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Arabiae Felicis, petrae et desertae.
A very striking map with a finely decorated title cartouche, published by Valk & Schenk, utilizing Jansson's original plate. Interestingly, this map uses the names th...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Tabula Geographica qua pars Russiae Magnae. . .
Homann's map is based upon Beauplan's general map of Ukraine but depicts the political changes of the preceding years. With decorative cartouches. Giving good detail alon...
Date: Nuremberg, 1720
Regnum Borussiae gloriosis auspicijs Seerenissimi et Potentissimi Princip Friderici III Primi . . .
Map covering the region along the Baltic Sea from Prussia, Memel, to northern Poland, extending south to Poland, centered on Danzig, Konigsberg, Heilsperg, etc. Beautiful...
Date: Nuremberg, 1720
Seconde partie de la Crimee la Mer Noire. . .
The lower part of a set of two maps from the observations of Guillaume Delisle focusing on the Black Sea with wonderful detail of the surrounding regions. Includes Consta...
- $750 / ≈ €642
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Partie Meridionale de Moscovie. . .
Scarce map centered on Moscow including Azow and part of present-day Ukraine in the bottom part of the map. The map is based on Delisle's important map of the region with...
- $750 / ≈ €642
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Mahomet V. Türkischer Kayser.
Portrait of Mahomet V. son of Mustapha II. succeeded in 1730, on the deposition of his uncle, Achmet III.Mahomet was more respectable for his pacific disposition, than hi...
Date: Germany, c. 1720
Description d'un des plus fameux temples des Chinois..
This impressive engraving is a wonderful example of Chatelain’s elegant plates.Divided in 3 panels, respectively showing the most important gods in the Chinese deities ...
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1720
Description de la Celebre Mosquee de Com, Des Tombeaux Des Deux Derniers Rois de Perse qu'elle Renferme & du Grand Caravan-Serai De La Ville De Cachan Le Puls Magnifique de Tout L'Orient ...
Four views on one page with descriptive text showing the interior of the Mosquek, including the Sepulchre of Abas the Second and Sefy the First, along with the Tomb of th...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Particularitez Curieuses de l'Ile de St. Christophle et de la Province de Bemarin . . .
Six meticulously detailed and engraved scenes of the island of St. Kitts, also known as Saint Christopher, and the province of Bemarin, indigenous plants, animals, reptil...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Carte de l'Ile de Java: partie Occidentale, partie Orientale, Dressée tout nouvellement sur les Mémoirs les plus exacts, Avec une Table des principales villes de cette Ile. . .
One of the finest large-scale maps of Java, giving good information regarding the VOC settlements An inset plan of Batavia and clearly indicated rice fields, mountains, f...
- $1500 / ≈ €1283
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Nassovia Principatus Cum omnibus ei pertinentibus Comitatibus Dominiis ac Praefecturis ut et Confiniis intra Lahnun, Rhenum, et Moenum Flumina, ad situm verum exacte delineatus a Joh. Jac. Stetter. U.J.L. Idstenio-Nassovio . . .
Decorative map of the area between the rivers Rhine and Meuse, including Mainz, Koblenz, Frankfurt, Saarbrucken, etc.Includes an elaborate cartouche and coat of arms.The ...
- $150 / ≈ €128
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Kort Begryp van Duytsland, de drie Ryx Collegien in hunne Wapens en Zittingen. Kreits Verelingen en Aantekenigen door C. Specht't Utrectht.
Second state of this decorative table of family escutcheons, crests and coats of arms, for various German and Dutch princes and nobles of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centurie...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Vue et description de Bethleem et de Nazareth . . .
Decorative panoramic view of Bethlehem and Nazareth, among 3 other views of the Hall of the Annunciation and Church of Cana .From Chatelain's monumental 7 volume "At...
- $200 / ≈ €171
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Mariage des Turcs & des Armeniens, avec la ma niere dont se font les demonstrations d'amour . . .
Showing the marriage rituals and lives of Turks and Armenians. Five engravings set round a text panel in French. From Chatelain's monumental 7 volume "Atlas Historiq...
- $150 / ≈ €128
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Description te vue de la Place d'Ispahan . . .
Pair of decorative views showing the Royal Palace at Isfahan (Esfahan) and the Royal Mosque of Abas the Great. From Chatelain's monumental 7 volume "Atlas Historique...
- $125 / ≈ €107
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
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Malines. [Mechelen]
A very RARE panoramic town view of Mechelen, including a numbered legend in the left lower corner.Published by the brothers Chéreau, active in Paris at rue st.Jacques au...
Date: Paris, c.1720
Carte Pour l'Introduction a l'Histoire d'Angleterre, ou l'on Voit son Premier Gouvernement, et l'Etat Abrege de cette Monarchie sous les Empereurs Romains, et sous les Rois Saxons.
The sheet includes a large inset map of Roman Britain including the English Channel and the western coast of France (200 x 255mm.). It also provides a wealth of informati...
- $200 / ≈ €171
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Breme.
A rare panoramic view of the city of Bremen, including a numbered legend in both lower corners.Published by the brothers Chéreau, active in Paris at rue st.Jacques au Gr...
- $200 / ≈ €171
Date: Paris c.1720
Nouvelle Carte des Differents Etats de la Monarchie Françoise Sous Iule Cesar, Sous les Rois de la Premiere, de la Seconde . . .
Four maps of France surrounded by historical and genealogical information to the history, chronology, ancient and modern genealogy of the french monarchy.Henri Abraham Ch...
- $75 / ≈ €64
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Carte genealogique des comtes de Dreux, des Seigneursde Beaussart . . .
Genealogical chart of the earls of Dreux, from Chatelain's monumental 7 volume "Atlas Historique". Henri Abraham Chatelain (1684 – 1743) was a Huguenot pastor...
- $50 / ≈ €43
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Ratisbonne.
A very RARE panoramic town view of the city of Ratisbonne, including a numbered legend in both lower corners. The plate is numbered in black pencil in the upper right cor...
- $200 / ≈ €171
Date: Paris c.1720
Philisbourg.
A very RARE panoramic view of the city of Philipsburg, including a numbered legend in both lower corners. The plate is numbered in black pencil in the upper right corner....
- $150 / ≈ €128
Date: Paris c.1720
Treves en Allemend Trier.
A very RARE panoramic view of the city of Trier. The plate is numbered in red pencil in the upper right corner.Engraved by Pierre Aveline (Paris, c.1656 - 23 May 1722). H...
- $200 / ≈ €171
Date: Paris, 1690-1720
Fribourg Ville d'Allemagne Capitale du païs de Brisgaw.
A very RARE panoramic of the city of Fribourg. The plate is numbered in red pencil in the upper right corner.Engraved by Pierre Aveline (Paris, c.1656 - 23 May 1722). He ...
- $250 / ≈ €214
Date: Paris, 1690-1720
Ausbourg Ville Impériale d'Allemagne dans la Suabe.
A very RARE panoramic of the city of Augsburg. The plate is numbered in red pencil in the upper right corner.Engraved by Pierre Aveline (Paris, c.1656 - 23 May 1722). He ...
- $250 / ≈ €214
Date: Paris, 1690-1720
Nuremberg.
A very RARE panoramic view of the city of Nuremberg. The plate is numbered in red pencil in the upper right corner.Engraved by Pierre Aveline (Paris, c.1656 - 23 May 1722...
- $200 / ≈ €171
Date: Paris, 1690-1720
Das Caspische Meer / Das Land Kamtzadalie ...
Two maps on one sheet with the Caspian Sea on one side and northeastern Russia and Kamchatka on the other. The map of the Caspian Sea reflects the survey work of Russiaâ€...
- $450 / ≈ €385
Date: Nuremberg, 1720
Maris Assoviensis vel de Zabache et Paludis Maeotidis. . .
A very detailed map showing the Black Sea, Azow and Rostow area. With a decorative allegorical cartouche, showing the costumes of the indigenous people of the region.
Date: Augsburg, 1720
Tabula geographica Russiae Magnae pontus euxinus seu mare nigrum et tauriae regnum. . .
Decorative map of the Black Sea Region, with a large decorative cartouche. Shows Constantinople. Extends north to Moscow and Smolensko.
Date: Nuremberg, 1720
Habillement des femmes de Smyrnes, des Grecques et des Juifs de cette ville.
Four portraits of Smirne women in typical dress, each with a descriptive engraved text. From Chatelain's monumental 7 volume "Atlas Historique".Henri Abraham Ch...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Carte du gouvernement d'Angleterre où l'on représente l'Etat des officiers de Guerre. . .
Decorative map on the British Isles, with idyllic scenes showing councils of the various military officers of the British Isles. Henri Abraham Chatelain (1684 – 1743) w...
- $50 / ≈ €43
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Vue et description de la Ville de Meaco Capitale du Japon. . .
Top part of the print shows the town of Meaco (Kyoto) at that time the capital of Japan, with a coach and horses in the foreground. Other parts show among other things th...
- $450 / ≈ €385
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Rue Quinquempoix en l'année 1720. De regte afbeelding der wind negotie gehouden in de straat van Quinquempoix tot Parys.
A true picture of the wind trade of the rue Quinquempoix, Paris, in 1720, taken from "Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid : vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en onderg...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
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Spiegel der Reden Voor de Wanhopende Actionisten. [Mirror for the reason of the despairing stockbrokers. ]
Text page with copper engraving (150 x 100mm.) taken from Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid : vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der actie, bubbel en windnego...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Amsterdam Capitale de la Hollande.
A panoramic of Amsterdam seen from 't IJ. Set within a decorative border, printed from a separate plate. Rare.
Date: Leiden, 1720
JUDEA seu TERRA SANCTA quae HEBRAEORUM sive ISRAELITARUM in suas duodecim Tribus divisa secretis ab invicem Regnis IUDA et ISRAEL expressis in super sex ultimi temporis eiusdem Terrae Provincijs. . .
Map of Palestine, showing the location of the various tribes, in two kingdoms, Judah and Israel as well as in six provinces. Shows Palestine on both sides of the Jordan, ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Nouvelle carte du Roiaume D'Alger divisée en toutes ses provinces, avec une partie due cotes D'Espagne . . .
Rare and detailed map of the coast of Algeria. Large inset map of the Bay of Alger (El-Jazir). Shows a coastline of Spain around Alicante. Two compass roses in the Medite...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Monument consacré a la posterité en memoire de la folie incroyable de la XX. année du XVIII. siecle. Ter eeuwiger gedagtenisse der dwaasheid van het XX. jaar der XVIII. eeuw.
Monument consecrated to posterity in memory of the unbelievable folly of the 20th year of the 18th century.A caricature in prose and verse satirizing the first truly inte...
- $250 / ≈ €214
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
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Waare afbeelding van den vermaarden Heer Quinquenpoix. [True portrait of the reknowed Mr. Quinquenpoix]
Page taken from Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid : vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der actie, bubbel en windnegotie, in Vrankryk, Engeland, en de Nederlan...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Carte ancienne et moderne de l'Irlande, avec quelques remarques sur son gouvernement . . .
Map of Ireland, based upon the ancient and modern cartographic information as of the beginning of the 18th Century. From Chatelain's monumental 7 volume "Atlas Histo...
- $200 / ≈ €171
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Russiae vulgo Moscovia dictae, Partes Septentrionalis. . .
In the north the Murmansk Sea. Including the western coast of Nova Zembla. Title cartouche and two cartouches, the bottom right one showing two hunters, bears, stags etc....
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Mappa Aestivarum Insularum, alias Barmudas..
The map is the rare re-issue of the Blaeu's copperplate of 1630. The map includes the arms of Bermuda and England, and lists proprietors of the various tribes into which ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Vue et description des principales villes de l'Armenie et de la Georgie avec les habillements des femmes du pays, et ceux des prêtres et religieux armeniens. . .Tom: V N° 11 Pag: 28
View and description of the principal Armenian and Georgian cities with illustrations of Armenian women's garments as well as priests' and monks' clothing. The views are ...
Date: Amsterdam, ca 1720
Costes de L'Afrique .. ..Cap de Bone Esperance..
In the upper right-hand corner inset map of Saldanha Bay. Numerous place names, soundings and sand banks are shown round the island and the regions are defined by origina...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Succession Des Empereurs Du Japon Avec Une Description Du Meurtre De L'Empereur Cubo Et La Reception Des Ambassadeurs Hollandais. . .
The plate is showing the murder of the Emperor Cubo at Kyoto, the arrival of one of the early Dutch embassies.A small map of Honshu in a central panel. Plate from his &qu...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Carte Geographique du Royaume de France, avec des remarques curieuses sur l'ancienne, et la nouvelle geographie.
Map of France with a key table to the towns on both sides.Zacharie Chatelain (d.1723) was the father of Henri Abraham (1684-1743) and Zacharie Junior (1690-1754).They wor...
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1720
Carte Particuliere d'une Partie d'Asie ou sont Les Isles D'Andemaon, Ceylan, Les Madives . . .
An impressive large sheet chart including the Red Sea, the coasts of Somali, Yemen, east coast of the Arabian peninsula. One of the early maps to focus on this area. Nume...
- $1500 / ≈ €1283
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid, vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der Actie, Bubbel en Windnegotie, in Vrankryk, Engeland, en de Nederlanden, gespleegt in den Jaare MDCCXX...
AN EARLY ISSUE of this biting and vulgar satire on the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles and an extraordinary visual record with 78 plates of the first banking crash, sho...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Het Oost Indisch Huys op de Suyd hock..
A decorative print of the East Indian House , the headquarters of the V.O.C., a place for meeting, trading and storage of spices and ship equipment.The maps and charts we...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Carte des pavillons accompagnée d'observations pour en faire comprendre le blazon et les différentes devises aussy bien que d'une table alphabétique pour les trouver facilement.?
Map of 88 marine flags, including Malta, Turkey, Middelburg, Amsterdam, Portugal, Monaco, Tuscany, China, Nanking, the French Royal flag, French admiralty flag and mercha...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Regnum Borussiae gloriosis auspiciis serenissimi et potentissimi princip. Friderici III primi Borussiae regis march. et elect. Brandenburg inauguratum die 18 Jan...1701.
Map covering the region along the Baltic Sea from Prussia to northern Poland, with the city of Kaliningrad (Königsberg), Danzig, and Heilsperg, etc. With a large title-c...
- $700 / ≈ €599
Date: Nuremberg, 1720
Ducatuum Livoniae et Curlandiae cum vicinis Insulis Nova Exhibitio Geographica. . .
Detailed map of the northern Baltic coast by Homann, pre-dating the privilege.
Date: Nüremberg, 1720
D' Admiralyteyts Huys - La maison de l'Amirauté.
Decorative print of the Admiralty House of the V.O.C., now-a-days Maritime Museum in Amsterdam.
Date: Amsterdam, c.1720
Premiere carte pour l'Introduction a l'histoire du monde, ou l'on remarque la Sphere, le Globe Celeste. . .
Featuring a small double hemisphere world map, showing California as an island, North and South Polar celestial hemispheres, an Armillary Sphere, below with smaller circu...
- $500 / ≈ €428
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Carte de la Nouvelle France, ou se voit le cours des Grandes Rivieres de S. Laurens & de Mississipi..
Derived from de Fer's 1718 map, from west of the Mississippi it contains a mass of inland detail with notes and vignettes of the indigenous peoples and fauna of North Ame...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
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[Title page] Gli Argonauti.
Decorative title page illustrating allegorical and mythological figures. Engraved by Alessandro Dalla Via after a drawing by Lodovico Lanberti.At the top some cherubs car...
Date: Venice, ca. 1720
Partie Meridionale de Moscovie. . .
Centered on Moscow including Azow and part of present-day Ukraine in the bottom part of the map. The map is based on Delisle's important map of the region with revisions ...
- $200 / ≈ €171
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Carte du gouvernement civil ecclésiastique de moscovie, l'état des revenus et l'ordre de la justice et des officiers de la cour.
Interesting sheet with a detailed plan of Moscow, plus two large coats-of-arms, with descriptive French text, from Chatelain's monumental 7 volume Atlas Historique. In up...
- $950 / ≈ €813
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
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...
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1720
Asia intra Maeotim Pontum et Mare Caspium. . .
Striking map the Black Sea and Caspian Sea regions, featuring the geographical features known to the ancients and decorated with a vignette and 10 medallions.From "D...
- $195 / ≈ €167
Date: Nuremberg, 1720
Belgrad / Biograd.
A very RARE panoramic view of the city of Belgrade, including a numbered legend in the lower part.Published by the brothers Chéreau, active in Paris at rue st.Jacques au...
Date: Paris, c.1720
Carte des Pays voisins de la Mer Caspiene. . .
A most attractive and detailed map of the region between the Black and Caspian Seas after De L'Isle. The two Seas are decorated with compass roses. This is one of the few...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Ceuta Ville d'Afrique au D'estroit de Gibraltar.
A very RARE panoramic view of the city of Ceuta, including a numbered legend in both lower corners.Published by the brothers Chéreau, active in Paris at rue st.Jacques a...
Date: Paris c.1720
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.
Date: Augsburg, 1720
Carte des pavillons accompagnée d'observations pour en faire comprendre le blazon et les différentes devises aussy bien que d'une table alphabétique pour les trouver facilement.
A plate of 88 marine flags, including Malta, Turkey, Middelburg, Amsterdam, Portugal, Monaco, Tuscany, China, Nanking, the French Royal flag, the French admiralty flag an...
- $1200 / ≈ €1027
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Tabula geographica qua pars Russiae Magnae..
A detailed map of western Russia, depicting the Ukraine, the Black sea, Turkey to the south, Romania and Bulgaria to the south west, Georgia to the east. Shows the cities...
Date: Nuremberg, 1720
Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid.
AN EARLY ISSUE of this biting and vulgar satire on the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles and an extraordinary visual record with 78 plates of the first banking crash, sho...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Wegweiser duch das Chiurfurstenthumb Sachen.
Showing distances in-between towns in Saxen, Germany. In upper right hand corner inset map of Saxen, showing Leipzig, Dresden, Prague.More about cartographical curiositie...
- $75 / ≈ €64
Date: Amsterdam 1720
Nova et accurata Territorii Ulmensis cum dominio Wainensi..
"Showing the area of Ulm. In the lower part, an inset map of the property"zu Wein". Upper right splendid title cartouche.The map is painted in an intense a...
Date: Nurenberg 1720
Circuli Austriaci in quo sunt. . .
Fine map of Austria, with in upper left corner a inset map of Tirol.Joachim Ottens (1663 - 1719) and his sons Renier and Joshua were prominent Dutch booksellers and map p...
- $200 / ≈ €171
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Nova tabula geographica complectens borealiorem..
A finely engraved pair of maps designed to be cut and joined together to provide a continuous coastline of North America from the Carolinas to Newfoundland and along the ...
Date: Amsterdam 1720
Huquang, Kiangsi, Chekiang ac Fokien.
A reissue of Janssonius' map of south east China, with wash color and uncolored cartouches.The map is based on the maps of Martin Martini, themselves based on Chinese sou...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
A new map of the English Empire in America. . .
This fine English map of eastern North America including Canada engraved by John Harris and first published by Robert Morden. John Senex acquired and made minor alteratio...
Date: London, 1720
Carte de Moscovie. . .
Centred on Moscow, including Lapland. With fine uncolored title cartouche.
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Norimberga.
A spectacular panoramic town-view of Nuremberg, with legends numbered from 1-39 in German. With the title in a banderol.After a design by Friedrich Bernhard Werner (1690...
Date: Augsburg, ca. 1720
Riga metropolis Livoniae.
A spectacular panoramic view of Riga, with legends numbered from a-z and 1-16 in German. With the title in a banderol.After a design by Friedrich Bernhard Werner (1690-1...
Date: Augsburg, ca. 1720
Maris Assoviensis vel de Zabache et Paludis Maeotidis. . .
A very detailed map showing the Black Sea, Azow and Rostow area.
Date: Augsburg, 1720
L'Amerique ou le Nouvelle Continent.. Dedieé et presenteé a monseigneur Law.
State one. The map has been prepared by Jean Baptiste Nolin (the elder) has a dedication to Monseigneur LAW controlleur general des finances .Rare general map of the Amer...
- $2200 / ≈ €1882
Date: Paris, 1720
Carte du gouvernement ecclesiastique civil et militaire de l'Empire de l'ordre teutonique et de Malte et des villes anseatiques.
Interesting sheet with a detailed series of views showing the various councils of the Hanseatic League, including the councils of war, finance, state and the college of t...
- $75 / ≈ €64
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Carte Particuliere de Isthmus ou Darien qui Comprend le Golfe de Panama &c. Cartagena, et les Isles aux Environs.
Finely executed map of a portion of Central America, extending from the East Coast of Nicaragua and Costa Rica in the northwest to Cartagena and Santa Martha in modern Co...
- $1250 / ≈ €1069
Date: Amsterdam, 1720