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Atlas van Zeevaert en Koophandel door de Geheele Weereldt.

Engraved frontispiece, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved dedication to the Dutch East India Company, 32 double-page engraved charts with con...

$65000 / ≈ €60822
Maker / Publisher: OTTENS, Reinier and Josua
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1745

 


Introduction a la Geographie

Engraved title, with 91 double-page engraved maps mostly including European nations, but including World and continents, Turkey, the Holy Land, Persia, China, Japan, Egyp...

$3000 / ≈ €2807
Maker / Publisher: LE ROUGE,G.L.
Place & Date: Paris, 1756

 


Almanach Géograhique ou petit atlas..

Uncommon miniature atlas with extensive geographical descriptions of mainly European countries.Including a map of the eastern hemisphere, with a curious outline for Austr...

$1500 / ≈ €1404
Maker / Publisher: DESNOS, L.C.
Place & Date: Paris, 1770

 


Map of Niagara Falls and viccinity.

This Fifth edition, revised and enlarged, is accompanied by 6 lithographs by Hall & Mooney depicting views of the falls and one map by H.A. Parsons entitled "Map...

$150 / ≈ €140
Maker / Publisher: STEELE, O. G.
Place & Date: Buffalo, 1838

 


Introduction a la Geographie..

Second edition of this charming travel compendium illustrated with a fine world map in two hemispheres prepared by de l'Isle. California as an island. The hemispheres are...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: DE FER,N./ DANET
Place & Date: Paris, 1717

 


Petites tables Geneologiques touchant les droits et les interests des Princes.

Compilation of Duval's Pocket Atlas, with an archbishoprics and dioceses description of the world, here right at the beginning with the rare genealogical tables of variou...

$3000 / ≈ €2807
Maker / Publisher: DU VAL, P.
Place & Date: Paris, P. Duval, ca. 1667-1672

 


Etrennes Géographiques.

The leather binding has light wear and slight damage to the spine. The maps have very good impressions. Age-toning, occasional spotting, and soiling throughout. The margi...

$450 / ≈ €421
Maker / Publisher: DU CAILLE
Place & Date: Paris, 1761

 


Almanach Géograhique ou petit atlas.. [Seconde partie]

The second part of this uncommon miniature atlas with extensive geographical descriptions of mainly European countries.Including map of France; Netherlands; Belgium; Spai...

$700 / ≈ €655
Maker / Publisher: DESNOS, L.C.
Place & Date: Paris, 1770

 


Himmels Atlas in 20 Blättzen nach den grossen Bodenschen Sernkarten…

Schreibers Erben, 1849. Publisher's binding with minor rubbing and wear to boards. Corners showing and some chipping at head of spine. 8 text pages and 20 engraved plates...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: RIEDIG, M.
Place & Date: Leipzig, Schreibers Erben, 1849

 


Korte geographische oefeningen voor het eerste onderwijs in de kennis der geheele aarde

Ilustrated with World Map, map of Europe, the Netherlands, Asia, Africa, North America, South America and Australia.Provenance : J.de Veth, October 1845.

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: PRINSEN, P.J.
Place & Date: Zaltbommel, 1843

 


L'Amerique, en plusieurs cartes nouvelles, et exactes, &c. En divers traitez de geographie, et d'histoire. Là où sont descrits succinctement, & avec une belle Methode, & facile.

Third edition, the text and maps of which are identical to the first given in 1657. However, the dedication to Nicolas Fouquet (2 pp.), disgraced in 1661, has been delete...

$4500 / ≈ €4211
Maker / Publisher: SANSON d'Abbeville, Nicolas
Place & Date: Paris, 1680

 


Carte particuliere des costes de Poittou, Aunis et de la Rochelle.

Finely designed and rare map of Isle Ré and the French coast with La Rochelle.

$1250 / ≈ €1170
Maker / Publisher: SCHENK, P.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1750

 


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
Maker / Publisher: BOUCHER, L.
Place & Date: Perceval, Paris, 1953

 


Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova.

Orientated with north to the right. This is one of the earliest maps to concentrate solely on this area of the colonies, excluding Virginia and the extreme north east coa...

$4500 / ≈ €4211
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644

 


Plan de la rivierè de Saigon et de ses affluents dressé par ordre de M. le capitaine de vaisseau d'Ariès, gouverneur de Saigon, d'après les documents fournis par MM. Lespès. . .

A huge folded map the Saigon river prepared after Léo de Lespès, Rieunier Narac. Inset map of "Carte de Banc de Corail, levée d' après les ordres de Mr. le Capta...

$750 / ≈ €702
Maker / Publisher: DE LESPES, L.
Place & Date: St Joseph, Saigon, after 1860

 


Insulae Americanae in Oceanus Septentrionali cum Terris..

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 t...

$2500 / ≈ €2339
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644

 


Carte Particuliere des Isles Moluques.

A very nice map centered on the island of the Moluccas.From Atlas Portatif pour servir a l'intelligence de l'Histoire Philosophique et Politique des etablissements et du ...

$75 / ≈ €70
Maker / Publisher: HARREVELT, E.van / CHANGUION, D.J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1773

 


Americae Nova Tabula.

An inset shows Greenland and Iceland. Decorative elements include ships, sea monsters, and vignettes of native Americans within South America. In addition, the map is bor...

$7500 / ≈ €7018
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644

 


Allain Manesson Mallet Pairisi, Ingeni Des Camps Et Armees du Roy de Protugal.

Portrait of Alain Manesson Mallet, engraved by Pierre Landry, from "Description de l'Univers".

$110 / ≈ €103
Maker / Publisher: LANDRY, P.
Place & Date: Paris, 1683

 


Description geographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise.

First edition of this cornerstone of any collection of books on China, which is also among the rarest and most desirable of important Americana, included in Rare American...

$30000 / ≈ €28072
Maker / Publisher: DU HALDE, Jean Baptiste.
Place & Date: Paris, P. G. Le Mercier, 1735

 


Nova Hispania et Nova Galicia.

Map of New Spain and New Galicia shows the city of Mexico situated by a large lake, as well as the location of many silver and gold mines. The map's elaborate cartouche i...

$1400 / ≈ €1310
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644

 


Mogol.

A very nice map of Northern India and Pakistan. From Francisco Giustiniani for El Atlas abreviado o el nuevo compendio de la Geografia universal, politica, historica, i c...

$150 / ≈ €140
Maker / Publisher: GIUSTINIANI, F.
Place & Date: Leon de Francia (Lyon), Jaime Certa, 1739

 


Carte de France corrigée par ordre du Roy sur les observations de Messieurs de l'Académie des Sciences

Important map published by the Academy of Sciences. The new projection method was based on the necessary to define the exact contours of the country and to develop the me...

$3000 / ≈ €2807
Maker / Publisher: CASSINI, D. / DE LA HIRE, Philippe
Place & Date: Paris, 1693

 


Le Pal - Nous ne connaissons ni la discipline des partis ni les complaisances de la camaraderie.

Original cover design in pen and ink by Henri Desbarbieux for the satirical bi-monthly journal Le Pal.Not much information is found about Henri Desbarbieux. In this BNF l...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: DESBARBIEUX, H.
Place & Date: Paris, 1925

 


Black Sea.

Decorative steel engraved map of the Black Sea with inset views of Sebastopol and Odessa. There are also vignettes of Constantinople, Sinope and Varna. Taken from "T...

$90 / ≈ €84
Maker / Publisher: TALLIS, J.
Place & Date: London, London Printing and publishing Company of London, ca. 1851

 


Railway map of China.

Railway map of China. Key in the left with keys to capital cities, Ocean cables, etc. Published by The Chinese Government Bureau of Economic Information, which was a nonp...

$350 / ≈ €328
Maker / Publisher: BUREAU OF ECONOMIC INFORMATION
Place & Date: China, ca. 1928

 


Page from La Cosmographie Universelle with map of France. (Page 160)

Text page with woodblock map of ancient France (122 x 163 mm.) In 1575 Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia was translated into French and published in Paris by François d...

$75 / ≈ €70
Maker / Publisher: DE BELLE-FOREST, F.
Place & Date: Paris, 1575

 


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
Maker / Publisher: ARTZYBASCHEFF, B.
Place & Date: London, 1944

 


[Lot of 2 leaves] Rubeaquum cum arce Isenburgo…/ Wyssenburg…

Two wood block printed early bird's-eye views of Rouffach (lies along the Alsatian wine route) and Wissembourg (Alsace). From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Co...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, 1552

 


Casablanca (Anfa) - Azemmour (Azamor) - Diu - Old Goa (Velha Goa)

Four fine coastal views of these harbors cities which were important to Portuguese trade. Goa and Diu on the western coast of India, together with Anfa (Casablanc) and Az...

$450 / ≈ €421
Maker / Publisher: BRAUN,G. / HOGENBERG, F.
Place & Date: Cologne, 1618

 


[Lot of 25 leaves of Africa and Egypt]

Twenty-five text leaves with wood block illustrations relating to Africa and Egypt illustrated with maps, animals, plants.... From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, 1552

 


Sic per secta repens venator consista dumis - Torquet et undosos anates, Fusicasp palustres

This is a plate from a series "Venationes ferarum, avium, piscium, pugnae bestiariorum & mutuae bestiarum". Published by Philippe Galle (Haarlem 1537 - 1612...

$300 / ≈ €281
Maker / Publisher: STRADANUS, Johannes / GALLE, Ph.
Place & Date: Antwerp, Philips Galle, ca 1596

 


[Lot of 7 leaves] Curiensis civitas, Rhetorum…/Valesia/Solothurensis/Clarissimae civitatis/Genevensis/Basiliensis/Ursina…Bernensis/Sedunensis/Designatio …Badensis.

Seven text leaves illustrated with wood block bird's-eye views of Chur, Solothurn, Geneva, Basel, Bern, Sitten, Baden and one single sheet map of the Valais. From the 155...

$400 / ≈ €374
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, 1552

 


Aethiopia Superior vel Interior vulgo Abissinorum.

An attractive map of the Eastern African and the fictitious kingdom of Prester John. The map shows a major section of central and eastern Africa including Mozambique nort...

$900 / ≈ €842
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644

 


Mappa Aestivarum Insularum alias Barmudas.

Blaeu based his work on John Speed's remarkably accurate map of 1626-1627. It shows the island divided into tribes and lots, and below the map itself appear the names of ...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644

 


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...

$2000 / ≈ €1871
Maker / Publisher: BLAEU, W.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644

 


[Lot of 9 leaves with maps and views of Persia and Arabia).

Nineteen text leaves with wood block illustrations relating to Persia and Arabia. From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and comple...

$100 / ≈ €94
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, 1552

 


Le Temple de la Mecque.

Striking view of the Temple at Mecca, showing the Kaaba at the center of Islam's most sacred mosque, that is Al-Masjid Al-?aram, in Mecca, Hejaz, Saudi Arabia.The engravi...

$1000 / ≈ €936
Maker / Publisher: RELANDUS, H.
Place & Date: The Hague, Isaac Vaillant, 1721

 


Veuë et Pers-pective de l'Entrée du Château de Marly en général.

A rare panoramic view of the Château de Marly (Marly-le-Roi) by Aveline. The plate, at the joint address of Esnault et Rapilly and Daumont, is numbered in upper right co...

$250 / ≈ €234
Maker / Publisher: AVELINE / ESNAUTS et RAPILLY / DAUMONT.
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1760

 


Lindoiae civitas insularis, undique aqua lacunari circunsusa.…

A wood block printed early bird's-eye view of Lindau on Lake Constance (Germany). A lettered key A-O in the plate. From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmogra...

$70 / ≈ €66
Maker / Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Place & Date: Basel, 1552