Search Listings matching "figured-border"
Gallia. Nova Galliae descriptio . . .
Very rare and early map of France with figures on three sides with views of cities, portraits (Henri IV and Marie de Medicis) and costumes. The map was directly influence...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1616
Nova Franconiae Descriptio.
In 1626 Abraham Goos engraved a single-sheet "carte à figures"- map of Franconia with decorative borders for Joannes Janssonius. In the center part of the top ...
- $3000 / ≈ €2807
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1626
The Kingdom of Persia with the cheef Citties and Habites described by John Speede.
One of the most decorative "carte à figures"- maps of the old Kingdom of Persia, including modern day Iran and Iraq, as well as portions of the Turkish Empire,...
- $2000 / ≈ €1871
Place & Date: London, G.Humble, 1626
A new mape of Ye XVII Provinces of Low Germanie.
Showing all 17 Provinces of the Netherlands before the split between Spain and the Protestant Provinces under the House of Orange. The map was published while the war of ...
- $2300 / ≈ €2152
Place & Date: London, George Humble, 1626 [1627
Belgii sive Germaniae Inferioris accuratissima tabula.
Very rare and very decorative map with in the right and left borders costumed figures and town plans alternately. In top and bottom border town plans and views.Separate p...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1631
Asia recens summa cura delineata.
This is the rare early issue with decorative paneled borders. In upper border views and plans of Famagusta, Rhodos, Damascus, Jerusalem, Aden and Ormus. Originally engrav...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1632
Nova et accurata Tabula Hispaniae. . .
Second state. This "carte à figures"- map of Spain and Portugal shows the geographical image introduced by Hessel Gerritsz's 1612 wall map of Spain. The map is...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1633
Asiae Nova Descriptio.
Final State of Pieter Van Den Keere's Rare Map of Asia--The first map of Asia to include decorative panels. Published by H.J.Visscher and engraved by Abraham Goos, embell...
- $3000 / ≈ €2807
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1636
Asiae Nova Descriptio.
Final State of Pieter Van Den Keere's Rare Map of Asia -- The first map of Asia to include decorative panels. Published by N.J.Visscher and engraved by Abraham Goos, embe...
- $3500 / ≈ €3275
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1636
Americae Nova Tabula.
An inset shows Greenland and Iceland. Decorative elements include ships, sea monsters, and vignettes of native Americans within South America. In addition, the map is bor...
- $7500 / ≈ €7018
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644
Asia noviter delineata. . .
From 1633 the members of the Blaeu family were official cartographers to the United East India Company and, as such, had access to the most up-to-date cartographic inform...
- $3500 / ≈ €3275
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1644
Americae Nova Tabula.
The delineation of the coast and the nomenclature on both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts are basically Spanish in origin and follow the maps of Ortelius and Wytfliet. To...
- $7500 / ≈ €7018
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1645
Nova Europae descriptio.
A fine "carte à figures"- map with four panels in columns on each side show portraits of Kings and Queens of European countries. The top border contains panora...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
A new mape of Ye XVII Provinces of Low Germanie.
Showing all 17 Provinces of the Netherlands before the split between Spain and the Protestant Provinces under the House of Orange.The map was first published. At the same...
Place & Date: London, 1676
A newe mape of Tartary.
One of the most decorative maps of Tartary, known for its figured borders with costume figures, while above are vignettes of the cities of Astrakhan, Samarkand and Cambal...
- $2000 / ≈ €1871
Place & Date: London, Bassett & Chiswell, 1627-1676
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
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1696
Plan de la ville de Roses avec les attaques.
Very rare and beautiful plan engraved by Pierre Lepautre, of the city of Roses in Catalonia, and celebrating the victory and capture of the city by Louis XIV in June 1693...
- $1500 / ≈ €1404
Place & Date: Paris, 1700
Le Cours du Danube depuis sa Source jusqu'a ses Embouchures Dresse sur les Memoires les plus Nouveaux du P. Coronelli et Autres.
Prepared by Nicolas Sanson after V.Coronelli. Large title cartouche lower left with dedication to M.Dauphin.Covers the length of the Danube from its source -west of Ulm t...
- $1300 / ≈ €1216
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1710
La Terre du Nord.
Map of the Arctic Circle, set within a series of decorative borders, printed from a different copper plate. All counties that lie within or near to the North Pole are sho...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1713
Naaukeurige Kaart Van Tartaryen . . .
This attractive map of Tartary is formed of two separate engravings, first is the map itself (23 x 16 cm) and second is the engraved framework border. Map detail extends ...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1713
Accurate Vorstellung der Orientalisch Kayserlichen Haupt- und Residenz-Stadt Constantinopel samt ihrer Gegend und Zweyen . . .
The upper part shows Constantinople with adjoining regions. The view shows the former Christian church Hagia-Sophia, the Blue Mosque, three Egyptian obelisks, Sultan Sule...
- $1250 / ≈ €1170
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1720
Generale Carte der gesamten Koniglichen Preussischen Lander. . .
Beautiful and rare two-sheet map of Prussia with part of now-a-days Poland. The title cartouche is hold by a crowned eagle. In lower part a large baroque cartouche with a...
- $3000 / ≈ €2807
Place & Date: Berlin, 1760
Generale Carte der gesamten Koniglichen Preussischen Lander. . .
Beautiful and rare two sheet map of Prussia. The title cartouche is hold by a crowned eagle. In lower part a large baroque cartouche with allegorical figures and a portra...
- $1200 / ≈ €1123
Place & Date: Berlin, 1760
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...
- $350 / ≈ €328
Place & Date: Paris, 1787
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
Place & Date: Paris, 1834
Portions of the Russian Empire in eastern & western Asia.
Two maps on one sheet. Components: The Aral Sea according to Khanikoff -- Kamchatka according to A. Erman. Relief is shown by hachures and spot heights. No. 8 from Fullar...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: London, 1860