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Venecie. [Venice] Foliu XLIIII
A very fine of Venice (192x525mm.) Verso a view of Padua. Schedel's view of Venice is one of the earliest obtainable views of the city. The view is based on the view of ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Cruydt-Boeck van Remberus Dodonaeus. . .
Scarce, the last edition of Dodoens' Cruydt-Boeck, one of the most influential and important botanical works of the 16th and 17th centuries. With richly engraved frontisp...
Place & Date: Leyden, 1612
ISLA DE CUBA [with 2 maps] Plano Pintoresco De La Habana con los numeros de las casas B. May y Ca. 1853. (with) Inset map Puerto y Cereanias De La Habana. (with) 14 views of Havana & prominent buildings.
Lithographic town-plan surrounded with views of the city of Havana including the "Fuente De La India En El Paseo De Isabel 2a." and "Vista Gral De La Haban...
Place & Date: Havana, 1853
La nuova Zelanda delineate sulle ultima osservazioni del Capitan Cook.
First edition on laid paper Cassini’s splendid early map of New Zealand, being the most decorative version of Captain Cook's map of New Zealand, published in the very s...
Place & Date: Rome, 1798
Belgii sive Germaniae Inferioris accuratissima tabula.
Very rare and very decorative map with in the right and left borders costumed figures and town plans alternately. In top and bottom border town plans and views.Separate p...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1631
Eight Indian paintings, accordion mounted.
SUPERB SET of eight remarkable free miniatures, presenting couples in natural decorations. The miniatures are painted in Iran or India in late 19th - early 20th century]....
Place & Date: Iran, India, ca. 1900
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...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1736
Plan de la ville, cite universite et fauxbourgs de Paris comme il est jourddhuy. . .
Detailed town-plan of Paris.Top left and bottom right and left cartouches decorated with views of the top left, Notre Dame, Palace of Orleans, Sorbonne and Val de Grâce,...
Place & Date: Paris, 1694
Valletta citta nova dimalta.
Early copper engraved map of the towns of Valletta, Borgo, Sanglea di Sto. Michele, and the church of St. Salvator -known as the Three Cities., engraved by Henry Raignaul...
Place & Date: Paris, Michael Soly, 1629
Valletta ou Valete ville Forte, de l'Isle de Malta.
A beautifully engraved and richly detailed birds-eye plan of the harbour and city of Valletta seen from the northwest. In lower part extensive key, identifying 57 feautur...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1705
Neapolis.
A rare panoramic of Naples with over the whole length of the lower part 3 columns of poems in Latin, Dutch and French.Published by Dancker Danckerts (1634-1666).
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Group of 21 watercolors of scenes in Iceland, included are vulcanos like Eyjafjallajokull, Öræfajökull, etc.
A group of water colors made during visits of the artist F. de Boungne to Iceland, among them are contemporary artistic impressions of the now world-famous volcano Eyjafj...
Place & Date: Iceland, 1933-1944
Bern in der Schweitz.
Very fine panoramic of Bern. With a numbered key (1-25) of principal buildings in town.
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1740
Runde Strasse in Peking.
Finely executed water color made by Henri Dieth of a charming street scene in Peking. The water color is made after Eduard Hildebrandt (1818-1869). Hildebrandt, was born ...
Place & Date: Germany, 1882
Carta terza Generale del' Asia.
Rare first state of this important chart showing part of the north coast of New Guinea and islands of the Pacific Ocean. To the north of Japan the landmass of Isola di Ie...
Place & Date: Florence, 1646
Carte Generale de la Nouvelle Hollande.
Fine map of the continent of Australia prepared by Louis Freycinet during his voyage under Captain Thomas Baudin in 1800-1803. Freycinet's map of New Holland was the firs...
- $5000 / ≈ €4679
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1811
Americae Nova Tabula.
The delineation of the coast and the nomenclature on both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts are basically Spanish in origin and follow the maps of Ortelius and Wytfliet. To...
- $7500 / ≈ €7018
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1645
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1681
[Toscana / Tuscany] En, candidi lectores, elegantioris Italiae partis, Tusciae scilicet, topographiam. aenis nris formis excussam in hac Tabella vobis denuo damus. . .
A rare map of Tuscany, including the islands of Elba, Giglio, Giannutri and part of Corsica, and covering the whole of Tuscany, part of Liguria, Lombardy, Emilia, Umbria,...
- $6000 / ≈ €5614
Place & Date: Rome, ca 1557
Mapa De la parte de la Isla Formosa sa perteneciente al Emperadotde la China sacado por Ord. De S.M.
Very rare map of Taiwan and the neighboring coastline of China, engraved by Cipriano Bagay in Manila, one of the few maps published in the Philippines in the 18th Century...
- $6000 / ≈ €5614
Place & Date: Manilla, 1788
La Nuova Olanda e La Nuova Guinea delineate sulle ultima osservazioni.
Cassini’s splendid and rare map of Australia and New Guinea, from the 'Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale'. The emphasis of the map is the charting of Captain Cook dow...
Place & Date: Rome, 1798
Neue und vollständige Topographie der Eidgnossschaft, in welcher die in den dreyzehen und zugewandten auch verbündeten Orten und Landen dermal befindliche Städte, Bischthümer, Stifte, Klöster, Schlösser, Amts-Häuser, Edelsitze und Burgställe...
The first edition of Herrliberger's work on the topography of Switzerland. - The rarest book on Switzerland rarely found complete.Illustrated with an engraved allegorical...
- $5500 / ≈ €5146
Place & Date: Zurich, Johann Kaspar Ziegler, 1754-1773
A New and Correct Map of Asia Laid down from the latest and best Observations Humbly Inscribed to his Royal Highness George, Prince of Wales. . . [2 subtitles:] Several Representations of the Customs Manners etc. of Divers Parts of Asia. . .
A large, attractive and rare, separately issued map of Asia with figured side borders. With large decorative title cartouche ad address "By Thomas Kitchin. London, p...
- $5500 / ≈ €5146
Place & Date: London, 1787
Nova et recens emendata totius Regni Ungariae una cum adiacentibus et finitimis regionisbus delineatio.
Engraved map by Jan van Deutecum, here the very rare first edition published by Cornelis Nicola in Asterdam in 1596. In very attractive original coloring.A re-issued was ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornelius Nicol, 1596
La Chine d'Athanase Kirchere de la compagnie de Jesus, illustrée de plusieurs monuments tant sacrés que profanes et de quantité de recherches de la nature. . .
Athanasius Kircher, S.J., (1601 or 1602-1680) was a 17th-century German Jesuit scholar who published around 40 works, most notably in the fields of oriental studies, geol...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1670
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'...
Place & Date: London, 1627 - 1676
Hanc Tabulam continens Laetam Pharnambuci.. . [Brazil].
An extremely rare and decorative map of coast-line of Pernambuco. With one inset: In the upper left corner a map of Brazil, with title in five lines Dutch and five lines ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Premislia celebris russiae civitas.
RARE only included in part VI of his town book. Bird's-eye of Przemysl in Poland. Frans Hogenberg (1535 Mechelen - Cologne 1590) was a copper engraver and etcher. Georg B...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1618
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.
Place & Date: Paris, 1723
Mapa geogra´fico de la mayor parte de la Ame´rica Meridional que contiene los paises por donde debe trazarse la li´nia divisoria que divida los dominios de Espan~a y Portugal. . .
Rare first edition of the map drawn by Francisco Requena (1743-1824) after his expedition to the Amazon in order to delineate the boundary between the Spanish and Portugu...
Place & Date: Bourquin, F. Philadelphia, ca. 1876
[Tableau Général de l'Empire Ottoman]. 11 plates with the panoramic view of Mecca.
A collection of 11 engraved plates (3 folding) from "Tableau Général de l'Empire Ottoman", Paris, Imprimerie de Monsieur, 1790, comprising the famous panorami...
- $3800 / ≈ €3556
Place & Date: Paris, 1790
Prospetto dell'anfiteatro Flavio . . . / Prospetto di Tutto l'Anfiteatro intiero . . . / Pianta dell' divisa nelli suoi / Spaccato, e veduta interiore dell' Anfiteatro.
Monumental engraving showing the Colloseum in Rome, in its setting, with below a ground-plan and elevation. Engraved and drawn by Alessandro Specchi (1668-1729), an engra...
Place & Date: Rome, 1703
The Harbour of Casco Bay and Islands Adjacent Bt Capt. Cyprian Southicke.
The earliest printed chart of Casco Bay, an inlet of the Gulf of Maine on the southern coast of Maine, New England. First issued in 1720 by Mount and Page, it remained in...
Place & Date: Dublin, 1767
Illuminated leaf from a liturgical Psalter.
Very fine illuminated leaf from a liturgical Psalter in Latin with the reading from the Vulgate Bible. Lines in a slightly irregular Gothic hand, black ink, plummet rulin...
Place & Date: England, c. 1280
Tractus Danubii, Fluminis in Europa Maximi, A Fontibus, Per Germaniam. . .
This is Blaeu’s first map of the Danube and surrounding regions. The Danube River runs through the map from the top left with its headwaters in the German Black Forest ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634
Carte d'unne partie de l'Arabie Septentrionale Pour suivre les Voyages de Mr. G.A. Vallin. . .
This is the original hand-drawn map by Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun of "Carte d'unne partie de l'Arabie Septentrionale Pour suivre les Voyages de Mr. G.A. Wallin",...
Place & Date: Paris, November 1855
Hark ! Hark ! The dogs do bark.
This very rare political caricature map of Europe depicts the continent at the outbreak of World War I, or as it was called at the time the Great War. Designed by Johnson...
Place & Date: London, Johnson Riddle & Co., 1914
Tabula Russiae.
One of the most decorative maps of Russia, based on the work of Fedor Borisovich. Visscher's version of Hessel Gerritsz' rare map of Russia. In an inset -130x170mm- a pla...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1651
[Il mondo a pezzi - Europa].
Satirical representation of the division of the world by the main European powers. At the center of the scene a globe on which is written "MONDO Maledeto Interesse ...
Place & Date: Bologna, 1690
Tabula Russiae ex autographo, quod delineandum curavit Foedor filius Tzaris Boris desums... - Domino regionum Iueriae Kartalinie et Groefiniae Tzari etc: dedicata ab Heselo Gerardo M.DC.XIIII
A re-issue, by Willem Blaeu, of Hessel Gerritsz' rare and influential map of Russia. Dutch text on verso, extending west to east from Emden to Aspachan and north to south...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635
Zee caerte vande Sondt tvermaerste van Danemarcke . . .
A detailed chart of the coast of Denmark and its islands, Copenhagen in the center of the chart. West to the top. It is decorated by a title, scale and descriptive cartou...
Place & Date: Leiden, Plantijn, 1585
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...
Place & Date: Paris, 28 Quai de la Rapée, c.1874
Belchrijuinghe vande zee custen van Engelandt. . .
A rare Dutch text edition of this detailed early chart of the northern coast of England. West to the top. The mileage cartouche has no Latin captures. Decorated by a colo...
Place & Date: Leiden, Plantijn, 1585
De zee cuften tufschen Dovere en Orfords nesse, daer de Teemse de Vermaerde Rivire van Lonen gelegens is. . .
A detailed chart of the English Channel coastland. Decorated by a colorful title cartouche and scale cartouche, one compass rose, several vessels and sea monsters. A very...
Place & Date: Leiden, Plantijn, 1585
Beschrijvinge vande de zee Cuften va Vlanderen en Picardien. . .
DUTCH TEXT EDITION. A detailed chart of the coast of Flanders and Normandy decorated by a large colorful baroque title cartouche, and the coat of arms of Flanders with a ...
Place & Date: Leiden, Plantijn, 1585
Histoire de la Guerre Civile en Amerique par M. Le Comte de Paris, Ancien Aide de Camp du General Mac Clellan (McClellan). ...
These 30 maps were made by Vorzet to accompany Louis Phillipe d'Orleans' (Comte de Paris) multi volume "Histoire de la Guerre Civile en Amérique". The set incl...
Place & Date: Paris. Michel Levy Freres, 1875
Arabia.
A handsome map of the Arabian Peninsula drawn on a large scale on which the three classical divisions are shown with some urban centers and topographical features. A cert...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1662
Tabula Anemographica seu Pyxis Nautica.
Impressive compass rose with a fleur de lis at the center and 32 wind directions flowing from it identified in six languages, Greek, Latin, French, Dutch, Italian, and Sp...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Praga. [Prague]
A rare panoramic of Prague with over the whole length of the lower part 3 columns of poems in Latin, Dutch and French and a numbered key 1-34 to the principal buildings ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Amsterdam Ville du Comté de Hollande et la plus considerable des Provinces Unies. . .
A very decorative and extremely rare town-view of Amsterdam, including a numbered (1-18) key in lower part. Extensive shipping on the IJ. To the left the headquarters of ...
Place & Date: Paris, ca.1750
[Map of Palestine ]
Map of Palestine from "La Mer des Hystoires" published by Dupré, Paris, 1536 "La Mer des Hystoires" is a translation into French of the famous "...
Place & Date: Dupre, Paris, 1536
Carte d'une Partie des Cotes de la Floride et de la Louisiane, Contenant le Cours du Mississipi...
A well engraved and highly detailed chart of part of the Gulf Coast, dated 1778 that was issued in Neptune americo-septentrionale. The chart covers the area between St. J...
Place & Date: Paris, 1778-1780
Primae Partis Asiae.
The Very Rare First State. Turkey/ Holy Land/ Iran/ Iraq/ Arabia/ Afghanistan. A superb example of the rare 1578 edition of this fine map of the Middle East, spanning fro...
- $4500 / ≈ €4211
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1578
Early 19th century magnetic dry card compass with wooden bowl,
Brass dry rose marine compass, in its mahogany case. The mariner's compass, which enabled mariners to know the direction in which they were sailing, has always been one o...
Place & Date: ca. 1800
Venise / Ville capitale de la République de même nom en Italie.
A very decorative and extremely rare of Venice, including a numbered legend in lower part. Published by Jacques Chéreau, (1688 - 1776). Engraved by Pierre-Alexandre Ave...
- $4000 / ≈ €3743
Place & Date: Paris, ca.1750
Carte la plus generale et qui comprend la Chine, la Tartarie chinoise et le Thibet. . .
With a quite elaborately pictorial cartouche, engraved by G.Kondet. Very detailed map of China, Tibet and Korea.Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d' Anville (1697-1782), French c...
Place & Date: The Hague, 1737
Jerusalem die Heijlighe Stadt van God. . .
Very rare separately plan of the Jerusalem engraved by Joannes van Doetecum Jr. Variant to Poortman, Kaarten in Bijbels, map 64. In lower part the copper plate has been s...
- $5000 / ≈ €4679
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1598
Kaart van het Eyland Formosa en de Eylanden van Piscadores.
The earliest printed map of Taiwan or Formosa. Oriented to the east, with north at the left, covering the entire island and the nearby Pescadores, now known as the Penghu...
- $4000 / ≈ €3743
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1724
[East coast of Africa, Arabia and west coast of India.]
Rare. Map of the east coast of Africa, Including Madagascar, the Arabian Peninsular, coast of Pakistan and west coast of India.Prepared by Joao Teixeira in 1649, this cha...
Place & Date: Paris, 1664-1696
Carte de l'Europe dediée a Son Altesse royale Monseigneur Charles Louis archiduc d'Autriche, prince royal de Hongrie et de Bohéme, chevalier de la Toison d'Or, Grand-Croix de l'ordre...
Probably the largest published map of Europe during the regime of Napoleon.In upper left corner a large title cartouche with coats of arms and a dedication to Archduke Ch...
- $4000 / ≈ €3743
Place & Date: Paris, 1803
.Pascaerte Vande Zuyd-Zee tusschen California, en Ilhas de Ladrones. . .
A decorative and most interesting map - being one of the earliest of the Pacific to record the observations of Tasman's voyages. The northern part of the island of Califo...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1666
(Lübeck) Lvbeca vrbs. imperialis libera. civitatvm. Wandalicarvm. . . .
Impressive more than 3 meters wide panoramic town view after a woodblock engraving from Elias Diebel, initially made in 1552. Of this original woodblock, Bachmann mention...
- $4500 / ≈ €4211
Place & Date: Germany, c. 1855
Venetia. (Venice)
Precise, beautiful bird's-eye town-view of Venice, clearly depicting the city's architectural landmark. The surrounding lagoon is animated with a great variety of sailing...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1590
Daniae Regni Typum..
A first state. Very decorative "carte à figures"- map of Denmark with the signature of the engraver Abraham Goos. Printed on heavy paper, in spite of its repai...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629
Allerneuester geographisch- und topographischer Schau-Platz von Africa und Ost-Indien. . .
An early issue of this important book by Johann Wolfgang Heydt's describing the Dutch factories, settlements and stations at the hands of the Dutch East India Company in ...
Place & Date: Wilhermsdorf, Tetscher u. Nürnberg, Homanns Erben, 1744
Peregrinations divi Pauli Tyrus Corographicus. . .
A beautifully executed and very rare map showing the peregrinations of St. Paul in the Eastern Mediterranean. The Mediterranean is ornated with two ships and two sea mons...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1640
The Traveller's Guide. A Map Of The Roads, Canals And Steam Boat Routes Of The United States ... Designed for the use of Travellers, By H.S. Tanner.
Rare first edition of Tanner's travel map in pocket map form, in it original red leather covers, with the map and no text, as issued. Ristow says the first edition was 18...
Place & Date: Philadelphia, 1825
Carte Generale de la Terre Napoleon (à la Nouvelle Hollande)... par M.L. Freycinet an 1808.
Fine map of part of Australia prepared by Louis Freycinet during his voyage under Captain Thomas Baudin in 1800-1803. The longitude is calculated from Paris.The cartouche...
- $4000 / ≈ €3743
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1811
L'Amerique, en plusieurs cartes nouvelles, et exactes, &c. En divers traitez de geographie, et d'histoire. Là où sont descrits succinctement, & avec une belle Methode, & facile.
Third edition, the text and maps of which are identical to the first given in 1657. However, the dedication to Nicolas Fouquet (2 pp.), disgraced in 1661, has been delete...
- $4500 / ≈ €4211
Place & Date: Paris, 1680
Untitled wartime propaganda map poster depicting Roosevelt & Churchill stuggling between each other over the African Continent.
This powerful image shows US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill in a tug-of-war over Africa. This original war poster was created by ...
Place & Date: Paris, Bedos et Cie, 1942-1943
Nieuw Nederlandtsch Caertboeck. Waer in volkomentlijcker als oyt te voren vertoont werden de XVII. Nederlanden.
Rare first edition of this atlas of the provinces of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg. Engraved title page, with : "Gedruckt t' Amsterdam by Abraham Goos Plaet...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1616
AIR France - Le plus grand réseau du monde.
Created in 1959 by the artist Lucien Boucher, showing all of the DC-7 Air France Routes. The Blue Pink Poster is one of a series of eight posters commissioned by Air Fran...
Place & Date: Imprimerie Perceval, Paris, 1959
Nouvel atlas geographique & historique.. / Nieuwe en geographische en historische Atlas..
This second edition of this charming travel compendium is becoming relatively scarce nowadays.Illustrated with a charming frontispiece, two uncolored plates of a sphere, ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1778
Nova exactissimaque descriptio Danubii.
Rare loose impression of de Jode's map of the Danube with the surrounding countries with de Jode's imprint replaced by Theodor Galle's one. Without letterpress text on ve...
- $4000 / ≈ €3743
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1600
Piazza e tempio di Santa Maria della Rotonda gia l'Antico Pantheon.
Monumental engraving showing the Pantheon in Rome, in its setting, with below a ground-plan and elevation. Fountain in front, adjacent buildings and carriages and people ...
Place & Date: Rome, 1693
Pascaerte van Brazil en Nieu Nederlandt van Cuorvo en Flores.
A rare chart of the Atlantic Ocean from the first edition of Hendrick Doncker's Zee-Atlas, of which no surviving example is known.Although the idea of its unusual coverag...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1658
Asia noviter delineata. . .
From 1633 the members of the Blaeu family were official cartographers to the United East India Company and, as such, had access to the most up-to-date cartographic inform...
- $3500 / ≈ €3275
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644
Nova Virginiae Tabula.
A fine example of Blaeu's map of Virginia and the Chesapeake region is based on the first state of Smith's map, 1612, and is slightly larger and more expertly engraved.Th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
LA RUSSIE NOIRE ou POLONOISE qui Comprend les PROVINCES DE LA RUSSIE NOIRE de VOLHYNIE et de PODOLIE divisées en leurs Palatinats Vulgairement Connües sous le Nom D'VKRAINE ou PAYS DES COSAQUES.
Very rare map of the Ukraine and Poland, prepared by Sanson in 1675 in a third state, published by the heirs of Sanson, in Paris in 1706. The imprint changed to: Par les ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1706
Carte de la Georgie et du Pays des Ossetes, Tcherkesses et Mitzdcheghi, Par Jules Klaproth (1823).
Detailed manuscript map of Georgia, based upon an 1823 map by Jules Klaproth. The map depicts the rugged terrain of Georgia and southern Russia in impressive detail from ...
- $4000 / ≈ €3743
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1823