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Hanc Tabulam continens Laetam Pharnambuci.. . [Brazil].

An extremely rare and decorative map of coast-line of Pernambuco. With one inset: In the upper left corner a map of Brazil, with title in five lines Dutch and five lines ...

$3000 / ≈ €2807
Maker / Publisher: PISCATOR,N.J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630

 


Imperii Russici et Tartariae Universae tam majoris Afiaticæ quam minoris et EuropæTabula.

The map is of interest for the use of Mere Orientale Minus Corea for the sea between Korea and Japan.Decorative map covering Russia, Tibet, China, Tartary, Korea, Taiwan ...

$450 / ≈ €421
Maker / Publisher: HOMANN HEIRS.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1739

 


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...

$1000 / ≈ €936
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: Canton?, c.1750

 


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...

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: DAUMONT
Place & Date: Paris, 1760

 


Vue du sperbe Temple de St.Sophie .. a Constantinople.

A fanciful depiction of the Aya Sofya in Istanbul. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular speciality establishments in Paris, Augsburg and Lon...

$280 / ≈ €262
Maker / Publisher: MONDHARE
Place & Date: Paris, 1800

 


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...

$2200 / ≈ €2059
Maker / Publisher: VAN KEULEN, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680

 


Franciae orientalis../ Monasteriensis et osnaburgensis..

From 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [Atlas of the Whole World]' published in Antwerp. French text on verso.The map of Frankenland is prepared by Sebastian Rotenhan (1478-1532) ...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS,A./ GALLE,T.
Place & Date: Antwerp, c.1574

 


Simori.

Portrait of Simori.Von Siebold was born in Wurtzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In Japan, where Von Siebold arrived in 1823 at ...

$200 / ≈ €187
Maker / Publisher: VON SIEBOLD, P.Fr.B.
Place & Date: Leiden, 1832-1852

 


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.

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1646

 


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...

$1800 / ≈ €1684
Maker / Publisher: BEEK, A./ BRAUN andHOGENBERG
Place & Date: The Hague, 1700

 


Carte des Principales Ports de Mer Bancs de sable &c: qui sont dans la Mer Rouge..

Some cities existed along the western coast of the Arabian peninsula, where they served as entrepots for transcontinental trade between Europe and Asia. Mecca, founded by...

$1500 / ≈ €1404
Maker / Publisher: MORTIER, P.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720

 


Dongerdeel.. De vierde grietenij van Ooster Goo.

Very decorative map centred on Dokkum, Metzerwier and Pasens from the Uitbeelding der Heerlijkheit Friesland prepared by Schotanus. With decorative title cartouche lower ...

$450 / ≈ €421
Maker / Publisher: SCHOTANUS, B.
Place & Date: Leeuwarden, F.Halma, 1718

 


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...

$1400 / ≈ €1310
Maker / Publisher: VON REILLY, F.J.J.
Place & Date: Vienna 1795

 


(EUROPE).

The map of Europe has been identified as the work of Hieronimus Münzer (1437-1508), a Nuremberg physician who supplied the geographical contents of the chronicle. The Eu...

$7500 / ≈ €7018
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1493

 


[Title page] Isolario.

Fine title page from Isolario Dell''''Atlante Vento..More about Coronelli. [+]

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: CORONELLI,V.M.
Place & Date: Venice, 1691

 


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...

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: MONDHARE / NOLIN, J.B.
Place & Date: Paris, 1783
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2023

 


Rare collection of costume plates.

Rare collection of costume plates published in Augsburg by the famous publishers Martin Engelbrecht, Ioh. Georg Hertel and the Jeremias Wolff Heirs.Composition :2 plates ...

$9500 / ≈ €8889
Maker / Publisher: WOLFF, Jeremias (heirs) / ENGELBRECHT, Mart
Place & Date: Augsburg, ca. 1730

 


The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Edward Fitzgerald translation)

Edward FitzGerald, an outstanding writer who has done more than anyone to popularise English poetry. His best-known work, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1859), began by be...

$5000 / ≈ €4679
Maker / Publisher: SMITH, B.
Place & Date: England, ca. 1930

 


Two sheets for constructing an armillary sphere.

Two sheets for constructing an armillary sphere. Cassini was a geographer and cartographer, but also perspective and architecture carver - one of Giovanni Battista Pirane...

$2500 / ≈ €2339
Maker / Publisher: CASSINI, G.M.
Place & Date: Rome, 1795

 


Globe Terrestre Didié et Présénté a Monseigneur le Comté Maubec de Brancas...

Terrestial globe dated 1741.  Complete title "Globe Terrestre  Didié et Présénté a Monseigneur le Comté  Maubec de Brancas Par Jacque  Hardy. Dressé sur ...

$25000 / ≈ €23393
Maker / Publisher: HARDY, Jacques
Place & Date: Paris, dated 1741

 


Corea and Japan.

A fine large-scale map of Japan and Korea showing an increasingly refined outline to the Japanese islands but still oversized Korean peninsula. The strait south of Korea,...

$450 / ≈ €421
Maker / Publisher: THOMSON, J.
Place & Date: Edinburgh, 1816

 


Carte Geo-Hydrographique du Golfe du Mexique et de ses Isles..

Map of the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico showing the various islands and continental coastlines according to the 18th century Venetian cartography of Rizzi Zannoni.Illustr...

$450 / ≈ €421
Maker / Publisher: LATTRÉ / ZANNONI, R.
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1783

 


Asia.

Uncommon map of Asia. Engraved by Marco di Pietro.The map is of interest for the use of G. di Corea, for the sea between Korea and Japan.Published by Carlo Antonio Barbie...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: BARBIELLINI, Carlo Antonio
Place & Date: Milan, 1807

 


Nieuwe Kaart van de Westfaalse Kreits..

Isaac Tirion was born in Utrecht ca. 1705. He came to Amsterdam ca. 1725. Tirion published a number of important books, many of which are still in demand for their intere...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: TIRION, I.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1745

 


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...

$350 / ≈ €328
Maker / Publisher: BODMER, Karl
Place & Date: London/Paris/Coblenz, 1839

 


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...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN,G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580

 


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...

$80 / ≈ €75
Maker / Publisher: LANGENES, B.
Place & Date: Amsterdam/Frankfurt 1609

 


Die Zyp / La Zype.

A miniature map showing the polder of De Zype. Title cartouche in the upper side.First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were executed by the most famou...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: LANGENES, B.
Place & Date: Amsterdam / Frankfurt, 1609

 


Maldivae Insulae.

Very fine early miniature map of Maldives Islands. East is at the top. Title cartouche on the lower right corner. A dolphin and two ships are depicted.First published in ...

$150 / ≈ €140
Maker / Publisher: LANGENES, B.
Place & Date: Amsterdam / Frankfurt, 1609

 


Carte de la Turquie, de l'Arabie et de la Perse..

Large map of the Near East, based upon earlier maps by De L'Isle. Shows also most part of the Mediterranean basin as well as north-eastern Africa. Relief shown pictoriall...

$550 / ≈ €515
Maker / Publisher: COVENS, J. / MORTIER, C.
Place & Date: Amsterdam c. 1745

 


Hydrograhica descriptio

This very rare chart is important as the first printed sea chart of the Mediterranean coast of Spain, Gibraltar, also depicting the northern coast of Marocco.Willem Bar...

$4000 / ≈ €3743
Maker / Publisher: BARENDTSZ, W.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, W.Blaeu, 1612

 


Beschrijving van Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien. Vervattende een Naukeurige en uitvoerige verhandelinge van Nederlands Mogentheyd [...] met meer dan thien honderd en vyftig Prentverbeeldingen verrykt...

"The most comprehensive work on Asia published in Europe during the early colonial period" (Landwehr). The first book to give a comprehensive account in text an...

$25000 / ≈ €23393
Maker / Publisher: VALENTIJN,
Place & Date: Dordrecht /Amsterdam, 1724-1726

 


Asia By H.Moll Geographer.

Detailed map of Asia. From his "Atlas minor: or a new and curious set of sixty-two maps. . .", which was first published in 1729 and reprinted in 1732, 1736.The...

$500 / ≈ €468
Maker / Publisher: MOLL, H.
Place & Date: London, 1736

 


Genehoa Jaloffi et Sierraliones regna.

Decorative and detailed map of the West African Coast, from Senegal to Sierra Leone. In the center the river Gambia to the mouth in the Atlantic. Upper left a dedication ...

$600 / ≈ €561
Maker / Publisher: SCHENK, P. / VALK, G.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1670 / 1720

 


Terra Sancta.

This is the most modern of Ortelius' maps of the Holy Land. It focuses specifically on the Holy Land and is oriented with east of the top. Ortelius used as a model the wa...

$2400 / ≈ €2246
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1603

 


Nova Orbis Tabula in Lucem edita A.F.de Wit.

According to Shirley, De Wit's map is one of the most attractive of its time. The brilliant scenes in the corners combine images of the four seasons, the elements, and th...

$5000 / ≈ €4679
Maker / Publisher: DE WIT, F.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680

 


A new map of the English Empire in America. . .

This fine English map of eastern North America including Canada engraved by John Harris and first published by Robert Morden. John Senex acquired and made minor alteratio...

$2200 / ≈ €2059
Maker / Publisher: SENEX, J.
Place & Date: London, 1720

 


ISLA DE CUBA [with 2 maps] Plano Pintoresco De La Habana con los numeros de las casas B. May y Ca. 1853. (with) Inset map Puerto y Cereanias De La Habana. (with) 14 views of Havana & prominent buildings.

Lithographic town-plan surrounded with views of the city of Havana including the "Fuente De La India En El Paseo De Isabel 2a." and "Vista Gral De La Haban...

$3500 / ≈ €3275
Maker / Publisher: MAY, B. Y CA.
Place & Date: Havana, 1853

 


Chinae, olim Sinarum Regionis, nova descriptio. Auctore Ludovico Georgio.

The first map of China ever to appear in a Western atlas, west to the top. The first state without "las Philiooinas" somewhere in 1587 added to the plate. When ...

$6000 / ≈ €5614
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1584

 


Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini mathematicor[um] ...Octo libri Geographie. . .

Third edition of "Géographie" by Ptolemy and published in Strasbourg. Illustrated with 50 maps engraved in wood. One of the more important maps is showing the ...

$85000 / ≈ €79536
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMEE, C. / FRIES. L.
Place & Date: Strasbourg, J. Grüninger, 1522