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Le Rachat de l'Esclave.
With a dedication to Monseigneur Anne Robert Jacques Turgot Ministre d'Etat, Controlleur Général des Finances. Engraved by J. Aliamet (1726-1788) after Nicolaes Pieters...
- $300 / ≈ €258
Date: Paris, Aliamet, ca. 1785
Embarquement de vivres.
With a dedication to Monseigneur le Comte de Saint Florentin Commandeur des Ordres du Roy. Engraved by Jac. Philippe Le Bas, who was also engraver for "Cabinet du Ro...
- $500 / ≈ €429
Date: Paris, ca. 1785
Carte de la Petite Tartarie Dresee par ordre de l'Imperatries de toutes las Russies.
The very rare first edition of De Leth's map of the southern part of Ukraine, with detailed annotations regarding the Cossacks and an explanatory key. Based on a Russian ...
- $1750 / ≈ €1502
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1785
Messico ouvero Nuova Spagna che contiene Il Nuova Messico La California con una Parte de Paesi Adjacenti. . .
Decorative and detailed map of Mexico, Texas, Florida, Louisiana, and Central America. The map is filled with remarkable detail throughout, particularly in Texas, New Mex...
Date: Venise, 1785
L'Impero del Giapon diviso in sette principali parti cive..
The map of the Japanese Empire published by Antonio Zatta (1757-97) continued to show most of the inaccuracies of earlier eighteenth-century maps.
Date: Venice, 1785
Carte Generale de la Chine Dressée sur les Cartes Particulieres Que l' Empereur Chang-Hi a fait lever sur les lieux..
Large map showing the traditional limits of China, including Hainan and Formosa in the South, and Quantong and parts of the Gobi Desert in the North.As the title notes, t...
Date: Paris, Ph.-D. Pierres, Clousier [- Moutard], 1785
Carte Generale De La Tartarie Chinoise Dressee sur les Cartes Particulieres Faits Sur Les Lieux Par Les R.R. P.P. Jesuites . . . .MDCCXXXII
This is a very detailed map of the region from Japan to the Gobi Desert, centered on Mongolia and Korea, from D'Anville's Atlas of China. Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d' Anv...
Date: Paris, Ph.-D. Pierres, Clousier [- Moutard], 1785
[Set of 4 maps] Indie Orientali di Quà e di la Dal Gange col Loro Arcipelago.
Fine almost wall sized map of South east Asia, including Formosa, New Guinea, the Maldives and the Indus delta. From his "Atlante Novissimo, illustrato ed accresciut...
- $850 / ≈ €730
Date: Venice, ca. 1779 - 1785
Observatoire de Peking.
The observatory of Mateo Rizzi in Peking, in which there are very large instruments, an Equinoctial Sphere, a Celestial Globe, a Zodiacal Sphere, Azimuthal Horizona, Quad...
Date: Paris, GROSIER Jean-Baptiste, 1785
Indie Orientali di Quà e di la Dal Gange col Loro Arcipelago. [Set of 4 maps]
Fine almost wall sized map of South east Asia, including Formosa, New Guinea, the Maldives and the Indus delta. From his "Atlante Novissimo, illustrato ed accresciut...
Date: Venice, ca. 1779 - 1785
Regni D'Aracan Del Pegu Di Siam Di Camboge E Di Laos . . . 1785
Striking regional map centered on Thailand and Vietnam, extending from the Singapore to India, and north to Tibet. Decorative scroll title cartouche.
- $500 / ≈ €429
Date: Venise, 1785
A scarce Real Compañia de Filipinas 250 Pesos deed issued in 1785.
A scarce Real Compañia de Filipinas 250 Pesos deed issued in 1785. Share nº 24665, hand signed by several company officials.Engraved by Fernando Selma (1752-1810) after...
Date: Spain, 1785
Sketch of the Typa and Macao.
A map of the environs of the Portuguese settlement of Macao in the Far East. The map shows a small town plan of Macao, nearby rocks, shoals depth soundings, and a few nav...
- $150 / ≈ €129
Date: London, 1785
Carte de l'Entrée de Norton, et du Detroit de Bhering ou Von vou le Cap le plus oriental de l'Asie, et la Pointe la plus occidentale de l'Amerique.
Early detailed map of the passage between Asia and the NW Coast of America, including nice topographical details and the day by day tracks of Cook through the region in 1...
- $300 / ≈ €258
Date: Paris, 1785
Amérique Septentrionale .. Les Etats Unis..
Very rare state: probably separately issued. Published the same year the Treaty of Paris was signed, this is one of the first maps to provide printed boundary lines for t...
- $3000 / ≈ €2575
Date: Paris, 1786
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 / ≈ €129
Date: Paris, 1786
[Frontispiece] Atlas Général et Elémentaire Pour l'Etude de la Géographie et de l'Histoire moderne..
Allegoric frontispiece, from Atlas Général et Élémentaire pour l'Etude de la Géographie et de l'Histoire moderne. Engraved by K.Audran.
Date: Paris, 1786
De la Sphère. L'equateur. Des Tropiques. Le zodiac. Les cercles polaires. L'Horizon. Le meridian.
Print of armillary sphere, surrounded by several diagrams of the sun, moon, and planets after Cassini. To the left and right 7 blocks of text with explanations and one co...
Date: Paris, 1787
Carte de la Marche, du Bourbonnois, de Limousin, et de l'Auvergne.
Very fine map of Auvergne, Limousin, Bourbonnois and Marche regions in France. Engraved by Ballet and included in the rare atlas "Atlas Universelle" by Philippe...
- $150 / ≈ €129
Date: Paris, 1787
[Title page] Atlas Géographique et Universel . .
Title page of Atlas Géographique et Universel by Guillaume De L'Isle and Philippe Buache in 1787, published by Jean-Claude Dezauche.More about title pages [+]
- $350 / ≈ €300
Date: Paris, 1787
Karte von den N.W. Amerikanischen und N.OE. Asiatischen Kusten nach den Untersuchungen des Kapit. Cook...
A detailed large-scale map showing the Bering Strait, Kamchatka, Alaska and much of North America. While the Russian coastline is shown with reasonable accuracy. Showin...
- $450 / ≈ €386
Date: Vienna, 1788
L'Amérique divisée en ses principaux Etats Dressée d'après les Cartes de Mr. Bonne?
Rare, wall map of America in 2 sheets, after R. Bonne. With 3 inset maps of Hispaniola, Martinique and Hudson Bay. Beautiful title cartouche depicting a Native American l...
Date: Paris, 1788
Karte von den N.W. Amerikanische und N.O.E. Asia. . .
German edition of Cook's explorations along the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia, based upon the original work by Lieutenant Henry Roberts.A detailed large-scale ...
- $400 / ≈ €343
Date: Vienna, 1788
Karte von den N.W.Amerikanische und N.O.E. Asia..
A detailed large-scale map showing the Bering strait, Kamchatka, Alaska, and much of North America. While the Russian coastline is shown with reasonable accuracy. Showing...
Date: Vienna 1788
L'Allemagne dressée sur les observations. . .
Map of Germany, Low Countries, Poland, Switzerland, Northern Italy. Prepared by G.De L'Isle after observations by Kepler and Tycho Brahe.Engraved by Jean Batiste Liébaux...
- $300 / ≈ €258
Date: Paris, 1788
Carte du Gouvernement de Tauride, comprenant la Krimée et les pays voisins: dressée principalement d'après la carte faite sur les lieux pour le voyage de S.M. l'impératrice de Russie. . .
Very rare map of the Crimea area published Jean-Claude Dezauche, who was active in Paris 1770-1824. The map includes borders and a road system.Dezauche is giving credit t...
- $850 / ≈ €730
Date: Paris, 1788
Kriegstheater oder Graenzkarte Oesterreichs, Russlands, und der Türkey. . .
Map of the theatre of war in the Balkans, Ukraine and around the Black Sea, indicating the Austrian, Russian and Turkish spheres of influence. Printed on two sheets and j...
Date: Artaria und Compagnie, Vienna, 1788
[Manuscript] Plan du siege de la forteresse d'Oczakow avec les détails... aux ordres du Prince Potemkin, le 17 Decemb: 1788.
Very detailed well executed manuscript plan of the Turkish Fortress Ochakov captured by Russian Troops on December 17, 1788 by the Maréchal Prince Potemkin. In lower lef...
- $2000 / ≈ €1717
Date: ca. 1788
Carte du Gouvernement de Tauride, comprenant la Krimée et les pays voisins: dressée principalement d'après la carte faite sur les lieux pour le voyage de S.M. l'impératrice de Russie. . .
Rare map of southern Ukraine and the Crimea during the Second Russo-Turkish War (1787-92). Antique map of the Crimea during the Second Russo-Turkish War (1787-92), fought...
- $2500 / ≈ €2146
Date: Paris, 1788
Femme Samoyeds.
Originally hand-colored mezzotint from 'Costumes civils actuels de tous les peuples connus', showing a woman and child from Samojedin, Siberia in Russia. Engraved after J...
- $30 / ≈ €26
Date: M. Sylvain Maréchal. Paris, 1788
Fille de Barabinze.
Originally hand-colored mezzotint from 'Costumes civils actuels de tous les peuples connus', showing a girl from Barabinze in Siberia, Russia engraved by Félix Mixelle a...
- $30 / ≈ €26
Date: M. Sylvain Maréchal. Paris, 1788
Femme Tschouwache.
Originally hand-colored mezzotint from 'Costumes civils actuels de tous les peuples connus' engraved by Félix Mixelle and Lachaussée Jeune after Jacques Grasset de Sain...
- $30 / ≈ €26
Date: M. Sylvain Maréchal. Paris, 1788
Femme Persienne.
Originally hand-colored mezzotint of a Persian woman engraved by Félix Mixelle and Lachaussée Jeune after Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur.As an etcher, drawer and writ...
- $40 / ≈ €34
Date: M. Sylvain Maréchal. Paris, 1788
Homme Toungouse.
Originally hand-colored mezzotint from 'Costumes civils actuels de tous les peuples connus'. Engraving of a man dressed in native garb from the Tunguska region of norther...
- $25 / ≈ €21
Date: M. Sylvain Maréchal. Paris, 1788
Homme de Kams Malika.
Originally hand-colored mezzotint from 'Costumes civils actuels de tous les peuples connus'. Showing a man from Russia, by M. Sylvain Maréchal. Paris, 1788.As an etcher,...
- $25 / ≈ €21
Date: M. Sylvain Maréchal. Paris, 1788
L'Asia secondo Le ultime osserviazioni divisa né suoi stati principali.
First edition on laid paper. Cassini’s splendid map depicts Asia at the end of the eighteenth century. There is good details of the region east of the Caspian Sea, show...
- $750 / ≈ €644
Date: Rome, 1788
Karte der Magellanischen-Strasse. . .
Very detailed map of Strait of Magellan, with in top inset map of Southern tip of South America with the Falklands. Prepared by Don Juan de La Cruz of Spain.Engraved by J...
- $600 / ≈ €515
Date: Vienna, 1789
Carte de l'Espagne Dressée par Guillaume Delisle sur la description de Rodrigo Mendez Sylva . . .. Le tout augmenté et vérifié en 1789. Par Phil. Buache, de l'Académie des Sciences.
Map of Spain published at the outbreak of the French Revolution. Taken from the Atlas Géographique.. published by Dezauche, as successors to De l'Isle & Buache. Publ...
Date: Paris, 1789
Des Russischen Reiches Statthalterschaften Neurussland, Asow, und das Oestliche Nogay
Map showing Lake Asow and the Crimea. The river Dnepr until Krementschug, and the river Don until Pawlowsk. Published by Franz Johann Joseph von Reilly.
Date: Vienna, 1789
Geographische General Karte Der Gränzen zwischen denen dreyen Kaiserthümern und ihren nach und nach geschehenen Veränderungen vom Jahr 1718 bis heutigen Tags. . .
Detailed map of present-day Bulgaria, which is carved into the Ottoman provinces of Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Romania (Rumelia), the Crimea and the Black Sea. Prepared by ...
- $1250 / ≈ €1073
Date: Vienna, 1788-1789
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 / ≈ €3863
Date: Paris, 1789
Des Russischen Reiches Statthalterschaften Pleskow, Polozk, Mohilew, Twer, Moskau, Koluga, Wolodimer, Iaroslaw, Tula, Smo, Lensko und Nischgorod. Nro.64
Map of the European part of Russia, centered on Moscow. Published by Franz Johann Joseph von Reilly, 1766-1820, who was a Viennese art dealer who turned to map publishing...
- $150 / ≈ €129
Date: Vienna, 1789
Des Russischen Reiches Statthalterschaft Archangel Nro.66
Map of the North Western part of Russia. Published by Franz Johann Joseph von Reilly, 1766-1820, who was a Viennese art dealer who turned to map publishing in his early t...
- $150 / ≈ €129
Date: Vienna, 1789
Des Russischen Reiches Statthalterschaften Pleskow, Polozk, Mohilew, Twer, Moskau, Koluga, Wolodimer, Iaroslaw, Tula, Smo, Lensko und Nischgorod. Nro.64
Map of the European part of Russia, centered on Moscow. Published by Franz Johann Joseph von Reilly, 1766-1820, who was a Viennese art dealer who turned to map publishing...
- $150 / ≈ €129
Date: Vienna, 1789
MAGNI PRINCIPATUS, ceu Provinciae REGNI SUECIAE, FINNLANDIAE Mappa generalis geographica : ex HASIANIS aliisque certissimis subsidiis, in suas Provincias minores sive speciales, tanquam statum politicum modernum . . .
A large and rarely seen map of Finland prepared by Haas. Extends from St. Petersburg north to well above the Gulf of Bothnia.
- $700 / ≈ €601
Date: Nuremberg, 1789
Die Asiatische Turkey begreift in sich Natolien, Georgien, Armenien, Mesopotamien Syrien, und Arabien. . .
Map of Turkey bordered by the Black Sea to the north, Syria and Sinai Peninsula to the south, Turkey in Europe to the west, with a small title cartouche. Explanatory text...
- $200 / ≈ €172
Date: Augsburg, 1789
Asia verlegt von Ioh Mich Probst.
Uncommon map of Asia, with an explanatory text and directory on the right and the bottom of the map from the "Atlas Minor ex Tabulis Geographicis ".The map is o...
- $300 / ≈ €258
Date: Augsburg, 1789
Die Insel Island Nro. 76.
An attractive map of Iceland based on the unpublished Knoff survey. The map locates villages and churches and graphically delineates the mountains, rivers, lakes and fore...
- $600 / ≈ €515
Date: Vienna, 1789
Guayane, Terre Ferme Isles Antilles. . .
Map showing Mexico, Cuba, Central America. Left and right a box with geographical information for each part country on the continent.Prepared by Louis Brion de la Tour an...
- $200 / ≈ €172
Date: Paris, 1790
Globe Terrestre. / Globe Celeste.
Showing a terrestrial and celestial spheres. Left and right a box with geographical information for spheres of different types.Prepared by Louis Brion de la Tour and publ...
- $400 / ≈ €343
Date: Paris 1790
Prospectus primarii.. turrim rubram Viennae.
So-called optical print, showing Red tower in Vienna.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular speciality establishments in Paris, Augsburg and L...
- $175 / ≈ €150
Date: Italy c.1790
Les Pays Bas François, Autrichiens, et Hollandois..
Finely engraved map centered on the Netherlands, extending to include Belgium and Luxembourg.Finely embellished with a large title cartouche surmounted by Mercury's head....
Date: Paris, 1790
Les Isles Britanniques..
An attractive map of the British Isles including an inset of the Orkney and Shetland Islands. Finely embellished with a large title cartouche.The map is flanked by two co...
- $90 / ≈ €77
Date: Paris, 1790
L'Angleterre divisée en 5 grandes Parties. . .
A very attractive map of England and Wales showing its 52 counties and the major cities as well as five large regional divisions.Finely embellished with a large title car...
- $100 / ≈ €86
Date: Paris, 1790
L'Etat de Venise et le Duché de Mantoue..
Attractive map covering the region centered on today region Veneto and its chief town Venice.Extending westwards to include part of Lombardy and eastward to Trieste and I...
- $100 / ≈ €86
Date: Paris, 1790
Partie de l' Italie, comprenant les Etats du Roy de Sardaigne. . .
Decorative map of northwest Italy and the Golfo di Genova. With ornamental title cartouche.Flanked by two columns of French text containing geographical information about...
- $100 / ≈ €86
Date: Paris, 1790
Planta della citta di Napoli come esifte nel prefeute Anno MDCCXC.
This stunning large-scale plan of Naples was prepared by Rizzi-Zannoni and engraved by Giuseppe Guerra from Naples. To the right and left a key to the important places of...
Date: Naples, 1790
[North America]
Uncommon map of North America. The young United States incorporates the upper Midwest, with the remaining western territories of Louisiana, Nouveau Mexique, Nouveau Albio...
Date: Augsburg, ca. 1790
L'Amerique selon l'Etendue de Ses Principales Parties et don't les Points Principaux. . .
Uncommon map of South America, decorated with an elaborate cartouche referring to the conversion of the natives to Christianity, with natives bowing to a figure holding a...
Date: Augsburg, ca. 1790
Uomo del Canale di Noël della terra del Fuoco, nel Mar Australe. / Homme du Canal de Noël de la terre de Feu dans la Mer Australe.
Full portrait of a man from Christmas Sound, in Tierra del Fuego This engraved print on laid paper is from "Raccolta di stampe," a series of historically sign...
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
Donna della nuova Caledonia Isola del Mar Pacifico. / Femme de la nouvelle Calédonie Isle dans la Mer Pacifique.
Full portrait of a woman from New Caledonia. A rare engraving from "Raccolata di stampe ... di varie nazioni". From the original drawing by William Hodges, who ...
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
[Asia and part of Australia]
An engraved map of Asia shows an oversized Japan and part of Australia, called Neu Holland. To the east of the Caspian Sea, we see the area of present-day Uzbekistan and ...
- $450 / ≈ €386
Date: Tübingen, Heerbrandt, 1790
[Title page] Atlas National et Général de la France en 20 Cartes..
Title page, from "Atlas National et Général de la France en 20 Cartes, divisée en ses 83 Départemens et 547 Districts, distingués par différentes couleurs de m...
- $80 / ≈ €69
Date: Paris, 1790
Le Royaume de Boheme, le Duché de Silesie, et les Marquisats de Moravie et Lusace, dresses d'apres les cartes de Muller . .
Map of Poland, Bohemia, Silesia, Moravia and Lusatia. Large decorative title cartouche in upper right. In upper left corner inset plan of Breslau and in lower right a ins...
Date: Paris, 1790
L' Amerique dressée pour l'étude de la géographie . . .
Map showing the American continent. California with a large inlet. Some major cities, bodies of water, and geographic features are marked. There are illustrations of ship...
- $200 / ≈ €172
Date: Paris, 1790
Die Vereinigten Staaten von Nord Amerika..
Uncommon map of the east coast of North America, including the Great Lakes area. To the right inset map of New Foundland. After the map by William Faden of 1783. With col...
- $500 / ≈ €429
Date: Germany, 1790
Uomo del Perù. / Homme du Perou.
Full portrait of a Peruvian warrior. From “Raccolta di … stampe.” a series of historically significant eighteenth-century copper plate engravings by Venetian engrav...
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
Prospectus primarii telonii caesarei prope turrim rubram Viennae. . .
So-called optical print, showing Red tower in Vienna.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular specialty establishments in Paris, Augsburg and Lo...
- $80 / ≈ €69
Date: Italy c.1790
(Manuscript map of Narva und Ivangorod.)
An early manuscript very finely executed watercolor town-plan of the town of Narva, located at the eastern tip of Estonia, on the Russian border.With a key in lower left ...
- $1000 / ≈ €858
Date: Germany?, c. 1790
Isles de la Reine Charlotte.
Four charts on one page including chart of Nendö Island, largest of the Santa Cruz Islands, part of the Solomon Islands group, as mapped by Captain Cartaret in 1767, the...
- $40 / ≈ €34
Date: Paris, 1790
La France divisée en 83 départemens suivant les décréts de l'Assemblée Nationale, sanctionnés per le Roi. . .
An interesting folding map of France divided in 83 departments, to the right the 83 departments added on past-on slips. Another past-on is advertising Desnos' atlas in la...
Date: Paris, 1790
[Title page] France divisée en 83 departements. [with title in manuscript].
Title page with in panel manuscript title in brown ink "France divisée en 83 departements. . .". On verso a manuscript compass rose. Title page engraved by P. ...
Date: Paris, ca. 1790
Prospect von Livorn. - Venduta del Palazo del Console D'Olanda in Venezia Nova in Livorne.
So called optical print published by Joseph Carmine showing the home of the Dutch consul in Livorno. Engraved after a design of Antonio Piemontesi. A well-known publisher...
- $100 / ≈ €86
Date: Augsburg, ca. 1790
Madrid.
Plan of Madrid, by Tardieu. With numbered key (1-74) of the main buildings and buildings of the city. Table with translations of Spanish words in the right bottom.
- $150 / ≈ €129
Date: Paris?, ca. 1790
Perse, Turquie Asiatique et Arabie. . .
Attractive map covering the Arabian Peninsula, Turkey, Palestine, the Caucasus, today's Iraq and Iran.Flanked by two columns of French text containing geographical inform...
- $300 / ≈ €258
Date: Paris, 1790
[Map of Madagascar, Mauricius island and Réunion island, in Cyrillic ].
A map of the south eastern coast of Africa and the island of Madagascar, comprehending 2 insets of the island of Bourbon (today Reunion) and Mauritius.The title appears i...
- $750 / ≈ €644
Date: Paris / St.Petersburg, ca. 1790
КАРТА ТАТАРИ КИТАЙСКОЙ [Map of Tartary in Cyrillic ].
A rare map of Tartary, including Korea, China and Tibet.This Cyrillic version of the map appeared in one of the first world atlases published in Russia "Novy Atlas, ...
- $750 / ≈ €644
Date: Paris / St.Petersburg, ca. 1790
[Lot of 6 maps / prints] Schets van de Donkere Baai in Nieuw Zeeland 1773.
A map of Dusky Bay, visited by James Cook in 1773. From a Dutch edition of ‘Cook's voyages'. Schets van de Donkere Baai in Nieuw Zeeland 1773. Nicolas Bellin's map of t...
- $350 / ≈ €300
Date: London, c, 1790
[Title page] Atlas National et général de la France en 20 cartes. . .
Title page of Atlas National et général de la France en 20 cartes published by Louis Charles Desnos in 1790.
- $150 / ≈ €129
Date: Paris, 1790
Gallia Antiquae. . .
A fine map of ancient France.
Date: London, 1790