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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 / ≈ €178
Place & Date: Paris, 1654
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 ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 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...
- $600 / ≈ €533
Place & 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 / ≈ €89
Place & 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 / ≈ €267
Place & 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...
Place & 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 / ≈ €267
Place & 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 / ≈ €267
Place & Date: Paris, 1654
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...
Place & Date: Venice, G. Turrini, 1655
(China Atlas) Novus Atlas Sinensis, A Matino Martinio... Seste Deel van de Nieuwe Atlas, oft Toonneel des Aerdrijck, Uytgegeven door Joan Blaeu.
Dutch text edition of the First European Atlas of China. 17 engraved maps in original hand-color, and engraved title pages in original hand-color, heightened in gold. [6]...
Place & 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 / ≈ €89
Place & Date: Paris, 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...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1655
Germano-Sarmatia in qua Populi maiores Venedi et Aetiaei Peucini et Bastarnae in minores Populos divisi ad hodiernam locorum et Regionum
Fine map of ancient Poland and the whole of Eastern Europe, showing part of the Baltic and Gulf of Riga, including the modern countries of Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine and ...
Place & Date: Paris, 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 ...
Place & Date: 1654-1655
![[Title page ] Topographia Galliae. . .](/uploads/cache/32226-250x250.jpg)
[Title page ] Topographia Galliae. . .
Title page from Casper Merian's Topographia Galliae...
- $50 / ≈ €44
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 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...
- $2000 / ≈ €1778
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 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...
- $2000 / ≈ €1778
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1655
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 / ≈ €2311
Place & Date: Paris, 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 ...
- $400 / ≈ €356
Place & Date: Paris, Abraham de Wicquefort , 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...
- $400 / ≈ €356
Place & Date: Paris, Abraham de Wicquefort , 1656
![[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 / ≈ €356
Place & 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 / ≈ €267
Place & 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...
Place & Date: Paris, 1656
![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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 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". ...
- $2000 / ≈ €1778
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 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 / ≈ €178
Place & Date: Paris, 1642/45-1657
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 / ≈ €311
Place & Date: Paris, 1640-1657
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1657
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 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 ...
Place & 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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1652-1658
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...
Place & Date: Paris, 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 / ≈ €267
Place & 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 / ≈ €578
Place & 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 ...
Place & 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 / ≈ €622
Place & 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 / ≈ €400
Place & 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 / ≈ €1333
Place & 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 / ≈ €356
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1658
(Title page ) Topographia Galliae. . .
Title page from Casper Merian's Topographia Galliae...See other Title Pages [+]
- $30 / ≈ €27
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1658
(Title page) Topographia Galliae. . .
Title page from Casper Merian's Topographia Galliae... Read more about title pages [+]
- $35 / ≈ €31
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 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...
Place & 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...
Place & 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 / ≈ €1111
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 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 / ≈ €400
Place & 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 / ≈ €1333
Place & 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...
Place & 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 / ≈ €178
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1658
Asia recens Summa cura delineata.
Rare map of Asia published in Pierre d'Avity's "Les Estats Empires, Royaumes, Et Principautez Du Monde". Derivative map of Hondius' rare separately issued map o...
- $3000 / ≈ €2666
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1659
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 / ≈ €400
Place & Date: Paris, 1650-1659
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 / ≈ €667
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 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 / ≈ €356
Place & Date: Jean Dupuis in Paris, 1659
Insula Huaena sive Venusia a Guiljelmo Blaeu cum sub Tychone Astronomiae operam daret, delineata.
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, ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 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 ...
Place & 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...
Place & 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...
- $350 / ≈ €311
Place & Date: Paris, 1647-1659
De Texel Stroom .. vant Marsdiep./ Caarte van De Mase...
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
Dwina Fluvius.
An interesting strip-style map showing the course of the Dvina River in three sections from the Black Sea into the White Sea at Archangel. A group of reindeer and two str...
- $750 / ≈ €667
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Prussia accurate descriptia a Gasparo Henneberg Erlichensi.
Prussia and the Baltic Region, with two large decorative cartouches, coat of arms and three sailing ships. As indicated in the title cartouche, the map was prepared by th...
- $900 / ≈ €800
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
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
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 / ≈ €444
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Nova Haec tabula Galliae. . .
Dated 1660. 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, 1660
Nova Europae descriptio.
A fine "carte à figures"- map with four panels in columns on each side show portraits of Kings and Queens of European countries. The top border contains panora...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
St Tropez.
Plan of St Tropez by M.Merian. Depicts a street layout and ships in harbour etc.
- $130 / ≈ €116
Place & Date: Frakfurt, 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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1660
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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
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...
Place & Date: Venice, 1660
Nova Hispaniae, Chili, Peruviae, et Guatimalae Littorae..
A superbly decorative chart, oriented with north to the left of the sheet, covering the coasts of Central America, Peru, Chile, Jamaica and part of Cuba and Porto Rico. S...
- $1000 / ≈ €889
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 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 / ≈ €80
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Carte generalle d'allemaigne nouvellement misse en françois et Ampliffiée de tous les Royaumes. . .
Attractive and rare map of Germany, the Low Countries, Austria, Switzerland and part of Poland.
Place & Date: Paris, 1632-1660
Paraquaria vulgo Paraguay cum adjacentibus.
Rare map only included in Joan Blaeu's Atlas major. Detailed map of Uruguay, Paraguay, Northern part of Argentina and northern part of Chili. Engraved by Gerard Coeck. Tw...
- $800 / ≈ €711
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Silesiae Ducatus..
Centered on Breslaw. Including the towns of Dresden, Crakaw, Pragu, Olmitz, etc.Decorative map prepared by Jonas Scultetus, a Silesian cartographer (1603-1664).
- $600 / ≈ €533
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1660
Xantung, sinarum imperii provincia quatra.
A map of the northern province ‘Xantung’ of China after the Jesuit Martino Martini.Shows the Great Wall and is centered on the Bohai Sea, and the Shandong and Liaonin...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1660
Nova Africa descriptio.
A beautifully engraved and most attractive "carte à figures"- map of the African continent. Bordered, above, by panels showing panorama's of Cairo, Alexandria,...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 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 / ≈ €89
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1660
Nova Persiae, Armeniae, Natoliae et Arabiae.
East from Cyprus to Iran with numerous place names and ornamental cartouches below. There are vignettes of sailing ships in sea areas and the land divisions of the time a...
- $850 / ≈ €755
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Magnus Ducatus Finlandiae Auct. Andrea Bureo Succo.
The first printed survey map of Finland, composed by the Swedish cartographer Anders Bureus (1571-1661). The map was published in 1662 in the second volume of Joan Blaeu'...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Xantung, sinarum imperii provincia quatra.
A map of the northern province ‘Xantung’ of China after the Jesuit Martino Martini.Shows the Great Wall and is centered on the Bohai Sea, and the Shandong and Liaonin...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 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).
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660