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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
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
(Lübeck) Lvbeca vrbs. imperialis libera. civitatvm. Wandalicarvm. . . .
Impressive more than 3 meters wide panoramic town view after a woodblock engraving from Elias Diebel, initially made in 1552. Of this original woodblock, Bachmann mention...
Place & Date: Germany, c. 1855
[Title page] Album delle principali vedute di Venezia disegnate da Marco Moro. . .
The title page has a virgin and the lion of Saint Mark sitting on an island with the background of the town of Venice. Learn more about map printing and views of Venice ...
Place & Date: Venice, G. Brizeghel, ca 1860
L'Europe en Sept 1939. Ille terrarum mihi angulus ridet.
A rare oversized serio-comic map of Europe at the start of the Second World War depicting stereotypes of 31 countries, as listed in the key lower right, including Brit...
Place & Date: Bruges, Leon Burghgraeve, 1939
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
(Index sheet) General Tableau zur Karte von Alt Ost und West Preussen nebst dem aufgenommenen Trigonometrischen Netz. . .
Index sheet of this important multi sheet map of Prussia, Lithuania and Poland.Section XXIV of the rare first edition of this important 25-sheet map prepared by Friedrich...
Place & Date: Berlin, 1802-1810
Deutschlands Postkarte begraenzt von Oesterreich, Preussen, Frankreich, Holland, Italien und der Schweiz. . .
Detailed and important post road map prepared by Ignaz Heymann. The map shows, the Low Countries, Germany, Poland, Austria, Hungary, etc.Borders in original out-line colo...
Place & Date: Triest, 1800
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...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Quarta etas mudi Folio LVIII [Rome]
Double text page in German with a woodblock Rome (23x53cm.)On verso a view of Genua (193x222mm). Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Nuremberg Chro...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Europa recens descripta à Guilielmo Blaeuw.
On either side, columns depicting the manner of dress in the major countries of Europe, surmounted by nine city views and plans.For European mapmakers their own continent...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644
Carte particulière de la côte d'Afrique depuis le cap des Courans jusqu'à la baye de Ste Hélène. . .
Large and detailed sea chart of South Africa.Engraved by Guillaume-Nicolas Delahaye (1727-1802).Latitude and longitude scales, compass rose and system of rhumb lines, sou...
Place & Date: Paris, 1745
Pianta della citta di Napoli.
Published in Atlante Geografico dell' Italia. Uncommon and decorative town-plan of Naples. With a numbered key.Engraved by P.Manzoni.
Place & Date: Florence, 1845
Pianta della citta di Livorno.
Very finely engraved and detailed plan of Livorno. Engraved by V.Angeli and included in: Atlante Geografico dell Italia . To the left, a key to the principal buildings a...
Place & Date: Rome, 1860
Seville ville Archiepiscopale et capitale du Royaume d'Andalousie en Espagne. . .
A very decorative and extremely rare town-view of Seville, including a numbered key ( 1- 37) in lower part. Engraved by Pierre-Alexandre Aveline. With "fait par Avel...
Place & Date: Paris, ca.1692
Florentia Pulcherrima et Ruriae Civitas.
Detailed bird's-eye view of the town of Florence in Tuscany region, first published in Frederick de Wit's rare town book. With two keys 1-17 and 1-228 to important spots ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Leiden, 1697 / 1729
Americae Nova Tabula.
The delineation of the coast and the nomenclature on both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts are basically Spanish in origin and follow the maps of Ortelius and Wytfliet. To...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1645
Carte des routes de poste de la Russie européenne, exécutée par ordre de S.E.M. le duc de Feltre ministre de la Guerre, ...
Post-route map on a scale of 1:2 500 000 made during the French campaign in Russia, which began June 24, 1812. With a table of the conventional signs and a table of conve...
Place & Date: Paris, Dépôt Général de la Guerre 1812
Ride the Roads to Romance along the Golden Coast and thru the Sunshine Empire of Southern California.
This striking touring map of Southern California was published in 1950 by the Roads to Romance Association in order to promote tourism to Southern California. It provides...
Place & Date: California, 1950
Pas-Caart van de Oost Zee verthooende alle de ghelegenheydt tusschen t Eylandt Rugen ende Wyborg. . .
An eye-catching chart of the Baltic Sea. Engraved by Gerard Coeck.Pieter Goos (ca. 1616-1675) was one of the most important cartographers, engravers, publishers and print...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1666
Kaerte en Afbeeldinge vande Geheele Jurisdictie van Stantdarbuyten Gelegen in de Generaliteit onder Marquisaet van Bergen op den Zoom
With a large title cartouche with signature of the maker Adriaan van der Ende, : Kaerte en Afbeeldinge vande Geheele Jurisdictie van Stantdarbuyten Gelegen in de Generali...
Place & Date: Willemstad, 1737
Mappemonde ou carte générale du globe terrestre dessinée suivant les règles de la projection des cartes réduites…
Large world map showing the sea tracks of Captain Cook in his three Pacific voyages published by C. F. Delamarche.Rare state 4, dated 1786, of this large world map, featu...
Place & Date: Paris, Robert de Vaugondy/Delamarche, 1786
Pascaart..de Zuyder-Zee, Texel..Vlie-stroom..'t Amelander…
An eye-catching chart of the Zuiderzee with east to the top.Pieter Goos (ca. 1616-1675) was one of the most important cartographer, engraver, publisher and print seller o...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1666
(Title page) Campi phlegraei ou observations sur les volcans des deux Siciles, . . .
Etched and mezzotint title with in the center an eruption of volcano in Sicily.William Hamilton, an English diplomat in Naples to the Kingdom of The Two Sicily's, was a g...
Place & Date: Paris, Lamy, 1799
Noordoost Cust van Asia van Japan tot Nova Zembla.
Important for its early depiction of Hokkaido and the Islands to the North of Japan. Ships navigate the seas around the Siberian, Chinese and Japanese coast extending as ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1666
[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...
Place & Date: Källa: J.Strang & E.- S. Harju: Suomen karttakirja 1799
Il Palazzo pubblico della Citta di Amsterdam.
Fine panoramic views of the Dam square in Amsterdam, taken from Storia moderna di tutti I popoli del mondo , edited by Thomas Salmon. A Italian edition of this famous wor...
Place & Date: Venice, 1740-1756
[Title page] Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes éxécuté par ordre de S.M l'Empereur et Roi.
Set of two title pages from the atlas part of "Voyage de decouvertes aux terres australes", Freycinet and Peron's accounts of the French cartographic expedition...
Place & Date: Paris, Langois, 1811
A Newe mape of Poland Done into English by I.Speede.
A wonderful map of Poland. Incorporated into Speed's 'Prospect Of The Most Famous Parts Of The World'. Includes birds-eye views of Cracow, Dantzick, Posna, Crossen, Sando...
Place & Date: London, 1627
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...
Place & Date: Paris, 1870-1871
Novus de Leone Belgico eiusq topographia atq. Historica descriptione liber (…). Rerumque in Belgio maxime gestarum, inde ab anno Christi M.D.LIX. Usque ad annum M.D.LXXXVII perpetua narratione continatus.
ENLARGED EDITION, with 207 (of 208) engravings of a famous eyewitness account of the Dutch Revolt, with the famous "Leo Belgicus" map, here in its second state...
Place & Date: Cologne, Gerardus Campensis for Frans Hogenberg, 1588
Amstelodami celeberrimi hollandiae emporii delineatio nova.
Frederik de Wit’s beautiful bird's-eye view of the city. The Amstel river is still open water flowing through the city's heart. Only near the Dam, has it been covered b...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c.1700
Japanese Stereotype Map of the World from 1932 Share Hitome de wakaru Manga sekai genjō chizu. At a glance: Cartoon Map of the Current World Situation. 目でわかる 漫画世界現状地圖
An extraordinary satirical map of the world was seen through Japanese eyes in the early 1930s as Japanese imperial ambitions strengthened. The map was published as an edi...
Place & Date: Tokyo, Showa 7, or 1932
L'Europe Dressée Sur les Nouvelles observations. . .
A rare and monumental wall map of Europe, with original outline color, of four joined sheets, surrounded by text and vignettes printed on separate sheets.Created in 1740 ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1700-1740
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...
Place & Date: Tokyo, April, 1904
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...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
[Title page to] Atlas mayor, o geographia Blaviana : Que contiene las cartas, y descripciones de Partes Orientales de Europa.
Title page from a Spanish text edition of the Atlas Major. Ionic portico with celestial and terrestrial globes. To the left is Ptolemy with a sphere and a pair of compass...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c.1672
De Texel Stroom .. vant Marsdiep./ Caarte van De Mase...
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
[Title page from Theatrum orbis Terrarum, with past-on]
The frontispiece of the third part of the 'Theatrum', by Johan Blaeu. Heightened with goldDecorated with terrestrial and celestial globes and to the left Ptolemy (with sp...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1650
[Two vomlumes, with two Leo maps] De Bello Belgico, Decas Prima / Decas Secunda.
With 2 engraved titles of the 'Leo Belgicus', with one paw resting on a shield bearing the title, large woodcut printer's device on the colophons, and 30 richly engraved ...
Place & Date: Rome, Franciscus Corbelletus, 1632-1647
Hollandiae pars septentrionalis, Vulgo Westvriesland..
Based on the work of B.F.van Berckenrode, this fine map, orientated west to the top of the sheet, includes Kennemerland and Hollands Noorderkwartier and is a reasonably u...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1667
[ The repositioning of the Vatican obelisk ]
Joan Blaeu published The Repositioning of the Vatican Obelisk. This large engraving on multiple sheets and in beautiful original colors is based on Domenico Fontana’s d...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1649
L'Europe divisée en tous ses états, dressée sur les nouveaux mémoires et suivant les dernières observations.
Rare wall map of the European continent, published by the Parisian publisher Sébastien G. Longchamp.The map is surrounded by a magnificent Rococo-style frame decorated w...
Place & Date: Paris, 1757
Het Hooge Heemraedtschap van Schielandt.
This beautiful wall map of "Het Hooge Heemraedtschap van Schielandt" is on nine attached leaves (each leaf 49x58,5 cm. ) engraved by J. VINGBOOMS after J.J. STA...
Place & Date: Rotterdam, A. van Hoorn, 1684
[Portrait of Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius.]
Arguably the finest engraved portrait of early mapmakers. In the well-executed design, Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius are seated within an architectural cartouche of...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
[Title page] Atlas Nouveau contenant toutes les parties du monde . . .
Fine title page of classical architectural design incorporating portraits of royalty and battle scenes.
Place & Date: Paris, 1696
[Title page] Atlas Novus Terrarum Orbis Imperia. . .
The lovely title page from Homann's Grosser Atlas uber de Gantsa Welt (Grand Atlas of all the World)with striking color and features. It shows Atlas and Hercules / Herakl...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, ca 1737
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
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...
Place & Date: Paris, 1753
Riga.
Decorative view of Riga. This well executed engraving was published in 1729 and 1727 by Pieter van der AA, in Leiden in "Les Voyages tres-curieux et tres-renommez fa...
Place & Date: Leiden, 1719
[Europe depicted as a Queen]
Among the most striking of early cartographic curiosities is Europe regina or Queen of the world first published by Johannes Bucius' and populized by Sebastian Münster.....
Place & Date: France, ca. 1860
A Hysterical Map of the Yellowstone Park. . .
A funny 1936 pictorial map of Yellowstone Park, that was 'hatched and scratched' by the American printer and humourist Jolly Elmer Lindgren. This wonderful map covers the...
Place & Date: Spokane, 1936
Kaart van Het Noordelijk Gedeelte Van Het Eiland Borneo.
A very detailed map of Northern Borneo including Brunei, taken from the "Atlas der Nederlandsche bezittingen in Oost-Indië", which was published by Departement...
Place & Date: The Hague, 1883-1885
[Afghanistan].
A scarce Russian relief map (in Russian) of Afghanistan published in Moscow during the Soviet occupation of the country during the early 1980s. Complete with a separate b...
Place & Date: Moscow, 1982
Flood Map of Louisville, KY.
A scarce poster of the great flood of Louisville, KY in 1937. The blue coloring highlights the flooded areas of the city, while the red numbers show the depth of the floo...
Place & Date: Louisville, 1938
[Pictorial map of Georgia (Caucasus)].
A scarce pictorial map of a region in Georgia in the Caucasus. Map is entirely in Russian, complete with legend at base of map, with small thumbnail pictures and symbols ...
Place & Date: Moscow, 1963
Moscow.
Fantastic pictorial map of Moscow designed to draw tourists to the new Soviet Union.The cultural vitality of Moscow in the early years of the Soviet Union is the focal po...
Place & Date: Moscow, c. 1938
[Goose game board] Le 1914 Edition pochette.
Goose game in the form of a folding map of north of France and Belgium, with part of England, Germany, Holland and Luxembourg.More about board games [+]
Place & Date: Paris, 1914
Mapa geral do Brasil / organizado pelos J. Carneiro da Silva e Pedro Voss. [Together with] Micro geografia do Brasil. [Together with] Pequeno Mapa do Brasil.
Large folding national map published by "Comp. Melhoramentos de São Paulo Industrias de Papel". Nova edicao revista 1946. Figurs all states. "Futuro Distr...
Place & Date: São Paulo, 1946
Curia Hollandiae Interior. (Binnenhof)
The government center of the Netherlands is situated in and around the Binnenhof-Buitenhof in The Hague. In 1248 the Roman king Willem II built a castle here and named it...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1649
Africae nova Tabula.
A second state of this very rare "carte à figures"- map. Decorated with the four decorative borders by Jodocus Hondius Jr.This remarkable map of Africa was fir...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1623
Corte ende waerachtige beschrijvinghe van het Fort de Schencken-Schans. . .
Map of the Schencken-Schans fortress printed with text. Text in Dutch and French.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1635
La Saxe Contenant le Routes et les postes. . .
Fine post-route map of Saxony in Germany with a splendidly engraved title cartouche. The map is centered on Leipzig. George Louis Le Rouge was active between 1740 and 178...
Place & Date: Paris, 1756
Selling price: $75
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[Title page from ] Le Theatre du Monde ou le nouvel atlas mis en lumière par Guillaume et Jean Blaeu. La seconde partie de la premiere.
Frontispiece of the second part of the first part of this fine atlas. At top, a coat of arms surmounted by a crown and surrounded by two golden chains, the bigger carryin...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644
[Title page for] Recueil de cartes sur la geographie ancienne . . .
Title-frontispiece of "Recueil de cartes sur la geographie ancienne", published by Rigobert Bonne in 1783, engraved by Louis Legrand.More about title pages [+]
Place & Date: Paris, 1783
[Title page for ] Atlas de la Terre ou Monde Terrestre - Tome premier]
Title page of " Atlas de la Terre ou Monde Terrestre - Tome premier" by J. Jansonius. This is the updated version of 1:42B. The figures of the king, queen, daup...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1650
M.Merian, l'Ancien célébre graveur . . .
Portrait of Matthäus Merian (1593-1650) by Hubert. Matthäus Merian der Ältere was a Swiss-born engraver who worked in Frankfurt for most of his career, where he also ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1784
[Title page] Atlas Tot Amsterdam Bij Iustus Danckers in de Calverstraet inde Damcbaerhrijt.
Decorative title page with the figure of Atlas, standing on a globe of the Old World. The left and bottom right corners have animals and people from different parts of th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1680
Selling price: $550
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[Title page from ] Le Theatre du Monde ou le nouvel atlas mis en lumière par Guillaume et Jean Blaeu. La seconde partie de la seconde.
Frontispiece of the second part of the second part of this fine atlas. At top, a coat of arms surmounted by a crown and surrounded by two golden chains, the bigger carryi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644
[Title page from ] Le Theatre du Monde ou le nouvel atlas mis en lumière par Guillaume et Jean Blaeu.
Frontispiece of the second part of this fine atlas. At top, a coat of arms surmounted by a crown and surrounded by two golden chains, the bigger carrying a pendant which ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644
[Title page] Atlas Minor Praecipua Orbis Terrarum Imperia, Regna et Provincias , Germaniae Potissimum. . .
An attractive and highly decorative title page to Seutter's Atlas Minor. Engraved by Martin Crophius after Jacob Weyerman. The engraving is packed with lively figures fro...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1744
Chaerte vande Wieringer waert, de welcke inden jaere XVI… (Wieringerwaard)
Rare wall map of the Wieringerwaard polder, as raffled on 12 July 1611. The polder was laid dry in 1610. It border, and also the border of the municipality, were the Zuid...
Place & Date: 1741-1744
[Lot of 4 charts] Plan de la Baie et du Port de Camraigne / Plan de la Baie de Niatrang et du Golfe de Binkang / Plan de la Cote de Cochinchine. . . / Plan des Ports de Xuandai, Vung-Lam. . .
[A set of four French sea charts numbered consecutively]. A set of 4 basic coastal sea charts of parts of southern French Indochina (Vietnam).Chart 295 centers on the reg...
Place & Date: Paris ca 1780
L'Impero della preda ossia la Piovra d'Absburgo.
Austro-Hungarian Octopus zinc lithographed map. A propaganda sheet attacking the Austro-Hungarian Empire, showing it as an octopus with its tentacles wrapped around the v...
Place & Date: La Zincografia, Milan, c. 1915
[Title page] Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes . . . Deuxieme partie.
Title page of the atlas Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François Péron, 1824. The French expedition under Nicolas Baudin, was commissioned to chart the c...
Place & Date: Paris, 1807-1816
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...
Place & Date: Bologne presso il Giornale colorato in Papagallo, 1878
ADSEC in Action from Thames to Rhine.
A pictorial map showing the allied movement from London on 14 March 1944 thru the conquest of Germany. Showing the track from London along Bristol, crossing the British C...
Place & Date: London, 1945
[Title page from ] Le Theatre du Monde ou Nouvel Atlas . . .
A very decorative frontispiece by Willem Blaeu from the second part of this fine atlas. At top, a coat of arms surmounted by a crown and surrounded by two golden chains, ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644
McCormick's Map of the World.
Colorful promotional map of the 20th century spice trade.What better way to showcase the global composition of a multi-national company than with a world map? This lovely...
Place & Date: United-States, 1931
[Title page for] Atlas Minor de Guerard Mercator. . .
Title page from a 1608 French edition of the Atlas Minor (351:11). The title page is similar to that in the Latin edition of 1607, but a slip of paper with the engraved t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
D. Cassini. Né en 1625. mort en 1712.
Very rare stipple engraved portrait of Jean Dominique Cassini. Dominique Cassini was the son of César-François Cassini de Thury, the grandson of Jacques Cassini and the...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1750