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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...
Date: Amsterdam, 1653
Russie avec ses confins...
A rare map published by Jean Boisseau (fl.1637-1658) French geographer, topographer, and genealogist in his Trésor des cartes géographiques. (The first true world atlas...
- $300 / ≈ €258
Date: Paris, 1653
Geographisches-Toneel, Of uitgezochte kaarten, Tot gemak der Officieren, Reisigers en Liefhebbers.
Pocket atlas, not in Koeman, but similar to Koeman III, p. 99 (Rat 1) of which our atlas is a later edition.Illustrated with 41 engraved maps, of which two are in origina...
- $2000 / ≈ €1717
Date: Amsterdam, D. Weege, 1653
L'Isle de Malte avec ses Voisines./ La Valete Forte..
Uncommon map Malta. Four maps on one sheet. With inset maps of Valletta.Like Sanson, Briet was born in Abbeville and became a Jesuit at age 18. His "Parallela Geogra...
Date: Paris, 1653
Oost Zee door Arnold Colom.
Large double-page engraved chart of the Baltic Sea, including the coastlines of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Denmark, and Sweden, with a decorative inset ...
Date: Amsterdam, c. 1654
Sarmatia utraque europaea et asiatica. . .
Ancient map of the European part of Russia with the Ukraine. Dated 1654.Nicolas Sanson was to bring about the rise of French cartography, although the fierce competition ...
- $200 / ≈ €172
Date: Paris, 1654
Carte generale des treze cantons de Suisses. Valley Ligues Grise, Maison Dieu et Valteline. 1654
Rare figured border map of Switzerland. In lower corners views of Basel and Zurich. In the top views of Luzern, St. Gallen, Bern, Solothurn and Schaffhausen. In the left ...
Date: Paris, ca. 1654
Konigreich Boheim. Royaume de Boheme..
Covering Czech Republic and centered on Prague. This edition carries the date 1654.Nicolas Sanson was to bring about the rise of French cartography, although the fierce c...
Date: Paris, 1654
HERTZOGTHUMB POMMERN DUCHE DE POMERANIE divise en ses Princip les Parties qui sont les Princip te de Rugue, Duche de Stettin, Pomeranie, Cassubie, et Wandalie . . .
Very fine map of the northern part of Poland. Nice details of forests, villages and rivers. Two nice uncolored cartouches.Nicolas Sanson was to bring about the rise of Fr...
- $300 / ≈ €258
Date: Paris, 1654
Konigreich Boheim. Royaume de Boheme. . .
Covering Czech Republic and centered on Prague. Nicolas Sanson was to bring about the rise of French cartography, although the fierce competition of the Dutch would last ...
- $300 / ≈ €258
Date: Paris, 1654
Partie Meridionale De L'Inde En deux Presqu'Isles l'une deca et l'autre Gange . . . 1654
Sanson's important mid-seventeenth-century map of India and Southeast Asia. At a scale of about 1:9,000,000, it covers most of modern India, Bangladesh and Burma, the who...
Date: Paris, 1654
L'Inde deca et dela le Gange, ou est L'Empire du Grand Mogol. . .
An excellent mid 17th century map showing the area from Afghanistan and Pakistan in the west, and western China on the east, with most of India and extending north to the...
- $100 / ≈ €86
Date: Paris, 1654
Sarmatia utraque europaea et asiatica. . .
Ancient map of the European part of Russia with the Ukraine. Dated 1654.Nicolas Sanson was to bring about the rise of French cartography, although the fierce competition ...
- $300 / ≈ €258
Date: Paris, 1654
Carte des Trois Arabies. Tiree en Partie de l'Arabe de Nubie, en Partie de Divers autres Autheurs. . .
Rare map of the Arabian Peninsula, first published in 1654 and one of the first large maps focused specifically on the Arabian Peninsula. Sanson's map of the Arabian Peni...
Date: Paris, 1654
![Les Isles Philippines [on sheet with] Islas de los Ladrones ou Isle des Larrons.](/uploads/cache/42023-250x250.jpg)
Les Isles Philippines [on sheet with] Islas de los Ladrones ou Isle des Larrons.
Sanson's important mid-seventeenth-century map of the Philippines and tha Ladrones.It was first engraved by J. Somer for the elder Nicolas Sanson with a privilege for twe...
Date: Amsterdam/Utrecht, 1654
![[Title page ] Topographia Galliae. . .](/uploads/cache/32226-250x250.jpg)
[Title page ] Topographia Galliae. . .
Title page from Casper Merian's Topographia Galliae...
- $50 / ≈ €43
Date: Frankfurt, 1655
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Vues du port de Llivourne. (set of 6 prints)
Sought-after complete suite of 6 engravings by S[tefano] Della Bella [1610-1664]. in a second state (of 2).Della Bella was born in Florence in 1610, and studied the art ...
Date: 1654-1655
Tweevoudigh onderwiis van de Hemelsche en Aerdsche Globen; Het een Na de meyning van Ptolemeus met een vasten Aerdkloot...
Tweevoudigh onderwiis van de Hemelsche en Aerdsche Globen; Het een Na de meyning van Ptolemeus met een vasten Aerdkloot; Het ander Na de Natuerlijcke stelling van N. Cope...
Date: Amsterdam, 1655
Terra Promissions.
A beautifully executed and very rare map of the Promised Land, divided into the 12 Tribes. The shore line runs in north-southwesterly direction from Sidon as far as Pelus...
Date: Paris, c.1655
Japonia Regnum.
It is the first map to correctly show Korea as a peninsula.This was to remain the standard form of Japan until the eighteenth century and although replaced by the maps of...
Date: Amsterdam, 1655
Haute Saxe.. Duche de Saxe... / Marquisat de Misnie..
Fine map of Saxony.This edition carries the date 1655. Engraved by R.Cordier Abbauil.Nicolas Sanson was to bring about the rise of French cartography, although the fierce...
- $100 / ≈ €86
Date: Paris, 1655
Japonia Regnum.
The first map to correctly show Korea as a peninsula. This was to remain the standard form of Japan until the eighteenth century and although replaced by the maps of Rela...
Date: Amsterdam, 1655
Theatro del Mondo di Abrahamo Ortelio..
Including maps of the world (Shirley, World 214): Europe; Asia; America (Burden, America 126, Marchetti 1598); Africa; England; Scotland; Ireland; Tercera; Spain (4); Por...
Date: Venice, G. Turrini, 1655
![[Title page] Cartes de geographie les plus nouvelles et les plus fideles, Avecque leurs divisions regulieres, par P. Du Val Géographe Ordinaire du Roy.](/uploads/cache/48000-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Cartes de geographie les plus nouvelles et les plus fideles, Avecque leurs divisions regulieres, par P. Du Val Géographe Ordinaire du Roy.
Title page from the atlas "Cartes de geographie les plus nouvelles et les plus fideles, Avecque leurs divisions regulieres" of Duval.In the top a crowned globe ...
- $400 / ≈ €343
Date: Paris, after 1656
L'evesché d'Aire. . .
In center Adour (river), Aire-sur-l'Adour, with Aire and Dax in lower right corner. Janssonius does give credit to Pierre du Val. In lower left corner putti with grapes.D...
- $300 / ≈ €258
Date: Amsterdam, 1656
La Chine Royaume. . .
An important and attractive French map of the whole of China, northern tip of the Philippines, with a strangely curved Korea and an under-sized Taiwan here called "Y...
Date: Paris, 1656
La Chine Royaume. . .
An important and attractive French map of the whole of China, the northern tip of the Philippines, with a strangely curved Korea and an under-sized Taiwan here called &qu...
- $2600 / ≈ €2232
Date: Paris, 1656
Tarku Urbs Tartaroum in Dagestan ad mare Caspium.
An early view of Tarku, in the Republic of Dagestan. From "Voyages en Moscovie, Tartarie et Perse, par Adam Olearius".Adam Olearius was a seventeenth-century G...
Date: Paris, Abraham de Wicquefort , 1656
View of Derbendt an der Persischen Grentze.
An early view of Derbent, in the Republic of Dagestan. From "Voyages en Moscovie, Tartarie et Perse, par Adam Olearius".Adam Olearius was a seventeenth-century ...
Date: Paris, Abraham de Wicquefort , 1656
Royaume de la Chine. . .
Detailed map of China. Engraved by A.Winter. Attractive miniature map, depicting Korea as an island and parts of Japan, i.e. western part of Honshu and Kyushu.
Date: Paris, 1656
Terre Ferme, Nouveau Roy.me de Grenade..
Fine map of Colombia, Venezuela and the islands of Curaçao, Aruba, Bonaire, etc. Prepared by N.Sanson engraved by A.de Winter.
Date: Paris, 1656
Moscovia urbs Metropolis totius Russiae Albae.
Detailed bird's-eye town-plan of Moscow from Janssonius' rare townbook. With a key (1-20) to important spots in town. The verso has French text and originates from Jansso...
Date: Amsterdam, 1657
Carte generale de L'Empire d'Allemagne et pays circonvoisins. . .
Fine map of Germany, Low countries, Switzerland, Austria and Poland. The map was first published by Tavernier and later by Mariette. This edition carries the date 1642 an...
- $200 / ≈ €172
Date: Paris, 1642/45-1657
Typus Generalis Ukrainae sive Palatinatuum Podoliae, Kioviensis et Braczlaviensis terras nova delineatione exhibens. . .
A key map engraved by Johannes Janssonius in about 1656 and based on Guillaume La Vasseur de Beauplan's map of the region published in "Description d'Ukraine". ...
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1657
Carte Generale des Royaume d'Angleterre Escosse et Irlande Avecq les Isles circonvoisines Conues toutes soubs le nom de Britanniques / Nouvellement dressee et tiree de Cambdene Spede & autres Par N. Sanson geogr.e Ord.re du Roy
Fine map of the British Isles. The map was first published by Tavernier and later by Mariette. This edition carries the date 1640 and the address of Pierre Mariette: rue ...
- $350 / ≈ €300
Date: Paris, 1640-1657
![[Title page] De insectis libri III, de serpentibus et draconibus libr II.](/uploads/cache/22364-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] De insectis libri III, de serpentibus et draconibus libr II.
Title page from : Historiae Naturalis de Quadrupedibus libri.The re-edition of the edition of Frankfurt of 1650-53 illustrated with mirror imaged copper engravings after ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1657
Dromedary.
Decorative and early copper engraving showing three dromedaries : Historiae Naturalis de Quadrupedibus libri.The re-edition of the edition of Frankfurt of 1650-53 illustr...
Date: Amsterdam, 1657
![Mexico, Regia et Celebris Hispaniae Novae Civitas ... [on sheet with] Cusco, Regni Peru in Novo Orbe Caput.](/uploads/cache/29013-250x250.jpg)
Mexico, Regia et Celebris Hispaniae Novae Civitas ... [on sheet with] Cusco, Regni Peru in Novo Orbe Caput.
Two bird's-eye views on one sheet: Mexico and Cusco.Showing Mexico City and Cusco, the capital cities of the Aztecs and Incas, with the major buildings shown in profile w...
Date: Amsterdam, 1657
De Zype. / Purmer / Wormer/ Beemster / Waterland.
Five maps on one sheet. Showing the polders of De Zype, De Purmer, De Wormer, De Beemster and a map of Waterland, including de Bylmermeer and Monnekedam. Showing the Noor...
Date: Amsterdam, 1652-1658
Dicecese de Rheims, et le païs de Rethel. . .
Centered on Rheims. A very decorative map with beautiful cartouches of a province of France by one of the most famous map publishers.
- $300 / ≈ €258
Date: Amsterdam, 1658
Dioecesis Sarlatensis, Vernacule.. Sarlat.
Detailed map of the region south of the Dordogne River, depicting Bergerac, Saint Cyprien, Montignac, Sarlat, Villefranche, etc.Embellished with an impressive title carto...
- $200 / ≈ €172
Date: Amsterdam, 1658
Carte de L'AMERIQUE Corrigeé et argumenteé….
Separately published map published in 1658 but based on Petrus Bertius map of 1624., this on its turn taken from Jodocus Hondius map of 1618. On the sides he lists the pr...
Date: Paris, 1658
Wassende graade paskaart vertonende alle de Zeekusten van Europa, de geheele middelandsche Zee…
Wassende graade paskaart vertonende alle de Zeekusten van Europa, de geheele middelandsche Zee, als cock ten Noordwesten, en Noordoosten soo veer als ons tot noch toe bek...
Date: Amsterdam, 1658
(Title page) Topographia Galliae. . .
Title page from Casper Merian's Topographia Galliae... Read more about title pages [+]
- $35 / ≈ €30
Date: Frankfurt, 1658
(Title page ) Topographia Galliae. . .
Title page from Casper Merian's Topographia Galliae...See other Title Pages [+]
- $30 / ≈ €26
Date: Frankfurt, 1658
Guiana sive Amazonum Regio.
A very decorative map of Suriname which extends from the Isla Margarita in the northwest to the coast of northern Brazil near Sao Luis east of the Amazon delta. The map l...
- $450 / ≈ €386
Date: Amsterdam, 1658
Brasilia.
A mint example of this map is by Krystof Arciszewski, a Polish general who worked for the Dutch West Indian Company. The map perpetuates various myths including the Parim...
- $1250 / ≈ €1073
Date: Amsterdam, 1658
Tabula Magellanica.
A map with Willem Blaeu's signature, but published by his son Joan, of South America's extremity with the Strait of Magellan and Le Maire Strait.The coastlines are depict...
Date: Amsterdam, 1658
Peru.
Decorated with ships and monsters on the sea. Orientated with east at the top. Shows the Pacific coast of South America from Ecuador (at the left-hand side) as far south ...
- $400 / ≈ €343
Date: Amsterdam, 1658
Insulae Americanae in Oceano Septentrionali cum Terris adiacentibus.
General map of the West Indies extending from Virginia to the mouth of the Orinoco, and destined to be copied in various shapes by many other publishers. Title cartouche ...
- $1500 / ≈ €1288
Date: Amsterdam, 1658
Turcicum Imperium.
A very handsome map with a particularly fine cartouche showing the Turkish Sultan on his throne and allegorical figures at either side brandishing weapons. At right is a ...
- $1500 / ≈ €1288
Date: Amsterdam, 1658
Virginiae Partis Australis, et Floridae Partis Orientalis.
Blaeu based this map on the Mercator-Hondius of 1606. A number of geographical improvements, however were incorporated, although two large fictions lakes accompanied by e...
Date: Amsterdam, 1658
Natolia, quae olim Asia minor.
A finely designed map of Turkey and Cyprus from the great Blaeu family of Amsterdam. The decoration consist of a colored title cartouche, sea monsters, a naval engagement...
- $450 / ≈ €386
Date: Amsterdam, 1658
Tartaria sive Magni Chami imperium.
This is a detailed and decorative map of the Tartary and northern part of China, including the Chinese Great Wall, the Caspian Sea, and the Volga River east as far as the...
- $700 / ≈ €601
Date: Amsterdam, 1658
Magni Mogolis Imperium.
An attractive map of the northern part of India, Tibet, Iran to Burma. The travel route from Kabul to Surat is the most prominent feature of the map. Richly decorated wit...
- $650 / ≈ €558
Date: Amsterdam, 1658
Pascaerte van Brazil en Nieu Nederlandt van Cuorvo en Flores.
A rare chart of the Atlantic Ocean from the first edition of Hendrick Doncker's Zee-Atlas, of which no surviving example is known.Although the idea of its unusual coverag...
Date: Amsterdam, 1658
![Magni Ducatus Lithuaniae. . . (together with] Campus Inter Bohum et Borystenem. . .](/uploads/cache/49232-250x250.jpg)
Magni Ducatus Lithuaniae. . . (together with] Campus Inter Bohum et Borystenem. . .
Six sheet wall map of Lithuania and parts of Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, etc., extending to Cracow, Kyiv, Warsaw, Riga, Konigsberg, Danzig, Leopolis, etc.This is the...
Date: Amsterdam, 1658
Amerique Meridionale. . . 1650.
First edition. A fine large map of South America, engraved by A.Peyrounin. The relatively unknown Amazon region is left without speculation. However, Sanson includes the ...
- $450 / ≈ €386
Date: Paris, 1650-1659
Vera Delineatio Provinciae Fertilissimae Kilan olim Hyrcaniae ad Mare Caspium Sitae.
Uncommon map prepared by Adam Olearius showing the region of Azerbaijan and Iran. The map is oriented with north to the upper left corner and adorned with an attractive t...
- $400 / ≈ €343
Date: Jean Dupuis in Paris, 1659
Pascaerte vande Caribische Eylanden, vande Barbados tot aende Bocht van Mexico ‘t Amsterdam By Hendrick Doncker. . .
First state. Rare. “This chart appeared in the first edition of Hendrick Doncker’s Zee-Atlas, of which no surviving example is known” -- Burden. This is an example ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1659
India Orientalis Nova.
Charming uncommon miniature map showing the northern two-thirds of Australia pre-discoveries by Captain Cook, but showing discoveries by Abel Tasman in 1642. The map show...
- $750 / ≈ €644
Date: Amsterdam, 1659
Insula Huaena sive Venusia a Guiljelmo Blaeu cum sub Tychone Astronomiae operam ...
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, ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1659
Description au naturel de la ville de Lyon et païsages alentour d'icelle.
PREMIERE EDITION. Plan de Lyon à « vol d’oiseau » commandé par le consulat, destiné à la diffusion et à la notoriété de la cité, mariant ainsi image de la vil...
Date: Lyon, 1659
La Scandinavie et les environs ou sont les royaumes de Suede, de Danemarck et de Norwege. . .
The standard map of Scandinavia in 17th century France. Engraved by A.Peyrouin.Nicolas Sanson was to bring about the rise of French cartography, although the fierce compe...
Date: Paris, 1647-1659
Quantung Imperii Sinarum Provincia duodecima.
A beautifully engraved map of Southern China covers Hainan, the Pearl River Delta, and Greater Hong Kong.A legend at left identifies cities and towns of various sizes, fo...
Date: Amsterdam, 1660
St Tropez.
Plan of St Tropez by M.Merian. Depicts a street layout and ships in harbour etc.
- $130 / ≈ €112
Date: Frakfurt, 1660
Russie blanche ou Moscovie.
Map of the European part of Russia centered on Moscow and prepared by N.Sanson. Published in an early edition of the small Sanson atlas L'Europe Dediée a Monseigneur . ....
- $100 / ≈ €86
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1660
Situs Terrae Circulis Coelestibus circundatae..
A celestial chart depicting a large globe centered on Australia and the Pacific, with California depicted as an island, and South East Asia encircled by the zodiacal band...
Date: Amsterdam, Janssonius, 1660
Constantinopolitanae urbis effigies ad vivum expressa.
A rare panoramic town-view of Istanbul with over the whole length of the lower part 3 columns of poems in Latin, Dutch and French and a numbered key 1-29 to the principal...
Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Il Regno Di Candia.
This rare map is based on the important map of Crete by Basilicata. The maps by Marco Boschini reached a wider audience than the few individuals for whom the Basilicata m...
Date: Venice, 1660
Champaigne et Brie etc.
A good engraved map of Champagne-Ardenne area, embellished with decorative title cartouche and scale cartouche with putti and surveying instruments. Paris, Metz, Reims, a...
- $150 / ≈ €129
Date: Paris, ca. 1660
Geographische Beschryvinghe van de wandeling der apostelen ende De Reysen Pauli. . .
In upper and lower part 9 vignettes showing scenes from Paul's wanderings.
- $500 / ≈ €429
Date: Amsterdam, 1660
![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...
Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Pecheli, Xansi, Xantung, Honan, Nanking, In plaga Regni Sinensis. . .
A map of the northern provinces of China after the Jesuit Martino Martini, depicting of Hebei (Pecheli), Shanxi (Xansi), Shandong (Xantung), Henan (Honan), and Jangsu (Na...
Date: Amsterdam, ca 1660
Sumatrae et insularum Locorumque nonnullorum circumiacentium. . .
Fine depicting the Island of Sumatra and the southern coasts of Malaysia from Quedo to Johore.North is orientated to the left of the page.Singapore is probably identifie...
Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Sarnia Insula vulgo Garnsey et Insula Caesarea venacule Jarsey
Fine map depicting the English islands of Jersey and Guernsey is entitled : "Sarnica Insulavulgo Garnsey et Insula Caesarea vernacule Jarsey". In the cartouche...
- $475 / ≈ €408
Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Tabula IV sequitur Farnesiana Posticus.
Ornamental representation of Temple St. Mariae in Rome by Petrus Aquila (1650-1692), after Annibale Carracci. Inscribed in the plate. "Petrus Aquila delin at sculp. ...
Date: Rome, 1660
Imperii Sinarum nova descriptio.
Schenk and Valk's rare early 18th century issue of Janssonius milestone map of China, Korea and Japan after Martino Martini. Engraved by Johannes van Loon. The overall ba...
- $1600 / ≈ €1374
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1660
![[Title page] L'Europe . . .](/uploads/cache/27759-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] L'Europe . . .
Title page from N. Sanson atlas, with a dedication to François Michel Le Tellier, (18 janvier 1641, Paris - 16 juillet 1691, Versailles).His atlas was called "L'Eur...
- $90 / ≈ €77
Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Neapolis.
A rare panoramic of Naples with over the whole length of the lower part 3 columns of poems in Latin, Dutch and French.Published by Dancker Danckerts (1634-1666).
Date: Amsterdam, 1660