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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...
Publisher: MONDHARE
Date: Paris, 1800
Océanie.
A very decorative 19th century map of the Pacific Ocean, with hand colored lines indicating the extent of Polynesia, Mirconesia, Melanesia, and Malaysia (or Southeast Asi...
Publisher: LEVASSEUR, V.
Date: Paris, 1850
Lutetiae Parisiorum Universae Galliae Metropolis Novissima & Accuratissima Delineatio per Jacobum de la Feuille.
Bird-eye view of Paris,with key to the different locations.
Publisher: DE LA FEUILLE, J.
Date: Amsterdam, 1696
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 ...
Publisher: CHÉREAU, F. & J.
Date: Paris c.1720
Bocche del Fiume Negro et Isole di Capo Verde.
Double-page engraved map of the Cape Verde Islands and part of the coast of Senegal, with large decorative cartouche. One with inset of the island Goree. During three cen...
Publisher: CORONELLI, V.M.
Date: Venice, 1690
Nieuwe Kaart van het Eyland Sumatra..
Fine chart depicting the Island of Sumatra and the southern coasts of Malaysia from Quedo to Johore. North is orientated to the left of the page. Singapore is probably id...
Publisher: VALENTIJN, F.
Date: Amsterdam, 1726
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Cusco urbs nobilissima & opule[n]tissima Peruani regni in occide[n]tali parte. . .
Famous town plan of Cuzco, from the first German edition of part VI of de Bry's " Grands Voyages". In this work the conquest of Peu by Pizarro was discribed. Th...
Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Date: Frankfurt, 1607
Americae Nova Descriptio.
Final state. According to Philip Burden, "this scarce map is America's first single-sheet map with decorative borders." A re-issue of the 1614 plate by Pieter v...
Publisher: VISSCHER, N.J.
Date: Amsterdam, 1652
Constantinopolis.
A spectacular woodcut panorama of the ancient city of Constantinople, proporting to show the pre-Turk city (for example naming St Sophia). (235x522mm).One of the earliest...
Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
AFFAIRES D'ORIENT Départ des Grenadiers de la Garde Anglaise, à bord du Steamer transatlantique l'Orenoco. . .
Beautiful lithography of the departure of the British steamboat "l'Orenoco" from Southampton in May 1854, with soldiers leaving for the Crimean War. After a des...
Publisher: LEBRETON, L.
Date: Paris, Lemercier, c.1860
内務省地理局 (Administratif atlas of the Empire of Japan.)
Atlas of Japan published by the Home Ministry shortly after the start of Meiji period. The atlas contains 16 double page maps, with the border in original out line colors...
Publisher: Home Ministry (内務省, Naimu-shō)
Date: Tokyo, Meiji 14 or 1881
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...
Publisher: LE GRAND, A.
Date: Paris, ca. 1790
Paris.
A spectacular panoramic view of Paris, with legends numbered from 1-70 in French. With the title in a banderol.After a design by Friedrich Bernhard Werner (1690-1776) who...
Publisher: WOLFF, J.
Date: Augsburg, ca. 1740
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Spiegel der Reden Voor de Wanhopende Actionisten. [Mirror for the reason of the despairing stockbrokers. ]
Text page with copper engraving (150 x 100mm.) taken from Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid : vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der actie, bubbel en windnego...
Publisher: [ANONYMOUS].
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Hollandia.
The Allardt edition of Blaeu's map of Holland, first published in 1604, being the oldest Dutch map to include town views as decorative borders. The top and bottom borders...
Publisher: ALLARDT, H.
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Waere Affbeeldinge Wegens het Casteel ende Stadt BATAVIA Gelegen opt Groot Eylant Java.
A good impression of this finely engraved and detailed plan of Batavia, present-day Jakarta, the Dutch center of trading activities in the East Indies. Copied after Cleme...
Publisher: COVENS, J. / MORTIER, C.
Date: Amsterdam, 1721
Eastern passage to China. sheet 1.
James Horsburgh early of the coasts of Java, Bali, Lombok, with part of Sulawesi, and Borneo. Insets of "Sketch of Bally Strait", Sketch of Lombock Strait"...
Publisher: HORSBURGH, JAMES, F.R.S
Date: London, 1824
A newe mape of Tartary.
Early edition of one of the most decorative "carte à figures"- map of Tartary, known for its figured borders with costume figures, while above are vignettes of...
Publisher: SPEED, J. / HUMBLE, J.
Date: London, 1627
Daniae Regni Typum..
A first state. Very decorative "carte à figures"- map of Denmark with the signature of the engraver Abraham Goos. Printed on heavy paper, in spite of its repai...
Publisher: VISSCHER, C. J.
Date: Amsterdam, 1629
Quantung, e Fokien, Provincie della China...
A beautifully engraved decorative map of Southern China extending from Hainan in the West to Formosa in the East and centered on the Pearl River Delta with Macao and the ...
Publisher: CORONELLI, V.M.
Date: Venice, 1691
Au quartier Latin.
This image also appears on the Christmas cover of the magazine in 1900. This is the version before the magazine boilerplate was added, but "this black-and-white vers...
Publisher: MUCHA, A.
Date: Paris, ca. 1899
Nova Africa descriptio.
A beautifully engraved and most attractive "carte à figures"- map of the African continent. Bordered, above, by panels showing panorama's of Cairo, Alexandria,...
Publisher: DE WIT, F.
Date: Amsterdam, after 1660
Illustriss et excellentiss D.Paulus Quirini divi Marci procurator.
Fine text page from Isolario Dell'Atlante Vento. with two copper engraved portraits printed within letter press. In top portrait of "Hieronymus Quirinus" (60x55...
Publisher: CORONELLI, V.M.
Date: Venice, 1691
A plan of the City and Environs of Philadelphia. . .
The Lotter edition of Scull & Heap's seminal Philadelphia map, which map was first issued in 1752.Holmes' grid plan for the city is shown, situated between the rivers...
Publisher: LOTTER, M.A.
Date: Augsburg, 1777
Miniature of Suffrages to the Saints.
A fantastic miniature (70 x 50 mm.) in an arched compartment showing the Suffrages to the Saints. Depiction of the (50) martyrs being burnt before King''s orders. The sty...
Publisher: BOOK OF HOURS.
Date: France, Bretagne or Normandy, c. 1480
De golf van Bengalen.
Rare of the Indian Ocean, with nice detail on Ceylon (Sri Lanka) with compass roses and system of rhumb lines, soundings and anchorage's. Many place names. The plate was...
Publisher: DONCKER, H.
Date: Amsterdam, after 1669-1712
Tabula Russiae ex autographo, quod delineandum curavit Foedor filius Tzaris Boris desums... - Domino regionum Iueriae Kartalinie et Groefiniae Tzari etc: dedicata ab Heselo Gerardo M.DC.XIIII
A re-issue, by Willem Blaeu, of Hessel Gerritsz' rare and influential map of Russia. Dutch text on verso, extending west to east from Emden to Aspachan and north to south...
Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Date: Amsterdam, 1635
Mufle de veau. Antirrhinum majus L.
Bouquet of Common Snapdragons, engraving by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch born Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "Fleurs dessiné...
Publisher: SPAENDONCK, Van. G.
Date: Paris, c.1800
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...
Publisher: BOOK OF HOURS
Date: Paris, ca. 1450
Helmond.
A panoramic view of the Helmond, seen from the Kromme Steenweg .
Publisher: GUICCIARDINI, L.
Date: Arnhem, 1613
Carte du Katay, ou Empire de Kin : pour servir a l'Histoire de Jenghiz Khan, raportée dans l'Histoire generale des voyages, tirée de l'Angloise.
The map is of interest for the use of East Sea, the sea between Korea and Japan, here called "Mer de Corée".Fine map of Korea and China's Yellow Sea. Complete ...
Publisher: BELLIN, J.N.
Date: Paris, 1750
Carte Réduite Du Golphe Du Mexique Et Des Isles De L' Amérique..
A well engraved and highly detailed chart prepared by Bellin of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. In addition to a magnificent title cartouche and a color key to the ...
Publisher: DÉPÔT GÉNÉRAL DE LA MARINE / BELLIN, J.N.
Date: Paris dated year 17, or 1808
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...
Publisher: NIEUHOF, J.
Date: London : Printed by the Author at his house in White-Friers, 1669
Carte du Mexique et des Etats Unis d'Amérique...
A later edition of De l'Isle's foundation map of 1703, widely regarded as one of the most influential maps in the history of American Cartography. This updated version of...
Publisher: L'ISLE, G. de. / DEZAUCHE.
Date: Paris, 1783
Insulae de Cabo Verde olim Hesperides sive .. Zoute Eylanden.
Original copper engraving, hand colored in outline, when published. Double page chart covering detailed the Cap Verde Islands in the Atlantic Ocean (Isla de San Antonia, ...
Publisher: JANSSONIUS, J.
Date: Amsterdam, 1655
Le comte d'Artois dresse sur les memoires les plus nouveaux. . .
Map showing the north of France, showing St Omer, and Arras, etc. The map notes Nicolas Sanson as the mapmaker and claims that the map was published by Alexis-Hubert Jail...
Publisher: SANSON, N. / JAILLOT, H.
Date: Amsterdam, 1693
Carte des Possessions Françoises et Angloises dans le Canada et partie de la Lousiane. . .
Proof state. Here without the decorations around the title cartouche in the what is called in the reference books the first state the cartouche in upper left . No double ...
Publisher: LONGCHAMPS, le Sieur.
Date: Paris, 1756
Strasborcs In der Vocker Marckt.
Very decorative and rare panoramic of Völckermarckt in Kärten.The engraver and publisher of prints, Mrs. Anna Beek of the Hague, enlarged the print and mounted it on l...
Publisher: BEEK, A. / MERIAN, C.
Date: The Hague, ca. 1642
Carte d'Europe divisée en ses Empires et Royaumes.
Uncommon and decorative wall map of Europe, prepared by Clouet. Superb decoration including a wonderful rococo border with vignettes describing historical scenes. Below t...
Publisher: CLOUET / MONDHARE.
Date: Paris, Mondhare, 1788
Die Alte Stadt.
Chromo lithographed poster, "Die Alt Stadt - Ausstellung des Saechsischen Handwerks und Kunstgewerbes Dresden 1896", by Otto Fischer. Plate 68, published in Mai...
Publisher: FISCHER, O.
Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, April 1897