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Tempe.
An attractive view of Mount Olympus and the valley in northern Thessaly (Greece), called the Vale of Tempe in ancient times, through which the river Peneus (present-day S...
- $600 / ≈ €526
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1590
(South America) - Delineatio omnium orarum totius Australis partis Americae, dictae Peruvianae, a R. de la Plata, Brasiliam Pariam, et Castellam auream una cum omnibus…
A particularly lush example of Dutch decorative cartography boasting two intricate strapwork cartouches. Linschoten was one of the prime movers of Dutch and British expan...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1593
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FIORENZA [FLORENCE].
State 2 of this bird's-eye view of Florence. In the center, under the upper border, the engraved title "Fiorenza". At the top left, a compass rose is represente...
- $2000 / ≈ €1752
Place & Date: Siena, Pietro Petrucci, ca. 1600
Abrahami Patriarchae Peregrinatio et Vita.
The Holy Land map itself occupies the center and is surrounded by vignettes of the life of the Patriarch Abraham. Extremely decorative map made by Ortelius, based on Ptol...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1624
Novissima et emendata delineatio Hungariae una cum adjacentibus et finitimis regionibus.
First state. With two inset views of Buda and Bratislava (Posoniensis vulgo Presburg) above the map, between the half-lenght portraits of Leopold I. and the Turkish Sulta...
- $2200 / ≈ €1927
Place & Date: Anvers ?, c. 1660
Iconografica Rappresentatione della Inclita Città di Venezia Consacrata al Reggio Serenissimo Domino Veneto.
The extremely rare first state of Ughi's Wall Map of Venice published by Giuseppe Baroni in 1729. - Ughi's map of Venice is one of the largest maps of Venice ever publish...
- $75000 / ≈ €65706
Place & Date: Venice, Giuseppe Baroni á S. Giuliano, 1729
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 / ≈ €569
Place & Date: Augsburg, circa 1730
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["Kijkkast"]. Viewing box for optical prints
A very rare custom made collapsible peepshow in a bookshaped box, late 18th century, folded out 66(h.)x56(w.)x40(d.) cm., 7 hinging cardboard parts painted blue or w. bla...
- $12000 / ≈ €10513
Place & Date: The Netherlands, ca. 1780
Nouveau jeu des théatres de Melpomene, Momus et Thalie.
Game board with 63 numbered pictorial compartments, each showing an actor or actress in role, lettered with his or her name, the name of the character, the play and the t...
- $1100 / ≈ €964
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1810
Le pétrole dans le monde.
FIRST EDITION: Poster published by the Union of Union Chambers of the Petroleum Industry. Large world map showing the oil fields in the world: United States, U.S.S.R., Ve...
Place & Date: Paris, Imp. Lafayette. 1956