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Grande Capucine. Tropaeolum majus. L.
Indian cress or monks cress, engraving by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch born Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "Fleurs dessinées...
Date: Paris, c.1800
Globe Terrestre Didié et Présénté a Monseigneur le Comté Maubec de Brancas...
A rare terrestrial globe dated 1741. Complete title "Globe Terrestre Didié et Présénté a Monseigneur le Comté Maubec de Brancas Par Jacque Hardy. Dres...
Date: Paris, dated 1741
Vue générale d'Amsterdam.
A so-called optical prints, showing Amsterdam seen from the IJ. A lively scene with extensive shipping. To the left the headquarters of the V.O.C., nowadays the Maritime ...
Date: Paris, ca. 1750
Imperii Sinarum nova descriptio.
Schenk and Valk's rare early 18th century issue of Janssonius milestone map of China, Korea and Japan after Martino Martini. Engraved by Johannes van Loon. The overall ba...
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1720
![[ Original Chinese advertising poster for ] Coat Clark British company.](/uploads/cache/45080-250x250.jpg)
[ Original Chinese advertising poster for ] Coat Clark British company.
This poster, an advertisement for Coat Clark British company from the 1930s, melds the meticulous detail of traditional Chinese painting with the craft of color lithograp...
Date: Shanghai, 1934
Het West Indisch Huys.
A decorative print of the West Indian House , the headquarters of the WIC, a place for meeting, trading and storage of spices and ship equipment. The maps and charts were...
Date: Amsterdam, J. van Meurs, 1663
Text page with Kings, Queens, Saints and Popes. Sexta Etas Mundi. Folium. CXVI.
Recto verso text page with woodcuts of Kings, Queens, Saints (St.Cecilia), Popes and historical personalities. Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous ...
Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
![Rama. [Ramah]](/uploads/cache/30789-250x250.jpg)
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
Leisnig.
Very decorative and rare panoramic town view of Leisnig a.d. Freiberger Mulde.The engraver and publisher of prints, Mrs. Anna Beek of the Hague, enlarged the print and m...
Date: The Hague, ca. 1642
6e Vüe d'Optique Représentant Le Chœur de la Cathedrale de St. Paul de Londres.
So-called optical print illustrating a perspective view of the interior of the Saint Paul Cathedral in London.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many p...
Date: Paris, 1760
St Tropez.
Early plan of St.Tropez. From his "Introduction à la fortification".
Date: Paris, 1693
(Des Galeres - Shipping scene)
Miniature view of a vessel, showing the various types of sails. With key list in upper left corner.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers.. (5 volumes), 16...
Date: Paris, 1683
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[ Indian accessories ].
Aquatint depicting Indian accessories engraved by Gallina. Plate N°49.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de la milice,...
Date: Milan, 1827
Ce que les Anglo-Saxons ont perdu en Extrême-Orient.
Illustrated Vichy propaganda War & Propaganda poster showing a map of South East Asia, with Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, etc., among photos and explanations abou...
Date: Paris, 1943
Carte routière de l'Indochine. Des kilomètres en sécurité sur Goodrich.
Advertising poster for the brand Goodrich, showing a map of Indochina.Goodrich Corporation is a former American company specializing in civil and military aeronautical eq...
Date: Paris, ca 1934
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[ Niagara Falls ]
Two aquatints depicting the Horse Shoe Fall (also known as Canadian Falls at the top) and the Fort Schloper Fall (bottom) engraved by Biasolé. From Giulio Ferrario's wor...
Date: Milan, 1827
![[ William Penn's treaty with the Indians in 1681 ].](/uploads/cache/27555-250x250.jpg)
[ William Penn's treaty with the Indians in 1681 ].
Aquatint depicting William Penn's treaty with the Indians in 1681, after a painting by Benjamin West.William Penn (October 14, 1644 - July 30, 1718) was founder and "...
Date: Milan, 1827
Neapolis.
A rare panoramic of Naples with over the whole length of the lower part 3 columns of poems in Latin, Dutch and French.Published by Dancker Danckerts (1634-1666).
Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Languedoc - Foix Roussillon.
Very decorative, informative map of Languedoc - Foix Roussillon region in south eastern France. Including the towns of Carcassonne, Montpellier, Albi, Toulouse, etc.The m...
Date: France, 1943
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
Ruremunda Gelriae opp.
A bird's eye town-plan of the town of Roermond. From the first Dutch translation of Guicciardini's description of the Netherlands.
Date: Amsterdam, 1612
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Stampalia. [Map of Astypalaia]
Very rare map of the Greek island Astypalaia. The island is known in Italian as Stampalia. Published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. P...
Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598
Urbium Londini et West-Monasterii nec non Surburbii Southwark Accurata Ichnographia ,., Neuester Grundris der Staedte London und West-Munster, Samt der Vorstadt Southwark ,.,
Detailed plan of London, extending from Grosvenor Square in the west to Mile End to the east, To the right inset views of St, James's Square, and Custom House, elevations...
Date: Nuremberg, 1736
Inverted nautical Compass, called "mouchard" (~ "spy")
Inverted maritime compass called "mouchard" (spy) in wood and brass, signed "A Van Vastenhoud In Amsterdam". This type of compass was found in the cap...
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1780
Carte de la Coste d'Arabie.
Uncommon issue of this very nice map of the Arabian peninsula. Depicted is Saudi Arabia, Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.With French text in title cartouche and an additiona...
Date: Amsterdam, 1773
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 d...
Date: London, 1798
Deutschlands Postkarte begraenzt von Oesterreich, Preussen, Frankreich, Holland, Italien und der Schweiz. . .
A detailed and crucial post-road map prepared by Ignaz Heymann. The map shows the Low Countries, Germany, Poland, Austria, Hungary, etc.Borders in original outline colo...
Date: Triest, 1800
Vue perspective edu fauxbourg et du port de Scheveningue a une lieue de la Haye, en Hollande.
Optical print showing the village and harbor of Scheveningen with the church at the right, in the background the North Sea. In the background, the summer residence Nieuw ...
Date: Paris, ca. 1750
Arabia
A lovely miniature map the Arabian Peninsular, published by Petrus Bertius, and published in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century. With an attractive s...
Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Indonesia.
Original vintage travel advertising issued by the Indonesian Council for Tourism featuring a colorful pictorial map marking the islands and oceans with images of local pe...
Date: Jakarta, ca. 1955
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
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&...
Date: Zürich, 1845
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 T...
Date: Wien, 1818
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...
Date: Venise, 1803
By the Dawn's Early Light.
Original 1940's WW II American liberation poster by Natacha Carlu, published by the French Press & Information Service, New York, N. Y.The poster shows a torch-bearin...
Date: New York, French press and information service, 1945
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 there were many ...
Date: Paris, 1760
Carte de la Mer Rouge, depuis Moka jusqu's Gedda. . . .
Chart of the Red Sea. With 3 inset maps of Shake Omare, Goofs and Gedan. D'Après De Mannevillette (1707-1780) was one of France's first hydrographers. When the first edi...
Date: Paris, 1753
Arabia.
Steel engraved map of the Arabian Peninsular. It shows Arabia and Parts of Persia, Syria and Kurdistan. The regional boundaries are colored and relief shown by hachures. ...
Date: London, 1841
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[ Mexican weapons ].
Aquatint depicting Mexican weapons engraved by DKB. Plate N°65.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de la milice, de la ...
Date: Milan, 1827
![[ Hieroglyph representing the Cihuacohuat Goddess ].](/uploads/cache/27578-250x250.jpg)
[ Hieroglyph representing the Cihuacohuat Goddess ].
Aquatint depicting a hieroglyph representing the Cihuacohuat Goddess engraved by DKB. Plate N°68.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du ...
Date: Milan, 1827
![[Text page with Kings and historical personalities.] Quita etas mundi. Foliu. LXXXIII](/uploads/cache/26874-250x250.jpg)
[Text page with Kings and historical personalities.] Quita etas mundi. Foliu. LXXXIII
Text page with woodcuts of Kings and historical personalities.Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Nuremberg Chronicle, published the year that Columb...
Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
![[ Map of the island Nexos]](/uploads/cache/45289-250x250.jpg)
[ Map of the island Nexos]
Very rare map of the island Naxos published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. Per Mare, e per Terra, & infieme quello di Terra Santa...
Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598
![[A magnificent 18 inch. (46 cm.) diameter celestial globe] URANOGRAPHIA / SYDERUM ET STELLARUM / in Singulis Syderibus conspicuarum / exhibens Delineationem accuratissimam,](/uploads/cache/48959-250x250.jpg)
[A magnificent 18 inch. (46 cm.) diameter celestial globe] URANOGRAPHIA / SYDERUM ET STELLARUM / in Singulis Syderibus conspicuarum / exhibens Delineationem accuratissimam,
RARE FIRST STATE OF THIS CELESTIAL TABLE GLOBE, 46 cm in diameter, produced by Gerard and Leonard Valk at the beginning of the 18th century. The globe comprises of t...
Date: Amsterdam, 1711
Carte Réduite Des Côtes Orientales De L' Amérique Septentrionale Contenant Partie du Nouveau Jersey.. Virginie.. Georgie..
Uncommon chart that extends from Delaware Bay and Philadelphia south through much of Georgia to Island Amelia and St. Johns River. Fleur-de-lis and rhumb lines fill the s...
Date: Paris, 1778
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
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[ Chief Regolo ].
Aquatint depicting chief warriors engraved by G. G. Plate N°58.Cacique from the taíno word for the pre-Columbian tribal chiefs or leaders of the Taino tribes in the Bah...
Date: Milan, 1827
Calechut Celeberri mum Indiae Emporium/ Ormus/ Canonor, St.Georgii.
Four panoramic town-views on one sheet: The upper approximately two-thirds of this double-page sheet contains a fine panoramic view of Calicut which is on the west coast ...
Date: Cologne, 1580
Set of four continents.
Fine set of 4 continents prepared by Gerard Mercator. The general map of Europe, as well as Americae Pars, Greenland, Iceland, a Polar landmass, along with the mythical i...
Date: Amsterdam, 1628
The Russian Empire in Europe and Asia . . .
Detailed map of the whole of Russia, extending from Poland to the Pacific and from Nova Zembla to Tartaria.The map is of interest for the use of Corea Gulf for the sea be...
Date: London, 1790
(Art déco gouache)
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The g...
Date: Paris, ca. 1930
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
Carolinae Floridae nec non Insularum Bahamensium cum partibus adjacentibus delinatio ad Exemplar Londinense in lucem edita . . . Ao. 1755.
The German edition of this map of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands in full original colors. Published in Seligmann's "Sammlung verschiedener auslaendischer ...
Date: Nuremberg, 1755
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
![[Text page with Saint Appolonia, the patron saint of dentistry. - Sexta Etas Mundi. Folium. CXX ].](/uploads/cache/26526-250x250.jpg)
[Text page with Saint Appolonia, the patron saint of dentistry. - Sexta Etas Mundi. Folium. CXX ].
Text page with woodcuts of Abdon & Senen, Agatha, Appolonia, Serapion, Meniacus, Victoria. With a woodcut of Appolonia, the patron saint of dentistry. Because of the ...
Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Extract uyt de Resolutien, door de Vergadering der Heeren Zeventienen, van de Generale Nederlandsche O. I. Compagnie binnen Amsterdam, genomen op Woensdag den 2 April 1774.
Contains a list of resolutions dated from 2nd April 1774 and concerning health care. Boarding crew had to be examined by the ship's surgeon. People with illnesses were to...
Date: Amsterdam, 1751
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
Carte Geographique, Statistique et Historique du Perou.
A nice detailed map of Peru from Buchon's Atlas Gégraphique Statistique, historique et chronologique des deux Ameriques et des isles adjacentes traduit de l'atlas exécu...
Date: Paris, 1825
Key Map of Hong Kong Relative to Canton and Macao.
A nice folded map of Hong Kong and the surrounding areas. Produced by the British Crown Lands Survey Office just after WWII. Physical features are shown by contour. Railw...
Date: Hong Kong, 1948
Plan de Paris commencé l'année 1734, Dessiné et gravé sous les ordres de Messire Michel Etienne Turgot, prévost des marchands.
FIRST EDITION of Turgot's Monumental Joined View of Paris, stretching to over 10 Feet. This expansive large-scale engraved view of Paris covers the first eleven arrondis...
Date: Paris, 1739
Langley's New Travelling and Commercial Map . . .
A highly desirable, detailed and uncommon map of England and Wales, published by Langley and Belch. The map is flanked by a pair of large and detailed explanation tables,...
Date: London, 1817
La Penisola delle Indie di la' dal Gange con parte delle Isole della Sonda delineate sulle ultima osservazioni.
First edition on laid paper. Cassini’s splendid early map of Indochina, from Bangladesh in the west to central Borneo in the east, and southern China in the north, to B...
Date: Rome, 1797
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Vincula dura Joseph pro falso crimine perfert. Sed deus a falsa hunc suspicione leuat. Gene[sis] 40
A superb example of this illustration from the series of the Story of Joseph. Joseph in Jail.Copper engraving published in " Thesaurus sacrarum historiarum veteris t...
Date: Antwerp, 1585
(Shipping)
Finely etched depiction of a vessel, with a lettered key. With explanatory text on verso.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers.. (5 volumes), 1683. By All...
Date: Paris, 1683
Carte du Katay ou Empire de Kin. . .
The map is of interest for the use of Mer de Corée for the sea between Korea and Japan. Fine map of Korea and China's Yellow Sea. Complete title in top: Carte du Katay o...
Date: Paris, 1750
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
Plan de la Baie de L'Adventure. . .
A French maritime chart of Adventure Bay in S.E. Tasmania. Adventure Bay is the name of both a township and a geographical feature on the eastern side of Bruny Island. Th...
Date: Paris, ca 1807
Messageries Maritimes, sur tous les océans, pour tous les continents.
Original lithographed poster from the 1950s by Jean Desaleux. The poster has a blue background and a map of the continents and oceans. France is in the colors of the Mari...
Date: Paris, ca. 1950
Nova Germaniae Descriptio..
A finely engraved carte à figures, with the side borders depicting emperors, while the upper and lower panels contain finely engraved miniature town prospects, among the...
Date: Amsterdam, 1632
Iunan, Queichev, e Quangsi Provincie della Cina. . .
A beautiful map depicting the area of Beijing with decorative title cartouche and scale cartouche. Information about the area at the top of the map.The remarkable Vincenz...
Date: Venice, 1690
(Art-déco gouache)
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The g...
Date: Paris, ca. 1930
Plan du Port du Nord de la Baie de la Recherche.
A French maritime chart of the plan of the northern portion of Recherche Bay on the S.E. tip of Tasmania. The chart has some physical detail, outlining trees and hills, b...
Date: Paris, ca 1807
Aracam.
A rare miniature map of Thailand and Burma. Title cartouche on the upper left corner. First published in 1598 in his 'Caert-Thresoor', the plates were executed by the mos...
Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Carte de L'Isle de Caiene et de ses environs.
Uncommon edition of this accurate map of Cayenne. In lower right engraved "31."From Atlas Portatif pour servir a l'intelligence de l'Histoire Philosophique et P...
Date: Amsterdam, 1773
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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
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
24 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with flowers, vases and religious scenes.From the press of the leading Parisian publisher and illumi...
Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c.1520-1540
La pericolante ostinata. Papagallo No. 20 Anno II.
Design by Augusto Grossi. Taken from the Italian satirical newspaper Il Papagallo, a satirical magazine founded in January 1873 by Augusto Grossi (1835-1919), which speci...
Date: Bologne, 1874
![[Title page for] Atlas Minor de Guerard Mercator. . .](/uploads/cache/47933-250x250.jpg)
[Title page for] Atlas Minor de Guerard Mercator. . .
Title page from a 1608 French edition of the Atlas Minor (351:11). The title page is similar to that in the Latin edition of 1607, but a slip of paper with the engraved t...
Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Carte Geographique, Statistique et Historique de la Guyane.
A nice detailed map of Guyana from Buchon's Atlas Gégraphique Statistique, historique et chronologique des deux Ameriques et des isles adjacentes traduit de l'atlas exé...
Date: Paris, 1825
Harlekin en Bombario en den rouw.
Harlequin and Bombario in mourning, taken from Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid : vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der actie, bubbel en windnegotie, in Vra...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
![[Perspective print after J. Vredeman de Vries. ]](/uploads/cache/26445-250x250.jpg)
[Perspective print after J. Vredeman de Vries. ]
Engraving depicting the use of the vanishing point. From Les cinq rangs de l'architecture, a savoir, Tuscane, dorique, ionique, corinthiaque et composée avec l'instructi...
Date: The Hague, 1606