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Delphinus.
Uncommon celestial print showing the constellation of Delphinus, published by Corbinianus Thomas in the Manuductio ad Astronomiam, Juxta modum Bayeri, Mathematici celeber...
Place & Date: Frankfurt & Leipzig, c.1730
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Groeninga MDLXXIII. [Groningen]
RECTO: A panoramic view of the city of Groningen dated 1573.VERSO: a woodcut of a cow, a bull and their calf.Taken from Sebastian Munster's encyclopedic work, the "C...
Place & Date: Basle, ca. 1564
.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
Asia recens summa cura delineata.
This is the rare early issue with decorative paneled borders. In upper border views and plans of Famagusta, Rhodos, Damascus, Jerusalem, Aden and Ormus. Originally engrav...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1632
Planisfero del Mondo Vecchio. . .
A decorative map of the Eastern hemisphere includes Abel Tasman's discoveries in Australia. The decorative borders include coordinates and descriptions of signs of the zo...
Place & Date: Venice, 1691
Selling price: $1800
Sold in 2015
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A Map of the United States and Canada, New-Scotland, New-Brunswick and New-Foundland ... [together with] A Map of the West-Indies and of the Mexican-Gulph...
A Map of the United States and Canada, New-Scotland, New-Brunswick and New-Foundland / Carte des Etats Unis, avec Le Canada, la Nouvelle Ecosse, le Nouveau Brunswick &...
Place & Date: Paris, 1806
Arabia, The Red Sea, The Valley of the Nile, including Egypt, Nubia and Abyssinia.
Outstanding large, detailed map centered on the Arabian Peninsula, The Red Sea, and the North Eastern cost of Africa from Cairo to the Horn of Africa. The island of Socot...
Place & Date: London, 1903
II Pars Indiae Orientalis in qua Johan. Hugonis Linschotani. . .
De Bry's Part II of his "Les Petit Voyages", containing "Pars Indiae Orientalis, in qua Johan. Hugonis Linscotani navagatio in Orientem, 1609", being ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, Wolffgang Richter, 1609
VIII. Das Wiflispurgergow.
Very early wood cut printed regional map of Switzerland with Lake Geneva.Originally engraved in 1548. The map was prepared by Johannes Stumpf (1500-1576). Included in &qu...
Place & Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
14 Lines of text in Latin and thirteen 1-line initials in blue on colored grounds with line filler. VERSO : 14 Lines of text in Latin and thirteen 1-line initials in blue...
Place & Date: France, ca.1470
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2017
La Gran Tartaria divisa nelle sue parti pricipali da Giacomo Cantelli. . .
In upper right hand corner a large title cartouche with dedication to Tavernier and Thévenot. The cartographer was Giacomo Cantelli (1643-1695) who was active in Modena ...
Place & Date: Rome, 1683
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
Azie.
Uncommon map of Asia. Lithography by J.H. van Weijer, published in Atlas der geheele Aarde [...] in 24 kaarten.
Place & Date: Groningen, ca. 1860
Polus Arcticus cum vicinis regionibus.
Map of the North Pole regions from the 1608 second edition of Jodocus Hondius' Atlas Minor.A reduction of the 1606 Mercator-Hondius folio map (which is a later state of t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2012
Barbariae et Biledulgerid, nova descriptio.
North-West Africa. Koeman speculated: "In view of the important trading relationship between Antwerp and Africa, it is not impossible that the original was a manuscr...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1598
Group of 51 art déco gouaches.
Group of outstanding "art deco" gouaches (unsigned) from the workshop of "R. Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris&...
Place & Date: Paris, 1920-1930
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
Royaume de Corée.
With a quite elaborately pictorial cartouche, engraved by G.Kondet. One of the earliest separate maps of Korea. Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d' Anville (1697-1782), French c...
Place & Date: The Hague, 1737
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
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
The Modern History, by way of sequel to Mr. Rollin's ancient history. Vol. I. Containing the history of China.
A rare book translated from French and printed for J.& P. Knapton. The volume is divided into a number of parts, covering a general history of China, a description of...
Place & Date: London, 1704
Inferior Germania.
Very rare map of the Benelux, centered on the Netherlands. According to van der Heijden only known in 6 examples. Two compass-roses with rumb lines but without the names ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam,ca. 1600
Nous vaincrons parce que nous sommes les plus forts. Souscrivez aux bons d'armement.
"We win because we are the strongest. Support good armaments". Quote by the French Prime Minister Paul Reynaud. French wartime propaganda poster. color printed ...
Place & Date: Paris, M.Dechaux, ca 1939
Selling price: $105
Sold in 2019
Paris Qui Boit - Complete serie of 6 lithographes.
Second state (of 2), six sheets with on each sheet two scenes, complete series "Paris Qui Boit". Text below image : - Amateurs de moka en train de déguster ave...
Place & Date: Paris, after 1852
Camden's Britannia, Newly Translated into English with Large Additions and Improvements.
Splendid copy fully original colored (inclusive title-cartouche) of the first edition of Gibson's translation.Illustrated with an engraved portrait of Camden by R. White,...
Place & Date: London, F. Collins for A. Swalle and A. / J. Churchill, 1695
Maschinenfabrik Rüti, vormals Caspar Honegger tex.
Extremely rare woven silk portrait of Jean-Marie Jacquard drawn by Fritz Kaeser after the painting by C. Bonnefond, produced on the famous Honneger mechanical loom in Rü...
Place & Date: Zürich, Rüti, ca. 1847
Neapolis Regnum . . .
Map of the region from Naples to Calabria. Cartouche representing Vesuvius erupting.Matthaus Seutter the elder first published his "Atlas Geographicus" in 1720 ...
Place & Date: Ausburg, 1730
Venetia potentissima e la più magnifica fiorentissimae la più ricca città capitale della Serenissima repubblica . . .
Birds-eye plan view of Venice, depicting the city's architectural landmarks. Below Saint Marco square.Matthaus Seutter the elder first published his "Atlas Geographi...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1730
Quita Etas Mundi. Folium.LXXI (Toulouse)
The Latin text page is illustrated with an imaginary of Toulouse, France. VERSO are portraits of poets and teachers.Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famo...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2011
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
Le Triomphateur. (Plate 449 in La Caricature)
Thiers is being appointed Minister of the Interior and was elected in 1834 to the French Academy (therefore the oversize goose feather). This represents the victory of Th...
Place & Date: Paris, December 18, 1834
Les temps sont durs, et il faut vivre dé privations cette anné ! . . . . A qui le dites-vous, mon cher Ducorneau . . . (Plate 2 from Tout ce qu'on voudra.)
Translation in English of title text: Times are difficult, this year we must learn to be more modest. . . - Don't tell me, my dear Ducorneau…. As far as I am concerned,...
Place & Date: Paris, April 17, 1847
Farce dramatique. Doucement ! Doucement . . . Ne levez pas le rideau, je ne jous pas. . . - (Le Directeur accourant effrayé). Vous plaisantez, mon cher Macaire, vous plaisantez, n'est-ce pas ?. . . (Plate 8 from Robert Macaire.)
Second state. Translation in English of text title: Dramatic farce. - Gently! Gently!? Do not raise the curtain, I am not playing -(the frightened Director rushing toward...
Place & Date: Paris, 1840 - 1841
Robert-Macaire renait de ses cendres. Par ma foi! La compagnie . . . (Published in Caricaturana, plate 21)
Second state. Translation in English of text title: Robert Macaire rising from his ashes. By heavens! The company is unlucky! . . . Yesterday I insured my super-glue plan...
Place & Date: Paris, 1838
Athéniens prenez garde à Philippe ! (Démosthènes aux Athéniens). (Plate 454 in La Caricature)
A comedian dressed in a toga is warning the audience to beware of King Louis-Philip. The allusion is to Demosthenes (384-322 B.C.) warning the Athenians of the upcoming d...
Place & Date: Paris, January 8, 1835
Messieurs et Dames! Les mines d'argent . . . (Plate 7 from Caricaturana)
Translation in English of text title: Ladies and gentlemen! Silver mines, gold mines, diamond mines are only thin gruel and stale rolls in comparison with coal . . . But ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1838
Robert Macaire. - Hé bien! mon cher directeur, ton affaire marche-t-elle? . . .
Plate from his famous series "Robert Macaire." This print has no plate number.Caption in English: (Robert): Well, well! My dear director… how's business? - (B...
Place & Date: Paris, 1840-1841
Art deco gouache of two skating persons.
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. The gouache depict a skating scene of an elegant woman with a little girl. c...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1930
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
Australia, The Awakening Giant.
This large, fully colored map of Australia was published in America and Australia in the late 1960s. The map is covered in small colored illustrations, connected with loc...
Place & Date: Victoria, 1967
Art déco
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The ...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1930
(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
Yeux noirs, front haut, teint brun, barbe, favoris...c'est bon! ...on te reconnaîtra, mon gaillard. (from La Caricature, Plate 391)
A man is sick and lying down on a bed while a doctor is examining him. This print most likely refers to the uprising in Lyon and Paris of April 9 to 14, 1834 and shows a ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1834
Chine - Angleterre.
A large, vintage French school poster map from the 1950s, showing China on one side and the United Kingdom on the reverse. As you would expect content and detail and basi...
Place & Date: Nalliers, ca 1955
Art déco
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. The gouache depict a scene of four people skiing and holly in the first plan...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1930
Soyez donc poli. i.. impertinent!! (Leçon de Civilité puérile et honnète). (Plate 1 from the Charivari, Scènes grotesques)
Translation in English of title text: Be polite, you uneducated flail…(Lesson in juvenile civility and honest courtesy)..The old gentleman is slapping the young boy who...
Place & Date: Paris, June 19, 1839
(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
Tailleur vous me demandez de l'argent, mais je n'en fais pas et je fais des portraits..... prenez ça c'est Mme votre épouse que j'ai faite de souvenir. (Plate 6 from Le Charivari, Scènes grotesques.)
Translation in English of title text: "Tailor, you ask for money, but I am a painter and I don't make money. Here, take this portrait of your wife. I drew it from me...
Place & Date: Paris, November 29, 1839
Flandria Barbantia e Holanda No.
Gastaldi's modern map of the Low Countries of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. It includes parts of England, France and Germany.According to van der Heijden This ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1548
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2021
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
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
(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
Combat de Tchang-Ki-Ouang 18 septembre 1860.
Plate VI from "Atlas de l'expédition de Chine en 1860: rédigé au dépôt de la guerre d'après les documents officiels, étant directeur le général Blondel, sou...
Place & Date: Paris, 1862
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
Le Isole del Giappone e la Corea delineate sulle ultima osservazioni.
First edition on laid paper. Cassini’s splendid early map of Japan and Korea, with large decorative title cartouche. The map has a very unusual, almost triangular, repr...
Place & Date: Rome, 1797
Veüe de Nice.
Engraved birds eye view of Nice. Shows rivers, canals, bridges, landmarks, farms and buildings. Relief shown pictorially.
Place & Date: Paris, 1692
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Homme Kamtschadale [together with] Femme Kamtschadale.
Set of two originally hand-colored mezzotints of Native Russians engraved by Félix Mixelle and Lachaussée Jeune after Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur.As an etcher, dra...
Place & Date: Paris,1801-1806
Poland from the best authorities.
Detailed map of Poland from "A New Geographical, Historical, and Commercial Grammar", by William Guthrie. William Guthrie (later engraver for Carey) London, UK....
Place & Date: London, 1805
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
Nova Europae descriptio.
A fine "carte à figures"- map with four panels in columns on each side show portraits of Kings and Queens of European countries. The top border contains panora...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Carte générale de L'asie . . .
Uncommon map of Asia prepared by Felix Delamarche, after R.de Vaugondy. In the right hand a lengthy description of geographical details of the different European countrie...
Place & Date: Paris, 1820
Valencena . . .
Eye-bird view of Valenciennes.
Place & Date: Anvers, 1590
The spot where General Burgoyne surrendered to General Gates.
Decorative print after Jacques Milbert, and lithographed by Sabatier and the figures by Victor Adam.From Amérique Septentrionale. Printed by de Bove and Noöl ainé &...
Place & Date: Paris, 1829
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
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
Arabia Felice Nuova Tavola.
Uncommon first edition of this modern map of Saudi Arabia, the Persian Gulf and Red Sea, for the first time it "clearly shows the island of Bahrain and Qatar".T...
Place & Date: Venice, Vincenzo Valgrisi, 1561
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[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
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
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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
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
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
![[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
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
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[ 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
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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
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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
(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
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
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