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[Four cartouche cuttings one sheet]
Four cut-outs of scale cartouches from Johannes Janssonius plates. Cartouches featuring natives and merchants.
Date: Amsterdam, c.1650
Japoniae Nova Descriptio.
The map is identical in cartographic detail to the Hondius map of 1606 but newly designed ornate cartouches have been added. The three main islands of Japan are shown wit...
Date: Amsterdam 1650
Description de l'Empire du Sophi des Perses tiree en partie de l'Arabe de Nubie, et en partie de plusieurs et diverses Relations.
The map of the Empire of Persia is shown to extend from Baghdad almost to the present-day borders of India. Including part of Saudi Arabia and Oman. Including "Golfe...
Date: Paris, 1650
Macedonia, Epirus et Achaia.
Nice map of northern Greece with the southern parts of present day Macedonia and Albania. Includes the region of Athens. Strapwork title cartouche and Spanish text on ver...
Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Ducatus Uplandia.
Covers the area of the modern Uppsala land in the vicinity of Stockholm, and includes most of Aland. With a Swedish coat of arms, a figural cartouche with rural people an...
Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Turcicum Imperium.
A very handsome map featuring a particularly fine cartouche that depicts the Turkish Sultan on his throne, accompanied by allegorical figures on either side, brandishing ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Massilia - Marseille.
Detailed bird's-eye view of the town of Marseille. From Merian's Theatrum Europaeum. To the bottom a lettered key to the principal places in town.
Date: Frankfurt 1650
Imperii Caroli Magni.
Wall map, prepared by Petrus Bertius in 1616. Extensive historical map (four sheets joined) depicting the empire of Charles the Great. Fully engraved with mountains, fore...
- $500 / ≈ €434
Date: Amsterdam, 1650
De la Ruine de l'Empire des Turcs Première figure / Epigramme de la première figure. (79)
Sought-after copper engraved plate taken from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs", th...
- $50 / ≈ €43
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Femme moresque de Tripoly en Barbarie. (60)
Sought-after copper engraved plate of a woman with child from Tripoli. Plate from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establi...
- $45 / ≈ €39
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
De la Ruine de l'Empire des Turcs Onziesme figure / Epigramme de la Onziesme figure. (99)
Sought-after copper engraved plate taken from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs", th...
- $25 / ≈ €22
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Femme Persienne. (59)
Sought-after copper engraved plate of a woman from Persia. Plate from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de c...
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
![[Title page from Theatrum orbis Terrarum, with past-on]](/uploads/cache/43860-250x250.jpg)
[Title page from Theatrum orbis Terrarum, with past-on]
The frontispiece of the third part of the 'Theatrum', by Johan Blaeu. Heightened with goldDecorated with terrestrial and celestial globes and to the left Ptolemy (with sp...
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1650
Nova Zemla.
Decorative sea chart decorated with hunters, polar foxes, polar bears and a sea monster.The scalebar in the lower right is in the form of a skewed 'checker-board', to ref...
- $900 / ≈ €781
Date: Amsterdam, 1650
De la Ruine de l'Empire des Turcs Quinziesme figure / Epigramme de la Quinziesme figure. (107)
Sought-after copper engraved plate taken from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs", th...
- $25 / ≈ €22
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Estats de la Succession de Cleves/ Iuliers..
Fine map of western Germany.This edition carries the date 1650 and the publishers address A PARIS chez l'Autheur aux Galleries du Louvre. Nicolas Sanson was to bring abou...
Date: Paris 1650
![[Title page for ] Atlas de la Terre ou Monde Terrestre - Tome premier]](/uploads/cache/47761-250x250.jpg)
[Title page for ] Atlas de la Terre ou Monde Terrestre - Tome premier]
Title page of " Atlas de la Terre ou Monde Terrestre - Tome premier" by J. Jansonius. This is the updated version of 1:42B. The figures of the king, queen, daup...
Date: Amsterdam, after 1650
Femme de la Caramanie. (57)
Sought-after copper engraved plate taken from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs." by...
- $50 / ≈ €43
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Constantinopolitanae urbis effigies ad vivum expressa.
Extremely rare panoramic view of Istanbul published by Rombout van den Hoeye. With a numbered key (1-29) to principal places in town and a Latin, Dutch, and French poem. ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Russiae vulgo Moscovia pars australis. . .
Shows southern Russia from Crimea to 60 degrees north and from the Volga west to Smolensk. Centered on Moscow. Prepared by Isaac Massa, a Dutch mapmaker who traveled to R...
Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Gentille Femme Perotte Franque. (48)
Sought-after copper engraved plate of a woman from Pera, taken from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de cel...
- $100 / ≈ €87
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
(Grand dame Turque. 45)
Sought-after copper engraved plate of a woman from Turkey. Plate from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de c...
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Esclave More. (38)
Sought-after copper engraved plate of a Moor slave from North Africa. Plate from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establis...
- $75 / ≈ €65
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
De la Ruine de l'Empire des Turcs Quatorziesme figure / Epigramme de la Quatorziesme figure. (105)
Sought-after copper engraved plate taken from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs", th...
- $25 / ≈ €22
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Religieux Turc. (26)
Sought-after copper engraved plate taken from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs." by...
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Aniou. . .
Decorative map centered on the Loire valley. Fine title cartouche in upper right corner.
Date: Amsterdam, 1650
MOSCOVIAE Pars Australis. Auctore Isaaco Massa.
Very decorative map of the region north of the Sea of Azov. The map is based on the travels of Isaac Massa who visited Moscow in 1600 and thus was in the midst of the tur...
- $350 / ≈ €304
Date: Amsterdam, 1650
Torlaqui Religieux Turc. ( 25 )
Sought-after copper engraved plate taken from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs." by...
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Calidesquer. (5)
Sought-after copper engraved plate from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs." by Thoma...
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
De la Ruine de l'Empire des Turcs Douziesme figure / Epigramme de la Douziesme figure. (101)
Sought-after copper engraved plate taken from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs", th...
- $25 / ≈ €22
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
De la Ruine de l'Empire des Turcs Seconde figure / Epigramme de la Seconde figure. (81)
Sought-after copper engraved plate taken from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs", th...
- $50 / ≈ €43
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Boluch Bassi Capitaine de Cent Janissaires. (6)
Sought-after copper engraved plate from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs." by Thoma...
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Solachi ou Solacler, Archer Ordinaire de la Garde du Grand Seigneur. (7)
Sought-after copper engraved plate taken from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs." by...
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
De la Ruine de l'Empire des Turcs Quatriesme figure / Epigramme de la Quatriesme figure. (85)
Sought-after copper engraved plate taken from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs", th...
- $50 / ≈ €43
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
De la Ruine de l'Empire des Turcs Dixiesme figure / Epigramme de la Dixiesmie figure. (97)
Sought-after copper engraved plate taken from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs", th...
- $25 / ≈ €22
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Asia noviter delineata..
From 1633 the members of the Blaeu family were official cartographers to the United East India Company and, as such, had access to the most up-to-date cartographic inform...
- $3500 / ≈ €3037
Date: Amsterdam, 1650
De la Ruine de l'Empire des Turcs Neufiesme figure / Epigramme de la Neufiesmie figure. (95)
Sought-after copper engraved plate taken from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs", th...
- $25 / ≈ €22
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Iannissaire ou Ianissarler Soudart a Pied de la Garde Ordinaire du Grand Seigneur. (8)
Sought-after copper engraved plate from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs." by Thoma...
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Iannissaire Allant à la Guerre. (9)
Sought-after copper engraved plate from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs." by Thoma...
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Azzappi. (10)
Sought-after copper engraved plate from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs." by Thoma...
- $50 / ≈ €43
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
De la Ruine de l'Empire des Turcs Huictiesme figure / Epigramme de la Huictiesme figure. (93)
Sought-after copper engraved plate taken from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs", th...
- $50 / ≈ €43
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
De la Ruine de l'Empire des Turcs Sixiesme figure / Epigramme de la Sixiesme figure. (89)
Sought-after copper engraved plate taken from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs", th...
- $50 / ≈ €43
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Azaoglan ou Iamoglan Enfant du tribut. (11)
Sought-after copper engraved plate taken from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs." by...
- $50 / ≈ €43
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Azamoglan Rustique .(12)
Sought-after copper engraved plate taken from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs." by...
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Peich ou Peider de Nation Persienne Laquais du Grand Seigneur. (13 )
Sought-after copper engraved plate taken from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs." by...
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Habit et Manière ancienne des Peiches ou Laquais du Grand Seigneur. (14)
Sought-after copper engraved plate taken from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs." by...
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Cuisinier Turc. (19)
Sought-after copper engraved plate taken from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs." by...
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
De la Ruine de l'Empire des Turcs Cinquiesme figure / Epigramme de la Cinquiesme figure. (87)
Sought-after copper engraved plate taken from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs", th...
- $50 / ≈ €43
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Pleuianders Luyteurs. (16)
Sought-after copper engraved plate taken from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs." by...
- $50 / ≈ €43
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Delli de nation Parthique qui signifie Sol Harfy ou Enfant Perdu. (17)
Sought-after copper engraved plate taken from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs." by...
- $50 / ≈ €43
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Les Yurongnes. (18)
Sought-after copper engraved plate taken from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs." by...
Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Gouvernement General de l'Ile de France. . .
Fine map of Isle de France, centered on ParisThis edition carries the date 1651. Engraved by Jean Sommer.Nicolas Sanson was to bring about the rise of French cartography,...
- $200 / ≈ €174
Date: Paris, 1651
Descripcion de la Isla de Curaçao; Sacada de los Papeles que vinieron a el R.L Consejo de las Indias d. Fran.co Núñez Melián Gouvernador de Venezuela fechos en Caracas en 4° de Diciembre, de 1634 Anos
JUAN DE HERRERA Y ADUILAR - Descripcion de la Isla de Curaçao; Sacada de los Papeles que vinieron a el R.L Consejo de las Indias d. Fran.co Núñez Melián Gouvernador...
Date: Sevillia, c.1635-1652
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 / ≈ €651
Date: Paris, 1652
Insulae Iavae Cum parte insularum Borneo Sumatrae..
An elegant sea chart of the island of Java with parts of Sumatra, Borneo and Bali. The map includes only coastal detail and shows the Dutch capital in the East Indies at ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1652
La grande Tartarie.
Map of Central Asia showing major cities, places and water bodies. Relief shown pictorially. Engraved by Anthony de Winter.
- $150 / ≈ €130
Date: Amsterdam, Utrecht, ca. 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
La Russie ou Moscovie.
Scarce map of Russia, centered on Moscow, the map covers much of central Europe, from the Baltic Sea east to the Caspian Sea and from the Arctic Ocean to the Black Sea.Fr...
- $300 / ≈ €260
Date: Paris, 1653
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
Le Royaume de Sicile.
Uncommon map Sicily and part of Palermo. Very good impression.Like Sanson, Briet was born in Abbeville and became a Jesuit at age 18. His "Parallela Geographiae Vete...
Date: Paris, 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 / ≈ €260
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 / ≈ €1736
Date: Amsterdam, D. Weege, 1653
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
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 / ≈ €260
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
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 / ≈ €260
Date: Paris, 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
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
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 / ≈ €174
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 ...
Date: Amsterdam, c. 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 / ≈ €87
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
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 / ≈ €260
Date: Paris, 1654
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 / ≈ €87
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
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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
![[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
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