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The Russian Empire in Europe and Asia . . .

Detailed map of the whole of Russia, extending from Poland to the Pacific and from Nova Zembla to Tartaria.The map is of interest for the use of Corea Gulf for the sea be...

$400 / ≈ â‚¬374
Maker / Publisher: BOWEN, T.
Place & Date: London, 1790

 


Koreische Fischerfamilie. Famille de pecheurs de Corea.

A Korean family of fishermen playing a board game. No.9' above image. From "Schinz Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen des Menschen der verschiedenen Rassen und Stämme&...

$125 / ≈ â‚¬117
Maker / Publisher: HONEGGER, V.
Place & Date: Zürich, 1845

 


Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries. 5

Engraving from Perspective, c'est a dire, le tresrenomme art du poinct oculaire d'une veue dedans ou travers regardante, estant sur une muraille unie, sur un tableau, ou ...

$175 / ≈ â‚¬164
Maker / Publisher: VREDEMAN DE VRIES, J. / HONDIUS, H.
Place & Date: The Hague, 1604 - 1605

 


Generalkarte vom Königreich Preussen u. d. Herz[ogtum] Warschau nach astronomischen Ortsbestim[m]ungen und geodätischen Messungen. . .

Rare seemingly unrecorded map of Poland with its borders after the Congress of Vienna, probably based on a lost first edition of Daniel Friedrich Sotzmann's (1754-1840) m...

$1500 / ≈ â‚¬1404
Maker / Publisher: SOTZMANN, D. F.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, Schneider & Weigel 1815

 


I Europa / Das dritteil der Welt.

Very early wood cut printed map of Europe with South to the top. In the lower-left corner we see Poland, Livonia and parts of England and Ireland in the lower right corne...

$4000 / ≈ â‚¬3743
Maker / Publisher: STUMPF, J.
Place & Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566

 


( II Germania) / Tütschland.

Very early wood cut printed map of Germany, Poland, The Low Countries, Alsace and part Europe with of Switzerland, Croatia. Originally engraved in 1548. Included in "...

$2500 / ≈ â‚¬2339
Maker / Publisher: STUMPF, J.
Place & Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566

 


III. Gallia. Franckrych.

Very early wood cut printed map of France, North of river Rhine, Northern Italy. Coast of England from Dover to Cornwall. A ship, sea monsters and coats of arms are filli...

$1750 / ≈ â‚¬1638
Maker / Publisher: STUMPF, J.
Place & Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566

 


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...

$400 / ≈ â‚¬374
Maker / Publisher: STUMPF, J.
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...

$400 / ≈ â‚¬374
Maker / Publisher: STUMPF, J.
Place & Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566

 


XI. Wallis.

Very early wood cut printed regional map of Switzerland with Wallis region.Originally engraved in 1548. The map was prepared by Johannes Stumpf (1500-1576). Included in &...

$250 / ≈ â‚¬234
Maker / Publisher: STUMPF, J.
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...

$400 / ≈ â‚¬374
Maker / Publisher: STUMPF, J.
Place & Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566

 


Asia secundum legitimas projectionis stereographicae.

Highlighted area covers part of Spain, eastern coast of Ireland to western part of Papua New Guinea and the Asian continent from the Northern Polar Sea to the Indian Ocea...

$500 / ≈ â‚¬468
Maker / Publisher: HOMANN HEIRS.
Place & Date: Nurenberg, 1744

 


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...

$450 / ≈ â‚¬421
Maker / Publisher: LANGENES, B. / BERTIUS, P.
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...

$450 / ≈ â‚¬421
Maker / Publisher: LANGENES
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornelis Claes, 1606

 


Kaartje van Asia. . .

Attractive and rare map of Asia. From Atlas Portatif . With a curious and oversized Hokkaido. The map is of interest for the use of Coreanse Zee for the sea between Korea...

$500 / ≈ â‚¬468
Maker / Publisher: KEIZER, J. / DE LAT, J.
Place & Date: Deventer 1742

 


(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 / ≈ â‚¬7018
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1493

 


Typus Frisiae Orientalis à Dullarto

One of the most decorative maps of East Frisia and its important shipping center of Emden and the Watten Islands, from the cartography of Ubbo Emmius, a local cartographe...

$900 / ≈ â‚¬842
Maker / Publisher: VISSCHER, C.J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1624

 


Tabula electoratus Brandenburgici, Meckelenburgi, et maximae partis Pomeraniae, ex variis, famosissimisq[ue] auctoribus summo studio concinnata. . .

Uncommon "carte à figures"- map engraved by the master engraver Abraham Goos and published by Claes Jansz. Visscher (1587-1652). Showing the part of western Po...

$2000 / ≈ â‚¬1871
Maker / Publisher: VISSCHER, N. J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630

 


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...

$1100 / ≈ â‚¬1029
Maker / Publisher: HEYMANN, I.
Place & Date: Triest, 1800

 


Town of Bedford Westchester Co. NY.

Fine lithographed map of the town of Bedford. The map provides the names of specific homeowners, as well as information about the occupations and physical locations of th...

$100 / ≈ â‚¬94
Maker / Publisher: DE BEERS, F.W.
Place & Date: New York, 1867

 


Plan of Yonkers Town of Yonkers Westchester Co. N.Y. . . .

Fine lithographed map of Yonkers, New York. The map provides the names of specific homeowners, as well as information about the occupations and physical locations of the ...

$200 / ≈ â‚¬187
Maker / Publisher: DE BEERS, F.W.
Place & Date: New York, 1867

 


Plan of the Borough of New Rochelle, Westchester Co. N.Y.

Fine lithographed map of the plan of the Borough of New Rochelle. The map provides the names of specific homeowners, as well as information about the occupations and phys...

$125 / ≈ â‚¬117
Maker / Publisher: DE BEERS, F.W.
Place & Date: New York, 1867

 


Plan of the Beekmanton Tarryntown and Ivring. Westchester Co. N.Y.

Fine lithographed map of the plan of the Beekmantown, Tarrytown, and Irving, New York. The map provides the names of specific homeowners, as well as information about the...

$110 / ≈ â‚¬103
Maker / Publisher: DE BEERS, F.W.
Place & Date: New York, 1867

 


Isola Di Ceylan. (Manuscript map of Sri Lanka)

Manuscript map of Sri Lanka (Ceylon). Inland filled with a good number of place names, mountains.

$650 / ≈ â‚¬608
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: Italy, ca. 1750

 


L'Arabie.

Small detailed map of the Arabian Peninsula. From Atlas Portatif Universel, by Robert de Vaugondy.Page 162 outside border top right.

$225 / ≈ â‚¬211
Maker / Publisher: VAUGONDY, R. de
Place & Date: Paris, later than 1749

 


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...

$450 / ≈ â‚¬421
Maker / Publisher: LANGENES, B.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1609

 


Waere affbeeldinge wegens het casteel ende stadt Batavia.

A good impression of Batavia's finely engraved and detailed plan, present-day Jakarta, the Dutch center of trading activities in the East Indies. Copied after Clement de ...

$600 / ≈ â‚¬561
Maker / Publisher: VANDER AA, P.
Place & Date: Leiden, 1719

 


Magnus Ducatus Finlandiae Auct. Andrea Bureo Succo.

The first printed survey map of Finland, composed by the Swedish cartographer Anders Bureus (1571-1661). The map was published in 1662 in the second volume of Joan Blaeu'...

$2000 / ≈ â‚¬1871
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660

 


Insula Huaena sive Venusia a Guiljelmo Blaeu cum sub Tychone Astronomiae operam daret, delineata.

Decorative map of the island Hvan in the Danish Sound. In the center Tycho Brahe's famous observatory Uraniborg established in 1576, under the patronage of Frederick II, ...

$1100 / ≈ â‚¬1029
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1659

 


New Jersey entworfen von D.F. Sotzmann. Hamburg bey Carl Ernst Bohn 1796 . . . NO.VIII

Extremely rare map of New Hampshire prepared by Daniel Friedrich Sotzmann for Christopher Ebeling's "Erdbeschreibung von Amerika", a project ended after only te...

$5000 / ≈ â‚¬4679
Maker / Publisher: SOTZMANN, D.F.
Place & Date: Hamburg, Carl Ernst Bohn, 1797

 


Die Insel Formosa neu abgemessen auf Befehl Kaysers Kamhi.

One of the earliest obtainable printed map of Taiwan or Formosa Island. It was issued around 1726 to illustrate Joseph Stöcklein's [Stoecklein] compellation of Jesuit mi...

$1200 / ≈ â‚¬1123
Maker / Publisher: STOCKLEIN, J.
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1726

 


New Yok entworfen von D.F. Sotzmann. Hamburg bey Carl Ernst Bohn 1799 . . . NO.VII

An extremely rare map of New York prepared by Daniel Friedrich Sotzmann for Christopher Ebeling's "Erdbeschreibung von Amerika", a project ended after only ten ...

$6000 / ≈ â‚¬5614
Maker / Publisher: SOTZMANN, D.F.
Place & Date: Hamburg, Carl Ernst Bohn, 1799

 


Rhode Island entworfen von D.F. Sotzmann. Hamburg bey Carl Ernst Bohn 1798 . . . NO.V

Extremely rare map of Rhode Island prepared by Daniel Friedrich Sotzmann for Christopher Ebeling's "Erdbeschreibung von Amerika", a project ended after only ten...

$5000 / ≈ â‚¬4679
Maker / Publisher: SOTZMANN, D.F.
Place & Date: Hamburg, Carl Ernst Bohn, 1797

 


Wallis's Guide for Strangers Through London.

Engraved plan with original hand-coloring, with title and alphabetical list of the principal streets below. Published by Edward Wellis 42 Skinner Street.With "An alp...

$500 / ≈ â‚¬468
Maker / Publisher: WALLIS, E.
Place & Date: London, E.Wallis, ca. 1840

 


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...

$16000 / ≈ â‚¬14971
Maker / Publisher: VISSCHER, N.J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1652

 


Asiae Minoris nova descriptio. Geographische Beschryvinge aller Landen... ende sendbrieuen der Apostele...

Extremely rare map from a Dutch bible, published by Dancker Danckerts. This map was included in a Dutch bible including several maps signed by C.Danckerts and one dated 1...

$2000 / ≈ â‚¬1871
Maker / Publisher: DANCKERTS, D.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1643

 


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...

$2750 / ≈ â‚¬2573
Maker / Publisher: VISSCHER, C. J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629

 


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...

$4500 / ≈ â‚¬4211
Maker / Publisher: LOTTER, M.A.
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1777

 


[Bantam].

Text engravings from "Premier livre de l'histoire de la navigation aux Indes Orientales, par les hollandois, et des choses a eux advenues . . . ", being the cla...

$80 / ≈ â‚¬75
Maker / Publisher: LODEWYCKSZ, Willem
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas, 1609

 


Carte des Royaumes de Siam, du Tunquin, Pegu, Ava, Aracan . . .

Map of Siam, du Tunquin, Pegu, Ava, Aracan. Across the top is an extensive list of 22 important sites and locations keyed to the plan with tiny letters and numbers.Jacque...

$350 / ≈ â‚¬328
Maker / Publisher: BELLIN, J.N.
Place & Date: Paris, 1750

 


Tabula Sexta Asia (Arabian Peninsula)

This is a very desirable  early Ptolemaic woodblock map of the Arabian Peninsula, here called Arabia Felix. The map is presented on a trapezoidal projection with par...

$2200 / ≈ â‚¬2059
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY,C ./ TRECHSEL, G.
Place & Date: Vienna, 1525 -1541

 


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...

$400 / ≈ â‚¬374
Maker / Publisher: SEUTTER, M.
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1740

 


Carte des Iles Hawaii.

A lovely small map of the complete chain of Pacific islands known today as the Hawaiian islands, from Dumont d'Urville's atlas "Voyage pittoresque autour du Monde.&q...

$500 / ≈ â‚¬468
Maker / Publisher: DUMONT D'URVILLE, Jules.
Place & Date: Paris, 1834

 


Province de Pologne contenant 22 Col. une M.on Prof 5 Pen. 2 Nov. 6 Rés. 30 Maisons 1050 Jésuites.

Rare map of Poland from "Atlas Universel indiquant les établissemens des Jésuites: avec la manière dont ils divisent la terre, suivi desévénemens remarquables d...

$300 / ≈ â‚¬281
Maker / Publisher: DENIS, L.
Place & Date: Paris, Ambroise Dupont , 1826

 


Tabula nova Poloniae et Silesiae.

Second state, dated 1630 underneath the title. A finely engraved carte á figures with cartouche representing in the four corners of the map : Kings ( on the left side Si...

$4000 / ≈ â‚¬3743
Maker / Publisher: VISSCHER, N.J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630

 


Solimannus Turcarum Imperator X. Ex Stirpe Ottomannicae.

The engraving depicts a half length oval portrait of "Solimannus Turcarum Imperator X", signed lower right corner N. de Cleck". Nicolaes de Clerck (de kler...

$30 / ≈ â‚¬28
Maker / Publisher: DE CLERCK, N.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621

 


Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.

14 Lines of text in Latin and three 1-line initials in blue on colored grounds.RECTO: 14 Lines of text in Latin and three 1-line initials in blue on colored grounds with ...

$100 / ≈ â‚¬94
Maker / Publisher: BOOK OF HOURS
Place & Date: France, ca.1470

 


Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.

14 Lines of text in Latin and three 1-line initials in blue on colored grounds.RECTO: 14 Lines of text in Latin and four 1-line initials in blue on colored grounds with l...

$100 / ≈ â‚¬94
Maker / Publisher: BOOK OF HOURS
Place & Date: France, ca.1470

 


Le Cours de l'Elbe et de l'Oder où sont les Electorats de Saxe et de Brandebourg, les Duchés de Mekelbourg et de Pomeranie. . .

A detailed and scarce map showing the rivers Elbe and Oder in Germany and Poland. Dark engraving.This is one sheet of the four sheet wall map by Pierre Du Val entitled: &...

$500 / ≈ â‚¬468
Maker / Publisher: DU VAL, P.
Place & Date: Paris, 1684

 


Insularum Moluccarum Nova description.

Exquisite map of the famous Spice Islands based on the islands described by Jan Huyghen van Linschoten. This map was the first large-scale map of the region and depicts t...

$750 / ≈ â‚¬702
Maker / Publisher: SCHENK, P. / VALK, G.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1730

 


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 / ≈ â‚¬5614
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1584

 


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...

$450 / ≈ â‚¬421
Maker / Publisher: COVENS, J. / MORTIER, C.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1730

 


Coeli Stellati Christiani Haemisphaerium Prius.

Scarce first issue. This spectacular celestial chart presents the constellations according to Christian symbolism. The view of the constellations is based on the work of ...

$4500 / ≈ â‚¬4211
Maker / Publisher: CELLARIUS, A.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660

 


Le Roy de Navarra venant à Paris recheut le coup de cousteau au visaige par ung Pierre Chastel, lequel par quatre chevaulx fut tiré en pièces, faict le 27 de Decemb[re] l'an 1594.

Engraved news-sheet with text in German and French. Pictorial reportage on the failed assassination attempt on King Henri IV of France by Jean Châtel (here identified as...

$50 / ≈ â‚¬47
Maker / Publisher: HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1600

 


The hanging of the head of police Jean Grauwels in Brussels, 11 february 1569.

Print relating to Brussels during the first decades of the eighty year war between Spain and the Low Countries: (plate 18). This plate shows the hanging of the head of po...

$80 / ≈ â‚¬75
Maker / Publisher: HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1590

 


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...

$175 / ≈ â‚¬164
Maker / Publisher: ADSEC Engineers Section
Place & Date: London, 1945

 


Langley's New Travelling and Commercial Map . . .

A highly desirable, detailed and uncommon map of England and Wales, published by Langley and Belch. The map is flanked by a pair of large and detailed explanation tables,...

$600 / ≈ â‚¬561
Maker / Publisher: LANGLEY, E. / BELCH, W.
Place & Date: London, 1817

 


Stoel des Oorlogs in America Waar in Vertoont Werden Alle Desself Voornaamste Eylande . . .

Large impressive map of the West Indies with the Gulf of Mexico and Florida. The map shows prominently in the center Cuba, Haiti, the Bahamas and Florida, which is here m...

$1500 / ≈ â‚¬1404
Maker / Publisher: OTTENS, R. and J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1720

 


Asia secunda pars in forma Pegasi.

UNRECORDED PLATE or STATE. Asia depicted as the flying horse Pegasus. Below the depiction 3 lines of engraved Latin text. Double page copper engraved map from Heinrich BÃ...

$5000 / ≈ â‚¬4679
Maker / Publisher: BÃœNTING, H.
Place & Date: Brunswick, ca. 1635

 


Asia secunda pars terrae in forma Pegasi.

Asia depicted as the flying horse Pegasus. Thiscartographical curiosity, double page copper engraved map, was published in Heinrich Bünting's “Itinerarium Sacrae Scrip...

$4000 / ≈ â‚¬3743
Maker / Publisher: BÃœNTING, H.
Place & Date: Brunswick, 1640

 


MG Militair Gezag. De schakel tusschen de Geallieerden en Nederland.

Poster on the Allied military cooperation published by the Dutch Military Government. The poster has three colorful linked rings against a dark black and blue background....

$300 / ≈ â‚¬281
Maker / Publisher: HENRION, F. H. K.
Place & Date: London, James Haworth & Brother LTD, 1944 - 1945

 


Één doel - Één wil. (Koninklijke Marine)

Poster on the Allied military cooperation published by the Dutch Military Government. ¨Poster with stylised portraits of an infantryman, airman and sailor, turned in pro...

$100 / ≈ â‚¬94
Maker / Publisher: HENRION, F. H. K.
Place & Date: London, James Haworth & Brother LTD, 1944 - 1945

 


De Pen Gun Weekblad voor de Nederlandsche Strijdkrachten.

Poster designed by Willem Anthonie Oepts (1904 - 1988), published by the Dutch Military Government for "De Pen gun".The designer Willem Anthonie Oepts (1904 - 1...

$175 / ≈ â‚¬164
Maker / Publisher: OEPTS, W. A.
Place & Date: Weert, Smeets, 1945

 


Pecheli, Xansi, Xantung, Honan, Nanking, In plaga Regni Sinensis. . .

A map of the northern provinces of China after the Jesuit Martino Martini, depicting of Hebei (Pecheli), Shanxi (Xansi), Shandong (Xantung), Henan (Honan), and Jangsu (Na...

$1500 / ≈ â‚¬1404
Maker / Publisher: JANSSONIUS, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1660

 


U.R.S.S. Energie Eléctrique. (5)

Map of Russia. Publicity poster for Russia's electrical production. Text in French. Editions de l'Agence de presse Novosti".More about War Maps & Propaganda maps...

$75 / ≈ â‚¬70
Maker / Publisher: AGENCE DE PRESSE NOVOSTI
Place & Date: USSR, 1978

 


Habillement de l'Empereur de la Chine & des Dames de son Palais..

This impressive engraving is a wonderful example of Chatelain’s elegant plates.Divided in 3 panels, showing examples of costumes of Chinese ladies and those of the king...

$150 / ≈ â‚¬140
Maker / Publisher: CHATELAIN, H.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1728

 


Mappe-Monde pour connoitre les progres & les conquestes..

Unusual double hemisphere map with California as an Island. Dutch text describes the expeditions and colonial possessions of the Dutch East India Company. The map origina...

$650 / ≈ â‚¬608
Maker / Publisher: CHATELAIN, H.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1729

 


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...

$400 / ≈ â‚¬374
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1645

 


Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.

21 lines of printed text, surrounded by Renaissance borders decorated with flowers and little miniatures with figures on both sides.From the press of the leading Parisian...

$100 / ≈ â‚¬94
Maker / Publisher: BOOK OF HOURS
Place & Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c. 1520-1540

 


[Title page colored by Georg Mack Jr. to : Hortus Eystettensis, Sive Diligens et Accurata Omnium Plantarum, Florum, Stirpium,. . .]

Title page to the first edition, one of about 300 copies printed, from one of the largest and most magnificent of the great flower books, depicting more than 1000 flowers...

$4000 / ≈ â‚¬3743
Maker / Publisher: BESLER, Basilius (1561-1629)
Place & Date: Nuremberg, ca 1613

 


Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula.

A beautifully decorative world map taken from the 'English Atlas' by Moses Pitt and Steven Swart, based on an earlier engraved world map by Pieter van den Keere ca. 1630,...

$6000 / ≈ â‚¬5614
Maker / Publisher: PITT, M. / SWART, S. / JANSSONIUS VAN WAESBERGHE,
Place & Date: Oxford, 1680

 


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 ...

$3500 / ≈ â‚¬3275
Maker / Publisher: CORONELLI, V.M.
Place & Date: Venice, 1691

 


Insulae Indiae Orientalis.

Map of South East Asia with good detail on the Philippines from the rare Cloppenburg edition slightly larger format and more scarce edition of the Mercator/Hondius "...

$500 / ≈ â‚¬468
Maker / Publisher: MERCATOR, G. / CLOPPENBURGH, J.E.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630

 


The Kingdome of China.

A most sought-after map of China. Decorative border vignettes including views of the cities of Quinzay and Macao along the top border with the wheeled wind machines and p...

$7000 / ≈ â‚¬6550
Maker / Publisher: SPEED, J.
Place & Date: London, G. Humble, 1627

 


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...

$4000 / ≈ â‚¬3743
Maker / Publisher: SPEED,J./ HUMBLE, G.
Place & Date: London, 1627

 


India Tercera Nuova Tavola.

The 1598 edition of this early map of South East Asia. Just to the west and south of Malacca one will notice ‘Camatra’ (Sumatra) and Java. China with Canton in the up...

$750 / ≈ â‚¬702
Maker / Publisher: RUSCELLI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1598

 


Arabia Felice Nuova Tavola.

Fine early map of Arabian peninsula, being one of the earliest modern maps of the region.Girolamo Ruscelli first published the map in his "La Geographi di Claudio To...

$850 / ≈ â‚¬795
Maker / Publisher: RUSCELLI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1561

 


China Veteribus Sinarum Regio.

Based on Jesuit surveys, the map represents the next major revision in the cartography of China after Ortelius' 1584 map. Korea, however, is still an island, and Japan co...

$2000 / ≈ â‚¬1871
Maker / Publisher: JANSSONIUS, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640

 


La Nuova Zelanda tracorsa nel 1769 e 1770 dal Cook commandante dell' Endeavour Vascello di S.M.Britannica.

Antonio Zatta’s map of New Zealand is not only one of the first to show the results of Cook’s voyages, but is also one of the most attractive of the islands. Consider...

$1100 / ≈ â‚¬1029
Maker / Publisher: ZATTA, A.
Place & Date: Venise, 1778

 


Nouvelle Carte des dix-sept Provinces des Pays-Bas.

Map of the 17 provinces of the Netherlands. In an inset upper left corner 17 coats of arms of each province and vignettes. The Channel is filled with Naval battles fought...

$100 / ≈ â‚¬94
Maker / Publisher: CHATELAIN, H.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1720