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Le Isole del Giappone e la Corea delineate sulle ultima osservazioni.
First edition on laid paper. Cassini’s splendid early map of Japan and Korea, with a large decorative title cartouche. The map has a very unusual, almost triangular, repr...
Date: Rome, 1797
Politica Maramea Inglese - Rugantino - n°419 - Roma 17 Gennaio 1892.
Satirical print relating to the British Conquest of Egypt (1882), also known as Anglo–Egyptian War, between Egyptian and Sudanese forces under Ahmed ‘Urabi and the United...
Date: Rome, January 17, 1892
GALERE
Miniature view of a galley. From the French text edition of Description d'Univers.. (5 volumes), 1683. By Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706), a well travelled military en...
Date: Paris, 1683
Vogel Liebhaberey.
Engraved by Joseph Stöber, (born in Vienna 13. June 1768, died 12 March 1852) after design of Matthäus Loder (1781-1828). From Castelli, "Zerrbilder menschlicher Tor...
Date: Wien, 1818
Tabula Episcopatuum Leodiensis et Coloniensis. . .
Rare issue of Cornelis Danckert's attractive map of Limburg, shows the area of Cologne, Mainz, Trier, Jülich, Mons, Antwerp and Liege in Belgium.Decorative title cartouch...
Date: Amsterdam, 1700
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[ Text / title page Charts of the coasts and harbours of New England . . .]
Letterpress text page, taken from the "Atlantic Neptune".The Atlantic Neptune is universally recognised as one of the most magnificent atlases ever made.Example...
Date: London, 1777
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Rodi [View of Rhodes]
Very rare view of the City of Rhodes on the island of Rhodes. Historically, Rhodes island was very famous worldwide for the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders o...
Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598
Manuscript leaf on vellum from a Dutch Book of Hours.
A leaf from a medieval manuscript Book of Hours, written in Utrecht.Fourteen lines of monastic Textura script with 4 two-line initial "I" in liquid gold on a bl...
Date: Utrecht, ca.1450 - 1460
Carro, che uà à vela Su le Piagge di Schevelingue.
Italian version of Prince Maurits' sailing carriage designed by Simon Stevin. The big sailing-carriage could seat 28 persons and could reach a speed of seven miles per ho...
Date: Venice, 1707
Le Nouveau miroir des voiages marins de la navigation de la mer occidentale & orientale.
A second and final French edition of this important sea atlas. Two engraved frontispieces, figure with volvelle, full-page figure, 48 double-page charts (one numbered 19....
Date: Antwerp, Chez Iean Bellere, a l’Aigle d’or, l’An M.CCCCCC (1600
Sumatra.
Gastaldi prepared this map and it was the first separate map of any Southeast Asian island based on actual observation. The general contour of Sumatra is remarkably good ...
Date: Venice, 1556
Novus de Leone Belgico eiusq topographia atq. Historica descriptione liber (…). Rerumque in Belgio maxime gestarum, inde ab anno Christi M.D.LIX. Usque ad annum M.D.LXXXVII perpetua narratione continatus.
ENLARGED EDITION, with 207 (of 208) engravings of a famous eyewitness account of the Dutch Revolt, with the famous "Leo Belgicus" map, here in its second state...
Date: Cologne, Gerardus Campensis for Frans Hogenberg, 1588
Carte nouvelle des Terres de Cucan..
Prepared by H.Reland (1676-1718) a professor active in Utrecht and specialized in Asian languages, geography and religions. His first map was a map of Japan copied after ...
Date: The Hague, 1728
Turckschemoniken die onder den goddelycken. . .
Decorative picture of three dervishes dancers. Their whirling dance, also known as the sema, is a serious religious ritual performed by Muslim priests in a prayer trance ...
Date: Antwerpen, Michiel Cnobbaert, 1673
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[Russian poster] CCCP Homeland cosmonautics
Russian propaganda poster about Russian supremacy in space, designed by the artists M. Gornyak and N. Shubina. Text upper left corner translation: "The Cosmos for sc...
Date: Moscow, 1985
Early 19th century magnetic dry card compass with wooden bowl,
Brass dry rose marine compass, in its mahogany case. The mariner's compass, which enabled mariners to know the direction in which they were sailing, has always been one o...
Date: ca. 1800
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Figure 27 deuxieme partie a gauche.. [Hors riding].
This fabulous illustration depicts formal movements of equitation for horse riding school movements. The print shows both A.de Pluvinel and the future King at the age of ...
Date: Paris, 1629
Double page manuscript page with Islamic prayers with beautiful headings throughout.
Fine double page brilliantly illuminated gilt leaves written by the scribe Abu Bakr Jami in Isfahan. The Arabic text contains Islamic prayers with beautiful headings thro...
Date: Isfahan, ca. 1780
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Amerique Septentrionale divisée en ses principales parties. . .1685. [California as an Island]
Engraved by Cordier. Spectacular example of Jaillot's map of North America, showing California as an Island, based upon Sanson's landmark map of 1656. This map shows the ...
Date: Paris, 1685
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A more than 600 years old antiphonary leaf, written in Besançon, in 1370. Musical notation on 4 bars, the staves are in red and the notes in black: numerous pen-flourishe...
Date: France, 1370
(Ships on full sea)
A fine engraving of different sailing vessels at full sea.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers.. (5 volumes), 1683. By Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706)...
Date: Paris, 1683
Sabena (USA - NYC).
Sabena Belgian World Airlines poster showing the skyline of New York in abstract style. Published by Rali Brisart in Belgium.La Sabena, acronym for Societé Anonyme Belge...
Date: Brussels, ca. 1970
Vue du village de Maarsen en Hollande.
Showing the river Vecht at the town of Maarsen. Published by Jacques Chereau, who was a well-known publisher of optical prints, established in rue St. Jacques in Paris. I...
Date: Paris, ca. 1750
L'Africa divisa nelle sue Parti secondo le pui moderne . . .
A beautiful and rare two-sheet map of Africa. The title cartouche is depicted on a drape surrounded by native animals.A most noticeable feature of the decoration on the m...
Date: Venice, 1690
Victoria or Port Phillip.
Decorative steel engraved map of Victoria or Port Phillip, surrounded by illustrations of Melbourne, indigenous people and the Glenelg River. Interlocking border design. ...
Date: London, ca. 1851
Carte de l'Empire de Perse. . .
Map of the Persian empire by the Venetian cartographer and publisher François (Père) Santini and first published in Santini's 'Atlas Universel dressée sur les meuilleures...
Date: Venice, 1784
Vuë du dedans de l'Eglise de St. MARTIN à Londre.
So-called optical print illustrating a perspective view of the central aisle of St. Martin's church, in London.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, many popular sp...
Date: Paris, 1760
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[Set of two maps showing world in Mercator projection, with Ottoman script]
Two postcard size maps showing the entire world in Mercator projection. The maps are in Ottoman script prepared by Mehmet EŞREF in a small atlas : عمومولاياةىشهانيىØاوىك...
Date: Istanbul, 1325 or 1909
Part of South Australia.
Decorative steel engraved map of part of South Australia, surrounded by illustrations of Adelaide, natives on a catamaran, an Australian dog and a nymphicus bird illustra...
Date: London, ca. 1851
Nazareth.
Decorative view of Nazareth, below a decorative cartouche with numbered key and surrounded by 2 cherubins. Taken from a very rare travel book by Anthonius Gonsales, "...
Date: Antwerpen, Michiel Cnobbaert, 1673
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[Florida Indian cooking ].
Aquatint depicting Florida Indian cooking engraved by Fumagalli. Plate N°54.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de la mi...
Date: Milan, 1827
Sceau de Salomon. Convallaria multiflora L.
King Solomon's Seal or David's Harp, engraving by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch born Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "Fleurs de...
Date: Paris, c.1800
Art arabe. - Mosquée d'el-Bordeyny. . .
Lithographed by Daumont. From the author's "L'Art Arabe d'après les monuments du Kaire…". Emile Prisse d'Avennes, Orientalist and Muslim convert, obsessive in h...
Date: Paris, 1877
Planisferii Celesti, Calcolati Per L'Anno MDCC, Corretti, Et Aumenati Di Molte Stelle . . .
Double-hemisphere celestial map showing a new, more scientific depiction of the heavens. The remarkable Vincenzo Coronelli (1650-1718), was a Franciscan Friar and appoin...
Date: Venice, 1700
Sic inter dumos, pregrandi corpore cerus. - In pecus extrorquent dumeta per auia, acuto.
This is a plate from a series "Venationes ferarum, avium, piscium, pugnae bestiariorum & mutuae bestiarum". Published by Philippe Galle (Haarlem 1537 - 1612...
Date: Antwerp, Philips Galle, ca 1596
COGNAC PELISSON.
Original advertising poster for the French cognac brand Pellisson, printed by Imprimerie Vercasson, in Paris, designed by Leonetto Cappiello. Leonetto Cappiello, born in ...
Date: Paris, ca. 1900
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Loandas St.Paulo [Luanda]
Engraved by Thomas Doesburgh (active between 1683 and 1714) for Carolus Allard's Orbis habitabilis oppida et vestitus, the print shows a distant view of the Angolese city...
Date: Amsterdam, c. 1685-1690
Plan of part of the islands or archipellago of Corea seen in May 1787 by the Boufsole and Astrolabe.
This is a representing the visit of the French Admiral and explorer, le Comte de La Pérouse to Korea in 1786. The tracks of La Perouse are shown.From 'Atlas du Voyage de...
Date: London, 1798
Per telecopium exhibitio partis inferioris armamentarii. / Representation en perspective de la partie inferieure d'un arsenal. . .
RARE. Engraved optical print by Georg Balthasar Probst of a arsenal.
Date: Augsburg, 1750
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Rama. [Ramah]
Town plan of Ramah, about 5 miles (8 km) from Jerusalem and near to Gibeah. Below a decorative cartouche with numbered key and surrounded by 2 cherubins.Taken from a very...
Date: Antwerpen, Michiel Cnobbaert, 1673
Du sang à l'aube.
Original lithographed poster for the Spanish movie "Blood at dawn" (1948) directed by Rafael Gil, based on the novel by Blasco Ibanez. Poster designed by Duccio...
Date: Paris, 1948
Everything that the party has designed, we will do. 12 and five years of specific action.
Uncommon Soviet propaganda poster published during the early years of the Perestroika & Glasnost period (1985 - 1991) by Plakat (All-Union Poster), Moscow — Плака...
Date: Moscow, 1986
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Nangasakij.
Charming 18th watercolor on paper depicting a panoramic view of Nagasaki and the factory Deshima of the V.OC. Probably made by a Western artist visiting Japan.RARE. Due ...
Date: c.1750
The Narta, or Sledge for burdens in Kamtschatka.
Webber's view of transport in Kamtchatka, Russia, showing the sledge dogs hooked up to the sledge, and their master on skis, taken from "Views in the South Seas"...
Date: London, Boydell and Co., 1808
Delineatio Civitatis et Castelli Amboinae.
Early view of Ambon, with 6 Dutch vessels offshore.Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a compilation of early voyages in 1590 and had published six ...
Date: Frankfurt, 1609
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries. 15.
Engraving from Perspective, c'est a dire, le tresrenomme art du poinct oculaire d'une veue dedans ou travers regardante, estant sur une muraille unie, sur un tableau, ou ...
Date: The Hague, 1604 - 1605
St Tropez.
Early plan of St.Tropez. From his "Introduction à la fortification".
Date: Paris, 1693
Paris.
This is a spectacular panoramic view of Paris, with legends numbered from 1 to 70 in French. The title is in a banderol.After a design by Friedrich Bernhard Werner (1690-...
Date: Augsbourg, ca. 1740
Jeu Royal de la vie d'Henri IV.
Large sheet with an animated Goose-game of 63 numbered squares, spiral, counterclockwise, centripetal focused on the French king Henri IV.André Basset offers the life of ...
Date: Paris, ca. 1816-1820
Teatro della guerra nelle Flandre Austriache e Francesi. . .
Rare folio-sized map of Belgium by Antonio Zatta e Figli, from a never-finished atlas by the ‘Società Calcografia’, a partnership of the two main Venetian publishers of t...
Date: Venise, 1803
Koreische Fischerfamilie. Famille de pecheurs de Corea.
A Korean family of fishermen playing a board game. No.9' above image. From "Schinz Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen des Menschen der verschiedenen Rassen und Stämme&q...
Date: Zürich, 1845
L'Arabia delineata sulle ultime osservazioni.
First edition on laid paper. Cassini’s splendid early map of Arabia.
Date: Rome, 1797
La Nuova Olanda e La Nuova Guinea delineate sulle ultima osservazioni.
Cassini’s splendid and rare map of Australia and New Guinea, from the 'Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale'. The emphasis of the map is the charting of Captain Cook down ...
Date: Rome, 1798
Gesigt van den Vermaakelyken Overtoom ... der stad Amsterdam....
A view of the Overtoom in the eighteenth century. Etching on two joined sheets of paper, after A.Rademaker. By the eighteenth century, numerous country villas had been bu...
Date: Amsterdam, 1760
De custen van een deel van Denemarken en Swede. . .
A detailed chart of the coast Skane and Kalmar, with the island Öland. Decorated by a title and scale cartouche, a compass rose, several vessels and sea monsters, and dep...
Date: Leiden, Plantijn, 1585
Manuscript leaf, on vellum from a book of hours.
The flesh side of the vellum has 4 large 1-line initial illuminated initials in blue and red with white heightening, on a very heavily burnished gold ground. 1 side illum...
Date: Paris, 1450
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Figure 38 troisieme partie. [Hors riding]
This fabulous illustration depicts formal movements of equitation for horse riding school movements. The print shows both A.de Pluvinel and the future King at the age of ...
Date: Paris, 1629
Latium.
Based on classical authors' sources, specifically Virgilius, Plinius, Varro, Halicarnasseus, Festus and Ausonius.Philip Wingius in his letter to Ortelius from 1592 mentio...
Date: Antwerp, 1595
Cigarettes Saphir.
Beautiful late Art Nouveau style poster for the tobacco brand Cigarettes Saphir. Printed by Imprimerie Moullot, in Paris and designed by Stephano. The poster shows a very...
Date: Marseille, ca. 1920
First German text edition of the Spieghel der Zeevaerdt…
First German edition including 47 charts in very fine contemporary colors and bound in a contemp. brown calf binding. The boards are richly blind stamped, with a design ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1593
Dynastiae Comitat. Schoenburgici Penig, Remissa, Rochsburg, Wechselburg In Clientela Elect: Saxon Glaucha, Hartenstein, Lichtenststein, Walkenburg. . .
A very uncommon and superbly decorative map of Lower Saxony, the region southwest of Dresden. Including the towns of Rochlitz, Geringswalde, Mittweida, Frankenberg, Chemn...
Date: Augsburg, 1750
Islandia.
1603 ORTELIUS, A. - Perhaps the most famous map of Iceland. On the south side of the island, a collection of all possible sea monsters is depicted. Polar bears on ice flo...
Date: Antwerp, 1603
Picardie Meridionale Le Cambresis et leurs Environs.
Map showing the region of Picardie in Northern France. Including the towns of Abbeville, Amiens, Compiegne, Soisson, Chambray, etc.
Date: Paris, 1737
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[Voyage en Suisse / Reise die Schweiz.]
A first edition children's folding board game of Switzerland and its many places and sights to visit. Although it is missing most of its original components (dice, cards,...
Date: Switzerland, 1891
Illuminated leaf from a liturgical Psalter.
A very fine illuminated leaf from a liturgical Psalter in Latin with the reading from the Vulgate Bible. Lines in a slightly irregular Gothic hand, black ink, plummet rul...
Date: Flanders, Rhineland, or possibly England, c. 1280
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Insulae Indiae Orientalis.
Map of South East Asia with good detail on the Philippines from the rare Cloppenburg edition slightly larger format and more scarce edition of the Mercator/Hondius "...
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
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Actualites. [News]
A lithographic cartoon showing two tradesmen conversing. One says to the other: "Eh! Well jocker you're not working anymore!" "I have colic!" says the...
Date: Paris, ca 1840
(Lübeck) Lvbeca vrbs. imperialis libera. civitatvm. Wandalicarvm. . . .
Impressive, more than 3 meters wide panoramic town view after a woodblock engraving from Elias Diebel, initially made in 1552. Of this original woodblock, Bachmann mentio...
Date: Germany, c. 1855
Thusciae Descriptio Auctore Hieronimo Bellarmato.
Decorative and detailed map of Tuscany, from the 1574 or 1575 Latin text edition of Ortelius' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas of the world. The map is bas...
Date: Antwerp, 1574-1575
Outposts of Empire. Ceylon.
A large colored lithograph by John Vickery (1906-1983), he was an Australian artist. He worked in the fields of painting, illustration and advertising. He is the only Aus...
Date: London, ca 1937
(Art déco gouache)
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The gouac...
Date: Paris, ca. 1930
Carte Geographique, Statistique et Historique du Bresil.
A nice detailed map of Brazil from Buchon's Atlas Gégraphique Statistique, historique et chronologique des deux Ameriques et des isles adjacentes traduit de l'atlas exécu...
Date: Paris, 1825
Vuë de l'ancien Palais d'hiver de sa Majesté Imperiale et du Canal qui Joint la Moika avec la Neva, a St. Petersburg.
So-called optical print illustrating a perspective view of St. Petersburg, namely the ancient Winter Palace and the canal which joins the Moika to the Neva.In the eightee...
Date: Paris, 1760
A ship's hour glass.
Maritime hourglass with blown glass bulbs, orange sand, junction ring covered with cord, the circular ebony frame with six turned baluster columns. The invention of the h...
Date: Germany, ca. 1750
Palermo.
Rare bird's-eye view of Palermo, the plan showing the city and harbor within the city walls, with the surrounding countryside, title and dedicatory verse set in elaborate...
Date: Seina, ca. 1600
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Imposita saxo Jacob cervice quiescens Aligeros scalas vidit imre choros. Gene[sis] 28
A superb example of this illustration showing a blind Isaac blessing Jacob. Copper engraving published in " Thesaurus sacrarum historiarum veteris testamenti, elegan...
Date: Antwerp, 1585
(upper sheets only) Asia According to the Sieur D'Anville Divided into its Empires, Kingdoms and States Showing the European Settlements in the East Indies and all the New Discoveries . . . 1772
Highly detailed map of Russia, including Turkey, China and Korea. Based on the cartography of the famous French cartographer Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d' Anville. Only th...
Date: London, 1772
(Art déco gouache)
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The gouac...
Date: Paris, ca. 1930
Plan de la rade de Macao (chine) Levé d'après les ordres mr. Rocquemaurel.
Very detailed chart of Macao and several of the surrounding Islands, and features numerous depth soundings throughout. Prepared by captain, Gaston de Rocquemaurel. Logo o...
Date: Paris, c.1856 / 1863
Beschrijving Gezicht van den Ykant af bezyden den Schreiers hoex Toren langs de Keulsche en Geldersche Kaei naer de Nieuwe Markt
This large engraving (560x920mm.) comes from a are series of 25 beautiful large views of Amsterdam and gives a colorful picture of the life and business of the city at th...
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1720
