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Gouvernement general du Lionnois, generalitez de Lion et de Riom . . .
Map of central France with Clermont-Ferrand and Lyon to the right, from Nicolas de Fer's "L'Atlas curieux ou le Monde réprésente dans des cartes. "The "A...
Place & Date: Paris, 1705
Westphaliae Totius, Finitimarumque Regionum Accurata Descriptio.
A very beautiful hand colored copper engraved map of North Rhein-Westphalia by A. Ortelius. This is a general map of Westphalia and the surrounding regions in northwest G...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca 1584
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[Title page for] Partie des Forces de l'Europe. . .
Very decorative title page from the rare Amsterdam edition of 1693 by Pieter Mortier (1661-1711) of de Fer's important work.Nicolas de Fer (1646-1720) was a cartographer,...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1693
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[Title page for] Galliae tabule geographicae . . .
Very fine title page by Gerard Mercator, composed of an elaborate strapwork design with the portrait of a King at the top.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1613
Plan de la ville et du château de Caën en Normandie.
Plan of the city of Caen, from Nicolas de Fer's "L'Atlas curieux ou le Monde réprésente dans des cartes. "The "Atlas Curieux" is a geographic encycl...
Place & Date: Paris, 1705
Ménage Polonais (La belle Polonaise) - Vaudeville opérette en 3 actes. Musique de Jean Gilbert.
Original advertising poster for the operetta " Ménage Polonais ". Title translation " Polish household " Ménage Polonais (The beautiful Polish) - Va...
Place & Date: Paris, 1914
Gouvernement de Dauphiné, Generalité de Grenoble.
Map of the Dauphiné region, from Nicolas de Fer's "L'Atlas curieux ou le Monde réprésente dans des cartes. "The "Atlas Curieux" is a geographic enc...
Place & Date: Paris, 1705
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[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...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1732
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[Title page] Geographiae libri octo Graeco-Latini . . .
Fine decorative titlepage from the 1605 edition of Ptolemy. The plate is adorned with allegorical figures, fruits and architectural motifs. This 1605 edition was based on...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1605
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[Title page] De Praecipuis, Totius Universi Urbibus, Liber Secundus.
Allegorical title page, from Volume 2 of Braun & Hogenberg's Civitatus Orbis Terrarum.At the top are figures representing Religion and Politics, placed on either side...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1582
Gouvernement general de Picardie . . .
Map of the Picardie region, from Nicolas de Fer's "L'Atlas curieux ou le Monde réprésente dans des cartes. "The "Atlas Curieux" is a geographic ency...
Place & Date: Paris, 1705
Les Gouvernements generaux de l'Isle de France et de Champagne, ou se trouvent les generalitez de Paris et Chaalons.
Map of the Isle de France and Champagne regions, from Nicolas de Fer's "L'Atlas curieux ou le Monde réprésente dans des cartes. "The "Atlas Curieux"...
Place & Date: Paris, 1705
Karte der Ukraina.
A large political, economical and transportation map of Ukraine, printed three months after the beginning of the WW II in Ukraine. Shows the newest borders, streets and r...
Place & Date: Vienna: Freytag u. Bernd u. Artaria August 1941
Panache la nouvelle revue du Lido.
Very decorative poster designed by René Gruau for the Lido and its review Panache on the Champs Elysées, Paris. The bluebells are pictured for the 1985 show. René Grua...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1980
Plan general des chateaux et ville de St Germain en Laye.
City plan of St Germain en Laye, from Nicolas de Fer's "L'Atlas curieux ou le Monde réprésente dans des cartes. "The "Atlas Curieux" is a geographic...
Place & Date: Paris, 1705
Plan de la belle et magnifique Maison de Monsieur A St Cloud . . .
Plan of the city of Saint Cloud, from Nicolas de Fer's "L'Atlas curieux ou le Monde réprésente dans des cartes. "The "Atlas Curieux" is a geographic...
Place & Date: Paris, 1705
Plan general de Chantilly . . .
Plan of the city of Chantilly, from Nicolas de Fer's "L'Atlas curieux ou le Monde réprésente dans des cartes. "The "Atlas Curieux" is a geographic e...
Place & Date: Paris, 1705
Le Païs Messin, ses dependances, et Terre Adiacentes.
Map of the Messin region, from Nicolas de Fer's "L'Atlas curieux ou le Monde réprésente dans des cartes. "The "Atlas Curieux" is a geographic encycl...
Place & Date: Paris, 1705
Nieuwe kaart van Arabia.
An attractive map of the Arabian Peninsula here called Gelukkig Arabia or Happy Arabia . The map has a great advance on other maps of the time by showing the true extent ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1740
Souvenir de Paris.
Decorative bird's-eye view of the current Louvre Museum, with river Seine and the Notre Dame cathedral on the right. of Paris. After a design by P. St. Martin.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1858
Carte des Possessions Françoises et Angloises dans le Canada, et partie de la Louisiane.
First state of this separately published map of the European Colonies in the New World east of the Mississippi River. This map was published in 1756 to provide informatio...
Place & Date: Paris, 1756
Piano di Nizza.
Rare 1797 manuscript map of Nice, with the French navy attacking from the sea. Unknown author, Italian, but map attributed to an original, probably broadsheet map by Moll...
Place & Date: Italy, after 1797
Carte Geographique du Royaume de France, avec des remarques curieuses sur l'ancienne, et la nouvelle geographie.
Map of France with a key table to the towns on both sides.Zacharie Chatelain (d.1723) was the father of Henri Abraham (1684-1743) and Zacharie Junior (1690-1754).They wor...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1720
The Royal Primrose Atlas. 'A Complete Desk Companion & Blotter Combining The Most Interesting And Up-To-Date Maps ...
Contains 17 maps, an introduction plus various diagrams and statistics throughout. End pages consist of promotional material for John Knight Ltd. (Est. 1817) Manufacturer...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1914
Confiance... Ses Amputations se Poursuivent Methodiquement.
Propaganda poster, produced under the NAZI collaborating Vichy French regime and designed to inspire revulsion and hatred of the English among the French, while frequentl...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1941
Wilhem Hoffmann Dresden.
Chromo lithographed poster, "Wilhelm Hoffmann Dresden.", after Otto Fischer. Plate 127, published in Maître 32, on July 1898. The "Les Maitres de l'Affich...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, April 1896
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2017
(Art déco gouache)
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The g...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1930
Double page manuscript page from a Shahnameh, The Book of Kings, written by Ferdowsi.
Fine double page brilliantly illuminated gilt leaves written by the scribe Abu Bakr Jami in Isfahan. The Arabic text contains Islamic prayers with beautiful headings thro...
Place & Date: Isfahan, ca. 1780
Sommaire du n°16 - Mars 1897
Cover of Les Maitres de l'Affiche n°16 (2nd year of publication). It used to contains the plates 61 - 64. The "Les Maitres de l'Affiche" contained 256 small fo...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, August 1897
Manuscript page from a Shahnameh, The Book of Kings, written by Ferdowsi.
Page with large miniature 187 x 160mm. from the Shahnameh, or ("The Book of Kings"), which is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 9...
Place & Date: Kashmir, ca. 1830-1860
Manuscript page from a Shahnameh, The Book of Kings, written by Ferdowsi.
Page with large miniature 160 x 160mm. from the Shahnameh, or ("The Book of Kings"), which is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 9...
Place & Date: Kashmir, ca. 1830-1860
(Publicity mini poster) Riz Soleil Levant.
Original stone lithograph in-store small format display for Riz Soleil Levant, or basically Rice of the Rising Sun.The Chinaman is pouring a box of this rice over the ima...
Place & Date: Paris, ca.1933
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.
A rare French composite atlas including 90 maps, published by Parisian publishers from the 17th century, mainly by Gérard I Jollain, or by maps bought from Dutch publish...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1675
Comitatus Zutphania.
With an inset a plan of the town of Zutphen. Originally published by Petrus Kaerius in 1617. Published by Visscher in his "Belgium sive Germania Inferior continens p...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634
The Sea Coasts of France from Olone to Cape Machicaca in Biscay . . .
Detailed chart of Biscay Bay, showing the Coast of Brittany. The chart is oriented with north-east at the top and includes two large insets of the Loire River with Nantes...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1680
Air France Rayonne sur le monde.
Advertising poster from Air France, the french airline company. The poster has always occupied a special place in Air France's communication. With a heritage of more than...
Place & Date: Imprimerie Goosens, Paris, ca. 1940-1950
Bamberga. Folium CLXXV
Double page panoramic view of Bamberg. One of the earliest obtainable view of this period.Two page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Nuremberg Chronicl...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Cadran Politique au casque magique de guillaume.
A rare broad sheet about the Franco-Prussian War. Showing a large clock with in the center William I, the German Emperor, surrounded by 12 stages of the war.Printed by Gi...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1872
Pascaart van de zee-custenvan Angola, en Cimbedas van Rivier de Galion tot C. de Bona Esperanca.
Rare Doncker's sea chart of the West Coast of Africa, from Angola to the Cape of Good Hope, with a larger inset map of the area from St. Martin's Bay to the Cape of Good ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660-1668
Pascaerte vande Vlaemsche, Soute, en Caribesche Eylanden, als mede Terra Nova,. . .
This fine and scarce sea chart covers the central Atlantic and extends to include the Maritime Provinces, Antilles and the northwest coast of South America, east to the A...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1672
Double page manuscript page with Islamic prayers with beautiful headings throughout.
Fine double page brilliantly illuminated gilt leaves written by the scribe Abu Bakr Jami in Isfahan. The Arabic text contains Islamic prayers with beautiful headings thro...
Place & Date: Isfahan, ca. 1780
Vue d'une Rue Nanking.
A well-known publisher of optical prints, established in Augsburg. After a design by P.van Blankaert.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, there were many popular s...
Place & Date: Augsburg 1760
Impero del Gran Mogol.
A very fine map showing India divided into its regions with major towns and cities marked and also parts of its neighbouring kingdoms.
Place & Date: Venice, 1740
Double page manuscript page from a Shahnameh, The Book of Kings, written by Ferdowsi.
Fine double page brilliantly illuminated gilt leaves written by the scribe Abu Bakr Jami in Isfahan. The Arabic text contains Islamic prayers with beautiful headings thro...
Place & Date: Isfahan, ca. 1780
Gazette du Bon Ton Art - Modes Frivolités. (1912/1913 volume)
La Gazette du Bon Ton was a leading French fashion magazine that was published from November 1912 to 1925. The extremely rich and vivid colors were achieved through the l...
Place & Date: Paris, 1912-1913
Cadurcium Vernaculé Querci.
Detailed map of a province of France by one of the most famous map publisher. Centered on Cahors.In the lower-left corner, a colored scale cartouche surmounted by a monke...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644
Carte de la Nouvelle-Zelande visitée en 1769 et 1770 par le Lieutenant J. Cook.
Original French Edition of James Cook's Chart of New Zealand, from the First French Edition of Hawkesworth's Voyages. Map of New Zealand, engraved by Bernard. The most im...
Place & Date: Paris, 1774
Sinus Omnium Sanctoru. Bahia de Todos os Sanctos.
RARE. First Atlas Major issue: originally issued by Blaeu in Casper van Baarle's 'Rerum per Octennium in Brasilia' (1647) dedicated to the former Governor of the Dutch co...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1664
The Sea Coast of France from Ushent to Olone.
Chart showing the Brittany coast from Ushent to Ollone, with Belle-Ile. In insets : Rade de Brest and Mouth of the Loire between St. Nazaire and Nantes.Originally engrave...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1680
Carte de l'Isle de Sumatra. . . / Kaart van het Eiland Sumatra. . .
Map of Sumatra, also showing the tip of the Malay Peninsula and the Straits of Singapore. An unusually detailed map of the area, showing many coastal features, shoals, ba...
Place & Date: The Hague, Pierre d'Hondt, 1753
Nova Haec tabula Galliae. . .
Dated 1653. This handsome map of France is dedicated to Louis XIV, interesting in light of the nearly constant warfare between Louis and the Netherlands in the ensuing ye...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1653
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 ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1730
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries. 42.
Engraving from Perspective, c'est a dire, le tresrenomme art du poinct oculaire d'une veue dedans ou travers regardante, estant sur une muraille unie, sur un tableau, ou ...
Place & Date: The Hague, 1604 - 1605
Wo ai bei jing tian an men. - I Love Peking's Tie An Men. - Ich Liebe Tienanmen in Peking. - J'aime la Porte Tien an-men de Pékin.
colored Chinese Cultural Revolution poster, featuring three joyful young children looking at a drawing of a young boy on a aeroplane heading towards Tiananmen Square. The...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Shaanxi renmin chubanshe, Shanhai / Beijing, ca. 1968
Compañia General de Tabacos de Filipinas (Certificate).
Decorative certificate with a decorative vignette and map / globe oriented to show the Philippines.Tabacalera was the popular name of Compañia General de Tabacos de Fili...
- $80 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: Barcelone, 1969
Die Statt Paris etlicher mass figuriert und contrafehtet nach jetziger Gelegenheit.
Published in the "Universal Cosmography" of S. Münster. Text in German. Under the legendary plan in German A to G. It is framed by a border composed of foliage...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Bâle, H. Petri, 1578
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Shang dang ke (xuan zi Huxian nong min hua zhan]. (Party-lecture Education)
Chinese political poster in color depicting eleven peasants gathered in a room to listen to a Party supported lecture in Northwest China. The man next to the blackboard g...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Shanghai renmin chubanshe, 1974/1975
La Flamboyante Colomne des Pays-Bas. Autrement dict les XVII Provinces. Chez Jacob Colom.
Rare atlas of the Low Countries, by Jacob Colom, in an early – first- French edition. The atlas was first printed in Dutch (1635) and than in 1636 in French, using the ...
- $3000 / ≈ €2807
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1636
Connecticut and Parts adjacent at Amsterdam. .
A nice example of this early map of the state of Connecticut with part of Rhode Island to the east, Long Island to the south, and New York to the east. Rivers, roads, t...
- $30000 / ≈ €28072
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1780
Belsia vulgo La Beausse.
In the left-hand lower part of the image a beautiful contemporary cartouche with goddess Ceres [agricultural] holding a reaping-hook in her right hand and receiving with ...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Amsterdam , 1644
Partie Méridionale de l'Archevesché et Eslectorat de Cologne. . .
Fine map of the Westphalia, the area in-between the Rivers Maas and Rhine.
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Paris, 1707
Lenin October.
Uncommon Soviet propaganda poster.Read more about the Soviet propaganda poster. [+]
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Moscow, 1987
Accuratissima et maxima totius Turcici Imperii..
Rare issue of T. Danckert's attractive map showing the Arabian Peninsular, Turkey, Cyprus, Egypt and eastern part of the Mediterranean.Decorative title cartouche lower le...
- $1100 / ≈ €1029
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
China Southeast Coast.
A very large US Army and Naval map of the south east coast of China, published during the second world war. Map extent is from Kweichow Province in the west, to Kwangsi P...
- $1250 / ≈ €1170
Place & Date: [New York], 1944
Lido de Paris - Nouveau spectacle Christian Clerico présente C'est magique.
Very decorative poster designed by René Gruau for the Lido, made on the occasion of the release of the new show "It's magic". René Gruau (1909-2004) was a Fra...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1980
Cercle de Franconie . . .
Finely and crisply engraved map of part of Germany. Map by Giles Didier Robert De Vaugondy with erased title cartouche. Ornamental title cartouche in the upper part of ma...
- $80 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: Paris, 1752
Pas kaart Van Rio Oronoque Golfo De Paria met d'Eylanden Trinidad, Tabago, Granada, Granadillos, en Bequia . . .
A highly detailed and rare sea chart of the mouth of the Orinoco River, Trinidad, Tabago, St.Vincent and neighboring islands. Oriented with north to the right by two comp...
- $900 / ≈ €842
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1684
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Lovenstein. [Loevestein]
View of the castle Loevestein, near Gorinchem.. On the sky, three hands holding a quill, a stone and a stick are depicted. With a verse in two languages underneath the pi...
- $60 / ≈ €56
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1624
Exposition Salon des Cent, 31, rue Bonaparte, du douze novembre au cinq décembre1895, réservée à l'œuvre de l'imagier Andhré des Gachons.
Chromolithograph advertising poster for Harper's magazine. The poster shows a woman near a fountain.Signed in the plate on the lower left corner. Published by A. Davy, in...
- $1500 / ≈ €1404
Place & Date: Paris, 1895
La Baja D'Hudson Terra di Labrador e Groenlandia.
Decorative map of Nova Scotia, Hudson Bay and part of Greenland. With many names of villages, as well engraved mountains and rivers are shown.Published in Zatta's "A...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Venice, 1778
Croquis Parisiens - ''Est-ce le garçon..... faut-il lui demander une assiette? ...''
Second state (of 3), with text. From "Croquis Parisiens". Text below image : "- Est-ce le garçon..... faut-il lui demander une assiette?... - Ma foi, je n...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Paris, after 1855
Croquis Parisiens - '' - Qu'a donc ma femme à regarder ce cabriolet avec tant d'attention... je croyais qu'elle ne se connaissait pas en voiture... moi, je n'y trouve rien d'extraordinaire, à ce ...''
Second state (of 3), with text. From "Croquis Parisiens". Text below image : "-- Qu'a donc ma femme à regarder ce cabriolet avec tant d'attention... je cr...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Paris, after 1855
Nouveau plan routier de la ville de Paris.
Detailed plan of Paris. There is a street index down both margins and a list of theatres and public libraries. The plan now shows Place de la Révolution, Place des Pique...
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: Paris, 1793
The Kingdom of Persia with the cheef Citties and Habites described by John Speede.
One of the most decorative "carte à figures"- maps of the old Kingdom of Persia, including modern day Iran and Iraq, as well as portions of the Turkish Empire,...
- $2000 / ≈ €1871
Place & Date: London, G.Humble, 1626
Provincia ecclesiastica di Utrecht Nell' Olanda (Tav LXIII)
This large-format map of The Netherlands with its different dioceses. The map is finely engraved and beautifully colored and was prepared by Girolamo Petri, a lawyer who ...
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Rome, 1858
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A very fine antiphonary leaf, written in Latin, probably Rome. RECTO: The staves are in red and the notes are in black.VERSO: The staves are in red and the notes are in b...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Italy, 1480
Lutece ou Premier Plan de la Ville de Paris Tiré de Cesar . . .
Paris est nommée Lutetia par les Romains, et se limite à l’île de la Cité avec ses maisons de forme ronde, bâties de bois et de terre, et couvertes de roseaux ou d...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Paris, 1728
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...
- $2000 / ≈ €1871
Place & Date: Amsterdam (1841) 1847
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[Dutch ship Amsterdam].
Text engraving of the Dutch vessel Amsterdam offshore the island of Java near Surabaya from "Premier livre de l'histoire de la navigation aux Indes Orientales, par l...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas, 1609
(Zeeland)
Rare map of Zeeland, first issued by Petrus Kaerius, than by Claes Jansz. Visscher. The copper plate was previously made by an anonymous engraver, and than came into the ...
- $1050 / ≈ €983
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1631