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Meerwunder und Seltzame Thier.
A fine detailed woodcut depicting a superb variety of fantastic sea-monsters, such as might be encountered by a sailor in northern waters. Including monsters with abundan...
- $1950 / ≈ €1825
Place & Date: Basel, 1580
Mercurius.
Mercury holding a caduceus and riding in a chariot drawn by two birds on the clouds in the sky, an extensive landscape with a harbor with goods being loaded and unloaded ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1585
Lapis polaris magnes.
This is a plate from a series of twenty prints illustrating new inventions and discoveries (Nova Reperta) after Jan van der Straet. On image, bottom right: 'Ion. Stradanu...
Place & Date: Antwerp, Philips Galle, c. 1590
Daniel Meisnerus Comment. Boh. Poeta Laur. Caes.
Very skillfully engraved portrait of Daniel Meisner from a rare work printed by Eberhard Kieser: Thesaurus Philo-Politicus. Das ist Politisches Schatzkästlein guter Herr...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1625
Werben.
Very decorative and rare panoramic town view of Werben a.d. Elbe, Bez. Magdeburg.The engraver and publisher of prints, Mrs. Anna Beek of the Hague, enlarged the print and...
Place & Date: The Hague, ca. 1642
Schweet.
Very decorative and rare panoramic town view of Schwedt a.d Oder, Bez. Frankfurt a.d. Oder.The engraver and publisher of prints, Mrs. Anna Beek of the Hague, enlarged the...
Place & Date: The Hague, ca. 1642
Tabula Anemographica seu Pyxis Nautica.
Impressive compass rose with a fleur de lis at the center and 32 wind directions flowing from it identified in six languages, Greek, Latin, French, Dutch, Italian, and Sp...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1650
![[Four cartouche cuttings one sheet]](/uploads/cache/30307-250x250.jpg)
[Four cartouche cuttings one sheet]
Four cut-outs of scale cartouches from Johannes Janssonius plates. Cartouches featuring natives and merchants.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c.1650
Insula Huaena sive Venusia a Guiljelmo Blaeu cum sub Tychone Astronomiae operam daret, delineata.
Decorative map of the island Hvan in the Danish Sound. In the center Tycho Brahe's famous observatory Uraniborg established in 1576, under the patronage of Frederick II, ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1659
Original copperplate.
Showing the coast of southern Morocco, the Sahara with the Canary Islands. Copperplates that had been used in the production of early maps are of the greatest rarity and ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1660
Le jeu des Princes de l'empire d'Allemagne par P. du Val. . .
One of Du Val's magnificent sets of game cards, included in his atlas "Cartes de Geographie".Dated 1674. By the Peace of Westphalia (1648) sovereignty was grant...
- $2000 / ≈ €1871
Place & Date: Paris, 1675-1676
Montaigne de Ca.
In the foreground, a couple of which the man is holding a quadrant with a verse in two languages underneath the picture.The poet and topographer from Comothau, Daniel Mei...
- $85 / ≈ €80
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1623-1678
Echelle geographique tres facille pour Sçavoir Promptement la Distance quil y a de line aleautre des Principales Villes et Forteresses. . .
Distance table between French, German, Belgium and Dutch towns. Each place name with a short comment. With large decorative title cartouche with short explanation how to ...
- $90 / ≈ €84
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1691
Schlanium vulgo Schlani Bohemiae oppidum.
Very decorative and rare panoramic town view of Schlan, Schlanium s. Slany.The engraver and publisher of prints, Mrs. Anna Beek of the Hague, enlarged this print, origina...
Place & Date: The Hague, 1700
Launa vulgo Laun Bohemiae civitas.
Bird's-eye views of Louny in Bohemia by G. Hoefnagel. The copperplate was made for Braun and Hogenberg's town book. However there the print has been transformed by the en...
Place & Date: The Hague, 1700
Wegweiser duch das Chiurfurstenthumb Sachen.
Showing distances in-between towns in Saxen, Germany. In upper right hand corner inset map of Saxen, showing Leipzig, Dresden, Prague.More about cartographical curiositie...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1720
Carte des pavillons accompagnée d'observations pour en faire comprendre le blazon et les différentes devises aussy bien que d'une table alphabétique pour les trouver facilement.?
Map of 88 marine flags, including Malta, Turkey, Middelburg, Amsterdam, Portugal, Monaco, Tuscany, China, Nanking, the French Royal flag, French admiralty flag and mercha...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Colossus Monarchic. Statua Danielis
Fantastic double page allegorical map of a colossus figure representing the great world empires as Daniel interpreted in Nebuchadnezzar's dream. The warrior stands stolid...
Place & Date: Augsbourg, 1730
Christianus Henricus Heineken . . .
Portrait of Carl Heinrich, Baron von Heineken, as a child, whole-length, standing on a room with books on the right, a skeleton, and a large globe on the left, wearing a ...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1724-1748
Discus Chronologicus Regum utriusque Siciliae et Ducum Princ
Chronological volvelle table showing the Sicilian rulers from the year 0 until 1730. COMPLETE with its volvelle.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1750
![[Double celestial and terrestrial hemisphere]](/uploads/cache/44995-250x250.jpg)
[Double celestial and terrestrial hemisphere]
Small but uncommon double celestial and terrestrial hemisphere. The terrestrial map showing the western hemisphere with an oversized an curious Australian continent.
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: ca. 1750
(Tableau d'explication des marques, p12)
Key sheet to a rare atlas of the province of Normandy " Atlas de la Province de Normandie dédié à Mr Thiroux de Crosne . . ." dedicated to Mr. Thiroux Crosne...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Paris, 1764
Carta Topografica dell' Isola Del Maritaggio di Monsieur le Boble per la prima volta. Tradotta dal francese in italiano.
Second Italian printing of Eustache Le Noble’s "Carte de l’isle de marriage." The book’s text offers instructions on how to reach this matrimonial island ...
Place & Date: Cosmopoli, 1766
Lion and Bull made of terracotta.
Very fine terracotta figure of a lion symbolizing the continent of Africa. The Bull symbolizing Europe.The items will be dispatched in 4 wooden crates from Belgium. Pleas...
Place & Date: Netherlandisch , 1780~1800
Géographie des Plantes Equinoxiales - Tableau physique des Andes et pays voisins. . .
Physical Portrait of the Andes and adjacent lands", organized around the Chimborazo and Cotopaxi volcanoes in Ecuador.With local vegetation is illustrated pictoriall...
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: Paris, 1805
The Royal Game of British Sovereigns Exhibiting the Most Remarkable Events in Each Reign From Egbert to George III,
Engraved goose game with 53 illustrations culminating in a view of Napoleon on the Bellerophon, four further spandrel vignettes, and a central oval filled with title and ...
- $900 / ≈ €842
Place & Date: London, ca. 1817
Carte des Principales Riviers du Globe.
A nice detailed depiction of the principal rivers of the world from Buchon's Atlas Gégraphique Statistique, historique et chronologique des deux Ameriques et des isles a...
Place & Date: Paris, 1825
Carte des Principales Montagnes du Globe.
A nice detailed depiction of the principal mountains of the world from Buchon's Atlas Gégraphique Statistique, historique et chronologique des deux Ameriques et des isle...
Place & Date: Paris, 1825
![[Untitled map of the European countries in a playing grid].](/uploads/cache/38460-250x250.jpg)
[Untitled map of the European countries in a playing grid].
Small, accurate lithographed maps of Europe and Asia, embedded in a square playing grid formed by 100 cells.The 11 cells contain the profile of or a reference to a empero...
- $125 / ≈ €117
Place & Date: France, ca. 1850
![[Untitled map of the European countries in a playing grid].](/uploads/cache/36911-250x250.jpg)
[Untitled map of the European countries in a playing grid].
Small, accurate lithographed maps of Europe and Asia, embedded in a square playing grid formed by 100 cells.The 11 cells contain the profile of or a reference to a empero...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: France, ca. 1850
![[Untitled map of the European countries in a playing grid].](/uploads/cache/38470-250x250.jpg)
[Untitled map of the European countries in a playing grid].
Small, accurate lithographed maps of Europe and Asia, embedded in a square playing grid formed by 100 cells.The 11 cells contain the profile of or a reference to a empero...
- $110 / ≈ €103
Place & Date: France, ca. 1850
![[Untitled map of the European countries in a playing grid].](/uploads/cache/38464-250x250.jpg)
[Untitled map of the European countries in a playing grid].
Small, accurate lithographed maps of Europe and Asia, embedded in a square playing grid formed by 100 cells.The 11 cells contain the profile of or a reference to a empero...
- $125 / ≈ €117
Place & Date: France, ca. 1850
![[Untitled map of the European countries in a playing grid].](/uploads/cache/37573-250x250.jpg)
[Untitled map of the European countries in a playing grid].
Small, accurate lithographed maps of Europe and Asia, embedded in a square playing grid formed by 100 cells.The 11 cells contain the profile of or a reference to a empero...
- $125 / ≈ €117
Place & Date: France, ca. 1850
![[Untitled map of the European countries in a playing grid].](/uploads/cache/38463-250x250.jpg)
[Untitled map of the European countries in a playing grid].
Small, accurate lithographed maps of Europe and Asia, embedded in a square playing grid formed by 100 cells.The 11 cells contain the profile of or a reference to an emper...
- $125 / ≈ €117
Place & Date: France, ca. 1850
![[Untitled map of the European countries in a playing grid].](/uploads/cache/38462-250x250.jpg)
[Untitled map of the European countries in a playing grid].
Small, accurate lithographed maps of Europe and Asia, embedded in a square playing grid formed by 100 cells.The 11 cells contain the profile of or a reference to an emper...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: France, ca. 1850
![[Untitled map of the European countries in a playing grid].](/uploads/cache/38468-250x250.jpg)
[Untitled map of the European countries in a playing grid].
Small, accurate lithographed maps of Europe, embedded in a square playing grid formed by 100 cells.The 11 cells contain the profile or a reference to an Emperors, some ce...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: France, ca. 1850
![[Untitled map of the European countries in a playing grid].](/uploads/cache/38461-250x250.jpg)
[Untitled map of the European countries in a playing grid].
Small, accurate lithographed maps of Europe and Asia, embedded in a square playing grid formed by 100 cells.The 11 cells contain the profile of or a reference to a empero...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: France, ca. 1850
![[Untitled map of the European countries in a playing grid].](/uploads/cache/38466-250x250.jpg)
[Untitled map of the European countries in a playing grid].
Small, accurate lithographed maps of Europe and Asia, embedded in a square playing grid formed by 100 cells.The 11 cells contain the profile of or a reference to a empero...
- $125 / ≈ €117
Place & Date: France, ca. 1850
![[Untitled map of the European countries in a playing grid].](/uploads/cache/38469-250x250.jpg)
[Untitled map of the European countries in a playing grid].
Small, accurate lithographed map of Europe, embedded in a square playing grid formed by 100 cells.The 11 cells contain the profile of or a reference to Emperors, some cel...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: France, ca. 1850
![[Europe depicted as a Queen]](/uploads/cache/41499-250x250.jpg)
[Europe depicted as a Queen]
Among the most striking of early cartographic curiosities is Europe regina or Queen of the world first published by Johannes Bucius' and populized by Sebastian Münster.....
- $450 / ≈ €421
Place & Date: France, ca. 1860
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[Louis-Philippe teaching geography and mathematics in Reichenau, Switzerland]
Lithograph by Chrétien after painting by David showing Louis-Philippe (1773-1850) the last king of France (1830-1848), in Switzerland teaching geography and mathematics ...
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Paris, 1864
L'Homme A La Boule.
Satirical print in which Count Otto von Bismarck balances on the world with one spurred foot entering France, and wearing only his underpants which are marked with the Ge...
Place & Date: Paris, 1870-1871
Le plan Trochu.
Lithography showing a map of France with a caricature of General Trochu and other scenes imposed on it. Designed by the French caricaturist Evrard, Emile , with his initi...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Paris, 1871
L'Homme A La Boule.
Satirical print in which Count Otto von Bismarck balances on the world with one spurred foot entering France, and wearing only his underpants which are marked with the Ge...
Place & Date: Paris, 1870-1871
Gli observatori di un osservatore. Papagallo N°48.
Showing Bismarck studying a map of Europe. Taken from the Italian satirical newspaper "Il Papagallo", this plate N°48 has a descriptive text, in Italian langua...
- $600 / ≈ €561
Place & Date: Bologne, 1873
La pericolante ostinata. Papagallo No. 20 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
La Pieuvre Germanique.
Scarce lithographed plate not dated, by Eugène Danzanvilliers, printed by Grandremy in Paris. The plate listed by Adhemar is dated 1874. Eugène Danzanvilliers was a dra...
Place & Date: Paris, 28 Quai de la Rapée, c.1874
Trop d'Appetit par A. Le Petit.
Dated in lower right dated "Le 9 juin 1875". The drawing is representing an alligator's jaw wearing a Prussian helmet, and about to chew a globe. Alfred Le Peti...
Place & Date: Paris, 1875
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
Un Reclutatore in India. Papagallo No. 42. Anno VI.
British in India. Design by Augusto Grossi. Taken from the Italian satirical newspaper Il Papagallo, a satirical magazine founded in January 1873 by Augusto Grossi (1835-...
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
La Piovra Russa. Carta Serio-Comica Pel 1878.
Very rare political caricature map by Grossi of the nations of Europe, published in Bologna in the supplement of the newspaper "Le Perroquet / Al papagallo, N° 15, ...
Place & Date: Bologne, 14 avril 1878
Jeu des omnibus et dames blanches.
The name of 'Dames Blanches', or white ladies, was bestowed on the two-compartment public omnibus that plied the Madeleine-Bastille run in Paris. In 1937 the brand Hermè...
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1880
![Jules Verne Le Tour du Monde en 80 jours. [Goose game board inspired by Jules Verne's novel Tour du Monde en 80 jours.]](/uploads/cache/44919-250x250.jpg)
Jules Verne Le Tour du Monde en 80 jours. [Goose game board inspired by Jules Verne's novel Tour du Monde en 80 jours.]
Goose game board inspired by Jules Verne's novel, whose boxes are illustrated with color lithographs and the center occupied by a world map. Vignette illustrations number...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1880
Enquête sur l'état de la civilisation en Europe. (Front page of la Caricature n°140).
The newspaper contains eight pages with different illustration. The artist is A. Robida, who was the chief editor and the engraver is Yves BarretThe artist is A. Robida, ...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Paris, La Caricature, September 2, 1882
Voyage extraodinaire d'un reporter dans l'Amérique du Sud par Clérice (Front page of la Caricature n°137).
Frontispiece showing a globe with south America and the title "Voyage extraodinaire d'un reporter dans l'Amérique du Sud par Clérice". The newspaper contains ...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Paris, La Caricature, August 12, 1882
Politica Maramea Inglese - Rugantino - n°419 - Roma 17 Gennaio 1892.
Satirical print relating to the British Conquest of Egypt (1882), also known as Anglo–Egyptian War, between Egyptian and Sudanese forces under Ahmed ‘Urabi and the Un...
Place & Date: Rome, January 17, 1892
Le Petit Journal Illustré N°382 - Attentat contre le roi de Grece - Théatre du Chatelet: Le Tour du Monde en 80 jours.
Double page taken from the famous newspaper Le Petit Journal Illustré N°382, showing the attack against the king Georges of Greece (Size of the illustration: 305mm x 26...
- $30 / ≈ €28
Place & Date: Paris, 1898
![Drehbare Tasschen Sternkarte Brieftasche Format . . . [Calendrier perpetuel]](/uploads/cache/44965-250x250.jpg)
Drehbare Tasschen Sternkarte Brieftasche Format . . . [Calendrier perpetuel]
Calendrier perpetual prepared and published by Otto Maier in Regensburg. This "Rotatable Cosmos Star Chart" shows in no time the currently visible sky detail. Y...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Regensburg, ca. 1900
Carte géologique de la France.
Early geological map of France, published by Charles Béranger. Full title: " Ministère des Travaux publics, Carte géologique de la France 1:1'000'000, Exécutée ...
- $1200 / ≈ €1123
Place & Date: Paris, 1905
Excelsiori (Rana N. 28 - Cent. 20).
"After so many wars and so many troubles, young Russia, in a more serene glaze all the beautiful sun of freedom you will enjoy ... ". Fascinating allegorical sa...
Place & Date: Bologna, 1905
Atlas Geographique. (Puzzle).
Three map puzzles, each measuring 25 x 33 cm., housed in the original color printed card case. Geographical jigsaw puzzle set comprising three maps (world, Europe and Fra...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1910
Giuoco Dell'Oca Geografica.
An attractive and rare playing board for a “Goose game” designed to teach the geographical places of Italy.The Game of the Goose is a race game wherein players move t...
Place & Date: Italy, ca. 1910
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2018
(Design for Hark ! Hark ! The dogs do bark.)
This very rare political caricature map of Europe depicts the continent at the outbreak of World War I, or as it was called at the time the Great War. The principal count...
- $3000 / ≈ €2807
Place & Date: London, ca. 1914
![[Goose game board] Le 1914 Edition pochette.](/uploads/cache/47214-250x250.jpg)
[Goose game board] Le 1914 Edition pochette.
Goose game in the form of a folding map of north of France and Belgium, with part of England, Germany, Holland and Luxembourg.More about board games [+]
- $450 / ≈ €421
Place & Date: Paris, 1914
Hark ! Hark ! The dogs do bark.
This very rare political caricature map of Europe depicts the continent at the outbreak of World War I, or as it was called at the time the Great War. Designed by Johnson...
Place & Date: London, Johnson Riddle & Co., 1914
Karte von Europa im Jahre 1870 nach einem französischen Holzschnitte.
Satirical illustration by Paul Hadol showing disposition of power in Europe at the beginning of 1870. Satirical print depicting a map of Europe in which the countries are...
Place & Date: Hamburg, Fuchs, 1914
Mappa Humoristico da Europa.
A really unusual and lovely map, published in Portugal at the outbreak of The Great War in 1914. This outbreak of war in Europe was the result of a complex sequence of ev...
Place & Date: Lisbon, 1914
![Hoo Daihiko Kinen Hiko Sugoroku [ [訪欧大飛行記念飛行双六 ]](/uploads/cache/46569-250x250.jpg)
Hoo Daihiko Kinen Hiko Sugoroku [ [訪欧大飛行記念飛行双六 ]
FIRST EDITION. A rare paper board game celebrating a flight from Tokyo to Rome Europe. Published in by Osaka Asahi Shinbun.This color offset-printed sugoroku (a paper “...
- $600 / ≈ €561
Place & Date: Osaka, Taisho 14 or 1925
Le Pal - Nous ne connaissons ni la discipline des partis ni les complaisances de la camaraderie.
Original cover design in pen and ink by Henri Desbarbieux for the satirical bi-monthly journal Le Pal.Not much information is found about Henri Desbarbieux. In this BNF l...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Paris, 1925
Carriers of the New Black Plague.
A powerful satirical commentary on totalitarian control of speech from the first issue of Ken Magazine. "Caught here in all their peculiar beauty by the soul searchi...
Place & Date: Chicago, 1938
![[Magazine including pictorial world map, Carriers of the New Black Plague by William Cotton.]](/uploads/cache/43680-250x250.jpg)
[Magazine including pictorial world map, Carriers of the New Black Plague by William Cotton.]
Front cover with color illustration of Moroccan male sheik and yellow lettering.Oversized magazine, features analysis of English justice, map of Herr Hitler's heaven (ful...
Place & Date: Chicago, April 7th, Vol.1 No.1 1938
L'Europe en Sept 1939. Ille terrarum mihi angulus ridet.
A rare oversized serio-comic map of Europe at the start of the Second World War depicting stereotypes of 31 countries, as listed in the key lower right, including Brit...
Place & Date: Bruges, Leon Burghgraeve, 1939
Isla Martinica.
A beautiful hand colored, hand drawn map of the French Caribbean island of Martinique, prepared for the Buenos Aires 1939 Philatelic Exhibition, with separate text with d...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Buenos Aires, 1939
![[Escape map] N°34 Southeast Asia + Northeast Asia.](/uploads/cache/40293-250x250.jpg)
[Escape map] N°34 Southeast Asia + Northeast Asia.
A fine "survival map" or "escape map" of China was compiled for the U.S. Army Air Forces. South China side has an inset of Taiwan (Formosa). These lig...
- $125 / ≈ €117
Place & Date: Washington, D.C. 1944
![[No title] Gouache of a class scene with globe, revolting students and a teacher.](/uploads/cache/44404-250x250.jpg)
[No title] Gouache of a class scene with globe, revolting students and a teacher.
Gouache of a class scene with a globe centered on Europe and Africa with revolting students and a teacher. Original design for a pulp publication.
- $350 / ≈ €328
Place & Date: ca. 1950-1960