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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
![[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
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
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
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
![Le Isole di Sandwich delineate sulle osservazioni del Cap Cook. [Hawaii]](/uploads/cache/43195-250x250.jpg)
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
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
Ansicht der Heidelberger Schlosses. . .
Early lithograph published by Louis Charles François de Graimberg-Belleau. Lithographed by C.F Müller.French artist. Son of Gilles-François Belleau Graimberg. Louis Ch...
Place & Date: Graimberg, Heidelberg, ca. 1840
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
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
![[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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Table.
Index table page recto and verso of a world atlas.
Place & Date: Paris, 1700
![[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
Panache la nouvelle revue du Lido.
Very decorative poster designed by René Gruau for the Lido and its review Panache on the Champs Elysées, Paris. The bluebells are pictured for the 1985 show. René Grua...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1980
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
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
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
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
![[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
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
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
![[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
![[Title page] Figura Universale](/uploads/cache/48045-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Figura Universale
Title page by N.Tassin.
Place & Date: Paris, 1643
![[Title page] Provincia di Bertagna.](/uploads/cache/48043-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Provincia di Bertagna.
Title page by N.Tassin.
Place & Date: Paris, 1643
![[Title page] Provincia di Bertagna.](/uploads/cache/48042-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Provincia di Bertagna.
Title page by N. Tassin.
Place & Date: Paris, 1643
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
![[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
Theodorus Galle, Calcographus Anterpiæ.
Portrait of Theodorus Galle engraved by Lucas Vorsterman. Lucas Vorsterman was a Baroque engraver. He worked with the artists Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, as w...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca. 1645
![[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
Westphaliae Totius, Finitimarumque Regionum Accurata Descriptio.
A very beautiful hand colored copper engraved map of North Rhein-Westphalia by A. Ortelius. This is a general map of Westphalia and the surrounding regions in northwest G...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca 1584
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
L'Affrique En Plusieurs Cartes Nouvelles, et exactes, &c.
Edition illustrated with 18 maps in original outline colors dated 1656. No date and title page and maps not numbered (according to Pastoureau 1 C, maps are numbered).Nico...
Place & Date: Paris, l'Auteur, after 1662
Pianta Topografica della R.a Città di Venezia con XIX de suoi principali prospetti.
A detailed town plan of Venice with an extensive key underneath and nineteen views of the important buildings among which : Piazza di S. Marco, Canal Grande, Tempio della...
Place & Date: Milan: Santo Vallardi, c.1840
(Rheims)
Finely engraved plan of Rheims.
Place & Date: ca. 1750
![[Title page] Le Neptune Francois. Quo ego. Sed moto praestat componere fluctus.](/uploads/cache/48058-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Le Neptune Francois. Quo ego. Sed moto praestat componere fluctus.
Restrike of the title page featuring Neptune in a sea-chariot drawn by white horses, fleets of ships and allegorical figures of winged gods, all within an ornate border. ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1798 but ca. 1920
La France Divisée en ses quarante gouvernemens . . .
Map of France surrounded by a decorative frame.
Place & Date: Paris, 1770
![[Title page] AtlasGeneral Méthodique et Elémentaire . . .](/uploads/cache/48054-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] AtlasGeneral Méthodique et Elémentaire . . .
Title page from Atlas general Méthodique et Elémentaire. Very fine, typical French title page, published with Desnos.
Place & Date: Paris, 1800
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 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