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![[60] Porto de Ganea.](/uploads/cache/12832-250x250.jpg)
[60] Porto de Ganea.
Charming chart of the harbour of the Greek town of Ganea. Showing town and harbour plan, with soundings, anchorages, rocks, shoals, fortifications and lighthouses.Joseph ...
Place & Date: Marseille, 1764
Carte de la Côte de Guzerat, Du Golf de Cambaye et des Côtes de Concan et De Canara.
French sea chart of West India from Gujarat to Mangalore. With inset chart Plan de la Rivière de Surate.Prepared by Jacques-François L'Abbé Dicquemare (1733-1789). La...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1775
Pas-Caart van Guinea en den Custen daer aen gelegen Van C..
A decorative chart of the southwest coast of Africa, embellished with an elaborate, finely colored title-cartouche, and 2 compass-roses. Pieter Goos (ca. 1616-1675) was o...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1666
Carte de l'Ile de Java. . .
An inset plan of Batavia and clearly indicated rice fields, mountains, forests, towns in profile, and even elephants, suggesting the wealth of detail found on this map. M...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
![[How the Indians cross the river.]](/uploads/cache/40477-250x250.jpg)
[How the Indians cross the river.]
The Indians of Peru had strange ways of crossing rivers. They tied a rope between two poles on either side of a river, then they hung a large basket from this rope and wh...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Insulae Iavae Cum parte insularum Borneo Sumatrae..
An elegant sea chart of the island of Java with parts of Sumatra, Borneo and Bali. The map includes only coastal detail and shows the Dutch capital in the East Indies at ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1652
Paskaart van de kust van Maroca beginnende van Larache tot aan C. Cantin. . .
A nautical sea chart of the coast of Morocco. Insert at top right: 'Nieuwe Afbeelding van de Rivier Rio Rebata in 't Groot".Bottom right: chart number '32'. Compass ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca.1682
Pas kaart vande Zuyd kust van Cuba en van Geheel Jamaica…
A nautical chart covering the southern part of Cuba, all of Jamaica and the western tip of Hispaniola and a bit of the Honduras coastline. Insets of "Baya Oristan in...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, J. van Keulen, 1697-1709
Flaggen aller seefahrenden potenzen und nationen…
A highly decorative and beautiful print with 139 flags of the sea-faring nations, factions, and trading companies. Among the more interesting flags are those of the Dutch...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1750
Shipping scene.
Attractive lithography showing Dutch vessels off the Dutch coast, by A.A.Nunnink after a painting by L.Meijer. Published in Kunst Kroniek .
- $60 / ≈ €56
Place & Date: The Hague, 1857
![[Ships at sea]](/uploads/cache/08213-250x250.jpg)
[Ships at sea]
Attractive lithography showing Dutch vessels off the Dutch coast, by F.H.Weissenbruch after a painting by L.Meijer. Published in Kunst Kroniek .
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: The Hague, 1862
Shipping
Attractive lithography showing Dutch vessels off the Dutch coast, by F.A.Breuhaus de Groot. Published in Kunst Kroniek.
- $80 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: The Hague, 1849
![Vue de l'Isle d'Otahiti et de plusieurs Pirogues. [Tome II Pl. 11.]](/uploads/cache/26102-250x250.jpg)
Vue de l'Isle d'Otahiti et de plusieurs Pirogues. [Tome II Pl. 11.]
View of the Island of Tahiti and dugouts. From the French edition of James Cook's first voyage entitled Relation des voyages entrepris par ordre de sa Majesté Britanniqu...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Paris, 1773
![Vue de l'Isle d'Ulietéa avec une double Pirogue et un hangar où les Insulaires retirent leurs bâtiments de mer. [Tome III Pl. 5.]](/uploads/cache/26106-250x250.jpg)
Vue de l'Isle d'Ulietéa avec une double Pirogue et un hangar où les Insulaires retirent leurs bâtiments de mer. [Tome III Pl. 5.]
A view on the Island of Ulietea, French Polynesia, of a dugout boat house and a beautifully engraved pirogue at sea. From the French edition of James Cook's first voyage ...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Paris, 1773
![[Pirogues in the bay of the voyage of the Resolution. The Marquesas Islands ].](/uploads/cache/26373-250x250.jpg)
[Pirogues in the bay of the voyage of the Resolution. The Marquesas Islands ].
Aquatint depicting men in pirogues in the Bay of the Resolution from the Marquesas Islands engraved by Biasioli. Plate N° 91. HMS Resolution was a sloop of the Royal Nav...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
![[Easter Island inhabitants ].](/uploads/cache/26375-250x250.jpg)
[Easter Island inhabitants ].
Aquatint depicting 2 portraits of Easter Island inhabitants and 2 men rowing in a pirogue. Engraved by Carlo Bottigella. Plate N° 88. From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Cost...
- $80 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
DU GLOBE TERRESTRE - Figure XC. 253
Finely engraved plate of various types of sailing ships.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers.. (5 volumes), 1683. By Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706), ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
(Ships on full sea)
A fine engraving of different sailing vessels at full sea.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers.. (5 volumes), 1683. By Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706)...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Noordoost Cust van Asia van Japan tot Nova Zemla.
An eye-catching chart of Hokkaido and the Islands to the North of Japan. Ships navigate the seas around the Siberian, Chinese and Japanese coasts extending as far west as...
- $2500 / ≈ €2339
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1666
Cimbebas et Caffariae Littora a Catenbela ad Promontorium. . .
The coast of Angola, South-West Africa and South Africa up to Port Elizabeth. Classic sea chart of Dutch school with excellent baroque embellishment. North oriented to th...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1675
Le Rachat de l'Esclave.
With a dedication to Monseigneur Anne Robert Jacques Turgot Ministre d'Etat, Controlleur Général des Finances. Engraved by J. Aliamet (1726-1788) after Nicolaes Pieters...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Paris, Aliamet, ca. 1785
Embarquement de vivres.
With a dedication to Monseigneur le Comte de Saint Florentin Commandeur des Ordres du Roy. Engraved by Jac. Philippe Le Bas, who was also engraver for "Cabinet du Ro...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1785
Britain's Empire on the Sea. Dedicated to Captain the Right Honourable Lord Charles Beresford...
A very decorative and large chromolithographed plate showing all the effective strength of the British navy with the name and class of each ship shown beneath, except for...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Portsea, ca. 1897
The Royal Naval review at Spithead, June 26th, 1897. In Honour of Her Majesty Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.
A very decorative and large chromolithographed plate showing a line up of international vessels at Spithead, June 26th, 1897 In Honour of her Majesty Queen Victoria'a Dia...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Portsea, ca. 1897
Mappa Aestivarum Insularum alias Barmudas.
Blaeu based his work on John Speed's remarkably accurate map of 1626-1627. It shows the island divided into tribes and lots, and below the map itself appear the names of ...
- $2200 / ≈ €2059
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1662
![[View of the arrival of Cornelis de Houtman's fleet at Bantam, Java.].](/uploads/cache/37937-250x250.jpg)
[View of the arrival of Cornelis de Houtman's fleet at Bantam, Java.].
Engraved map of Bantam on Java with a lettered key (A-N) showing the arrival of Cornelis de Houtman’s fleet at Bantam, Java in 1596. Houtman’s four vessels, the Amste...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas, 1609
![[Foreign Merchants at Bantam].](/uploads/cache/37943-250x250.jpg)
[Foreign Merchants at Bantam].
Two text engravings from "Premier livre de l'histoire de la navigation aux Indes Orientales, par les hollandois, et des choses a eux advenues . . . ", being the...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas, 1609
![[Javanese Vessels]](/uploads/cache/37947-250x250.jpg)
[Javanese Vessels]
Two text engravings from "Premier livre de l'histoire de la navigation aux Indes Orientales, par les hollandois, et des choses a eux advenues . . . ", being the...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas, 1609
![[Ternate].](/uploads/cache/37954-250x250.jpg)
[Ternate].
Text engraving showing a bay on the Island of Ternate, an island in the Maluku Islands (Moluccas) of eastern Indonesia. Above the map a lettered key (A-E). Text engraving...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas, 1609
XXVII. Triremes seu Galiottae et Fustae Iavenenfium. 21. ( A typical Javanese man-of-war ship)
A typical Javanese man-of-war ship. The Javanese call their man-of-war ships, Cathurs. The slaves are all seated below deck and do the rowing with oars, while the warrior...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Carta particolare che comincia con il c.apo Aldea è Finisce con il capo Degortam. . .
Dudley’s magnificent chart shows the south west coast of Africa. A first edition without the privilege..Engraved by Lucini.Sir Robert Dudley's Dell'Arcano del Mare is t...
- $1250 / ≈ €1170
Place & Date: Florence, 1645
Inventio Maris Magallanici.
Allegorical scene allegorical image celebrating the circumnavigation of the earth by Ferdinand Magellan. The image shows Magellan on board of his ship, surrounded by myth...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594
![[Columbus is standing in the bow of his ship]](/uploads/cache/48524-250x250.jpg)
[Columbus is standing in the bow of his ship]
Columbus is standing in the bow of his ship, which is near the shore. He is clad in a long mantle and undercoat, while his armor lies at his feet, and his standard is flo...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594
![Pisces in mari alati [flying fish attack]](/uploads/cache/48527-250x250.jpg)
Pisces in mari alati [flying fish attack]
Flying fish attacking a Portuguese ship in the West Indian Waters.Read more about "Les Grand Voyages" by Theodore De Bry [+]
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594
Kronborg et le Sund (Danemarck).
Uncommon and decorative lithography published by Carl Johan Billmark and printed by Lemercier in Paris, 55 rue de Seine, the leading firm in Europe at that time. From: It...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Paris, c.1859
Ladimistri nel arcipelago. (Edremit)
Magnificent bird's eye-town-view of Edremit on the west coast of Turkey, not far from the Greek island Lesbos. It is situated at the tip of the gulf with the same name (G...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Antwerp, c.1690
Canistro nel Arcipelago.
Magnificent view of Kanaestreo and its harbour front, decorated with ships and rowing boats in a rough sea. Engraved by Lucas Vostermans II, who was born in 1624, in the ...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Antwerp, c.1690
![[The Dutch reach Annabon.]](/uploads/cache/40075-250x250.jpg)
[The Dutch reach Annabon.]
Eight days after leaving the mainland, the Dutch arrived at one of the Annabon islands (Pagalu), where they asked the Portuguese and Moors, who were occupying the island,...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
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
Very fine brass astronomical equinoctial ring with two brass circles.
Very fine brass astronomical equinoctial ring with two brass circles with engraved foliage decoration, signed "Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas Delure A Paris", on the han...
Place & Date: Paris, undated, ca. 1690
A cordiform - heart-shaped - horary quadrant marked with Gunter scales.
A small and charming but very fine heart-shaped horary quadrant marked with Gunter scales. The scales are very finely engraved on both sides.The quadrant was a very pract...
Place & Date: ca. 1720-1760
Marine parallel rulers in brass.
Very fine marine parallel rulers in brass. The parallel ruler is the oldest and most traditional way to measure and trace routes and bearings. The principle is simple: t...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1880
Early 19th century magnetic dry card compass with wooden bowl,
Brass dry rose marine compass, in its mahogany case. The mariner's compass, which enabled mariners to know the direction in which they were sailing, has always been one o...
Place & Date: ca. 1800
Inverted nautical Compass, called "mouchard" (~ "spy")
Inverted maritime compass called "mouchard" (spy) in wood and brass, signed "A Van Vastenhoud In Amsterdam". This type of compass was found in the cap...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1780
Cocos Insel Cocos Insula / Verräter Insel Insula proditorum.
Scarce print (148x204mm.) on a German text sheet showing the landing of Le Maire and Schouten at Cocos Island in May 1616 (today’s Tafahi in the Tonga Islands). Named b...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1631
![[The attack by Schouten and his men on a waka.]](/uploads/cache/39754-250x250.jpg)
[The attack by Schouten and his men on a waka.]
Scarce print (145x210mm.) on a German text sheet showing the attack by Schouten and his men on a waka.The page is taken from a first edition of Johann Ludwig Gottfried's ...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1631
Vligen Insel.
Scarce print (168x200mm.) on a German text sheet showing the attack of mosquitos on Schouten's ship.The page is taken from a first edition of Johann Ludwig Gottfried's &q...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M. Merian, 1631
Solor.
Scarce print on German text sheet showing the Island of Solor. From "Petits Voyages". The island Solar, to the north of Timor, has a high mountain and has a ver...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Neptune des Côtes Occidentales de France.
Large maritime atlas illustrated with a handwritten title, a table and 47 single or double page charts. The charts show the western coasts of France as well as the Spanis...
- $12000 / ≈ €11229
Place & Date: Paris, 1776-1822
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.
A plate of 88 marine flags, including Malta, Turkey, Middelburg, Amsterdam, Portugal, Monaco, Tuscany, China, Nanking, the French Royal flag, the French admiralty flag an...
- $1200 / ≈ €1123
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Cocos Eijlandt Isle de Cocos.
Scarce print (193x165mm.) on a French text sheet showing the landing of Le Maire and Schouten at Cocos Island in May 1616 (today’s Tafahi in the Tonga Islands). Named b...
- $245 / ≈ €229
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1622
![[The attack by Schouten and his men on a waka.]](/uploads/cache/39658-250x250.jpg)
[The attack by Schouten and his men on a waka.]
Scarce print on French text sheet showing the attack by Schouten and his men on a waka.From a description of the voyage of Le Maire and Schouten included in the first Fre...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1622
The East Asiatic Company.
Very decorative and uncommon 'The East Asiatic Company' poster by Kolind. Depicting a sailor loading or unloading a ship.The East Asiatic Company (EAC) came into being in...
- $650 / ≈ €608
Place & Date: Egmont H. Petersen, København, 1950
Les Messageries Maritimes font le tour du monde.
Original lithographed poster created by the artist Robert Louis Antral for Les Messageries Maritimes, showing a boat and a globe. Les Messageries Maritimes Company (MM) i...
- $900 / ≈ €842
Place & Date: Paris, 1955
Naufrage sur les côtes d'Afrique.
So called optical print of a shipwrecking in a storm off the African shores.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular specialty establishments in...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Paris, 1760
![Le Capitaine Wallis est attaqué dans le Dauphin par les Otahitiens. [Tome II Pl. 1ère.]](/uploads/cache/26099-250x250.jpg)
Le Capitaine Wallis est attaqué dans le Dauphin par les Otahitiens. [Tome II Pl. 1ère.]
Scene of an attack by local Tahitians on Captain Wallis' Dolphin ship off Tahiti's shore. Samuel Wallis (1728-95), a Royal Navy Captain and a skilled navigator was given ...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Paris, 1773
Ware affbeeldinge wegens het casteel ende stadt Batavia. . .
A reduced version of Clement de Jonghe (1650) plan of Jakarta from 1650. The town plan has a vignette at the bottom showing Jakarta from the sea with the volcanoes Mount ...
- $800 / ≈ €749
Place & Date: Leiden, 1719
Vaisseau.
Miniature view of a vessel, showing its various corposants. With key list on verso.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers.. (5 volumes), 1683. By Allain Ma...
- $80 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Hydrograhica descriptio
This very rare chart is important as the first printed sea chart of the Mediterranean coast of Spain, Gibraltar, also depicting the northern coast of Marocco.Willem Bar...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, W.Blaeu, 1612
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
Quartum Praelium Coniovian inter et Fluvium Rio Grande XVII Ian
Decorative engraving of the fourth sea battle with the Portuguese fleet offshore at the Rio Grande, in1640. Engraved by J. van Brosterhuyzen after a design by Frans J. Po...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Joannes Blaeu, Amsterdam 1647
Globe, Miniature, Terrestrial Pocket Globe in Celestial Case
A pocket globe, of typical form, the terrestrial globe with engraved hand-colored gores, having holes at the poles but no axis pins (as issued). The globe is contained wi...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1780
![Flessingue Ville de l'Ile de Walcheren. [Vlissingen]](/uploads/cache/13105-250x250.jpg)
Flessingue Ville de l'Ile de Walcheren. [Vlissingen]
A very RARE panoramic view of the city of Vlissingen. The plate is numbered in red pencil in the upper right corner.Engraved by Jean Crepy (the father), who was active as...
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Paris, 1690-1720
Cust van Hollant Tussen de Maes ende Texel.
Uncommon chart of the coast of Holland, including the southern tip of Texel. East at the top. Two fine compass cards, soundings and a large Bree Veerthien offshore.Piete...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1666
Vue perspective d'une rencontre des François avec les Anglois dans la Mediterranée.
Perspective view illustrating a battle between the French and the English fleets by Basset, a well-known publisher of optical prints, established in rue S. Jacques in Par...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Paris, 1760
A folding fan showing a nautical festival, ca. 1770.
Folded fan, painted in gouache a ship pulled by two horses. On board, a large company, among others joins them while fishermen watch the scene.Reverse painted with an exo...
- $1500 / ≈ €1404
Place & Date: France, ca. 1770
Currus Veliferi Illmi. Pr. Mauritii Nassouvii. (Prince Maurits' sailing-carriage, designed by Simon Stevin. )
Prince Maurits' sailing carriages had been designed by Simon Stevin. The Prince, always accessible to new inventions of his old instructor, could not please the foreign a...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1649
Nieuwe Paskaert van de Custen Zee Loango en Angoy van C. de Lopo Gonzalves tot R. de Zaire os Congo vertoonende alle desselfs gelegenteden.
Sea-chart of the coast of Gabon, Loango, Angoy and Angola to Zaire (Congo) River. In lower right side title and two coastal profiles. In upper left corner inset charts of...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1715 -1751
(Sea-chart of Catalunia, Languedoc, Provence, Cote d'Azur, Riviera, Corsica with Marseille, Cannes, Nice, Monaco.)
This very rare chart is important as the first printed sea chart of France's Mediterranean coast, also depicting Catalunya's northern coast, the Italian Cote d'Azur till ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1607
Mariner’s compass
Inverted compass called "snitch" in wood painted in imitation of tortoiseshell and brass, signed "Ing MANN Maker Water Street Liverpool".
Place & Date: Liverpool, ca. 1785
A ship's hour glass.
Maritime hourglass with blown glass bulbs, orange sand, junction ring covered with cord, the circular ebony frame with six turned baluster columns. The invention of the ...
Place & Date: Germany, ca. 1750
Nocturlabe in boxwood and brass.
Nocturlabe in boxwood and brass, the wheels maintained by a central nut presenting an annual calendar divided into months and days, an hour disc and a mobile alidade, the...
Place & Date: England, ca. 1700
Steel compass with a gilded radiating pattern.
Steel compass with a gilded radiating pattern.Provenance : Collection Henri-Claude Randier.
Place & Date: ca. 1760
Nocturnal in boxwood and brass.
Nocturlabe in boxwood and brass, the wheels maintained by a central nut presenting an annual calendar divided into months and days, an hour disc and a mobile alidade, the...
Place & Date: England, Thomas Cooper, dated 1701
Transom of a ship in gilded carved wood bearing the inscription "DUMONT- DURVILLE"
Decorative transom sign in gilded carved wood bearing the inscription "DUMONT- DURVILLE" in a foliage environment. The transom usually kept the name of the ship...
Place & Date: France, ca. 1880
A ship's hour glass.
Maritime hourglass with blown glass bulbs, orange sand, junction ring covered with cord, the circular ebony frame with six turned baluster columns.The invention of the ho...
Place & Date: The Netherlands, Germany, ca. 1750
![De Texel Stroom met de gaten vant Marsdiep. [with] Caarte van De Mase ende het Goereesche Gat.](/uploads/cache/12097-250x250.jpg)
De Texel Stroom met de gaten vant Marsdiep. [with] Caarte van De Mase ende het Goereesche Gat.
Two decorative charts on one sheet, one depicting Texel and the entrance of the Zuider Zee with an inset showing the north coast of West-Friesland, the other depicting th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Saique batiment dont les turcs se servent. . .
A very decorative engraving of a Turkish vessel. From Mortier's famous maritime Atlas "Neptune François". Engraved by Jan van Vianen after a design by Henri Sb...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1690
Echelle pour trouver les jours de la semaine. . . / Scale om de Dagen van de Week te vinden. . . / Scale to find the Days of the Week. . .
Fine engraved plate showing eight different scales with explications in French, Dutch and English.Scale om de dagen van de week, de verschietende feest-dagen, de maan-tyd...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1695
Carro, che uà à vela Su le Piagge di Schevelingue.
Italian version of Prince Maurits' sailing carriage designed by Simon Stevin. The big sailing-carriage could seat 28 persons and could reach a speed of seven miles per ho...
Place & Date: Venice, 1707