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Globe terrestre d'après les découvertes..
Attractive and large (height 112cm) library globe by a prominent Paris globe maker, with a brass meridian circle, horizon ring and hour ring, supported by four brass quad...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1885
Moscovia urbs Metropolis totius Russiae Albae.
Detailed bird's-eye town-plan of Moscow from Janssonius' rare townbook. With a key (1-20) to important spots in town. The verso has French text and originates from Jansso...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1657
Americae Nova Tabula.
The delineation of the coast and the nomenclature on both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts are basically Spanish in origin and follow the maps of Ortelius and Wytfliet. To...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1645
Il Regno Di Candia.
This rare map is based on the important map of Crete by Basilicata. The maps by Marco Boschini reached a wider audience than the few individuals for whom the Basilicata m...
Place & Date: Venice, 1660
New Yok entworfen von D.F. Sotzmann. Hamburg bey Carl Ernst Bohn 1799 . . . NO.VII
An extremely rare map of New York prepared by Daniel Friedrich Sotzmann for Christopher Ebeling's "Erdbeschreibung von Amerika", a project ended after only ten ...
Place & Date: Hamburg, Carl Ernst Bohn, 1799
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula.
A beautifully decorative world map taken from the 'English Atlas' by Moses Pitt and Steven Swart, based on an earlier engraved world map by Pieter van den Keere ca. 1630,...
Place & Date: Oxford, 1680
![[Complete set of maps of Japan] Imperium Japonicum Per Regiones Digestum Sex et Sexaginta Atque Ipsorum Japonensium Mappis Descriptum Ab Hadriano Relando.](/uploads/cache/41590-250x250.jpg)
[Complete set of maps of Japan] Imperium Japonicum Per Regiones Digestum Sex et Sexaginta Atque Ipsorum Japonensium Mappis Descriptum Ab Hadriano Relando.
Complete set of 11 maps Reland's map of Japan, the first map to use Sino-Japanese characters on a European printed map and represents a radical departure from prior Europ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1751
La nuova Zelanda delineate sulle ultima osservazioni del Capitan Cook.
First edition on laid paper Cassini’s splendid early map of New Zealand, being the most decorative version of Captain Cook's map of New Zealand, published in the very s...
Place & Date: Rome, 1798
Illuminated leaf from a liturgical Psalter.
Very fine illuminated leaf from a liturgical Psalter in Latin with the reading from the Vulgate Bible. Lines in a slightly irregular Gothic hand, black ink, plummet rulin...
Place & Date: England, c. 1280
Reiß in das Gelobte Land ... Mit nach dreyen andern Reißbeschreibungen vermehret, und schönen Kupfern gezieret.
Very rare first illustrated edition of collected travel accounts by citizens of Zürich, containing : Hans Jacob Amman, "Narrative of a trip to Palestine". The ...
Place & Date: Zürich, M. Schauffelberger Erbin, 1678
Ioannes III. Rex. Poloniae (Portrait of Johann III. Sobieski)
On verso a text in brown ink "1674 Giovanni Sobieski Gran Maresciallo della Polonia, che poscia lo fece suo Re, perchè a Cokrim vinse li Turchi, e la liberò dai tr...
Place & Date: Ulm, ca. 1690
A fine bronze cannon.
Cannon built up of two truncated conusses, differing in size, the steps marked by mouldings shaped as flat bands preceded by ogees: base ring similar; breech with ogee-sh...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1755
![[Map of the coast of Crete to the east of Chania showing the landing of the Turks and the Venetian defence in June 1645].](/uploads/cache/49076-250x250.jpg)
[Map of the coast of Crete to the east of Chania showing the landing of the Turks and the Venetian defence in June 1645].
Map engraved by Marco Boschini (1613-1678). With a lettered key for the Turkish army « A-L » and a numbered key for the city of Chania and its army « 1-20 ».Fifth ...
Place & Date: Venice, c. 1645
Americae Pars Magis Cognita. Chorographia nobilis & opulentae Peruanae Provinciae, atque Brasiliae, . . . MDXCII
First state. Although a map of South America it does include much of what is now the southern United States. There are two elaborate, strap-work cartouches with the one a...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1592
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[Collection of six maps of Australia and New Zealand.]
Collection of maps including 6 engraved maps by 19th century German, French and English cartographers depicting Australia and New Zealand.This made to order atlas contain...
Place & Date: Germany, 1832-1852
Japanese Stereotype Map of the World from 1932 Share Hitome de wakaru Manga sekai genjō chizu. At a glance: Cartoon Map of the Current World Situation. 目でわかる 漫画世界現状地圖
An extraordinary satirical map of the world was seen through Japanese eyes in the early 1930s as Japanese imperial ambitions strengthened. The map was published as an edi...
Place & Date: Tokyo, Showa 7, or 1932
Profil de la renomée ville et port d'Emstredam cappitalle des estats de Hollande.
Extremely rare panoramic town-view of Amsterdam seen from the river IJ.Exceptional bright, sharp example.The print is skillful copy of the print of Matthieu Merian, now w...
Place & Date: Paris, 1647
Histoire Naturelle, Civile, Et Ecclésiastique..'
First French edition, published by P. Gosse, J. Neaulme and B. Lakeman. The basic work on Japan from the second half of the 17th century when it was still forbidden for f...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1729
MAUREEN Shipping model of a fishing boat.
This type of fishing ships were used by the Dutch fisherman to fish for codfish, and even reached with them into the Canadian waters.Overall dimensions: 1400 x 100 x 230m...
Place & Date: Netherlands, ca. 1850
The Kingdome of China.
A most sought-after map of China. Decorative border vignettes including views of the cities of Quinzay and Macao along the top border with the wheeled wind machines and p...
Place & Date: London, G. Humble, 1627
Le Isole di Sandwich delineate sulle osservazioni del Cap Cook.
FIRST EDITION on laid paper. Cassini’s splendid map depicts Sandwich islands, old name for Hawaii islands, at the end of the eighteenth century. The splendid cartouche ...
Place & Date: Rome, 1798
(EUROPE).
The map of Europe has been identified as the work of Hieronimus Münzer (1437-1508), a Nuremberg physician who supplied the geographical contents of the chronicle. The Eu...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1493
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Hern Johann Baptisten Taveniers..Vierzig Jaehrige Reize..
This German edition includes Tavernier's map of Japan in a reduced form (210x315mm) and contains legends about the country's nature, e.g., where gold is mined and plottin...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1681
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1595-1609
Diverses cartes et tables pour la géographie ancienne, pour la chronologie et pour les itinéraires et voyages modernes.
Edition without date. Variant edition containing three parts : "Cartes géographiques dressées pour bien entendre les Historiens… / La Chronologie en plusieurs Ta...
Place & Date: Paris, l'Auteur, no date ca.1669
Parte orientale della China.. / Parte occidentale della China. (2 sheets)
The map depicts the eastern part of China with Korea -correctly- as a peninsula. Formosa is included as well. Japan is partly visible i.e. the area of Yamaguchi, strait K...
Place & Date: Venice, 1695
Carte d'Asie divisée en ses principaux Etats.
Uncommon and decorative "carte à figures" - wall map, prepared by Clouet, with superb decoration, including a wonderful rococo border with 20 decorative vignet...
Place & Date: Paris, Mondhare, 1787
Nova et accurata Tabula Hispaniae. . .
Second state. The map shows the geographical image introduced by Hessel Gerritsz's 1612 wall map of Spain, based on information provided by the Coimbra University profess...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1633
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
Incliti Cantonis Friburgensis Tabula, autore Francisco Petro VON DER WEID. Senatore et Commissario generale Friburgi. anno Domini 1668.
Very rare 2-sheet map and the first map of the canton Fribourg (Freiburg) in a scale of Scale 1:120.000. South to the top.The area shown on the map encompasses the whole ...
Place & Date: Fribourg, 1668
Dutchman and a Maruyama prostitute.
An explicit scene of a Dutchman and a Maruyama prostitute featuring a gray-bearded westerner coupling with a courtesan. The woman protests that she doesn't understand wha...
Place & Date: Late Edo, 1790
Mariner’s compass
Inverted compass called "snitch" in wood painted in imitation of tortoiseshell and brass, signed "Ing MANN Maker Water Street Liverpool".
Place & Date: Liverpool, ca. 1785
![[Two vomlumes, with two Leo maps] De Bello Belgico, Decas Prima / Decas Secunda.](/uploads/cache/48779-250x250.jpg)
[Two vomlumes, with two Leo maps] De Bello Belgico, Decas Prima / Decas Secunda.
With 2 engraved titles of the 'Leo Belgicus', with one paw resting on a shield bearing the title, large woodcut printer's device on the colophons, and 30 richly engraved ...
Place & Date: Rome, Franciscus Corbelletus, 1632-1647
United States of North America. Carte des Etats-Unis de l'Amerique Septentrionale / copiée et gravée sur celle d'Arrowsmith, corrigée et considérablement augmentée... par P. F. Tardieu...
FIRST EDITION. An impressive wall map here in 4 unjoined sheets and large margins. RARE in these untouched, full sheets. Recorded examples are usually offered as folding ...
Place & Date: Paris: An XI - 1802
Set of four continents.
Fine set of 4 continents prepared by Gerard Mercator. The general map of Europe, as well as Americae Pars, Greenland, Iceland, a Polar landmass, along with the mythical i...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Plan de Constantinople, non compris ses faubourgs. Grave d'apres les documents du ministere de la Guerre par E. Olivier.
A very rare lithographic large-scale town-plan of Istanbul, Scale 98 yards to one inch., printed in Pera, Istanbul by E. Olivier. The ornate design on the top of the...
Place & Date: Péra, Istanbul, 1851
Very fine brass astronomical equinoctial ring with two brass circles.
Very fine brass astronomical equinoctial ring with two brass circles with engraved foliage decoration, signed "Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas Delure A Paris", on the han...
Place & Date: Paris, undated, ca. 1690
La dimostratione del luogo dove al presente sitrova l'armat di Barbarossa, et de Christiani detto il golfo dell 'Artha anti ch amente il sino ambracio…
The title cartouche at the top left reads: "La Dimostratione Del Luogo Dove Al Presente Sitrova L'Armat Di Barbarossa, et De Christiani Detto Il Golfo Dell' Artha An...
Place & Date: Rome, c. 1540
Disegno dove al presente si ritrova l'armata della santa legha contro la turchesca, nel promontorio della Morea dirincontro a Modon, dove l'armata nemica si è retirata… VI.Ottobre.1572.
Disegno dove al presente si ritrova l'armata della santa legha contro la Turchesca, nel promontorio della Morea dirincontro a Modon dove l'armata nemica si e retirata, lu...
Place & Date: Rome, 1572
![Recueil de costumes. Imagini degl'abiti con cui Va uestita la Nobiltà della Serenis.ma Republica di Venezia. Suivi de: [Augsburger Kleidertrachten].](/uploads/cache/48425-250x250.jpg)
Recueil de costumes. Imagini degl'abiti con cui Va uestita la Nobiltà della Serenis.ma Republica di Venezia. Suivi de: [Augsburger Kleidertrachten].
Imagini degl'abiti con cui Va uestita la Nobiltà della Serenis.ma Republica di Venezia. Dedicate all'Illmo et Ecc.mo Sig.r Andrea da Leze Degnis.mo Proc.tor di S: Marco....
Place & Date: Venezia, Ragheno, 1702 / Augsbourg, J. Wolff, ca. 1715
Inverted nautical Compass, called "mouchard" (~ "spy")
Inverted maritime compass called "mouchard" (spy) in wood and brass, signed "A Van Vastenhoud In Amsterdam". This type of compass was found in the cap...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1780
Allegory of geography.
Two putty studying a terrestrial globe, one of them holding a pair of dividers. The information on the globe is clearly imaginary but the two cartouches and ships are typ...
Place & Date: Bruges, ca. 1700
An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham, Emperor of China deliver'd by their excellencies, Peter de Goyer and Jacob de Keyzer, at his imperial city of Peking. . .
Very rare first English text edition of this most important and early resource on China and the Chinese. Three parts in one folio by John Macock for the author.Part I: An...
Place & Date: London : Printed by the Author at his house in White-Friers, 1669
Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid, vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der Actie, Bubbel en Windnegotie, in Vrankryk, Engeland, en de Nederlanden, gespleegt in den Jaare MDCCXX...
AN EARLY ISSUE of this biting and vulgar satire on the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles and an extraordinary visual record with 78 plates of the first banking crash, sho...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Nova XVII Provinciarum Inferioris Germaniae descriptio .
Extremely rare map of the Benelux by Frederick de Widt. Originally engraved and published by P.Kaerius in 1607. In 1662 the plate came in the possession of Frederick de W...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1662
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...
Place & Date: Bruges, Leon Burghgraeve, 1939
Rare collection of costume plates.
Rare collection of costume plates published in Augsburg by the famous publishers Martin Engelbrecht, Ioh. Georg Hertel and the Jeremias Wolff Heirs.Composition :2 plates ...
Place & Date: Augsburg, ca. 1730
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica..
The first of four states of the map. French text on verso. One of the most beautiful world maps ever engraved and one of the most influential in promulgating the Californ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630-1633
Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid.
AN EARLY ISSUE of this biting and vulgar satire on the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles and an extraordinary visual record with 78 plates of the first banking crash, sho...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Carte D'Amerique Divisée en ses Principaux Pays. . .
Rare. Uncommon and decorative wall map of America, prepared by Clouet. With superb decorative borders, 170mm wide at the sides and 150mm at the bottom, containing twenty ...
Place & Date: Paris, Cadiz, 1785
L'Art arabe d'après les monuments du Kaire depuis le VIIe siècle jusqu'à la fin du XVIIIe.
Prisse d’Avennes was one of the foremost scholars of Arabic art and architecture of the 19th century; this work represents the summation of his studies. From the aspect...
Place & Date: Paris, Morel, 1877
Descrittione di M. Lodovico Guicciardini patritio Fiorentino, di tutti i Paesi Bassi,...
Second Italian edition (variant B) and first Plantin edition (1st Silvius 1567) and the most sought-after edition of the famous description of the Low Countries, updated ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, Plantin, 1581
Paskaerte Zynde t'Oosterdeel Van Oost Indien, met alle de Eylanden daer ontrendt geleegen van C. Comorin tota aen Iapan.
An eye-catching chart of Pieter Goos' sea chart of Australia, Southeast Asia, China, Japan, Korea and India. The chart shows the regions from Cape Comorin (Southern India...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1669
Temperance (Temperantia) from The Virtues.
Very decorative engraving by Philip Galle (Haarlem 1537–1612 Antwerp) after Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Breda (?) ca. 1525–1569 Brussels). The print was published by Hi...
Place & Date: Antwerp, Hieronymus Cock, 1580
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 ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1700-1740
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...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1603
Atlas Universel Par M. Robert Geographe ordinaire du Roy
The first edition of one of the most important 18th-century atlases and one of the great achievements of the French Enlightenment and one of the first atlases based on sc...
Place & Date: Paris, 1757
Mappemonde contenant les parties connues du globe terrestre dressée suivant de nouvelles observations
Wall map of the world in two hemispheres printed on two sheets, depicting the Eastern and Western hemispheres supported by two male figures, decorated at the bottom right...
Place & Date: Paris, Longchamps et Janvier, 1754
Nocturlabe in boxwood and brass.
Nocturlabe in boxwood and brass, the wheels maintained by a central nut presenting an annual calendar divided into months and days, an hour disc and a mobile alidade, the...
Place & Date: England, ca. 1700
A new and correct map of the world.
The early eighteenth century was one of the most important periods for English cartography. One of the period's most intriguing world maps is this large-scale map, which ...
Place & Date: London 1714
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[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...
Place & Date: Venice, c. 1700
Les Provinces confederées du Pais-Bas
The first wall map of the Seven Provinces of 1651, re-issued as 'Stoel des Oorlogs' by Covens & Mortier. The first issue of the present wall-map is known to be includ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1740
Mapa De la parte de la Isla Formosa sa perteneciente al Emperadotde la China sacado por Ord. De S.M.
Extremely rare map of the west coast of Taiwan, the Punghu or Pescadore Islands, and the Fokien or Fujian coast of China. Several ancient Taiwanese cities are noted, incl...
Place & Date: Manilla, Seminario Conciliar, y Real de San Carlos, 1788-1792
Asia carta di ciasete piu moderna. (Japan)
Rare FIRST STATE of this important map for Korea and Japan map of the Blancus/Moreira type, but adds a huge 'Jesso' filling the top of this old map. The map is of interes...
Place & Date: Florence, 1646-1647
Chorographica descriptio provinciarum, et conventum fratrum minorum S. Francisci Capucinorum...
All maps are good and dark impressions. Several maps with slight foxing and browning, the folding map with 2 splits (top right part 10 cm and lower left part 6 cm into en...
Place & Date: Turin, 1649
A Map of the British Empire in AMERICA with the French, Spanish and Hollandish Settlements Adjacent Thereto. by Henry Popple. / Nouvelle Carte Particuliere de L'Amerique . . .
The four sheet Dutch edition of Popple's monumental map of North America, in mint condition. Encompassing the West Indies, Florida, Louisiana, Texas and Central America.T...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1737
20 advertising gouaches for tobacco industry.
A stunning collection of 20 original square and rectangular decorative commercial designs for the Tabaco industries in gouache and watercolor by the artist and graphic de...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1930
Nocturnal in boxwood and brass.
Nocturlabe in boxwood and brass, the wheels maintained by a central nut presenting an annual calendar divided into months and days, an hour disc and a mobile alidade, the...
Place & Date: England, Thomas Cooper, dated 1701
(China Atlas) Novus Atlas Sinensis, A Matino Martinio... Seste Deel van de Nieuwe Atlas, oft Toonneel des Aerdrijck, Uytgegeven door Joan Blaeu.
Dutch text edition of the First European Atlas of China. 17 engraved maps in original hand-color, and engraved title pages in original hand-color, heightened in gold. [6]...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1655
Nansenbushu bankoku shoka no zu.
This wall-map is a great example of Japanese world maps representing Buddhist cosmology with real-world cartography. It is the earliest one and - therefore - the prototyp...
Place & Date: Kyoto, (Hoei 7 = Year of the Tiger) 1710
Americae Nova Descriptio.
Final state. According to Philip Burden, "this scarce map is America's first single-sheet map with decorative borders." A re-issue of the 1614 plate by Pieter v...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1652
Le globe terrestre representé en deux plans-hemispheres, Dressé sur la Projection de Mr. De la Hyre...
“This splendid GlobeTerrestre originally published by J.B. Nolin is one of the finest large-scale world maps to be produced and is a fitting bridge between the geograph...
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1780
Carta prima Generale dell' Asia.
FIRST STATE of Robert Dudley's general chart of the Persian Gulf, going east through India to the southeastern coast of China showing Macau and the area of present-day Ho...
Place & Date: Florence, 1646
Nova et Accuratissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula.
Since its appearance as an Appendix in 1630, the atlas launched by Willem Blaeu and continued by his son Joan had expanded greatly. But despite many new regional maps the...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1662
![[2 maps] Nieuwe Hemels Spiegel waer door den hemel, aerde en zee dadelik kan afgemeten werden. Noyt gesien en dat op alles Polus hooghten seer noodig voor Stierlieden.](/uploads/cache/49046-(1)-250x250.jpg)
[2 maps] Nieuwe Hemels Spiegel waer door den hemel, aerde en zee dadelik kan afgemeten werden. Noyt gesien en dat op alles Polus hooghten seer noodig voor Stierlieden.
A set of two copper engravings made by Andreas van Luchtenburg in Rotterdam, published separately by Cornelis Danckerts. Nieuwe Hemels Spiegel waer door den hemel, aerd...
Place & Date: Rotterdam, Amsterdam, ca. 1684
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...
Place & Date: The Hague, H. Scheurleer, 1737
![[Printed on silk] Nieuw Wassende Graaden Paskaart Vertoonende alle de bekende Zeekusten en Landen op den geheelen Aard Boodem of Werelt door Gerard van Keulen. . .](/uploads/cache/31640-250x250.jpg)
[Printed on silk] Nieuw Wassende Graaden Paskaart Vertoonende alle de bekende Zeekusten en Landen op den geheelen Aard Boodem of Werelt door Gerard van Keulen. . .
A very scarce and beautiful chart on Mercator's projection printed on silk. With the name of Gerard van Keulen and the privilege. The map shows great interior detail, inc...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1728
Atlas in elephant folio.
Most of D'Anville's atlases were made up for the individual customer, so no two appear alike. Many of the 59 pages are multi-sheet maps, so the actual map sheet count is ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1771-1786
Plan de Paris commencé l'année 1734, Dessiné et gravé sous les ordres de Messire Michel Etienne Turgot, prévost des marchands.
FIRST EDITION of Turgot's Monumental Joined View of Paris, stretching to over 10 Feet. This expansive large-scale engraved view of Paris covers the first eleven arrondis...
Place & Date: Paris, 1739
Benedict. Arias Montanus Sacrae Geographiae Tabulam Ex Antiq
THE EXTREMELY RARE FIRST STATE landmark world map, famed for its depiction of the Australian landmass.One of the earliest printed maps to depict the “terra incognita...
Place & Date: Anvers 1571 /1572