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Le Japon.
The map is of interest for the use of Mer de Corée, for the sea between Korea and Japan. Small detailed map of Japan and Korea. Dated 1749. A note next to island &quo...
Place & Date: Paris, 1749
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 &...
Place & Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566
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
L'illustration, journal officiel hebdomadaire.
L'Illustration, the first French illustrated newspaper from 1843, became the first magazine in the world in 1906 and is distributed in more than 150 countries.The mythica...
Place & Date: Paris, 1908
Hippodrome de la porte Maillot. Paris Courses.
Chromo lithographed mini poster, " Hippodrome de la porte Maillot. Paris Courses. Pelouse 1 f. pesage 2 f. Nouveau sport. Grand prix : une rivière en diamants de 20...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, April 1897
Lippincott's August.
Chromo lithographed poster, "Lippincott's August.", by CARQUEVILLE, W. Plate 132, published in Maître 17, on April 1896. The "Les Maîtres de l'affiche&qu...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, April 1896
A la Scala, Mevisto.
Chromo lithographed poster, "A la Scala, Mevisto.", by LUCE, M. Plate 139, published in Maître 17, on April 1898. The "Les Maîtres de l'Affiche" con...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, April 1898
Indian painting on ivory
Fine oriental miniature of a amorous scene of an Indian couple with a landscape in the back. Drawing, brush and gouache on ivory panel, late 19th/ early 20th cent.
Place & Date: Iran, India, ca. 1900
7eme Exposition du Salon des 100.
Chromo lithographed poster of Les Maîtres de l'Affiche being plate n°15. The "Les Maîtres de l'Affiche" contained 256 small for lithographic prints of the be...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, 1896
Folies Bergere - Folies en Folie!
Original advertising poster for the show " Folies en Folie! ", in the famous Les Folies Bergère cabaret in Paris. The Théâtre des Folies Bergère is a famous...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1975
[Moses and Joshua descending from Mount Sinai] Quita Etas Mundi. Folium. XXXI
The Latin text page is illustrated with a large woodblock cut depiction Moses and Joshua descending from Mount Sinai with the tablets of the Law broken and found the Isra...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Circoscrizione delle Provincie ecclesiastiche e Diocesi nei regni del Belgio, ed Olanda (Tav LXI)
This large-format map showing Belgium and Holland with its different dioceses. The map is finely engraved and beautifully colored and was prepared by Girolamo Petri, a la...
Place & Date: Rome, 1858
[Magazine including pictorial world map, Carriers of the New Black Plague by William Cotton.]
Front cover with color illustration of Moroccan male sheik and yellow lettering.Oversized magazine, features analysis of English justice, map of Herr Hitler's heaven (ful...
Place & Date: Chicago, April 7th, Vol.1 No.1 1938
Aracam.
A rare miniature map of Thailand and Burma. Title cartouche on the upper left corner. First published in 1598 in his 'Caert-Thresoor', the plates were executed by the mos...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Guinea.
Samuel Purchas' edition of the Mercator/Hondius Atlas Minor . Map of Guinea published in his famous collection of voyages His Pilgrimes . With descriptive text in English...
Place & Date: London, 1645
Vue d'un Feu d'Artifice tiré devant l'Hotel de Ville en réjouissance de la Paix.
Optical view, illustrating a fireworks display in front of the Paris city hall.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular speciality establishment...
Place & Date: Paris 1760
[Title page] Atlante Novissimo, illustrato ed accresciuto . . .
Decorative Venitian frontispiece from Antonio Zatta's Atlas Atlante Novissimo, illustrato ed accresciuto . . . . The outer decoration of this title page has a wealth of c...
Place & Date: Venice, 1785
Marshall Hjälpen.
Marshall Plan poster made by Gusta Aberg, showing barbed wire cut by pliers with slogan on pliers: Marshall Hjälpen This is one of the 25 finalists in the 1950 “Intra-...
Place & Date: Kühn & Zoon Rotterdam, 1950
Picardie Meridionale Le Cambresis et leurs Environs.
Map showing the region of Picardie in Northern France. Including the towns of Abbeville, Amiens, Compiegne, Soisson, Chambray, etc.
Place & Date: Paris, 1737
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
Vue générale d'Amsterdam.
A so-called optical prints, showing Amsterdam seen from the IJ. A lively scene with extensive shipping. To the left the headquarters of the V.O.C., nowadays the Maritime ...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1750
Vue du village de Maarsen en Hollande.
Showing the river Vecht at the town of Maarsen. Published by Jacques Chereau, who was a well-known publisher of optical prints, established in rue St. Jacques in Paris. I...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1750
Il Governo di Guascogna con porzione del Governo di Guienna.
Rare regional map of France of the Périgord, Guienne, Gascogne and the Béarn published by Carli Pazzini in Siena.
Place & Date: Siena, 1792
Henna ardera deel. De vijfde Grietenije van de Wester goo. . .
Very detailed map of "Henna ardera deel. De vijfde Grietenije van de Wester goo" in Friesland prepared by Bernardus Schotanus Steringa. With decorative title ca...
Place & Date: Leeuwarden, 1718
Forteresse Ile Ste Marguerite.
Nice drawing of a stronghold Ste Marguerite. The Île Sainte-Marguerite is the largest of the Lérins Islands, about half a mile off shore from the French Riviera town of...
Place & Date: France, Provence, after 1960
Vue et Description de Quelques-Uns des Principaux Forts des Hollandois dans les Indes .
Interesting sheet with seven detailed views illustrating the most important Dutch V.O.C. trading outposts and fortified colonial possessions in the East Indies, including...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Partie de la Chine N°87. (Covers Jiangxi, Fujian and parts of Zhejiang, Guangdong, Hunan and Hubei.)
Covers Jiangxi, Fujian and parts of Zhejiang, Guangdong, Hunan and Hubei.From his famous Atlas Universel . This atlas was one of the most remarkable world atlases ever pr...
Place & Date: Brussels, 1825-1827
Partie de la Chine N°86. (Covers Guizhou and parts of Yunnan, Guangxi, Hunan, Hubei and Sichuan.)
Covers Guizhou and parts of Yunnan, Guangxi, Hunan, Hubei and Sichuan.From his famous Atlas Universel . This atlas was one of the most remarkable world atlases ever produ...
Place & Date: Brussels, 1825-1827
Hundeliebhaberey.
Engraved by Joseph Stöber, (born in Vienna 13. June 1768, died 12 March 1852) after design of Matthäus Loder (1781-1828). From Castelli, "Zerrbilder menschlicher T...
Place & Date: Wien, 1818
Grimafsirter Tanz.
Engraved by Joseph Stöber, (born in Vienna 13. June 1768, died 12 March 1852) after design of Matthäus Loder (1781-1828). From Castelli, "Zerrbilder menschlicher T...
Place & Date: Wien, 1818
Modesucht.
Engraved by Joseph Stöber, (born in Vienna 13. June 1768, died 12 March 1852) after design of Matthäus Loder (1781-1828). From Castelli, "Zerrbilder menschlicher T...
Place & Date: Wien, 1818
Vogel Liebhaberey.
Engraved by Joseph Stöber, (born in Vienna 13. June 1768, died 12 March 1852) after design of Matthäus Loder (1781-1828). From Castelli, "Zerrbilder menschlicher T...
Place & Date: Wien, 1818
Frefser.
Engraved by Joseph Stöber, (born in Vienna 13. June 1768, died 12 March 1852) after design of Matthäus Loder (1781-1828). From Castelli, "Zerrbilder menschlicher T...
Place & Date: Wien, 1818
Schmetterlingsfang.
Engraved by Joseph Stöber, (born in Vienna 13. June 1768, died 12 March 1852) after design of Matthäus Loder (1781-1828). From Castelli, "Zerrbilder menschlicher T...
Place & Date: Wien, 1818
Liebeserklärung.
Engraved by Joseph Stöber, (born in Vienna 13. June 1768, died 12 March 1852) after design of Matthäus Loder (1781-1828). From Castelli, "Zerrbilder menschlicher T...
Place & Date: Wien, 1818
Säufer.
Engraved by Joseph Stöber, (born in Vienna 13. June 1768, died 12 March 1852) after design of Matthäus Loder (1781-1828). From Castelli, "Zerrbilder menschlicher T...
Place & Date: Wien, 1818
Zerstreuung.
Engraved by Joseph Stöber, (born in Vienna 13. June 1768, died 12 March 1852) after design of Matthäus Loder (1781-1828). From Castelli, "Zerrbilder menschlicher T...
Place & Date: Wien, 1818
L'Arabie.
Small detailed map of the Arabian Peninsula. From Atlas Portatif Universel, by Robert de Vaugondy.Page 162 outside border top right.
Place & Date: Paris, later than 1749
Asia.
Detailed map the Asian continent. The map is of interest for the use of Sea of Corea, the sea between Korea and Japan.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1682
Selling price: $225
Sold in 2023
Abrahamus Ortelius Antuerpianus cosmographus natus a. MDXXVII
Portrait of Abraham Ortelius (Abraham Ortel), famous cartographer born in Antwerp and after studying Greek, Latin and mathematics set up a business there with his sister,...
Place & Date: Antwerp, c.1650
Selling price: $225
Sold in 2023