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L'Isle Formose et parties des Costes de la Chine. . .

This well-known map of Taiwan is prepared by Jacques Nicolas Bellin and was based on Jesuit information. The text along the island's east-coast claims: Of this coast litt...

$700 / ≈ â‚¬655
Maker / Publisher: BELLIN, J.N.
Place & Date: Paris, 1763

 


Carta nuova dell'Arabia.

Detailed map of Arabia and environs. Based on a map published by Isaak Tirion in Amsterdam, but here issued by Albrizzi with a modified title.More about Mapping of Arabia...

$550 / ≈ â‚¬515
Maker / Publisher: ALBRIZZI, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1740

 


DU GLOBE TERRESTRE - Figure XC. 253

Finely engraved plate of various types of sailing ships.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers.. (5 volumes), 1683. By Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706), ...

$200 / ≈ â‚¬187
Maker / Publisher: MALLET,A.M.
Place & Date: Paris, 1683

 


(Ships on full sea)

A fine engraving of different sailing vessels at full sea.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers.. (5 volumes), 1683. By Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706)...

$200 / ≈ â‚¬187
Maker / Publisher: MALLET, A.M.
Place & Date: Paris, 1683

 


Paskaerte Zynde t'Oosterdeel Van Oost Indien, met alle de Eylanden daer ontrendt geleegen van C. Comorin tota aen Iapan.

An eye-catching chart of Pieter Goos' sea chart of Australia, Southeast Asia, China, Japan, Korea and India. The chart shows the regions from Cape Comorin (Southern India...

$10000 / ≈ â‚¬9357
Maker / Publisher: GOOS, P.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1669

 


N°3. Horologium Horizontale Horas a meridie et media nocte Numeratas continens ad latitudinem XLIX GR XXIII Minut ec.

This beautiful engraving is a horological diagram with a 32-point wind rose at the bottom, signed underneath "M:Franciscus Ritter N fac A° 1640."It is remarkab...

$750 / ≈ â‚¬702
Maker / Publisher: RITTER, F.
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1640

 


(Lübeck) Lvbeca vrbs. imperialis libera. civitatvm. Wandalicarvm. . . .

Impressive more than 3 meters wide panoramic town view after a woodblock engraving from Elias Diebel, initially made in 1552. Of this original woodblock, Bachmann mention...

$4500 / ≈ â‚¬4211
Maker / Publisher: DIEBEL, E. after
Place & Date: Germany, c. 1855

 


Vorstellung der Evangelisch-Ostindischen Kirche Augsburger Protestanten.

It is a very decorative and rare print to commemorate the 200-year Confession of the Augsburg Protestant Confession. Engraved by J. Kleinschmidt after a design of E. Ridi...

$2000 / ≈ â‚¬1871
Maker / Publisher: RIDINGER, J.
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1732

 


A manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours. (Calendar month of August)

RECTO : Calendar month of August with a 2-line initial in liquid gold on colored ground. colorful panel border in the left margin of acanthus leaves and flowers, with bla...

$450 / ≈ â‚¬421
Maker / Publisher: BOOK OF HOURS
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1450

 


America settentrionale. . .

Rare map of North America drawn directly from the work of Nicholas De Fer and N. Sanson's famous map of 1650. The map is engraved by Antonius Donzel Gallus.With open Grea...

$1800 / ≈ â‚¬1684
Maker / Publisher: PETRINI, P.
Place & Date: Napels, 1766

 


Carte du Golfe de Bengale, Mer de Indes, et Riviere du Gange, Avec les Pais et Iles d'alentour, Savoir les Cotes de Malabar, Cormandel, Ile de Ceylon, Les Maldives . . .

Detailed map of the Southern part of India with Ceylon. Good detail along the coasts of Malabar, Coromandel, the Maldives islands and the Kingdoms of Visipour, Golconda, ...

$275 / ≈ â‚¬257
Maker / Publisher: VANDER AA, P.
Place & Date: Leiden, 1719

 


Planisphere celeste Septentrional. . . [together with] Planisphere celeste meridional. . .

Beautiful set of celestial charts of the northern and southern skies by the well-known French astronomer, Philippe de La Hire. Surrounded by panels of astronomical notes ...

$3000 / ≈ â‚¬2807
Maker / Publisher: DE LA HIRE, P. / DESNOS, S.
Place & Date: Paris, ca.1775

 


Bibliomappe. Chronologie Historique et Géographique par MM. Année et Vivien bound with : Bibliomappe, ou Livre-Cartes: Leçons Méthodiques de Chronologie et de Géographie, . . .

With 67 maps (1 folding) by A.M. Perrot. Published in Paris. Most maps have original color. The atlas is complete very rare, as it was issued in 15 separate installments ...

$1750 / ≈ â‚¬1638
Maker / Publisher: ANNEE et VIVIEN / [BAILLEUL, Jacques-Charles].
Place & Date: Paris, Renard, 1827 / 1824-1826

 


A New Map of Asia from the latest Observations Most Humbly Inscrib'd to the Right Honbl. George Earl of Warrington &c.

Fine map of Asia, with decorative title cartouche flanked by two figures in Asian dress, along with flora and fauna of the continent., based on the work of Guillaume De L...

$1500 / ≈ â‚¬1404
Maker / Publisher: SENEX, J.
Place & Date: London, 1721

 


Asia Concinnata Secundum Observationes Academiae Regalis . . .

A version of De L'Isle's map. T.C. Lotter married M. Seutter's daughter in 1740 and succeeded him in 1756. Lotter used the copperplate of Seutter, he only changed the nam...

$750 / ≈ â‚¬702
Maker / Publisher: LOTTER, T.C.
Place & Date: Augsburg, ca. 1770

 


Plan de la ville de Louvo . . .

Early plan of Louvo city. Across the top is an extensive list of 22 important sites and locations keyed to the plan with tiny letters and numbers.Jacques Nicolas Bellin (...

$350 / ≈ â‚¬328
Maker / Publisher: BELLIN, J.N.
Place & Date: Paris, 1750

 


L'Inde de la le Gange, suivant les nouvelles observations...

Uncommon edition of this map of Malaysia, Thailand, Indo China and the Northern parts of the islands of Sumatra and Borneo. Singapore marked as Sincapour. With decorative...

$600 / ≈ â‚¬561
Maker / Publisher: AA, P. van der
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1728

 


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...

$350 / ≈ â‚¬328
Maker / Publisher: BELLIN, J.N.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1750

 


Thusciae Descriptio Auctore Hieronimo Bellarmato.

Decorative and detailed map of Tuscany, from the 1574 or 1575 Latin text edition of Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas of the world. The map is bas...

$900 / ≈ â‚¬842
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1574-1575

 


Peregrinatie Jesu Christu Een ordentliche beschrijvinge des Heijligen landts....

Very rare separately map of the Holy Land engraved by Joannes van Doetecum Jr. Oriented to the east. The shoreline runs from "Antaradus" in Syria to "Rhino...

$4000 / ≈ â‚¬3743
Maker / Publisher: VAN DOECTECUM Jr. , J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1595

 


L'Europe en Sept 1939. Ille terrarum mihi angulus ridet.

A rare oversized serio-comic map of Europe at the start of the Second World War depicting stereotypes of 31 countries, as listed in the key lower right, including Brit...

$9000 / ≈ â‚¬8421
Maker / Publisher: VLAANDEREN, Cornelis André
Place & Date: Bruges, Leon Burghgraeve, 1939

 


Recueil de costumes. Imagini degl'abiti con cui Va uestita la Nobiltà della Serenis.ma Republica di Venezia. Suivi de: [Augsburger Kleidertrachten].

Imagini degl'abiti con cui Va uestita la Nobiltà della Serenis.ma Republica di Venezia. Dedicate all'Illmo et Ecc.mo Sig.r Andrea da Leze Degnis.mo Proc.tor di S: Marco....

$8500 / ≈ â‚¬7954
Maker / Publisher: [BALDUINO (Giacomo)], ZUCHI (Andrea) / WOLFF (Jeremias).
Place & Date: Venezia, Ragheno, 1702 / Augsbourg, J. Wolff, ca. 1715

 


Benedict. Arias Montanus Sacrae Geographiae Tabulam Ex Antiq

THE EXTREMELY RARE FIRST STATE landmark world map, famed for its depiction of the Australian landmass.One of the earliest printed maps to depict the “terra incognitaâ€...

$21500 / ≈ â‚¬20118
Maker / Publisher: ARIAS (MONTANO), Benito:
Place & Date: Anvers 1571 /1572

 


[2 maps] Nieuwe Hemels Spiegel waer door den hemel, aerde en zee dadelik kan afgemeten werden. Noyt gesien en dat op alles Polus hooghten seer noodig voor Stierlieden.

Copper engraving made by Andreas van Luchtenburg in Rotterdam, published separately by Cornelis Danckerts. Dimensions. 60.5 x 52.8 cm.We see the starry sky from the nor...

$17500 / ≈ â‚¬16375
Maker / Publisher: LUCHTENBURG, A.
Place & Date: Rotterdam, Amsterdam, 1695

 


Carte de l'Empire de Perse. . .

Map of the Persian empire by the Venetian cartographer and publisher François (Père) Santini and first published in Santini's 'Atlas Universel dressée sur les meuilleu...

$200 / ≈ â‚¬187
Maker / Publisher: SANTINI, P.
Place & Date: Venice, 1784

 


Le Chantier d'Amsterdam.

Decorative lithography representing the head quarters of the V.O.C. and shipyard in Amsterdam. The building serves nowadays as the Maritime Museum. After a painting by A....

$95 / ≈ â‚¬89
Maker / Publisher: DE CLOET / MADOU, J-B.
Place & Date: Brussels, J. B. A. Jobard, 1825

 


Kamchatka according to A.Erman . . .

FIRST EDITION Map of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Siberia, from Gazetteer of the World. Drawn by Augustus Petermann, engraved by G. H. Swanston.

$40 / ≈ â‚¬37
Maker / Publisher: PETERMANN, A. / FULLERTON, A.
Place & Date: London / Edinburgh, 1850

 


Nieuwe kaart van Kanada . . .

Nice map of the Bay of Hudson, In Labrador, a small inset of Nova Scotia. The map is dated 1769. All text is in Dutch. The map shows the region shortly after the conclusi...

$500 / ≈ â‚¬468
Maker / Publisher: TIRION, I.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1769

 


Deutschlands Postkarte begraenzt von Oesterreich, Preussen, Frankreich, Holland, Italien und der Schweiz. . .

Detailed and important post road map prepared by Ignaz Heymann. The map shows, the Low Countries, Germany, Poland, Austria, Hungary, etc.Borders in original out-line colo...

$1100 / ≈ â‚¬1029
Maker / Publisher: HEYMANN, I.
Place & Date: Triest, 1800

 


Isles Philippines.

Fine map of the Philippines. George Louis Le Rouge was active from 1740- till 1780 as a publisher, and was appointed engineer for the King of France. From his Atlas Nouve...

$750 / ≈ â‚¬702
Maker / Publisher: LE ROUGE, G.L.
Place & Date: Paris, 1756

 


Les Isles Philippines [on sheet with] Islas de los Ladrones ou Isle des Larrons.

Sanson's important mid-seventeenth-century map of the Philippines and tha Ladrones.It was first engraved by J. Somer for the elder Nicolas Sanson with a privilege for twe...

$1200 / ≈ â‚¬1123
Maker / Publisher: SANSON, N.
Place & Date: Amsterdam/Utrecht, 1654

 


Borneo (together with) The Philippine Islands.

Two maps on one sheet. Both maps are highly detailed, filled with place names. The Philippines are shown from the Bashee Islands in the north to the Sooloo Archipelago in...

$150 / ≈ â‚¬140
Maker / Publisher: WELLER, E.
Place & Date: London, ca. 1858

 


Il regno della Bossima diviso nelle sue provincie principali. . .

Rossi's map of Bosnia, based upon Sanson's map, but with revised Italian nomenclature. From a second edition of his 'Mercurio Geografico...'. The engraver was Cl. Botzot....

$300 / ≈ â‚¬281
Maker / Publisher: DE ROSSI, G.
Place & Date: Rome, 1689

 


Plan de la Baye de Manille. / Plan van de Baay van Manilla.

Detailed plan of Manila Bay after George Anson's key plan of the Bay of Manila. With a compass rose and soundings in the Bay. East to the top.This is the rare Dutch editi...

$350 / ≈ â‚¬328
Maker / Publisher: LATTRE, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Arkstee and Merkus, 1751

 


Carta particolare che comincia con il c.apo Aldea è Finisce con il capo Degortam. . .

Dudley’s magnificent chart shows the south west coast of Africa. A first edition without the privilege..Engraved by Lucini.Sir Robert Dudley's Dell'Arcano del Mare is t...

$1250 / ≈ â‚¬1170
Maker / Publisher: DUDLEY, R.
Place & Date: Florence, 1645

 


Sick and wounded embarking at Hong-Kong on Board the Steamer.

Large view of the harbour with numerous ships and people. From the Illustrated London News, October 23, 1858.

$80 / ≈ â‚¬75
Maker / Publisher: ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS
Place & Date: London, October 1858

 


Isles Philippines.

Fine map of the Philippines. George Louis Le Rouge was active from 1740- till 1780 as a publisher, and was appointed engineer for the King of France. From his Atlas Nouve...

$350 / ≈ â‚¬328
Maker / Publisher: LE ROUGE, G.L.
Place & Date: Paris, 1756

 


Nouvelle-Hollande. Gnoung-A-Gnougn-A, Mour-Re-Mour-Ga ( Dit Collins). [plate XVII]

A portrait of a male Tasmanian Aboriginal Gnoung-A-Gnougn-A, Mour-Re-Mour-Ga ( Dit Collins) by Lesueur, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François Pér...

$100 / ≈ â‚¬94
Maker / Publisher: LESUEUR, C-A. / PERON, F.
Place & Date: Paris, 1824

 


Carte de la Nouvelle France, ou se voit le cours des Grandes Rivieres de S. Laurens & de Mississipi..

Derived from de Fer's 1718 map, from west of the Mississippi it contains a mass of inland detail with notes and vignettes of the indigenous peoples and fauna of North Ame...

$2300 / ≈ â‚¬2152
Maker / Publisher: CHATELAIN, H.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720

 


Nouvelle-Hollande: Nelle. Galles du sud - Navigation. [plate XXIII]

An aboriginal camp fire, with a pirogue and two men navigating , after the original sketches by Lesueur, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François Pé...

$300 / ≈ â‚¬281
Maker / Publisher: LESUEUR, C-A. / PERON, F.
Place & Date: Paris, 1824

 


Nouvelle-Hollande: Terre dEndracht - Cabane des naturels de la Presqu'Ile de Péron. [plate XXIV]

An aboriginal camp fire, after the original sketches by Lesueur, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François Péron, 1824.The French expedition under Ni...

$300 / ≈ â‚¬281
Maker / Publisher: LESUEUR, C-A. / PERON, F.
Place & Date: Paris, 1824

 


Timor. Naba-Leba Roi de L'Ile Solor. [plate XXV]

A portrait of a male Naba-Leba by Lesueur, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François Péron, 1824.The French expedition under Nicolas Baudin, was comm...

$80 / ≈ â‚¬75
Maker / Publisher: LESUEUR, C-A. / PERON, F.
Place & Date: Paris, 1824

 


Timor. Canda Jeune fille Malaise. [plate XXVI]

A portrait of a female Canda by Lesueur, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François Péron, 1824.The French expedition under Nicolas Baudin, was commis...

$80 / ≈ â‚¬75
Maker / Publisher: LESUEUR, C-A. / PERON, F.
Place & Date: Paris, 1824

 


Nouvelle-Hollande: Ile King. - L'Eléphant -marin ou Phoque à trompe. [plate XXXII]

Plate illustrating seals by Lesueur, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François Péron, 1824.The French expedition under Nicolas Baudin, was commission...

$100 / ≈ â‚¬94
Maker / Publisher: LESUEUR, C-A. / PERON, F.
Place & Date: Paris, 1824

 


Timor. Rhinolophe Cruménifére. [plate XXXV]

Plate illustrating Horseshoe bats from Timor Island, by Lesueur, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François Péron, 1824.The French expedition under Ni...

$80 / ≈ â‚¬75
Maker / Publisher: LESUEUR, C-A. / PERON, F.
Place & Date: Paris, 1824

 


Nouvelle-Hollande Nelle Galles du sud. Vue d'une partie de la ville de Sydney capitale des Colonies Anglaises aux Terres Australes . . . [plate XXXVII]

Important view of Sydney Cove from Dawes Point looking eastward from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François Péron, 1824. This is one of the earliest de...

$1000 / ≈ â‚¬936
Maker / Publisher: LESUEUR, C-A. / PERON, F.
Place & Date: Paris, 1824

 


Plan de la partie sud des Iles Furneaux [with] Carte générale de la Partie Sud-Est de la Terre de Diémen . . .

Two maps on one sheet, on top a map of the southern portion of Cape Barren Island, Clarke Island, and islets in the southern part of the Furneaux Group.With in lower part...

$200 / ≈ â‚¬187
Maker / Publisher: LESUEUR, C-A. / PERON, F.
Place & Date: Paris, 1824

 


Plan de la Baie Laplace [with] Esquisse du Port Western [with] Plan des Iles Forestier [with] Esquisse du Port Champagny.

Four maps on one sheet, Laplace Bay, Western Harbour, Forestier islands and Champagny Harbour, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François Péron, 1824....

$200 / ≈ â‚¬187
Maker / Publisher: LESUEUR, C-A. / PERON, F.
Place & Date: Paris, 1824

 


Timor. Vue de la rade, de la ville et du fort de Coupang, dans l'île de Timor.

Nice double page view of the town Kupang, formerly known as Koepang. In the center is the Dutch V.O.C. fort. From Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François...

$200 / ≈ â‚¬187
Maker / Publisher: LESUEUR, C-A. / PERON, F.
Place & Date: Paris, 1807-1816

 


India Orientalis.

Published in Hondius' editions of the Mercator Atlas from 1606 onwards, showing the Indian subcontinent, the Malay Peninsula, Siam and Cambodia, China and the Philippines...

$2200 / ≈ â‚¬2059
Maker / Publisher: MERCATOR, G. / HONDIUS, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630

 


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...

$2000 / ≈ â‚¬1871
Maker / Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493

 


Latium.

Based on classical authors' sources, specifically Virgilius, Plinius, Varro, Halicarnasseus, Festus and Ausonius.Philip Wingius in his letter to Ortelius from 1592 mentio...

$650 / ≈ â‚¬608
Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1595

 


KOUSHI NYUJO no Zu - HANABUSA Legation enters in Palace, Seoul.

A scene of Japanese legation HANABUSA who are entering the Royal Palace, Seoul.

$900 / ≈ â‚¬842
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: August 8, MEIJI 27th year or 1894

 


Europa recens descripta à Guilielmo Blaeuw.

On either side columns depicting the manner of dress in the major countries of Europe, surmounted by nine city views and plans.For European mapmakers their own continent ...

$3500 / ≈ â‚¬3275
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644

 


Carte particulière de la côte d'Afrique depuis le cap des Courans jusqu'à la baye de Ste Hélène. . .

Large and detailed sea chart of South Africa.Engraved by Guillaume-Nicolas Delahaye (1727-1802).Latitude and longitude scales, compass rose and system of rhumb lines, sou...

$900 / ≈ â‚¬842
Maker / Publisher: D'APRES DE MANNEVILLETTE.
Place & Date: Paris, 1745

 


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 ...

$1000 / ≈ â‚¬936
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1647

 


Amstelodami veteris et novissimae urbis accuratissima deline

A decorative plan of the town with at left and right legends mentioning the most important buildings and streets. At bottom center a view of the town from 't IJ. From Atl...

$2500 / ≈ â‚¬2339
Maker / Publisher: COVENS, J. / MORTIER, C.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1745-1754

 


Quinta Asie Tabvla.

Woodblock map of Persia from Martin Waldseemüller's 1513 edition of Ptolemy,  a landmark work that contributed to major advances in both Renaissance geography and map p...

$5000 / ≈ â‚¬4679
Maker / Publisher: PTOLEMY, C. / WALDSEEMÃœLLER, M.
Place & Date: Strasbourg, J. Schott, 1513

 


Florentia Pulcherrima et Ruriae Civitas.

Detailed bird's-eye view of the town of Florence in Tuscany region, first published in Frederick de Wit's rare town book. With two keys 1-17 and 1-228 to important spots ...

$2800 / ≈ â‚¬2620
Maker / Publisher: DE WIT, F / VAN DER AA, P.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Leiden, 1697 / 1729

 


Americae Nova Tabula.

The delineation of the coast and the nomenclature on both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts are basically Spanish in origin and follow the maps of Ortelius and Wytfliet. To...

$6000 / ≈ â‚¬5614
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1645

 


Het Huisje door Czaar Peter den Grooten in den Jare 1697 te Zaandam bewoond.

Engraved by Cornelis van Baarsel (Utrecht 1761 - Amsterdam 1826-08-17) after a design of T. Monsieur M.Z. who made his drawing "after nature".A first state, the...

$80 / ≈ â‚¬75
Maker / Publisher: VAN DER SCHEER, F.
Place & Date: Zaandam, 1823

 


Karte von Katay od. dem Reiche Kin, zur Geschichte von Jenghiz Khan. Aus dem Englischen.

The map is of interest for the use of East Sea, the sea between Korea and Japan, here called "Meer von Corea".Copper engraving, hand colored in outline and wash...

$500 / ≈ â‚¬468
Maker / Publisher: BELLIN, J.N.
Place & Date: Leipzig, Schwabe, ca. 1750

 


Insula que a Joanne Mayen nomen sortita est.

Jan Mayen is an isolated island in the northern Atlantic, lying between 70-72° North and 8-9° West, about 550 kilometers northeast of Iceland and 500 kilometers east of...

$750 / ≈ â‚¬702
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1659

 


Nova Zemla.

The Dutch were the most persistent searchers after the north-east Passage, whether to the north of Novaya Zemlya (whose west coast is shown in detail) or through what the...

$750 / ≈ â‚¬702
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1659

 


Le détroit de Malacca . . .

Map of Malacca. The map details the Strait of Malacca from P. Peru and Tanjong Goeree to Lingen and Pulu Panjang. Malacca and Ihor (Johore), along with numerous other coa...

$550 / ≈ â‚¬515
Maker / Publisher: VAN DER AA, P.
Place & Date: Leiden, 1712

 


Planisferii Celesti, Calcolati Per L'Anno MDCC, Corretti, Et Aumenati Di Molte Stelle . . .

Double hemisphere celestial map showing a new and more scientific depiction of the heavens. The remarkable Vincenzo Coronelli (1650-1718), was a Franciscan Friar and appo...

$1500 / ≈ â‚¬1404
Maker / Publisher: CORONELLI, V.
Place & Date: Venice, 1700

 


Carte des routes de poste de la Russie européenne, exécutée par ordre de S.E.M. le duc de Feltre ministre de la Guerre, ...

Post-route map on a scale of 1:2 500 000 made during the French campaign in Russia, which began June 24, 1812. With a table of the conventional signs and a table of conve...

$1250 / ≈ â‚¬1170
Maker / Publisher: SANSON (Nicolas Antoine, comte)
Place & Date: Paris, Dépôt Général de la Guerre 1812

 


Ride the Roads to Romance along the Golden Coast and thru the Sunshine Empire of Southern California.

This striking touring map of Southern California was published in 1950 by the Roads to Romance Association in order to promote tourism to Southern California. It provides...

$150 / ≈ â‚¬140
Maker / Publisher: ROADS TO ROMANCE ASSOCIATION INC.
Place & Date: California, 1950

 


[Russian poster] CCCP Homeland cosmonautics

Russian propaganda poster about Russian supremacy in space, designed by the artists M. Gornyak and N. Shubina. Text upper left corner translation: "The Cosmos for sc...

$750 / ≈ â‚¬702
Maker / Publisher: KAMENEVA, L PUBLISHING POSTER.
Place & Date: Moscow, 1985

 


Turcicum Imperium.

Detailed map of the Turkish Empire by Holland's leading mapmaker at the end of the seventeenth century. The cartouche shows an Ottoman administrator or possibly the Sulta...

$750 / ≈ â‚¬702
Maker / Publisher: DE WIT, F.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680

 


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...

$350 / ≈ â‚¬328
Maker / Publisher: SCHENK, P.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1705

 


Paldobundo Province.

Woodblock printed map of Jeolla Province which was one of the historical Eight Provinces of Korea during the Kingdom of The map is drawn in "Paldo Bundo," styl...

$2000 / ≈ â‚¬1871
Maker / Publisher: Paldobundo Province.
Place & Date: 1710-1718

 


Tabula Anemographica seu Pyxis Nautica.

Impressive compass rose with a fleur de lis at the center and 32 wind directions flowing from it identified in six languages, Greek, Latin, French, Dutch, Italian, and Sp...

$2700 / ≈ â‚¬2526
Maker / Publisher: JANSSONIUS, J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650

 


Very fine brass astronomical equinoctial ring with two brass circles.

Very fine brass astronomical equinoctial ring with two brass circles with engraved foliage decoration, signed "Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas Delure A Paris", on the han...

$8000 / ≈ â‚¬7486
Maker / Publisher: JEAN-BAPTISTE NICOLAS DELURE À PARIS
Place & Date: Paris, undated, ca. 1690

 


A cordiform - heart-shaped - horary quadrant marked with Gunter scales.

A small and charming but very fine heart-shaped horary quadrant marked with Gunter scales. The scales are very finely engraved on both sides.The quadrant was a very pract...

$2200 / ≈ â‚¬2059
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: ca. 1720-1760

 


Marine parallel rulers in brass.

Very fine marine parallel rulers in brass. The parallel ruler is the oldest and most traditional way to measure and trace routes and bearings. The principle is simple: t...

$1500 / ≈ â‚¬1404
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1880

 


Early 19th century magnetic dry card compass with wooden bowl,

Brass dry rose marine compass, in its mahogany case. The mariner's compass, which enabled mariners to know the direction in which they were sailing, has always been one o...

$2900 / ≈ â‚¬2714
Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: ca. 1800

 


Inverted nautical Compass, called "mouchard" (~ "spy")

Inverted maritime compass called "mouchard" (spy) in wood and brass, signed "A Van Vastenhoud In Amsterdam". This type of compass was found in the cap...

$8500 / ≈ â‚¬7954
Maker / Publisher: VAN VASTENHOUD, A.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1780

 


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...

$2200 / ≈ â‚¬2059
Maker / Publisher: DE LETH, H.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1720

 


Kaerte en Afbeeldinge vande Geheele Jurisdictie van Stantdarbuyten Gelegen in de Generaliteit onder Marquisaet van Bergen op den Zoom

With a large title cartouche with signature of the maker Adriaan van der Ende, : Kaerte en Afbeeldinge vande Geheele Jurisdictie van Stantdarbuyten Gelegen in de Generali...

$2500 / ≈ â‚¬2339
Maker / Publisher: VAN DER ENDE, A.
Place & Date: Willemstad, 1737