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Carte particulière des environs de St Peters-bourg. . . / Plan de la ville faubourg et environs de St Petersbourg. . . / Carte pour l'intelligence de la guerre de Moscovie et de Suede. . .
A scarce and unusual plan of Saint Petersburg shown at a large scale and also, in a separate compartment, shown in its geographical context between the Gulf of Finland an...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1741
Erfolgte Kapitulation zwischen dem General Bonaparte und den Gross Leister von Malta. Vor der Hauptstadt Walette zu Maltha, am 10 Juni 1798.
Copper engraving with three scenes and one portrait on one sheet. In upper a view of Bonaparte arriving at Valletta. Published in "Allgemeine Welt-Chronik oder neue ...
Place & Date: Zittau, 1798-1800
Pianta Geografia delle Isole di Malta, e Gozo della Sagra Religione Gerosolimitana di S. Giovanni delineata, ed incisa in quest anno 1761.
A rare map of Malta and Gozo printed by the priest Antonio Bova (1688 - 1775), who was active as engraver in Palermo ca. 1727-1773. He produced cartographic engravings, s...
Place & Date: Bova Ant., Palermo, 1761
Daniae regni typum . . .
Second Edition, now for the first time with a date (1630), this rare map which - like that of Janssonius-Kaerius - is based on John Speed's map of 1626. The side borders ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Europa, ad magnae Europae Gerardi Mercatoris. . .
General map of Europe, as well as Americae Pars, Greenland, Iceland, a Polar landmass, along with the mythical islands of Frisland, Drogeo, and Bradain. A large strapwor...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1628
.[Balkan region with Austria, Croatia, Slovenia, Switzerland, etc]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of Balkan with Austria, Croatia, Slovenia, Switzerland, etc prepared Martin Waldseemüller. Based on the...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1525 -1541
( II Germania) / Tütschland.
Very early wood cut printed map of Germany, Poland, The Low Countries, Alsace and part Europe with of Switzerland, Croatia. Originally engraved in 1548. Included in "...
Place & Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566
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
Pascaart van Europa alsmede een gedeelte vande Kust van Africa. . .
An eye-catching chart of the entirety of Europe's coastline from northern Russia to Yugoslavia in the south. Also showing the West Coast of Africa as far as the Cape-Verd...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1666
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A view of Westminster bridge. Vue du pont Westminster.
A very decorative and extremely rare of river Themes and Westminster bridge in London, including a six-line description in French and English. Published by Jacques Chér...
Place & Date: Paris, ca.1750
Riga metropolis Livoniae.
A spectacular panoramic of Riga, with legends numbered from a-z and 1-16 in German. With the title in a banderol.After a design by Friedrich Bernhard Werner (1690-1776) ...
Place & Date: Augsburg, ca. 1720
Basilae [ Basle, CCXLIIII ]
A very fine view of Basle (253x520 cm). Verso showing the councils of Florence and Basle and two portraits.Page from the richest illustrated Incunabel, the famous: Nuremb...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1720
Tabula Russiae.
A re-issue, by Willem Blaeu, of Hessel Gerritsz' rare and influential map of Russia. This fine map was compiled from manuscripts brought back from Russia, by Isaac Massa ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Campagne du Roi de Prusse de 1778 à 1779.
The book is illustrated with a two-sheet folding map "Carte d'une partie du Royaume de Bohême et de la Moravie ainsi que d'une partie de la Silésie". Prepared...
Place & Date: Geneva, Paris, Mérigot le jeune, 1784
Magnus Ducatus Finlandiae Auct. Andrea Bureo Succo.
The first printed survey map of Finland, composed by the Swedish cartographer Anders Bureus (1571-1661). The map was published in 1662 in the second volume of Joan Blaeu'...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Tabula electoratus Brandenburgici, Meckelenburgi, et maximae partis Pomeraniae, ex variis, famosissimisq[ue] auctoribus summo studio concinnata. . .
Uncommon "carte à figures"- map engraved by the master engraver Abraham Goos and published by Claes Jansz. Visscher (1587-1652). Showing the area of Brandenbur...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Veue de la Ville, et du Port de Calais, di côte de la terre.
Showing the town of Calais; landscape with, in the left foreground, group of cavalrymen led by an officer and going to right, at right two soldiers walking alongside a ca...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1680
[Europe, Eastern, Sarmatia, Ukraine]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of Europe, Eastern, Sarmatia, Ukraine prepared L. Fries after Martin Waldseemüller.Based on the slightl...
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541
Ignographia candiae tertia a turcis obsessae in lucem edita a F. de Wit.
A scarce broadsheet plan and view of Heraklion on one sheet: prospect 180 x 495mm, map 395 x 495mm., in the lower part a printed description "Abbildung der starken S...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
La Piovra Russa. Carta Serio-Comica Pel 1878.
Very rare political caricature map by Grossi of the nations of Europe, published in Bologna in the supplement of the newspaper "Le Perroquet / Al papagallo, N° 15, ...
Place & Date: Bologne, 14 avril 1878
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
Pascaerte Van't Westelyckste der Middelandsche Zee. . .
An eye-catching chart of the western part of the Mediterranean Sea.Pieter Goos (ca. 1616-1675) was one of the most important cartographer, engraver, publisher and print s...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1666
Carte du Palatinat du Rhin.
Decorative "carte à figures"- map centered on Koblenz, Metz, Strasburg, Manheim and Heidelberg, with the river Rhine by François Jollain (ca. 1641 – 18 Apri...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1688
Tabula electoratus Brandenburgici, Meckelenburgi, et maximae partis Pomeraniae, ex variis, famosissimisq[ue] auctoribus summo studio concinnata. . .
Uncommon "carte à figures"- map engraved by the master engraver Abraham Goos and published by Claes Jansz. Visscher (1587-1652). Showing the part of western Po...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Venise (Venetia).
Extremely rare and detailed bird's-eye view of the town of Venice by Giacomo Lauro (active about 1584-1637), taken from "Heroico Splendore delle Città del Mondo&quo...
Place & Date: Rome, ca. 1642
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...
Place & Date: Lisbon, 1914
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
Ulma Folio CXCI [With view of Ulm.]
Double page panoramic view of Ulm.A imaginary view, however the earliest obtainable view of this period.Two page from the richest illustrated Incunabel, the famous: Nurem...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Comitatus Flandria.
A highly decorative map with in the left and right top corners the pictures of archduke Albert of Austria and Isabella, queen of Spain. In the left and right borders cost...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1648
.[Georgia (Republic), Sarmatia, Ukraine]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of Georgia (Republic), Sarmatia, Ukraine prepared by Martin Waldseemüller. Based on the slightly larger...
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541
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...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Le comte de Namur et partie des Duchez de Brabant. . .
Decorative map centered on Namen and including the towns of Liege, Leuven, Charleroi, Dinant, Luxemburg, etc. by François Jollain (ca. 1641 – 18 April 1704).Rare "...
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1692
Launa vulgo Laun Bohemiae civitas.
Bird's-eye views of Louny in Bohemia by G. Hoefnagel. The copperplate was made for Braun and Hogenberg's town book. However there the print has been transformed by the en...
Place & Date: The Hague, 1700
.[Germany and Poland]
Wood block printed map and one of earliest printed representation of Germany, Poland, The Low Countries, Austria and Switzerland prepared by Martin Waldseemüller. Based ...
Place & Date: Vienna, Trechsel, G., 1525 -1541
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 ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
.Paskaarte om Achter Yrlandt om te Zeylen van Hitlant tot. . .
An eye-catching chart of Ireland, including the north of England and Scotland, with the West to the top.Pieter Goos (ca. 1616-1675) was one of the most important cartogra...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1673
Sardinia / Sicilia.. / Corfu / Zerbi.. / Elba / Malta. . .
Six very fine and early maps on one sheet. Including the islands of Sicily, Corfu, Sardinia, Zerbi (Djerba), Elba and Malta.The map of Malta has a sinking ship at Cala di...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1570-1612
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1649
Statt Talbe an der Saal.
Very decorative and rare panoramic town view of Calbe a.d. Saale, Bez Magdeburg .The engraver and publisher of prints, Mrs. Anna Beek of the Hague, enlarged the print and...
Place & Date: The Hague, ca. 1642