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Architecturae Militaris Synopsis, ... / Vollstaendiger Entwurff der Ingenieur Kunst . . .
Decorative large sheet with elements of different types of fortress architecture and the name of the engineers or military architects: Blondel, Bourdin, Doegen, Borgsdorf...
- $650 / ≈ €561
Date: Augsburg, circa 1730
Perspective des Isles de Palo Condoro à le regarde de 8 lieües di coté de Midy.
An attractive view of the Isle de Condor (Côn Son Island), located off the southern tip of Vietnam and a victualing point by European traders. In 1702, the English East ...
- $150 / ≈ €129
Date: Paris / Amsterdam, ca 1730
Carte du Congo et du Pays des Cafres. . .
Detailed copper-engraved map of southern Africa providing numerous particulars and comments concerning European trade, native kingdoms, and mineral wealth. Includes Madag...
Date: Amsterdam, c. 1730
Nova Mappa Geographica Maris Assoviensis Vel De Zabache Et Paludis Maeotidis accurate aeri incis et in luce edita . . .
Striking map of the Sea of Azov with adjacent countries and the Strait of Kerch, with a decorative allegorical cartouche, showing the costumes of the indigenous people of...
Date: Augsburg, 1730
Atlas Novus ad Usum Serenissimi Burgundiae Ducis.
Title page of the homonymous atlas by Jean Covens and Corneille Mortier. Blank verso. Soldiers, savages and other individuals are shown approaching a queen seated on her ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1730
Sphaera Artificialium Typica repraesentatio.
Stunning engraving of terrestrial and celestial globes and armillary sphere, all with highly ornamented stands. Brief explanatory text. The plate was based on a design by...
Date: Augsburg, 1730
Plan de la Ville et du Chateau de Batavia en l'Isle de Iava / Ware affbeeldinge wegens het Casteel ende Stadt Batavia gelegen opt groot Eylant Java.
Detailed East-oriented plan of Jakarta former Batavia on Java / Indonesia. With a bird's eye view from seaside, various ships and a lion. Two inset keys with detailed des...
- $750 / ≈ €647
Date: Leiden, 1730
Plan de la Rade d'Ascombrera. . .
An attractive chart centered on Cartagena in Spain. With scale and large compass-rose. Dated 1730, with the privilege of the King. From : Recueil des Plusieurs plans des ...
- $300 / ≈ €259
Date: Marseille, 1730
Nova et accurata Normandiae Ducatus Tabula . . .
This very rare map of Britany made by the Amsterdam publisher and Pieter Persoy (1675-1695). This among fourteen other maps are sometimes found in atlases by Frederik de ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1730
Plan du Port de Cartagène.
An attractive chart centered on the Bay of Cartagena. With scale and large compass-rose. Dated 1727, with the privilege of the King. From : Recueil des Plusieurs plans de...
- $375 / ≈ €324
Date: Marseille, 1730
Praefectura Lipsiencis. . .
Detailed map centered around Leipzig with large pictorial cartouche and smaller cartouche of explanations. Alphabetical list of place names down both sides.
- $150 / ≈ €129
Date: Augsburg, 1730
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...
Date: Marseille, 1730
Plan de la Rade de Mayorque.
An attractive chart centered on Palma de Majorca in the Mediterranean. With scale and large compass-rose. Dated 1727, with the privilege of the King. From : Recueil des P...
- $600 / ≈ €518
Date: Marseille, 1730
Plan de la Rade d'Alicant.
An attractive chart centered Alicante in Valencia along the Mediterranean. With scale and large compass-rose. Dated 1730, with the privilege of the King. From : Recueil d...
- $350 / ≈ €302
Date: Marseille, 1730
Cazal. (Casale Monferrato)
A rare panoramic of Casale Monferrato in the Piedmont region. Engraved by Pierre Aveline (Paris, c.1656 - 23 May 1722). He was also a print-publisher and print-seller. H...
Date: Paris, 1690-1730
Plan de la Baye de Ville Franche et de celle de St. Souspir.
An attractive chart centered on the Mediterranean. With scale and large compass-rose. Dated 1727, with the privilege of the King. From : Recueil des Plusieurs plans des p...
Date: Marseille, 1730
Plan de Porto Ferraro en l'isle de l'Elbe.
An attractive chart centered on the Mediterranean. With scale and large compass-rose. Dated 1727, with the privilege of the King. From : Recueil des Plusieurs plans des p...
- $200 / ≈ €173
Date: Marseille, 1730
Delphinus.
Uncommon celestial print showing the constellation of Delphinus, published by Corbinianus Thomas in the Manuductio ad Astronomiam, Juxta modum Bayeri, Mathematici celeber...
Date: Frankfurt & Leipzig, c.1730
Plan de la Ville et Port de Civita-Vechia.
An attractive chart centered on Civitavecchia, a town and comune of the province of Rome in the central Italian region of Lazio.With scale and large compass-rose. Dated 1...
- $200 / ≈ €173
Date: Marseille, 1730
Plan de la Ville et Port de Messine.
An attractive chart centered Messina on Sicily. With scale and large compass-rose. Dated 1727, with the privilege of the King. From : Recueil des Plusieurs plans des port...
- $250 / ≈ €216
Date: Marseille, 1730
[Title page] A Monsieur Cassini de Thury . . .
Title page by Cassini.
- $175 / ≈ €151
Date: Paris, ca. 1730
Imperii Moscovitici pars Australis.
A detailed map of the region around Moscow. Including the Ukraine and Cossack regions, to the west is Russian Poland and Lithuania, to the east Russian Tartary and Siberi...
- $500 / ≈ €432
Date: Augsburg, 1730
Geographica Nova ex Oriente gratiosissima, duabus tabulis specialissimis contenta, quarum una Mare Caspium..
Map of the Caspian Sea and the peninsula of Kamchatka (Jedso) in northeast Asia on one sheet.Separated by an attractive panel with figurative title cartouche, cherubs, an...
Date: Nuremberg, 1730
Plan du Golfe de Naples.
An attractive chart centered on the Gulf of Naples. Mount Vesuvius to the right. With scale and large compass-rose. Dated 1727, with the privilege of the King. From : Rec...
- $350 / ≈ €302
Date: Marseille, 1730
[Lot of 10 maps] Carte Nouvelle de la Grande Tartary.
Antique map of Asian Russia] Carte Nouvelle de la Grande Tartarie ou de l'Empire du Grand Cham. With 10 maps / views of Asian Russia- Carte Nouvelle de la Grande Tartari...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720 - 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
Plan du Port de Trapano et des isles Favouillane.
An attractive chart centered on Trapani on the west coast of Sicily in Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Trapani. The right the island of Favignana and Levanzo ...
- $300 / ≈ €259
Date: Marseille, 1730
Rare collection of costume plates.
Rare collection of costume plates published in Augsburg by the famous publishers Martin Engelbrecht, Ioh. Georg Hertel and the Jeremias Wolff Heirs.Composition :2 plates ...
Date: Augsburg, ca. 1730
Plan de la Ville, Port et rades de Palerme. . .
An attractive chart centered on Palermo. With scale and large compass-rose. Dated 1727, with the privilege of the King. From : Recueil des Plusieurs plans des ports et ra...
- $250 / ≈ €216
Date: Marseille, 1730
Plan de la Ville et du Chateau de Batavia en l'Isle de Iava / Ware affbeeldinge wegens het Casteel ende Stadt Batavia gelegen opt groot Eylant Java.
Detailed East oriented plan of Jakarta former Batavia on Java / Indonesia. With bird eye view from sea side, various ships and a lion. Two inset keys with detailed descri...
Date: Leiden, 1730
Alexandri Magni Imperium et Expeditio. . .
The map represents the theatre of Alexander the Great's conquests between the Black Sea and Indus River, today's Turkey, Armenia, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, etc. The map is...
- $100 / ≈ €86
Date: Paris, 1731
Nouvelle Carte de Moscovie où sont representés les differents etats de sa Maiesté Czarienne..
Map of Russia Tartary and part of China with key tables to the towns. Depicting the different states belonging to the Czar in Asia and Europe, showing the path of one of ...
- $200 / ≈ €173
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1732
Carte Des Trois Ordres Qui Composent L'Etat De La Republique De Pologne...
Decorative views of Cracow, Warsaw and Vilna, from Chatelain's monumental Atlas Historique.It is an elaborate presentation of the political hierarchy of the Polish-Lithua...
Date: Paris, 1732
Nouvelle Carte de Moscovie où sont representés les differents etats de sa Maiesté Czarienne. . .
Map of Russia Tartary and part of China with key tables to the towns. Depicting the different states belonging to the Czar in Asia and Europe, showing the path of one of ...
- $250 / ≈ €216
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1732
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
Oriens, Persia, India etc.
Uncommon map of Persia, Armenia, Arabian Peninsular and part of India. Prepared by Christoph Cellarius (1638-1707). From Geographia Antiqua...
Date: Leipzig, Gledisch, 1732
Carte pour introduire à la chronologie et à trouver les années devant et après Jésus Christ par le moyen des périodes Iulienne, Dionysienne et par les trois cycles comme aussi pour trouver la fête de Pasque. . .
An engraved table showing the years before and after Jesus Christ through the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Henri Abraham Chatelain (1684 – 1743) was a Huguenot pasto...
- $25 / ≈ €22
Date: Amsterdam, 1720-1732
Nouvelle carte genealogique des souverains et des familles illustres aliez a la maison ou aux decendans de la famille roialle de Piaste roi de Pologne. . .
A two sheet engraving of the genealogical family tree of Poland from 804 AD to the time of publication. The tree extends throughout Europe and is headed by the arms of 30...
- $150 / ≈ €129
Date: Amsterdam, 1719-1732
Great Tartary, with the tract of the Moscovite Ambassador's Travels from Moscow to Pekin in China.
An interesting map illustrating the route taken by the Russian Ambassador on his travels east to Beijing. Shows the Great Wall, "Somer Houses" and "parts u...
- $125 / ≈ €108
Date: London, 1732
Carte Des Trois Ordres Qui Composent L'Etat De La Republique De Pologne...
Decorative views of Cracow, Warsaw and Vilna, from Chatelain's monumental Atlas Historique.Zacharie Chatelain (d.1723) was the father of Henri Abraham (1684-1743) and Zac...
- $800 / ≈ €691
Date: Amsterdam, 1732
[St Peter's Square].
View of St Peter's Square and Vatican probably featuring a solemn blessing. The square is crowdy, the Pontifical Swiss Guard is present. A beautifully colored lithography...
Date: Italy ?, 1732
[Title page for ] Atlas Novus Terrarum orbis Imperia.
Title page from Atlas Novus printed by Johann Ernst Udelbulner. Large elaborately engraved sheet with numerous allegorical figures. A large globe, showing the Eastern Hem...
Date: Nuremberg, 1732
Le Roi Henri II blassé a mort representanté dans son lit.
Print showing King Henry II in his death bed. In June 1559 a tournament lasting several days was held in Paris to celebrate a peace treaty between France and Spain. King ...
- $100 / ≈ €86
Date: Paris, 1729-1733
Der Hollaendisch-Ostindianischen Compagnie Weltberühmte Haupt - Handels und Niederlags stadt BATAVIA..
Very fine decorative plan of Batavia showing the City and its immediate environs, the surrounding rice fields intersected by a network of waterways, canals and outlying f...
Date: Nuremberg, 1733
Der Hollaendisch-Ostindianischen Compagnie Weltberühmte Haupt - Handels und Niederlags stadt BATAVIA..
A very fine decorative plan of Batavia showing the City and its immediate environs, the surrounding rice fields intersected by a network of waterways, canals and outlying...
Date: Nuremberg, 1733
[Title page ] Carte Générale de la Monarchie Françoise, contenat l'Histoire Militaire depuis Clovis, premier Roy chrêtien...
[Title page ] Carte Générale de la Monarchie Françoise, contenat l'Histoire Militaire depuis Clovis, premier Roy chrêtien, jusqu'à la quinzième année accomplie du ...
- $150 / ≈ €129
Date: Paris, 1733
Mr. Romein De Hooghe.
Portrait of Romein De Hooghe, engraved by Jacobus Houbraken. De Hooghe is known as an engraver, draftsman, painter, sculptor and medalist. He is best known for his politi...
Date: Amsterdam, 1733
Les Principales Forteresses Ports &c de L'Amérique Septentrionale. . .
This sheet contains 19 small but detailed maps and plans of harbours, towns, forts and islands from the eastern seaboard and the West Indies, all but one plan with title ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1733
Regio Canaan seu Terra Promissionis postra Judeae vel Palaestina nominata hodiae Terra Sancta. . .
A striking and beautiful map of The Holy Land and Judea divided up into the twelve tribes. These are easily distinguished by the use of bold, rich period wash colour. Wit...
- $600 / ≈ €518
Date: Augsburg, ca 1734
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
Hedendaegsche Historie of tegenwoordige staet van alle volkeren 1 deel. (Volume 1 - China, Japan, Phillippines, Moluccas)
This provides an interesting illustrated description of China, Japan, the Phillippines, Moluccas. Including a map of China, Korea, and Japan, with the Sea between Korea a...
Date: Amsterdam, 1734
Das bombadirte Dantzig. Das belagerte Danzig eine Weltberühmte Haupt und Handelstatt des Polnischen Preussens, mit ihren Vorstaedten und der Weichselmünder Schanz,
Large original copper engraving with decorative set edge, top left Diarium of the Russian attack and Russian battleships in Gdansk Bay, above list of the most important b...
- $850 / ≈ €734
Date: Nuremberg, 1734
Changer à droite - Changieren rechts - Variatio ad dextram.
Copper engraving from "Neue Reit Schul vorstellend einen vollkommenen Reuter in allen Lectionen". Disciple of Georg Philipp Rugendas I in Augsburg, Johann Elias...
Date: Augsburg, 1734
Nieuwe Kaart van Muskovie of Rusland.
Detailed map of European Russia, far south to the Black Sea and Caspian Sea. Isaac Tirion was born in Utrecht ca. 1705. He came to Amsterdam ca. 1725. Tirion published a ...
- $150 / ≈ €129
Date: Amsterdam, 1734
Derbent.
View of Derbent, the southernmost city in Russia from a scarce series of city views by Daniel de la Feuille (1640-1709). Engraving shows the ancient fortress and ruins of...
- $100 / ≈ €86
Date: Amsterdam, 1734
Nieuwe Kaart van Muskovie of Rusland..
Detailed map of European Russia, far south to the Black Sea and Caspian Sea. Isaac Tirion was born in Utrecht ca. 1705. He came to Amsterdam ca. 1725. Tirion published a ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1734
Theatre de la Guerre en Savoie et en Piémont - Le Dauphiné, La Bresse - Partie du Lionnois et de la Provence./ Theatre de la guerre en Dauphiné et en Provence…
Rare wall map of the Savoie/Piémont and Dauphiné/Provence region. Decorated with 2 title-cartouches, one at upper right part (Savoye/Piémont) and one at lower right pr...
- $3000 / ≈ €2590
Date: Amsterdam, c.1735
Nieuwe kaart van Muskovien door M. de l'Isle.
This lovely little map of the area surrounding Moscow is based on Delisle's map of the region. The map is bounded by Lake Ilmen in the north, the Volga River to the east,...
- $100 / ≈ €86
Date: Amsterdam, 1735
Potentissimo Borussorum Regi Friderico Wilhelmo Maiestate, Fortitudine Clementia Augustissimo Hancce Lithuaniam Borussicam : in qua luca coloniis Salisburg., ad incolendum Regio nutu concessa ...
Potentissimo Borussorum Regi Friderico Wilhelmo Maiestate, Fortitudine Clementia Augustissimo Hancce Lithuaniam Borussicam : in qua luca coloniis Salisburg., ad incolendu...
- $1500 / ≈ €1295
Date: Nuremberg, 1735
Plan du Tien-tang ou du temple, où l'empereur sacrifie à Chang-ti sous le titre de souverain seigneur de la terre.
Nice example of d'Anville's plan of Tien-tang temple, from "Atlas général de la Chine..."" prepared by Jesuit missionaries and commissioned by Emperor Ka...
Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735
Carte particulière de l'entrée de Canton - Plan de Quang-tcheou-fou vulgo Canton .
Beautiful detailed map of the entrance to the city of Canton, showing also the cities of Macao and Quanghai, as well as the islands of the bay, including the island of Sh...
- $450 / ≈ €388
Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735
Potentissimo Borussorum Regi Friderico Wilhelmo Maiestate, Fortitudine Clementia Augustissimo Hancce Lithuaniam Borussicam : in qua luca coloniis Salisburg., ad incolendum Regio nutu...
Potentissimo Borussorum Regi Friderico Wilhelmo Maiestate, Fortitudine Clementia Augustissimo Hancce Lithuaniam Borussicam : in qua luca coloniis Salisburg., ad incolendu...
Date: Nuremberg, 1735
Province de Koei-Tcheou.
An important map of Koei-tcheou 贵州 [Guizhou]. With a quite elaborately pictorial cartouche featuring a rococo chinoiserie ornamentation engraved by Guélard, the map ...
- $100 / ≈ €86
Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735
Province de Ho-nan. [Honan 河南 (Hénán) province]
An important map of Honan 河南 (Hénán) province. With a quite elaborately pictorial cartouche, engraved by F.Baillieul Lainé. Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d' Anville (1...
- $200 / ≈ €173
Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735
Carte du ciel et de la terre qui commencent à se former / Figure du ciel fluide & pur & de la terre fixe & ferme.
Recto and verso text page with two illustrations of the grounding of the sky and earth according to a Chinese philosopher. Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d' Anville (1697-178...
- $75 / ≈ €65
Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735
Potentissimo Borussorum Regi Friderico Wilhelmo...
Large and sought-after 2-sheet map of an area of Lithuania and Eastern Prussia (Russian province of Kaliningrad) stretching from Klaipeda (Memel) in the north to Goldap i...
Date: Nuremberg, 1735
Description geographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise.
Cornerstone of any collection of books on China, which is also among the rarest and most desirable of important Americana.This, "the first definitive European work o...
Date: Paris, P. G. Le Mercier, (vol. 1-3) 1770 / (vol.4),1735
[World and 4 continents] Carte Geographique Astronomique Chronologique et Historique du Monde.
French wall map of the world in 4 sheets published by Crépy "à l'entrée du Cloistre de St. Benoist du côté des maturins". A decorative wall map of the worl...
Date: Paris, 1720-1735
Plan du Ti-tang ou du temple, où l'empereur sacrifie à Chang-ti sous le titre de souverain seigneur de la terre
A plan of the temple of the soil god (社稷壇, Shèjìtán, "Altar of Soil and Grain")—under the name "Titang" (地堂, dìtáng, "Hall of Di...
Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735
Province de Se-Tchuen. [ Se-tchuen 四川 [Sichuan] province.]
Important map of Se-tchuen 四川 [Sichuan] province. With a quite elaborately pictorial cartouche, engraved by Guélard, the map by Delahaye, features animals, birds, a ...
- $450 / ≈ €388
Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735
Souan pan, ou instrument dont les chinois se servent pour compter.
Text page with a wood block illustration of a souan-pan [suan-p'an] the calculation table used by the Chinese. Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d' Anville (1697-1782), French c...
Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735
Province de Chan-Si. [Chan-s 山西i [Shanxi] province. ]
An important map of Chan-s 山西i [Shanxi] province. With a quite elaborately pictorial cartouche, engraved by Guélard, the map by Delahaye. Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d...
- $200 / ≈ €173
Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735
Province de Chan-Tong.
Detailed map of Shandong Province. With a quite elaborately pictorial cartouche, engraved by Guélard, the map by Delahaye, featuring a rabbit and rococo chinoiserie orna...
- $300 / ≈ €259
Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735
Potentissimo Borussorum Regi Friderico Wilhelmo Maiestate, Fortitudine Clementia Augustissimo Hancce Lithuaniam Borussicam : in qua luca coloniis Salisburg., ad incolendum Regio nutu concessa ...
Potentissimo Borussorum Regi Friderico Wilhelmo Maiestate, Fortitudine Clementia Augustissimo Hancce Lithuaniam Borussicam : in qua luca coloniis Salisburg., ad incolendu...
- $1200 / ≈ €1036
Date: Nuremberg, 1735
Province de Hou-Quang. [Hou-quang 湖广 [Huguang] province.]
Important map of Hou-quang 湖广 [Huguang] province. With a quite elaborately pictorial cartouche, engraved by Guélard, the map engraved by F.Baillieul Lainé, featurin...
- $250 / ≈ €216
Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735
Province de Koei-Tcheou. [Koei-tcheou 贵州 [Guizhou] province.]
Important map of Koei-tcheou 贵州 [Guizhou]. With a quite elaborately pictorial cartouche featuring a rococo chinoiserie ornamentation, engraved by Guélard, the map by...
- $300 / ≈ €259
Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735
Province de Tche Kiang. [Tche kiang 浙江 [Zhejiang] province]
D'Anville's highly detailed map of Tche kiang 浙江 [Zhejiang] province from du Halde's "Description geographique historique...de l'Empire de la Chine et de la Tart...
- $400 / ≈ €345
Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735
Carte de la province de Tche kiang 浙江 [Zhejiang]
D'Anville's highly detailed map of Tche Kiang (Zhejiang) province from du Halde's "Description geographique historique...de l'Empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie Ch...
- $250 / ≈ €216
Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735
Province de Pe-Tche-Li. Pe-tche-li [Beizhili] 北直隶 [= 河北]. province.]
Important map of Pe-tche-li [Beizhili] 北直隶 [= 河北]. With a quite elaborately pictorial cartouche featuring a rococo chinoiserie ornamentation, engraved by Guéla...
- $300 / ≈ €259
Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735
Province de Kiang-Si. Jiangxi 江西 province.
An important map of Jiangxi 江西 province. With a quite elaborately pictorial cartouche featuring a rococo chinoiserie ornamentation, engraved by Guélard. The map itse...
- $200 / ≈ €173
Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735