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Potentissimo Borussorum Regi Friderico Wilhelmo Maiestate, Fortitudine Clementia Augustissimo Hancce Lithuaniam Borussicam : in qua luca coloniis Salisburg., ad incolendum Regio nutu...
Potentissimo Borussorum Regi Friderico Wilhelmo Maiestate, Fortitudine Clementia Augustissimo Hancce Lithuaniam Borussicam : in qua luca coloniis Salisburg., ad incolendu...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1735
Tabula Secunda Europe (Spain & Portugal)
Wood block printed large-format Ptolemaic map of the Iberian Peninsula from the 1513 edition of Waldseemüller's Geographia.This Ptolemaic map comes from the first so cal...
Place & Date: Strasburg, 1513
Carte von West=Gallizien welche auf allerhöchsten Befehl Seiner Kaiserlich oesterreichischen und Königlich apostolischen Majestät in den Jahren 1801 bis 1804. . .
Important early map of Western Galicia, as given to Austria by the third Partition of Poland (1795). Due to its long development period, a rare map rich in detail shows t...
Place & Date: Vienna, (1808) after 1811
![[Taprobana - Sri Lanka]](/uploads/cache/33847-250x250.jpg)
[Taprobana - Sri Lanka]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of Ceylon prepared Martin Waldseemüller.Based on the slightly larger map from 1513 published in "P...
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541
![.[Pakistan, Afghanistan]](/uploads/cache/33849-250x250.jpg)
.[Pakistan, Afghanistan]
Wood block printed Ptolemaic map of the region of present-day Pakistan and part of Afghanistan. Convoluted mountain ranges and river systems dominate the trapezoidal map....
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541
![[Europe, Eastern, Sarmatia, Ukraine]](/uploads/cache/33854-250x250.jpg)
[Europe, Eastern, Sarmatia, Ukraine]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of Europe, Eastern, Sarmatia, Ukraine prepared L. Fries after Martin Waldseemüller.Based on the slightl...
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541
![.[Near east with Cyprus]](/uploads/cache/33857-250x250.jpg)
.[Near east with Cyprus]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of Near east with Cyprus prepared by Martin Waldseemüller. Based on the slightly larger map from 1513 p...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1525 -1541
![.[Balkan region with Austria, Croatia, Slovenia, Switzerland, etc]](/uploads/cache/33858-250x250.jpg)
.[Balkan region with Austria, Croatia, Slovenia, Switzerland, etc]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of Balkan with Austria, Croatia, Slovenia, Switzerland, etc prepared Martin Waldseemüller. Based on the...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1525 -1541
![.[India]](/uploads/cache/33861-250x250.jpg)
.[India]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of India prepared by Martin Waldseemüller. Based on the slightly larger map from 1513 published in &quo...
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541
![.[Germany and Poland]](/uploads/cache/33862-250x250.jpg)
.[Germany and Poland]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of Germany, Poland, The Low Countries, Austria and Switzerland prepared by Martin Waldseemüller. Based ...
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541
![.[Bangladesh, Burma, India, Thailand]](/uploads/cache/33867-250x250.jpg)
.[Bangladesh, Burma, India, Thailand]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of Bangladesh, Burma, India, Thailand prepared Martin Waldseemüller. Based on the slightly larger map f...
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541
![[Albania, Bulgaria, Europe, Eastern, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Romania]](/uploads/cache/33868-250x250.jpg)
[Albania, Bulgaria, Europe, Eastern, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Romania]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of Albania, Bulgaria, Europe, Eastern, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Romania prepared Martin Waldseemülle...
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541
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[East Asia]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of East Asia and centered on Amenia, prepared Martin Waldseemüller. Based on the slightly larger map fr...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1525 -1541
![[India and China]](/uploads/cache/33875-250x250.jpg)
[India and China]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of India and China prepared Martin Waldseemüller. Based on the slightly larger map from 1513 published ...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1525 -1541
Fokien Imperii Sinarum Provincia undecima.
The province of Fokien lies opposite Taiwan and south of the region described in the above map. The coast is shown from Wen-zhou in the north to Fu-zhou and as far south ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
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 ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1647
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
Pas-kaart vande Zee kusten van Venecuela met de Byleggende Eylanden. . .
Rare chart of the coast of Venezuela, including the islands of Curaçao, Bonaire, Aruba, etc.The chart has two insets, one (15x22cm) with a map of Curaçao, one smaller w...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Insula Sacra; vulgo Holy Iland; et Farne
Farne and Holy Islands off the coast of Northumberland. The Abbey, the Old Fort and the town are clearly marked. - German text edition.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1646
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...
Place & Date: Leeuwarden, F.Halma, 1718
Africa juxta navigationes et observat recentissimas. . .
Miniature map of Africa, a reduction of the Seutter folio map based on Homann''s cartography of 1715. Very detailed - much of it fictitious. The Nile is shown not only or...
Place & Date: Augsburg, J.M.Will, 1778
Carte des parties Nord et est de l'Asie..
Five maps on one sheet show the Northern Russian territories in Europe and Asia, including the western coastline from Siberia, Japan, and Korea with the island of "Q...
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
De zee cuften tufschen Dovere en Orfords nesse, daer de Teemse de Vermaerde Rivire van Lonen gelegens is. . .
A detailed chart of the English Channel coastland. Decorated by a colorful title cartouche and scale cartouche, one compass rose, several vessels and sea monsters. A very...
Place & Date: Leiden, Plantijn, 1585
Belchrijuinghe vande zee custen van Engelandt. . .
A rare Dutch text edition of this detailed early chart of the northern coast of England. West to the top. The mileage cartouche has no Latin captures. Decorated by a colo...
Place & Date: Leiden, Plantijn, 1585
Zee caerte vande Sondt tvermaerste van Danemarcke . . .
A detailed chart of the coast of Denmark and its islands, Copenhagen in the center of the chart. West to the top. It is decorated by a title, scale and descriptive cartou...
Place & Date: Leiden, Plantijn, 1585
Paraguay, Chili, Terre Magellan ?
Map of Paraguay, Chili, and Argentina . By C. F. Delamarche, successor of Robert de Vaugondy, Geographer.
Place & Date: Paris, 1794 -1806
Isola di Madagascar o di S. Lorenzo Scoperta dà Portoghesi nell anno 1506. . .
Decorative and highly detailed map of Madagascar, including 2 decorative cartouches and other embellishments.The remarkable Vincenzo Coronelli (1650-1718), was a Francisc...
Place & Date: Venice, 1690
Carte d'Afrique Dressée pour l'instruction par Guillaume DeLisle. . .
The map is a rare re-issue of the Delisle map of 1722. In his first map of the continent in 1700, Delisle re-measured the Mediterranean, being the first to establish its ...
Place & Date: Paris, J.Dezauche, 1819
Infanterie Turque (chasseurs). 7 novembre 1837.
Beautiful lithography by Auguste Raffet (1804 -1860 ) and printed by Auguste Bry.
Place & Date: Paris, Gihaut frères, 1848
Pianta della citta di Roma.
Published in "Atlante Geografico dell' Italia". Uncommon and decorative town-plan of Rome. With a numbered key. Engraved by P.Manzoni.
Place & Date: Florence, 1845
Vüe de la Place de Grosvenor a Londres.
So-called optical print illustrating a perspective view of Grosvenor Square, Mayfair, London. The centrepiece of the 100 acre Grosvenor Estate, it was built between 1725-...
Place & Date: Paris, 1760
6e Vüe d'Optique Représentant Le Chœur de la Cathedrale de St. Paul de Londres.
So-called optical print illustrating a perspective view of the interior of the Saint Paul Cathedral in London.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many p...
Place & Date: Paris, 1760
5e Vue d'Optique Representant La Vue interieure de la Cathedralle de St. Paul de Londres.
So-called optical print illustrating a perspective view of the interior of the Saint Paul cathedral in London. Engraved by la Marcade.In the eighteenth and nineteenth cen...
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
A View of S. James's Palace Pall Mall. - Vues du Palais royal de S.Jacques Pall Mall.
So-called optical print illustrating a perspective view of St James's Palace, Pall Mall. The gatehouse of St James's Palace is on the left.In the eighteenth and nineteent...
Place & Date: Paris, 1753
Vüe Perspective du Pont neuf construit sur la tamise a Hampton-Court.
So-called optical print illustrating a bridge on the river Thames at Hampton-Court.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular speciality establish...
Place & Date: Paris, 1760
La Pologne Dressée sur ce qu'en ot donné Starovolsk, Beauplan, Hartnoch. . .
Large map of Poland, Lithuania, Belarus and part of Ukraine. The map is filled with detail and decorated with a title cartouche flanked by mythological figures.According ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1773 - 1780
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...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1760
Virginiae Partis Australis, et Floridae Partis Orientalis.
Blaeu based this map on the Mercator-Hondius of 1606. A number of geographical improvements, however were incorporated, although two large fictions lakes accompanied by e...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Peregrinations divi Pauli Tyrus Corographicus. . .
A beautifully executed and very rare map showing the peregrinations of St. Paul in the Eastern Mediterranean. The Mediterranean is ornated with two ships and two sea mons...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1640
Tableau des guerres de Frédéric le Grand: ou plans figurés de vingt-six batailles rangées, ou combats essentiels donnés dans les trois guerres de Silésie. . .
The book includes a large folded map "Tableaux des Guerres de Frédéric le Grand", showing a map of Prussia, with present-day Poland and Eastern Germany surrou...
Place & Date: Potzdam, Strasbourg, Paris, 1788
![Carte de la coste orientale de la Chine depuis Amoy, jusqu'à Chusan avec une partie de l'Isle Formose [with] Plan du port d'Amoy ou Emouy.](/uploads/cache/33583-250x250.jpg)
Carte de la coste orientale de la Chine depuis Amoy, jusqu'à Chusan avec une partie de l'Isle Formose [with] Plan du port d'Amoy ou Emouy.
Important French chart of the China Sea with the coast of Northern China, including a large depiction of Formosa.Latitude and longitude scales, compass rose and system of...
Place & Date: Paris, Jean-François Robustel, 1745
Nova et accurata Tabula Hispaniae. . .
Second state. The map shows the geographical image introduced by Hessel Gerritsz's 1612 wall map of Spain, based on information provided by the Coimbra University profess...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1633
Histoire de la Guerre Civile en Amerique par M. Le Comte de Paris, Ancien Aide de Camp du General Mac Clellan (McClellan). ...
Vorzet made these 30 maps to accompany Louis Phillipe d'Orleans' (Comte de Paris) multi-volume "Histoire de la Guerre Civile en Amérique". The set includes all...
Place & Date: Paris. Michel Levy Freres, 1875
La Place de Saint Marc a Venise.
A very attractive Town plan of the place St Marc in Venice.Joan Blaeu published during his life three town books of Italy: Citta del Vaticano, Rome, and Napoli. By the ye...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1705
![Itroductio. [with sphere.]](/uploads/cache/23703-250x250.jpg)
Itroductio. [with sphere.]
Introduction leaf from a French text edition of Atlas Ma1or
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1662
Plan de Constantinople, non compris ses faubourgs. Grave d'apres les documents du ministere de la Guerre par E. Olivier.
A very rare lithographic town-plan of Istanbul, Scale 98 yards to one inch., printed in Pera, Istanbul by E. Olivier. The ornate design on the top of the title is a tugh...
Place & Date: Péra, Istanbul, 1851
The Traveller's Guide. A Map Of The Roads, Canals And Steam Boat Routes Of The United States ... Designed for the use of Travellers, By H.S. Tanner.
Rare first edition of Tanner's travel map in pocket map form, in it original red leather covers, with the map and no text, as issued. Ristow says the first edition was 18...
Place & Date: Philadelphia, 1825
Dominio Veneto nell' Italia.
With the Gulf of Venice. Including the towns of Cremona, Brescia, Venice, etc.As Willem Blaeu died in 1638 most of his maps are actually published by his son Joan. This m...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Carta militar das principaes estradas de Portugal.
Rare road map of Portugal in a scale of ca 1:470000. At the bottom right and left legends in Portuguese and French. Engraved by Romão Eloy de Almeida, who was a Portugue...
Place & Date: Lisbone, 1808
![Schat-Kamer ofte konst der stuurlieden, behelzende een duidelyke onderwyzinge in de navigatie. . . [bound with] Tafelen bevattende De Sinussum, tangenten en Secanten. . . [bound with] Geographische Tadfel...](/uploads/cache/33112-250x250.jpg)
Schat-Kamer ofte konst der stuurlieden, behelzende een duidelyke onderwyzinge in de navigatie. . . [bound with] Tafelen bevattende De Sinussum, tangenten en Secanten. . . [bound with] Geographische Tadfel...
Schat-Kamer ofte konst der stuurlieden, behelzende een duidelyke onderwyzinge in de navigatie. . . [bound with] Tafelen bevattende De Sinussum, tangenten en Secanten. . ....
Place & Date: Amsterdam, J. v. Keulen en Zoonen, 1777
![Schat-Kamer ofte konst der stuurlieden, inhoudende Een duidelyke onderwyzinge in de navigatie. . . [bound with] Geographische Tadfel vande Graaden.. Voornaamste Zee-haavens. . .](/uploads/cache/33114-250x250.jpg)
Schat-Kamer ofte konst der stuurlieden, inhoudende Een duidelyke onderwyzinge in de navigatie. . . [bound with] Geographische Tadfel vande Graaden.. Voornaamste Zee-haavens. . .
Rare and important manual originally prepared by Klaas de Vries and improved by Evert Floryn and S.Hollander of the "Schat-Kamer ofte konst der stuurlieden" (Tr...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Wed. Gerard Hulst van Keulen, 1802
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...
Place & Date: Venice, 1692
Carte D'Amerique Divisée en ses Principaux Pays. . .
Rare. Uncommon and decorative wall map of America, prepared by Clouet. With superb decorative borders, 170mm wide at the sides and 150mm at the bottom, containing twenty ...
Place & Date: Paris, Cadiz, 1785
Carte particuliere d'une grande partie des estats situez sur le haut rhein et sur les rivieres qui si déchargent comme sont L'Alsace, la Souabe et la Lorraine,&c. . .
Detailed map of Alsace, Lorraine and Souabe, centered on the River Rhine.
Place & Date: Paris, 1705
![[Map of the Holy Land, including Cyprus]](/uploads/cache/33436-250x250.jpg)
[Map of the Holy Land, including Cyprus]
Attractive full page longitudinal map of Palestine, Syria and Cyprus, cut by Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch. The shore line running from Southern Anatolia to the Nile Delta. ...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1580
Schlanium vulgo Schlani Bohemiae oppidum.
Very decorative and rare panoramic town view of Schlan, Schlanium s. Slany.The engraver and publisher of prints, Mrs. Anna Beek of the Hague, enlarged this print, origina...
Place & Date: The Hague, 1700
Karte von Asien.
An attractive map of Asia. With a decorative title cartouche in the upper left-hand corner. Engraved by Aarons.Franz Johann Josef von Reilly (Vienna 18 august 1766 - 6 ju...
Place & Date: Vienna 1795
Salzbourg.
Uncommon and decorative lithography published by Carl Johan Billmark and printed by Lemercier in Paris, 55 rue de Seine, the leading firm in Europe at that time. From: It...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1859
Carte historique de la France, et l'Angleterre depuis la naissance de Jésus-Christ jusqu'à l'an 1700, qui contient en abrégé les événements ...
A rare wall map showing a chronological tree of French and English historical events from the year of the birth of Christ until 1700. The map is prepared by Jérôme Andr...
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1721
![Canada Creek Falls . . [title in French, English, German & Latin] N°32. Pl. 4.](/uploads/cache/26800-250x250.jpg)
Canada Creek Falls . . [title in French, English, German & Latin] N°32. Pl. 4.
A view of the Canada Creek Falls.From 8e Livraison Amérique Septentrionale - Etat de New York. After Jacques Milbert and lithographed by Dupressoir and figures by V. Ada...
Place & Date: Paris, Bove dirigée par Nöel ainé & Cie, 1892
Launa vulgo Laun Bohemiae civitas.
Bird's-eye views of Louny in Bohemia by G. Hoefnagel. The copperplate was made for Braun and Hogenberg's town book. However there the print has been transformed by the en...
Place & Date: The Hague, 1700
Réjouissances du Peuple près de la Pyramide d'Illumination, élévée sur l'Esplanade de la Porte de Mars et Distribution de Vivres, fontaines de Vin , sous les Ordres de Mrs. Du Conseil de la Ville, à Reims le 27 Aoust 1765.
Engraved by Varin after Moreau Jr. The print shows a lightning spectacle held in Reims on 27 August 1765.
Place & Date: Paris, 1771
Tschopau.
Very decorative and rare panoramic of Tschopau.The engraver and publisher of prints, Mrs. Anna Beek of the Hague, enlarged the print and mounted it on larger paper: she ...
Place & Date: The Hague, ca. 1700
Volna.
Very decorative and rare panoramic town-view of Volna. We have more Anna Beek prints available.The engraver and publisher of prints, Mrs. Anna Beek of the Hague, enlarg...
Place & Date: The Hague, ca. 1700
Strasborcs In der Vocker Marckt.
Very decorative and rare panoramic town view of Völckermarckt in Kärten.The engraver and publisher of prints, Mrs. Anna Beek of the Hague, enlarged the print and mounte...
Place & Date: The Hague, ca. 1642
Statt Talbe an der Saal.
Very decorative and rare panoramic town view of Calbe a.d. Saale, Bez Magdeburg .The engraver and publisher of prints, Mrs. Anna Beek of the Hague, enlarged the print and...
Place & Date: The Hague, ca. 1642
Czaslaw.
Very decorative and rare panoramic of Czaslaw, Caslav, Tschslau in Böhmen.The engraver and publisher of prints, Mrs. Anna Beek of the Hague, enlarged the print and moun...
Place & Date: The Hague, ca. 1642
Wittstocs.
Very decorative and rare panoramic of Wittstock, Bez. Potsdam.The engraver and publisher of prints, Mrs. Anna Beek of the Hague, enlarged the print and mounted it on larg...
Place & Date: The Hague, ca. 1642
Leisnig.
Very decorative and rare panoramic town view of Leisnig a.d. Freiberger Mulde.The engraver and publisher of prints, Mrs. Anna Beek of the Hague, enlarged the print and m...
Place & Date: The Hague, ca. 1642
North Pacific.
Huge three sheet so-called Blue-back sailing chart of the Northern Pacific including China, Korea (with Matu Is. and Liancourt), Japan, Philippines, Kamchatka, Hawaii, Al...
Place & Date: London, 1868
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
ANTIBES, Ville et Port de Mer de Provence, sur la Mer Mediterranée.
Early plan of Antibes. From his "Introduction à la fortification".
Place & Date: Paris, 1693
St Tropez.
Early plan of St.Tropez. From his "Introduction à la fortification".
Place & Date: Paris, 1693
Nouvelle et exacte description du globe terrestre reveue corrigée et augmente´e suivant les derniéres relations des Anglais et Hollandois. Par Guillaume Blaeu 1645.
Extremely rare and decorative "carte a figures" world map published by Anthoine de Fer. The double hemisphere world map is surrounded by constellations of the A...
Place & Date: Paris, 1645
Le Nouveau et Curieux Atlas Geographique et historique, ou Le Divertissement des Empereurs, Roys, et Princes. Tant dans la Guerre que dans la Paix. Dédié A Son A.R. Monseigneur le Duc d'Orléans Regent du Roîaume de France.
Charming world atlas with double hemisphere world and the North American map feature the Island of California. In Asia and the Pacific, Australia is incompletely mapped a...
Place & Date: Paris, 1719
Kollumer land En het Nieuw Kruys land de vijfde gritenije van Oostergoo . . .
Very detailed map of "Kollumer land En het Nieuw Kruys land de vijfde gritenije van Oostergoo" in Friesland prepared by Bernardus Schotanus Steringa. Centered o...
Place & Date: Leeuwarden, F. Halma, 1718
Cruydt-Boeck van Remberus Dodonaeus. . .
Scarce, the last edition of Dodoens' Cruydt-Boeck, one of the most influential and important botanical works of the 16th and 17th centuries. With richly engraved frontisp...
Place & Date: Leyden, 1612
Plan of part of the islands or archipellago of Corea seen in May 1787 by the Boufsole and Astrolabe.
This is a representing the visit of the French Admiral and explorer, le Comte de La Pérouse to Korea in 1786. The tracks of La Perouse are shown.From 'Atlas du Voyage d...
Place & Date: London, 1798
Les environs d'Ostende. XII.
Beautiful view of Oostende. A somewhat fanciful depiction of the harbor of Oostende, with merchant on the foreground and large vessels in the sea. The item is signed (Dre...
Place & Date: Belgium, c. 1811