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Arabia
A lovely miniature map the Arabian Peninsular, published by Petrus Bertius, and published in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century. With an attractive s...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
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Vincula dura Joseph pro falso crimine perfert. Sed deus a falsa hunc suspicione leuat. Gene[sis] 40
A superb example of this illustration from the series of the Story of Joseph. Joseph in Jail.Copper engraving published in " Thesaurus sacrarum historiarum veteris t...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1585
North and South America At-A-Glance.
A clever device for demonstrating the statistics of each country, the Area, Population, Population per Sq. Mile, Highest Elevation, Principal River, Currency, Capital, Fo...
Place & Date: New York & London: International At-A-Glance Chart Co. 1931
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Rhodi [Map of Rhodes]
Very rare map of Rhodes Island published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. Per Mare, e per Terra, & infieme quello di Terra Santa. D...
Place & Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598
Forest scene on the Tobihanna Alleghany Mountains.
Original aquatint engraving for Travels in the Interior of North America between 1832-34 . Engraved by L.Weber. The finest work on American Indian life and the American F...
Place & Date: London/Paris/Coblenz, 1839
Plan du Port de St Augustin dans la Floride.
This chart shows a plan of the Port of St. Augustine in Florida.The only issue of this version of Bellin's map, slightly larger than the common version. Depths shown by s...
Place & Date: Paris, 1764
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...
Place & Date: United-States, 1931
Major Ridge. A Cherokee Chief.
Head and shoulders portrait of Major Ridge,(1771-1839) wearing a blue jacket, gold or yellow vest, white shirt, and black cravat. A Cherokee Chief, who as a Cherokee lead...
Place & Date: Philadelphia, 1837
A-Na-Cam-E-Gish-Ca. A Chippeway Chief.
Half-length portrait of Anacamegishca, bare-chested, wearing a blanket and a peace medal. A-Na-Cam-E-Gish-Ca (1785-1862) - was a Chippeway Indian Chief. The Chippewa is o...
Place & Date: Philadelphia, 1837
AFGHAN de CABOULE. Costumes Persans 8.
A beautiful hand colored lithograph of an elegant Afghan from Kabul published in the French work "Galerie Royale de Costumes peints d´après nature par divers artis...
Place & Date: Paris, Chez Aubert & Cie., 1842-1848
Carte de L'Isle de Sumatra Dressee sur les Journaux des Navigateurs . . .
Detailed map of Sumatra and Malacca, centered on Singapore and including the southern portion of the Malaysian peninsula. With "Detroit de Sincapour" and severa...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1750
Walachia Servia, Bulgaria, Romania.
The cartographer of this map was Gerard Mercator. This attractive map of the Eastern Balkans is centered on Bulgaria and includes the Bosphorus and Constantinople. The Da...
Place & Date: Oxford, 1680
Plan de la Ville et Port d'Antibes.
An attractive chart centered on the Mediterranean. With a scale and large compass-rose. Dated 1727, with the privilege of the King. From : Recueil des Plusieurs plans des...
Place & Date: Marseille, 1730
Folies Bergere - Folies de Paris. La revue de Hélène Martin . . .
Original advertising poster for Les Folies Bergère cabaret in Paris. The Théâtre des Folies Bergère is a famous Parisian performance hall inaugurated on May 2, 1869 a...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1977
Sic ferus exardet in circo taurus aperto - Cum sua terribili petit iritamina cornu.
This is a plate from a series "Venationes ferarum, avium, piscium, pugnae bestiariorum & mutuae bestiarum". Published by Philippe Galle (Haarlem 1537 - 1612...
Place & Date: Antwerp, Philips Galle, ca 1577
Asia for the Elucification of the Abbe Gaultier's Geographical Games.
An unusual Children's educational map of Asia, Countries depicted in different colors, and with only some physical features engraved, like mountain ranges and rivers, som...
Place & Date: London, 1823
La pericolante ostinata. Papagallo No. 20 Anno II.
Design by Augusto Grossi. Taken from the Italian satirical newspaper Il Papagallo, a satirical magazine founded in January 1873 by Augusto Grossi (1835-1919), which speci...
Place & Date: Bologne, 1874
DANSEUSE. Costumes Persans 9.
A beautiful hand colored lithograph of an elegant dancing girl from Persia published in the French work "Galerie Royale de Costumes peints d´après nature par diver...
Place & Date: Paris, Chez Aubert & Cie., 1842-1848
Het Friessche Doolhoff, het beruchte dorp Molk-Worren
Uncommon map made in 1718 by Johannes Hilarides, principal at the Latin School in Bolsward.. Probably the only printed plan of a Frisian village of that time. The map was...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1705
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[ Text / title page Charts of the coasts and harbours of New England . . .]
Letter press text page, taken from the "Atlantic Neptune".The Atlantic Neptune is universally recognised as one of the most magnificent atlases ever made.Exampl...
Place & Date: London, 1777
Carte des Royaumes de Siam, du Tunquin, Pegu, Ava, Aracan . . .
Map of Siam, du Tunquin, Pegu, Ava, Aracan. Across the top is an extensive list of 22 important sites and locations keyed to the plan with tiny letters and numbers.Jacque...
Place & Date: Paris, 1750
The Crimea, chiefly from surveys made by order of the Russian government. . .
Map of Crimea and the Sea of Azov. In lower right corner two inset maps showing Sebastopol inlet and harbour and a second one with the Black Sea. This second maps shows t...
Place & Date: London, 1854
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
VERSO: one 2-line illuminated initial showing a bird in fine detail in liquid gold on colored ground, seven 1-line initials and line-fillers in same.RECTO: Seven 1-line i...
Place & Date: France, c. 1520
ARMENIEN. Costumes de l'Empire Ottoman 9.
A beautiful hand colored lithograph of an Armenian published in the French work "Galerie Royale de Costumes peints d´après nature par divers artistes et lithograph...
Place & Date: Paris, Chez Aubert & Cie., 1842-1848
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Larii Lacus Vulgo Comensis Descriptio . . . [and] Terretorii Romani Descrip. [and] Fori Iulii Vulgo Frivli Typus. . .
Set of 3 maps of Lake Como, the region around Rome and the region around the Upper Adriatic, centered on Udinese from 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [Atlas of the Whole World]'...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Typus Galliae Veteris, Ex conatib' Geograph. Abrah.Ortelii.
A very decorative map with countries of ancient France prepared by Abraham Ortelius and published by one of the most famous map publishers, Willem Blaeu.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1645
Café des gourmands E. Guittard - Excellent.
Original chromo lithographed coffee advertising poster by Gonthier-Dreyfus & Co., for E. Guittard & Co. The company was started by Eddy Guittard, who emigrated fr...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1880
Selling price: $380
Sold in 2023
C'est à la France que le monde doit ses ailes. . .
Original poster promoting the French company Montgolfier Renard Charles, manufacture of hot air balloon and dirigibles. Full title Translation: " It is to France tha...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1930
Reine-Marguerite. Aster chinensis. L.
A bouquet of flowers. Engraved by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch-born Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "Fleurs dessinées d'aprè...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1800
Neflier cultivé. Mespilus germanica. L.
A bouquet of flowers. Engraved by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch born Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "http://www.swaen.com/Fleu...
Place & Date: Paris, ca.1800
Chêne commun.
Engraved by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch born Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "Fleurs dessinées d'après nature. . . receuil ...
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1800
Seringat odorant. Philadelphus coronarius. L.
Bouquet of Seringats. A bouquet of flowers. Engraved by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch born Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "Fle...
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1800
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: Six 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and five line-fillers in same.VERSO: Five 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and one 2-lines i...
Place & Date: France, 1520-1550
Grande Capucine Tropoeolum majus. L.
The true Nasturtium, stipple engraving by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch-born Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "Fleurs dessinées...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1800
L'Enfance de Paul et Virginie.
Fine engraving of Paul and Virginie.Paul et Virginie (or Paul and Virginia) is a novel by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, first published in 1787. The novel's ti...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1790
Vue Interieure de la Bourse Royale à Londres.
So-called optical print of the London stock exchange. Daumont was a well-known publisher of optical prints, established in Paris. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuri...
Place & Date: Paris, 1760
Nobiolo Canavesano, o uva Spanal.
Highly decorative stipple engraving with hand-colored details from a scarce work 'Pomona Italiana ossia Trattato Degli Alberi Fruttiferi' by Giorgio Gallesio. The series ...
Place & Date: Turin, 1832
Carte Générale de l'Empire des Russes et de la Tartarie Universelle.
Rare map of Tartary and Russia, including Korea and Japan prepared after J.B.Nolin and published by Monhare for his Atlas Général a l'usage des colleges et maisons d'ed...
Place & Date: Paris, 1783
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2023
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[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...
Place & Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598
Tiger tamer.
Showing a tiger tamer with two tigers who apparently have more interest in his erotic, scarily dressed assistance.
Place & Date: ca. 1950
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[ 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...
Place & Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598
Episcop. Ultraiectinus.
A very detailed map based on Utrecht. Scale cartouche held by a surveyor. Based on the map by B.F.van Berckenrode (1620-21) and engraved by the master engraver Evert Sijm...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630-1632
C'est à la France que le monde doit ses ailes, Clement Ader, Premier décollage du premier avion, 9 octobre 1890.
Original poster for the historical first take-off of the first plane. Translation: " It is to France that the world owes its wings, Clement Ader, First takeoff of th...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1930
Paraquariae Provinciae Soc. Iesu cum Adjacentibus Novissima...
Between the years of 1609 and 1780, the Jesuits (the Roman Catholic Society of Jesus) established in South America, an autonomous Christian state, on the lands of present...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1740
Fossa Sanctae Mariae.
Detailed map of part of the country between rivers Rhine and Meuse showing a canal to be dug between 1626 and 1628 between Rheinberg in Germany and Venlo. A deficiency of...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1645
Hongarije.
Poster made for Hungarian Tourist association. The uncommon Dutch version of this fine poster to promote Hungary in the 1930's. Arisztid Uher was a graphic designer. He d...
Place & Date: Budapest, KLOSZ / Sohn., ca. 1930
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Sexta Etas Mundi. Foliu CXXXV [Text page with S. Hieronymus, the patron of theological learning].
Text page with woodcuts of the following saints: S. Hieronymus, the patron of theological learning (100x80mm.)VERSO is printed with text and images of Popes and Kings.Pag...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
The East Part of India, or India beyond the R. Ganges.
Herman Moll's map of those Asian countries to be found east of the River Ganges, including Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, southern most China, Malaysia, Sumatr...
Place & Date: London, ca 1750
Indiae extra Gangem Pars Septentrionalis. Indiae extra Gangem Pars Meridionalis.
The map on the left depicts the northern portion of the India Ganges region, representing Burma (Myanmar), Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos. The right one depicts th...
Place & Date: Utrecht / Amsterdam, J.Halma, 1683
Carte de la Coste d'Arabie.
Uncommon issue of this very nice map of the Arabian peninsula. Depicted is Saudi Arabia, Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.With French text in title cartouche and an additiona...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1773
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: One 2-lines initial decorated with flower in liquid gold on colored grounds and six 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and five line-fillers in same...
Place & Date: France, ca. 1530
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Candia [Map of the island Crete]
Very rare map of the island Crete published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. Per Mare, e per Terra, & infieme quello di Terra Santa...
Place & Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598
Amsterdam Capitale de la Hollande.
A panoramic of Amsterdam seen from 't IJ. Set within a decorative border, printed from a separate plate. Rare.
Place & Date: Leiden, 1720
Venezuela cum parte Australi Novae Andalusiae.
Most decorative map with two large cartouches and compass-rose, large group of islands at the mouth of the Orinoco, other islands off Venezuela coast: Margarita, Aruba, C...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1673
Gezicht van het Oost-Indisch-Huys, op de binnen plaats te zien, tot Amsterdam.
Taken from the "Atlas of Amsterdam". Showing the inner square of the East Indian House of the V.O.C. in Amsterdam.A place for meeting, trading and storage of sp...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1780
Carte de l'Indochine au 1 : 2.000.000. Carte ethnolinguistique.
Map showing Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, prepared under the direction of "l'Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient". Relief shown by spot heights. With a colored ke...
Place & Date: Hanoï, 1949
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...
Place & Date: Augsburg 1762
XII. Laurater Basler gelegenheit.
Very early wood cut printed regional map of Switzerland with Basel region.Originally engraved in 1548. The map was prepared by Johannes Stumpf (1500-1576). Included in &q...
Place & Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566
L'escadre alliée bombarde les forts extérieurs de Sébastopol. (18 octobre 1854)
Beautiful Crimean War lithography by Becquet after a painting by Louis Le Breton. The print illustrates the ships "Fort Constantin", "la ville de Paris&quo...
Place & Date: Paris, 1860
Tabula Americae Specialis Geographica Regni Peru, Brasiliae, Terra Firmae & Reg: Amazonum, Secundum relationes de Herrera, de Laet & PP d Acuña & M. Rodriguez . . .
A good and clean copy of Homann's map of the northern part of South America. The map is on the Valley of the Amazon and delineates the Amazon and its labyrinth of tributa...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1728
The Russian Empire in Europe and Asia . . .
Detailed map of the whole of Russia, extending from Poland to the Pacific and from Nova Zembla to Tartaria.The map is of interest for the use of Corea Gulf for the sea be...
Place & Date: London, 1790
Siberie ou Russie Asiatique, Tartarie Chinoise, Pays des Eluts et Isles du Japon.
Map of the Kamchatka peninsula, Russian Far East., Korea, Japan, with Hokkaido labeled "Terre del Jeso".By C. F. Delamarche, successor of Robert de Vaugondy, Ge...
Place & Date: Paris, 1794 - 1806
Jerusalem.
Very rare view of Jerusalem published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. Per Mare, e per Terra, & infieme quello di Terra Santa. Da G...
Place & Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598
IX. Die Lepontier.
Very early wood cut printed regional map of Switzerland.Originally engraved in 1548. The map was prepared by Johannes Stumpf (1500-1576). Included in "Landtaflen. Hi...
Place & Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566
Map of China.
Showing China, Taiwan and Korea, divided into provinces with the main cities marked. The map is of interest for the use of Sea of Corea, the sea between Korea and Japan, ...
Place & Date: London, 1804
Zelandia Comitatus.
Based on the map by Van Deventer. For the first time a road connection between Flushing, Middelburg and Arnemuiden is shown. Mercator pays much attention to the area of s...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Steel compass with a gilded radiating pattern.
Steel compass with a gilded radiating pattern.Provenance : Collection Henri-Claude Randier.
Place & Date: ca. 1760
Charte von China und den angränzenden Ländern und Völkerschaften so wie den letzten Kaiser Tschien-Long. . .
Uncommon map of China on a scale of ca. 1:6,000,000. The map's complete title is “Charte von China und den angränzenden Ländern, und Völkerschaften so wie sie dem le...
Place & Date: Parague, 1812
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2023
Vüe de la Place de Grosvenor a Londres.
So-called optical print illustrating a perspective view of Grosvenor Square, Mayfair, London. The centrepiece of the 100 acre Grosvenor Estate, it was built between 1725-...
Place & Date: Paris, 1760
Les Messageries Maritimes font le tour du monde.
Original lithographed mini poster (570 x 400mm.) created by the artist Robert Louis Antral for Les Messageries Maritimes, showing a boat and a globe. Les Messageries Mari...
Place & Date: Paris, 1955
VII. Das Ergow.
Very early wood cut printed regional map of Switzerland centered on Ergow.Originally engraved in 1548. The map was prepared by Johannes Stumpf (1500-1576). Included in &q...
Place & Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566
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Rodi [View of Rhodes]
Very rare view of the City of Rhodes on the island of Rhodes. Historically, Rhodes island was very famous worldwide for the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders o...
Place & Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598
Astéries.
Decorative engraving of star fishes, by Macret and Leleu. Marie Jules César Lelorgne de Savigny (April 5, 1777 - October 5, 1851) was a French zoologist. In 1798 he trav...
Place & Date: Paris, 1822
Les honneurs du Panthéon . . . . (Plate 433 from La Caricature.)
On the front wall is written: "To the great men and women, our country is grateful". This lithograph shows people hanging in front of the Panthéon, and may be ...
Place & Date: Paris, October 23, 1834
Echelle pour trouver les jours de la semaine. . . / Scale om de Dagen van de Week te vinden. . . / Scale to find the Days of the Week. . .
Fine engraved plate showing eight different scales with explications in French, Dutch and English.Scale om de dagen van de week, de verschietende feest-dagen, de maan-tyd...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1695
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-...
Place & Date: Bologne, 1878
Teatro della guerra nelle Flandre Austriache e Francesi. . .
Rare folio-sized map of Belgium by Antonio Zatta e Figli, from a never-finished atlas by the ‘Società Calcografia’, a partnership of the two main Venetian publishers...
Place & Date: Venise, 1803
A Map and Chart of Arabia, the Red Sea, & Persian Gulf, drawn from the Chart of the Eastern Ocean, Publish'd in 1740, by Order of ye Count de Maruepas,...
A small but unusual map of the Arabian Peninsular, engraved by G. Child for 'The universal traveller: or, A compleat description of the several nations of the world', by ...
Place & Date: London, Th. Salmon, 1752-1753
Vüe Perspective de l'Hospital de Greenwich prise de la Thamise.
So-called optical print illustrating a perspective view of Greenwich Hospital, illustrating its close proximity to the River Thames.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centu...
Place & Date: Paris, 1760
Carte nouvelle de Moscovie represente la partie Septentrionale dressée par G.De L'Isle. . .
Uncommon map covering the area north of Moscow, including Lapland. Prepared by G. de L'Isle.Joachim Ottens (1663 - 1719) and his sons Renier and Joshua were prominent Dut...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720