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La Suède.
Map of Sweden and Finland. By C. F. Delamarche, successor of Robert de Vaugondy, Geographer.
Place & Date: Paris, ca.1806
Warwicum Northamtonia Huntingdonia Cantabrigia..
Showing the south-eastern part of England.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1642
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[Frontispiece] Atlas Général et Elémentaire Pour l'Etude de la Géographie et de l'Histoire moderne..
Allegoric frontispiece, from Atlas Général et Élémentaire pour l'Etude de la Géographie et de l'Histoire moderne. Engraved by K.Audran.
Place & Date: Paris, 1786
A new mape of Ye XVII Provinces of Low Germanie.
Showing all 17 Provinces of the Netherlands before the split between Spain and the Protestant Provinces under the House of Orange.The map was first published. At the same...
Place & Date: London, 1676
Legionis Regnum et Asturiarum Principatus.
A very decorative map by Willem Blaeu of the Spanish Province Asturias, Castile and Léon, including the towns of Oviedo, Leon, Santander, Valladolid, etc. With two fine ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1645
Andalusia continens Sevillam et Cordubam.
Features the province of Andalusia and the city of Seville, but also depicts the Straights of Gibraltar, know in classical times as the Pillars of Hercules. The title car...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1645
Utriusque Castillae nova descriptio.
Blaeu's map of León-Castilla, showing Zaragoza, Valencia, Alicante, Cartagena, Madrid, Cordoba, Seville, Salamanca, Palencia, Segovia, Toledo, Cuenca, Granada, etc. Incl...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1645
Biscaia et Guipuscoa Cantabriae veteris Pars.
Shows cities of Bilbao and Laredo, and includes a charming vignette of a putti with surveying equipment, being observed by a kitten. With Dutch text on verso.More about m...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1645
Navarra Regnum.
Decorative map of the region which includes the city of Pamplona at the centre of the map, Bayonne and San Sebastian. Highly decorative figured cartouche bottom left. Fou...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1645
Arragonia Regnum.
A beautiful, highly decorative map of Aragon, centered on Saragossa and extending to Balbasdtor, Huesca, Calataiud, Tortosa, Tervel, Albarrazin and Cuenca. Towns, rivers,...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1645
Carte Particuliere de la Hongrie de la Transilvanie de la Croatie et de la Sclavonie Dressée sur les Onservations de Mr. Le Comte Marsilli. . . Par G. Delisle.
Map of Hungary and Slovakia and adjacent parts of Croatia, Serbia and Romania (Transylvania). Prepared by Marsilli, published by Dezauche.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1780
Partie Meridionale du Cercle d'Autriche qui comprend La basse partie du Duché de Strie, Le Duché de Carinthie, divisé en haute et basse, Le Duché de Carniole. . . Et l'Istrie Impériale. . .
Uncommon, finely and crisply engraved map with large decorative title cartouche.Very detailed sheet that is centered roughly on Trieste and extends in to the mouth of the...
Place & Date: Venice, 1784
Europe. Naples et Sicile. N.26.
Detailed map including lower half of Italy with the island of Sicily.From his famous Atlas Universel . This atlas was one of the most remarkable world atlases ever produc...
Place & Date: Brussels, 1825-1827
Carte du Royaume d' Angleterre . . .
Map of England and its counties, from Atlas moderne portatif composé de vingt-huit cartes sur toutes les parties du globe terrestre .. A l'usage des Colléges, des Pensi...
Place & Date: Paris, Prudhomme, Levrault, Debray, 1806
Europe. Partie de la Turquie. N°21.
Detailed map including Hungary and Romania.From his famous Atlas Universel . This atlas was one of the most remarkable world atlases ever produced, anticipating the Inter...
Place & Date: Brussels, 1825-1827
Europe. Partie de l'Espagne et Portugal. N°24.
Detailed map including Southern part of Spain and Portugal.From his famous Atlas Universel . This atlas was one of the most remarkable world atlases ever produced, antici...
Place & Date: Brussels, 1825-1827
Comitatus Namurci Emendata Delineatio, Nuperrimè in lucem edita, per Nicolaum Visscher.
Detailed engraved map of the province of Namur (Namen), showing cities including Charleroi and Dinant., towns, rivers and lakes. Decorative cartouche with putti. Explanat...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1684
Cathédrale d'Isaac et Palais du Sénat. Vue prise de la Néva. (17 juillet 1839).
A view from the port of the Isaac Cathedral and the Senat Palace in Saint Petersburg on July 17 1839. Plate taken from the first illustrated account of Russian architectu...
Place & Date: Paris, 1845
Village sur la route de Moscou. (9 Août 1839).
A view of a village on the way to Saint Petersburg on August 9 1839. Plate taken from the first illustrated account of Russian architecture. This publication was the proj...
Place & Date: Paris, 1842
Palais de Paul 1er. Côté du Jardin d'Eté. (16 Juillet 1839).
A view of Paul the First Palace in Saint Petersburg on August 9 1839. Figures are lithographed by Raffet. Plate taken from the first illustrated account of Russian archit...
Place & Date: Paris, 1844
Tour d'Observation et siège de police dans la grande Morskoi. (2 Juillet 1839).
A view of Observation Tower and police headquarters in the Morskoi in Saint Petersburg on August 9 1839. Plate taken from the first illustrated account of Russian archite...
Place & Date: Paris, 1840
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Les Trois Temples de Pestum. Royaume de Naples.
Uncommon and decorative lithography of the Temples of Paestum near Naples. Published by Carl Johan Billmark and printed by Lemercier in Paris, 55 rue de Seine, the leadin...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1859
Lac de Nemi (environs de Rome).
Uncommon and picturesque lithography of Lake Nemi, a small circular volcanic lake in the Lazio region, 30 kilometers south of Rome. Published by Carl Johan Billmark and p...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1859
Rome. Vue prise du Mont Palatin.
Uncommon and picturesque lithography of Rome. View from Mount Palatin. Published by Carl Johan Billmark and printed by Lemercier in Paris, 55 rue de Seine, the leading fi...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1859
S. Maria della Spina (à Pise).
Uncommon lithography of the Church of S. Maria della Spina in Pisa. Published by Carl Johan Billmark and printed by Lemercier in Paris, 55 rue de Seine, the leading firm ...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1859
Rome (Ponte Rotto).
Uncommon and picturesque lithography of Rome with a view of the Rotto Bridge. Published by Carl Johan Billmark and printed by Lemercier in Paris, 55 rue de Seine, the lea...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1859
Lac de Garda Vue prise à Teno.
Uncommon and picturesque view of the Garda lake from the town of Teno. Published by Carl Johan Billmark and printed by Lemercier in Paris, 55 rue de Seine, the leading fi...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1859
Lac d'Averne (Roye. De Naples).
Uncommon and picturesque lithography of the Lake Avernus (Lago d'Averno). It was believed to be the entrance to the underworld, and is portrayed as such in the Aeneid of ...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1859
Pont du Crevola au pied de Simplon (Italie).
Uncommon and picturesque lithography of the Crevola Bridge at the foot of the Simplon Mountain in Italy. Published by Carl Johan Billmark and printed by Lemercier in Pari...
Place & Date: Paris, ca.1859
Savona Golfe de Gênes.
Uncommon and picturesque view of Sanova in the northern Italian region of Liguria in the Riviera di Ponente on the Mediterranean Sea. Published by Carl Johan Billmark and...
Place & Date: Paris, ca.1859
Rome. Les Trois colonnes de Grecostatis, et le Forum Romanum.
Uncommon and picturesque lithography of the Forum Romanum in Rome. On foreground the remains of the Temple of Castor and Pollux.Published by Carl Johan Billmark and print...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1859
Subiaco. Environs de Rome.
Uncommon and picturesque view of Subiaco in the Province of Rome, in Lazio. Subiaco is famous as it was the first city in Italy where books were printed, in the 15th cent...
Place & Date: Paris, ca.1859
Flandria Gallica Continens Castellanias Insulense . . .
No text on verso. Map of northern part of France, centered on Lille and part of Belgium.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1660
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[ Secunda etas mundi. Foliu XVIII ].
Text in Latin, each paragraph separated by the triumphant cross with orb representing Christ's reign over the world (it is often shown atop Christ's scepter in Christian ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
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[Text page with Kings and historical personalities.] Quita etas mundi. Foliu. LXXXIII
Text page with woodcuts of Kings and historical personalities.Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Nuremberg Chronicle, published the year that Columb...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
L'Italia antica-romana.
A rare and detailed double-page map of ancient Italy. According to the title cartouche, prepared by A de La Sage for l'Atlante Storico, Letterario, Biografico, Archeologi...
Place & Date: Venice, 1840
Il mondo cocsciuto dagli antichi e le laggiori antiche monarchie Persiana, Macedone, Romana . . .
A rare double-page map of the Ancient World. From l'Atlante Storico, Letterario, Biografico, Archeologico. . . with attributions by Giambatista Albrizzi.Lower left a col...
Place & Date: Venice, 1840
Regno de' Paesi-Bassi compresa la Olanda . . . / La Svizzera . . .
Two rare and detailed maps of The Netherland (210 x 230mm. ) and Switzerland (140 x 230mm.) According to the title cartouche, prepared by J.A.Buchon and A de La Sage for ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1840
La Grecia Antica . . . / Atene e sue vicinanze . . .
Two rare maps, one of Greece map 175 x 240mm. and the other of Athens 140 x 240mm. with an inset map of Sparta.From l'Atlante Storico, Letterario, Biografico, Archeologic...
Place & Date: Venice, 1840
Carte d' Italie . . .
Map of Italy from Atlas moderne portatif composé de vingt-huit cartes sur toutes les parties du globe terrestre .. A l'usage des Colléges, des Pensions & des Maison...
Place & Date: Paris, Prudhomme, Levrault, Debray, 1806
L' Espagne et le Portugal . . .
Map of Spain and Portugal, from Atlas moderne portatif composé de vingt-huit cartes sur toutes les parties du globe terrestre .. A l'usage des Colléges, des Pensions &a...
Place & Date: Paris, Prudhomme, Levrault, Debray, 1806
Anglesey. / Iarsay. / Carnesay. / Wight Vectis Olim.
Four maps on one sheet depicting the English islands Jersey, Guernsey, Wright and Alderney.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629
Les Isles Britanniques..
A first state (of 2) dated 1762. Fine map of the British Isles, engraved by E.Dussy. Fine title cartouche upper left engraved by Arrivet. From his Nouvel Atlas Portatif .
Place & Date: Paris, 1762
Carte réduite du Golphe de Genes. Conenant partie des cotes de Provence, celles de Piemont, de Genes et de Toscane . . .
Superb sea chart covering the coasts of the French and Italian Riviera's, Tuscany and northern tip of Corsica, prepared by Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772) the Royal Hy...
Place & Date: Paris, 1768
Anglia regnum.
Counties are shown in outline and named. The coast of Ireland is shown across the Irish Sea.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Lisbona.
A rare panoramic view of Lisbon with over the whole length of the lower part 3 columns of poems in Latin, Dutch and French.Published by Dancker Danckerts (1634-1666)Colle...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
(Title page) Recueil d'ornemen dédié a Monsieur en l'année 1777.
Beautiful title page. In the center a medallion with the portrait of Louis Stanislas Xavier de Bourbon. He was King of France and of Navarre from 1814 to 1824, omitting t...
Place & Date: Aix en Provence, 1777
Saxonia Superior, cum Lusatia et Misnia.
Finely engraved and detailed map of Saxony including Halle, Leipzig, Meissen, and Dresden. Filled with forests and tiny villages. It presents Prague close to the centre o...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Mansfeldia Comitatus. . .
Centered on Mansfield and prepared by Telemann Stella (1527-1589) a German cartographer who made maps of Germany and the Holy Land.As Willem Blaeu died in 1638 most of hi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Monasteriensis Episcopatus.
A very detailed map of Germany centered on Munster and Linge. Also showing Wessel to the top of the map and Oldenburg to the right. North to the right. The map is adorned...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Bravnswyck et Meydburg. . .
As Willem Blaeu died in 1638 most of his maps are actually published by his son Joan. This maps carries his (engraved) signature and was actually published in volume II o...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Macedonia, Epirus et Achaia.
Nice map of northern Greece with the southern parts of present day Macedonia and Albania. Includes the region of Athens. Strapwork title cartouche and Spanish text on ver...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Région arctique.
Decorative map of the North Pole, prepared by Louis Vivien de Saint-Martin (* 22. Mai 1802 in Saint-Martin de Fontenay, died 3 January 1897 in Paris). He was one of the m...
Place & Date: Paris, Hachette, 1877
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...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1730
Australia by P.Rivett.
Manuscript map of Australia without Tasmania, prepared by Palmer Rivett, who was born around 1858 in Blundeston, Suffolk, England, where he spent most of his life. He was...
Place & Date: c. 1860-1870
Carte Reduite du globe Terrestre. . .
Fine world map in a Mercator projection. From Voyages autour du monde et vers les deux pôles par terre et par mer.. by Pierre Marie François vicomte de Pages (1748-1793...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1782
Pas-Caart van Guinea en den Custen daer aen gelegen Van C..
A decorative chart of the southwest coast of Africa, embellished with an elaborate, finely colored title-cartouche, and 2 compass-roses. Pieter Goos (ca. 1616-1675) was o...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1666
Natolia, quae olim Asia minor.
A finely designed map of Turkey and Cyprus from the great Blaeu family of Amsterdam. The decoration consist of a colored title cartouche, sea monsters, a naval engagement...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635
Regni Sueciae. . .
Johann Baptist Homann's well-engraved map has a large decorative cartouche. Detailed map of Sweden and Finland.Johann Baptist Homann (1663-1724) was a German engraver and...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1747
Impery sino Tartarici Supremus Monarcha.
Decorative costume plate showing Kam Hi son of the Shunzhi Emperor of China [1638 - 1661?], the second emperor of the Manchu Qing dynasty, who apparently supported the fo...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1668
Nova et accurata Tabula Hispaniae. . .
Second state. This "carte à figures"- map of Spain and Portugal shows the geographical image introduced by Hessel Gerritsz's 1612 wall map of Spain. The map is...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1633
L'Ancien et le nouveau Mexique avec la Floride..
Covering Florida, Texas, western part of Cuba and central America. Showing dozens (100+) of place names, extensive river systems, mountain ranges and featuring the Gulf o...
Place & Date: Paris, 1781
Femme Turque de moyen estat En chambre. (42)
Sought-after copper engraved plate from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs." by Thoma...
Place & Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Pellerins mores, reue nuns de la Mecque.
Sought-after copper engraved plate from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs." by Thoma...
Place & Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Tschanibei Ally Bassa. Türckischer Gross-Böthschafter um Kayserl.
Engraving by Johann Martin Bernigeroth (1713-1767) showing a full portrait of the Turkish ambassador in Vienna Ally Bassa.
Place & Date: Leipzig, c. 1750
Lotatoref apud Turcaf (Turks wrestling)
Beautiful engraving of Turk's wrestling, copied after an illustration by Abraham de Bruijn, originally published in 1577 in Cologne.
Place & Date: c. 1600
Femina indica Orientalis - Indus Africanus - Singava vulgo dicta sive erratica femina Ori.
Beautiful engraving by Abraham de Bruyn showing inhabitants of Asian and African people with captions in Latin, French and German.Abraham de Bruyn, a Flemish engraver and...
Place & Date: Cologne, c.1577
Zemblien.
Engraving presenting inhabitants of Nova Zembla from his monumental work "Description de L'Univers."
Place & Date: Paris, 1685
Nova Totius Westphaliae descriptio.
Map of the northern provinces of Germany, including the Wad islands. West to the top. Including Bremen, Hildesheim, Kassel, Düsseldorf, etc. Also including the Dutch pro...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Sueviae Nova Tabula.
Extremely rare first edition of this beautiful map of Swaben, including Ulm, Augsburg, Stuttgart, Zurich, Lucerne and Lake Constance.Jodocus Hondius Jr. planned to produc...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629
Westphalia Ducatus.
Extremely rare first edition of this beautiful map of Westphalia.Jodocus Hondius Jr. planned to produce a new modern atlas less dependent on the Mercator plates that his ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629
Monasteriensis Episcopatus.
The extremely rare first edition of this beautiful map of Munster.Jodocus Hondius Jr. planned to produce a new modern atlas less dependent on the Mercator plates that his...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629
Osnabrugensis episcopatus.
A beautiful map of Munster centered on the city of Osnabruck. Prepared by Joannes Michael Gigas (1580-1650+), a doctor, mathematician and geographer. Showing an inset wit...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Novissima et accuratissima totius Hungariae tabula. . .
Detailed map of Hungary with a decorative title cartouche with putti and an Ottoman warrior. The publisher gives credit to P. du Val in the title cartouche.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Carte générale de l'empire de Russie.
Map of Russia. Map from a second French edition of Peter Simon Pallas' Voyages du Professeur Pallas, dans Plusieurs Provinces de l’Empire de Russie et dans l’Asie Sep...
Place & Date: Paris, Maradan, 1794
Westphalia Ducatus.
Elegantly engraved map of Westphalia including Hamm and Lippstadt. The mountainous topography is graphically depicted and several small coats of arms dot the map. Strapwo...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Il governo di arcangelo nell' impero della russia diviso. . .
Detailed map of the northern part of the Russian Empire with a decorative title cartouche. In the upper left corner part of the Baltic Sea with Lapland. Published in the ...
Place & Date: Rome, 1795-1796
Ce jeu n'a duré que trois jours. (Plate 440 in la Caricature).
Two people are holding models representing the republic. The caption says: "Political dummies. This game only lasted three days".After the July Revolution and t...
Place & Date: Paris, La Caricature, November 20, 1834
Moscovia o Russia.
Map showing European Russia and is centered on Moscow. In the lower right corner, title cartouche with scale and the town of Astrakhan. From "Atlante Novissimo Che C...
Place & Date: Venice, 1740