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AIR France - Comet De Havilland
Promotional poster attributed to Lucien Boucher showing the Comet de Havilland on a Mercator projection world map. The map depicts a pictorial map of the entire world in ...
- $1600 / ≈ €1497
Place & Date: Perceval, Paris, 1953
World Map of the Major Tropical Diseases.
A gruesome overview of some of the world’s deadliest tropical diseases designed by Boris Artzybasheff.This graphic world map uses hideous imagery and vivid color to hig...
- $270 / ≈ €253
Place & Date: London, 1944
A new and correct map of the world.
The early eighteen 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 off...
- $12000 / ≈ €11229
Place & Date: London 1714
Division Générale et Naturelle de la Terre, Suivant les Anciens.
Decorative chart showing the world as it was known by the ancients.Left and right a box with geographical information about Europe, Asia and Africa.Prepared by Buy de Mor...
Place & Date: Paris, 1762
Suite de la Longitude.
Decorative map showing one hemisphere divided into meridians.Left and right a box with further information's about longitude.Prepared by Buy de Mornas, who was a professo...
Place & Date: Paris, 1762
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2013
Carta Hydrographica oder Algemeine Welt. . .
World map in Mercator projection. Showing California as an island. In the upper left and right-hand corner two ships. The map is showing the important trade routes.
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1720
[Manuscript] Mappe - Monde - Novembre 1838.
Fine manuscript double hemisphere world map. With an over sized Australia and no place names on the continents. With the signature of the author Suhardbetween the hemisph...
Place & Date: Paris, 1838
Il mondo cocsciuto dagli antichi e le laggiori antiche monarchie Persiana, Macedone, Romana . . .
A rare double-page map of the Ancient World. From l'Atlante Storico, Letterario, Biografico, Archeologico. . . with attributions by Giambatista Albrizzi.Lower left a col...
Place & Date: Venice, 1840
Carte Reduite du globe Terrestre. . .
Fine world map in a Mercator projection. From Voyages autour du monde et vers les deux pôles par terre et par mer.. by Pierre Marie François vicomte de Pages (1748-1793...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1782
Mappe-Monde Geo-Hydrographique, ou Description Générale. . .
Large map of the world in two hemispheres, in a stereographic projection (each hemisphere 31.5 cm in diameter). California seems to be connected to the mainland, rather t...
Place & Date: Paris, 1719, but ca. 1741-1745
Carte pour servir à l'intelligence de l'histoire de la chronologie et de la géographie des empires des Assiriens, des Perses, des Egyptiens et des Chinois.
Interesting sheet with a map of the classical world showing the empires of the Assyrians, Persians, Egyptians and Chinese, with descriptive French text, from Chatelain's ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Abbozzo della mappa dei viaggi di Marco Polo nella sala dello Scudo del Palazzo ducale di Venezia.
Rare map showing the travels of Marco Polo, taken from "Sulle antiche mappe idro-geografiche lavorate in Venezia: Commentario.", by Placido Zurla (1769-1834), p...
Place & Date: Venice, 1818
Orbis Veteribus Notus.
A detailed steel engraved map of the ancient world, stretching from Europe eastwards to the Black Sea and beyond, southwards through northern Africa, Arabia, India, and S...
Place & Date: London, 1839
Planisphère.
One of the last decorative maps of the area. In side panels representations of the four seasons. In original o.l. color, from his "Atlas Universel Illustré". T...
Place & Date: Paris, A. Combette, 1852
Mappamondo Carta d'Insieme.
Uncommon double hemisphere pole projection prepared by Francesco Costantino Marmocchi. Above the map "Geografia Commerciale". With a color code underneath the m...
Place & Date: Genova, Paolo Rivara fu Giacomo, 1858
Distribuzione geografica delle Pianta coltivate . . .
Uncommon world map in Mercator projection representing food resources on 3 inset maps, prepared by Francesco Costantino Marmocchi. Above the map "Geografia Commercia...
Place & Date: Genova, Paolo Rivara fu Giacomo, 1858
Le Tour du Monde en 120 Images Grand Concours du Chocolat Menier.
This highly unusual and rather novel pictorial map of the world was created by J.B. Jannot and published by Agence Française de Propagande as a promotional item for Meni...
Place & Date: Paris, 1956
AIR France - Sur les ailes d'Air France découvrez le monde à votre tour.
Promotional poster of a double hemisphere world map designed by Lucien Boucher for AIR France. The map depicts the entire world in rich blues and burgundies with gold hig...
Place & Date: Perceval, Paris, 1952
[Board game] - La course autour du Monde.
Very rare French board game - no other copies known. The game consists of 50 fields linked to the lines of longitude. A globe lies in the center of the board to symboli...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1900
Jules Verne. Le Tour du Monde en 80 jours. [Goose game board inspired by Jules Verne's novel Tour du Monde en 80 jours.]
This Goose game board is inspired by Jules Verne's novel whose boxes are illustrated with town views and figures and the center is occupied by a world map. Vignette illus...
- $1100 / ≈ €1029
Place & Date: Paris, 1876
Carte pour servir a L'Histoire Philosophique et Politique..
Showing the eastern hemisphere, including Australia. With inset map of India and Sri Lanka in the Indian Ocean.The focus of the chart is European trade and commerce with ...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Paris, 1780
Planiglobii Terrestris Mappa Universalis.. - Mappe-Monde qui represente les deux Hemispheres. . .
Word map in double hemisphere. In center two smaller hemispheres of the north and south pole are shown. Two interesting diagrams depict the earth as it would be seen from...
- $1750 / ≈ €1638
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1746
The Earth projected on the horizon of London.
Double hemisphere orientated on the north and south poles.
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: London, 1850
Planisfero (Tav III)
A large-format world map with a key to the steamship routes, telegraph lines and land routes in Europe. Finely engraved and beautifully colored and was prepared by Girola...
- $350 / ≈ €328
Place & Date: Rome, 1858
[Set of World and 5 continents - 7 maps ].
One of the last decorative maps of the 19th century. In side panels representations of the four seasons, figures, local scenes. World map, Europe, Asia, North America, Af...
- $600 / ≈ €561
Place & Date: Paris, 1850
Orbis terrarum typus de integro in plurimis emendatus auctus et icunculis illustratus.
Outstanding and rare example of a bible world map based on the Visscher bible map from 1657 (Shirley 401/414). This map is larger in size and has an extra engraved frame ...
- $2000 / ≈ €1871
Place & Date: Minden, 1729
[Ritter Sundial Map of the World]
This highly unusual map projects the world from the north pole as though it were the table of a sundial, with the land masses drawn to scale in proportion to their distan...
- $4500 / ≈ €4211
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1640
Tutte le strade conducono a Roma. [All roads lead to Rome]
Game board of the game "All roads lead to Rome" from the Fascist era, offered by the chocolate or cocoa company Talmone-Unica. Showing a world map surrounded by...
- $1500 / ≈ €1404
Place & Date: Turin, 1928
The World on Mercator's projection.
World map in Mercator-projection, published by "The London Printing and Publishing Company". Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin.
- $110 / ≈ €103
Place & Date: London, 1854
[Horological diagrams surrounding a smaller world map]
This beautiful engraving has nine (of ten) horological diagrams surrounding a smaller map, which omits any delineation of the British Isles. Projected from the North Pole...
- $2000 / ≈ €1871
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1640
Verzend uw telegrammen via Holland Radio Den Nationalen weg. Gemakkelijk -Zeker - Snel.
Poster showing a world map in Mercator projection. In top and bottom clocks showing the time zones. Red lines connecting The Netherlands with different major hubs in Amer...
- $380 / ≈ €356
Place & Date: The Netherland, 1939
Carte du globe terrestre où les terres de l'hémisphère méridl sont supposées être vues à travers celles de l'hémisphère septentl.
Important single hemisphere world map prepared by Buache's with Sea of the West. Published in Buache's "Considérations géographiques et physiques", one of his...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Paris, 1746
Carte des lieux où les différentes longueurs du pendule à secondes ont été observées . . .
World map. Published in Buache's "Considérations géographiques et physiques", one of his most important and original cartographic works.The map projects the c...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Paris, 1746
Descittione del Mappamondo.
A fine miniature oval map of the world engraved by Girolamo Porro. It is a reduction of Giovanni Francesco Camocio's superb large map of 1567, one of the last in the long...
- $450 / ≈ €421
Place & Date: Venice, ca.1586
[Titlepage] Nomenclator Ptolemaicus..
Title page from a Ortelius Atlas part called: Nomenclator , containing a register of place names in antiquity. Letterpress with copper engraved print (60x60mm) of the eas...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1609
Carte Phisique de la Mer Glaciale Arctique. . .
Very unusual thematic map designed to illustrate the watersheds of the world, after Buache and prepared by J.B.Nolin and published by Monhare for his Atlas Général a l'...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Paris, 1783
Mappamondo.
Charming world map in double hemisphere from the rare atlas Atlante Tascabile o sia Serie di Num. XXI Cartine Geografiche nelle quali si rappresenta in ristretto lo Stato...
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Rome, 1823
Mappemonde sur la projection de Mercator Dressee par Mr Lapie, Lieut. Colonel. et Mr Lapie, fils capitaine d'Etat major, Paris 1832.
Very detailed world map with Australia in the center and prepared by Pierre M. Lapie (fl. 1779 - 1850) and his son Alexandre Emile Lapie (fl. 1809 - 1850).Engraved by Lal...
- $450 / ≈ €421
Place & Date: Paris, 1832
Air France [poster].
A superb double sided Air France folding poster, featuring bold colored graphics. Published as a serious piece of marketing put out by the airline showing off their state...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Paris, 1955
Mappe Monde qui Comprend les Nouvelles..
Charming double hemisphere map with the female representations of the continents adorning each corner published by George Louis Le Rouge, active in Paris 1740-1780 .The N...
- $600 / ≈ €561
Place & Date: Paris, 1748
Hémisphère Oriental..
Map of the Eastern Hemisphere, including numerous exploration routes with a notation of important recent discoveries.Australia is partially mapped and then completed into...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Paris, 1786
(Title page) Mappamondo sul Piano dell' Equatore. - Atlante Tascabile o sia Serie di Num. XXI Cartine Geografiche nelle quali si. . .
Engraved title page with in lower part a double polar projection (50x95mm.) from the rare atlas Atlante Tascabile o sia Serie di Num. XXI Cartine Geografiche nelle quali ...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Rome, 1823
[No Tittle] Map of the Easteren Hemisphere.
Nice small map of eastern hemisphere by Johannes Walch in his rare Allgemeiner Atlas Nach den bewährsten Hülfsmitteln und astronomischen Ortsbestimungen…, edition of ...
- $120 / ≈ €112
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1812
Tabula geographico-hydrographica motus Tom II p.132.
World map depicting ocean currents, volcanoes and deep-sea chasms. The continents are void of political detail and only major lakes, rivers and volcanoes are shown. There...
- $2000 / ≈ €1871
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1696
Kaart der Oceanische Stroomgebieden.
One of the earliest thematic maps published in the Netherlands from "Atlas der natuurkundige aardrijkskunde. . .". prepared by Nicolaas Wilhelmus Posthumus. The...
- $35 / ≈ €33
Place & Date: Amsterdam, C.L. Brinkman, 1883
Kaart der Oceanische Stroomgebieden.
One of the earliest thematic maps published in the Netherlands from "Atlas der natuurkundige aardrijkskunde. . .". prepared by Nicolaas Wilhelmus Posthumus. The...
- $35 / ≈ €33
Place & Date: Amsterdam, C.L. Brinkman, 1883
Monde Entier, Par J. Henry Dressine et Ecrit Chez L' Auteur Par A. Clement.
Decorative uncommon 19th century double hemisphere map of the word with ten vignettes surrounding the map. The vignettes show a naval battle, and a land battle with a com...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Paris, 1834
Map Review No.17. Eastwood Outlook.
A large double sided 'current affairs' poster. One side features a eastern hemisphere world map, and deals with matters arising in South East Asia, the Far East and Europ...
- $180 / ≈ €168
Place & Date: London, 1946
Map Review No.39. - Twenty Years of Progress, 'A Standard of Life'.
A large fully colored double-sided poster of the world colored to highlight the number of children who die each year before the age of one. This is accompanied by a short...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: London, 1947
Carte des nouvelles decouvertes au Nord de la Mer du Sud.
Although concentrating on the northern Pacific, this map shows all of North America and Mexico.While the Russian coastline is shown with reasonable accuracy, notwithstand...
- $1800 / ≈ €1684
Place & Date: Venice, 1776 - 1784
[World map with oceanic currents].
Alexey Afinogenovich Ilyin was a lieutenant general and cartographer (1832-1889). In 1856, after graduating from the Academy of the General Staff, he was at the military ...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: St. Petersburg, 1899
Mappa Mondo tagliato sulpiano di unmeridiano Emisfero Occidentale. [togther with] … Orientale.
World map on two sheets - Western Hemisphere (North and South America, Oceania, Greenland) and Eastern Hemisphere (Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia). Published by Pazzini,...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Siena, 1796
Mappa Monde ou description du globe terrestre . . .
Double hemisphere world map. California is not an island anymore, but a large Mer de l'Ouest is shown. Delineation between New Holland (Australia) and New Guinea is not y...
- $2200 / ≈ €2059
Place & Date: Venice, 1776 - 1784
Planisphère.
One of the last decorative maps of the area. In side panels representations of the four seasons. In original out line color, from his "Atlas Universel Illustré"...
- $175 / ≈ €164
Place & Date: Paris, 1845-1860
Succession des plus anciens Rois du monde . . .
Showing successions of the oldest kings of the world, with a globe in lower part of the print. Copper engraved plate from "Atlas Historique". Zacharie Chatelain...
- $45 / ≈ €42
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Le tour du monde en 120 images, grand concours du Chocolat Menier.
Pictorial map of the world centered on the Pacific with a route around the globe, starting and finishing in Paris. The map features 120 images of explorers, plants, anima...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Paris, 1956
Novo Globo Terraqueo.
Double hemisphere world map with a broad banner carrying the title. In the ocean are currents shown and in top and bottom are diagrams showing the zones. A rare map.
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Italy, ca. 1755
[World map in showing currents with Ottoman script]
Post card size world map in Mercator projection showing the currents in Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in Ottoman script prepared by Mehmet EŞREF in a small atlas : عمو...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Istanbul, 1325 or 1909
[Set of two maps in north and south pole projections, with orographic profile of mountains and oceans, with volcanos with Ottoman script]
Two postcard size maps with north and south pole projections, below each map orographic profiles of mountains and oceans, with volcanos. The maps are in Ottoman script pr...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Istanbul, 1325 or 1909
[Set of two maps showing world in Mercator projection, with Ottoman script]
Two postcard size maps showing the entire world in Mercator projection. The maps are in Ottoman script prepared by Mehmet EŞREF in a small atlas : عمومولاياةÙ...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Istanbul, 1325 or 1909
[ Pictorial world map ]
Pictorial world map includes decorative title cartouche and compass rose. Drawn by Jacques Liozu, a French illustrator who drew a number of maps in this style in 1951, in...
- $220 / ≈ €206
Place & Date: Paris, 1951
Air France [poster].
A superb double-sided Air France folding poster, featuring bold colored graphics. Published as a serious piece of marketing put out by the airline showing off their state...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Paris, 1955
Mappe-Monde, ou Carte Generale du Monde: Dessignée en deux plans Hemispheres Par le Sr. Sanson d'Abbeville, Geographe ordinaire de sa Majesté.
First state of Sanson's first map of the World. Sanson's first world maps, dated 1651 and 1652, were issued separately and then in collections of maps. The map is one of ...
- $1500 / ≈ €1404
Place & Date: Paris, 1651
Descrizione del Globo in due emisferi . . .
This large-format map is finely engraved and beautifully colored and was prepared by Girolamo Petri, a lawyer who served as a senior official within the Vatican’s State...
- $1750 / ≈ €1638
Place & Date: Rome, 1858
Orbis Terrae compendiosa descriptio.
Modern world map by Rosaccio, consisting of two hemispheres enclosed within a plain border. The engraving is sharp and neat, and is a skilful reduction of Rumold Mercator...
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: Venise, 1598/1713
Tableau général et raisonné du Globe Terrestre. . .
Uncommon double hemisphere world map showing the tracks of Cook (1771-73, 1771 and Clarcke (1779). Surrounded by geographical information for each continent along with us...
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: Paris 1792
Karta öfver Jord-Globen (World map)
An very rare double hemisphere world map. This is an heavenly updated version of his map of 1817 and is now dated 1848, Australia with new nomenclature and the old title ...
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: A. Wiborgs förlag, Stockholm, ca. 1848
Mappemonde Dressée sur les Relations les Plus Nouvelles et les plus approuvées assujeties aux Obserations de Mrs. De L'Académie Royale des Sciences.
Dated 1761, this state is unknown. "Desnos' includes a fine combination of up to date cartographic information and the routes of important 18th century voyages of ex...
- $3000 / ≈ €2807
Place & Date: Paris, 1789
The world, including the discoveries made by Capt. Cook.
Uncommon double-hemisphere world map depicting the voyages and discoveries of Captain James Cook. There are numerous notations throughout and the tracks of Cook's three v...
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: London, 1781
Mappe monde ou description generale du globe terrestre suivant Mr.de Lisle de l'academie Royale des sciences.
Scarce small map of Europe based on cartography of Guillaume Delisle (. Published in "Nouveau traité de geographie par M**** ", published by La veuve Lottin &a...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Paris, 1752
Description de nouveau pasage vers le zud.... together with an untitled map of Port Desire (today's Puerto Deseado, Argentina)
Rare double hemispherical world map showing the track round the world by Le Maire and Schouten in 1615-1617. Continents are marked in outline and no southern regions are ...
- $1500 / ≈ €1404
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1631
Kaart der Isodynamen.
One of the earliest thematic maps published in the Netherlands from "Atlas der natuurkundige aardrijkskunde. . .". prepared by Nicolaas Wilhelmus Posthumus. The...
- $35 / ≈ €33
Place & Date: Amsterdam, C.L. Brinkman, 1883
Carte des parties Nord et Est de L'Asie. . .
Five maps on one sheet, showing the Northern Russian territories in Europe and Asia, including the western coastline from Siberia, with Japan and Korea with the island of...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
Carte Générale de Voyage Pittoresque Autour du Monde.
A map of the world centered on the Pacific Ocean. Engraved by Ambroise Tardieu.Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville (1790 – 1842) was a French explorer, naval offic...
- $125 / ≈ €117
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1840
Planisphère terrestre.
A huge (2 meters) world map representing Asia and America in the center, Europe and Africa at left and right hand of the map. Published by the Service hydrographique in 1...
- $800 / ≈ €749
Place & Date: Paris, Service hydrographique, 1902-1914
Equateur.
Appealing print centered on an armillary sphere. The latter sits atop a map of the world which clearly shows California as an island. In addition to this curious feature,...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
L'Hydrographie ..la Surface du Globe Terrestre.
An unusual double hemisphere hydrological map of the world - the earliest of the world prepared by the great French mapmaker Nicolas Sanson. Of particular interest is the...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Paris, 1652
Hypsometrisch Overzicht der Aarde.
One of the earliest thematic world maps published in the Netherlands from "Atlas der natuurkundige aardrijkskunde. . .". prepared by Nicolaas Wilhelmus Posthumu...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Amsterdam, C.L. Brinkman, 1883
Kaart, voorstellende de Seculaire Rijzingen en Dalingen van den Bodem, alsmede de Vulkamen.
One of the earliest thematic world maps published in the Netherlands from "Atlas der natuurkundige aardrijkskunde. . .". prepared by Nicolaas Wilhelmus Posthumu...
- $35 / ≈ €33
Place & Date: Amsterdam, C.L. Brinkman, 1883
Kaart der Isorachiën of Lijnen van Gelijke Vloedbeweging.
One of the earliest thematic world maps published in the Netherlands from "Atlas der natuurkundige aardrijkskunde. . .". prepared by Nicolaas Wilhelmus Posthumu...
- $35 / ≈ €33
Place & Date: Amsterdam, C.L. Brinkman, 1883