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Orbis Typus Universalis Iuxta Hydrographorum Traditionem.
Waldseemüller's monumental modern map of the world from the celebrated Strassbourg edition of Ptolemy's Geography, the most important cartographer of the early sixteenth...
Date: Strasburg, 1513 / 1520
Typus Universalis Terrae, Iuxta Modernorum Distinctionem Et Extensionem Per Regna Et Provincias.
Rare world map from Gregor Reisch's Magarita Philisophica published in Basle in 1583.In 1544, Peter Apian incorporated a world map into his Cosmographia, based upon Gemma...
Date: Antwerp c.1550
![[No title] 'Daniel's Dream Map' or 'Wittenberg World Map'.](/uploads/cache/34785-250x250.jpg)
[No title] 'Daniel's Dream Map' or 'Wittenberg World Map'.
Wood block print engraved by the famous engravers Jost Amman and Virgil Solis - with their initials in lower bottom of the map. This somewhat curious map of Europe, Afric...
Date: Cologne, ca. 1564
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 / ≈ €389
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 / ≈ €389
Date: France, ca 1607
![[Titlepage] Nomenclator Ptolemaicus..](/uploads/cache/06436-250x250.jpg)
[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 / ≈ €130
Date: Antwerp, 1609
Carte Universelle, signed 'par S.de Caus Ingenieur et Architecte du Roy 1624
A magnificent manuscript map of the world, probably made for Cardinal Richelieu (1585-1642), the “father of the modern state system” (Kissinger), given the author a...
Date: Paris, 1624
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 / ≈ €1296
Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1631
![[Horological diagrams surrounding a smaller world map]](/uploads/cache/45027-250x250.jpg)
[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 / ≈ €1727
Date: Nuremberg 1640
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 / ≈ €648
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 / ≈ €173
Date: Paris, 1683
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...
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 / ≈ €864
Date: Venise, 1598/1713
Planiglobii Terrestris Cum Utroq Hemisphaerio.
Vibrantly decorative world map surrounded by vivid engravings of natural phenomena such as waterspouts, a rainbow, earthquakes, and a volcano. Windheads occupy the starry...
Date: Nuremberg, c. 1720
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.
Date: Augsburg, 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 / ≈ €65
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 ...
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 ...
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...
Date: Paris, 1719, but ca. 1741-1745
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 / ≈ €432
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 / ≈ €432
Date: Paris, 1746
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 / ≈ €173
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 / ≈ €648
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...
Date: Paris, 1762
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 ...
Date: Paris, 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 / ≈ €86
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 / ≈ €130
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 / ≈ €864
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...
Date: Paris, ca 1782
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 / ≈ €259
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 / ≈ €1555
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 / ≈ €130
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...
- $4500 / ≈ €3887
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 / ≈ €864
Date: Paris 1792
![Mappa Mondo tagliato sulpiano di unmeridiano Emisfero Occidentale. [togther with] … Orientale.](/uploads/cache/48543-250x250.jpg)
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 / ≈ €432
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 ...](/uploads/cache/39377-250x250.jpg)
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 / ≈ €1727
Date: Vienna, Phil. Jos Schalbacher, 1800
![Shintei Bankoku Zenzu [Revised Comprehensive Map of All Countries]](/uploads/cache/48437-250x250.jpg)
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 / ≈ €22456
Date: Kyoto, Bunka 7 or 1810
![[No Tittle] Map of the Easteren Hemisphere.](/uploads/cache/29385-250x250.jpg)
[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 / ≈ €104
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...
Date: Venice, 1818
(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 / ≈ €86
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 / ≈ €216
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...
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 / ≈ €259
Date: Paris, 1834
![[Manuscript] Mappe - Monde - Novembre 1838.](/uploads/cache/23277-250x250.jpg)
[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...
Date: Paris, 1838
Orbis Veteribus Notus.
This is a detailed steel-engraved map of the ancient world, stretching from Europe eastwards to the Black Sea and beyond, southwards through northern Africa, Arabia, Indi...
Date: London, 1839
Il mondo cocsciuto dagli antichi e le laggiori antiche monarchie Persiana, Macedone, Romana . . .
A rare double-page map of the so-called Empire of Alexander the Great (also known as the Macedonian Empire or the Hellenistic Empire ) refers to that great empire , which...
Date: Venice, 1840
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 / ≈ €108
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 ...
Date: A. Wiborgs förlag, Stockholm, ca. 1848
Mouvemens Apparens du Soleil, Theorie des Saisons.
A nice and attractive example of Andriveau-Goujon's decorative chart depicting the theory of the seasons as the earth orbits the Sun in an elliptical fashion, with 4 smal...
Date: Paris 1850
The Earth projected on the horizon of London.
Double hemisphere orientated on the north and south poles.
- $150 / ≈ €130
Date: London, 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 / ≈ €3023
Date: Tokyo, 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...
Date: Paris, A. Combette, 1852
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 / ≈ €95
Date: London, 1854
![[Double-hemispher World Map] Descrizione del Globo in due emisferi . . .](/uploads/cache/44079-250x250.jpg)
[Double-hemispher World Map] 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 / ≈ €1511
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...
Date: Genova, Paolo Rivara fu Giacomo, 1858
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...
Date: Genova, Paolo Rivara fu Giacomo, 1858
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"...
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.]](/uploads/cache/44962-250x250.jpg)
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 / ≈ €950
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 / ≈ €43
Date: Amsterdam, C.L. Brinkman, 1883
Kaart der Isogonen en Isoklinen.
One of the earliest thematic maps published in the Netherlands from "Atlas der natuurkundige aardrijkskunde. . .". prepared by Nicolaas Wilhelmus Posthumus. The...
Date: Amsterdam, C.L. Brinkman, 1883
Kaart, voorstellende de Seculaire Rijzingen en Dalingen van den Bodem, alsmede de Vulkamen.
One of the earliest thematic world maps published in the Netherlands from "Atlas der natuurkundige aardrijkskunde. . .". prepared by Nicolaas Wilhelmus Posthumu...
- $35 / ≈ €30
Date: Amsterdam, C.L. Brinkman, 1883
Kaart der Isorachiën of Lijnen van Gelijke Vloedbeweging.
One of the earliest thematic world maps published in the Netherlands from "Atlas der natuurkundige aardrijkskunde. . .". prepared by Nicolaas Wilhelmus Posthumu...
- $35 / ≈ €30
Date: Amsterdam, C.L. Brinkman, 1883
Kaart van de Hoofdgodsdiensten.
One of the earliest thematic world maps published in the Netherlands from "Atlas der natuurkundige aardrijkskunde. . .". prepared by Nicolaas Wilhelmus Posthumu...
- $35 / ≈ €30
Date: Amsterdam, C.L. Brinkman, 1883
Kaart der Oceanische Stroomgebieden.
One of the earliest thematic maps published in the Netherlands from "Atlas der natuurkundige aardrijkskunde. . .". prepared by Nicolaas Wilhelmus Posthumus. The...
- $35 / ≈ €30
Date: Amsterdam, C.L. Brinkman, 1883
Kaart der Oceanische Stroomgebieden.
One of the earliest thematic maps published in the Netherlands from "Atlas der natuurkundige aardrijkskunde. . .". prepared by Nicolaas Wilhelmus Posthumus. The...
- $35 / ≈ €30
Date: Amsterdam, C.L. Brinkman, 1883
Kaart der Isodynamen.
One of the earliest thematic maps published in the Netherlands from "Atlas der natuurkundige aardrijkskunde. . .". prepared by Nicolaas Wilhelmus Posthumus. The...
- $35 / ≈ €30
Date: Amsterdam, C.L. Brinkman, 1883
![[World map with oceanic currents].](/uploads/cache/46149-250x250.jpg)
[World map with oceanic currents].
Alexey Afinogenovich Ilyin was a lieutenant general and cartographer (1832-1889). In 1856, after graduating from the Academy of the General Staff, he was at the military ...
- $100 / ≈ €86
Date: St. Petersburg, 1899
![[Board game] - La course autour du Monde.](/uploads/cache/48521-250x250.jpg)
[Board game] - La course autour du Monde.
Very rare French board game - no other copies known. The game consists of 50 fields linked to the lines of longitude. A globe lies in the center of the board to symboli...
Date: Paris, ca. 1900
![[World map in showing currents with Ottoman script]](/uploads/cache/44322-250x250.jpg)
[World map in showing currents with Ottoman script]
Post card size world map in Mercator projection showing the currents in Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in Ottoman script prepared by Mehmet EŞREF in a small atlas : عمو...
Date: Istanbul, 1325 or 1909
Planisphère terrestre.
A huge (2 meters) world map representing Asia and America in the center, Europe and Africa at left and right hand of the map. Published by the Service hydrographique in 1...
- $800 / ≈ €691
Date: Paris, Service hydrographique, 1902-1914
![Tutte le strade conducono a Roma. [All roads lead to Rome]](/uploads/cache/44998-250x250.jpg)
Tutte le strade conducono a Roma. [All roads lead to Rome]
Game board of the game "All roads lead to Rome" from the Fascist era, offered by the chocolate or cocoa company Talmone-Unica. Showing a world map surrounded by...
- $1500 / ≈ €1296
Date: Turin, 1928
AIR France réseau arérien mondial.
Original lithograph advertising planisphere cardboard from AIR France. The map is designed by Lucien Boucher and is in fact a reduced version of his larger format poster....
- $800 / ≈ €691
Date: Imprimerie Perceval, Paris, 1938
Nous vaincrons parce que nous sommes les plus forts. Souscrivez aux bons d'armement.
We win because we are the strongest. Support good armaments". Quote by the French Prime Minister Paul Reynaud. French wartime propaganda poster. colored world map - ...
- $600 / ≈ €518
Date: Paris ca 1939
![[Mussolini Celebrates Pearl Harbor] Grande Carta Del Pacifico](/uploads/cache/48536-250x250.jpg)
[Mussolini Celebrates Pearl Harbor] Grande Carta Del Pacifico
A world map issued four days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which led England and the United States to declare war on Japan, this message from Mussolini, cele...
- $500 / ≈ €432
Date: Rome / Milan, 1941
Freedom of the Air.
A world map packed with information about aviation and the aluminum industry.The use of aircraft in warfare, especially in the roles of close ground support and strategic...
- $230 / ≈ €199
Date: United-States, 1943
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 / ≈ €233
Date: London, 1944
Map Review No.17. Eastwood Outlook.
A large double sided 'current affairs' poster. One side features a eastern hemisphere world map, and deals with matters arising in South East Asia, the Far East and Europ...
- $180 / ≈ €155
Date: London, 1946
Map Review No.39. - Twenty Years of Progress, 'A Standard of Life'.
A large fully colored double-sided poster of the world colored to highlight the number of children who die each year before the age of one. This is accompanied by a short...
- $200 / ≈ €173
Date: London, 1947
![[ Pictorial world map ]](/uploads/cache/44376-250x250.jpg)
[ Pictorial world map ]
Pictorial world map includes decorative title cartouche and compass rose. Drawn by Jacques Liozu, a French illustrator who drew a number of maps in this style in 1951, in...
Date: Paris, 1951
AIR France - Sur les ailes d'Air France découvrez le monde à votre tour.
Promotional poster of a double hemisphere world map designed by Lucien Boucher for AIR France. The map depicts the entire world in rich blues and burgundies with gold hig...
Date: Perceval, Paris, 1952