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[Sea monsters] De regni Settentrionali Monstri marini & terrestri…

Münster's plate of monsters of both land and sea, taken from an Italian text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summary of Renaissance kno...

$3600 / ≈ â‚¬3112
Maker: MÜNSTER, S.
Date: Basel, 1558

 


[Title page for] Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.

A decorative title page of the first atlas ever made shows five female figures as allegorical representatives of the continents, grouped around the title. According to P...

$600 / ≈ â‚¬519
Maker: ORTELIUS, A.
Date: Antwerp, after 1570

 


Caerte der Noordt cufte van Engelandt, beginnende van Robinhodes baij tot Coket Eijlandt. . . .

A very early Dutch text edition of this detailed chart of the northern coast of England. The mileage cartouche has no Latin captures. West to the top.Decorated by a color...

$2000 / ≈ â‚¬1729
Maker: WAGHENAER, L. J.
Date: Leiden, Plantijn, 1585

 


De custen van een deel van Denemarken en Swede. . .

A detailed chart of the coast Skane and Kalmar, with the island Öland. Decorated by a title and scale cartouche, a compass rose, several vessels and sea monsters, and de...

$2000 / ≈ â‚¬1729
Maker: WAGHENAER, L. J.
Date: Leiden, Plantijn, 1585

 


Mercurius.

Mercury holding a caduceus and riding in a chariot drawn by two birds on the clouds in the sky, an extensive landscape with a harbor with goods being loaded and unloaded ...

Maker: DE VOS, M. after
Date: Antwerp, 1585
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Novus de Leone Belgico eiusq topographia atq. Historica descriptione liber (…). Rerumque in Belgio maxime gestarum, inde ab anno Christi M.D.LIX. Usque ad annum M.D.LXXXVII perpetua narratione continatus.

ENLARGED EDITION, with 207 (of 208) engravings of a famous eyewitness account of the Dutch Revolt, with the famous "Leo Belgicus" map, here in its second state...

$39000 / ≈ â‚¬33711
Maker: AITSINGER (EYZINGER), Michael von.
Date: Cologne, Gerardus Campensis for Frans Hogenberg, 1588

 


Christophorus Columus Ligur Indiarum Prim invet A°1492

Very decorative portrait of Christopher Columbus (c. 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506), engraved by Theodor de Bry (1528-1593) and published in Jean Jacques Boissard, &quo...

$500 / ≈ â‚¬432
Maker: DE BRY, Th.
Date: Frankfurt a.M. 1597 - 1599

 


Christophorus Clavius Bambergensis e societate iesu aetatis suae anno LXIX.

Rare portrait of Christopher Clavius or Clau (March 25, 1538 – February 12, 1612) was a German Jesuit mathematician and astronomer who was the main architect of the mod...

$650 / ≈ â‚¬562
Maker: VILLAMENA, F.
Date: Rome, 1606

 


Germania.

Second state of this rare "carte à figures"- map of Germany, The Netherlands, Poland and central Europe. Bordered on three sides with portraits and views. In t...

$4000 / ≈ â‚¬3458
Maker: BLAEU, W.
Date: Amsterdam, 1607

 


Polna vulgo Polm insign : Bohemia. . .

This is a view of Polna from the southwest, looking across the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands from a slightly elevated viewpoint. In addition to the parish church (D) in the...

$550 / ≈ â‚¬475
Maker: BRAUN, G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Date: Cologne, 1617

 


Asia recens summa cura delineata.

This is the rare early issue with decorative paneled borders of four sides.  It is surrounded by elaborate borders incorporating twelve bird's eye views of cities and te...

$3500 / ≈ â‚¬3025
Maker: JANSSONIUS, J.
Date: Amsterdam, H.Hondius,1623

 


A Newe mape of Poland Done into English by I.Speede.

A wonderful map of Poland. Incorporated into Speed's 'Prospect Of The Most Famous Parts Of The World'. Includes birds-eye views of Cracow, Dantzick, Posna, Crossen, Sando...

$3400 / ≈ â‚¬2939
Maker: SPEED, J. / HUMBLE, G.
Date: London, 1627

 


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). The map shows the part of west...

$2000 / ≈ â‚¬1729
Maker: VISSCHER, N. J.
Date: Amsterdam, 1630

 


Comitatus Flandria.

First published by the van Langrens c.1595, after his acquisition of the plate, Visscher heavily re-engraved the map, inserting panelled borders on three sides (the lower...

$4000 / ≈ â‚¬3458
Maker: VISSCHER, C.J.
Date: Amsterdam, c. 1630

 


Tabula nova Poloniae et Silesiae.

Second state, dated 1630 underneath the title. A finely engraved carte á figures with cartouche representing in the four corners of the map : Kings ( on the left side Si...

$4500 / ≈ â‚¬3890
Maker: VISSCHER, N.J.
Date: Amsterdam, 1630

 


Nova Germaniae Descriptio..

A finely engraved carte à figures, with the side borders depicting emperors, while the upper and lower panels contain finely engraved miniature town prospects, among the...

$2700 / ≈ â‚¬2334
Maker: JANSSONIUS, J.
Date: Amsterdam, 1632

 


Asia secunda pars in forma Pegasi.

UNRECORDED PLATE or STATE. Asia depicted as the flying horse Pegasus. Below the depiction 3 lines of engraved Latin text. Double page copper engraved map from Heinrich BÃ...

$5000 / ≈ â‚¬4322
Maker: BÜNTING, H.
Date: Brunswick, ca. 1635

 


Brabantia Ducatus.

Second state of this scarce Carte-a-Figures map of Brabant, published by Peter Verbiest in Antwerp, decorated with three-sided panels. This is the variant without a botto...

$3500 / ≈ â‚¬3025
Maker: VERBIEST, P.
Date: Antwerp, 1637

 


Tabulae Italiae, Corsicae, Sardiniae, et adjacentium..

A decorative map by this famous Dutch mapmaker. The border contains views of the main cities, largely inspired by the Civitates Orbis Terrarum by Braun & Hogenberg: R...

$4000 / ≈ â‚¬3458
Maker: JANSSONIUS, J.
Date: Amsterdam, 1628,1640

 


Wittstocs.

Very decorative and rare panoramic of Wittstock, Bez. Potsdam.The engraver and publisher of prints, Mrs. Anna Beek of the Hague, enlarged the print and mounted it on larg...

$1750 / ≈ â‚¬1513
Maker: BEEK, A. / MERIAN, C.
Date: The Hague, ca. 1642

 


Profil de la renomée ville et port d'Emstredam cappitalle des estats de Hollande.

Extremely rare panoramic town-view of Amsterdam seen from the river IJ.Exceptional bright, sharp example.The print is skillful copy of the print of Matthieu Merian, now w...

$7000 / ≈ â‚¬6051
Maker: BOISSEAU, J.
Date: Paris, 1647

 


[ The repositioning of the Vatican obelisk ]

Joan Blaeu published The Repositioning of the Vatican Obelisk. This large engraving on multiple sheets and in beautiful original colors is based on Domenico Fontana’s d...

$5000 / ≈ â‚¬4322
Maker: BLAEU, J.
Date: Amsterdam, 1649

 


[Title page from Theatrum orbis Terrarum, with past-on]

The frontispiece of the third part of the 'Theatrum', by Johan Blaeu. Heightened with goldDecorated with terrestrial and celestial globes and to the left Ptolemy (with sp...

$450 / ≈ â‚¬389
Maker: BLAEU, J.
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1650

 


Americae Nova Descriptio.

Final state. According to Philip Burden, "this scarce map is America's first single-sheet map with decorative borders." A re-issue of the 1614 plate by Pieter v...

$10000 / ≈ â‚¬8644
Maker: VISSCHER, N.J.
Date: Amsterdam, 1652

 


Wassende graade paskaart vertonende alle de Zeekusten van Europa, de geheele middelandsche Zee…

Wassende graade paskaart vertonende alle de Zeekusten van Europa, de geheele middelandsche Zee, als cock ten Noordwesten, en Noordoosten soo veer als ons tot noch toe bek...

$75000 / ≈ â‚¬64830
Maker: NIEROP (Dirck Rembrandtsz van) - GOOS (Pieter)
Date: Amsterdam, 1658

 


Insula Huaena sive Venusia a Guiljelmo Blaeu cum sub Tychone Astronomiae operam ...

Decorative map of the island Hvan in the Danish Sound. In the center Tycho Brahe's famous observatory Uraniborg established in 1576, under the patronage of Frederick II, ...

$1100 / ≈ â‚¬951
Maker: BLAEU, J.
Date: Amsterdam, 1659

 


Nova Europae descriptio.

Four panels in columns on each side show portraits of the kings and Queens of European countries. The top border contains panoramas of Rome, Amsterdam, Paris, London, Sev...

$2100 / ≈ â‚¬1815
Maker: DE WIT, F.
Date: Amsterdam, c. 1660

 


Nova XVII Provinciarum Inferioris Germaniae descriptio .

Extremely rare map of the Benelux by Frederick de Widt. Originally engraved and published by P.Kaerius in 1607. In 1662 the plate came in the possession of Frederick de W...

$9000 / ≈ â‚¬7780
Maker: JACOBSZ.,Th. / DE WIDT, F.
Date: Amsterdam, 1662

 


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...

$2500 / ≈ â‚¬2161
Maker: GOOS, P.
Date: Amsterdam, 1666

 


Pas-Caart van de Oost Zee verthooende alle de ghelegenheydt tusschen t Eylandt Rugen ende Wyborg. . .

An eye-catching chart of the Baltic Sea. Engraved by Gerard Coeck.Pieter Goos (ca. 1616-1675) was one of the most important cartographers, engravers, publishers and print...

$1500 / ≈ â‚¬1297
Maker: GOOS, P.
Date: Amsterdam, 1666

 


Paskaart van Guinea van C.Verde tot R. deGalion.

Rare edition of Doncker's sea chart of Guinea coast. From an atlas printed in 1668, "l'Atlas de MER ou MONDE AQUATIQUE, Remontrant toutes lescôtes de la Mer…"...

$1000 / ≈ â‚¬864
Maker: DONCKER, H.
Date: Amsterdam, 1660-1668

 


[Title page to] Atlas mayor, o geographia Blaviana : Que contiene las cartas, y descripciones de Partes Orientales de Europa.

Title page from a Spanish text edition of the Atlas Major. Ionic portico with celestial and terrestrial globes. To the left is Ptolemy with a sphere and a pair of compass...

$700 / ≈ â‚¬605
Maker: BLAEU, J.
Date: Amsterdam, c.1672

 


EUROP, and the cheife Cities contayned therin described. . .

A good impression from an early edition of this famous and decorative "carte à figures"- map from the first world atlas produced by an Englishman - John Speed'...

$1500 / ≈ â‚¬1297
Maker: SPEED, J. / BASSET, T. / CHISWELL, R.
Date: London, 1627 - 1676

 


The mape of Hungari newly augmented by John Speede.

A wonderful carte-a-figures map of ‘Hungari’, comprising modern-day Hungary and parts of Slovakia. Showing two sets of four costumed figures on each side of the map a...

$1750 / ≈ â‚¬1513
Maker: SPEED, J.
Date: Londres, Bassett and Chiswell, 1626 / 1676

 


A plat of the East Sea. By William Fisher and Richard Mount...

An important sea chart of the East Sea with coast lines of Poland, Russia, Sweden, published by William Fisher and Richard Mount in London.Richard Mount (1654-1722) was a...

$1800 / ≈ â‚¬1556
Maker: FISHER, W./ MOUNT, R.
Date: London, 1695

 


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...

$2000 / ≈ â‚¬1729
Maker: BEEK, A. / BRAUN,G / HOGENBERG, F.
Date: The Hague, 1700

 


Nansenbushu bankoku shoka no zu.

This wall-map is a great example of Japanese world maps representing Buddhist cosmology with real-world cartography. It is the earliest one and - therefore - the prototyp...

$16000 / ≈ â‚¬13830
Maker: ZUDA ROKASHI (Priest Motan)
Date: Kyoto, (Hoei 7 = Year of the Tiger) 1710

 


De golf van Bengalen.

Rare chart of the Indian Ocean, with nice detail on Ceylon (Sri Lanka) with compass roses and a system of rhumb lines, soundings and anchorage's. Many place names. The pl...

$2000 / ≈ â‚¬1729
Maker: DONCKER, H.
Date: Amsterdam, after 1669-1712

 


Colossus Monarchic. Statua Danielis

Fantastic double page allegorical map of a colossus figure representing the great world empires as Daniel interpreted in Nebuchadnezzar's dream. The warrior stands stolid...

$2000 / ≈ â‚¬1729
Maker: BAECK, E.
Date: Augsbourg, 1730

 


[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...

$25000 / ≈ â‚¬21610
Maker: (INSELIN, Charles / CREPY [Family]
Date: Paris, 1720-1735

 


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...

$3200 / ≈ â‚¬2766
Maker: HOMANN, J,B.
Date: Nuremberg, 1736

 


Bern in der Schweitz.

Very fine large-scale panoramic view of Bern. With a numbered key (1-25) of principal buildings in town. ¤

$3000 / ≈ â‚¬2593
Maker: WOLFF HEIRS, J.
Date: Augsburg, 1740

 


Paris.

A spectacular large-scale panoramic view of Paris, with legends numbered from 1-70 in French. With the title in a banderol.After a design by Friedrich Bernhard Werner (16...

$4000 / ≈ â‚¬3458
Maker: WOLFF, J.
Date: Augsburg, ca. 1740

 


Paris.

This is a spectacular panoramic view of Paris, with legends numbered from 1 to 70 in French. The title is in a banderol.After a design by Friedrich Bernhard Werner (1690-...

$4500 / ≈ â‚¬3890
Maker: WOLFF, J.
Date: Augsbourg, ca. 1740

 


Carte de la coste orientale de la Chine depuis Amoy, jusqu'à Chusan avec une partie de l'Isle Formose [with] Plan du port d'Amoy ou Emouy.

Important French chart of the China Sea with the coast of Northern China, including a large depiction of Formosa.Latitude and longitude scales, compass rose and system of...

$4000 / ≈ â‚¬3458
Maker: D'APRES DE MANNEVILLETTE.
Date: Paris, Jean-François Robustel, 1745

 


Nouvelle carte des mers comprises entre le détroit de Banca et P°. Timon avec la partie orientale du détroit de Malacca.

Important French chart of the tip of Malaysia with Singapore. Latitude and longitude scales, compass rose and system of rhumb lines, soundings near coast and in bay areas...

$5000 / ≈ â‚¬4322
Maker: D'APRES DE MANNEVILLETTE.
Date: Paris, 1745

 


Pas-Kaat vaneen gedeelte van de Aethiopische Zee behelsende de Kusten Zanguebar, Ajan en Abex, en een gedeelte van de Arabische Kust. . .

A finely engraved and detailed chart of the most eastern tip of Africa, including Somalia, Djibouti, Yemen, Mauritius, and many other islands in the Indian Ocean.Very rar...

$4500 / ≈ â‚¬3890
Maker: VAN KEULEN, J.
Date: Amsterdam, 1753

 


L'Europe divisée en tous ses états, dressée sur les nouveaux mémoires et suivant les dernières observations.

Rare wall map of the European continent, published by the Parisian publisher Sébastien G. Longchamp.The map is surrounded by a magnificent Rococo-style frame decorated w...

$4500 / ≈ â‚¬3890
Maker: LONCHAMPS ET JANVIER
Date: Paris, 1757

 


Carta Topografica dell' Isola Del Maritaggio di Monsieur le Boble per la prima volta. Tradotta dal francese in italiano.

Second Italian printing of Eustache Le Noble’s "Carte de l’isle de marriage." The book’s text offers instructions on how to reach this matrimonial island ...

$1500 / ≈ â‚¬1297
Maker: LE NOBLE, E.
Date: Cosmopoli, 1766

 


The Coast of New Found Land From Salmon Cove to Cape Bonavista. . . [together with] The Coast of New Found Land from Cape-Raze to Cape St-Francis.

Two charts showing the coast of New Found Land from Salmon Cove to Cape Bonavista and from Cape-Raze to Cape St-Francis. With inset chart of Trinity HarborGrierson publis...

Maker: MOUNT & PAGE / BOULTER GRIERSON
Date: Dublin, 1767

 


A chart of the China Sea inscribed to Monsr. D'APRES de MANNEVILLETTE .. To A.Dalrymple.

This most important milestone chart is based upon the surveys made from navigational surveys by Alexander Dalrymple (1737-1808]. He was the first hydrographer of the Brit...

$1250 / ≈ â‚¬1080
Maker: D'APRES DE MANNEVILLETTE / DALRYMPLE, A.
Date: Paris, ca 1775

 


[Lot of 4 charts] Plan de la Baie et du Port de Camraigne / Plan de la Baie de Niatrang et du Golfe de Binkang / Plan de la Cote de Cochinchine. . . / Plan des Ports de Xuandai, Vung-Lam. . .

[A set of four French sea charts numbered consecutively]. A set of 4 basic coastal sea charts of parts of southern French Indochina (Vietnam).Chart 295 centers on the reg...

$1500 / ≈ â‚¬1297
Maker: DEPOT DE LA MARINE.
Date: Paris ca 1780

 


[Crimea]. Carte de la Cromée.

Mapmaker, Captain Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen (1735-1819). Published by H. Friesman in 1787. This map first appeared in 1776 and was the first Russian map of the newly ann...

$3000 / ≈ â‚¬2593
Maker: KINSBERGEN, J.H. van
Date: Amsterdam, H. Frieseman, 1787

 


Carte d'Europe divisée en ses Empires et Royaumes.

Uncommon and decorative wall map of Europe, prepared by Clouet. Superb decoration including a wonderful rococo border with vignettes describing historical scenes. Below t...

$4000 / ≈ â‚¬3458
Maker: CLOUET / MONDHARE.
Date: Paris, Mondhare, 1788

 


CH'ONHA CHIDO [Atlas of all under Heaven]

The Ch’onha chido [Atlas of all under Heaven] is a late 18th century copy of the traditional Korean atlas produced in the early Choson dynasty (1392-1910). One of the m...

$30000 / ≈ â‚¬25932
Maker: Anonymous
Date: Korea, ca. 1790

 


Dutchman and a Maruyama prostitute.

An explicit scene of a Dutchman and a Maruyama prostitute featuring a gray-bearded westerner coupling with a courtesan. The woman protests that she doesn't understand wha...

$7500 / ≈ â‚¬6483
Maker: CHOKOSAI EISHO
Date: Late Edo, 1790

 


SETTSU MEISHO ZUE. Illustrations of famous places in Settsu.

Settsu Meisho Zue was printed in two series of 8 and 4 volumes. The principal illustrator was Takehara Shunchosai, but many illustrations in the 4 volumes supplement are ...

$3500 / ≈ â‚¬3025
Maker: AKIZATO, Rito - TAKEHARA, Shunchosai
Date: Osaka, Yanagiwara Kibei, Kansei 8-10 or 1796-1798

 


[Set of 6 maps] Charta öfver Storfurstendömet Finland på Friherre S. G. Hermelins Anstalt och Omkostnad. Sammandragen och författad af C. P. Hällström. Philos. Magister och Auscultant i Kongl. BergsColl. 1799.

This is a beautiful set of a key map and five separate maps of Samuel Gustav Hermelin's map of Finland. The maps have been engraved by Fredrik Akrel, a very skilled and p...

$4000 / ≈ â‚¬3458
Maker: HERMELIN, SAMUEL GUSTAV
Date: Källa: J.Strang & E.- S. Harju: Suomen karttakirja 1799

 


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

A detailed and crucial post-road map prepared by Ignaz Heymann. The map shows the Low Countries, Germany, Poland, Austria, Hungary, etc.Borders in original outline colo...

$1100 / ≈ â‚¬951
Maker: HEYMANN, I.
Date: Triest, 1800

 


Carte des côtes du Golfe du Mexique compris entre la pointe sud de la presqu'Ile de la Floride et la pointe nord de la presqu'Ile d'Yucatan:...

Detailed and important early chart of the Gulf Coast and Florida and dated 1800. First French edition of "the first printed [map] to show and name Galveston Bay&qu...

$2000 / ≈ â‚¬1729
Maker: DEPOT GÉNÉRAL DE LA MARINE
Date: Paris, 1800/1803

 


Géographie des Plantes Equinoxiales - Tableau physique des Andes et pays voisins. . .

Physical Portrait of the Andes and adjacent lands", organized around the Chimborazo and Cotopaxi volcanoes in Ecuador.With local vegetation is illustrated pictoriall...

$1000 / ≈ â‚¬864
Maker: VON HUMBOLD, A.
Date: Paris, 1805

 


Morokoshi Meisho Zue [Illustrated Description of Famous Sites of China].

Published in Osaka, Kawachiya Genhichiro, et al. [8 book sellers], slightly later issue but apparently in Edo period, using all the same woodblocks of original first edit...

$5000 / ≈ â‚¬4322
Maker: OKADA GYUKUZAN, OKA YUGAKU, OHARA TOYA MINSEI
Date: Osaka, Edo, slightly later than Bunka 3, year of the tiger - 1806

 


(Post Roads of Europe) Neueste Allgemeine Postkarte von Europa in welcher samtliche Postrouten aller europaischen Staaten nach den zuverlässigsten Postbüchern. . .

The largest postal map of Europe, published in Vienna in the midst of the Napoleonic Wars. This postal map of Europe first appeared in 1798 and is considered one of the e...

$900 / ≈ â‚¬778
Maker: MOLLO, T.
Date: Vienna, 1807

 


Karte vom Koenigreiche Ungarn mit Einschluss der Königreiche Kroazien und Slavonien dann von dem Grossfürstenthume Siebenbürgen.

Wall map of the Kingdom of Hungary in 8 sheets mounted on canvas, preserved in their original case. The map has a graduated margin and is enclosed in a simple yet decorat...

$2200 / ≈ â‚¬1902
Maker: LIECHTENSTERN, Joseph Marx von
Date: Vienna, 1809

 


Carte von West=Gallizien welche auf allerhöchsten Befehl Seiner Kaiserlich oesterreichischen und Königlich apostolischen Majestät in den Jahren 1801 bis 1804. . .

Important early map of Western Galicia, as given to Austria by the third Partition of Poland (1795). Due to its lengthy development period, a rare map rich in detail depi...

$2500 / ≈ â‚¬2161
Maker: VON HELDENSFELD, A. M. / BENEDICTI.
Date: Vienna, (1808) after 1811

 


London in Miniature With The Surrounding Villages. An Entire New Plan In which the Improvements both present and intended are actually reduced, by permission, from the surveys of the Several Proprietors. . .

Hand-coloured engraved map, dissected and mounted on linen, orange publishers label on one side, extending west to east from Kensington to East India and Greenwich Dock a...

$700 / ≈ â‚¬605
Maker: MOGG, E.
Date: London, 1821

 


Carte du pays de Montenegro dressée d'après les opérations géodétiques . . .

Rare map of Montenegro prepared by Mr. le Comte Fedor de Karacsay (1787-1859) and engraved by Pietro Allodi. The title is in Russian, Arabic and French.In lower left corn...

$1250 / ≈ â‚¬1080
Maker: KARACSAY, F de.
Date: Vienna, ca. 1838

 


Kaart van de Gaspar Straaten volgens opnemingen van J.Stolze, D.Ross, enz.

Very large and rare chart centered on the strait between Bangka's southeastern seacoast and Belitung's western shores.Short front views of the coastal relief are shown in...

$600 / ≈ â‚¬519
Maker: HULST VAN KEULEN, Wed.G.
Date: Amsterdam 1843

 


Kaart van de Reede van Batavia met de verschillende vaarwaters naar dezelve trigometrisch opgenomen op last van deb schout bijnacht E.Lucas.

Very large and rare so-called blue-black chart centered on Jakarta's harbor.The chart is prepared by B.G.Escher, I.A.C. Eschauzier, B.H.Staring and E.H.Boom during an exp...

$1800 / ≈ â‚¬1556
Maker: HULST VAN KEULEN, Wed. G.
Date: Amsterdam (1841) 1847

 


Kaart der Moluksche eilanden en vaarwateren … F.A.A. Gregory Luitenant ter zee …

Huge sailing chart centered on the Moluccas Islands. Published by Widow Gerard Hulst van Keulen.The publishing house van Keulen, were the most prominent chart makers at ...

$1750 / ≈ â‚¬1513
Maker: VAN KEULEN, G. WIDOW
Date: Amsterdam, 1847

 


Plan de Constantinople, non compris ses faubourgs. Grave d'apres les documents du ministere de la Guerre par E. Olivier.

A very rare lithographic large-scale  town-plan of Istanbul, Scale 98 yards to one inch., printed in Pera, Istanbul by E. Olivier. The ornate design on the top of the...

$8000 / ≈ â‚¬6915
Maker: OLIVIER, E.
Date: Péra, Istanbul, 1851

 


(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 mentio...

$4500 / ≈ â‚¬3890
Maker: DIEBEL, E. after
Date: Germany, c. 1855

 


The Crimea by James Wyld Geographer to the Queen & H.R.H. Prince Albert.

Fourth edition of this folding map of the Crimea. In upper right corner an inset map of the areas around the Black Sea; "The Town & Harbor of Sevastopol with the...

$350 / ≈ â‚¬303
Maker: WYLD, J.
Date: London, 1855

 


(Untitled view from Scutari with a view of Constantinople)

Panoramic view from Scutari with a view of Constantinople in the distance, after a design by Johann Schranz. Published by J. Missiriè.

$1100 / ≈ â‚¬951
Maker: JACOMME et CIE.
Date: Paris, 1860

 


[Europe depicted as a Queen]

Among the most striking of early cartographic curiosities is Europe regina or Queen of the world first published by Johannes Bucius' and populized by Sebastian Münster.....

$450 / ≈ â‚¬389
Maker: ANONYMOUS
Date: France, ca. 1860

 


North Pacific.

Huge three sheet so-called Blue-back sailing chart of the Northern Pacific including China, Korea (with Matu Is. and Liancourt), Japan, Philippines, Kamchatka, Hawaii, Al...

$2000 / ≈ â‚¬1729
Maker: IMRAY AND SON, J.
Date: London, 1868

 


L'Homme A La Boule.

Satirical print in which Count Otto von Bismarck balances on the world with one spurred foot entering France, and wearing only his underpants which are marked with the Ge...

$225 / ≈ â‚¬194
Maker: DRANER.
Date: Paris, 1870-1871

 


Mer de Chine - Detroit De Singapour Partie Comprise Entre Singaour et Le Dett. De Malacca d'apres les travaux du Commr. J.W. Reed de la Marine Royale d'Angleterr...

Mer de Chine - Detroit De Singapour Partie Comprise Entre Singaour et Le Dett. De Malacca d'apres les travaux du Commr. J.W. Reed de la Marine Royale d'Angleterr, execute...

$2500 / ≈ â‚¬2161
Maker: HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE OF THE ADMIRALTY.
Date: London, 1871

 


Mer de Chine - Detroit De Singapour Partie Comprise Entre Singaour et Le Dett. De Malacca d'apres les travaux du Commr. J.W. Reed de la Marine Royale d'Angleterr, ...

A detailed chart of Singapore Strait, drawn from an English Chart by J.W. Reed, who surveyed Singapore and environs between 1865 and 1869, aboard the H.M.S. Rifleman.The ...

$2500 / ≈ â‚¬2161
Maker: DEPOT DE LA MARINE.
Date: Paris, 1873

 


La Pieuvre Germanique.

Scarce lithographed plate not dated, by Eugène Danzanvilliers, printed by Grandremy in Paris. The plate listed by Adhemar is dated 1874. Eugène Danzanvilliers was a dra...

$3000 / ≈ â‚¬2593
Maker: DANZANVILLIERS, Eugène.
Date: Paris, 28 Quai de la Rapée, c.1874