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Mappae Imperii Moscovitici pars Septentrionalis..
Detailed map of northern Russia embellished with an uncolored pictorial cartouche showing hunting scenes.Prepared by de l'Isle.
Date: Augsburg, 1740
Het Oost Indisch Huys op de Suyd hock..
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...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Carte du Paraguay du Chili.
A finely engraved, detailed map of the southern half of South America. Prepared by de l'Isle with the imprint "Chez l’Auteur sur le Quai de l’Horloge avec Privil...
Date: Paris, L. Renard, 1703
![Canada Creek Falls . . [title in French, English, German & Latin] N°32. Pl. 4.](/uploads/cache/26800-250x250.jpg)
Canada Creek Falls . . [title in French, English, German & Latin] N°32. Pl. 4.
A view of the Canada Creek Falls.From 8e Livraison Amérique Septentrionale - Etat de New York. After Jacques Milbert and lithographed by Dupressoir and figures by V. Ada...
Date: Paris, Bove dirigée par Nöel ainé & Cie, 1892
![[View of the Potomac River from Mount Vernon ].](/uploads/cache/27550-250x250.jpg)
[View of the Potomac River from Mount Vernon ].
Aquatint depicting a view of the Potomac River from Mount Vernon engraved by Fumagalli. Plate N°46.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire d...
Date: Milan, 1827
Franconiae nova descriptio.
Second state of this early map of Franken, including Regensburg, Heidelberg, Marburg and Hof. In lower part decorative cartouches and upper right a dedication to Franz vo...
Date: Amsterdam, after 1646
![[Macaire] Abus de l'article 214 du code civil. Madame mon épouse... (Plate 50)](/uploads/cache/17389-250x250.jpg)
[Macaire] Abus de l'article 214 du code civil. Madame mon épouse... (Plate 50)
Macaire personified the clever business man, who was willing at any time to throw moral and ethical principles overboard for a quick buck. His personality fitted exactly ...
Date: Paris, 1864
![[ Mexican traditional garments ].](/uploads/cache/27592-250x250.jpg)
[ Mexican traditional garments ].
Aquatint depicting Mexican traditional garments engraved by Gallina. Plate N°83.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de ...
Date: Milan, 1827
Carro, che uà à vela Su le Piagge di Schevelingue.
Italian version of Prince Maurits' sailing carriage designed by Simon Stevin. The big sailing-carriage could seat 28 persons and could reach a speed of seven miles per ho...
Date: Venice, 1707
![Waare afbeelding van den vermaarden Heer Quinquenpoix. [True portrait of the reknowed Mr. Quinquenpoix]](/uploads/cache/27965-250x250.jpg)
Waare afbeelding van den vermaarden Heer Quinquenpoix. [True portrait of the reknowed Mr. Quinquenpoix]
Page taken from Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid : vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der actie, bubbel en windnegotie, in Vrankryk, Engeland, en de Nederlan...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Carte de la Floride, de la Louisiane, et Pays Voisins. . .
Jacques Nicolaas Bellin (1703-1772) was one of the most important and proficient French cartographers of the mid-eighteenth century. He was appointed the first Ingenieur ...
Date: Paris, 1757
Bataille de la Moskwa Remportée par l'Armée Française le 7 Septembre 1812...
Uncommon print showing the siege of Moscow on September 7, 1812 by Napoleon Bonaparte.Jean was a well-known publisher of optical prints and other popular prints, establis...
Date: Paris, ca. 1815
Grande Tartarie.
A very nice small map of Central Asia extending from the Caspian Sea to the Pacific Ocean. From Francisco Giustiniani for El Atlas abreviado o el nuevo compendio de la Ge...
Date: Leon de Francia (Lyon), Jaime Certa, 1739
St Tropez.
Early plan of St.Tropez. From his "Introduction à la fortification".
Date: Paris, 1693
Océanie.
A very decorative 19th century map of the Pacific Ocean, with hand colored lines indicating the extent of Polynesia, Mirconesia, Melanesia, and Malaysia (or Southeast Asi...
Date: Paris, 1850
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![[Canadian Indian traditional garments ].](/uploads/cache/27544-250x250.jpg)
[Canadian Indian traditional garments ].
Aquatint depicting Canadian Indian traditional garments engraved by Gallina. Plate N°32.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernem...
Date: Milan, 1827
![Carte du Tche-Kiang. [ Zhejiang province ]](/uploads/cache/30921-250x250.jpg)
Carte du Tche-Kiang. [ Zhejiang province ]
Map of Tche Kiang, prepared by Bishop Edmond-François Guierry, C.M. (Vicar Apostolic of Zhejiang, China) after sources supplied by missionaries. Published in "Les M...
Date: Paris, 1874
Malabar.
Small map illustrating the south western seacoast of India. Oriented with East on top, surrounded by text in Dutch.Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver an...
Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Een ander gesicht van de Oost Indische Werf: uyt het Ye.
Decorative engraving giving good detail of the entrance of the IJ with in the background the ship building wharf of the V.O.C. and its ware house, presently the Maritime ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1670
Oost-Indis Zee Magazyn - Arçenal des Indes Orientalis.
Decorative view of the East Indian Arsenal, now-a-says the Maritime Museum.
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1700
![[ Mechoacan Indians traditional garments ].](/uploads/cache/27594-250x250.jpg)
[ Mechoacan Indians traditional garments ].
Aquatint depicting Mechoacan Indians traditional garments engraved by Gallina. Plate N°85.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvern...
Date: Milan, 1827
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...
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1678
Venice.
A lovely steel engraved plan, on 2 sheets, of Venice by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (SDUK). This English philanthropic enterprise was entirely devot...
Date: London, 1855
Carte populaire des opérations de la guerre. 2ème édition.
Folding map. War Operations Map showing a part of Europe, published by Epinal.
Date: Paris, ca. 1919
Cape Colony.
A decorative steel engraved map from the famous Victorian publisher John Tallis and Company, published ca.1851. Drawn and engraved by J Rapkin, while the four corner vign...
Date: London, Edinburgh, Dublin, 1851
Vue perspective de l'interieur de la Salle du spectacle de Veronne en Italie.
Showing the Opera of Verona. Optical print published Mondhare, who was a well-known publisher of optical prints, established in rue St. Jacques in Paris. In the eighteent...
Date: Paris, ca. 1780
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries. 19.
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 ...
Date: The Hague, 1604 - 1605
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
24 lines of printed text, surrounded by Renaissance borders decorated with flowers, vases, skeletons and religious scenes.From the press of the leading Parisian publisher...
Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c.1520-1540
Océanie.
A very decorative 19th century map of the Pacific Ocean, with hand colored lines indicating the extent of Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia, and Malaysia (or Southeast Asi...
Date: Paris, 1850
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.
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1700
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...
Date: Leeuwarden, 1718
Philippines - The famous volcanic peak Mt. Mayon. . .
Mt Mayon Volcano Peak near Legaspi on the Philippines. Fine Pan American Airline mini poster.Pan American World Airways, originally founded as Pan American Airways and co...
Date: 1956
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![Terre de Diemen. Tombeaux des naturels. [plate XVI]](/uploads/cache/46279-250x250.jpg)
Terre de Diemen. Tombeaux des naturels. [plate XVI]
An aboriginal campfire, near the ruins of an old wooden fence, and a dead tree, after the original sketches by Lesueur, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes b...
Date: Paris, 1824
Ride the Roads to Romance along the Golden Coast and thru the Sunshine Empire of Southern California.
Published in 1950 by the Roads to Romance Association to promote tourism in California  This striking touring map of Southern California was published in 1950 by the Ro...
Date: California, 1950
Völker Europas wie schön sind eure Geschichter. (World War I post card)
During the Great War, when the only means of communicating news to the masses was by newspapers and weekly illustrated magazines, the ‘war’ or 'military' picture post...
Date: Germany, 1915
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries. 15.
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 ...
Date: The Hague, 1604 - 1605
Punishment of China.
The Chinese way of a punishment from Linschoten's famous voyages to the East of 1583-92 here published by De Bry the year after they first appeared as a separate book. Fr...
Date: Frankfurt, 1599
Punishment of a criminal in China.
Punishment of a criminal in China from Linschoten's famous voyages to the East of 1583-92, here published by De Bry the year after they first appeared as a separate book....
Date: Frankfurt, 1599
Feast of China.
A scene of a Chinese dinner feast from Linschoten's famous voyages to the East of 1583-92, here published by De Bry the year after they first appeared as a separate book....
Date: Frankfurt, 1599
Carte des Isles Nicobar... (with) Plan particulier du Port compris entre les Isles Nacaveri, Souri, et Tricutte.
French chart of Isles of Nicobar in Gulf of Bengal near Birmanie and Sumatra. Prepared by Jacques-François L'Abbé Dicquemare (1733-1789). Latitude and longitude scales,...
Date: Paris, Brest, chez Demonville, 1775
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...
Date: Paris, ca. 1750
Delineatio Duorum Oppidorum, Ortat.
Early map of the Banda Islands.Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a compilation of early voyages in 1590 and had published six parts at the time of...
Date: Frankfurt, 1609
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Delineatio Civitatis et Castelli Amboinae.
Early view of Ambon, with 6 Dutch vessels offshore.Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a compilation of early voyages in 1590 and had published six ...
Date: Frankfurt, 1609
![[ Acrobatic games ].](/uploads/cache/27589-250x250.jpg)
[ Acrobatic games ].
Aquatint depicting acrobatic games engraved by Gallina. Plate N°78.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de la milice, de...
Date: Milan, 1827
![[Title page] Les plans et profils de toutes les principales villes et lieux considerables de France . . .](/uploads/cache/48026-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Les plans et profils de toutes les principales villes et lieux considerables de France . . .
Title page of the first part of the atlas "Les plans et profils de toutes les principales villes et lieux considerables de France", by Nicolas Tassin.Nicolas Ta...
Date: Paris, 1634
Islands in the Atlantic.
Decorative steel engraved map of Islands showing the Azores, Madeira, Bermuda, the Canaries and the Cape Verdes. Interlocking border design. Taken from "The illustra...
Date: London, ca. 1851
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries. 12
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 ...
Date: The Hague, 1604 - 1605
Harlekin en Bombario en den rouw.
Harlequin and Bombario in mourning, taken from Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid : vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der actie, bubbel en windnegotie, in Vra...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Indian painting on paper.
Fine miniature, presenting a couple in love making position, set on a balcony with in a landscape in the background. The miniature has been painted in India in late 19th ...
Date: India, ca. 1900
![[Persia, Afghanistan and Pakistan map with Ottoman script]](/uploads/cache/44316-250x250.jpg)
[Persia, Afghanistan and Pakistan map with Ottoman script]
Postcard size map in Ottoman script showing Persia, Afghanistan and Pakistan prepared by Mehmet EŞREF in a small atlas : عمومولاياةىشهانيىØاوىكوÚ...
Date: Istanbul, 1325 or 1909
![[Slave labor on a Tobacco plantation ].](/uploads/cache/27565-250x250.jpg)
[Slave labor on a Tobacco plantation ].
Aquatint depicting slave labor on an tobacco plantation engraved by Biasioli. Plate N°50.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouverne...
Date: Milan, 1827
![[Slave labor on an indigo plantation ].](/uploads/cache/27564-250x250.jpg)
[Slave labor on an indigo plantation ].
Aquatint depicting slave labor on an indigo plantation engraved by Fumagalli. Plate N°51.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouverne...
Date: Milan, 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...
Date: Brussels, 1825-1827
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...
Date: France, Provence, after 1960
![[Title page] Atlas Minor Praecipua Orbis Terrarum Imperia, Regna et Provincias , Germaniae Potissimum. . .](/uploads/cache/48479-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Atlas Minor Praecipua Orbis Terrarum Imperia, Regna et Provincias , Germaniae Potissimum. . .
An attractive and highly decorative title page to Seutter's Atlas Minor. Engraved by Martin Crophius after Jacob Weyerman. The engraving is packed with lively figures fro...
Date: Augsburg, 1744
![[Australia, New Zealand and Oceania map with Ottoman script]](/uploads/cache/44319-250x250.jpg)
[Australia, New Zealand and Oceania map with Ottoman script]
Postcard size map in Ottoman script showing Australia, New Zealand and Oceania prepared by Mehmet EŞREF in a small atlas : عمومولاياةىشهانيىØاوىكÙ...
Date: Istanbul, 1325 or 1909
Par Brevets. / Eau admirable de Cologne, de A. Farina, ancien Distillateur de Cologne, breveté, Place Juliers, N°11.
Advertising Broadsheet promoting the toilet water "Eau de Cologne". Ornated with the royal coat of arms of France and 2 two-headed eagles. With the printed sign...
Date: After 1810
Geography Humphrey . . .
Chromo lithographed poster of Les Maitres de l'Affiche n°76. The "Les Maitres de l'Affiche" contained 256 small for lithographic prints of the best posters of ...
Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, 1896
ADSEC in Action from Thames to Rhine.
A pictorial map showing the allied movement from London on 14 March 1944 thru the conquest of Germany. Showing the track from London along Bristol, crossing the British C...
Date: London, 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...
Date: Weert, Smeets, 1945
![[United States map with Ottoman script.]](/uploads/cache/44314-250x250.jpg)
[United States map with Ottoman script.]
Postcard-size map in Ottoman script showing the United States, prepared by Mehmet EŞREF in a small atlas: عمومولاياةىشهانيىØاوىكوچكاطلاس [...
Date: Istanbul, 1325 or 1909
Ah la pé... La pé... La Pépinière Revue . . .
Chromo lithographed poster of Les Maîtres de l'Affiche being plate n°119. The "Les Maîtres de l'Affiche" contained 256 small for lithographic prints of the b...
Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, 1898
La Feste du Poids au Mogol qui se célebre chez ses Peuples avec grande vénération.
So-called optical print illustrating a perspective view of a square in Mongolia.Mondhare, active at rue St.Jacques a l'Hotel Saumur, was a well-known publisher of optical...
Date: Paris, 1760
Compania General De Tabacos De Filipinas - (Certificate) Accion ordinarias de 500 Pesetas, Barcelona, 27.10.1969.
Beautifully engraved certificate from the Compania General De Tabacos De Filipinas issued in 1985. This historic document has an ornate border around it with a vignette o...
Date: Barcelona, 1969
Malacca.
Fine print showing Dutch vessels offshore the city of Malacca, between Singapore to its south and Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia to its north.From the French reiss...
Date: Amsterdam, J.F. Bernard, 1725
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...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Travellers' Map of Japan, Chosen (Korea), Taiwan (Formosa) with Brief Descriptions of the Principal Tourist Points of Japan.
An early 20th century map which wss published in Tokyo for English speaking tourists.Very detailed set of maps of Japan and parts of Korea, Taiwan and part of China, show...
Date: Tokyo, 1925
![[No title.] Sixteen small engravings.](/uploads/cache/46799-250x250.jpg)
[No title.] Sixteen small engravings.
A nice set of sixteen French professions, or trades, or stage characters. The print is faint on some titles. Some of the characters are a soldier, a doctor, a nun, a lawy...
Date: Paris, ca. 1780
Perspective du Voorhout, promenade publique de La Haye.
Showing the Voorhout in The Hague. Likely published by Mondhard, a well-known publisher of optical prints, established on rue St. Martin in Paris. In the eighteenth and n...
Date: Paris, ca. 1750
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 ...
Date: The Hague, 1604 - 1605
Infanterie Turque (chasseurs). 7 novembre 1837.
Beautiful lithography by Auguste Raffet (1804 -1860 ) and printed by Auguste Bry.
Date: Paris, Gihaut frères, 1848
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...
Date: Brussels, 1825-1827
Bronwater of geneesmiddel voor de zieke actionisten.
Springwater or potion for the sick shareholder, taken from Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid : vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der actie, bubbel en windneg...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
![[ North and South America with telegraph cables, with Ottoman script]](/uploads/cache/44330-250x250.jpg)
[ North and South America with telegraph cables, with Ottoman script]
Postcard size map showing North and South America with telegraph cables. The map is in Ottoman Arabic-script prepared by Mehmet EŞREF in a small atlas : عمومولاÙ...
Date: Istanbul, 1325 or 1909
Chirurgie, plate XII
Showing medical chair and physician at work from the medical section of Diderot's Encyclopaedia. Engraved by Bernard after a design of Goussier. Very important work as it...
Date: Paris 1779
Simori.
Portrait of Simori.Von Siebold was born in Wurtzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In Japan, where Von Siebold arrived in 1823 at ...
Date: Leiden, 1832-1852
Sexta Etas Mudi. Folio CCLV. (With portret of Johannes Müller alias Regiomontanus holding a Astrolabe.
A very fine presentation of the astronomer Johannes Müller alias Regiomontanus holding a Astrolabe. A village-scene (Dim. H : 150 mm W : 223 mm) is depicted on the lower...
Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
The town & harbour of Sevastopol with the batteries & approaches. . .
Rare colored linen backed map showing the harbour and town of Sevastopol, with soundings. In upper left corner a inset map (65x150mm) of the Black Sea. In bottom part a l...
Date: London, March 27th, 1854
![[Title page for] Atlas Minor de Guerard Mercator. . .](/uploads/cache/47933-250x250.jpg)
[Title page for] Atlas Minor de Guerard Mercator. . .
Title page from a 1608 French edition of the Atlas Minor (351:11). The title page is similar to that in the Latin edition of 1607, but a slip of paper with the engraved t...
Date: Amsterdam, 1608
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...
Date: Antwerp, c.1700
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