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![Pomponii Melae De Orbis Situ Libri tres…[with Oronce Fine double-cordiform worldmap in a first state].](/uploads/cache/49009-250x250.jpg)
Pomponii Melae De Orbis Situ Libri tres…[with Oronce Fine double-cordiform worldmap in a first state].
Third edition with the commentary of Joachim Vadian with some contemporary notes in Latin, issued with the first edition of Oronce Fine full-sheet woodcut map of the worl...
Place & Date: Paris, (Chretien Wechel), 1530
Benedict. Arias Montanus Sacrae Geographiae Tabulam Ex Antiq
THE EXTREMELY RARE FIRST STATE landmark world map, famed for its depiction of the Australian landmass.One of the earliest printed maps to depict the “terra incognitaâ€...
Place & Date: Anvers 1571 /1572
Islandia.
Perhaps the most famous map of Iceland. On the south side of the island a collection of all possible sea monsters is depicted. Polar bears on ice flows and volcanoes in t...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1603
Leo Belgicus.
Among the greatest decorative works of early cartography is a series of arresting maps showing The Netherlands and Belgium in the shape of a lion. The various versions of...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1617
Asia recens summa cura delineata.
This is the rare early issue with decorative paneled borders of four sides. It is surrounded by elaborate borders incorporating twelve bird's eye views of cities and te...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, H.Hondius,1623
Abrahami Patriarchae Peregrinatio et Vita.
The Holy Land map itself occupies the center and is surrounded by vignettes of the life of the Patriarch Abraham. Extremely decorative map made by Ortelius, based on Ptol...
- $2800 / ≈ €2620
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1624
Portrait of Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius.
Arguably the finest engraved portrait of early mapmakers. In the well-executed design, Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius are seated within an architectural cartouche of...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
![[A unique, made-to-order edition, of the Parergon, in quo Veteris geographiae aliquot tabulae.]](/uploads/cache/49049ZG-250x250.jpg)
[A unique, made-to-order edition, of the Parergon, in quo Veteris geographiae aliquot tabulae.]
This is a unique, made-to-order atlas of Ortelius's Atlas, "Parergon" or "Atlas of the ancient world." In 1579, Ortelius published his first Parergon ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, ca. 1601-1640
Les Isles Britanniques, l'Espagne, la France, l'Italie, & l'Allemagne, Descrites en plusieurs cartes & divers Traictés… ("Les cinq royaumes").
First edition of the atlas of the "Five Kingdoms" (Great Britain, Spain, France, Italy and Germany) bound with the description and maps of the Eastern and Weste...
Place & Date: Paris, Pierre Mariette, 1644
Rerum per octennium in Brasilia Et alibi nuper gestarum, Sub Praefectura Illustrissimi Comitis I. Mauritii, Nassoviae, (...) Historia.
First edition. Commissioned by Johan Maurits van Nassau (governor of Brazil between 1636-1644 and founder of "Mauritsstad" (present-day Recife)) and illustrated...
- $27500 / ≈ €25732
Place & Date: Amsterdam, J. Blaeu, 1647
Pascaarte, van de Zuijderzee, Vliestroom, Vlie, en Amelandergat…
Very rare chart of the Dutch Zuiderzee, here in its rare 5th state (o f6). Showing the coastlines along the Dutch inner sea. Two compass roses indicate north to the left ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1660
Foederatae Belgicae Tabulae.
Fine, detailed map of the area of the modern Netherlands less the southern part of Limburg, of which the small area around the town of Maastricht is shown in the inset bo...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Cosmography in Four Books. Containing the Chorography and History of the Whole World: and all the Principal Kingdoms, Provinces, Seas,
Extensive description of the world by Peter Heylyn. Here the 6th edition corrected and enlarged by the author. Including 4 maps.The map of America showing California as a...
- $900 / ≈ €842
Place & Date: London, 1682
Amstelodami Veteris et Novissimi Delineatio per Joannem de Ram
Johannes de Ram’s very rare and beautiful map of Amsterdam, which is made after a map of Frederik de Wit. The river Amstel is still an open water flowing through the h...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c.1682
![[2 maps] Nieuwe Hemels Spiegel waer door den hemel, aerde en zee dadelik kan afgemeten werden. Noyt gesien en dat op alles Polus hooghten seer noodig voor Stierlieden.](/uploads/cache/49049-250x250.jpg)
[2 maps] Nieuwe Hemels Spiegel waer door den hemel, aerde en zee dadelik kan afgemeten werden. Noyt gesien en dat op alles Polus hooghten seer noodig voor Stierlieden.
Copper engraving made by Andreas van Luchtenburg in Rotterdam, published separately by Cornelis Danckerts. Dimensions. 60.5 x 52.8 cm.We see the starry sky from the nor...
Place & Date: Rotterdam, Amsterdam, 1695
![[Concert at time of Handel] Dulcissimum Melos Bona Fama.](/uploads/cache/47201-250x250.jpg)
[Concert at time of Handel] Dulcissimum Melos Bona Fama.
Copper-plate engraving of the rehearsal of a chamber cantata by Johann Christoph Steudner, after Paul Decker the elder, in the Handel-Haus, Halle. (Musikgeschichte in Bil...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1700
Moris Beneficio Comendatus Tabaci usus. Der durch die Mode beliebt gemachteTaback
Copper-plate engraving showing a group of fashionably dressed men and women smoking long-stemmed pipes around a table in front of a garden hedge. "Paulus Decker inv....
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1700
![[A magnificent 18 inch. (46 cm.) diameter celestial globe] URANOGRAPHIA / SYDERUM ET STELLARUM / in Singulis Syderibus conspicuarum / exhibens Delineationem accuratissimam, / qua / ex Observationibus Astronomi plane Singularis / IOHANIS HEVELII...](/uploads/cache/48959-250x250.jpg)
[A magnificent 18 inch. (46 cm.) diameter celestial globe] URANOGRAPHIA / SYDERUM ET STELLARUM / in Singulis Syderibus conspicuarum / exhibens Delineationem accuratissimam, / qua / ex Observationibus Astronomi plane Singularis / IOHANIS HEVELII...
RARE FIRST STATE OF THIS CELESTIAL TABLE GLOBE, 46 cm in diameter, produced by Gerard and Leonard Valk at the beginning of the 18th century. The globe comprises of t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1711
A new and correct map of the world.
The early eighteenth century was one of the most important periods for English cartography. One of the period's most intriguing world maps is this large-scale map, which ...
Place & Date: London 1714
Architecturae Militaris Synopsis, ... / Vollstaendiger Entwurff der Ingenieur Kunst . . .
Decorative large sheet with elements of different types of fortress architecture and the name of the engineers or military architects: Blondel, Bourdin, Doegen, Borgsdorf...
- $650 / ≈ €608
Place & Date: Augsburg, circa 1730
Atlas Universel Par M. Robert Geographe ordinaire du Roy
The first edition of one of the most important 18th-century atlases and one of the great achievements of the French Enlightenment and one of the first atlases based on sc...
Place & Date: Paris, 1757
![[HAWAII] - Plan de la baye de Karakakooa.](/uploads/cache/48173-250x250.jpg)
[HAWAII] - Plan de la baye de Karakakooa.
Beautiful map showing the islands forming the Hawaiian archipelago, drawn up during Cook's third voyage: Oneeheow or Ni'ihau, Atooi or Kauai, Woahoo or O'ahu, Morotoi or ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1774
![["Kijkkast"]. Viewing box for optical prints](/uploads/cache/49106-250x250.jpg)
["Kijkkast"]. Viewing box for optical prints
A very rare custom made collapsible peepshow in a bookshaped box, late 18th century, folded out 66(h.)x56(w.)x40(d.) cm., 7 hinging cardboard parts painted blue or w. bla...
- $12000 / ≈ €11229
Place & Date: The Netherlands, ca. 1780
Carta militar das principaes estradas de Portugal.
Rare road map of Portugal in a scale of ca 1:470000. At the bottom right and left legends in Portuguese and French. Engraved by Romão Eloy de Almeida, who was a Portugue...
Place & Date: Lisbone, 1808
Nouveau jeu des théatres de Melpomene, Momus et Thalie.
Game board with 63 numbered pictorial compartments, each showing an actor or actress in role, lettered with his or her name, the name of the character, the play and the t...
- $1100 / ≈ €1029
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1810
![[A collection of 100 Soviet propaganda poster published in the 1980's]](/uploads/cache/47076-250x250.jpg)
[A collection of 100 Soviet propaganda poster published in the 1980's]
A collection of 100 Soviet propaganda posters published during the early years of the Perestroika & Glasnost period by Plakat (All-Union Poster), Moscow — Плак...
Place & Date: Moscow, 1989