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Imperii Sinarum nova descriptio.

Schenk and Valk's rare early 18th century issue of Janssonius milestone map of China, Korea and Japan after Martino Martini. Engraved by Johannes van Loon. The overall ba...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: JANSSONIUS, J./ VALK, G. / SCHENK, P.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1720

 


Le comte de Namur et partie des Duchez de Brabant. . .

Decorative map centered on Namen and including the towns of Liege, Leuven, Charleroi, Dinant, Luxemburg, etc. by François Jollain (ca. 1641 – 18 April 1704).Rare "...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: JOLLAIN, F.
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1692

 


Carte du Palatinat du Rhin.

Decorative "carte à figures"- map centered on Koblenz, Metz, Strasburg, Manheim and Heidelberg, with the river Rhine by François Jollain (ca. 1641 – 18 Apri...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: JOLLAIN, F.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1688

 


Campagne du Roi de Prusse de 1778 à 1779.

The book is illustrated with a two-sheet folding map "Carte d'une partie du Royaume de Bohême et de la Moravie ainsi que d'une partie de la Silésie". Prepared...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: HOLTZENDORFF, baron de.
Place & Date: Geneva, Paris, Mérigot le jeune, 1784

 


Palatinatus Rheni Nova et Accurata Descriptio.

Early state (1630) of Visscher's "carte à figures"- map of the German Rhine River Valley. Inset views of Frankfurt am Main, Mainz, Speyer, Worms and Heidelberg...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: PISCATOR, N.J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630

 


.[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...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY, C . / WALDSEEMÜLLER, M. / FRIES, L.
Place & Date: Vienna, 1525 -1541

 


.[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...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY, C . / WALDSEEMÜLLER, M. / FRIES, L.
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541

 


.[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...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY, C . / WALDSEEMÜLLER, M. / FRIES, L.
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541

 


.[Georgia (Republic), Sarmatia, Ukraine]

Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of Georgia (Republic), Sarmatia, Ukraine prepared by Martin Waldseemüller. Based on the slightly larger...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY,C ./ WALDSEEMÜLLER, M. / FRIES, L.
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541

 


Leaf on vellum from a Missal.

A very fine Missal leaf, written in Latin. RECTO: A wonderful initial O decorated with pen work in red, purple and blue. The initial is 6x6cm. VERSO: one initial "I&...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: MISSAL.
Place & Date: France, c. 1410

 


[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 ...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY,C ./ TRECHSEL, G.
Place & Date: Vienna, 1525 -1541

 


World Flight Routes (all in Japanese).

A large very decorative Japanese world map published as sugoroku (a Japanese game which might be compared to backgammon) published as a supplement to the 1930 New Year’...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: OSAKA MAINICHI SHINBUN
Place & Date: Osaka, 1930

 


Xantung, sinarum imperii provincia quatra.

A map of the northern province ‘Xantung’ of China after the Jesuit Martino Martini.Shows the Great Wall and is centered on the Bohai Sea, and the Shandong and Liaonin...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1660

 


Plan de la rade de Macao (chine) Levé d'après les ordres mr. Rocquemaurel.

Very detailed chart of Macao and several of the surrounding Islands, and features numerous depth soundings throughout. Prepared by captain, Gaston de Rocquemaurel. Logo o...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: DEPOT GENERAL DE LA MARINE
Place & Date: Paris, c.1856 / 1863

 


Kiepert's Physikalische Wandkarten IV. ASIEN. . .

Wall map of Asia printed in chromo lithography. Published by "Stich und Druck der lith. Anst. Von Leopold Kraatz in Berlin". Physical map showing the Asian cont...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: KIEPERT, Heinrich.
Place & Date: Berlin, D. Reimer, 1873

 


Very rare share in the Ostend Company.

Upper left hand corner share number 2305 in manuscript. In top emblem of the Ostend Company in copper engraving. Text: De Directeurs van de generale Keijserlijche- Indisc...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: OSTEND COMPANY
Place & Date: Antwerp / Ostend, 1723

 


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 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: DANCKERTS, D.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1643

 


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 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: VISSCHER, N. J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630

 


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 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660

 


Ignographia candiae tertia a turcis obsessae in lucem edita a F. de Wit.

A scarce broadsheet plan and view of Heraklion on one sheet: prospect 180 x 495mm, map 395 x 495mm., in the lower part a printed description "Abbildung der starken S...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: DE WIT, F.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680

 


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 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: JANSSONIUS, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640

 


The Coast of New Found Land From Salmon Cove to Cape Bonavista. . . [together with] The Coast of New Found Land from Cape-Raze to Cape St-Francis.

Two charts showing the coast of New Found Land from Salmon Cove to Cape Bonavista and from Cape-Raze to Cape St-Francis. With inset chart of Trinity HarborGrierson publis...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: MOUNT & PAGE / BOULTER GRIERSON
Place & Date: Dublin, 1767

 


AIR France - Réseau Aérien Mondial.

Original pictorial lithograph advertising planisphere poster from AIR France. The poster has a black background. In the lower right below the border '016/P/AF Printed in ...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: BOUCHER, L.
Place & Date: Imprimerie Perceval, Paris, ca. 1950

 


Colossus Monarchic. Statua Danielis

Fantastic double page allegorical map of a colossus figure representing the great world empires as Daniel interpreted in Nebuchadnezzar's dream. The warrior stands stolid...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: BAECK, E.
Place & Date: Augsbourg, 1730

 


Archipelague du Mexique ou sont les Isles de Cuba..

Scarce map of Caribbean. A visually stunning map with a large title cartouche. This large one-sheet map was produced by the Venetian cosmographer Vincenzo Coronelli when ...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: NOLIN, J.B. / CORONELLI, P.
Place & Date: Paris, 1688

 


COGNAC PELISSON.

Original advertising poster for the French cognac brand Pellisson, printed by Imprimerie Vercasson, in Paris, designed by Leonetto Cappiello. Leonetto Cappiello, born in ...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: CAPPIELLO, L.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1900

 


L'Arabia delineata sulle ultime osservazioni.

First edition on laid paper. Cassini’s splendid early map of Arabia.

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: CASSINI, G.M.
Place & Date: Rome, 1797

 


La Piovra Russa. Carta Serio-Comica Pel 1878.

Very rare political caricature map by Grossi of the nations of Europe, published in Bologna in the supplement of the newspaper "Le Perroquet / Al papagallo, N° 15, ...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: GROSSI, A.
Place & Date: Bologne, 14 avril 1878

 


Mappa Humoristico da Europa.

A really unusual and lovely map, published in Portugal at the outbreak of The Great War in 1914. This outbreak of war in Europe was the result of a complex sequence of ev...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: SOARES, A.
Place & Date: Lisbon, 1914

 


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...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493

 


A Map and History of Peiping; formerly known as Peking; capital of provinces, princedoms and kingdoms since 1121 B.C. . .

The uncommon second edition of this very decorative and informative pictorial map of Beijing and surrounding areas whimsically illustrates the Forbidden City, essential e...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: DORN, F.
Place & Date: The Peiyang Press, Ltd. Tientsin-Peiping, 1936

 


Paldobundo Province.

Woodblock printed map of Jeolla Province which was one of the historical Eight Provinces of Korea during the Kingdom of The map is drawn in "Paldo Bundo," styl...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: Paldobundo Province.
Place & Date: 1710-1718

 


Venise (Venetia).

Extremely rare and detailed bird's-eye view of the town of Venice by Giacomo Lauro (active about 1584-1637), taken from "Heroico Splendore delle Città del Mondo&quo...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: LAURO, G.
Place & Date: Rome, ca. 1642

 


Comitatus Flandria.

A highly decorative map with in the left and right top corners the pictures of archduke Albert of Austria and Isabella, queen of Spain. In the left and right borders cost...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: VISSCHER, C.J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1648

 


Rotterdam Lloyd, Royal Mail Line. La Méditerranée - L' Egypte - Ceylan - La Malaysie - Les Indes Néerlandaises - L' Australie - L' Indo-Chine - La Chine - Le Japon.

Johann von Stein made this iconic poster for the Rotterdam Lloyd in 1930. This is the rare French version for the tour from Rotterdam to Australia.Johann von Stein (Dutch...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: VON STEIN, J.
Place & Date: Rotterdam, 1930

 


Isole dell'Indie. . .

A beautiful and flamboyantly engraved large-scale map of the East Indies, including the Malay Peninsula, Cambodia, the Philippines and all of Indonesia and the Spice Isla...

$2100 / ≈ €1965
Maker / Publisher: CORONELLI, V.M.
Place & Date: Venice, 1696

 


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

 


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

 


Mappa Aestivarum Insularum alias Barmudas.

Blaeu based his work on John Speed's remarkably accurate map of 1626-1627. It shows the island divided into tribes and lots, and below the map itself appear the names of ...

$2200 / ≈ €2059
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635

 


.Taprobana Ins. Tabula XII Asiae. [Sri Lanka.]

Ptolemy's mythical island of Taprobana originally became associated with Sri Lanka although it was sometimes confused with Sumatra. Taprobana, as it was called on most ea...

$2200 / ≈ €2059
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY, C.
Place & Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1535