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A new & accurate map of Louisiana, with part of Florida. . .
An English view of North America compiled from available French maps, especially those of Bellin used in Charlevoix's History of New France. English cartographers had lit...
Date: London, 1744
An exact chart of the countries through wich Capt. Behring travelled from Tobolsky capital of Siberia ti the country of Kamtschatka.
The earliest English language map to show Vitus Behring's Route.After retiring from a tour as Captain in the Czar's Navy, Behring, originally from Denmark, settled in Vyb...
- $200 / ≈ €173
Date: London, 1744
Allerneuester geographisch- und topographischer Schau-Platz von Africa und Ost-Indien. . .
An early issue of this important book by Johann Wolfgang Heydt's describing the Dutch factories, settlements and stations at the hands of the Dutch East India Company in ...
Date: Wilhermsdorf, Tetscher u. Nürnberg, Homanns Erben, 1744
Chaerte vande Wieringer waert, de welcke inden jaere XVI… (Wieringerwaard)
Rare wall map of the Wieringerwaard polder, as raffled on 12 July 1611. The polder was laid dry in 1610. It border, and the municipality's border, were the Zuiderzee, the...
Date: 1741-1744
![[Title page] Atlas Minor Praecipua Orbis Terrarum Imperia, Regna et Provincias , Germaniae Potissimum. . .](/uploads/cache/48479-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Atlas Minor Praecipua Orbis Terrarum Imperia, Regna et Provincias , Germaniae Potissimum. . .
An attractive and highly decorative title page to Seutter's Atlas Minor. Engraved by Martin Crophius after Jacob Weyerman. The engraving is packed with lively figures fro...
Date: Augsburg, 1744
![[Title page Atlas Minor Praecipua Orbis Terrarum Imperia, Regna Et Provincias. . .]](/uploads/cache/47735-250x250.jpg)
[Title page Atlas Minor Praecipua Orbis Terrarum Imperia, Regna Et Provincias. . .]
Title page of Atlas Minor Praecipua Orbis Terrarum Imperia, Regna Et Provincias, drawn by Georg Matheus Seutter and his son Albrecht Carl. Georg Matheus was one of the mo...
Date: Augsburg, 1744
Asia secundum legitimas projectionis stereographicae.
Highlighted area covers part of Spain, eastern coast of Ireland to western part of Papua New Guinea and the Asian continent from the Northern Polar Sea to the Indian Ocea...
Date: Nurenberg, 1744
Neu Engeland Neu York, Neu Jersey und Pensilvanien & c. . .
The scarce German edition of Moll's popular and rather significant map which appeared in Oldmixon's 1708 book, Das Britische Reich in America. and then in other editions ...
Date: Lemgo, 1744
![[2 maps and one text sheet] Theatrum Belli A° MDCCXXXVII. . . / Verus Chersonesi Tauricae Seu Crimea Conspectus adjacentium item Regionem itinerisq ab Exercitu Ruthemo...](/uploads/cache/27975-250x250.jpg)
[2 maps and one text sheet] Theatrum Belli A° MDCCXXXVII. . . / Verus Chersonesi Tauricae Seu Crimea Conspectus adjacentium item Regionem itinerisq ab Exercitu Ruthemo...
[2 maps and one text sheet] Theatrum Belli A° MDCCXXXVII. . . / Verus Chersonesi Tauricae Seu Crimea Conspectus adjacentium item Regionem itinerisq ab Exercitu Ruthemo A...
- $1100 / ≈ €952
Date: Amsterdam, c. 1744
Judaea seu Palaestina .. Terra Sancta. . .
Johann Baptist Homann's well-engraved map has two large decorative cartouches. Upper left Moses receiving the Tables. Lower right Moses and Aaron pointing at a map showin...
Date: Nuremberg, 1744
Regni Angliae et Wallae principatus Tabula, divisa in LII Regiones. . .
A detailed and decorative map of England, with an attractive uncolored title cartouche. The map is a re-issue of Carolus Allard's map. The elaborate title cartouche in th...
- $400 / ≈ €346
Date: Amsterdam c. 1744
Anfiteatro detto l'Arena di Verona.
Large two sheet copper engraving of the Amphitheater of Verona after a design of Adriano Cristofali. On three sides it is surrounded by architectural details interspersed...
- $2200 / ≈ €1903
Date: Verona, 1744
Cours du Danube, Feuille 1 contenant LA SUABE . . .
Fine map of part of the River Danube, including the southern German province of Swaben.From his rare atlas "Theatre de la Guerre en Allemagne, contenant toutes les O...
Date: Paris, 1744
Hic Jacent Puteolorum Bajarum, Miseni Cumarium. . .
A bird's-eye view of Puzzoli and environs, depicting fascinating topographical and architectural features of interest. Title cartouche describes the map and area in Latin...
- $80 / ≈ €69
Date: London, 1725-1744
Regionum Italiae mediarum Tabula Geographica. . .
Fine historical map of central Italy with Tuscany, centered on Rome, in the south Pompeii, in the top the island of Giglio and the town Orbetello. Lower left inset plan o...
- $150 / ≈ €130
Date: Paris, 1745
Uffensis Provincia Cum adiacentibus Regionibus.
Volga-Ural Region. From the first regional atlas of Russia, published by the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, expanding on the cartographic work done previously by ...
Date: Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, 1745
Plan de la Rade de Gedda situee de la Cote d'Arabie sur la Mer Rouge.
Chart of the area around city of Gedda in the Red Sea. D'Après De Mannevillette (1707-1780) was one of Franc's first hydrographers. When the first edition of his Atlas L...
- $600 / ≈ €519
Date: Paris, 1745
Carte de l'Egypte de la Nubie de l'Abissinie. . .
Detailed copper-engraved map of North-East Africa showing Guinea in the southwest through Ethiopia , the Red Sea to the Persian Gulf.In the northwest, Tunis through Egypt...
Date: Amsterdam, 1745
Prospect der Statt Basel von der St Alban Vorstraat - Vu¨e et perspective de la ville de Bâle du côté du Faubourg de St Albon.
Very decorative view of Basel, after a design by Emanuel Büchel and engraved by Johann Martin Weiss. Numbered 'No.1' in the bottom right, from a rare series of 4 sheets.
Date: Basle, ca. 1745
Prospect der Statt Basel von Seiten der Schlösser - Vuë et Perspective de la Ville de Bale du coté des Chateaux de Gundeldingue.
Very decorative view looking towards Basel from the castle at Gundeldingen, on a hill to the south. Accompanied at the bottom by a cartouche containing the arms of the ci...
Date: Basle, ca. 1745
Prospect der Statt Basel von Seiten der Kleinen Statt - Vüe et Perspective de la Ville de Bâle du côté de la petite Ville.
Very decorative view of Basle, after a design by Emanuel Büchel and engraved by Johann Martin Weiss. The legend inscribed under the engraving, numbered from 1 to 10, des...
Date: Basle, 1745
![Carte de la coste orientale de la Chine depuis Amoy, jusqu'à Chusan avec une partie de l'Isle Formose [with] Plan du port d'Amoy ou Emouy.](/uploads/cache/33583-250x250.jpg)
Carte de la coste orientale de la Chine depuis Amoy, jusqu'à Chusan avec une partie de l'Isle Formose [with] Plan du port d'Amoy ou Emouy.
Important French chart of the China Sea with the coast of Northern China, including a large depiction of Formosa.Latitude and longitude scales, compass rose and system of...
Date: Paris, Jean-François Robustel, 1745
![[Lot of 3 maps] Carte de la Souveraineté de NEUCHATEL et VALLANGIN. Plus Mercator's and Blaeu's maps of the Wiflispurgergou]](/uploads/cache/18600-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 3 maps] Carte de la Souveraineté de NEUCHATEL et VALLANGIN. Plus Mercator's and Blaeu's maps of the Wiflispurgergou]
Map of the lake of Neuchatel by Covens & Mortier. After the death of the widow of Pieter Mortier in 1719, the firm continued till 1778 as Covens & Mortier. They...
- $350 / ≈ €303
Date: Amsterdam, c. 1745
Nieuwe Kaart van de Frankische en Zwabische Kreits.
Deatailed map of the Southern part of Germany. Isaak Tirion was born in Utrecht ca. 1705. He came to Amsterdam ca. 1725. Tirion published a number of important books, m...
- $100 / ≈ €87
Date: Amsterdam, 1745
Nieuwe Kaart van de Westfaalse Kreits..
Isaac Tirion was born in Utrecht ca. 1705. He came to Amsterdam ca. 1725. Tirion published a number of important books, many of which are still in demand for their intere...
Date: Amsterdam, 1745
L'Amerique Meridionale Dressée sur les Observations..
Detailed map of South America prepared by De L'Isle, with fine title cartouche.The map is from a Dutch edition of De L'Isle's work entitled, Atlas Nouveau, Contenant Tout...
- $500 / ≈ €433
Date: Amsterdam c. 1745
Carte de l'Afrique Françoise ou du Senegal. . .
Large map of the African West coast covering present-day Senegal and Gambia. It provides extensive detail along the Senegal River. The outline hand coloring shows the ext...
- $300 / ≈ €260
Date: Amsterdam, c. 1745
Atlas Novus ad Usum Serenissimi Burgundiae Ducis.
Soldiers, savages and other individuals are shown approaching a queen seated on her throne. In the upper right corner, Atlas is shown holding up the world. In the sky, a ...
- $800 / ≈ €692
Date: Amsterdam c. 1745
Het Keizerryk van China, volgens de Nieuwste Waarneminge opgesteld.
A scarce and uncommon miniature map of China, Korea and Taiwan. The map is of interest for the use of De Zuid Zee for the sea between Korea and Japan.
- $300 / ≈ €260
Date: Amsterdam, 1745
Carte de l'Egypte de la Nubie de L'Abissinie &c..
Detailed copper-engraved map of North-East Africa showing Guinea in the southwest through Ethiopia , the Red Sea to the Persian Gulf.In the northwest, Tunis through Egypt...
Date: Amsterdam, c. 1745
Carte du Comté de Flandre, Dressée sur differens. . .
Large, detailed map of the Flanders including the French Flemish-speaking area. Shows illustrated topography with notations about towns, roads, fortresses, abbeys, monast...
Date: Amsterdam, c. 1745
Carte Des Pays Bas Catholiques Dressée. . .
Topographically detailed map that extends from Paris to Metz and north into Holland. Details include roads and scores of villages. Two decorative cartouches: one with fig...
Date: Amsterdam, c. 1745
Carte de la Barbarie de la Nigritie et de la Guinée..
Richly engraved map of North and West Africa, based upon the earlier maps of De L'Isle. Richly annotated throughout and with excellent regional detail. It includes the Ca...
Date: Amsterdam c. 1745
Carte de la Grece dressée sur un grand nombre de memoires. . .
Detailed copper-engraved map of Greece with its neighboring countries, including southern Italy and part of Cyprus. Relief shown pictorially. With large decorative title ...
Date: Amsterdam c. 1745
Mappe-Monde Geo-Hydrographique, ou Description Générale. . .
Large map of the world in two hemispheres, in a stereographic projection (each hemisphere 31.5 cm in diameter). California seems to be connected to the mainland, rather t...
Date: Paris, 1719, but ca. 1741-1745
Plan de la ville de Gand. Paris, Sr. Le Rouge, 1745.
Town-plan of Ghent with its citadel, published in 1745, the year when the city was taken by the French during the War of Austrian Succession. The north is located to the ...
- $380 / ≈ €329
Date: Paris, 1745
Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi Dressée sur un grand nombre de Memoires..
Covens & Mortier's issue of Delisle's influential map of the French possession of Louisiana. Updated to include New Orleans. When originally published in 1718, it was...
- $2400 / ≈ €2076
Date: Amsterdam, c. 1745
![ATLAS RUSSICUS mappa una generali et undeviginti specialibus vastissimum Imperium Russicum cum adiacentibus regionibus [repeated in French].](/uploads/cache/27877-250x250.jpg)
ATLAS RUSSICUS mappa una generali et undeviginti specialibus vastissimum Imperium Russicum cum adiacentibus regionibus [repeated in French].
After an unnumbered general map of Russia there are 13 numbered maps that cover European Russia (scale 1, 1.527.000). The other (last) 6 maps cover Asian Russia (Siberia,...
Date: St Peterburg, Akademie von Wissenschaften. 1745
Nouvelle carte des mers comprises entre le détroit de Banca et P°. Timon avec la partie orientale du détroit de Malacca.
Important French chart of the tip of Malaysia with Singapore. Latitude and longitude scales, compass rose and system of rhumb lines, soundings near coast and in bay areas...
Date: Paris, 1745
L'Hemisphere Meridional pour voir plus distinctement les Terres Australes.
Decorative map depicting from the southern pole to the Equator with good detail, and showing all the political divisions.Showing South America, southern Africa, the west ...
Date: Amsterdam, c. 1745
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 in very ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1745
Grand Theatre de la Guerre sur les Frontieres de France & D'Allemagne..
Elegant arrangement of ten vignette views representing fortresses on or near the Rhine, including one view of a French Siège de Philipsbourg. The forts on the Rhine cons...
Date: Amsterdam, c. 1745
Tabula Geographica Provinciarum et Urbium Colonia Romana. .
Covens and Mortier's Map of the Roman World is a copperplate engraving based on an earlier map by Guillelmo De L'Isle (1675-1726), Geographer to the King of France.Engrav...
Date: Amsterdam c. 1745
![{Title page] Introduction a la geographie, Contenant.. (2 sheets)](/uploads/cache/21495-250x250.jpg)
{Title page] Introduction a la geographie, Contenant.. (2 sheets)
In lower part title page an interesting world map in double hemisphere. The map is printed north up and is mirror imaged. Showing California as an island. French text on ...
Date: Amsterdam, c. 1745
Carte des Côtes de Malabar et de Coromandel Presentée au Roy. . .
Large and attractive map of the Indian coasts of Malabar and Coromandel, embellished with title cartouche and 2 compass roses. It shows the most northern part of Ceylon.T...
- $500 / ≈ €433
Date: Amsterdam c. 1745
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 / ≈ €56237
Date: Amsterdam, 1745
Carte du Paraguay, du Chili, du Detroit de Magellan &c.
Large handsome map of the southern part of the continent with good interior detail for the period. The route of 18th century explorations are shown along with notations c...
Date: Amsterdam c. 1745
Carte de la Turquie, de l'Arabie et de la Perse..
Large map of the Near East, based upon earlier maps by De L'Isle. Shows also most part of the Mediterranean basin as well as north-eastern Africa. Relief shown pictoriall...
Date: Amsterdam c. 1745
L'Amerique Meridionale Dressée sur les Observations . . .
Detailed map of South America prepared by De L'Isle, with fine title cartouche.
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1745
Le royaume d'Angleterre..
Fine map of England and Wales. As well as country details, including the main post roads. Le Rouge was active from 1740- till 1780 as a publisher, and was appointed engin...
- $250 / ≈ €216
Date: Paris, 1745
Carte particulière de la côte d'Afrique depuis le cap des Courans jusqu'à la baye de Ste Hélène. . .
Large and detailed sea chart of South Africa.Engraved by Guillaume-Nicolas Delahaye (1727-1802).Latitude and longitude scales, compass rose and system of rhumb lines, sou...
Date: Paris, 1745
Gustaaf Willem Baron van Imhoff.
Decorative portrait of Gustaaf Willem Baron van Imhoff, who was Governor for the V.O.C. (Dutch East Indian Company) in Indonesia.
Date: Amsterdam, 1745
Plan du Cap de Bonne-Esperance et ses environs..
Large and detailed sea chart of the Cape of Good Hope from Saldahna Bay to False Bay.Engraved by Guillaume-Nicolas Delahaye (1727-1802).Latitude and longitude scales, com...
Date: Paris, 1745
![Partie Septentrionale de la Souabe [and] Partie Meridionale de la Souabe. (2 maps)](/uploads/cache/21468-250x250.jpg)
Partie Septentrionale de la Souabe [and] Partie Meridionale de la Souabe. (2 maps)
Pair of maps forms a large, detailed view of Swabia, one of the ten circles of the Holy Roman Empire and containing some of the historically most interesting and cultural...
- $250 / ≈ €216
Date: Amsterdam c. 1745
Carte d' Amerique Dressee pour l'Usage Du Roy. . .
Detailed copper-engraved map of the American continent. Decorative title cartouche with foliate garland, and embellished lettering of d' Amerique. The western parts of Af...
- $1000 / ≈ €865
Date: Amsterdam c. 1745
Itinera Varia Auctoris.
From A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, and of some other rare and undescribed Animals, Quadrupeds, Reptiles, fishes, insects, &c.. The map shows Edwards' journeys ...
- $300 / ≈ €260
Date: London, 1746
Karte von den Armen des Jeniséi in den Gegenden von Mangaséa Aus dem Gmélin.
Attractive and detailed map of Jenisëi River with the town of Mangasea in Siberia. The composition is nicely balanced with a large title and scale cartouche.
- $75 / ≈ €65
Date: Leipzig, Arkstee & Merkus, 1746
Plan du Port de Cartagene.
Sea chart of the Port of Cartagene. Marked with navigational notes.From the rare chart book by Jacques Ayrouard: Recueil de plusieurs Ports de la Mer Méditerranée...
- $200 / ≈ €173
Date: Marseille, 1732-1746
![Uzbek Tartars [ together with] Eastern Tartars, from Nieuhof.](/uploads/cache/36953-250x250.jpg)
Uzbek Tartars [ together with] Eastern Tartars, from Nieuhof.
Two engravings on one sheet, taken from "A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels", printed for Thomas Astley. Engraved by Thomas Kitchin and N.Parr afte...
- $50 / ≈ €43
Date: London, 1746
![Tartars of Koko Nor [ together with] Nothern Tartary Woman at Lafsa.](/uploads/cache/36952-250x250.jpg)
Tartars of Koko Nor [ together with] Nothern Tartary Woman at Lafsa.
Two engravings on one sheet, taken from "A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels", printed for Thomas Astley. Engraved by Thomas Kitchin and N.Parr afte...
- $45 / ≈ €39
Date: London, 1746
![Calmuk Tartars from Isbrant Ides [ together with] Tartars from Isbr. Ides.](/uploads/cache/36951-250x250.jpg)
Calmuk Tartars from Isbrant Ides [ together with] Tartars from Isbr. Ides.
Two engravings on one sheet, taken from "A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels", printed for Thomas Astley. Engraved by Thomas Kitchin and N.Parr afte...
- $40 / ≈ €35
Date: London, 1746
Carte des lieux où les différentes longueurs du pendule à secondes ont été observées . . .
World map. Published in Buache's "Considérations géographiques et physiques", one of his most important and original cartographic works.The map projects the c...
- $500 / ≈ €433
Date: Paris, 1746
Carte du globe terrestre où les terres de l'hémisphère méridl sont supposées être vues à travers celles de l'hémisphère septentl.
Important single hemisphere world map prepared by Buache's with Sea of the West. Published in Buache's "Considérations géographiques et physiques", one of his...
- $500 / ≈ €433
Date: Paris, 1746
Le Nom de Systeme..
Showing the solar systems according to Copernicus, Ptolomy, Ticho Brahé and a composition. In the center a armillary sphere on a decorative base.
- $100 / ≈ €87
Date: Paris, 1746
Plan du Golfe et des Caps de St. Tropez. par Jacques Ayrouard . . .
Large plan of the harbour St. Tropez. Decorated with a large compass rose.From the rare chart book by Jacques Ayrouard: "Recueil de plusieurs plans des ports et rade...
Date: Marseille, 1732-1746
Americae Mappa generalis.
Johann Baptist Homann's well-engraved second map of America has a large decorative cartouche. Detailed map of the western hemisphere.The interior of North America has new...
Date: Nuremberg, 1746
Tabula chronologica historiae Sinicae connexa cum cyclo qui vulgo Kia Tse dictur.
A set of two sheets of colored copper engravings. First published in 1729 in Rome in three sheets. Timeline of China's history with a chronological overview of the dynast...
Date: Augsburg, 1746
A view of the town and castle of Macao.
A nice engraving that shows the attack of the English ship "Centurion" on Macau, during which she captured a Portuguese ship that had sailed from Manila. In up...
Date: London, 1746
Das Kaiserthum China zur allgemeinen Historie der Reisen - entworfen von N. Bellin Ing. De la Mar. 1748.
Attractive and detailed map of China and Korea. The map is of interest for the use of Das Meer von Korea for the coast along the east coast of Korea. The composition is n...
- $500 / ≈ €433
Date: Leipzig, Arkstee & Merkus, 1746
Carte des Isles du Japon et la Presqu'Isle de Coree. . .
A fine map of the islands of Japan, including Korea, Taiwan and the coast of China till Macao.Embellished with fine baroque decorations. Bellin influenced other cartograp...
Date: Paris, 1746
Le Théâtre du monde dédié au roi contenant les cartes générales et particulières des royaumes et états qui le composent.
The present example of the Théâtre du monde is the reissue of 1746 by Jean-Baptiste Nolin II. This scarce atlas is illustrated with 123 maps mostly double-page, in orig...
Date: Paris, 1746
Corbeiensis Dioecesis pro ut nunc est, descriptio noua Authore Joanne Gigante D. Medico et Mathemat.
Rare map of eastern part of Germany. West to the top. Showing the river Weser. Prepared by Johann Michael Gigas (1582-1637).
- $200 / ≈ €173
Date: Venice, 1746
Americae Mappa generalis Secundum legimitas projectionis Stereiographiae regulas. . . MDCCXXXXVI
Johann Baptist Homann's well-engraved second map of America has a large decorative cartouche. Detailed map of the western hemisphere.The interior of North America has new...
- $600 / ≈ €519
Date: Nuremberg, 1746
A new general map of America drawn from several..
Extremely faint strip of age toning on part of the centerfold, otherwise fine condition. The Pacific Northwest is left open with the note Parts Undiscovered. The coastlin...
- $500 / ≈ €433
Date: London, 1747
The Empire of Hya (including grear part of Tangul)...
Uncommon map of the Gobi Desert.Engraved by Thomas Kitchin - with his signature in lower bottom.From Astley, Thomas, "A New General Collections of Voyages and Travel...
- $100 / ≈ €87
Date: London, 1745-1747
A new and accurate map of Mexico or New Spain with California New Mexico . . .
With inset of Galapagos islands. A wonderfully engraved map showing the entire American South from Carolina to California, as well as all of Mexico and Central America. A...
Date: London, 1747
A New and Accurate Map of the Whole Russian Empire as contained both in Europe and Asia. . .
Detailed map of Russia, from the Sea of Anadyr, Sea of Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands to St.Petersburg. Also includes Tibet, Korea and part of China, with the Great Wall...
- $200 / ≈ €173
Date: London, c. 1747
Regni Sueciae in omnes suas Subjacentes Provincias accurate divisi Tabula Generalis. . .
Johann Baptist Homann's well-engraved map has a large decorative cartouche. Detailed map of Scandinavia, the Baltic Sea, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Curlandia, etc.Johann...
Date: Nuremberg, 1747
Carte des Isles de Java, Sumatra, Borneo. . . Malaca et Banca. . . / Kaart van de Eilanden van Java. . .
Dutch edition of this map of Indonesia prepared by N. Bellin and published by Pierre d'Hondt in Amsterdam. Jaques Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772) was one of the most important...
- $400 / ≈ €346
Date: Amsterdam, 1747
A map of Quan-Tong or Lyau-Tong province, and the kingdom of Kau-Li or Korea . . .
Detailed map of Korea, Liaodong, and the tip of Shandong Province prepared by Thomas Kitchin for Thomas Salmon's Universal Traveller, based on D'Anville's landmark map of...
Date: London, 1747