuider Zee with an inset showing the north coast of West-Friesland, the other depicting th...
Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Pascaert van Engelant Van t'Voorlandt tot aen Blakeney waer in te sien is de mont vande Teemse.
Two charts on one sheet. One decorative sea chart of the southeast coast of England with an inset of the Thames till London, embellished with two title cartouches, a ship...
Date: Amsterdam, 1666
Cust van Hollant Tussen de Maes ende Texel.
Uncommon chart of the coast of Holland, including the southern tip of Texel. East at the top. Two fine compass cards, soundings and a large Bree Veerthien offshore.Piete...
Date: Amsterdam, 1666
Pascaerte Van't Westelyckste der Middelandsche Zee. . .
An eye-catching chart of the western part of the Mediterranean Sea.Pieter Goos (ca. 1616-1675) was one of the most important cartographer, engraver, publisher and print s...
Date: Amsterdam, 1666
Paskaert vande Bocht van Vranckrijck Biscajen. . .
An eye-catching chart of the coast of Bretagne from Brest running south till the coast of Biscay in Northern Spain.Including the towns of Ferrol in the west, Gijon, Santa...
Date: Amsterdam, after 1666
.Paskaarte om Achter Yrlandt om te Zeylen van Hitlant tot. . .
An eye-catching chart of Ireland, including the north of England and Scotland, with the West to the top.Pieter Goos (ca. 1616-1675) was one of the most important cartogra...
Date: Amsterdam, 1673
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
Quarta pars Brabantiae cujus caput Sylvaducis.
A good and dark impression in strong original colors.The third state. The coat of arms of Brabant and 's-Hertogenbosch appears on the map. The municipal arms in the colum...
Date: Amsterdam, 1645
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Madeburga [ Maagdenburg Folio CLXXX ]
Double-page panoramic view of Magdeburg. A imaginary view, however the earliest obtainable view of this period.Two page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous...
Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Candia cum Insulis.. Corfu Zante, Milo, Nicsia, Santorini.
Four views on one sheet: A large map of Crete, with three smaller views across the top showing the Ionian Islands of Kerkira (Corfu), Cephalonia and Zakinthos (Zante.) Th...
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Nova Africae Tabula.
An attractive map of the continent, added by Hondius when he took over publication of Mercator's Atlas. Although it is based on Mercator's map, Hondius improved the outli...
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Cornubia, Devonia, Somersetus, . . .
A very nice map showing the south-western part of England. Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma Frisius, Dutch writer, astronome...
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
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Irlandiae Regnum.
A very nice map from Ireland.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma Frisius, Dutch writer, astronomer and mathematician. The excel...
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Les Provinces des Pays Bas.
RARE. From his first edition of his only folio atlas, the map is relied upon the map of his uncle, Nicolas Sanson. Engraved by I.Somer.A nice map of Netherlands.
Date: Paris 1687
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Flessingue Ville de l'Ile de Walcheren. [Vlissingen]
A very RARE panoramic view of the city of Vlissingen. The plate is numbered in red pencil in the upper right corner.Engraved by Jean Crepy (the father), who was active as...
Date: Paris, 1690-1720
Utrecht.
A very RARE panoramic view of Utrecht, including a numbered legend in the lower part.Engraved by Jean Crepy (the father) who was active as an engraver and publisher at th...
Date: Paris, 1690-1720
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Malines. [Mechelen]
A very RARE panoramic town view of Mechelen, including a numbered legend in the left lower corner.Published by the brothers Chéreau, active in Paris at rue st.Jacques au...
Date: Paris, c.1720
Nostre Dame de Lorette.
A very RARE panoramic of Lorette and the church, including a numbered legend in both lower corners.The plate is numbered in black pencil in upper right corner.Published ...
Date: Paris c.1720
Ceuta Ville d'Afrique au D'estroit de Gibraltar.
A very RARE panoramic view of the city of Ceuta, including a numbered legend in both lower corners.Published by the brothers Chéreau, active in Paris at rue st.Jacques a...
Date: Paris c.1720
Biturigum.
A miniature map of the Berry. Fine cartouche in the upper left corner.First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were executed by the most famous engravers...
Date: Amsterdam/Frankfurt 1609
