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Vasten avonds Vreugde krans en tooneel stuk. . .
Page taken from "Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid : vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der actie, bubbel en windnegotie, in Vrankryk, Engeland, en de Ne...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
![[Map of Corfu. View of the city of Corfu on the foreground. ]](/uploads/cache/45221-500x500.jpg)
[Map of Corfu. View of the city of Corfu on the foreground. ]
Very rare map of Corfu with a view of the city of Corfu on the foreground. Published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. Per Mare, e per T...
Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598
Hydrograhica descriptio
This very rare chart is important as the first printed sea chart of the Mediterranean coast of Spain, Gibraltar, also depicting the northern coast of Marocco.Willem Bar...
Date: Amsterdam, W.Blaeu, 1612
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
24 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with flowers, vases and religious scenes.From the press of the leading Parisian publisher and illumi...
Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c.1520-1540
![[Page with imaginary towns in Hungary. ] CCLXVIII](/uploads/cache/26932-500x500.jpg)
[Page with imaginary towns in Hungary. ] CCLXVIII
Page with imaginary towns in Hungary (230x225mm.) This leaf is from an edition of Hartmann Schedel's Liber chronicarum or Nuremberg Chronicle. The Chronicle was published...
Date: Nuremberg, 1493
La Saxe Contenant le Routes et les postes. . .
Fine post route map of Saxony in Germany with a splendidly engraved title cartouche. The map is centered on Leipzig. George Louis Le Rouge was active between 1740 and 178...
Date: Paris, 1756
Mathieu Merian, l'Ancien célébre graveur . . .
Portrait of Matthäus Merian (1593-1650) by Hubert. Matthäus Merian der Ältere was a Swiss-born engraver who worked in Frankfurt for most of his career, where he also ...
Date: Paris, 1784
Map of the Island of Ceylon incorporating that of the Kandyan Provinces already published ... by Major General John Fraser, late Deputy Quarter Master General…
Arrowsmith’s 1856 edition of Fraser’s map of Ceylon, one of the most detailed maps published in the 19th century.“Map of the Island of Ceylon incorporating that of ...
Date: London, John Arrowsmith, June 1856
![[Title page for] Atlas Minor de Guerard Mercator. . .](/uploads/cache/47933-500x500.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
Changer à droite - Changieren rechts - Variatio ad dextram.
Copper engraving from "Neue Reit Schul vorstellend einen vollkommenen Reuter in allen Lectionen". Disciple of Georg Philipp Rugendas I in Augsburg, Johann Elias...
Date: Augsburg, 1734
Plan commercial de la Région Saïgon-Cholon.
Decorative publicity plan of Ho Chi Minh City, also known by its former name of Saigon and Cholon, prepared by Ngo-Trinh, surrounded by advertisements of local stores. Th...
Date: Saigon, 1948
![[Anti capitalism Soviet Union propaganda poster]](/uploads/cache/47028-500x500.jpg)
[Anti capitalism Soviet Union propaganda poster]
Propaganda mini anti-capitalism poster published in Russia during The Cold War. By the 1960’s and 1970’s, outrageous practices in Soviet bureaucracy flourished. Poor ...
Date: Leningrad, 1975
![[Title page from ] Le Theatre du Monde ou Nouvel Atlas . . .](/uploads/cache/45053-500x500.jpg)
[Title page from ] Le Theatre du Monde ou Nouvel Atlas . . .
A very decorative frontispiece by Willem Blaeu from the second part of this fine atlas. At top, a coat of arms surmounted by a crown and surrounded by two golden chains, ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1644
![[Anti capitalism Soviet Union propaganda poster]](/uploads/cache/47038-500x500.jpg)
[Anti capitalism Soviet Union propaganda poster]
Propaganda mini anti-capitalism poster published in Russia during The Cold War. By the 1960’s and 1970’s, outrageous practices in Soviet bureaucracy flourished. Poor ...
Date: Leningrad, 1970
![[Anti capitalism Soviet Union propaganda poster]](/uploads/cache/47039-500x500.jpg)
[Anti capitalism Soviet Union propaganda poster]
Propaganda mini anti-capitalism poster published in Russia during The Cold War. By the 1960’s and 1970’s, outrageous practices in Soviet bureaucracy flourished. Poor ...
Date: Leningrad, 1978
Cust van Hollant Tussen de Maes ende Texel.
Uncommon chart of the coast of Holland, including the southern tip of Texel. East at the top. Two fine compass cards, soundings and a large Bree Veerthien offshore.Piete...
Date: Amsterdam, 1666
![Dum flaus in agro gaudet colligere spicas Ruth, forte affinis, venit in arua Booz. [ûRuth thanks Boaz for letting her glean his fields, from The Story of Ruth.]](/uploads/cache/47694-500x500.jpg)
Dum flaus in agro gaudet colligere spicas Ruth, forte affinis, venit in arua Booz. [ûRuth thanks Boaz for letting her glean his fields, from The Story of Ruth.]
A superb example of this illustration showing Ruth thanks Boaz for letting her glean his fields, from The Story of Ruth.Copper engraving published in " Thesaurus sac...
Date: Antwerp, 1585
s'Lands en Oost-Indische Lynbanen.
A decorative print of the Lynbanen a place were V.O.C. ship riggings and ropes were produced and kept.
Date: Amsterdam, 1760-1767
t'Oost-Indisch-Huys.
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, 1760-1767
s'Lands en Oost-Indische Lynbanen. & t'Oost-Indisch-Huys.
A decorative print of the Lynbanen a place were V.O.C. ship riggings and ropes were produced and kept.
Date: Amsterdam, 1760-1767
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
Arcenal de l'Amirauté.
A decorative print of the 'T Landts Magazyn , or 'Scheepvaart Museum' (Naval Museum).
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1700
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
Histoire de la Navigation.
A fine example of Linschoten's classic illustrated travelogue to the East and West Indies, termed by Lach “the most important of the firsthand accounts published indepe...
Date: Amsterdam, Evert Cloppenburgh, 1638
Air France dans tous les ciels.
Original lithograph advertising poster for Air France, by Badia Vilato Xavier. Signed in the upper right corner. The poster has always occupied a special place in Air Fra...
Date: Imprimerie Perceval, Paris, 1951
'T Oost Indisch Huys.
A decorative print of the East Indian House , the headquarters of the VOC, a place for meeting, trading and storage of spices and ship equipment. The maps and charts were...
Date: Amsterdam, J. van Meurs, 1663
ALBUM with 170 engravings of animals, landscapes, months, figures, ornamentations, etc. from the 17th century.
A collection of 170 engravings, for the greater part engraved by Jacob Honervogt but also by Mérian, Tempesta and others. - LANGLOIS (François). A series of 12 plate...
Date: Paris, ca. 1642
A Map and History of Peiping; formerly known as Peking; capital of provinces, princedoms and kingdoms since 1121 B.C. . .
The uncommon second edition of this very decorative and informative pictorial map of Beijing and surrounding areas, whimsically illustrating the Forbidden City, important...
Date: The Peiyang Press, Ltd. Tientsin-Peiping, 1936
McCormick's Map of the World.
Colorful promotional map of the 20th century spice trade.What better way to showcase the global composition of a multi-national company than with a world map? This lovely...
Date: United-States, 1931
Du sang à l'aube.
Original lithographed poster for the Spanish movie "Blood at dawn" (1948) directed by Rafael Gil, based on the novel by Blasco Ibanez. Poster designed by Duccio...
Date: Paris, 1948
Het West Indisch Huys.
A decorative print of the West Indian House , the headquarters of the WIC, a place for meeting, trading and storage of spices and ship equipment. The maps and charts were...
Date: Amsterdam, J. van Meurs, 1663
D. Cassini. Né en 1625. mort en 1712.
Very rare stipple engraved portrait of Jean Dominique Cassini. Dominique Cassini was the son of César-François Cassini de Thury, the grandson of Jacques Cassini and the...
Date: Paris, ca. 1750
![[Title page] La Sphere Royale.](/uploads/cache/48022-500x500.jpg)
[Title page] La Sphere Royale.
Title page from Nicolas de Fers "La Sphere Royale", published in 1717. Showing a sphere, surrounded by Neptune, Europe, the elements and scholars.
Date: Paris, 1717
![[Title page] Les plans et profils de toutes les principales villes et lieux considerables de France . . .](/uploads/cache/48026-500x500.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
Typus Orbis Terrarum.
Ortelius' third and last world map is dated 1587 under the author's signature. From the rare Italian text edition. The earlier border of clouds has been replaced by a mor...
Date: Antwerp, 1608-1612
Cigarettes Saphir.
Beautiful late Art Nouveau style poster for the tobacco brand Cigarettes Saphir. Printed by Imprimerie Moullot, in Paris and designed by Stephano. The poster shows a very...
Date: Marseille, ca. 1920
Porte de Harlem (Heemstede/Haarlem)
Showing the Haarlemmer Poort (gate) in Heemstede near Haarlem. Likely published by Mondhard, who was a well-known publisher of optical prints, established in rue St.Marti...
Date: Paris, ca. 1750
Vue générale d'Amsterdam.
A so-called optical prints, showing Amsterdam seen from the IJ. A lively scene with extensive shipping. To the left the headquarters of the V.O.C., nowadays the Maritime ...
Date: Paris, ca. 1750
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
Amsterdam aan de Waterkant vanaf 't IJ te Sien.
A panoramic view of the town from 't IJ. Engraved by Daniël Stoopendaal.Dare to go in Black. All early maps were printed in black and white; many were kept that way for ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1694
Provincie Noord-Braband. / Breda, de Langstraat. . .
Decorative and uncommon custume plate lithographed by R. de Vries and published by Frans Buffa & Zonen in Amsterdam. A group of 4 women from the area of Baronie van B...
Date: Amsterdam, 1857
Guaranty Trust Company of New York. Emprunt national 6%.n Souscrivez.
Very decorative propaganda poster with design by Mark All of Paris for "Guaranty Trust Company of New York", a JPMorgan Chase predecessor in order to promote th...
Date: Paris, 1918
Atlas Silesiae Id Est Ducatus Silesiae Generaliter Quatuor Mappis…
Large atlas of Silesia illustrated with 20 double page copper engraved maps, 4 overview maps and 16 large scale detailed maps with decorative cartouches.The Atlas Silesia...
Date: Homann Heirs, Nürnberg, 1750
Key Map of Hong Kong Relative to Canton and Macao.
A nice folded map of Hong Kong and the surrounding areas. Produced by the British Crown Lands Survey Office just after WWII. Physical features are shown by contour. Railw...
Date: Hong Kong, 1948
Situazione attuale della Polonia 1831.
An unusual map of Poland by the Italian Bernardo Zaydler, published in the work History of Poland in 1831. The map extends from Prussia and Bohemia in the west, across th...
Date: Florence, 1831
Hyderabad Dn - See Indias, premier state (Taj Mahal).
Beautiful color lithographed travel poster promoting India, more precisely the Taj Mahal.Published by Azam Steam Press Hyd. Dn.active in India.
Date: India, 1930
![[Printed on silk] Nova Totius Americae Sive Novi Orbis Tabula, Auct. Hugo Allardt.](/uploads/cache/48420-500x500.jpg)
[Printed on silk] Nova Totius Americae Sive Novi Orbis Tabula, Auct. Hugo Allardt.
Hugo Allard’s ca. 1661 map of the Americas, showing California as an island printed on silk. This separately issued map printed on paper is quite rare on the market. T...
Date: Amsterdam, 1661
![[Collection of six maps of Australia and New Zealand.]](/uploads/cache/48412-500x500.jpg)
[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...
Date: Germany, 1832-1852
Romani Imperii Imago.
Very rare map in a first edition by Jacques Honervogt. Copied after a map by Ortelius but much rarer. The medallion portraits are of Romulus and Remus - the genealogical ...
Date: Paris, 1630
Carte des Isles d'Acores.
Uncommon and detailed map of the Azores. With inset maps of Port de St.Cruz and harbor and town of Angra on the island of Terceira. It was at the time an important port a...
Date: Amsterdam, 1730
AIR France - Gastronomie
An atypical Air France poster designed by Roger Bezombes in 1980 that turns traditional Air France poster art on its head: if the goal of an advertising poster is to crea...
Date: Murlot, Paris, 1981
Nieuwe kaart van het oostelykste deel van Holland. . .
Detailed map covering the area of Gouda, Iisselstein, s'Hertogenbosch, Zevenbergen, Dordrecht.
Date: Amsterdam, 1749
Le Cours de l'Elbe et de l'Oder où sont les Electorats de Saxe et de Brandebourg, les Duchés de Mekelbourg et de Pomeranie. . .
A detailed and scarce map showing the rivers Elbe and Oder in Germany and Poland. Dark engraving.This is one sheet of the four sheet wall map by Pierre Du Val entitled: &...
Date: Paris, 1684
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...
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1755
Spoorweg Museum Thans in Het Rijksmuseum.
Interesting Art Deco style poster for the Railway Museum, now in the Rijksmuseum. Carolus Adrianus Maria Thole (20 April 1914 – 26 March 2000) was a Dutch-Italian paint...
Date: Amsterdam, 1942
Inde.
Decorative poster advertising flights to India made by Georges Mathieu. The poster is one of a series of 15 composed of posters of Greece, Israel, Germany, Great Britain,...
Date: Paris, 1967
![Quaestiones quodlibetales. Edited by Thomas Penketh. [bound with] Quaestiones in quattuor libros Sententiarum Petri Lombardi.](/uploads/cache/34339-500x500.jpg)
Quaestiones quodlibetales. Edited by Thomas Penketh. [bound with] Quaestiones in quattuor libros Sententiarum Petri Lombardi.
The second edition of the first work and third edition of the second, both printed in the same year by Koberger and frequently bound together. On extraordinarily Strong a...
Date: Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1481
Candia cum Insulis.. Corfu Zante, Milo, Nicsia, Santorini.
Four views on one sheet: A large map of Crete, with three smaller views across the top showing the Ionian Islands of Kerkira (Corfu), Cephalonia and Zakinthos (Zante.) Th...
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Carte du Siège Présidial Dax... Nouvellement Deseignee Par le...
Very rare map including Bayonne and Dax in the southwest of France. With inset plan of "Plan de la ville Dax.". With the address "Chez F. Dela Pointe sur l...
Date: Paris, 1638
![[World and 4 continents] Carte Geographique Astronomique Chronologique et Historique du Monde.](/uploads/cache/63024-500x500.jpg)
[World and 4 continents] Carte Geographique Astronomique Chronologique et Historique du Monde.
French wall map of the world in 4 sheets published by Crépy "à l'entrée du Cloistre de St. Benoist du côté des maturins". A decorative wall map of the worl...
Date: Paris, 1720-1735
Rotterdam
A bird's-eye view of the town. With extensive shipping in the foreground. From "Topographia Germaniae Inferioris". Matthäus Merian, the leading German illust...
Date: Frankfurt, 1659
'Art déco' illstration.
A beautiful art déco illustration depicting a nice landscape with a woman playing with a hind. A striking example of commercial artworks produced by the artist and graph...
Date: Paris, between 1925 and 1930
Le bon Quinquina - Robert Dubonnet Sport.
Advertising lithographed poster for Le bon Quinquina - Robert Dubonnet Sport.
Date: Paris, between 1925 and 1930
Baiser d'Anis Apéritif.
Advertising lithographed poster for "Baiser d'Anis Apéritif".
Date: Paris, between 1925 and 1930
Limonades sodas - Fontenoy.
Advertising lithographed poster for Fontenoy.
Date: Paris, between 1925 and 1930
Histoire Socialiste.
Text includes “Imp. Centre de Propagande, des Républicains Nationaux, 102, rue Amelot, Paris (XIe), ou l’on peut se procurer cette affiche. Cette affiche ne peut êt...
Date: Paris, 1931
Singapore.
Chart of Southern part of Malaysian peninsular showing good detail on of Singapore. Map with legend and scale.
Date: London, 1944
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A more than 600 years old antiphonary leaf, written in Besançon, in 1370. Musical notation on 4 bars, the staves are in red and the notes in black: numerous pen-flourish...
Date: Besançon, 1370
Un Reclutatore in India. Papagallo No. 42. Anno VI.
British in India. Design by Augusto Grossi. Taken from the Italian satirical newspaper Il Papagallo, a satirical magazine founded in January 1873 by Augusto Grossi (1835-...
Date: Bologne, 1878
Vue de Boston vers le Cale du Port.
A view of the port of Boston, the center of New England shipping in the colonial period. The closing of the port after the Boston Tea Party led to the calling of the Firs...
Date: Augsburg 1762
Urbium Londini et West-Monasterii nec non Surburbii Southwark Accurata Ichnographia ,., Neuester Grundris der Staedte London und West-Munster, Samt der Vorstadt Southwark ,.,
Detailed plan of London, extending from Grosvenor Square in the west to Mile End to the east, To the right inset views of St, James's Square, and Custom House, elevations...
Date: Nuremberg, 1736
![[Anti capitalism Soviet Union propaganda poster]](/uploads/cache/47029-500x500.jpg)
[Anti capitalism Soviet Union propaganda poster]
Propaganda mini anti-capitalism poster published in Russia during The Cold War. By the 1960’s and 1970’s, outrageous practices in Soviet bureaucracy flourished. Poor ...
Date: Leningrad, 1973
![[Anti capitalism Soviet Union propaganda poster]](/uploads/cache/47033-500x500.jpg)
[Anti capitalism Soviet Union propaganda poster]
Propaganda mini anti-capitalism poster published in Russia during The Cold War. By the 1960’s and 1970’s, outrageous practices in Soviet bureaucracy flourished. Poor ...
Date: Leningrad, 1975
![[Anti capitalism Soviet Union propaganda poster]](/uploads/cache/47034-500x500.jpg)
[Anti capitalism Soviet Union propaganda poster]
Propaganda mini anti-capitalism poster published in Russia during The Cold War. By the 1960’s and 1970’s, outrageous practices in Soviet bureaucracy flourished. Poor ...
Date: Leningrad, 1975
Politica Maramea Inglese - Rugantino - n°419 - Roma 17 Gennaio 1892.
Satirical print relating to the British Conquest of Egypt (1882), also known as Anglo–Egyptian War, between Egyptian and Sudanese forces under Ahmed ‘Urabi and the Un...
Date: Rome, January 17, 1892
AIR France - Le plus grand réseau du monde.
Created in 1959 by the artist Lucien Boucher, showing all of the DC-7 Air France Routes. The Blue Pink Poster is one of a series of eight posters commissioned by Air Fran...
Date: Imprimerie Perceval, Paris, 1959
ACTION N° 1155. Société du Commerce d'Asie & d'Afrique.
Share of 1 000 Florins d'Allemagne (1 000 Guilder) of the "Triester Handelsgesellschaft" (Société du Commerce d'Asie & d'Afrique) signed by duke Charles d...
Date: Triest / Antwerpen, 1 October 1781
La Flamboyante Colomne des Pays-Bas. Autrement dict les XVII Provinces. Chez Jacob Colom.
Rare atlas of the Low Countries, by Jacob Colom, in an early – first- French edition. The atlas was first printed in Dutch (1635) and than in 1636 in French, using the ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1636
![[ Map of the island Nexos]](/uploads/cache/45289-500x500.jpg)
[ Map of the island Nexos]
Very rare map of the island Naxos published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. Per Mare, e per Terra, & infieme quello di Terra Santa...
Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598
Kaart van Palestina voor ou- en nieuw testament behorend bij de weg met en naar Christus door Fr. M. Bellarminus.
Original vintage illustrated map wall map sized poster (166 x 118cm) of Palestine in the time of Christ featuring a map of the old and new testament of the Bible from The...
Date: Utrecht, Sint Gregoriushuis, 1948