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Chinese erotic painting on silk.
Fine oriental miniature of an erotic scene of an Chinese couple engaged in amorous pursuit. Quin Dynasty, late 19th. century.This type of Chinese erotic paintings, usuall...
Publisher: CHINA
Date: China, ca. 1880
Chinese erotic painting on silk.
Fine oriental miniature of an erotic scene of an Chinese couple engaged in amorous pursuit. Quin Dynasty, late 19th. century.This type of Chinese erotic paintings, usuall...
Publisher: CHINA
Date: China, ca. 1880
Chinese erotic painting on silk.
Fine oriental miniature of an erotic scene of an Chinese couple engaged in amorous pursuit. Quin Dynasty, late 19th. century.This type of Chinese erotic paintings, usuall...
Publisher: CHINA
Date: China, ca. 1880
Indian erotic painting on ivory
Fine oriental miniature of an erotic scene of an Indian couple. Drawing, brush and gouache on ivory panel, late 19th/ early 20th cent.
Publisher: ORIENTAL MINIATURE
Date: India, ca. 1900
Indian erotic painting on ivory
Fine oriental miniature of an erotic scene of an Japanese looking couple. Drawing, brush and gouache on ivory panel, late 19th/ early 20th cent.
Publisher: ORIENTAL MINIATURE
Date: India, ca. 1900
Indian erotic painting on ivory
Fine oriental miniature of an erotic scene of an Indian couple with a landscape in the back. Drawing, brush and gouache on ivory panel, late 19th/ early 20th cent.
Publisher: ORIENTAL MINIATURE
Date: Iran, India, ca. 1900
Eight Indian erotic paintings, accordion mounted.
SUPERB SET of eight remarkable free miniatures, presenting couples in natural decorations. The miniatures are painted in Iran or India in late 19th - early 20th century]....
Publisher: IRAN or INDIA
Date: Iran, India, ca. 1900
Tiger tamer.
Showing a tiger tamer with two tigers who apparently have more interest in his erotic, scarily dressed assistance.
Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Date: ca. 1950
Christophorus Columus Ligur Indiarum Prim invet A°1492
Very decorative portrait of Christopher Columbus (c. 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506), engraved by Theodor de Bry (1528-1593) and published in Jean Jacques Boissard, &quo...
Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Date: Frankfurt a.M. 1597 - 1599
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 ...
Publisher: NOLIN, J.B. / CORONELLI, P.
Date: Paris, 1688
Brandeburgum Marchionatus. . .
A very decorative map by Willem Blaeu of part of Poland and Pomerania, Mecklenburg and Rugia with excellent detail of forests, rivers, towns and villages. Ornamented with...
Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Date: Amsterdam, 1644
(Art déco gouache)
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The g...
Publisher: PICHON, Robert (Workshop).
Date: Paris, ca. 1930
Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio.
Gerard Mercator's great world map of 1569 was condensed into double hemispherical form by his son Rumold. It first appeared in 1587 in Casaubon's edition of Strabo's Geog...
Publisher: MERCATOR, R.
Date: Amsterdam, 1595-1609
Die Stat Landaw.
Attractive bird's-eye view of the city Landau in Germany. Latin text on the verso.
Publisher: MÜNSTER,S.
Date: Basel, ca. 1554
A Map and Chart of Arabia, the Red Sea, & Persian Gulf, drawn from the Chart of the Eastern Ocean, Publish'd in 1740, by Order of ye Count de Maruepas, improv'd from particular Surveys, and regulated by Astronomical Observations.
A small but unusual map of the Arabian Peninsular, engraved by G. Child for 'The universal traveller: or, A compleat description of the several nations of the world', by ...
Publisher: CHILD, G.
Date: London, Th. Salmon, 1752-1753
Waere affbeeldinge wegens het casteel ende stadt Batavia.
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: LETI, G.
Date: Amsterdam, 1681
Der Hollaendisch-Ostindianischen Compagnie Weltberühmte Haupt - Handels und Niederlags stadt BATAVIA..
Very fine decorative plan of Batavia showing the City and its immediate environs, the surrounding rice fields intersected by a network of waterways, canals and outlying f...
Publisher: HOMANN HEIRS.
Date: Nuremberg, 1733
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...
Publisher: JANSSONIUS, J.
Date: Amsterdam, ca 1660
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ATLAS RUSSICUS mappa una generali et undeviginti specialibus vastissimum Imperium Russicum cum adiacentibus regionibus [repeated in French].
After an unnumbered general map of Russia there are 13 numbered maps that cover European Russia (scale 1, 1.527.000). The other (last) 6 maps cover Asian Russia (Siberia,...
Publisher: Akademie von Wissenschaften
Date: St Peterburg, Akademie von Wissenschaften. 1745
Sincapour.
Early view of Singapore after Paris and engraved in aquatint technique by Sigismond Himely (1801-1872). Published as plate 28 in Voyage autour du monde par les mers de l'...
Publisher: HIMELY, S.
Date: Paris, Finot, 1835
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
Danubius Fluminum Europaeorum Princeps, Secundum naturalem Suum Cursum Pontes, Stationes, et Accessoria Flumina, una cum intimatione Ubi et quinam Eorum Navigabilia . . .
Extremely rare and striking large format map of the course of the Danube, from its source to the Black Sea. Engraved by Johan Ulrich Kraus and published by Matthaeus Wagn...
Publisher: WAGNER, M.
Date: Ulm, 1686
Plan du Port de St Augustin dans la Floride.
This chart shows a plan of the Port of St. Augustine in Florida.The only issue of this version of Bellin's map, slightly larger than the common version. Depths shown by s...
Publisher: BELLIN, J.N.
Date: Paris, 1764
Delineatio Regiae Civitatis Candy. (Plan of the city Kandy in Ceylon.)
Uncommon early view of the city of Kandy, in the center of Ceylon –now Sri Lanka-, shown from above, intricately engraved; it shows a fortification at the center of the...
Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Date: Frankfurt, 1607
La Lune à un Mètre [Mini poster for Paris Exposition Universelle)
Original lithograph poster for "Paris Exposition Universelle" held between April and November, 1900, which received 50 million visitors. In 1899, director Geor...
Publisher: TRUCHET, A.
Date: Paris, c.1900
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Rhodi [Map of Rhodes]
Very rare map of Rhodes Island published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. Per Mare, e per Terra, & infieme quello di Terra Santa. D...
Publisher: ROSACCIO, Giuseppe.
Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598
Santorini.
Very rare map of Santorini published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. Per Mare, e per Terra, & infieme quello di Terra Santa. Da Gi...
Publisher: ROSACCIO, Giuseppe.
Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598
Share of 1000 Florins to Michel de Knyff. N° 135.
Share of 1000 Florins, paid in four tranches at 250 Florins of Vienna, from "Compagnie Imperiale & Royale Octroyee d'Assurance de Commerce & d'escompte."...
Publisher: COMPAGNIE IMPERIALE & ROYALE
Date: Trieste, 1782 - 1783
Tabula Americae Specialis Geographica Regni Peru, Brasiliae, Terra Firmae & Reg: Amazonum, Secundum relationes de Herrera, de Laet & PP d Acuña & M. Rodriguez . . .
A good and clean copy of Homann's map of the northern part of South America. The map is on the Valley of the Amazon and delineates the Amazon and its labyrinth of tributa...
Publisher: HOMANN HEIRS.
Date: Nuremberg, 1728
Typus Geographicus Chili Paraguay Freti Magellanici &c.
Detailed map covering the southern part of the continent based on the cartography of Delisle and the information gleaned from the voyages of Brouwer, Narbouroug and Beauc...
Publisher: HOMANN HEIRS.
Date: Nuremberg, 1750
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...
Publisher: OTTENS, R. and J.
Date: Amsterdam, c. 1720
Turcici Imperii Imago.
The map shows the Ottoman Empire with Turkey, Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Arabia and North Eastern Africa. The map is decorated with a title cartouche and a portrait of...
Publisher: MERCATOR, G. / HONDIUS, J.
Date: Amsterdam, 1629
Map of Louisiana from D'Anville's Atlas.
This map presents a highly detailed treatment of the region from Cabo Del Norte to the Apalachiola River, centered on the mouth of the Mississippi and extending inland to...
Publisher: BOWEN, Th.
Date: London, 1788
Carte qui contient..Iles & Terres..L'Amerique..Jamaique..
Eight maps on one sheet. From Chatelain's Atlas Historique et Méthodique . Including maps of Bermuda, Jamaica, New England with Long Island, Carolina, Chesapeake and Del...
Publisher: CHATELAIN, H.
Date: Amsterdam 1728
Nouvel atlas de la Chine, de la Tartarie chinoise, et du Thibet.
First edition of "the principal cartographic authority on China during the 18th century". It was the second major atlas of China produced in Europe following th...
Publisher: DU HALDE, J.-B.
Date: The Hague, H. Scheurleer, 1737
A map of the British Army with battle honours and militray achievements and Regimental Badges . . .
Shows English County Regiments, Battle Honours and Military Achievements. Bordered by Regimental Badges.A fascinating piece of British history.Read more about Pictorial M...
Publisher: HMSO
Date: London, 1952
Carte des Principales Ports de Mer Bancs de sable &c: qui sont dans la Mer Rouge..
A sheet including 11 charts of Bays and anchor places along the coasts of Yemen, east coast of the Arabian peninsula and Egypt. One of the early maps to focus on this are...
Publisher: MORTIER, P.
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Nova totius geographica telluris projectio. . .
This is the first atlas of Gerard Valk, publisher, engraver and manufacturer of globes in Amsterdam. The latter joined in 1673 Petrus Schenck for the publication of maps....
Publisher: VALK, G.
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1711
Lutetia Furens. Das ist : Die wütende Statt PARIS.
Rarissime placard dirigé contre la Ligue et le duc de Mayenne. La gravure est signée I.S. (marque inconnue). Ce placard en latin et en allemand est une reprise de l’e...
Publisher: /. S.
Date: France ca.. 1594
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Jules Verne Le Tour du Monde en 80 jours. [Goose game board inspired by Jules Verne's novel Tour du Monde en 80 jours.]
Goose game board inspired by Jules Verne's novel whose boxes are illustrated with color lithographs and the center occupied by a world map. Vignette illustrations numbere...
Publisher: GUERIN-MULLER & CIE. / CAPENDU, A.
Date: Paris, ca. 1880