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![[Les anciennes provinces Françaises à la ville de Saint Denis].](/uploads/cache/41683-250x250.jpg)
[Les anciennes provinces Françaises à la ville de Saint Denis].
Nine small chromolithography trade cards for Ville de Saint-Denis, each with French regions and places, with description in French on each verso.Cards of the regions: Lor...
Place & Date: Paris, circa 1900
![[Les anciennes provinces Françaises à la ville de Saint Denis].](/uploads/cache/41681-250x250.jpg)
[Les anciennes provinces Françaises à la ville de Saint Denis].
Nine small chromolithography's trade cards for Ville de Saint Denis, each with French regions and places, with description in French on each verso.Cards of the regions : ...
Place & Date: Paris, circa 1900
A mapof the Kingdom of Spain and Portugal from the latest & best Observations. . .
An interesting copper engraved map of Spain and Portugal, with an attractive rococo cartouche. Nicholas Tindal (1687-1774) / Paul de Rapin (1661-1725) were responsible fo...
Place & Date: London, 1743
A view of Cassel, a very strong city in Italy, taken by the Duke of Savoy in Decem.r 1706
An interesting copper engraved plan of the Fortification of Cassel in Italy, with an attractive rococo cartouche, showing an overview of the battlefield and surrounding a...
Place & Date: London, 1743
Beyt El-Emyr.
Lithograph by Mouilleron representing a young woman looking over a beautiful moucharabieh. From the author's "L'Art Arabe d'après les monuments du Kaire?". Emi...
Place & Date: Paris, 1877
(Sheet X with Puk Bay from) General Tableau zur Karte von Alt Ost und West Preussen nebst dem aufgenommenen Trigonometrischen Netz. . .
Sheet IV with Zalew Wislany and the towns of Elblag, Paslek, Braniewo, etc of this important multi sheet map of Prussia, Lithuania and Poland.The rare first edition of th...
Place & Date: Berlin, 1802-1810
(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
Plan of the Attack of Camaret Bay, on the coast of Bretagne, thro which lies the Harbour of Brest.
An interesting copper engraved plan of the Fortification of Camaret in Bretagne (France), with an attractive rococo cartouche, showing an overview of the battlefield and ...
Place & Date: London, 1743
Plan of the Investiture of Ostend Surrenderd, 6 July, 1706
An interesting copper engraved plan of the Fortification of Doway in Flanders, with an attractive rococo cartouche, showing an overview of the battlefield and surrounding...
Place & Date: London, 1743
(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
En Chine.
From the series "Caricatures du Prussien - Guerre des Duchés". Lithographed by Julés Pelcoq.
Place & Date: Paris, 1864
![[Title page] Atlas Coelestis in mundus spectabilis, et in eodem Stellarum](/uploads/cache/47437-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Atlas Coelestis in mundus spectabilis, et in eodem Stellarum
Title page from the first edition of this celestial atlas.
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1742
Republica Argentina.
Unique manuscript map of Argentina. Award-winning manuscript card, prepared by Antonio Raggio for the 11th Congreso de la Union Postal Universal (World Postal Congress) E...
Place & Date: Buenos Aires, 1939
America del Sur Filatelica.
Unique manuscript map of South America. Award-winning manuscript card, prepared by Antonio Raggio for the 11th Congreso de la Union Postal Universal (World Postal Congres...
Place & Date: Buenos Aires, 1939
![Le Malade Imaginaire. [Plate 6]](/uploads/cache/47426-250x250.jpg)
Le Malade Imaginaire. [Plate 6]
Humorous illustration from the "Le Malade Imaginaire" by Félix Lorioux . This plate 6 has a caption that roughly translates "There was not a day when Arga...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1900
Porte du Palais du Soultan Beybars. (XIIIe. siècle)
Highly decorative lithography by Ch. Fichot, showing the walled-up entrance of Sultan Beybars' palace. From the author's "L'Art Arabe d'après les monuments du Kaire...
Place & Date: Paris, 1877
![Le Malade Imaginaire. [Plate 61]](/uploads/cache/47425-250x250.jpg)
Le Malade Imaginaire. [Plate 61]
Humorous illustration from the "Le Malade Imaginaire" by Félix Lorioux. This Plate 61 has a caption that reads: "A doctor, having posed a question to Arga...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1900
![Le Malade Imaginaire. [Plate 48]](/uploads/cache/47424-250x250.jpg)
Le Malade Imaginaire. [Plate 48]
Illustration from the "Le Malade Imaginaire" by Félix Lorioux . This plate 48 has a caption that roughly translates as: "I hear some great news", Mr ...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1900
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Carte de La Barbarie de La Nigritie et de la Guinée.
A detailed engraved map of north west Africa including the Canary and Cape Verde Islands. Engraved by Inselin. Address and date changed, now with the imprint "A Pari...
Place & Date: Paris, 1781
Germaniae Veteris typus.
Map made on the basis of the writings by the ancient authors Tacitus, Caesar, Dionysus, Ptolemy, Suetonius, Eutropius, Seneca, Plinius and Strabo.Showing an substantial p...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Tabula Ducatus Brabantiae continens Marchionatum Sacri Imperii et Dominium Mechliniense emendate à F. de Wit 1666
Shows present-day Belgium and Dutch province of Brabant. Including the Maas and Waal rivers. Shows Antwerp, Brussels, Namur, Liege and Venlo among other towns and cities....
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2016
Meklenburg Ducatus.
Very detailed map of the northern part of Germany decorated with a coat of arms, a windrose and two saling ships.From the rare atlas Appendix, published in a very small n...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629-1630
Carte du cours du Rhin dpuis le fort de Schengen jusqu'à Lauterbourg. . .
Beautiful manuscript map of the region around Rastatt and the siege of 1714 signed with the French emperor Charles VI of Habsburg. In top with a small extension of the ma...
Place & Date: Germany, France, c. 1714
Ducatus Luneburgensis
Very detailed map centered on Albis river and the cities of Hamburg and Lunburg to the north. Also showing Bremen.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629-1630
Oldenburg Comitatus
A map of the northern part of Germany centered on Oldenburg. Also showing Bremen. North to the right. The decoration consists with a windrose and a title cartouche surmou...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629-1630
Bison Iubatus.
Etching of a bison by Leendert Brasser (1727 - 1793) after a painting of the Dutch artist Gerrit van den Heuvel.An early portrait of a bison, etched by Leendert Brasser (...
Place & Date: Rotterdam, 1766-1793
![[ A set of four humorous illustrations 'Le Malade Imaginaire'.]](/uploads/cache/46323-250x250.jpg)
[ A set of four humorous illustrations 'Le Malade Imaginaire'.]
A humorous illustration from the "Le Malade Imaginaire" - numbers 68. Shows a smiling, frothing syringe, with hands-on hips surrounded by dancing witches. Small...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1880
Gallia. Nova Galliae descriptio . . .
Very rare and early map of France with figures on three sides with views of cities, portraits (Henri IV and Marie de Medicis) and costumes. The map was directly influence...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1616
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
Dia-Do Viet-Nam.
Economic map of Vietnam published in 1960 (not for sale), gift from Japan paper committee. Scale : 1:2 400 000. With a key at lower right part.Features Vietnam, Cambodia,...
Place & Date: 1960
![Plan de Mons ville capitale du comté de Haynaut. [MONS]](/uploads/cache/39799-250x250.jpg)
Plan de Mons ville capitale du comté de Haynaut. [MONS]
Charming little plan of the city of Mons in Belgium, engraved by Inselin, with a lettered key (A-V) in lower right corner.
Place & Date: Paris, 1750
L'Empire de Russie en Europe et Asie Divisee en ses differents provinces par Lamarche.
Very rare map of Russia. The map was included in the never finished project for the atlas of the so called "Società Calcografia", published by the two main Ven...
Place & Date: Venise, Società Calcografia, 1803
Plan nouveau de la ville de Cambrai.
Nice town-plan of Cambrai, with its fortifications and the citadel, decorated with the cathedral in lower right corner. The borders contain a historical description of th...
Place & Date: Cambrai, 1814
Plan de la ville de Treves.
Very rare town-plan of Trier by Didier Bugnon (1676-1736), geographer of the Duke of Lorraine. With numbered key (1-57) of the main buildings and buildings of the city. T...
Place & Date: Paris?, 1720
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries. 16.
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
Hành Chính Việt Nam.
Uncommon map of Vietnam published in 1976, one year after the end of the Vietnam War. In April 1976, the National Assembly decided to reiterate Hanoi as the capital of th...
Place & Date: Hanoï, 1976
Workers - Hu Xian Peasant Painting.
Published by Shanghai renmin chubanshe (上海人民出版社). A fine Chinese propaganda poster at the tim...
Place & Date: Shanghai, September, 1974 - variant 1975
Département des Apennins Divisé en 3 Arrondissemens et en 18 cantons.
Published in the "Atlas National de France" at Chanlaire. Engraved by P.A.F. Tardieu. Represents the department of Apennines which was under French administrati...
Place & Date: Paris, 1790-1811
Piazza di Sta Maura esvoi Borghi Affediata dall Armi della. . .
Magnificent bird's eye- with the northern tip of the island of Santa Maura (today Lefkada). Situated very close to the mainland to which it is linked by a long strip of s...
Place & Date: Antwerp, c.1690
Palotta.
Magnificent bird's eye- of Varpalota. Etched by Gaspar Bouttats (1640-1695).The Antwerp based publisher Jacques Peeters published ca. 1690 a series of prints related to t...
Place & Date: Antwerp, c.1690
Vue perspective de la Ville et Forteresse Electorale de Koningstein, et de la Montagne de Lilienstein avec ses environs du côté du Couchant, dépendant des Etats de Saxe, appartenant à Sa Majesté le Roy de Pologne.
Perspective view of Königstein fortress, situated near to Dresden in Saxony. To the left the Fortress and in the foreground the river Elbe. The castle was inhabited by A...
Place & Date: Paris, 1760
Karsten Niebuhr.
Stipple engraved portrait of Carsten Niebuhr or Karsten Niebuhr (1733 – 1815), published in F. J. Bertuch "Allgemeine geographische Ephemeriden".Niebuhr was a...
Place & Date: Weimar, 1810
Nova Haec tabula Galliae. . .
Dated 1660. 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, 1660
![Noweav Mexiqve [California as an Island]](/uploads/cache/03796-250x250.jpg)
Noweav Mexiqve [California as an Island]
Uncommon miniature map of California as a island, from Pierre Duval's La Geographie Universeille in a second state. The map is derived from Audience de Guadalajara (1657)...
Place & Date: Paris, 1663
Carte du Canada ou de la Nouvelle France.
Fourth state of the map of Canada published by Delisle with the imprint "sur le Quai de l’Horloge a l’Aigle d’Or avec Privilege pour 20 ans, 1703". Beneat...
Place & Date: Paris, 1703
Congo Regnum Christian. In Africa.
Small map illustrating the western seashores of Central Africa, surrounded by text in Dutch.Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver and publisher in Delft fr...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Anti-dandy infantry triumphant or the velocipede cavalry unhobby'd. (pl 353)
Scene on a high-road passing through a village. Those who see their livelihood threatened by mechanical transport attack the riders of velocipedes. In the foreground a di...
Place & Date: London, 1819
Abissinorum Imperium. / Acomath .I. Turcarum Imperator .XIIX. Ex Stirp. Ottomannica.
Map of central Africa. Copperplate engraving on text leaf with letterpress on verso. The engraving depicts a half length oval portrait of "Acomath I".Nicolaes d...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Black Sea.
Decorative steel engraved map of the Black Sea with inset views of Sebastopol and Odessa. There are also vignettes of Constantinople, Sinope and Varna. Taken from "T...
Place & Date: London, London Printing and publishing Company of London, ca. 1851
Black Sea.
Decorative steel engraved map of the Black Sea with inset views of Sebastopol and Odessa. There are also vignettes of Constantinople, Sinope and Varna. Taken from "T...
Place & Date: London, London Printing and publishing Company of London, ca. 1851
Indian painting on paper of a couple in a love-making position.
Fine miniature, presenting a couple in a love-making position, set on a balcony with in a landscape in the background. The miniature was painted in India in the late 19th...
Place & Date: India, ca. 1900
![Oceanie. [Manuscript on paper]](/uploads/cache/01830-250x250.jpg)
Oceanie. [Manuscript on paper]
Decorative manuscript map on paper covering South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
Place & Date: France ?, ca. 1850
Mexique ou Nouvelle Espagne.
Attractive copper engraving, depicting Mexico with Central America.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers, 1683. by Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706), a w...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
US ZONE. Bavaria, Hesse, Wurtemberg, Baden.
An unusual decorative pictorial map, from the years immediately following World War II, depicting the American Zone of Occupation in southern Germany. It portrays rural ...
Place & Date: Munich, 1940
![Nova & exacta Chorographia Latii sive Territorii Romani iuxta veterem et novum situm parallela nomimu[m] comparatione elaborata.](/uploads/cache/44863-250x250.jpg)
Nova & exacta Chorographia Latii sive Territorii Romani iuxta veterem et novum situm parallela nomimu[m] comparatione elaborata.
Map of central Italy, centered on Rome from "Latium" by A. Kircher and designed by Innocenzo Mattei. The title cartouche in the lower right, small legend with 1...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1671
Quita Etas Mundi. Folium.LXVIII (Verona)
The Latin text page is illustrated with an imaginary of Verona, Italy. VERSO are portraits of poets and teachers.Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous:...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Campanule gantelée. - Campanule trachaelium L.
Bouquet of poppy flowers, engraved by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch born Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "Fleurs dessinées d'a...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1800
The Kingdome of China.
A most sought-after map of China. Decorative border vignettes including views of the cities of Quinzay and Macao along the top border with the wheeled wind machines and p...
Place & Date: London, G. Humble, 1626
Comparse des Cinq Quadrilles dans l'Amphitheatre.
An early and intriguing engraving recording one of the most celebrated and spectacular festivals held at Paris by the young Louis XIV. The multi-day tournament took place...
Place & Date: Paris, imprimerie royale, 1670
Plan de la Baie de L'Adventure. . .
A French maritime chart of Adventure Bay in S.E. Tasmania. Adventure Bay is the name of both a township and a geographical feature on the eastern side of Bruny Island. Th...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1807
Belgium Foederatum emendate auctum et novissimé editum.
Fine detailed map of the area of the modern Netherlands less the southern part of Limburg. Title cartouche representing the commerce, the arts and the sciences. The Lion ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Comitatus Namurci Tabula in Lucem. . .
Centered on Namen, with decorative title cartouche upper right.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Tableau d'assemblage de la carte des environs de Versailles dite chasses impériales.
Key sheet to the rare 12 sheet map "Carte topographique des environs de Versailles dite des Chasses Impériales, levée et dressée de 1764 à 1773 par les ingénieu...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1820
Plan von Venedig.
An uncommon and finely rendered town-plan of Venice. The work is highly detailed and provides a 133 point legend identifying the town's key sites and places of import.
Place & Date: Weimar, 1807
Plan du Port du Sud de la Baie de la Recherche / Croquis de la Baie des Moules. . .
A French maritime charts of the Port du Sud in Research Bay and the mouth of the Bay of Mussels, both in southern Tasmania. This is the edition of the extremely rare atla...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1807
Carte de la partie de la cote nord-ouest de l'Amerique. Reconnue pendant les Etes de 1792, 1793 et 1794 depuis 29054' de latitude nord et 244033' de. . .
Detailed and rare map of the Gulf of Alaska, British Columbia, south to St.Francisco.Prepared by Edward Roberts after information by George Vancouver. Engraved by Tardieu...
Place & Date: Paris, 1820
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2011
Antiquae urbis perfecta et Nova delineatio. [ Ancient Rome)
First state before imprint of Jacobus de Rubeis. A rare view of Ancient Rome from the Lafreri-School in the style of Ambrogio Brambilla's view of about 1575.
Place & Date: Rome, ca. 1600
Tabula ducatus Limburch et comitatus Valckenburch. . .
The map describes the southern part of Limburg and reaches into Belgium (Liege, Verviers) and Germany. With two very decorative cartouches.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1690
Illuminated leaf from a Psalter.
Very fine 20 lines illuminated leaf from a liturgical Psalter in Latin with the reading from the Vulgate Bible. Lines in a slightly irregular gothic hand, black ink, plum...
Place & Date: Flanders, Rhineland, or possibly England, c. 1280
Carte de la Baie des Chiens-Marins (Shark's Bay de Dampier). . .
A strikingly detailed chart of a portion of the coastline of Western Australia, titled 'Carte de la Baie des Chiens-Marins, which was also explored by William Dampier. Th...
Place & Date: Paris, 1807
Plan de L'Isle de Paque / Plan de la Baie de Cook.
Two engraved maps and four coastal profiles of Easter Island in the Pacific. First published in the Atlas du Voyage de la Perouse. This is the edition of the extremely ra...
Place & Date: Paris, 1797-1807
Plan du Port Jackson / Plan du Comte de Cumberland.
Two maps on one sheet showing the earliest scientific surveys of Port Jackson and the area surrounding Sydney Harbour, undertaken by the French in 1802. This is the editi...
Place & Date: Paris, 1807
A new and easy introduction to universal geography: In a series of letters to a youth at school. . . The ninth edition, improved and considerably enlarged.
This is the interesting ninth edition, with 26 full-page maps as called for in "Directions to the binder". The ninth edition was improved and considerably enlar...
Place & Date: London, 1800
Pierpont's distillery on Long Island.
Decorative print after Jacques Milbert, and lithographed by Sabatier and the figures by Victor Adam.From Amérique Septentrionale. Printed by E.Ardit, Rue Vivienne, Paris...
Place & Date: Paris, 1829
Pacific Stars and Strips Map of the War.
A detailed map of the Korean War. Several silhouetted flying military aircraft are shown in formation. The map shows the Korean Peninsula from its northern border with Ru...
Place & Date: America, 1953
Carte qui contient..Iles & Terres..L'Amerique..Jamaique..
Eight maps on one sheet. From Chatelain's Atlas Historique et Méthodique . Including maps of Bermuda, Jamaica, New England with Long Island, Carolina, Chesapeake and Del...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1728
L'Utrecht. . .
Although not renowned for the originality of his work, Pieter van der Aa is highly thought of for the design and quality of his output. Showing Dutch province of Utrecht....
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1713
Plan du Port du Nord de la Baie de la Recherche.
A French maritime chart of the plan of the northern portion of Recherche Bay on the S.E. tip of Tasmania. The chart has some physical detail, outlining trees and hills, b...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1807