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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
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
(Rheims)
Finely engraved plan of Rheims.
Place & Date: ca. 1750
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
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
Galeries Lafayette.
Decorative publicity fan for Galeries Lafayette department store in Paris. Recto and verso illustrations after Domergue.On verso advertisement for the perfume brand Royal...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1930
Galeries Lafayette.
Decorative publicity fan for Galeries Lafayette department store in Paris. Recto and verso illustrations after Jean-Gabriel Domergue and Ferro. Printed by Georges Lang Pa...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1930
Le prestige des Galeries Lafayette rayonne sur le monde entier.
Decorative fan for Galeries Lafayette department store in Paris. Recto and verso illustrations. Printed by Georges Lang Paris.Read more about folding fans. [+]
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1930
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[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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Guiana sive Amazonum Regio.
Copper engraving, hand colored in outline when published. A highly decorative map showing Guiana extending westwards to Trinidad and Margarita Island, dominated by a huge...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1645
Nieuwe kaart van Arabia.
An attractive map of the Arabian Peninsula here called Gelukkig Arabia or Happy Arabia . The map has a great advance on other maps of the time by showing the true extent ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1740
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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
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
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
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
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
(Publicity mini poster) Riz Soleil Levant.
Original stone lithograph in-store small format display for Riz Soleil Levant, or basically Rice of the Rising Sun.The Chinaman is pouring a box of this rice over the ima...
Place & Date: Paris, ca.1933
Double page manuscript page from a Shahnameh, The Book of Kings, written by Ferdowsi.
Fine double page brilliantly illuminated gilt leaves written by the scribe Abu Bakr Jami in Isfahan. The Arabic text contains Islamic prayers with beautiful headings thro...
Place & Date: Isfahan, ca. 1780
Confiance... Ses Amputations se Poursuivent Methodiquement.
Propaganda poster, produced under the NAZI collaborating Vichy French regime and designed to inspire revulsion and hatred of the English among the French, while frequentl...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1941
Double page manuscript page from a Shahnameh, The Book of Kings, written by Ferdowsi.
Fine double page brilliantly illuminated gilt leaves written by the scribe Abu Bakr Jami in Isfahan. The Arabic text contains Islamic prayers with beautiful headings thro...
Place & Date: Isfahan, ca. 1780
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 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
Vue d'une Rue Nanking.
A well-known publisher of optical prints, established in Augsburg. After a design by P.van Blankaert.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, there were many popular s...
Place & Date: Augsburg 1760
Pascaart van de zee-custenvan Angola, en Cimbedas van Rivier de Galion tot C. de Bona Esperanca.
Rare Doncker's sea chart of the West Coast of Africa, from Angola to the Cape of Good Hope, with a larger inset map of the area from St. Martin's Bay to the Cape of Good ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660-1668
Impero del Gran Mogol.
A very fine map showing India divided into its regions with major towns and cities marked and also parts of its neighbouring kingdoms.
Place & Date: Venice, 1740
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
Carte de la Nouvelle-Zelande visitée en 1769 et 1770 par le Lieutenant J. Cook.
Original French Edition of James Cook's Chart of New Zealand, from the First French Edition of Hawkesworth's Voyages. Map of New Zealand, engraved by Bernard. The most im...
Place & Date: Paris, 1774
Bamberga. Folium CLXXV
Double page panoramic view of Bamberg. One of the earliest obtainable view of this period.Two page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Nuremberg Chronicl...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
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
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
Comitatus Zutphania.
With an inset a plan of the town of Zutphen. Originally published by Petrus Kaerius in 1617. Published by Visscher in his "Belgium sive Germania Inferior continens p...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries. 42.
Engraving from Perspective, c'est a dire, le tresrenomme art du poinct oculaire d'une veue dedans ou travers regardante, estant sur une muraille unie, sur un tableau, ou ...
Place & Date: The Hague, 1604 - 1605
French composite atlas made up of rare maps published by Parisian editors from the 17th century , mainly by G. Jollain including scarce maps of America.
A rare French composite atlas including 90 maps, published by Parisian publishers from the 17th century, mainly by Gérard I Jollain, or by maps bought from Dutch publish...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1675
Air France Rayonne sur le monde.
Advertising poster from Air France, the french airline company. The poster has always occupied a special place in Air France's communication. With a heritage of more than...
Place & Date: Imprimerie Goosens, Paris, ca. 1940-1950
Double page manuscript page with Islamic prayers with beautiful headings throughout.
Fine double page brilliantly illuminated gilt leaves written by the scribe Abu Bakr Jami in Isfahan. The Arabic text contains Islamic prayers with beautiful headings thro...
Place & Date: Isfahan, ca. 1780
Manuscript page from a Shahnameh, The Book of Kings, written by Ferdowsi.
Page with large miniature 160 x 160mm. from the Shahnameh, or ("The Book of Kings"), which is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 9...
Place & Date: Kashmir, ca. 1830-1860
Pascaerte vande Vlaemsche, Soute, en Caribesche Eylanden, als mede Terra Nova,. . .
This fine and scarce sea chart covers the central Atlantic and extends to include the Maritime Provinces, Antilles and the northwest coast of South America, east to the A...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1672
Manuscript page from a Shahnameh, The Book of Kings, written by Ferdowsi.
Page with large miniature 187 x 160mm. from the Shahnameh, or ("The Book of Kings"), which is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 9...
Place & Date: Kashmir, ca. 1830-1860
Cadran Politique au casque magique de guillaume.
A rare broad sheet about the Franco-Prussian War. Showing a large clock with in the center William I, the German Emperor, surrounded by 12 stages of the war.Printed by Gi...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1872
Carte de l'Isle de Sumatra. . . / Kaart van het Eiland Sumatra. . .
Map of Sumatra, also showing the tip of the Malay Peninsula and the Straits of Singapore. An unusually detailed map of the area, showing many coastal features, shoals, ba...
Place & Date: The Hague, Pierre d'Hondt, 1753
Wilhem Hoffmann Dresden.
Chromo lithographed poster, "Wilhelm Hoffmann Dresden.", after Otto Fischer. Plate 127, published in Maître 32, on July 1898. The "Les Maitres de l'Affich...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, April 1896
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2017
Sommaire du n°16 - Mars 1897
Cover of Les Maitres de l'Affiche n°16 (2nd year of publication). It used to contains the plates 61 - 64. The "Les Maitres de l'Affiche" contained 256 small fo...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, August 1897
(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
Gazette du Bon Ton Art - Modes Frivolités. (1912/1913 volume)
La Gazette du Bon Ton was a leading French fashion magazine that was published from November 1912 to 1925. The extremely rich and vivid colors were achieved through the l...
Place & Date: Paris, 1912-1913
Sinus Omnium Sanctoru. Bahia de Todos os Sanctos.
RARE. First Atlas Major issue: originally issued by Blaeu in Casper van Baarle's 'Rerum per Octennium in Brasilia' (1647) dedicated to the former Governor of the Dutch co...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1664
Wo ai bei jing tian an men. - I Love Peking's Tie An Men. - Ich Liebe Tienanmen in Peking. - J'aime la Porte Tien an-men de Pékin.
colored Chinese Cultural Revolution poster, featuring three joyful young children looking at a drawing of a young boy on a aeroplane heading towards Tiananmen Square. The...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Shaanxi renmin chubanshe, Shanhai / Beijing, ca. 1968
Lido de Paris - Nouveau spectacle Christian Clerico présente C'est magique.
Very decorative poster designed by René Gruau for the Lido, made on the occasion of the release of the new show "It's magic". René Gruau (1909-2004) was a Fra...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1980
China Southeast Coast.
A very large US Army and Naval map of the south east coast of China, published during the second world war. Map extent is from Kweichow Province in the west, to Kwangsi P...
- $1250 / ≈ €1170
Place & Date: [New York], 1944
La Flamboyante Colomne des Pays-Bas. Autrement dict les XVII Provinces. Chez Jacob Colom.
Rare atlas of the Low Countries, by Jacob Colom, in an early – first- French edition. The atlas was first printed in Dutch (1635) and than in 1636 in French, using the ...
- $3000 / ≈ €2807
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1636
Partie Méridionale de l'Archevesché et Eslectorat de Cologne. . .
Fine map of the Westphalia, the area in-between the Rivers Maas and Rhine.
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Paris, 1707
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Shang dang ke (xuan zi Huxian nong min hua zhan]. (Party-lecture Education)
Chinese political poster in color depicting eleven peasants gathered in a room to listen to a Party supported lecture in Northwest China. The man next to the blackboard g...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Shanghai renmin chubanshe, 1974/1975
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
Pas kaart Van Rio Oronoque Golfo De Paria met d'Eylanden Trinidad, Tabago, Granada, Granadillos, en Bequia . . .
A highly detailed and rare sea chart of the mouth of the Orinoco River, Trinidad, Tabago, St.Vincent and neighboring islands. Oriented with north to the right by two comp...
- $900 / ≈ €842
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1684
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
Lenin October.
Uncommon Soviet propaganda poster.Read more about the Soviet propaganda poster. [+]
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Moscow, 1987
Accuratissima et maxima totius Turcici Imperii..
Rare issue of T. Danckert's attractive map showing the Arabian Peninsular, Turkey, Cyprus, Egypt and eastern part of the Mediterranean.Decorative title cartouche lower le...
- $1100 / ≈ €1029
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Connecticut and Parts adjacent at Amsterdam. .
A nice example of this early map of the state of Connecticut with part of Rhode Island to the east, Long Island to the south, and New York to the east. Rivers, roads, t...
- $30000 / ≈ €28072
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1780
Cercle de Franconie . . .
Finely and crisply engraved map of part of Germany. Map by Giles Didier Robert De Vaugondy with erased title cartouche. Ornamental title cartouche in the upper part of ma...
- $80 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: Paris, 1752
Compañia General de Tabacos de Filipinas (Certificate).
Decorative certificate with a decorative vignette and map / globe oriented to show the Philippines.Tabacalera was the popular name of Compañia General de Tabacos de Fili...
- $80 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: Barcelone, 1969
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Lovenstein. [Loevestein]
View of the castle Loevestein, near Gorinchem.. On the sky, three hands holding a quill, a stone and a stick are depicted. With a verse in two languages underneath the pi...
- $60 / ≈ €56
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1624
Paradigma XV Provinciarum et CLV Urbium Capitalium Sinensis Imperij Cum Templis quae Cruce X Signatur Et Domiciliis S.I.
First edition of this rare Jesuit map of China, published by Jean Baptiste Nolin in Paris and based on Philippe Couplet's map of 1686. The map shows China's 15 provinces ...
- $2400 / ≈ €2246
Place & Date: Paris, 1686
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
Corsica.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF THIS MAP. Blaeu's map of the French island of Corsica. East on top. A detailed and well executed map.From an incomplete example of the 1634 ...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634
Strabonis illustrissimi scriptoris Geographia decem et septem libros continens.
First edition was published in Paris in the sixteenth century and the first with the preface by Thibaud Pigenat. Translation from Greek into Latin by Gregorio Tifernate a...
- $5000 / ≈ €4679
Place & Date: Paris, Hémon Le Fèvre, 1512
Celeberrimi Fluvis Albis nova delineatio. . .
A decorative map from a 1640's Latin text edition of Blaeu's "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, Sive Atlas Novis." The River Elbe is depicted in two sections from the mo...
- $80 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644
La Baja D'Hudson Terra di Labrador e Groenlandia.
Decorative map of Nova Scotia, Hudson Bay and part of Greenland. With many names of villages, as well engraved mountains and rivers are shown.Published in Zatta's "A...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Venice, 1778
Mexique ou le N.Espagne.
Uncommon miniature map of Mexico, central America and the Gulf of Mexico. From Pierre Duval's La Geographie Universeille dated 1676. Following his Cartes de geographie in...
Place & Date: Paris, 1676
Plan de la Ville et du Chateau de Batavia en l'Isle de Iava / Ware affbeeldinge wegens het Casteel ende Stadt Batavia gelegen opt groot Eylant Java.
Detailed East-oriented plan of Jakarta former Batavia on Java / Indonesia. With bird's-eye view from sea side, various ships and a lion. Two inset keys with detailed desc...
Place & Date: Leiden, 1730
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2019
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
The Kingdom of Persia with the cheef Citties and Habites described by John Speede.
One of the most decorative "carte à figures"- maps of the old Kingdom of Persia, including modern day Iran and Iraq, as well as portions of the Turkish Empire,...
- $2000 / ≈ €1871
Place & Date: London, G.Humble, 1626
(Zeeland)
Rare map of Zeeland, first issued by Petrus Kaerius, than by Claes Jansz. Visscher. The copper plate was previously made by an anonymous engraver, and than came into the ...
- $1050 / ≈ €983
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1631
Kaart van de Reede van Batavia met de verschillende vaarwaters naar dezelve trigometrisch opgenomen op last van deb schout bijnacht E.Lucas.
Very large and rare so-called blue-black chart centered on Jakarta's harbor.The chart is prepared by B.G.Escher, I.A.C. Eschauzier, B.H.Staring and E.H.Boom during an exp...
- $2000 / ≈ €1871
Place & Date: Amsterdam (1841) 1847