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La Tartaria Chinese.
With decorative title cartouche. Covering north eastern part of China, Korea and Hokkaido (here called Jeso-Gasima, Tartary including the Gobi Desert; also Peking and the...
Place & Date: Venice, 1784
La Corvette la recherche au milieu des glaces.
Beautiful lithograph by A. Mayer and Bayot of the corvette "La recherche" surrounded by Ice. Published by Arthus-Bertrand and Lemercier in Paris.From Joseph Pau...
Place & Date: Paris. Arthus-Bertrand, 1838-1852
Nice Vue prise audessus de Montalban.
Beautiful view of Nice from the book "l'Italie à vol d'oiseau".
Place & Date: Paris, 1850
Santorini.
Very rare map of Santorini published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. Per Mare, e per Terra, & infieme quello di Terra Santa. Da Gi...
Place & Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598
Nankin [Nanjing, Jiangsu]
Very detailed (1:1.000.000) map showing the area north of Nanjing, Jiangsu. The French Service géographique des armées was founded in 1887 and provided the French milit...
Place & Date: Paris, 1900
Tabula Ducatus Brabantiae.
Detailed map orientated west to the top.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Designs for porcelain plate with Chinese design.
In right hand side "Planche d'aquarelle N° 06502". And the numbers 11.153, 11.154, 11.155. Original design created by the Sevres artist Gabriel Fourmaintraux (...
Place & Date: Desvres, 1905 - 1925
Designs for Porcelain ware with Chinese design.
In left hand side "Planche d'aquarelle N° 05501". Original design created by the Sevres artist Gabriel Fourmaintraux ( 1886 - ) at about 1910 to serve as guide...
Place & Date: Desvres, 1905 - 1925
39e Vüe d'Optique Representant L'Hotel du Lord Maire de Londre.
So-called optical print illustrating a perspective view of Somerset House on the Strand in London.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular speci...
Place & Date: Paris, 1760
26e Vüe d'Optique Representant L'Abbaye de Westminster et de l'Eglise Ste. Marguerite à Londres.
So-called optical print illustrating a perspective view of the Westminster Abbey, in London.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular speciality ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1760
Venice Simplon Orient-Express. London-Paris-Venice.
Vintage poster by Pierre Fix Masseau for the restoration of the mythic "Orient-Express" in 1981.Pierre Fix-Masseau (1905-1994) is a French poster artist, son of...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1981
Military map of the countries between Odessa & Perekop with the stations of the Russian forces.
Rare colored linen-backed map showing Russian troop positions and Odessa Batteries. On the inside of the cover a list of "Wyld's list of recent publications : seat o...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1855
Carte de la province de Quan-tong, ou Lyau-tong et du Royaume de Kau-li. . .
Map of Korea. The map is of interest for the use of East Sea, the sea between Korea and Japan, here called "Mer de Corée" and "Meer von Korea".From a...
Place & Date: Paris, 1757
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2023
Astéries.
Decorative engraving of a star fish, engraved by Boquet. Marie Jules César Lelorgne de Savigny (April 5, 1777 - October 5, 1851) was a French zoologist. In 1798 he trave...
Place & Date: Paris, 1822
Les Isles Terceres. . .
Uncommon map of the Azores. Engraved by Sommer. Du Val is mentioned as the cartographer and the publisher was Pierre Mariette.
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1650 - 1676
A map of the British Army with battle honours and militray achievements and Regimental Badges . . .
Shows English County Regiments, Battle Honours and Military Achievements. Bordered by Regimental Badges.A fascinating piece of British history.Read more about Pictorial M...
Place & Date: London, 1952
Hungaria regnum.
Detailed map of Hungary. First edition of Sanson's map of the Kingdom of Hungary. Engraved by A. Peyrounin.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1640
Donger deel.. derde grietenije van Ooster Goo. . .
Very decorative map of the area north of Dokkum from the Uitbeelding der Heerlijkheit Friesland prepared by Schotanus. With decorative title cartouche lower right mention...
Place & Date: Leeuwarden, F.Halma, 1718
FN HJAELP (Help).
Danish poster depicting a child sitting on a globe, threatened by a black snake. Designed by Aage Sikker Hansen and printed Andreasen & Lachmann in Copenhagen, Denmar...
Place & Date: Copenhagen, ca. 1950
Sexta Etas Mundi. Folium. CCXVII (dancers of Maastricht).
Latin text page with woodcuts of male Siamese twins, a man headed lion. The large illustration is the only illustration related to the Netherlands : it shows a bridge col...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
[This is Great Brittain to-day - Cambridge]
Chromolithoghraphed plate showing a fancy depiction of the court yard of a British University (Cambridge). A text in Arabic language explaining about the 20 universities ...
Place & Date: Arabia, ca. 1920
Yucatan . . . Et Guatimala Conventus Iuridicus.
Very attractive map encompassing the Mexican heartland, the Yucatan peninsula, and the old Spanish Audiencia of Guatemala including Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and pa...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1673
(Art déco gouache with winter scene of The Palace of Westminster )
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The ...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1930
Vue de Malthe du cote du Fort.
A so-called optical print of Valletta seen from the castle. This rare optical print shows people in typical French dresses in the foreground and placed in boats.In the ei...
Place & Date: Paris, 1798
Carte du Katay ou Empire de Kin. . .
The map is of interest for the use of Mer de Corée for the sea between Korea and Japan .Fine map of Korea and China's Yellow Sea. Complete title in top: Carte du Katay o...
Place & Date: Paris, 1750
A manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours. (Calendar month of August)
RECTO : Calendar month of August with a 2-line initial in liquid gold on colored ground. colorful panel border in the left margin of acanthus leaves and flowers, with bla...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1450
Loudunois. Laudunum / Mirebalais.
Two maps on one sheet. Centered on Loudun and Mirebeau. Showing lower left cartouche putti playing with grapes.German text on verso.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1636
Kunst is allemaal flauwe kul.
Joop Schafthuizen is a Dutch artist known for his prints. He inspired some of the books written by his partner, the famous writer Gerard Reve. "Kunst is allemaal fla...
Place & Date: Rotterdam, 1976
A new & accurate map of the Empire of China from the Sieur Robert's Atlas. With improvements.
An excellent early engraving of China and Korea that appeared in Sieur Robert de Vaugondy's Geographical Dictionary (London: 1759). Decorative title cartouche on the uppe...
Place & Date: London, 1759
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...
Place & Date: Paris, 1967
Descriptio Arabie / Arabia.
A rare miniature map of the Arabian Peninsular. The title cartouche on the lower right corner.First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were executed by t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornelis Claes, 1606
Iava Maior.
Very fine miniature map of Java, engraved by Benjamin Wright (1575-1613). This early map contains detailed geography and nomenclature around the northern coastline of the...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornelis Claes, 1606
Sumatra Insula.
A miniature map of Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula, including Singapore and the various islands directly south of it. Containing detailed geography and nomenclature aroun...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1609
Carte des Isles d'Acores.
Uncommon and detailed map of the Azores. With inset maps of Port de St.Cruz and harbor and town of Angra on the island of Terceira. It was at the time an important port a...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1730
Chêne commun.
Engraved by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch born Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "Fleurs dessinées d'après nature. . . receuil ...
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1800
C'est à la France que le monde doit ses ailes. . .
Original poster promoting the French company Montgolfier Renard Charles, manufacture of hot air balloon and dirigibles. Full title Translation: " It is to France tha...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1930
Seringat odorant. Philadelphus coronarius. L.
Bouquet of Seringats. A bouquet of flowers. Engraved by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch born Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "Fle...
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1800
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: Six 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and five line-fillers in same.VERSO: Five 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and one 2-lines i...
Place & Date: France, 1520-1550
Grande Capucine Tropoeolum majus. L.
The true Nasturtium, stipple engraving by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch-born Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "Fleurs dessinées...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1800
L'Enfance de Paul et Virginie.
Fine engraving of Paul and Virginie.Paul et Virginie (or Paul and Virginia) is a novel by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, first published in 1787. The novel's ti...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1790
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...
Place & Date: Paris, 1760
Carte Générale de l'Empire des Russes et de la Tartarie Universelle.
Rare map of Tartary and Russia, including Korea and Japan prepared after J.B.Nolin and published by Monhare for his Atlas Général a l'usage des colleges et maisons d'ed...
Place & Date: Paris, 1783
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2023
Hongarije.
Poster made for Hungarian Tourist association. The uncommon Dutch version of this fine poster to promote Hungary in the 1930's. Arisztid Uher was a graphic designer. He d...
Place & Date: Budapest, KLOSZ / Sohn., ca. 1930
[Map of Corfu. View of the city of Corfu on the foreground. ]
Very rare map of Corfu with a view of the city of Corfu on the foreground. Published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. Per Mare, e per T...
Place & Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598
Tiger tamer.
Showing a tiger tamer with two tigers who apparently have more interest in his erotic, scarily dressed assistance.
Place & Date: ca. 1950
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...
Place & Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598
Sexta Etas Mundi. Foliu CXXXV [Text page with S. Hieronymus, the patron of theological learning].
Text page with woodcuts of the following saints: S. Hieronymus, the patron of theological learning (100x80mm.)VERSO is printed with text and images of Popes and Kings.Pag...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Carte de la Coste d'Arabie.
Uncommon issue of this very nice map of the Arabian peninsula. Depicted is Saudi Arabia, Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.With French text in title cartouche and an additiona...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1773
Charte von China und den angränzenden Ländern und Völkerschaften so wie den letzten Kaiser Tschien-Long. . .
Uncommon map of China on a scale of ca. 1:6,000,000. The map's complete title is “Charte von China und den angränzenden Ländern, und Völkerschaften so wie sie dem le...
Place & Date: Parague, 1812
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2023
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: One 2-lines initial decorated with flower in liquid gold on colored grounds and six 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and five line-fillers in same...
Place & Date: France, ca. 1530
Amsterdam Capitale de la Hollande.
A panoramic of Amsterdam seen from 't IJ. Set within a decorative border, printed from a separate plate. Rare.
Place & Date: Leiden, 1720
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...
Place & Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598
Gezicht van het Oost-Indisch-Huys, op de binnen plaats te zien, tot Amsterdam.
Taken from the "Atlas of Amsterdam". Showing the inner square of the East Indian House of the V.O.C. in Amsterdam.A place for meeting, trading and storage of sp...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1780
Vue de Boston vers le Cale du Port.
A view of the port of Boston, the center of New England shipping in the colonial period. The closing of the port after the Boston Tea Party led to the calling of the Firs...
Place & Date: Augsburg 1762
L'escadre alliée bombarde les forts extérieurs de Sébastopol. (18 octobre 1854)
Beautiful Crimean War lithography by Becquet after a painting by Louis Le Breton. The print illustrates the ships "Fort Constantin", "la ville de Paris&quo...
Place & Date: Paris, 1860
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
C'est à la France que le monde doit ses ailes, Clement Ader, Premier décollage du premier avion, 9 octobre 1890.
Original poster for the historical first take-off of the first plane. Translation: " It is to France that the world owes its wings, Clement Ader, First takeoff of th...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1930
A Map and Chart of Arabia, the Red Sea, & Persian Gulf, drawn from the Chart of the Eastern Ocean, Publish'd in 1740, by Order of ye Count de Maruepas,...
A small but unusual map of the Arabian Peninsular, engraved by G. Child for 'The universal traveller: or, A compleat description of the several nations of the world', by ...
Place & Date: London, Th. Salmon, 1752-1753
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...
Place & Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598
Astéries.
Decorative engraving of star fishes, by Macret and Leleu. Marie Jules César Lelorgne de Savigny (April 5, 1777 - October 5, 1851) was a French zoologist. In 1798 he trav...
Place & Date: Paris, 1822
Les honneurs du Panthéon . . . . (Plate 433 from La Caricature.)
On the front wall is written: "To the great men and women, our country is grateful". This lithograph shows people hanging in front of the Panthéon, and may be ...
Place & Date: Paris, October 23, 1834
Echelle pour trouver les jours de la semaine. . . / Scale om de Dagen van de Week te vinden. . . / Scale to find the Days of the Week. . .
Fine engraved plate showing eight different scales with explications in French, Dutch and English.Scale om de dagen van de week, de verschietende feest-dagen, de maan-tyd...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1695
Teatro della guerra nelle Flandre Austriache e Francesi. . .
Rare folio-sized map of Belgium by Antonio Zatta e Figli, from a never-finished atlas by the ‘Società Calcografia’, a partnership of the two main Venetian publishers...
Place & Date: Venise, 1803
Vüe Perspective de l'Hospital de Greenwich prise de la Thamise.
So-called optical print illustrating a perspective view of Greenwich Hospital, illustrating its close proximity to the River Thames.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centu...
Place & Date: Paris, 1760
Carte nouvelle de Moscovie represente la partie Septentrionale dressée par G.De L'Isle. . .
Uncommon map covering the area north of Moscow, including Lapland. Prepared by G. de L'Isle.Joachim Ottens (1663 - 1719) and his sons Renier and Joshua were prominent Dut...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Un Reclutatore in India. Papagallo No. 42. Anno VI.
British in India. Design by Augusto Grossi. Taken from the Italian satirical newspaper Il Papagallo, a satirical magazine founded in January 1873 by Augusto Grossi (1835-...
Place & Date: Bologne, 1878
Venezuela cum parte Australi Novae Andalusiae.
Most decorative map with two large cartouches and compass-rose, large group of islands at the mouth of the Orinoco, other islands off Venezuela coast: Margarita, Aruba, C...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1673
Indiae extra Gangem Pars Septentrionalis. Indiae extra Gangem Pars Meridionalis.
The map on the left depicts the northern portion of the India Ganges region, representing Burma (Myanmar), Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos. The right one depicts th...
Place & Date: Utrecht / Amsterdam, J.Halma, 1683
Map of China.
Showing China, Taiwan and Korea, divided into provinces with the main cities marked. The map is of interest for the use of Sea of Corea, the sea between Korea and Japan, ...
Place & Date: London, 1804
Les Messageries Maritimes font le tour du monde.
Original lithographed mini poster (570 x 400mm.) created by the artist Robert Louis Antral for Les Messageries Maritimes, showing a boat and a globe. Les Messageries Mari...
Place & Date: Paris, 1955
Nobiolo Canavesano, o uva Spanal.
Highly decorative stipple engraving with hand-colored details from a scarce work 'Pomona Italiana ossia Trattato Degli Alberi Fruttiferi' by Giorgio Gallesio. The series ...
Place & Date: Turin, 1832
[ Map of the island Nexos]
Very rare map of the island Naxos published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. Per Mare, e per Terra, & infieme quello di Terra Santa...
Place & Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598
Steel compass with a gilded radiating pattern.
Steel compass with a gilded radiating pattern.Provenance : Collection Henri-Claude Randier.
Place & Date: ca. 1760
Tabula Americae Specialis Geographica Regni Peru, Brasiliae, Terra Firmae & Reg: Amazonum, Secundum relationes de Herrera, de Laet & PP d Acuña & M. Rodriguez . . .
A good and clean copy of Homann's map of the northern part of South America. The map is on the Valley of the Amazon and delineates the Amazon and its labyrinth of tributa...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1728
The East Part of India, or India beyond the R. Ganges.
Herman Moll's map of those Asian countries to be found east of the River Ganges, including Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, southern most China, Malaysia, Sumatr...
Place & Date: London, ca 1750
VII. Das Ergow.
Very early wood cut printed regional map of Switzerland centered on Ergow.Originally engraved in 1548. The map was prepared by Johannes Stumpf (1500-1576). Included in &q...
Place & Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566
IX. Die Lepontier.
Very early wood cut printed regional map of Switzerland.Originally engraved in 1548. The map was prepared by Johannes Stumpf (1500-1576). Included in "Landtaflen. Hi...
Place & Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566
XII. Laurater Basler gelegenheit.
Very early wood cut printed regional map of Switzerland with Basel region.Originally engraved in 1548. The map was prepared by Johannes Stumpf (1500-1576). Included in &q...
Place & Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566
Paraquariae Provinciae Soc. Iesu cum Adjacentibus Novissima...
Between the years of 1609 and 1780, the Jesuits (the Roman Catholic Society of Jesus) established in South America, an autonomous Christian state, on the lands of present...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1740
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1645