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Descittione del Mappamondo.

A fine miniature oval map of the world engraved by Girolamo Porro. It is a reduction of Giovanni Francesco Camocio's superb large map of 1567, one of the last in the long...

$450 / ≈ €421

Maker / Publisher: PORCACCHI, T.
Place & Date: Venice, ca.1586

Designatio Orbis Christiani

Planispherical world map broadly based on Ortelius and similar to Hondius's Atlas Minor map of the same title. It shows most of the world, excluding the west coast of Nor...

$450 / ≈ €421

Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: France, ca 1607

[Titlepage] Nomenclator Ptolemaicus..

Title page from a Ortelius Atlas part called: Nomenclator , containing a register of place names in antiquity. Letterpress with copper engraved print (60x60mm) of the eas...

$150 / ≈ €140

Maker / Publisher: ORTELIUS, A.
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1609

Description de nouveau pasage vers le zud.... together with an untitled map of Port Desire (today's Puerto Deseado, Argentina)

Rare double hemispherical world map showing the track round the world by Le Maire and Schouten in 1615-1617. Continents are marked in outline and no southern regions are ...

$1500 / ≈ €1404

Maker / Publisher: GOTTFRIED, J.L.
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1631

[Horological diagrams surrounding a smaller world map]

This beautiful engraving has nine (of ten) horological diagrams surrounding a smaller map, which omits any delineation of the British Isles. Projected from the North Pole...

$2000 / ≈ €1871

Maker / Publisher: RITTER, F.
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1640

[Ritter Sundial Map of the World]

This highly unusual map projects the world from the north pole as though it were the table of a sundial, with the land masses drawn to scale in proportion to their distan...

$4500 / ≈ €4211

Maker / Publisher: RITTER, F.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1640

Mappe-Monde, ou Carte Generale du Monde: Dessignée en deux plans Hemispheres Par le Sr. Sanson d'Abbeville, Geographe ordinaire de sa Majesté.

First state of Sanson's first map of the World. Sanson's first world maps, dated 1651 and 1652, were issued separately and then in collections of maps. The map is one of ...

$1500 / ≈ €1404

Maker / Publisher: SANSON, N.
Place & Date: Paris, 1651

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 / ≈ €702

Maker / Publisher: SANSON, N.
Place & Date: Paris, 1652

Equateur.

Appealing print centered on an armillary sphere. The latter sits atop a map of the world which clearly shows California as an island. In addition to this curious feature,...

$200 / ≈ €187

Maker / Publisher: MALLET, A.M.
Place & Date: Paris, 1683

Planisfero del Mondo Vecchio. . .

A decorative map of the Eastern hemisphere includes Abel Tasman's discoveries in Australia. The decorative borders include coordinates and descriptions of signs of the zo...

$1800 / ≈ €1684

Maker / Publisher: CORONELLI, V. M.
Place & Date: Venice, 1691
Selling price: $1800
Sold in 2015

Tabula geographico-hydrographica motus Tom II p.132.

World map depicting ocean currents, volcanoes and deep-sea chasms. The continents are void of political detail and only major lakes, rivers and volcanoes are shown. There...

$2000 / ≈ €1871

Maker / Publisher: ZAHN, J.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1696

Orbis Terrae compendiosa descriptio.

Modern world map by Rosaccio, consisting of two hemispheres enclosed within a plain border. The engraving is sharp and neat, and is a skilful reduction of Rumold Mercator...

$1000 / ≈ €936

Maker / Publisher: ROSACCIO / SESSA heirs.
Place & Date: Venise, 1598/1713

A new and correct map of the world.

The early eighteen century was one of the most important periods for English cartography. One of the period's most intriguing world maps is this large scale map which off...

$12000 / ≈ €11229

Maker / Publisher: WILLDEY, G./ PRICE, Ch.
Place & Date: London 1714

Carta Hydrographica oder Algemeine Welt. . .

World map in Mercator projection. Showing California as an island. In the upper left and right-hand corner two ships. The map is showing the important trade routes.

$350 / ≈ €328

Maker / Publisher: BODENEHR, G.
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1720

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Carte pour servir à l'intelligence de l'histoire de la chronologie et de la géographie des empires des Assiriens, des Perses, des Egyptiens et des Chinois.

Interesting sheet with a map of the classical world showing the empires of the Assyrians, Persians, Egyptians and Chinese, with descriptive French text, from Chatelain's ...

$100 / ≈ €94

Maker / Publisher: CHATELAIN, H.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720

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Succession des plus anciens Rois du monde . . .

Showing successions of the oldest kings of the world, with a globe in lower part of the print. Copper engraved plate from "Atlas Historique". Zacharie Chatelain...

$45 / ≈ €42

Maker / Publisher: CHATELAIN, H.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720

Carte pour servir à l'intelligence de l'histoire de la chronologie et de la géographie des empires des Assiriens, des Perses, des Egyptiens et des Chinois.

Interesting sheet with a map of the classical world showing the empires of the Assyrians, Persians, Egyptians and Chinese, with descriptive French text, from Chatelain's ...

$75 / ≈ €70

Maker / Publisher: CHATELAIN, H.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720

Orbis terrarum typus de integro in plurimis emendatus auctus et icunculis illustratus.

Outstanding and rare example of a bible world map based on the Visscher bible map from 1657 (Shirley 401/414). This map is larger in size and has an extra engraved frame ...

$2000 / ≈ €1871

Maker / Publisher: DETLEFFSEN, J.
Place & Date: Minden, 1729

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...

$1750 / ≈ €1638

Maker / Publisher: SANSON, G. / JAILLOT, H.
Place & Date: Paris, 1719, but ca. 1741-1745

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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 / ≈ €468

Maker / Publisher: BUACHE, P.
Place & Date: Paris, 1746

Planiglobii Terrestris Mappa Universalis.. - Mappe-Monde qui represente les deux Hemispheres. . .

Word map in double hemisphere. In center two smaller hemispheres of the north and south pole are shown. Two interesting diagrams depict the earth as it would be seen from...

$1750 / ≈ €1638

Maker / Publisher: HOMANN HEIRS.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 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 / ≈ €468

Maker / Publisher: BUACHE, P.
Place & Date: Paris, 1746

Mappe Monde qui Comprend les Nouvelles..

Charming double hemisphere map with the female representations of the continents adorning each corner published by George Louis Le Rouge, active in Paris 1740-1780 .The N...

$600 / ≈ €561

Maker / Publisher: ROUGE LE
Place & Date: Paris, 1748

Mappe monde ou description generale du globe terrestre suivant Mr.de Lisle de l'academie Royale des sciences.

Scarce small map of Europe based on cartography of Guillaume Delisle (. Published in "Nouveau traité de geographie par M**** ", published by La veuve Lottin &a...

$200 / ≈ €187

Maker / Publisher: DELISLE, G. after
Place & Date: Paris, 1752

Novo Globo Terraqueo.

Double hemisphere world map with a broad banner carrying the title. In the ocean are currents shown and in top and bottom are diagrams showing the zones. A rare map.

$750 / ≈ €702

Maker / Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Place & Date: Italy, ca. 1755

Division Générale et Naturelle de la Terre, Suivant les Anciens.

Decorative chart showing the world as it was known by the ancients.Left and right a box with geographical information about Europe, Asia and Africa.Prepared by Buy de Mor...

$150 / ≈ €140

Maker / Publisher: DESNOS, L.C. / DE MORNAS, B.
Place & Date: Paris, 1762

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Suite de la Longitude.

Decorative map showing one hemisphere divided into meridians.Left and right a box with further information's about longitude.Prepared by Buy de Mornas, who was a professo...

$65 / ≈ €61

Maker / Publisher: DESNOS, L.C. / DE MORNAS, B.
Place & Date: Paris, 1762
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2013

Hémisphère Supérieur de la Mappemonde projetée sur l'Horizon. . .

Hemisphere on a partial polar projection. The Northern Hemisphere (of 2) is centered on Paris emphasizing the continents. Hemisphere measures 24.5. Alaska is shown as an ...

$750 / ≈ €702

Maker / Publisher: CHRYSOLOGUE, le Père.
Place & Date: Paris, 1774

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Il Mappamondo o sia Descrizione Generale del Globo Ridotto..

Attractive Italian map presented on Mercator's projection and featuring the voyages of Cook and Bougainville. Greenland is shown connected to North America and Alaska is ...

$750 / ≈ €702

Maker / Publisher: ZATTA, A.
Place & Date: Venice, 1774

Carte des parties Nord et Est de L'Asie. . .

Five maps on one sheet, showing the Northern Russian territories in Europe and Asia, including the western coastline from Siberia, with Japan and Korea with the island of...

$100 / ≈ €94

Maker / Publisher: DIDEROT, D.
Place & Date: Paris, 1779

Carte pour servir a L'Histoire Philosophique et Politique..

Showing the eastern hemisphere, including Australia. With inset map of India and Sri Lanka in the Indian Ocean.The focus of the chart is European trade and commerce with ...

$150 / ≈ €140

Maker / Publisher: BONNE, R.
Place & Date: Paris, 1780

The world, including the discoveries made by Capt. Cook.

Uncommon double-hemisphere world map depicting the voyages and discoveries of Captain James Cook. There are numerous notations throughout and the tracks of Cook's three v...

$1000 / ≈ €936

Maker / Publisher: BOWEN, T.
Place & Date: London, 1781

Carte Reduite du globe Terrestre. . .

Fine world map in a Mercator projection. From Voyages autour du monde et vers les deux pôles par terre et par mer.. by Pierre Marie François vicomte de Pages (1748-1793...

$450 / ≈ €421

Maker / Publisher: DE PAGE, P.M.F.
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1782

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Carte Phisique de la Mer Glaciale Arctique. . .

Very unusual thematic map designed to illustrate the watersheds of the world, after Buache and prepared by J.B.Nolin and published by Monhare for his Atlas Général a l'...

$300 / ≈ €281

Maker / Publisher: MONDHARE / NOLIN, J.B.
Place & Date: Paris, 1783

Carte des nouvelles decouvertes au Nord de la Mer du Sud.

Although concentrating on the northern Pacific, this map shows all of North America and Mexico.While the Russian coastline is shown with reasonable accuracy, notwithstand...

$1800 / ≈ €1684

Maker / Publisher: SANTINI, P. / REMONDINI, M.
Place & Date: Venice, 1776 - 1784

Mappa Monde ou description du globe terrestre . . .

Double hemisphere world map. California is not an island anymore, but a large Mer de l'Ouest is shown. Delineation between New Holland (Australia) and New Guinea is not y...

$2200 / ≈ €2059

Maker / Publisher: SANTINI, P. / REMONDINI, M.
Place & Date: Venice, 1776 - 1784

Hémisphère Oriental..

Map of the Eastern Hemisphere, including numerous exploration routes with a notation of important recent discoveries.Australia is partially mapped and then completed into...

$150 / ≈ €140

Maker / Publisher: DESNOS / BRION
Place & Date: Paris, 1786

Mappemonde Dressée sur les Relations les Plus Nouvelles et les plus approuvées assujeties aux Obserations de Mrs. De L'Académie Royale des Sciences.

Dated 1761, this state is unknown. "Desnos' includes a fine combination of up to date cartographic information and the routes of important 18th century voyages of ex...

$3000 / ≈ €2807

Maker / Publisher: DESNOS, L.C.
Place & Date: Paris, 1789

Tableau général et raisonné du Globe Terrestre. . .

Uncommon double hemisphere world map showing the tracks of Cook (1771-73, 1771 and Clarcke (1779). Surrounded by geographical information for each continent along with us...

$1000 / ≈ €936

Maker / Publisher: DESNOS/ BRION
Place & Date: Paris 1792

Mappa Mondo tagliato sulpiano di unmeridiano Emisfero Occidentale. [togther with] … Orientale.

World map on two sheets - Western Hemisphere (North and South America, Oceania, Greenland) and Eastern Hemisphere (Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia). Published by Pazzini,...

$500 / ≈ €468

Maker / Publisher: PAZZINI, C.
Place & Date: Siena, 1796

Die Obere oder Nordliche Halbkugel der Erde auf den Horizont von Wien, Sterographisch Entworfen ... [together with] Die Untere oder Sudliche Halbkugel der Erde auf den Horizont von Wien, Stereographisch ...

A set of two uncommon large format maps of the Northern and Southern Hemisphere, based upon the work of Johann Anton Ecker (1755-1820). First published in 1794, this is t...

$2000 / ≈ €1871

Maker / Publisher: ECKER, J. A.
Place & Date: Vienna, Phil. Jos Schalbacher, 1800

Shintei Bankoku Zenzu [Revised Comprehensive Map of All Countries]

Compiled by Kageyasu Takahashi, the finest world map of the Edo period, copper plate print, 1810. Bunka 7 is dated from the preface on this map,This world map, published ...

$26000 / ≈ €24329

Maker / Publisher: KAGEYASU TAKEHASHI
Place & Date: Kyoto, Bunka 7 or 1810

[No Tittle] Map of the Easteren Hemisphere.

Nice small map of eastern hemisphere by Johannes Walch in his rare Allgemeiner Atlas Nach den bewährsten Hülfsmitteln und astronomischen Ortsbestimungen…, edition of ...

$120 / ≈ €112

Maker / Publisher: WALCH, J.
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1812

Abbozzo della mappa dei viaggi di Marco Polo nella sala dello Scudo del Palazzo ducale di Venezia.

Rare map showing the travels of Marco Polo, taken from "Sulle antiche mappe idro-geografiche lavorate in Venezia: Commentario.", by Placido Zurla (1769-1834), p...

$750 / ≈ €702

Maker / Publisher: ZURLA, P.
Place & Date: Venice, 1818

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(Title page) Mappamondo sul Piano dell' Equatore. - Atlante Tascabile o sia Serie di Num. XXI Cartine Geografiche nelle quali si. . .

Engraved title page with in lower part a double polar projection (50x95mm.) from the rare atlas Atlante Tascabile o sia Serie di Num. XXI Cartine Geografiche nelle quali ...

$100 / ≈ €94

Maker / Publisher: OLIVIERI
Place & Date: Rome, 1823

Mappamondo.

Charming world map in double hemisphere from the rare atlas Atlante Tascabile o sia Serie di Num. XXI Cartine Geografiche nelle quali si rappresenta in ristretto lo Stato...

$250 / ≈ €234

Maker / Publisher: OLIVIERI
Place & Date: Rome, 1823

Mappemonde sur la projection de Mercator Dressee par Mr Lapie, Lieut. Colonel. et Mr Lapie, fils capitaine d'Etat major, Paris 1832.

Very detailed world map with Australia in the center and prepared by Pierre M. Lapie (fl. 1779 - 1850) and his son Alexandre Emile Lapie (fl. 1809 - 1850).Engraved by Lal...

$450 / ≈ €421

Maker / Publisher: LAPIE, P.M.
Place & Date: Paris, 1832

Monde Entier, Par J. Henry Dressine et Ecrit Chez L' Auteur Par A. Clement.

Decorative uncommon 19th century double hemisphere map of the word with ten vignettes surrounding the map. The vignettes show a naval battle, and a land battle with a com...

$300 / ≈ €281

Maker / Publisher: HENRY, J.
Place & Date: Paris, 1834

[Manuscript] Mappe - Monde - Novembre 1838.

Fine manuscript double hemisphere world map. With an over sized Australia and no place names on the continents. With the signature of the author Suhardbetween the hemisph...

$400 / ≈ €374

Maker / Publisher: SUHARD, J.
Place & Date: Paris, 1838

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Orbis Veteribus Notus.

A detailed steel engraved map of the ancient world, stretching from Europe eastwards to the Black Sea and beyond, southwards through northern Africa, Arabia, India, and S...

$250 / ≈ €234

Maker / Publisher: ARROWSMITH, John
Place & Date: London, 1839

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Il mondo cocsciuto dagli antichi e le laggiori antiche monarchie Persiana, Macedone, Romana . . .

A rare double-page map of the Ancient World. From l'Atlante Storico, Letterario, Biografico, Archeologico. . . with attributions by Giambatista Albrizzi.Lower left a col...

$50 / ≈ €47

Maker / Publisher: TASSO, G.
Place & Date: Venice, 1840

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Carte Générale de Voyage Pittoresque Autour du Monde.

A map of the world centered on the Pacific Ocean. Engraved by Ambroise Tardieu.Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville (1790 – 1842) was a French explorer, naval offic...

$125 / ≈ €117

Maker / Publisher: DUMONT D'URVILLE, J. (after)
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1840

Karta öfver Jord-Globen (World map)

An very rare double hemisphere world map. This is an heavenly updated version of his map of 1817 and is now dated 1848, Australia with new nomenclature and the old title ...

$250 / ≈ €234

Maker / Publisher: ÅKERLAND, E
Place & Date: A. Wiborgs förlag, Stockholm, ca. 1848

[Set of World and 5 continents - 7 maps ].

One of the last decorative maps of the 19th century. In side panels representations of the four seasons, figures, local scenes. World map, Europe, Asia, North America, Af...

$600 / ≈ €561

Maker / Publisher: LEVASSEUR, V.
Place & Date: Paris, 1850

Chikyu Bankoku sankai yochi zenzu setsu. / Sekisui Cho Harutaka. (Map and description of geography of all the countries of the globe).

Reduced version of the famous map "Kaisei chikyu bankoku zenzu" by Sekisui Nagakubo (1717-1801) published ca. 1785, still based on the one by Matteo Ricci. Incl...

$3500 / ≈ €3275

Maker / Publisher: Yamazaki, Yoshinari
Place & Date: Tokyo, 1850

The Earth projected on the horizon of London.

Double hemisphere orientated on the north and south poles.

$150 / ≈ €140

Maker / Publisher: VARTY, Th.
Place & Date: London, 1850

Planisphère.

One of the last decorative maps of the area. In side panels representations of the four seasons. In original o.l. color, from his "Atlas Universel Illustré". T...

$200 / ≈ €187

Maker / Publisher: LEVASSEUR, V.
Place & Date: Paris, A. Combette, 1852

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The World on Mercator's projection.

World map in Mercator-projection, published by "The London Printing and Publishing Company". Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin.

$110 / ≈ €103

Maker / Publisher: RAPKIN, J.
Place & Date: London, 1854

The Pathways of Empire Delineated: Map Showing The Steam Comunication And Overland Routes between England, India, China & Australia…

An illuminating and attractive map that illustrates one of the foundations of British imperial power--the key trade routes by both land and sea between England and its fa...

$3000 / ≈ €2807

Maker / Publisher: Wm. H. ALLEN and CO.
Place & Date: London, 1856

Descrizione del Globo in due emisferi . . .

This large-format map is finely engraved and beautifully colored and was prepared by Girolamo Petri, a lawyer who served as a senior official within the Vatican’s State...

$1750 / ≈ €1638

Maker / Publisher: PETRI Girolamo
Place & Date: Rome, 1858

Planisfero (Tav III)

A large-format world map with a key to the steamship routes, telegraph lines and land routes in Europe. Finely engraved and beautifully colored and was prepared by Girola...

$350 / ≈ €328

Maker / Publisher: PETRI Girolamo
Place & Date: Rome, 1858

Distribuzione geografica delle Pianta coltivate . . .

Uncommon world map in Mercator projection representing food resources on 3 inset maps, prepared by Francesco Costantino Marmocchi. Above the map "Geografia Commercia...

$50 / ≈ €47

Maker / Publisher: MARMOCCHI, F.C.
Place & Date: Genova, Paolo Rivara fu Giacomo, 1858

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Mappamondo Carta d'Insieme.

Uncommon double hemisphere pole projection prepared by Francesco Costantino Marmocchi. Above the map "Geografia Commerciale". With a color code underneath the m...

$150 / ≈ €140

Maker / Publisher: MARMOCCHI, F.C.
Place & Date: Genova, Paolo Rivara fu Giacomo, 1858

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Planisphère.

One of the last decorative maps of the area. In side panels representations of the four seasons. In original out line color, from his "Atlas Universel Illustré"...

$175 / ≈ €164

Maker / Publisher: LEVASSEUR, V.
Place & Date: Paris, 1845-1860

Jules Verne. Le Tour du Monde en 80 jours. [Goose game board inspired by Jules Verne's novel Tour du Monde en 80 jours.]

This Goose game board is inspired by Jules Verne's novel whose boxes are illustrated with town views and figures and the center is occupied by a world map. Vignette illus...

$1100 / ≈ €1029

Maker / Publisher: HETZEL, Jules.
Place & Date: Paris, 1876

Hypsometrisch Overzicht der Aarde.

One of the earliest thematic world maps published in the Netherlands from "Atlas der natuurkundige aardrijkskunde. . .". prepared by Nicolaas Wilhelmus Posthumu...

$50 / ≈ €47