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Canibales Insulae.
Rare, early Dutch nautical chart of the Caribbean from Puerto Rico southward.
Date: Amsterdam, 1670
De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld: of Beschryving van America en 't Zuid-Land.
FIRST EDITION. "This is a classic book on America and is much sought after by collectors of Americana as it contains, on p. 124, one of the first views of New York N...
Date: Amsterdam, Jacob Meurs, 1671
![[Title page to] Atlas mayor, o geographia Blaviana : Que contiene las cartas, y descripciones de Partes Orientales de Europa.](/uploads/cache/29952-250x250.jpg)
[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...
Date: Amsterdam, c.1672
La Ville et le Château de Zélandia dans l' île de Tayovan.
This important copperplate engraving is one of the earliest European views of Taiwan, depicting the Dutch fortifications and trading settlement on the West coast of the i...
Date: Amsterdam, 1675
French composite atlas made up of rare maps published by Parisian editors from the 17th century , mainly by G. Jollain including scarce maps of America.
1675 JOLLAIN, G. - A unique French composite atlas including 90 maps, published by Parisian publishers from the 17th century, mainly by Gérard I Jollain, or by maps bough...
Date: Paris, ca. 1675
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's...
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 and v...
Date: Londres, Bassett and Chiswell, 1626 / 1676
(Totius Americae nova et exacta tabula ex) optimis tum geographorum tum aliorum scriptis collecta et ad hodiernam regnorum principatuum et maiorum partium distinctionem accomodata.
Eastern part of a two-sheet map of America, with attribution to Willem Blaeu. According to Philip Burden, the map was derived from Cornelius Danckert's 1647 map of the sa...
Date: Rome, 1679
Nova Orbis Tabula in Lucem edita A.F.de Wit.
According to Shirley, De Wit's map is one of the most attractive of its time. The brilliant scenes in the corners combine images of the four seasons, the elements, and th...
Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Ignographia candiae tertia a turcis obsessae in lucem edita a F. de Wit.
A scarce broadsheet plan and view of Heraklion on one sheet: prospect 180 x 495mm, map 395 x 495mm., in the lower part a printed description "Abbildung der starken S...
Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula.
A beautifully decorative world map taken from the 'English Atlas' by Moses Pitt and Steven Swart, based on an earlier engraved world map by Pieter van den Keere ca. 1630,...
Date: Oxford, 1680
Waere affbeeldinge wegens het casteel ende stadt Batavia.
A good impression of this finely engraved and detailed plan of Batavia, present-day Jakarta, the Dutch center of trading activities in the East Indies. Copied after Cleme...
Date: Amsterdam, 1681
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Hern Johann Baptisten Taveniers..Vierzig Jaehrige Reize..
This German edition includes Tavernier's map of Japan in a reduced form (210x315mm) and contains legends about the country's nature, e.g., where gold is mined and plottin...
Date: Nuremberg, 1681
Il regno della China detto presentente Catay e Magnin. . .
A rare and decorative Italian map of China and Japan, with Japan closely modelled on the indented Cardim outline and Hokkaido, called Yuppi , shown as an Asian peninsula....
Date: Rome, 1682
Jerusalem.
Engraved by Bastiaan Stoopendaal from Juan Bautista Villapando's imaginary town-plan of Jerusalem. This bird's-eye view is surrounded by 12 scenes, views and portraits of...
Date: Amsterdam, 1682
La Floride. . .
The map is derived from La Floride , 1657, by Nicolas Sanson. Several new rivers appear in Virginia. The Caroline listed is Ft. Caroline, not the Carolinas. The Florida n...
Date: Paris, 1683
Het Hooge Heemraedtschap van Schielandt.
This beautiful wall map of "Het Hooge Heemraedtschap van Schielandt" is on nine attached leaves (each leaf 49x58,5 cm. ) engraved by J. VINGBOOMS after J.J. STA...
Date: Rotterdam, A. van Hoorn, 1684
Novi Belgii novae que Angliae nec non partis Virginiae..
With the arrival of Dutch and other European colonists, the landscape of New Netherland changed dramatically. The third state, with Fort Kassimier and Philadelphia, and n...
Date: Amsterdam, 1684
Paradigma XV Provinciarum et CLV Urbium Capitalium Sinensis Imperij Cum Templis quae Cruce X Signatur Et Domiciliis S.I.
First edition of this rare Jesuit map of China, published by Jean Baptiste Nolin in Paris and based on Philippe Couplet's map of 1686. The map shows China's 15 provinces ...
Date: Paris, 1686
Carte du Palatinat du Rhin.
Decorative "carte à figures"- map centered on Koblenz, Metz, Strasburg, Manheim and Heidelberg, with the river Rhine by François Jollain (ca. 1641 – 18 April 17...
Date: Paris, ca. 1688
Archipelague du Mexique ou sont les Isles de Cuba..
Scarce map of Caribbean. A visually stunning map with a large title cartouche. This large one-sheet map was produced by the Venetian cosmographer Vincenzo Coronelli when ...
Date: Paris, 1688
![America Settentrionale Colle Nuove Scoperte Sin All Anno 1688. . . (together with] America meridionale . . .](/uploads/cache/49063-250x250.jpg)
America Settentrionale Colle Nuove Scoperte Sin All Anno 1688. . . (together with] America meridionale . . .
Gorgeous example of Coronelli's famous four- sheet map of America. One of the best examples of California as an island. The map also includes extensive annotations on the...
Date: Venice, 1690
Les vallées du Piemont. Habitees par les Vaudois ou Berbets. . .
Detailed map of Piedmont region covering French and Italian territories. Surrounded by a French text description "Description des vallées du Piemont qu'habitent par ...
Date: Paris, 1690
Isola di Madagascar o di S. Lorenzo Scoperta dà Portoghesi nell anno 1506. . .
Decorative and highly detailed map of Madagascar, including 2 decorative cartouches and other embellishments.The remarkable Vincenzo Coronelli (1650-1718), was a Francisc...
Date: Venice, 1690
Magnae Prussiae Ducatus Tabula denuo correcta et in lucem edita per Nicolaum Visscher.
Striking old color example of Visscher's map of Prussia and part of the Baltic region. Includes a gorgeous cartouche and banner key held aloft by 2 cherubs, plus 4 sailin...
Date: Amsterdam, 1690
Saique batiment dont les turcs se servent. . .
A very decorative engraving of a Turkish vessel. From Mortier's famous maritime Atlas "Neptune François". Engraved by Jan van Vianen after a design by Henri Sbo...
Date: Amsterdam, 1690
L'Africa divisa nelle sue Parti secondo le pui moderne . . .
A beautiful and rare two-sheet map of Africa. The title cartouche is depicted on a drape surrounded by native animals.A most noticeable feature of the decoration on the m...
Date: Venice, 1690
Le comte de Namur et partie des Duchez de Brabant. . .
Decorative map centered on Namen and including the towns of Liege, Leuven, Charleroi, Dinant, Luxemburg, etc. by François Jollain (ca. 1641 – 18 April 1704).Rare "ca...
Date: Paris, c. 1692
![Amerique Septentrionale divisée en ses principales parties. . .1692. [California as an Island]](/uploads/cache/27961-250x250.jpg)
Amerique Septentrionale divisée en ses principales parties. . .1692. [California as an Island]
A very good impression of Jaillot's large map of North America, showing California as an Island, based upon Sanson's landmark map of 1656. A first state.The map shows the...
Date: Amsterdam, c.1692
Het gezandtschap der Neerlandtsche Oost-Indische Compagnie, aan den grooten Tartarischen Cham, Den tegenwoordigen Keizer van China. . .
Third edition of this beautifully illustrated work on China. The first edition was published in 1665.Jan Nieuhof was a "Dutch traveler and adventurer" (1618-72)...
Date: Amsterdam, W. Waasberge, 1693
Magnae Britaniae Tabula; Comprehendens Angliae, Scotiae, Ac Hiberniae Regna . . .
Rare Dutch map of the British Isles in very attractive full original color. In this state the wording "Scilly Isles" is added. A decorative title cartouche in t...
Date: Amsterdam, after 1694
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...
Date: London, 1695
Vaisseau du premier rang portant pavillon d'amiral.
1695 MOORTIER, P. - An antique print of a naval vessel engraved by Jan van Vianen after a design by Henri Sbonski de Passebon
Date: Amsterdam, 1695
Parte orientale della China.. / Parte occidentale della China. (2 sheets)
The map depicts the eastern part of China with Korea -correctly- as a peninsula. Formosa is included as well. Japan is partly visible i.e. the area of Yamaguchi, strait K...
Date: Venice, 1695
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.
1700 VAN LUCHTENBURG, A. / DANCKERTS, C. - A rare celestial map dedicated to Frederik III, Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia
Date: Danckerts, ca. 1700
Amstelodami celeberrimi hollandiae emporii delineatio nova.
1700 DE WIT, F. - Bird's-eye view of Amsterdam. The Amstel River is still open water flowing through the city's heart
Date: Amsterdam, c.1700
Chorographia Terrae Sanctae in Angustiorem. . .
Rare. Large visually rich map decorated with illustrations of the sacred objects and places of Judaism. In the bottom center is a plan of ancient Jerusalem, and the route...
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1700
Volna.
Very decorative and rare panoramic town-view of Volna. We have more Anna Beek prints available.The engraver and publisher of prints, Mrs. Anna Beek of the Hague, enlarge...
Date: The Hague, ca. 1700
Tschopau.
Very decorative and rare panoramic of Tschopau.The engraver and publisher of prints, Mrs. Anna Beek of the Hague, enlarged the print and mounted it on larger paper: she ...
Date: The Hague, ca. 1700
Novissima Flandriae Comitatus tabula. . .
Rare issue of Theodorus Danckert's attractive map of eastern Belgium provinces, Flanders, with Brugge, Oostende, Gent, Mons, Antwerp, Cambray, etc..Decorative title carto...
Date: Amsterdam, 1700
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...
Date: The Hague, 1700
Acamantis insula hogidi Cipro . . .
Decorative map of Cyprus. The remarkable Vincenzo Coronelli (1650-1718), was a Franciscan Friar and appointed General of the Order in 1701. He was cosmographer to the Rep...
Date: Venice, 1700
Carte du Mexique et de la Floride.
Third state, with "Quai de l'Horloge" imprint. Renard’s imprint has been erased”. It was the first printed map to portray accurately the course and mouth of the...
Date: Paris, 1703
Het Friessche Doolhoff, het beruchte dorp Molk-Worren
1705 SCHENK, P. - 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
Date: Amsterdam, 1705
Horizon ring for globe.
Printed horizon ring for a 28cm diameter German globe. The ring is divided in quarters and engraved two by two on one copper plate. The size of the paper is 44 x 33cm. Th...
Date: Nuremberg, 1704/1705
La mer Mediterranee divisee en ses principales parties ou mers. . .
Very large map centered on the Mediterranean. With a sub title along upper margin "La Mer Mediterranée divisée en Mer de Levant et de Ponant Subdivisées en Leurs Pri...
Date: Amsterdam, c.1705
Teatro della guerra: Belgio, Il Belgio confederato, Luoghi posseduti dal Belgio confederato fuori dell'Europa.
1706 CORONELLI, V. - Extremely rare collection of views and plans of cities in the Low Countries, also including regions outside Europe, including the Cocos (Keeling) Is...
Date: Naplers, 1706
LA RUSSIE ROUGE ou POLONOISE qui Comprend les PROVINCES DE LA RUSSIE ROUGE de VOLHYNIE et de PODOLIE divisées en leurs Palatinats Vulgairement Connües sous le Nom D'VKRAINE ou PAYS DES COSAQUES.
A very rare Sanson map of Ukraine and so-called Russie Rouge, stretching from Lublin in the west to Kherson Oblast in the east (here called "Confin de La Petite Tart...
Date: Paris, 1706
Typus aspectuum, oppositionum et conjunctionum…
A celestial chart with a circular projection map of the Earth, centered at the North Pole, concentrates on the planets' opposition and conjunction. With two diagrams in t...
Date: Amsterdam, 1708
De Stadt Jerusalem.
Plan of ancient Jerusalem from a Dutch bible after Villalpando. The print is in contemporary colors, which is extremely rare for a plate like this. Lower left the Temple ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1710
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...
Date: Kyoto, (Hoei 7 = Year of the Tiger) 1710
De Haven en Straat von Gibraltar, Niewlyks getekend, en in`t licht gebracht door Johannes Covens en Cornelis Mortier tot Amsterdam.
Decorative map showing the siege of Gibraltar during the Spanish war of succession. This highly interesting map is richly ornated with three additional inset maps and vie...
Date: Amsterdam, 1710
![Le Royaume de Siam avec Les Royaumes Qui Luy sont Tributaries & c. / La Royaume de Siam avec les royaumes qui luy sont Tributaires, et les Isles de Sumatra, Andemaon, etc. . . [two sheet map]](/uploads/cache/40698-250x250.jpg)
Le Royaume de Siam avec Les Royaumes Qui Luy sont Tributaries & c. / La Royaume de Siam avec les royaumes qui luy sont Tributaires, et les Isles de Sumatra, Andemaon, etc. . . [two sheet map]
Influential map of Southeast Asia and the East Indies including modern day Thailand, southern Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, Borneo, Sumatra and Java. Ottens inc...
Date: Amsterdam, 1710
![[A magnificent 18 inch. (46 cm.) diameter celestial globe] URANOGRAPHIA / SYDERUM ET STELLARUM / in Singulis Syderibus conspicuarum / exhibens Delineationem accuratissimam,](/uploads/cache/48959-250x250.jpg)
[A magnificent 18 inch. (46 cm.) diameter celestial globe] URANOGRAPHIA / SYDERUM ET STELLARUM / in Singulis Syderibus conspicuarum / exhibens Delineationem accuratissimam,
1711 VALK, G. / L. - Celestial globe, 46 cm. in diameter, produced by Gerard and Leonard Valk in Amsterdam.
Date: Amsterdam, 1711
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...
Date: Amsterdam, after 1669-1712
A new and correct map of the world.
The early eighteenth century was one of the most important periods for English cartography. One of the period's most intriguing world maps is this large-scale map, which ...
Date: London 1714
![Recueil de costumes. Imagini degl'abiti con cui Va uestita la Nobiltà della Serenis.ma Republica di Venezia. Suivi de: [Augsburger Kleidertrachten].](/uploads/cache/48425-250x250.jpg)
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. ...
Date: Venezia, Ragheno, 1702 / Augsbourg, J. Wolff, ca. 1715
Nieuwe kaart van Suriname vertonende de stromen en land-streken van Suriname, Comowini, Cottica en Marawini, gelegen in Zuid America op de kusten van Caribana. . .
1718 OTTENS, J. - Map of Suriname. Detailed map of the northeast part of Suriname between Paramaribo, with Fort Zeelandia, and Mana
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1713-1718
Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid, vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der Actie, Bubbel en Windnegotie, in Vrankryk, Engeland, en de Nederlanden, gespleegt in den Jaare MDCCXX...
1720 - With 78 plates of the first banking crash, showing the shocking effects of the “South Sea Bubble” in France, England and Holland, and placing John Law with his Mis...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Nova tabula geographica complectens borealiorem..
A finely engraved pair of maps designed to be cut and joined together to provide a continuous coastline of North America from the Carolinas to Newfoundland and along the ...
Date: Amsterdam 1720
Diocesi Padovana Con Tutta La Sua Estensione Ne Vicini Territori.
This large map depicts the entire extent of the Diocese of Padua and the surrounding territories, with a detailed topographical rendering. It features rich Baroque ornam...
Date: Padova, 1720
Vue et description des principales villes de l'Armenie et de la Georgie avec les habillements des femmes du pays, et ceux des prêtres et religieux armeniens. . .Tom: V N° 11 Pag: 28
View and description of the principal Armenian and Georgian cities with illustrations of Armenian women's garments as well as priests' and monks' clothing. The views are ...
Date: Amsterdam, ca 1720
Stoel des Oorlogs in America Waar in Vertoont Werden Alle Desself Voornaamste Eylande . . .
Large impressive map of the West Indies with the Gulf of Mexico and Florida. The map shows prominently in the center Cuba, Haiti, the Bahamas and Florida, which is here m...
Date: Amsterdam, c. 1720
Waere Affbeeldinge Wegens het Casteel ende Stadt BATAVIA Gelegen opt Groot Eylant Java.
A good impression of this finely engraved and detailed plan of Batavia, present-day Jakarta, the Dutch center of trading activities in the East Indies. Copied after Cleme...
Date: Amsterdam, 1721
Plan de la ville de Malthe ses Forts, ses Nouvelles Fortiffications. . .
Detailed plan of Valletta. In upper right corner a key (A-Z & 1-32) to the principal places in town. Prepared by N.de Fer and re-issued by Danet.
Date: Paris, 1723
![[12 volumes] Recueil des voyages qui ont servi à l'établissement et aux progrez de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales, forméedans les Provinces-Unies des Païs-Bas...](/uploads/cache/43700-250x250.jpg)
[12 volumes] Recueil des voyages qui ont servi à l'établissement et aux progrez de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales, forméedans les Provinces-Unies des Païs-Bas...
An important, richly illustrated compendium of the first Dutch voyages to East India, of great interest for the history and establishment of the Dutch global trade, parti...
Date: Rouen, Pierre Le Boucher, 1725
Ormus. (Hormuz)
This very interesting early engraving shows the ships of the Dutchman Van den Broecke, who in December 1628 left his directorship in Surat. Before returning to Batavia he...
Date: Amsterdam, F. Bernard, 1725
Insulae Palaos seu Novae Philippinae 87 Alias Archipelagus S. Lazari ven Carolinae . . .
Map of Philippine archipelago. Stöcklein's work is a compound of letters of the Jesuit missionaries from all over the world and here particularly the ones stationed at th...
Date: Augsburg, 1726
Nieuwe Kaart van het Eyland Sumatra..
Fine chart depicting the Island of Sumatra and the southern coasts of Malaysia from Quedo to Johore. North is orientated to the left of the page. Singapore is probably id...
Date: Amsterdam, 1726
Nieuwe Caart der Eylanden van Banda.
Decorative map of the Banda Islands. Until the mid-19th century the Banda Islands were the world's only source of the spices nutmeg and mace, produced from the nutmeg tre...
Date: Amsterdam, 1726
Die Insel Formosa neu abgemessen auf Befehl Kaysers Kamhi.
One of the earliest obtainable printed maps of Taiwan or Formosa Island. It was issued around 1726 to illustrate Joseph Stöcklein's [Stoecklein] compilation of Jesuit mis...
Date: Augsburg, 1726
Great or Asiatick Tartary, Agreable to Modern History.
Map of Tartary to Peking. The eastern coastline of Asia is almost flat, with no attempt to mark Kamchatka. The Caspian Sea in the lower left, with present-day Uzbekistan ...
Date: London, 1727
De Reede en stadt Batavia is geleegen aan de Noord Kust…
A chart of the bay of Batavia with in lower left corner a plan of Batavia (120x147mm). This very rare and influential chart gives a fine representation of Batavia, now kn...
Date: Amsterdam, 1728
Histoire Naturelle, Civile, Et Ecclésiastique..'
First French edition, published by P. Gosse, J. Neaulme and B. Lakeman. The basic work on Japan from the second half of the 17th century when it was still forbidden for f...
Date: Amsterdam, 1729
Insularum Moluccarum Nova description.
Exquisite map of the famous Spice Islands based. This map was the first large-scale map of the region and depicts the islands which provided first the Portuguese and then...
Date: Amsterdam, 1730
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...
Date: Augsbourg, 1730
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...
Date: Augsburg, 1732
Lo Stati Presente di Tutti i Paesi e Popoli del Mondo..
This most uncommon work provides an interesting focus on the dissemination of the outline of Japan provided by Kaempfer. Beside the description of Japan, the book include...
Date: Venice, 1734
Nova Maris Caspii et Regions Usbeck. . .
This is the first printed map specifically of the Uzbek region. It shows the area around the Caspian Sea and northern Iran. The area eastward from the Caspian is marked '...
Date: Nuremberg, 1735
Description geographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise.
1770 DU HALDE, Jean Baptiste. - Description geographique, historique […] de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise. The first definitive European work on the Chinese empire....
Date: Paris, P. G. Le Mercier, (vol. 1-3) 1770 / (vol.4),1735
