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Etats du Grand-Seigneur en Asie, empire de Perse, pays des Usbecs, Arabie et Egypte.
Detailed map of the region bounded by the Black Sea, Georgia, the Caspian, Uzbekistan, The Indian Ocean, Saudi Arabia (here called \"Arabie Heureuse\"), Egypt a...
Place & Date: Venise, 1778
Arabie.
Uncommon miniature map of the Arabian peninsula, from Pierre Duval's La Geographie Universeille dated 1676. Following his Cartes de géographie in 1657, Pierre Duval publ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1676
Sexta Etas Mudi. / Simon Beatus .. / Folio CCLIIII.
A very fine presentation of the circumcision of Simon (192 x 223 mm.). RECTO: a falling star, a portrait of a King and an officer wearing armour. Page from the richest il...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
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[Title page] Perspective die hooch-gheroemde conste..
Title page from Perspective, Dat is, de hooch-gheroemde conste eens schijnende in oft door-siende ooghen-ghesichtespunt ... (&c.) by Hans, or Johannes Vredeman de Vri...
Place & Date: Leiden, 1604
Save (the) world for us.
Uncommon Soviet propaganda poster. Text translates to : Save (the) world for us.Read more about the Soviet propaganda poster. [+]
Place & Date: Moscow, 1989
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Sexta Etas Mundi. Ratisbonna. [Ratisbonne]
A very fine presentation of the city of Ratisbon, in Germany, centered on the cathedral (Dim. : 191 mm W : 525 mm).Overleaf a very nice view of Vienna, with two swans on ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
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
A unique composite atlas with updated Porro maps.
Unique composite atlas containing in total 84 maps - 82 maps engraved by Girolamo Porro and heavenly reworked around 1686 and 2 newly engraved maps; Piccola Tartaria (Cr...
Place & Date: Venice, 1686
Carte du Gouvernement de Provence, suivant les nouvelles observations...
Fine copper engraved and decorative map of the Provence region in the south of France. It includes the cities of Nimes, Viviers, Avignon, Aix and Nice. The pictorial cart...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1728
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Kantong [The Dutch Folly Fort off Canton]
Charming 18th water color on paper depicting The Dutch "Folly Fort" off Canton. Probably made by a western artist visiting China.Forts were built in several pla...
Place & Date: Canton?, c.1750
(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
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Edward Fitzgerald translation)
Edward FitzGerald, an outstanding writer who has done more than anyone to popularise English poetry. His best-known work, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1859), began by be...
Place & Date: England, ca. 1930
Corea and Japan.
A fine large-scale map of Japan and Korea showing an increasingly refined outline to the Japanese islands but still oversized Korean peninsula. The strait south of Korea,...
Place & Date: Edinburgh, 1816
Biturigum.
A miniature map of the Berry. Fine cartouche in the upper left corner.First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were executed by the most famous engravers...
Place & Date: Amsterdam/Frankfurt 1609
Carte de la Turquie, de l'Arabie et de la Perse..
Large map of the Near East, based upon earlier maps by De L'Isle. Shows also most part of the Mediterranean basin as well as north-eastern Africa. Relief shown pictoriall...
Place & Date: Amsterdam c. 1745
Carte du Katay, ou Empire de Kin : pour servir a l'Histoire de Jenghiz Khan, raportée dans l'Histoire generale des voyages, tirée de l'Angloise.
The map is of interest for the use of East Sea, the sea between Korea and Japan, here called "Mer de Corée".Fine map of Korea and China's Yellow Sea. Complete ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1750
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2023
Constantinopolis.
A spectacular woodcut panorama of the ancient city of Constantinople, proporting to show the pre-Turk city (for example naming St Sophia). (235x522mm).One of the earliest...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
A ship's hour glass
The element common to celestial position-finding, the calculation of speed for dead reckoning and even everyday life at sea is the time: hence ways of determining and kee...
Place & Date: ca. 1790
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: One 2-lines initial decorated with flower in liquid gold on colored grounds and seven 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and six line-fillers in sam...
Place & Date: France, ca.1530
Nouvelle Mappa Monde.
State 2 of this fine double hemisphere world map, from an unusual perspective, with a "Mer de L'Ouest" or "Sea of the West". Paris is located at the c...
Place & Date: Venice, 1776 - 1784
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Posesiones de America : Isla de Cuba. [together with] Isla de Cuba. . .
Wall size sea chart and map of land areas showing all of Cuba, part of Florida Keys plus San Adios and Salvador Grande in the Bahamas.Minute topographical, political, and...
Place & Date: Madrid, 1853 / 1851
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[The creation of the world - First day]
Attractive page from the Nuremberg Chronicle, showing the creation of the world: the First Day, showing the celestial choir (God\'s creation of the angels) surrounding th...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Les jeunes voyageurs en Europe, ou description raisonnée des divers pays compris dans cette partie du monde.
The second edition of this fine travel companion is illustrated with 16 very decorative maps, each map surrounded by local products and specialties of the region. Include...
Place & Date: Paris, Thiériot, 1827
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[Stop race of nuclear weapons.]
Uncommon Soviet propaganda poster.Read more about the Soviet propaganda poster. [+]
Place & Date: Moscow, 1986