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Plan de la Ville et du Chateau de Batavia en l'Isle de Iava / Ware affbeeldinge wegens het Casteel ende Stadt Batavia gelegen opt groot Eylant Java.

Detailed East-oriented plan of Jakarta former Batavia on Java / Indonesia. With a bird's eye view from seaside, various ships and a lion. Two inset keys with detailed des...

$750 / ≈ €635
Maker: VAN DER AA, P. / OLEARIUS, A.
Date: Leiden, 1730

 


Rare collection of costume plates.

Rare collection of costume plates published in Augsburg by the famous publishers Martin Engelbrecht, Ioh. Georg Hertel and the Jeremias Wolff Heirs.Composition :2 plates ...

$9500 / ≈ €8047
Maker: WOLFF, Jeremias (heirs) / ENGELBRECHT, Mart
Date: Augsburg, ca. 1730

 


Plan de la Ville et Port d'Antibes.

An attractive chart centered on the Mediterranean. With a scale and large compass-rose. Dated 1727, with the privilege of the King. From : Recueil des Plusieurs plans des...

$350 / ≈ €296
Maker: MICHELOT, H. / BREMOND, L.
Date: Marseille, 1730

 


Asia Cum omnibus Imperiis, Provinciis, Statibus et Insulis. . .

A finely engraved and decorative mid-18th century map published in Augsburg, Germany and incorporating two large decorative title cartouches upper right and bottom left. ...

$250 / ≈ €212
Maker: SEUTTER, M.
Date: Augsburg, 1730

 


Cazal. (Casale Monferrato)

A rare panoramic of Casale Monferrato in the Piedmont region. Engraved by Pierre Aveline (Paris, c.1656 - 23 May 1722). He was also a print-publisher and print-seller. H...

$125 / ≈ €106
Maker: AVELINE, P. / CREPY
Date: Paris, 1690-1730

 


Carte du Congo et du Pays des Cafres. . .

Detailed copper-engraved map of southern Africa providing numerous particulars and comments concerning European trade, native kingdoms, and mineral wealth. Includes Madag...

$700 / ≈ €593
Maker: COVENS, J. / MORTIER, C.
Date: Amsterdam, c. 1730

 


Architecturae Militaris Synopsis, ... / Vollstaendiger Entwurff der Ingenieur Kunst . . .

Decorative large sheet with elements of different types of fortress architecture and the name of the engineers or military architects: Blondel, Bourdin, Doegen, Borgsdorf...

$650 / ≈ €551
Maker: SEUTTER, M.
Date: Augsburg, circa 1730

 


Plan de la Rade d'Alicant.

An attractive chart centered Alicante in Valencia along the Mediterranean. With scale and large compass-rose. Dated 1730, with the privilege of the King. From : Recueil d...

$350 / ≈ €296
Maker: MICHELOT, H. / BREMOND, L.
Date: Marseille, 1730

 


Insularum Moluccarum Nova description.

Exquisite map of the famous Spice Islands based. This map was the first large-scale map of the region and depicts the islands which provided first the Portuguese and then...

$750 / ≈ €635
Maker: SCHENK, P. / VALK, G.
Date: Amsterdam, 1730

 


Der Nordischen Königreiche Süd=Oost Theil begreiffende Liefland Ingermanland und Finnland zum Theil.

Uncommon map published by Gabriel Bodenehr, who bought the Stridbeck copper plates in 1716, and continued publishing the Stridbeck Atlas: "Atlas Curieux," under...

$400 / ≈ €339
Maker: BODENEHR, G.
Date: Augsburg, 1730

 


Colossus Monarchic. Statua Danielis

Fantastic double page allegorical map of a colossus figure representing the great world empires as Daniel interpreted in Nebuchadnezzar's dream. The warrior stands stolid...

$2000 / ≈ €1694
Maker: BAECK, E.
Date: Augsbourg, 1730

 


Carte du Canada ou de la Nouvelle France.

A later edition of Guillaume De l'Isle's map. It still includes the fictitious discoveries of Baron de Lahoutan: the legendary River Longue etc. The northwest corner of H...

$1100 / ≈ €932
Maker: COVENS, J. / MORTIER, C.
Date: Amsterdam, 1730

 


Perspective des Isles de Palo Condoro à le regarde de 8 lieües di coté de Midy.

An attractive view of the Isle de Condor (Côn Son Island), located off the southern tip of Vietnam and a victualing point by European traders. In 1702, the English East ...

$150 / ≈ €127
Maker: ANONYMOUS
Date: Paris / Amsterdam, ca 1730

 


Alexandri Magni Imperium et Expeditio. . .

The map represents the theatre of Alexander the Great's conquests between the Black Sea and Indus River, today's Turkey, Armenia, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, etc. The map is...

$100 / ≈ €85
Maker: DEZAUCHE / L'ISLE,G. / BUACHE
Date: Paris, 1731

 


Carte pour introduire à la chronologie et à trouver les années devant et après Jésus Christ par le moyen des périodes Iulienne, Dionysienne et par les trois cycles comme aussi pour trouver la fête de Pasque. . .

An engraved table showing the years before and after Jesus Christ through the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Henri Abraham Chatelain (1684 – 1743) was a Huguenot pasto...

$25 / ≈ €21
Maker: CHATELAIN, H.
Date: Amsterdam, 1720-1732

 


Nouvelle carte genealogique des souverains et des familles illustres aliez a la maison ou aux decendans de la famille roialle de Piaste roi de Pologne. . .

A two sheet engraving of the genealogical family tree of Poland from 804 AD to the time of publication. The tree extends throughout Europe and is headed by the arms of 30...

$150 / ≈ €127
Maker: CHATELAIN, H.
Date: Amsterdam, 1719-1732

 


[St Peter's Square].

View of St Peter's Square and Vatican probably featuring a solemn blessing. The square is crowdy, the Pontifical Swiss Guard is present. A beautifully colored lithography...

$1000 / ≈ €847
Maker: ANONYMOUS.
Date: Italy ?, 1732

 


Nouvelle Carte de Moscovie où sont representés les differents etats de sa Maiesté Czarienne..

Map of Russia Tartary and part of China with key tables to the towns. Depicting the different states belonging to the Czar in Asia and Europe, showing the path of one of ...

$200 / ≈ €169
Maker: CHATELAIN, H.
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1732

 


Great Tartary, with the tract of the Moscovite Ambassador's Travels from Moscow to Pekin in China.

An interesting map illustrating the route taken by the Russian Ambassador on his travels east to Beijing. Shows the Great Wall, "Somer Houses" and "parts u...

$125 / ≈ €106
Maker: MOLL, Herman.
Date: London, 1732

 


Carte Des Trois Ordres Qui Composent L'Etat De La Republique De Pologne...

Decorative views of Cracow, Warsaw and Vilna, from Chatelain's monumental Atlas Historique.It is an elaborate presentation of the political hierarchy of the Polish-Lithua...

$450 / ≈ €381
Maker: CHATELAIN, H.
Date: Paris, 1732

 


Nouvelle Carte de Moscovie où sont representés les differents etats de sa Maiesté Czarienne. . .

Map of Russia Tartary and part of China with key tables to the towns. Depicting the different states belonging to the Czar in Asia and Europe, showing the path of one of ...

$250 / ≈ €212
Maker: CHATELAIN,H.
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1732

 


Vorstellung der Evangelisch-Ostindischen Kirche Augsburger Protestanten.

It is a very decorative and rare print to commemorate the 200-year Confession of the Augsburg Protestant Confession. Engraved by J. Kleinschmidt after a design of E. Ridi...

$2000 / ≈ €1694
Maker: RIDINGER, J.
Date: Augsburg, 1732

 


Carte Des Trois Ordres Qui Composent L'Etat De La Republique De Pologne...

Decorative views of Cracow, Warsaw and Vilna, from Chatelain's monumental Atlas Historique.Zacharie Chatelain (d.1723) was the father of Henri Abraham (1684-1743) and Zac...

$800 / ≈ €678
Maker: CHATELAIN, H.
Date: Amsterdam, 1732

 


Oriens, Persia, India etc.

Uncommon map of Persia, Armenia, Arabian Peninsular and part of India. Prepared by Christoph Cellarius (1638-1707). From Geographia Antiqua...

$90 / ≈ €76
Maker: CELLARIUS, Chr.
Date: Leipzig, Gledisch, 1732

 


[Title page for ] Atlas Novus Terrarum orbis Imperia.

Title page from Atlas Novus printed by Johann Ernst Udelbulner. Large elaborately engraved sheet with numerous allegorical figures. A large globe, showing the Eastern Hem...

$450 / ≈ €381
Maker: HOMANN, J.B.
Date: Nuremberg, 1732

 


Les Principales Forteresses Ports &c de L'Amérique Septentrionale. . .

This sheet contains 19 small but detailed maps and plans of harbours, towns, forts and islands from the eastern seaboard and the West Indies, all but one plan with title ...

$2500 / ≈ €2118
Maker: POPPLE, H. /COVENS, J. / MORTIER. P.
Date: Amsterdam, 1733

 


[Title page ] Carte Générale de la Monarchie Françoise, contenat l'Histoire Militaire depuis Clovis, premier Roy chrêtien...

[Title page ] Carte Générale de la Monarchie Françoise, contenat l'Histoire Militaire depuis Clovis, premier Roy chrêtien, jusqu'à la quinzième année accomplie du ...

$150 / ≈ €127
Maker: LA JAISSE. Pierre Lemau de.
Date: Paris, 1733

 


Mr. Romein De Hooghe.

Portrait of Romein De Hooghe, engraved by Jacobus Houbraken. De Hooghe is known as an engraver, draftsman, painter, sculptor and medalist. He is best known for his politi...

$110 / ≈ €93
Maker: HOUBRAKEN, J. / BOS, H.
Date: Amsterdam, 1733

 


Le Roi Henri II blassé a mort representanté dans son lit.

Print showing King Henry II in his death bed. In June 1559 a tournament lasting several days was held in Paris to celebrate a peace treaty between France and Spain. King ...

$100 / ≈ €85
Maker: DE MONTFAUCON, B.
Date: Paris, 1729-1733

 


Der Hollaendisch-Ostindianischen Compagnie Weltberühmte Haupt - Handels und Niederlags stadt BATAVIA..

A very fine decorative plan of Batavia showing the City and its immediate environs, the surrounding rice fields intersected by a network of waterways, canals and outlying...

$2200 / ≈ €1863
Maker: HOMANN HEIRS.
Date: Nuremberg, 1733

 


Der Hollaendisch-Ostindianischen Compagnie Weltberühmte Haupt - Handels und Niederlags stadt BATAVIA..

Very fine decorative plan of Batavia showing the City and its immediate environs, the surrounding rice fields intersected by a network of waterways, canals and outlying f...

$2200 / ≈ €1863
Maker: HOMANN HEIRS.
Date: Nuremberg, 1733

 


Derbent.

View of Derbent, the southernmost city in Russia from a scarce series of city views by Daniel de la Feuille (1640-1709). Engraving shows the ancient fortress and ruins of...

$100 / ≈ €85
Maker: DE LA FEILLE, D.
Date: Amsterdam, 1734

 


Regio Canaan seu Terra Promissionis postra Judeae vel Palaestina nominata hodiae Terra Sancta. . .

A striking and beautiful map of The Holy Land and Judea divided up into the twelve tribes. These are easily distinguished by the use of bold, rich period wash colour. Wit...

$600 / ≈ €508
Maker: SEUTTER, M.
Date: Augsburg, ca 1734

 


Hedendaegsche Historie of tegenwoordige staet van alle volkeren 1 deel. (Volume 1 - China, Japan, Phillippines, Moluccas)

This provides an interesting illustrated description of China, Japan, the Phillippines, Moluccas. Including a map of China, Korea, and Japan, with the Sea between Korea a...

$1500 / ≈ €1271
Maker: TIRION, I.
Date: Amsterdam, 1734

 


Lo Stati Presente di Tutti i Paesi e Popoli del Mondo..

This most uncommon work provides an interesting focus on the dissemination of the outline of Japan provided by Kaempfer. Beside the description of Japan, the book include...

$1100 / ≈ €932
Maker: ALBRIZZI, G.
Date: Venice, 1734

 


Nieuwe Kaart van Muskovie of Rusland.

Detailed map of European Russia, far south to the Black Sea and Caspian Sea. Isaac Tirion was born in Utrecht ca. 1705. He came to Amsterdam ca. 1725. Tirion published a ...

$150 / ≈ €127
Maker: TIRION, I.
Date: Amsterdam, 1734

 


Das bombadirte Dantzig. Das belagerte Danzig eine Weltberühmte Haupt und Handelstatt des Polnischen Preussens, mit ihren Vorstaedten und der Weichselmünder Schanz,

Large original copper engraving with decorative set edge, top left Diarium of the Russian attack and Russian battleships in Gdansk Bay, above list of the most important b...

$850 / ≈ €720
Maker: HOMANN, J.B.
Date: Nuremberg, 1734

 


Nieuwe Kaart van Muskovie of Rusland..

Detailed map of European Russia, far south to the Black Sea and Caspian Sea. Isaac Tirion was born in Utrecht ca. 1705. He came to Amsterdam ca. 1725. Tirion published a ...

$250 / ≈ €212
Maker: TIRION, I.
Date: Amsterdam, 1734

 


Changer à droite - Changieren rechts - Variatio ad dextram.

Copper engraving from "Neue Reit Schul vorstellend einen vollkommenen Reuter in allen Lectionen". Disciple of Georg Philipp Rugendas I in Augsburg, Johann Elias...

$500 / ≈ €424
Maker: RIDINGER, J. E.
Date: Augsburg, 1734

 


Province de Koei-Tcheou. [Koei-tcheou 贵州 [Guizhou] province.]

Important map of Koei-tcheou 贵州 [Guizhou]. With a quite elaborately pictorial cartouche featuring a rococo chinoiserie ornamentation, engraved by Guélard, the map by...

$300 / ≈ €254
Maker: ANVILLE, J.B.D'
Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735

 


Carte de la province de Tche kiang 浙江 [Zhejiang]

D'Anville's highly detailed map of Tche Kiang (Zhejiang) province from du Halde's "Description geographique historique...de l'Empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie Ch...

$250 / ≈ €212
Maker: ANVILLE d', J.B.B.
Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735

 


Potentissimo Borussorum Regi Friderico Wilhelmo Maiestate, Fortitudine Clementia Augustissimo Hancce Lithuaniam Borussicam : in qua luca coloniis Salisburg., ad incolendum Regio nutu concessa ...

Potentissimo Borussorum Regi Friderico Wilhelmo Maiestate, Fortitudine Clementia Augustissimo Hancce Lithuaniam Borussicam : in qua luca coloniis Salisburg., ad incolendu...

$1200 / ≈ €1016
Maker: HOMANN HEIRS
Date: Nuremberg, 1735

 


Province de Ho-nan. [Honan 河南 (Hénán) province]

An important map of Honan 河南 (Hénán) province. With a quite elaborately pictorial cartouche, engraved by F.Baillieul Lainé. Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d' Anville (1...

$200 / ≈ €169
Maker: ANVILLE, J.B.D'
Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735

 


Carte du ciel et de la terre qui commencent à se former / Figure du ciel fluide & pur & de la terre fixe & ferme.

Recto and verso text page with two illustrations of the grounding of the sky and earth according to a Chinese philosopher. Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d' Anville (1697-178...

$75 / ≈ €64
Maker: ANVILLE, J.B.D'
Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735

 


Carte particulière de l'entrée de Canton - Plan de Quang-tcheou-fou vulgo Canton .

Beautiful detailed map of the entrance to the city of Canton, showing also the cities of Macao and Quanghai, as well as the islands of the bay, including the island of Sh...

$450 / ≈ €381
Maker: ANVILLE, J.B.D'
Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735

 


Nieuwe kaart van Muskovien door M. de l'Isle.

This lovely little map of the area surrounding Moscow is based on Delisle's map of the region. The map is bounded by Lake Ilmen in the north, the Volga River to the east,...

$100 / ≈ €85
Maker: RATELBAND, J.
Date: Amsterdam, 1735

 


[Title page] Description geographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise . . . Du Thibet, & de la Coree. . .

Title page of the Nouvel Atlas de la Chine. Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d' Anville (1697-1782), French cartographer. Compiled over 200 maps. This map is from his most impor...

$40 / ≈ €34
Maker: ANVILLE, J.B.D'
Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735

 


Potentissimo Borussorum Regi Friderico Wilhelmo Maiestate, Fortitudine Clementia Augustissimo Hancce Lithuaniam Borussicam : in qua luca coloniis Salisburg., ad incolendum Regio nutu...

Potentissimo Borussorum Regi Friderico Wilhelmo Maiestate, Fortitudine Clementia Augustissimo Hancce Lithuaniam Borussicam : in qua luca coloniis Salisburg., ad incolendu...

$1500 / ≈ €1271
Maker: HOMANN HEIRS
Date: Nuremberg, 1735

 


Theatre de la Guerre en Savoie et en Piémont - Le Dauphiné, La Bresse - Partie du Lionnois et de la Provence./ Theatre de la guerre en Dauphiné et en Provence…

Rare wall map of the Savoie/Piémont and Dauphiné/Provence region. Decorated with 2 title-cartouches, one at upper right part (Savoye/Piémont) and one at lower right pr...

$3000 / ≈ €2541
Maker: COVENS,J./ MORTIER,C.
Date: Amsterdam, c.1735

 


Province de Se-Tchuen. [ Se-tchuen 四川 [Sichuan] province.]

Important map of Se-tchuen 四川 [Sichuan] province. With a quite elaborately pictorial cartouche, engraved by Guélard, the map by Delahaye, features animals, birds, a ...

$450 / ≈ €381
Maker: ANVILLE, J.B.D'
Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735

 


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 / ≈ €25410
Maker: DU HALDE, Jean Baptiste.
Date: Paris, P. G. Le Mercier, 1735

 


Poloniae Regnum ut et Magni Ducatus Lithuaniae . . .

Detailed map of Poland and the Baltic regions, extending in the south to Ukraine and northern Hungary.Here in its second state, now with added letters to the border scale...

$750 / ≈ €635
Maker: SEUTTER, M.
Date: Augsburg, 1735

 


Plan du Tien-tang ou du temple, où l'empereur sacrifie à Chang-ti sous le titre de souverain seigneur de la terre.

Nice example of d'Anville's plan of Tien-tang temple, from "Atlas général de la Chine..."" prepared by Jesuit missionaries and commissioned by Emperor Ka...

$50 / ≈ €42
Maker: ANVILLE, J.B.D'
Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735

 


Plan du Ti-tang ou du temple, où l'empereur sacrifie à Chang-ti sous le titre de souverain seigneur de la terre

A plan of the temple of the soil god (社稷壇, Shèjìtán, "Altar of Soil and Grain")—under the name "Titang" (地堂, dìtáng, "Hall of Di...

$50 / ≈ €42
Maker: ANVILLE, J.B.D'
Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735

 


Souan pan, ou instrument dont les chinois se servent pour compter.

Text page with a wood block illustration of a souan-pan [suan-p'an] the calculation table used by the Chinese. Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d' Anville (1697-1782), French c...

$20 / ≈ €17
Maker: ANVILLE, J.B.D'
Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735

 


Villes de la province de Petche-li.

Five town plans : Peking (with forbidden town), Yung-ping-fou, Long-men-hien, Yuen-keou/Tching-sse-yu/Si-yang-keou/Hoang-tou-in, Tchin-ting-fou. From "Description ge...

$150 / ≈ €127
Maker: ANVILLE, J.B.D'
Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735

 


Nouvelle carte du royaume de Pologne, divisée selon..

Chatelain's map of Poland. The title is in two lines across the map. At the bottom border, an index to the map's contents appears. At the top of the map, historical remar...

$750 / ≈ €635
Maker: CHATELAIN, H.
Date: Amsterdam, 1735

 


Province de Koei-Tcheou.

An important map of Koei-tcheou 贵州 [Guizhou]. With a quite elaborately pictorial cartouche featuring a rococo chinoiserie ornamentation engraved by Guélard, the map ...

$100 / ≈ €85
Maker: ANVILLE, J.B.D'
Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735

 


Province d'Yun-Nan.

Important map of Yun-nan 云南 [Yunnan] province. With a quite elaborately pictorial cartouche featuring a rococo chinoiserie ornamentation, engraved by Delahaye. Jean B...

$100 / ≈ €85
Maker: ANVILLE, J.B.D'
Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735

 


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

Cornerstone of any collection of books on China, which is also among the rarest and most desirable of important Americana.This, "the first definitive European work o...

$12000 / ≈ €10164
Maker: DU HALDE, Jean Baptiste.
Date: Paris, P. G. Le Mercier, (vol. 1-3) 1770 / (vol.4),1735

 


Potentissimo Borussorum Regi Friderico Wilhelmo Maiestate, Fortitudine Clementia Augustissimo Hancce Lithuaniam Borussicam : in qua luca coloniis Salisburg., ad incolendum Regio nutu concessa ...

Potentissimo Borussorum Regi Friderico Wilhelmo Maiestate, Fortitudine Clementia Augustissimo Hancce Lithuaniam Borussicam : in qua luca coloniis Salisburg., ad incolendu...

$1500 / ≈ €1271
Maker: HOMANN HEIRS
Date: Nuremberg, 1735

 


Province de Hou-Quang. [Hou-quang 湖广 [Huguang] province.]

Important map of Hou-quang 湖广 [Huguang] province. With a quite elaborately pictorial cartouche, engraved by Guélard, the map engraved by F.Baillieul Lainé, featurin...

$250 / ≈ €212
Maker: ANVILLE, J.B.D'
Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735

 


Province de Chan-Tong.

Detailed map of Shandong Province. With a quite elaborately pictorial cartouche, engraved by Guélard, the map by Delahaye, featuring a rabbit and rococo chinoiserie orna...

$300 / ≈ €254
Maker: ANVILLE, J.B.D'
Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735

 


[World and 4 continents] Carte Geographique Astronomique Chronologique et Historique du Monde.

French wall map of the world in 4 sheets published by Crépy "à l'entrée du Cloistre de St. Benoist du côté des maturins". A decorative wall map of the worl...

$25000 / ≈ €21175
Maker: (INSELIN, Charles / CREPY [Family]
Date: Paris, 1720-1735

 


Province de Tche Kiang. [Tche kiang 浙江 [Zhejiang] province]

D'Anville's highly detailed map of Tche kiang 浙江 [Zhejiang] province from du Halde's "Description geographique historique...de l'Empire de la Chine et de la Tart...

$400 / ≈ €339
Maker: ANVILLE d', J-b-b.
Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735

 


Province de Pe-Tche-Li. Pe-tche-li [Beizhili] 北直隶 [= 河北]. province.]

Important map of Pe-tche-li [Beizhili] 北直隶 [= 河北]. With a quite elaborately pictorial cartouche featuring a rococo chinoiserie ornamentation, engraved by Guéla...

$300 / ≈ €254
Maker: ANVILLE, J.B.D'
Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735

 


Province de Chan-Si. [Chan-s 山西i [Shanxi] province. ]

An important map of Chan-s 山西i [Shanxi] province. With a quite elaborately pictorial cartouche, engraved by Guélard, the map by Delahaye. Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d...

$200 / ≈ €169
Maker: ANVILLE, J.B.D'
Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735

 


Province de Kiang-Si. Jiangxi 江西 province.

An important map of Jiangxi 江西 province. With a quite elaborately pictorial cartouche featuring a rococo chinoiserie ornamentation, engraved by Guélard. The map itse...

$200 / ≈ €169
Maker: ANVILLE, J.B.D'
Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735

 


Potentissimo Borussorum Regi Friderico Wilhelmo...

Large and sought-after 2-sheet map of an area of Lithuania and Eastern Prussia (Russian province of Kaliningrad) stretching from Klaipeda (Memel) in the north to Goldap i...

$1000 / ≈ €847
Maker: HOMANN HEIRS
Date: Nuremberg, 1735

 


Asia By H.Moll Geographer.

Detailed map of Asia. From his "Atlas minor: or a new and curious set of sixty-two maps. . .", which was first published in 1729 and reprinted in 1732, 1736.The...

$300 / ≈ €254
Maker: MOLL, H.
Date: London, 1736

 


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

Without the separately published atlas. Lacking 2 plates in vol.2 (Obseques at p.149 and Gin seng at p.180), one plate torn without a loss (vol.1, p.230), d4 vol.1 with a...

$5500 / ≈ €4659
Maker: DU HALDE, J.-B.
Date: The Hague, H. Scheurleer, 1736

 


Charlatans qui se mêlent de vendre le vent de la Chine. Dévots mendiants de la Chine et charlatans qui se promènent sur des tigres apprivoisés, . . .

Two fascinating engraving on one sheet depicting Chinese charlatans. Engraved by Bernard Picart. Published in Jean Frederic Bernard's monumental "Cérémonies et cou...

$150 / ≈ €127
Maker: PICART, B.
Date: Amsterdam, J.F. Bernard c.1736

 


Urbium Londini et West-Monasterii nec non Surburbii Southwark Accurata Ichnographia ,., Neuester Grundris der Staedte London und West-Munster, Samt der Vorstadt Southwark ,.,

Detailed plan of London, extending from Grosvenor Square in the west to Mile End to the east, To the right inset views of St, James's Square, and Custom House, elevations...

$3200 / ≈ €2710
Maker: HOMANN, J,B.
Date: Nuremberg, 1736

 


Idole que les chinois appellant, le dieu de l´immortalité, et qu´ils disent presider a leur Fortune. . .

Four fascinating engraving on one sheet depicting Chinese gods. "Idole que les chinois appellant, le dieu de l´immortalité, et qu´ils disent presider a leur Fortu...

$150 / ≈ €127
Maker: PICART, B.
Date: Amsterdam, J.F. Bernard c.1736

 


Province de Fo-Kien. [Includes West Coast of Taiwan]

An important map of Fujian Province shows the East Coast of China and the West Coast of Taiwan. It shows that for the Manchu Qing, only the western half of Formosa was co...

$1000 / ≈ €847
Maker: ANVILLE, J.B.D'
Date: The Hague, H. Scheurleer, 1737

 


Prospectus Palatÿ Comitis Leopoldi de Windischgräz . . .

Very nice engraving by J.A. Corvinus after a design of Salomon Kleiner showing the house of an Austrian aristocratic family.

$100 / ≈ €85
Maker: CORVINIUS / KLEINER, S.
Date: Augsburg, 1737

 


Carte générale de la Chine Dressée sur les Cartes particulières que l'Empereur Cang-hi a fait lever sur les lieux par les RR. PP. Jésuites missionaires dans cet empire / Par le Sr d'Anville.

An essential and very detailed map of the Southern part of China, including a detailed map of Taiwan.Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d' Anville (1697-1782) was a French cartogr...

$1000 / ≈ €847
Maker: ANVILLE, J.B.D'
Date: The Hague, H. Scheurleer, 1737

 


A Map of the British Empire in AMERICA with the French, Spanish and Hollandish Settlements Adjacent Thereto. by Henry Popple. / Nouvelle Carte Particuliere de L'Amerique . . .

The four sheet Dutch edition of Popple's monumental map of North America, in mint condition. Encompassing the West Indies, Florida, Louisiana, Texas and Central America.T...

$15000 / ≈ €12705
Maker: POPPLE,H / MORTIER, J. and C.
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1737

 


Hispanus.

Allegorical print of Spain (Hispanus), copper engraving after P. Decker by M. Engelbrecht. Taken from "Laconicum Europae Speculum". Philippe Andrea Kilian (1714...

$275 / ≈ €233
Maker: ENGELBRECHT, M.
Date: Augsburg, 1737

 


Nouvel atlas de la Chine, de la Tartarie chinoise, et du Thibet.

First edition of "the principal cartographic authority on China during the 18th century". It was the second major atlas of China produced in Europe following th...

$19000 / ≈ €16093
Maker: DU HALDE, J.-B.
Date: The Hague, H. Scheurleer, 1737