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Olympia anciennes montagnes Russes.
Chromo lithographed poster, "Olympia anciennes montagnes Russes.", by CHERET, J. Plate 133, published in Maître 17, on April 1898. The "Les Maîtres de l'...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, April 1898
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
Exposition Internationale des produits du commerce . . .
Chromo lithographed poster, "Exposition Internationale des produits du commerce . . .", by WILETTE, A. Plate 142, published in Maître 17, on April 1896. The &q...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, April 1896
Mocha, in Arabien. (View of Mocha, Yemen.)
Magnificent bird's eye-town-view of Mocha in Yemen.. Etched by Gaspar Bouttats (1640-1695).The Antwerp based publisher Jacques Peeters published ca. 1690 a series of prin...
Place & Date: Antwerp, c.1690
Tabula nova utriusque Indiae.
This is the fourth and last edition of this map based on Waldseemüller's first "modern" map of Asia. It follows that cartography without change but adds an int...
Place & Date: Vienne, 1541
Tabula Superioris Indiae & Tartariae maioris. (Modern Map of China, Japan, etc.)
Important map extending from Tartary in the north, to "Prov. Bocat" (Cambodia) in the south. "Tebet" is shown prominently, as is "Zinpangri"...
Place & Date: Vienne, 1541
Sommaire du n°32 - Juillet 1898.
Cover binder of Les Maitres de l'Affiche n°32 (3rd year of publication). It used to contains the plates 125, 126, 127 and 128. The "Les Maitres de l'Affiche" c...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, July 1898
(Publicity.) Thé Lyons. Renommé pur son Arome.
Original chromo lithography in-store display for Lyon's tea in Belgium and France. In 1902 the Lyons family started their little tea business on High Street in Dublin, ne...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1935
(Publicity poster) Amer Besset Sans Rival.
Original chromo lithographed in-store display for alcoholic drink Amer Besset. Printed by Joseph-Charles in Paris.
Place & Date: Paris, ca.1933
Lexeme Salon du Cycle.
Chromo lithographed poster of Les Maîtres de l'Affiche being plate n°51. The "Les Maîtres de l'Affiche" contained 256 small for lithographic prints of the be...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, 1897
Arabia.
A handsome map of the Arabian Peninsula drawn on a large scale on which the three classical divisions are shown with some urban centers and topographical features. A cert...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1662
Planiglobii Terrestris - Mappe-Monde...
Word map in double hemisphere. In center two smaller hemispheres of the north and south pole are shown. Two interesting diagrams depict the earth as it would be seen from...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1746
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Hanc Tabulam continens Laetam Pharnambuci.. . [Brazil].
An extremely rare and decorative map of coast-line of Pernambuco. With one inset: In the upper left corner a map of Brazil, with title in five lines Dutch and five lines ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Asia.
Uncommon map of Asia. Engraved by Marco di Pietro.The map is of interest for the use of G. di Corea, for the sea between Korea and Japan.Published by Carlo Antonio Barbie...
Place & Date: Milan, 1807
Asia By H.Moll Geographer.
Detailed map of Asia. From his "Atlas minor: or a new and curious set of sixty-two maps. . .", which was first published in 1729 and reprinted in 1732, 1736.The...
Place & Date: London, 1736
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...
Place & Date: London, 1720
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 ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1584
Nova Africa descriptio.
A beautifully engraved and most attractive "carte à figures"- map of the African continent. Bordered, above, by panels showing panorama's of Cairo, Alexandria,...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1660
Middelbourg Ville la plus considerable de l'Isle de Walcheren et du Comté de Zelande l'une des huit provinces Unis des pais-bas . .
A very decorative and extremely rare of Middelburg, including a numbered (1-19) key in lower part. Published by Jacques Chéreau, (1688 - 1776). Engraved by Aveline and ...
Place & Date: Paris, ca.1750
Entrée des forêts de la rivière Sedger. . .
Exquisite contemporary colored lithograph of Sedger's river in the Chili, with as seen by Dumont D'Urville's, with Indians. Drawn by Louis Le Breton, lithographed by Bich...
Place & Date: Paris, 1846
Rivage du port Saint-Nicolas.
Exquisite contemporary colored lithograph of Port Saint-Nicolmas Bay in most southern part of South America, with Dumont D'Urville's officers making landfall. Drawn by E....
Place & Date: Paris, 1846
Carte nouvelle de Moscovie represente la partie Septentrionale dressée par G.De L'Isle. . .
Uncommon map covering the area north of Moscow, including Lapland. Prepared by G. de L'Isle.Joachim Ottens (1663 - 1719) and his sons Renier and Joshua were prominent Dut...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Occidentalis Americae partis.
The most beautifully engraved early map of the Caribbean, including Florida and the Southeast. The map includes representations of Columbus' ships and various notes regar...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594
L'Asie divisée en ses principaux Etats..
Finely and crisply engraved map of Asia, decorated with an ornamental title cartouche in the lower-left corner. The map is of interest for the use of Mer de Corée for th...
Place & Date: Venice, 1776 - 1784
Nieuwe Wassende Graadige Pas-kaart van de Kust van Guinea en Brasilia.
Rare two-sheet sea chart of the coasts of Brazil, West Africa and South Africa, published by Johannes Van Keulen (the younger), circa 1720.The chart shows the western coa...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1751
Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio.
This is the second copperplate of Ortelius' map showing the western hemisphere, showing the prominent bulge in the South American coastline. An important map because of i...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
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 Corease Zee for the sea between Korea ...
Place & Date: Deventer, 1742
DANSEUSE. Costumes Persans 9.
A beautiful hand colored lithograph of an elegant dancing girl from Persia published in the French work "Galerie Royale de Costumes peints d´après nature par diver...
Place & Date: Paris, Chez Aubert & Cie., 1842-1848
Penisola Dell India di la dal Gange Diusa ne i Regni, che in essasi contengono et accresciuta di varie notizie. Da Giacomo Cantelli da Vignola e conforme le Relationi di alcuni Padri della Compa di Giesu di Monsu Tavernier . . . 1683
Giacomo Rossi's fine late 17th century map of Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia and part of Sumatra.. Engraved by Franciscus Donia. Issued in Il Mercurio geografico In lower r...
Place & Date: Rome, 1683-1688
![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.](/uploads/cache/40658-250x250.jpg)
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...
Place & Date: Dublin, 1767
The Harbour of Casco Bay and Islands Adjacent Bt Capt. Cyprian Southicke.
The earliest printed chart of Casco Bay, an inlet of the Gulf of Maine on the southern coast of Maine, New England. First issued in 1720 by Mount and Page, it remained in...
Place & Date: Dublin, 1767
Nova Virginiae Tabula.
A fine example of Blaeu's map of Virginia and the Chesapeake region is based on the first state of Smith's map, 1612, and is slightly larger and more expertly engraved.Th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Carte de la Roumanie et Pays limitrophes. Odessa. GALATZ.
Very detailed (1:750.000) map centered on Constanta, with the river Danube in Romania. Made after an Austrian map. The French Service géographique des armées was founde...
Place & Date: Paris, 1908
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1730
Course de Baque et Disposition des Quadrilles, dans l'Amphiteatre seconde journée.
An early and intriguing engraving recording one of the most celebrated and spectacular festivals held at Paris by the young Louis XIV. The multi-day tournament took place...
Place & Date: Paris, imprimerie royale, 1670
Overzichtskaart van den Nederlandsch oost Indischen Archipel.
Very detailed map of Indonesia, taken from "Atlas van Nederlandsch Oost- en West-Indie," prepared by a doctor I. Dornseiffen, and published by Seyffardt's Boekh...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Seyffardt, 1884
(Totius Americae nova et exacta tabula ex) optimis tum geographorum tum aliorum scriptis collecta et ad hodiernam regnorum principatuum et maiorum partium distinctionem accomodata.
Eastern part of a two-sheet map of America, with attribution to Willem Blaeu. According to Philip Burden, the map was derived from Cornelius Danckert's 1647 map of the sa...
Place & Date: Rome, 1679
Piazza e tempio di Santa Maria della Rotonda gia l'Antico Pantheon.
Monumental engraving showing the Pantheon in Rome, in its setting, with below a ground-plan and elevation. Fountain in front, adjacent buildings and carriages and people ...
Place & Date: Rome, 1693
La Basilica Vaticana consacrata al Principe de gli Apostoli . . .
Monumental engraving showing the Papal Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican, in its setting, with below a coat of arms with dedication to Cardinal Sigismondo Chigi. Obili...
Place & Date: Rome, 1693
Prospetto dell'anfiteatro Flavio . . . / Prospetto di Tutto l'Anfiteatro intiero . . . / Pianta dell' divisa nelli suoi / Spaccato, e veduta interiore dell' Anfiteatro.
Monumental engraving showing the Colloseum in Rome, in its setting, with below a ground-plan and elevation. Engraved and drawn by Alessandro Specchi (1668-1729), an engra...
Place & Date: Rome, 1703
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Vorstellung einiger Gegende und Plaetze in Nord America.
The title of the map in English: Picture of some surroundings and towns under French and English jurisdiction. With town plans of Louisburg on Isle Royal, Quebec and Hali...
Place & Date: Nurmberg 1756
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[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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas, 1609
The Family Atlas Containing Eighty maps Constructed by Eminent Geographers. . .
Un unrecorded later edition of the S.D.U.K. Family atlas, with 80 plus one extra map. Most maps are single sheet but several are double page maps. Printed on heavy paper ...
Place & Date: London Edward Stanford, 1874
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[Incas lay siege to Cusco.]
Atahualpa’s brother, Manco, organized a long and bloody siege to reoccupy the Inca capital, which eventually spread to open rebellion throughout the land. Pizarro, who ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
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[The Dutch covalesce on the Isle Santa Clara.]
Many of the Dutch were in poor health after their Atlantic crossing and when they found an island to the north of Rio de Janeiro, called Santa Clara, (I. do Francez) they...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Ses Amputations se Poursuivent Methodiquement.
Propaganda map, produced under the NAZI collaborating Vichy French regime and designed to inspire revulsion and hatred of the English among the French, while frequently d...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1941 / ca. 1960
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’...
Place & Date: Osaka, 1930
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
Carte Astronomique de L'Univers.
A large and decorative, informative chart illustrating and describing the Solar System, backed by the stars, printed in blue and black, surrounded by further 17 vignette ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1875
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[Soil map] Virginia-Maryland-West Virginia, Leesburg sheet.
Early color lithographed soil map by Julius Bien & Co. in New York for Department of Agriculture. Legends at side give detail on soil type, etc. They also include int...
Place & Date: New York, 1903
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[Butterflies]
Plate CXXIV from Carl Gustav Jablonsky and J.F.W. Herbst: "Natursystem aller bekannten in- und ausländischen Insecten", engraved by Bodenehr. Carl Gustav Jablo...
Place & Date: Berlin, J. Pauli, 1785-1806
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[Portrait] Johannes Baptista Homann . . .
Stunning full portrait of the Imperial Geographer of the Holy Roman Empire, Johann Baptist Homann (1664-1724) who was born in the Bavarian town of Kammlach. Educated at a...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, c.1740
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1720
A-Na-Cam-E-Gish-Ca. A Chippeway Chief.
Half-length portrait of Anacamegishca, bare-chested, wearing a blanket and a peace medal. A-Na-Cam-E-Gish-Ca (1785-1862) - was a Chippeway Indian Chief. The Chippewa is o...
Place & Date: Philadelphia, 1837
Ca-Ta-He-Cas-Sa-Black Hoof. Principal Chief of the Shawanoes.
Half-length portrait of Catahecassa wearing a dark colored jacked, grey vest, white shirt, and grey head scarf.A wonderful hand colored lithograph of Ca-Ta-He-Cas-Sa-Blac...
Place & Date: Philadelphia, 1837
Major Ridge. A Cherokee Chief.
Head and shoulders portrait of Major Ridge,(1771-1839) wearing a blue jacket, gold or yellow vest, white shirt, and black cravat. A Cherokee Chief, who as a Cherokee lead...
Place & Date: Philadelphia, 1837
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
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ABRAHAMUS ORTELIUS ANTVERPIANUS Orteli dum proponis spectantibus Orbem, Quam tua delectant structa Theatra homines! . . .
Portrait of Abraham Ortelius (Abraham Ortel), famous cartographer born in Antwerp and after studying Greek, Latin and mathematics set up business there with his sister, a...
Place & Date: Antwerp, c.1595
Christophorus Columbus Liguriensis Indiarum Primus Inventor Anno MCCCCXCII.
Portrait of Christopher Columbus (c. 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506), explorer, colonizer, and navigator, born in the Republic of Genoa, in north-western Italy. Under th...
Place & Date: Antwerp, c.1700
Selling price: $200
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Allerneuester geographisch- und topographischer Schau-Platz von Africa und Ost-Indien. . .
An early issue of this important book by Johann Wolfgang Heydt's describing the Dutch factories, settlements and stations at the hands of the Dutch East India Company in ...
Place & Date: Wilhermsdorf, Tetscher u. Nürnberg, Homanns Erben, 1744
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....
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...
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...
Place & Date: Weert, Smeets, 1945
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...
Place & Date: London, 1627
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...
Place & Date: USSR, 1978
Karte von Europa im Jahre 1870 nach einem französischen Holzschnitte.
Satirical illustration by Paul Hadol showing disposition of power in Europe at the beginning of 1870. Satirical print depicting a map of Europe in which the countries are...
Place & Date: Hamburg, Fuchs, 1914
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 ...
Place & Date: The Hague, 1604 - 1605
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 ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Carte du Canada ou de la Nouvelle France.
A later edition of Guillaume De l'Isle's map. It still includes the fictitious discoveries of Baron de Lahoutan: the legendary River Longue etc. The northwest corner of H...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1730
Hamburgum.
Engraved bird's-eye town-plan of Hamburg, two keys below. Frederick de Wit published after 1694 a town book of European and Asian cities (Theatrum Praecipuarum Totius Eur...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1694
Germania.
Second state of this rare "carte à figures"- map of Germany, The Netherlands, Poland and central Europe. Bordered on three sides with portraits and views. In t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1607
Hark ! Hark ! The dogs do bark.
This very rare political caricature map of Europe depicts the continent at the outbreak of World War I, or as it was called at the time the Great War. Designed by Johnson...
Place & Date: London, Johnson Riddle & Co., 1914
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...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1525 -1541
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...
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...
Place & Date: Brunswick, 1640
Die Zyp / La Zype.
A miniature map showing the polder of De Zype. Title cartouche in the upper side.First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were executed by the most famou...
Place & Date: Amsterdam / Frankfurt, 1609
Guyana, Surinam, Amapa.
Very rare Ottoman printed map of Guyana, Suriname and Amapa. With Trinidad, an inset map of the mouth of the Rivers Essequibo, Courantyne, Suriname with Paramaribo.From C...
Place & Date: Üsküdar (Istanbul), 1803
Oost-Frise, ou Le Comté d'Embden . . .
Fine map of East Friesland with a decorative cartouche and small scale of miles.Alexis-Hubert Jaillot (1632-1712), was a French cartographer. He joined the Sanson heirs a...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1692
Military map of the countries between Odessa & Perekop with the stations of the Russian forces.
Rare colored linen-backed map showing Russian troop positions and Odessa Batteries. On the inside of the cover a list of "Wyld's list of recent publications : seat o...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1855