Lutetia, vulgari nomine Paris, urbs Gallia. . .
Beautiful and early town-plan of Paris with title cartouche and figures in the foreground. The Bastille is shown at the upper center of the engraving and the Notre-Dame c...
Place & Date: Cologne, ca. 1572
Plan de Paris commencé l'année 1734, Dessiné et gravé sous les ordres de Messire Michel Etienne Turgot, prévost des marchands.
FIRST EDITION of Turgot's Monumental Joined View of Paris, stretching to over 10 Feet.This expansive engraved view of Paris covers the first eleven arrondissements of mod...
Place & Date: Paris, 1739
La France divisée en 83 départemens suivant les décréts de l'Assemblée Nationale, sanctionnés per le Roi. . .
An interesting folding map of France divided in 83 departments, to the right the 83 departments added on past-on slips. Another past-on is advertising Desnos' atlas in la...
Place & Date: Paris, 1790
Carte du siège présidial Dax et seneschaucee des Lannes et des sieges de Bayonne sainct sever et Tartas qui en dependent Nouvellement dessignee Par le Sr de Classun.
Very rare map including Bayonne and Dax in the south west of France. With inset plan of "Plan de la ville Dax.". Engraved by Henri le Roy. With the address &quo...
Place & Date: Paris, 1638
L'Isle de France / Parisiensis agri descrip.
Adorned with a title cartouche and a framing border. Leclerc's "Theatre geographique de France" is an extension of Bouguereau's "Theatre". A refugee w...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1619
Le Canal Royal de Languedoc pour la jonction de l'Océan et de la Mer Méditerranée, dédié et présenté à Mgrs. des Estats de Languedoc.
Title at the top, in a cartouche illustrated with allegorical figures, with a garland of shields to the arms of the lords of the lands touched by the Canal, with three me...
Place & Date: Paris, 1697
Veüe de Nice.
Engraved birds eye view of Nice. Shows rivers, canals, bridges, landmarks, farms and buildings. Relief shown pictorially.
Place & Date: Paris, 1692
Projet de la forteresse de Nice.
Nice city plan of Nice at the Mediterranean sea. From the " Les forces de l'Europe, ou description des principales villes, avec leurs fortifications".
Place & Date: Leiden, 1729
Veue de Nice.
Engraved birds eye view of Nice. Shows rivers, canals, bridges, landmarks, farms and buildings. Relief shown pictorially.
Place & Date: Paris, 1692
Massilia - Marseille.
Detailed bird's-eye view of the town of Marseille. From Merian's Theatrum Europaeum. To the bottom a lettered key to the principal places in town.
Place & Date: Frankfurt 1650
Die statt Montpellier . . .
Panoramic view of Montpellier by Sebastian Münster. Below the engraving a letterpress key. From the German edition of Sebastian Munster's Cosmography, "Cosmographey...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1574
Valencena . . .
Eye-bird view of Valenciennes.
Place & Date: Anvers, 1590
Le vray portraict de la Ville de Marseille.
Fine wood cut bird's-eye view of Marseille. Decorated with several ship in the harbour and on the sea. To the left two keys describing the main buildings and places. Publ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1575
Lutetia Parisiorum urbs, toto orbe celeberrima notissimaque, caput regni Franciae.
Early bird's eye view of Paris, called at the time Lutetia. From a French text edition of S. Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summary of Renaissance...
Place & Date: Basle, 1550-1580
Aniou. . .
Decorative map centered on the Loire valley. Fine title cartouche in upper right corner.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
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[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
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[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
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[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
Plan des paroisses de Paris avec la distinction des parties éparses qui en dépendent dressé... par J. Junié, Ingén. Géogr. De Monseigneur l'Archeveque et géomètre des Eaux et forêts de ...
Large wall map size plan of Paris in 4 separate sheets, if joined forming a plan of Paris of 93 x 60cm. This plan is a 1904 version of a manuscript plan drawn in 1786 by ...
Place & Date: Paris, Service des Travaux historiques de la Ville de Paris, 1904
Mons the Capital City of Hainault in y Low Countries, taken by y French in 1691, Restor'd to y Spaniards by y Peace of Ryswick in 1697, retaken by y Allies in 1709, and left to y Emperor by y Treaty of Utrecht. .
An interesting copper engraved view of the walled city engraved by I. Basire, with pictographs of buildings. Many buildings and places are named on the map. Nicholas Tind...
Place & Date: London, 1743
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Topographie historique du vieux Paris / Plan de restitution Feuille V.
Copper engraved plan centered on Louvre by Jean-Joseph Sulpis (1826–1911) after a model by Adolphe Berty. Plate 5 from "Topographie historique du vieux Paris"...
Place & Date: Paris, 1866-1897
(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
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
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
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
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
Picardiae Belgicae regionis descriptio
From Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [Atlas of the Whole World]. Prepared by Jean Surhon.Dare to go in Black. All early maps were printed in black and white, and many were kept t...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1590
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
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
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
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
Touraine. Turonensis Ducatus.
Map of Touraine Duché in very fine original colours.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Nova et integra caenomaniae descriptio vulg. Le Mans.
Fine separately issued example of Gerard De Jode's map of Caenomaniae (Maine Province), from his Speculum Orbis Terrarum. Gérard de Jode (1508? -1590) published in Antwe...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca. 1593
Burgundiae Ducatus. Burgundiae Comitatus.
Separately issued map of Burgundy area. Two maps of Burgundy region on a plate. Separately published map, without text on the verso. Second state with the date 1597 remov...
Place & Date: Antwerp, after 1612
La France Divisée en ses quarante gouvernemens . . .
Map of France surrounded by a decorative frame.
Place & Date: Paris, 1770
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Le Parterre du Palais Royal.
View of the Palais Royal published by I. Mariette. Etched by Gabriel Pérelle (1603-1677) and included in "Veues des plus beaux bastimens de France". Plates for...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Paris, 1700 - 1707
Le Coste della Francia sul Mare Oceano.
Uncommon map from "Mercurio Geografico", published in Rome by G. de Rossi. A decorative title and scale cartouches enriching the map. The Italian cartographer C...
- $375 / ≈ €351
Place & Date: Rome, 1690
L'evesché d'Aire. . .
In center Adour (river), Aire-sur-l'Adour, with Aire and Dax in lower right corner. Janssonius does give credit to Pierre du Val. In lower left corner putti with grapes.D...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1656
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
St Tropez.
Published by Nicolas Tassin in "Les Plans et Profilz de toutes principalles Villes et lieux considerable de France." The first edition of this work was publish...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Paris, Sébastien Cramoisy, 1636
Blois ville capitale du Blaisois, Eveshé et Chambre des Comptes.
Bird-eyes view of Blois, published in Paris by Chereau who was active at rue St Jacques à S Remy.
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1710
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
St Tropez.
Plan of St Tropez by M.Merian. Depicts a street layout and ships in harbour etc.
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Frakfurt, 1660
Plan Geometral de la Ville de Lyon.
A gigantic wall map of Lyon was originally issued in 1735 and revised in 1740. Engraved by Claude Seracourt and published by R.P. Grégoire in Lyon, France in 1740.This i...
- $1500 / ≈ €1404
Place & Date: Lyon, ca. 1740
Province ecclesiastica di Besançon in Francia (Tav LVI)
This large-format Besançon map is finely engraved and beautifully colored and was prepared by Girolamo Petri, a lawyer who served as a senior official within the Vatican...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Rome, 1858
Xaintonge et Angoumois.
This map features a portion of western coastal France, north of Bordeaux with Ile de Ré and Ile Oléron. Two large cartouches show cherubs with grapes and wheat, and tw...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644
Gouvernement General de Languedoc. Divise en ses Vint Deux Diocesez.
A lovely late seventeenth century map of the central south French region of Languedoc, part of which borders the Mediterranean Sea by Dutch publisher and cartographer, Fr...
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1680
Carte routière de France de Dion Bouton spéciale pour automobiles
Highly decorative folding wall map of France in a scale of 1 : 800 000. In the upper left hand corner an inset plan of Paris, upper right Algeria and lower right map of C...
- $1500 / ≈ €1404
Place & Date: Paris, J. Barreau, 1900
Provinciae, Regionis Galliae, vera exactissimaq. descriptio. Provence Petro Ioanne Bomparioo auctore.
A finely engraved map of the Province prepared by Pierre-Jean de Bompar who published a single sheet map of the Province in 1591. Title cartouche in the upper left-hand c...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1613
Province ecclesiastica di Tours e Rennes in Francia (Tav LVII)
This large-format Tours and Rennes map is finely engraved and beautifully colored and was prepared by Girolamo Petri, a lawyer who served as a senior official within the ...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Rome, 1858
La Ville de la Rochelle, Capitale du pays d'Aunis. . .
A very decorative town view of La Rochelle.
- $350 / ≈ €328
Place & Date: Paris, 1700
Vue de Monaco du côté du midi . . .
Extremely rare lithographed view of Monaco, lithographed by Jean Baptiste François Bosio, born June 17, 1764 in Monaco, and died July 6, 1827 in Paris, he was a French p...
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: Paris, 1841