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(Lübeck) Lvbeca vrbs. imperialis libera. civitatvm. Wandalicarvm. . . .

Impressive more than 3 meters wide panoramic town view after a woodblock engraving from Elias Diebel, initially made in 1552. Of this original woodblock, Bachmann mention...

$4500 / ≈ €4211
Maker / Publisher: DIEBEL, E. after
Place & Date: Germany, c. 1855

 


L'Europe en Sept 1939. Ille terrarum mihi angulus ridet.

A rare oversized serio-comic map of Europe at the start of the Second World War depicting stereotypes of 31 countries, as listed in the key lower right, including Brit...

$9000 / ≈ €8421
Maker / Publisher: VLAANDEREN, Cornelis André
Place & Date: Bruges, Leon Burghgraeve, 1939

 


Le Chantier d'Amsterdam.

Decorative lithography representing the head quarters of the V.O.C. and shipyard in Amsterdam. The building serves nowadays as the Maritime Museum. After a painting by A....

$95 / ≈ €89
Maker / Publisher: DE CLOET / MADOU, J-B.
Place & Date: Brussels, J. B. A. Jobard, 1825

 


Kamchatka according to A.Erman . . .

FIRST EDITION Map of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Siberia, from Gazetteer of the World. Drawn by Augustus Petermann, engraved by G. H. Swanston.

$40 / ≈ €37
Maker / Publisher: PETERMANN, A. / FULLERTON, A.
Place & Date: London / Edinburgh, 1850

 


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 / ≈ €1029
Maker / Publisher: HEYMANN, I.
Place & Date: Triest, 1800

 


Il regno della Bossima diviso nelle sue provincie principali. . .

Rossi's map of Bosnia, based upon Sanson's map, but with revised Italian nomenclature. From a second edition of his 'Mercurio Geografico...'. The engraver was Cl. Botzot....

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: DE ROSSI, G.
Place & Date: Rome, 1689

 


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

 


Latium.

Based on classical authors' sources, specifically Virgilius, Plinius, Varro, Halicarnasseus, Festus and Ausonius.Philip Wingius in his letter to Ortelius from 1592 mentio...

$650 / ≈ €608
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1595

 


Europa recens descripta à Guilielmo Blaeuw.

On either side columns depicting the manner of dress in the major countries of Europe, surmounted by nine city views and plans.For European mapmakers their own continent ...

$3500 / ≈ €3275
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644

 


Hollandia Comitatus.

Orientated west to the top of the sheet, this presents the County of Holland in the classical orientation for seventeenth century maps, with Amsterdam at the center. The ...

$1000 / ≈ €936
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1647

 


Amstelodami veteris et novissimae urbis accuratissima deline

A decorative plan of the town with at left and right legends mentioning the most important buildings and streets. At bottom center a view of the town from 't IJ. From Atl...

$2500 / ≈ €2339
Maker / Publisher: COVENS, J. / MORTIER, C.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1745-1754

 


Het Huisje door Czaar Peter den Grooten in den Jare 1697 te Zaandam bewoond.

Engraved by Cornelis van Baarsel (Utrecht 1761 - Amsterdam 1826-08-17) after a design of T. Monsieur M.Z. who made his drawing "after nature".A first state, the...

$80 / ≈ €75
Maker / Publisher: VAN DER SCHEER, F.
Place & Date: Zaandam, 1823

 


Carte des routes de poste de la Russie européenne, exécutée par ordre de S.E.M. le duc de Feltre ministre de la Guerre, ...

Post-route map on a scale of 1:2 500 000 made during the French campaign in Russia, which began June 24, 1812. With a table of the conventional signs and a table of conve...

$1250 / ≈ €1170
Maker / Publisher: SANSON (Nicolas Antoine, comte)
Place & Date: Paris, Dépôt Général de la Guerre 1812

 


Het Friessche Doolhoff, het beruchte dorp Molk-Worren

Uncommon map made in 1718 by Johannes Hilarides, principal at the Latin School in Bolsward.. Probably the only printed plan of a Frisian village of that time. The map was...

$350 / ≈ €328
Maker / Publisher: SCHENK, P.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1705

 


Beschrijving Gezicht van den Ykant af bezyden den Schreiers hoex Toren langs de Keulsche en Geldersche Kaei naer de Nieuwe Markt

This large engraving (560x920mm.) comes from a are series of 25 beautiful large views of Amsterdam and gives a colorful picture of the life and business of the city at th...

$2200 / ≈ €2059
Maker / Publisher: DE LETH, H.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1720

 


Kaerte en Afbeeldinge vande Geheele Jurisdictie van Stantdarbuyten Gelegen in de Generaliteit onder Marquisaet van Bergen op den Zoom

With a large title cartouche with signature of the maker Adriaan van der Ende, : Kaerte en Afbeeldinge vande Geheele Jurisdictie van Stantdarbuyten Gelegen in de Generali...

$2500 / ≈ €2339
Maker / Publisher: VAN DER ENDE, A.
Place & Date: Willemstad, 1737

 


Het Klooster ten Hage (Marienhage Eindhoven)

Very rare lithography of the ruin of the monastery of Ten Haghe in Eindhoven. Lithographed by M.Mouret, published in "oud-Nederland en de uit vroegere dagen overgebl...

$200 / ≈ €187
Maker / Publisher: VAN DER AA, P.
Place & Date: Nijmegen, 1837-1846

 


Rotterdamse Diergaarde. . .

Decorative view of Zoo of Rotterdam. To the right the house of the manager of the zoo. Decorated with personages in typical dress watching lions.

$80 / ≈ €75
Maker / Publisher: BUFFA, F.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1860

 


Zelandia Comitatus.

Based on the map by Van Deventer. For the first time a road connection between Flushing, Middelburg and Arnemuiden is shown. Mercator pays much attention to the area of s...

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: MERCATOR, G. / HONDIUS, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630

 


[Set of 6 maps] Charta öfver Storfurstendömet Finland på Friherre S. G. Hermelins Anstalt och Omkostnad. Sammandragen och författad af C. P. Hällström. Philos. Magister och Auscultant i Kongl. BergsColl. 1799.

This is the beautiful set of key map and separate maps of Samuel Gustav Hermelins map of Finland. The maps have been engraved by Fredrik Akrel, a very skilled and product...

$4000 / ≈ €3743
Maker / Publisher: HERMELIN, SAMUEL GUSTAV
Place & Date: Källa: J.Strang & E.- S. Harju: Suomen karttakirja 1799

 


Il Palazzo pubblico della Citta di Amsterdam.

Fine panoramic views of the Dam square in Amsterdam, taken from Storia moderna di tutti I popoli del mondo , edited by Thomas Salmon. A Italian edition of this famous wor...

$50 / ≈ €47
Maker / Publisher: ALBRIZZI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1740-1756

 


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...

$250 / ≈ €234
Maker / Publisher: PETRI Girolamo
Place & Date: Rome, 1858

 


Descriptio Germaniae Inferioris.

The oval map is surrounded by a strapwork frame and the title, adorned with ribbons, is held aloft by two winged cherubs.According to P. Meurer based on de Jode's 12 shee...

$500 / ≈ €468
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1587

 


London in Miniature With The Surrounding Villages. An Entire New Plan In which the Improvements both present and intended are actually reduced, by permission, from the surveys of the Several Proprietors. . .

Hand-coloured engraved map, dissected and mounted on linen, orange publishers label on one side, extending west to east from Kensington to East India and Greenwich Dock a...

$800 / ≈ €749
Maker / Publisher: MOGG, E.
Place & Date: London, 1821

 


Amstelodami celeberrimi hollandiae emporii delineatio nova.

Frederik de Wit’s beautiful bird's-eye view of the city. The river Amstel is still an open water flowing through the hart of the city. Only near the Dam it has been cov...

$3750 / ≈ €3509
Maker / Publisher: DE WIT, F.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c.1700

 


L'Europe Dressée Sur les Nouvelles observations. . .

A rare and monumental wall map of Europe, with original outline color, of four joined sheets, surrounded by text and vignettes printed on separate sheets.Created in 1740 ...

$10000 / ≈ €9357
Maker / Publisher: [NOLIN, Jean-Baptiste / Jean-Baptiste NOLIN II
Place & Date: Paris, 1700-1740

 


Ultraiectum Dominium.

Highly detailed map of Utrecht and its surroundings of The Netherlands.

$750 / ≈ €702
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1635

 


Amstelodami Veteris et Novissimi Delineatio per Joannem de Ram

Johannes de Ram’s very rare and beautiful map of Amsterdam, which is made after a map of Frederik de Wit. The river Amstel is still an open water flowing through the h...

$4000 / ≈ €3743
Maker / Publisher: DE RAM, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c.1682

 


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

 


Germaniae Nova ac Accurata Descriptio.

This "carte à figures"- map covers the Low Countries, Germany, Poland, Switzerland and Austria. Overall a very good copy of this excellently engraved, uncommon...

$2500 / ≈ €2339
Maker / Publisher: CLOPPENBURGH, E.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1642

 


Candie.

A panoramic view, showing the Turkish siege of Candia, with a numbered key (1-33) at the bottom locating 33 points of interest. of Crete coast and the Turkish vessels (33...

$150 / ≈ €140
Maker / Publisher: VISSCHER, N.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1678

 


Candia [Map of the island Crete]

Very rare map of the island Crete published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. Per Mare, e per Terra, & infieme quello di Terra Santa...

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: ROSACCIO, Giuseppe.
Place & Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598

 


Rodi [View of Rhodes]

Very rare view of the City of Rhodes on the island of Rhodes. Historically, Rhodes island was very famous worldwide for the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders o...

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: ROSACCIO, Giuseppe.
Place & Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598

 


Namphio. [Map of Anafi]

Very rare map of the island of Anafi Island published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. Per Mare, e per Terra, & infieme quello di T...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: ROSACCIO, Giuseppe.
Place & Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598

 


Stampalia. [Map of Astypalaia]

Very rare map of the Greek island Astypalaia. The island is known in Italian as Stampalia. Published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. P...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: ROSACCIO, Giuseppe.
Place & Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598

 


Traiectum Wttrecht

Fine plan of Utrecht from the townbooks "Novum Ac Magnum Theatrum Urbium Belgicae Liberae Ac Foederatae".

$1600 / ≈ €1497
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1649

 


Hollandiae pars septentrionalis, Vulgo Westvriesland..

Based on the work of B.F.van Berckenrode, this fine map, orientated west to the top of the sheet, includes Kennemerland and Hollands Noorderkwartier and is a reasonably u...

$2500 / ≈ €2339
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W. / J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1667

 


[ The repositioning of the Vatican obelisk ]

Joan Blaeu published The Repositioning of the Vatican Obelisk. This large engraving on multiple sheets and in beautiful original colors is based on Domenico Fontana’s d...

$5000 / ≈ €4679
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1649

 


Provincia ecclesiastica di Malines nel Belgio (Tav LXII)

This large-format map of Belgium with its different dioceses. The map is finely engraved and beautifully colored and was prepared by Girolamo Petri, a lawyer who served a...

$250 / ≈ €234
Maker / Publisher: PETRI Girolamo
Place & Date: Rome, 1858

 


[Map of Corfu. View of the city of Corfu on the foreground. ]

Very rare map of Corfu with a view of the city of Corfu on the foreground. Published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. Per Mare, e per T...

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: ROSACCIO, Giuseppe.
Place & Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598

 


Curia Hollandiae Interior. (Binnenhof)

The government center of the Netherlands is situated in and around the Binnenhof-Buitenhof in The Hague. In 1248 the Roman king Willem II built a castle here and named it...

$1300 / ≈ €1216
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1649

 


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

 


[Page with imaginary towns in Hungary. ] CCLXVIII

Page with imaginary towns in Hungary (230x225mm.) This leaf is from an edition of Hartmann Schedel's Liber chronicarum or Nuremberg Chronicle. The Chronicle was published...

$500 / ≈ €468
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1493

 


La Saxe Contenant le Routes et les postes. . .

Fine post-route map of Saxony in Germany with a splendidly engraved title cartouche. The map is centered on Leipzig. George Louis Le Rouge was active between 1740 and 178...

$75 / ≈ €70
Maker / Publisher: LE ROUGE, G.L.
Place & Date: Paris, 1756

 


Vue de la ville et du château de Heidelberg . . . Ansicht der stadt und des schlosses Heidelberger . . .

Engraving after Louis Charles François de Graimberg-Belleau. Engraved by Ch. Haldennvang.French artist. Son of Gilles-François Belleau Graimberg. Louis Charles Françoi...

$75 / ≈ €70
Maker / Publisher: GRAIMBERG, Ch.
Place & Date: Graimberg, Heidelberg, ca. 1840

 


Chaerte vande Wieringer waert, de welcke inden jaere XVI… (Wieringerwaard)

Rare wall map of the Wieringerwaard polder, as raffled on 12 July 1611. The polder was laid dry in 1610. It border, and also the border of the municipality, were the Zuid...

$700 / ≈ €655
Maker / Publisher: ANTHONIUS, A.
Place & Date: 1741-1744

 


[Manuscript map, mounted on linen and on rollers]

With a title in the upper right corner "Carta geographica generalatus carlostatuensiscum adgacentibus confinis turcicis et venetis martinimis dolmatio istrensibus.&q...

$12000 / ≈ €11229
Maker / Publisher: Anonymous
Place & Date: Venice, c. 1700

 


L'Impero della preda ossia la Piovra d'Absburgo.

Austro-Hungarian Octopus zinc lithographed map. A propaganda sheet attacking the Austro-Hungarian Empire, showing it as an octopus with its tentacles wrapped around the v...

$500 / ≈ €468
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS.
Place & Date: La Zincografia, Milan, c. 1915

 


Provincie Noord-Braband. / Breda, de Langstraat. . .

Decorative and uncommon custume plate lithographed by R. de Vries and published by Frans Buffa & Zonen in Amsterdam. A group of 4 women from the area of Baronie van B...

$200 / ≈ €187
Maker / Publisher: BRAET VON UBERFELDT / BING, V.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1857

 


Contado di Zelanda..

A most attractive and decorative map by Vincenzo Coronelli. An elaborate title cartouche garlanded with intertwined flowers and dedicated to Vincenzo Caualli. The remarka...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: CORONELLI, V.M.
Place & Date: Venice 1692

 


Kasteel Heeswijk.

Very fine etching of the Castle of Heeswijk, by the well-known etcher Ludwig Willem Reymert Wenckebach. He was born in The Hague on 12 January 1860 and died in 1937. The ...

$90 / ≈ €84
Maker / Publisher: WENCKEBACH, L.W.R.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1901

 


Porte de Harlem (Heemstede/Haarlem)

Showing the Haarlemmer Poort (gate) in Heemstede near Haarlem. Likely published by Mondhard, who was a well-known publisher of optical prints, established in rue St.Marti...

$125 / ≈ €117
Maker / Publisher: MONDHARD
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1750

 


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 ...

$225 / ≈ €211
Maker / Publisher: MONDHARD
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...

$225 / ≈ €211
Maker / Publisher: CHEREAU, J.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1750

 


DELFT. Delphium urbs Hollandiae cultissima. . .

A bird's-eye view of the town of Delft. From the first Dutch translation of Guicciardini's description of the Netherlands. In this town-plan, three buildings, still domin...

$200 / ≈ €187
Maker / Publisher: GUICCIARDINI, L.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1612

 


Das Hertzogthum Braband. . .

Charming map of the Dutch and Belgium province of Brabant. With a fine cartouche.

$200 / ≈ €187
Maker / Publisher: SCHREIBER, J.G.
Place & Date: Leipzig, 1749

 


Prospectus Castelli Boxtel.

One of the earliest views of the Castle of Boxtel. Engraved by Henricus Cause. With a description in Latin, French and Dutch.

$75 / ≈ €70
Maker / Publisher: LE ROY, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1695

 


Prospectus veteris castelli Graviae.

One of the earliest views of the ancient Castle of Grave. Engraved by Casper Bouttats. With a description in Latin, French and Dutch.

$90 / ≈ €84
Maker / Publisher: LE ROY, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1695

 


Kasteel Croij.

Decorative lithography of the castle of Croij.

$75 / ≈ €70
Maker / Publisher: SCHIPPERUS, P.A.
Place & Date: Den Haag, 1880

 


Cust van Hollant Tussen de Maes ende Texel.

Uncommon chart of the coast of Holland, including the southern tip of Texel. East at the top. Two fine compass cards, soundings and a large Bree Veerthien offshore.Piete...

$600 / ≈ €561
Maker / Publisher: GOOS, P.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1666

 


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 / ≈ €561
Maker / Publisher: LANGLEY, E. / BELCH, W.
Place & Date: London, 1817

 


s'Lands en Oost-Indische Lynbanen.

A decorative print of the Lynbanen a place were V.O.C. ship riggings and ropes were produced and kept.

$80 / ≈ €75
Maker / Publisher: WAGENAAR, L.J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1760-1767

 


t'Oost-Indisch-Huys.

A decorative print of the East Indian House, the headquarters of the V.O.C., a place for meeting, trading and storage of spices and ship equipment. The maps and charts we...

$80 / ≈ €75
Maker / Publisher: WAGENAAR, L.J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1760-1767

 


s'Lands en Oost-Indische Lynbanen. & t'Oost-Indisch-Huys.

A decorative print of the Lynbanen a place were V.O.C. ship riggings and ropes were produced and kept.

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: WAGENAAR, L.J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1760-1767

 


Oost-Indis Zee Magazyn - Arçenal des Indes Orientalis.

Decorative view of the East Indian Arsenal, now-a-says the Maritime Museum.

$150 / ≈ €140
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1700

 


Arcenal de l'Amirauté.

A decorative print of the 'T Landts Magazyn , or 'Scheepvaart Museum' (Naval Museum).

$80 / ≈ €75
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1700

 


D' Admiralyteyts Huys - La maison de l'Amirauté.

Decorative print of the "D'Admiralyteits Huys", Het Prinsenhof, of the Dutch East India Company VOC. Located at the Oudezijds Voorburgwal 195-199, Amsterdam.

$150 / ≈ €140
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1700

 


Het West Indisch Huys.

A decorative print of the West Indian House , the headquarters of the WIC, a place for meeting, trading and storage of spices and ship equipment. The maps and charts were...

$200 / ≈ €187
Maker / Publisher: DAPPER, O.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, J. van Meurs, 1663

 


Islandia.

Perhaps the most famous map of Iceland. On the south side of the island a collection of all possible sea monsters is depicted. Polar bears on ice flows and volcanoes in t...

$11000 / ≈ €10293
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1603

 


Foederatae Belgicae Tabulae.

Fine, detailed map of the area of the modern Netherlands less the southern part of Limburg, of which the small area around the town of Maastricht is shown in the inset bo...

$1250 / ≈ €1170
Maker / Publisher: DE WIT, F.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680

 


Nieuwe kaart van het oostelykste deel van Holland. . .

Detailed map covering the area of Gouda, Iisselstein, s'Hertogenbosch, Zevenbergen, Dordrecht.

$200 / ≈ €187
Maker / Publisher: TIRION, I.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1749

 


Romani Imperii Imago.

Very rare map in a first edition by Jacques Honervogt. Copied after a map by Ortelius but much rarer. The medallion portraits are of Romulus and Remus - the genealogical ...

$2500 / ≈ €2339
Maker / Publisher: HONERVOGT, J.
Place & Date: Paris, 1630

 


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 / ≈ €468
Maker / Publisher: DU VAL, P.
Place & Date: Paris, 1684

 


Quinta Etas Mundi. Folium. LXXXII

Latin text page with woodcuts on recto and verso of Saints, Kings, and Queens. On verso a large wood cut of A giant colossus, executed by Chares of Lindus (Clare Lydo), t...

$80 / ≈ €75
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493

 


Nova Germaniae Descriptio..

A finely engraved carte à figures, with the side borders depicting emperors, while the upper and lower panels contain finely engraved miniature town prospects, among the...

$2500 / ≈ €2339
Maker / Publisher: JANSSONIUS, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1632

 


[Voyage en Suisse / Reise die Schweiz.]

A first edition children's folding board game of Switzerland and its many places and sights to visit. Although it is missing most of its original components (dice, cards,...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS.
Place & Date: Switzerland, 1891

 


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

 


Gesigt van den Vermaakelyken Overtoom Gelegen buyten de Leydsche Poort der Stad Amsterdam te sien naar de groote en kleyne overhaal. Vüe agreable de l'overtoom, hors de la porte de leide, pres de la ville d'astersdam…

A view of the Overtoom in the eighteenth century. Etching on two joined sheets of paper, after A.Rademaker. By the eighteenth-century, numerous country villas had been b...

$4000 / ≈ €3743
Maker / Publisher: SCHENK, L. [after] RADEMAKER, A.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1760

 


Currus Veliferi Illmi. Pr. Mauritii Nassouvii. (Prince Maurits' sailing-carriage, designed by Simon Stevin. )

Prince Maurits' sailing carriages had been designed by Simon Stevin. The Prince, always accessible to new inventions of his old instructor, could not please the foreign a...

$1800 / ≈ €1684
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1649

 


Candia cum Insulis.. Corfu Zante, Milo, Nicsia, Santorini.

Four views on one sheet: A large map of Crete, with three smaller views across the top showing the Ionian Islands of Kerkira (Corfu), Cephalonia and Zakinthos (Zante.) Th...

$500 / ≈ €468
Maker / Publisher: MERCATOR, G. / HONDIUS, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630