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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
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
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A more than 600 years old antiphonary leaf, written in Besançon, in 1370. Musical notation on 4 bars, the staves are in red and the notes in black: numerous pen-flourish...
Place & Date: France, 1370
Naples. 1699. Nouvelle et exacte description de la tres-celebre & ancienne Ville de NAPLES
Only recorded broad sheet panoramic view of Naples with underneath in letter press a description of the town's history : "Nouvelle et exacte description de la tres-c...
Place & Date: Paris, 1699
L'isle de Corse avec les différents districts, appartenante à la République de gênes . . .
Map published during the uprising of the Corsican people against the Republic of Genoa. It is decorated with a wind rose compass and a beautiful title cartouche decorated...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1760
Hémisphère Supérieur de la Mappemonde projetée sur l'Horizon. . .
Hemisphere on a partial polar projection. The Northern Hemisphere (of 2) is centered on Paris emphasizing the continents. Hemisphere measures 24.5. Alaska is shown as an ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1774
Sardinia Insula.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF THIS MAP. Map of the Italian island of Sardinia in a copper engraving on a sheet with letterpress with German text description of the island...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634
Femme de Tatares Nogais.
Uncommon copper engraved costume plate from the French translation of Johann Gottlieb Georgi "Beschreibung aller Nationen des Russischen Reichs" (1776), the wor...
Place & Date: St. Petersbourg, C.G. Müller, 1776-1777
Femme tatares de Tchatsk.
Uncommon copper engraved costume plate from the French translation of Johann Gottlieb Georgi "Beschreibung aller Nationen des Russischen Reichs" (1776), the wor...
Place & Date: St. Petersbourg, C.G. Müller, 1776-1777
Un Posto mal fermo. Papagallo No. 5. Anno II.
Design by Augusto Grossi. Taken from the Italian satirical newspaper Il Papagallo, a satirical magazine founded in January 1873 by Augusto Grossi (1835-1919), which speci...
Place & Date: Bologne, 1874
Plan général de la ville capitale de Malte dressé sur les memoires des grands officiers de l'Ordre, dédiée et présentée à S.A.S. Mgr le prince de Conty, prince du sang, grand prieur de France. . .
First edition of this attractive large scale plan of Valetta on Malta. To the left and right a numbered key 1 - 269. In lower left, a title cartouche with a dedication to...
Place & Date: Paris, 1751
Theatre du Trianon. Papagallo No. 2. Anno II.
Design by Augusto Grossi. Taken from the Italian satirical newspaper Il Papagallo, a satirical magazine founded in January 1873 by Augusto Grossi (1835-1919), which speci...
Place & Date: Bologne, 1874
L'Orsa Balla. Papagallo No. 30. Anno II.
Design by Augusto Grossi. Taken from the Italian satirical newspaper Il Papagallo, a satirical magazine founded in January 1873 by Augusto Grossi (1835-1919), which speci...
Place & Date: Bologne, 1874
I diritti da discutersi al congresso di Brusselle. Papagallo No. 32. Anno II.
Design by Augusto Grossi. Taken from the Italian satirical newspaper Il Papagallo, a satirical magazine founded in January 1873 by Augusto Grossi (1835-1919), which speci...
Place & Date: Bologne, 1874
Ultimi momenti di Don Carlos. Papagallo No. 33. Anno II.
Design by Augusto Grossi. Taken from the Italian satirical newspaper Il Papagallo, a satirical magazine founded in January 1873 by Augusto Grossi (1835-1919), which speci...
Place & Date: Bologne, 1874
Gli organi rompitesta. Papagallo No. 52. Anno V.
Design by Augusto Grossi. Taken from the Italian satirical newspaper Il Papagallo, a satirical magazine founded in January 1873 by Augusto Grossi (1835-1919), which speci...
Place & Date: Bologne, 1877
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: 370x250 mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (...
Place & Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Miss Cora Europea. Papagallo No. 35. Anno VI.
Miss Europa taming the lion (Russia) with other nations shown as animals. Design by Augusto Grossi. Taken from the Italian satirical newspaper Il Papagallo, a satirical m...
Place & Date: Bologne, 1878
Il bolero in Ispagnia. Papagallo No. 42. Anno VI.
About Spanish expansion, with balloons symbolizing Cuba, Havana, Cortes. Taken from the Italian satirical newspaper Il Papagallo, a satirical magazine founded in January ...
Place & Date: Bologne, 1878
Il Don Cihsciotte a complici. Papagallo No. 48. Anno VI.
Taken from the Italian satirical newspaper Il Papagallo, a satirical magazine founded in January 1873 by Augusto Grossi (1835-1919), which specialized in color-printed ca...
Place & Date: Bologne, 1878
Pesi Graditi ee sgraditi. Papagallo No. 6. Anno VI.
Translation of the legend: "Several weights, each one has to carry its weight, the more serious it is, the longer the trip seems to be, and they will come sooner or ...
Place & Date: Bologne, 1878
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Indian painting on paper.
Fine miniature, presenting a couple in love making position. The miniature has been painted in India in early 20th century. The miniature is 165 x 110 mm, painted in oil ...
Place & Date: India, ca. 1920
I tre diogene. Papagallo No. 43. Anno V.
Satirical lithographed plate published in the supplement to the political newspaper charivaric Papagallo / Le Perroquet N. 43, in the 5th year, published in Bologna. Sati...
Place & Date: Bologne, 1877
Imago Poloniae. Das Polnisch-Litauische Reich in Karten, Dokumenten und alten Drucken in der Sammlung von Tomasz Niewodniczanski. (2 volumes)
Catalog of an exhibition held Apr. 18-June 8, 2002 at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin--Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, Nov. 4-Dec. 31, 2002 at the Zamek Krótewski, War...
Place & Date: Warschau, Agenja Reklamowo-Wydawnicza Arkadiusz Grzegorczyk, 2002
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A more than 600 years old antiphonary leaf, written in Besancon, in 1370. Musical notation on 4 bars, the staves are in red and the notes in black: numerous pen-flourishe...
Place & Date: France, 1370
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
![[Title page] Le Nouveau Theatre du Monde Nouvel Atlas Tome Troisieme.](/uploads/cache/47946-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Le Nouveau Theatre du Monde Nouvel Atlas Tome Troisieme.
A very attractive title page from Le Nouveau Theatre du Monde Nouvel Atlas Tome Troisieme. .
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1641
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
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 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
(Rheims)
Finely engraved plan of Rheims.
Place & Date: ca. 1750
Quartier de Tivoli Nouveaux pereements de Rues.
Plan of the center of Paris showing Tivoli district with Madalene and Clichy. Lithography and pen and ink. Drawn in are the planned workshop of Serrurerie Théophile Mign...
Place & Date: Paris, ca.1835
![[Title page from ] Le Theatre du Monde ou le nouvel atlas mis en lumière par Guillaume et Jean Blaeu. Troisieme partie.](/uploads/cache/47942-250x250.jpg)
[Title page from ] Le Theatre du Monde ou le nouvel atlas mis en lumière par Guillaume et Jean Blaeu. Troisieme partie.
Frontispiece of " Le Theatre du Monde ou le nouvel atlas mis en lumière par Guillaume et Jean Blaeu. Troisieme partie." Very clear print with nice cartouches a...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
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
Guiana sive Amazonum Regio.
Copper engraving, hand colored in outline when published. A highly decorative map showing Guiana extending westwards to Trinidad and Margarita Island, dominated by a huge...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1645
The Chap Book.
Chromo lithographed poster, "The Chap Book.", by BRADLEY, W. Plate 136, published in Maître 17, on April 1895. The "Les Maîtres de l'Affiche" contai...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, April 1895
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1733
Beautemps-Beaupré (Charles-François).
Portrait of Charles-François Beautemps-Beaupré, engraved by Boilly.Charles-François Beautemps-Beaupré (6 August 1766 in La Neuville-au-Pont – 16 March 1854 in Paris...
Place & Date: Paris, 1822
Carte générale de l' Amérique divisée en ses principaux états . . .
Map of North and South America. By C. F. Delamarche, successor of Robert de Vaugondy, Geographer. Descriptive text to the left.
Place & Date: Paris, 1820
![[Title page] Atlas Universel. . .](/uploads/cache/48053-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Atlas Universel. . .
Beautiful title-frontispiece from the famous universal atlas initiated by geographers Gilles Robert and his son Didier Robert de Vaugondy, revised, corrected and enhanced...
Place & Date: Paris, 1806
![[Title page] Atlas François contenant les Cartes Géographiques dans lesquelles sont très exactement remarquez les Empires, Monarchies, Royaumes et Estats de l'Europe, de l'Asie; de l'Afrique et de l'Amérique.](/uploads/cache/48052-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Atlas François contenant les Cartes Géographiques dans lesquelles sont très exactement remarquez les Empires, Monarchies, Royaumes et Estats de l'Europe, de l'Asie; de l'Afrique et de l'Amérique.
Decorative title page with a certain holding the title : Atlas François contenant les cartes géographiques . . . les Empires, Monarchies, Royaumes et Estats de l'Europe...
Place & Date: Paris, 1695
Table.
Index table page recto and verso of a world atlas.
Place & Date: Paris, 1700
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
Pianta Della Citta di Firenze nelle seu vere misure colla descrizione dei luoghi piu notabili di ciascun Quartiere.
A highly decorative plan of Florence by Ferdinando Ruggieri. In addition to the detailed plan of the City, it includes fine decorative embellishments and demonstrates the...
Place & Date: Florence, 1755
![[Title page] Theatre Geographique du Royaume de France. . . .](/uploads/cache/48050-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Theatre Geographique du Royaume de France. . . .
Title page by Nicolas de Clerc of ' Theatre Geographique du Royaume de France ". Joined page of " Table de toutes les cartes des provinces contenues", with...
Place & Date: Paris, 1619
![[Title page] Provincia di Bertagna.](/uploads/cache/48049-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Provincia di Bertagna.
Title page by Tassin.
Place & Date: Paris, 1643
Tableau figuratif de la Chambre de Députés . . .
Figurative table of the Chamber of Deputies for the session of 1821. Showing as accurately as possible the place usually occupied by each of its members.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1821
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
![[Title page] Cartes particulières des costes de France de la mer mediterrannée . . .](/uploads/cache/48048-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Cartes particulières des costes de France de la mer mediterrannée . . .
Title page by Tassin for the atlas " Cartes particulières des costes de France de la mer mediterrannée. . .".
Place & Date: Paris, 1633
![[Title page] Figura di tutta la francia.](/uploads/cache/48046-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Figura di tutta la francia.
Title page by Tassin.
Place & Date: Paris, 1643
![[Title page] Le Nouveau & Grand Illuminant Flambeau de la Mer. La troisième partie. …Par Nicolas Jans Vooght.](/uploads/cache/47950-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Le Nouveau & Grand Illuminant Flambeau de la Mer. La troisième partie. …Par Nicolas Jans Vooght.
Allegoric frontispiece of the third edition of the "Zee-Fakkel" with French text. The "4" from the date 16"89" is in manuscript.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1689
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
![[Title page for ] Atlas Novus Terrarum orbis Imperia.](/uploads/cache/47938-250x250.jpg)
[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
![[Too big for their bite].](/uploads/cache/45545-250x250.jpg)
[Too big for their bite].
Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster - Too big for their bite - featuring a cartoon style illustration of two men with large drooling mouths and teeth trying to cons...
Place & Date: Russia, 1982
![[Title page] Le Nouveau Theatre du Monde.](/uploads/cache/47951-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Le Nouveau Theatre du Monde.
The fine engraved frontispiece by F. Bleiswyk entitled "Le Nouveau Theatre du Monde" for Pieter van der AA. Shows Atlas carrying the world on his shoulders acco...
Place & Date: Leiden, 1713
![[Title page] Cartes generale et particulières de toutes les costes de France. . .](/uploads/cache/48047-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Cartes generale et particulières de toutes les costes de France. . .
Title page by Tassin for the atlas "Cartes generale et particulières de toutes les costes de France. . .".
Place & Date: Paris, 1634
Isola d'Oleron, nella piaggie occidentali della Francia.
A beautiful and rare map showing île d'Oleron.The remarkable Vincenzo Coronelli (1650-1718), encyclopaedist, geographer, inventor and Doctor of Theology, was citizen of ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1690
Topographie historique du vieux Paris / Plan de restitution Feuille V bis.
Copper engraved plan centered on gardens of the Louvre by Jean-Joseph Sulpis (1826–1911) after a model by Adolphe Berty. Plate 5bis from "Topographie historique du...
Place & Date: Paris, 1866-1897
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Le Isole di Sandwich delineate sulle osservazioni del Cap Cook. [Hawaii]
FIRST EDITION on laid paper. Cassini’s splendid map depicts Sandwich islands, old name for Hawaii islands, at the end of the eighteenth century. The splendid cartouche ...
Place & Date: Rome, 1798
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
Quarta pars Brabantiae cujus caput Sylvaducis.
The coat of arms of Brabant and 's-Hertogenbosch do appear on the map. But the municipal arms in the columns on right and left-hand side have not yet been filled in. The ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1645
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
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
![[Title page] Figura Universale](/uploads/cache/48045-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Figura Universale
Title page by N.Tassin.
Place & Date: Paris, 1643
![[Title page for] Partie des Forces de l'Europe. . .](/uploads/cache/47943-250x250.jpg)
[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
![[Title page for] Galliae tabule geographicae . . .](/uploads/cache/47941-250x250.jpg)
[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
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
Isola del Re Nel Mare di Guascogna . . .
A beautiful map showing Ile de Ré in Bretagne, located in the Bay of Biscay off the coast of France, from Vincenzo Coronelli's Corso Geografico Universale.Italian text o...
Place & Date: Venice, 1690
Le Royaume de Sicile.
Uncommon map Sicily and part of Palermo. Very good impression.Like Sanson, Briet was born in Abbeville and became a Jesuit at age 18. His "Parallela Geographiae Vete...
Place & Date: Paris, 1653
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
Plan d'un marais salant . . .
Aerial view of a salt marsh, with depiction of working scenes and a nice cartouche, from Nicolas de Fer's "L'Atlas curieux ou le Monde réprésente dans des cartes. ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1705
Gouvernement general de Languedoc . . .
Map of the Languedoc 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
Souveraineté de Neuchatel et de Vallangin.
Map of the Neuchatel 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
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
![[Title page] Provincia di Bertagna.](/uploads/cache/48043-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Provincia di Bertagna.
Title page by N.Tassin.
Place & Date: Paris, 1643
Les Provinces, ou Gouvernement de Poictou, d'Anjou, du Maine, De Touraine . . .
Map centered on Loire region, with Blois, Saumur, Sancerre and Orleans, from Nicolas de Fer's "L'Atlas curieux ou le Monde réprésente dans des cartes. "The &q...
Place & Date: Paris, 1705
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
Artois. Atrebatum Regionis Vera Descripto.
Prepared by Jacob Surhon, who made a manuscript map of Artois for which he received 36 Livres from Charles V in 1554. For security reasons, the map was not published. Onl...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
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
![[Title page] Zee Atlas tot het gebruik van de vlooten des konings van Goroot Britanje . . .](/uploads/cache/48024-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Zee Atlas tot het gebruik van de vlooten des konings van Goroot Britanje . . .
Title page with in lower part title page an interesting engraving representing a ship. (115x140mm.)
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1694