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![[ Chief Regolo ].](/uploads/cache/27568-250x250.jpg)
[ Chief Regolo ].
Aquatint depicting chief warriors engraved by G. G. Plate N°58.Cacique from the taÃno word for the pre-Columbian tribal chiefs or leaders of the Taino tribes in the Bah...
Date: Milan, 1827
Circoscrizione delle Provincie ecclesiastiche e Diocesi nei regni del Belgio, ed Olanda (Tav LXI)
This large-format map showing Belgium and Holland with its different dioceses. The map is finely engraved and beautifully colored and was prepared by Girolamo Petri, a la...
Date: Rome, 1858
Carte du Golfe de Bengale, mer des Indes et rivieres du Gange . . .
Detailed scare map of the Southern part of India with Ceylon. Good detail along the coasts of Malabar, Coromandel, the Maldives islands and the Kingdoms of Visipour, Golc...
Date: Leiden, 1719
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
Amsterdam Ville du Comté de Hollande et la plus considerable des Provinces Unies. . .
A very decorative and extremely rare town-view of Amsterdam, including a numbered (1-18) key in lower part. Extensive shipping on the IJ. To the left the headquarters of ...
Date: Paris, ca.1750
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
Grand atlas universel ou collection de cartes encyprotypes, générales et détaillées des cinq parties du monde.
Large folio atlas containing 8 general one-sheet maps, and 8 detailed four-sheet maps: Containing2 World maps- "Mappe-monde sur la projection de Mercator. Carte ency...
Date: Paris, Desray, 1816
Aux buttes Chaumont.
Chromo lithographed poster, "Aux buttes Chaumont.", by CHERET, J. Plate 141, published in Maître 17, on April 1898. The "Les Maîtres de l'Affiche" c...
Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, April 1898
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 Un...
Date: Rome, January 17, 1892
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
![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
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
St Tropez.
Early plan of St.Tropez. From his "Introduction à la fortification".
Date: Paris, 1693
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
A New Map of Asia from the latest Observations Most Humbly Inscrib'd to the Right Honbl. George Earl of Warrington &c.
Fine map of Asia, with decorative title cartouche flanked by two figures in Asian dress, along with flora and fauna of the continent., based on the work of Guillaume De L...
Date: London, 1721
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
Indian painting on paper.
Fine miniature, presenting a couple in love making position, set in an interior. The miniature has been painted in India in late 19th - early 20th century. The miniature ...
Date: India, ca. 1900
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
Arabiae Felicis, petrae et desertae.
A very striking map with a finely decorated title cartouche, published by Valk & Schenk, utilizing Jansson's original plate. Interestingly, this map uses the names th...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
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
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
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
![Rodi [View of Rhodes]](/uploads/cache/45236-250x250.jpg)
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
Volume III of the monumental atlas, ‘L’Orbe Cattolico ossia Atlante Geografico Storico Ecclesiastico’.
PETRI Girolamo's extremely rare Atlas volume III of the monumental atlas, ‘L’Orbe Cattolico ossia Atlante Geografico Storico Ecclesiastico’, respectively depictin...
Date: Rome, 1858
![Figure 27 deuxieme partie a gauche.. [Hors riding].](/uploads/cache/14160-250x250.jpg)
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
Huile de Calamite.
Oil to heal all ailments, only distributed by François Giramo, who alone owns the secret. Surrounded by a decorative border and the Royal coat-of-arms.With privilege of ...
Date: France, c.1790
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
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 Belg...
Date: Brussels, ca. 1970
Peregrinatie Jesu Christu Een ordentliche beschrijvinge des Heijligen landts....
Very rare separately map of the Holy Land engraved by Joannes van Doetecum Jr. Oriented to the east. The shoreline runs from "Antaradus" in Syria to "Rhino...
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1595
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
![Amerique Septentrionale divisée en ses principales parties. . .1685. [California as an Island]](/uploads/cache/60628-250x250.jpg)
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
Nova Virginia Tabula.
A beautifully engraved map, derived from the highly influential map by Captain John Smith in 1612, showing Chesapeake Bay and the surrounding area. The decoration of this...
Date: Amsterdam, J.Meurs, 1671
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
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
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
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-flourish...
Date: France, 1370
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
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 appoi...
Date: Venice, 1700
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
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 exé...
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
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
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
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 i...
Date: Paris, 1877
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 — ПÐ...
Date: Moscow, 1986
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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
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
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
Prospect des Rossmarcktes zu Statin - Vue du Marché aux Cheveaux a Stettin.
Rare so-called optical print illustrating the Horse market of Stettin in Poland. Engraved by F. Riedel. The Academie Imperiale was a well-known publisher of optical print...
Date: Augsburg, 1760
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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
![[Florida Indian cooking ].](/uploads/cache/27561-250x250.jpg)
[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 m...
Date: Milan, 1827
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
The bird called 'Eeme' and other creatures of India.
Especially on the island of Java and in India, a strange bird called an 'Eeme' is found. It is almost as large as an ostrich with strong and sturdy legs, but it has no to...
Date: Frankfurt, 1598
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
![Terre de Diemen. Tombeaux des naturels. [plate XVI]](/uploads/cache/46279-250x250.jpg)
Terre de Diemen. Tombeaux des naturels. [plate XVI]
An aboriginal campfire, near the ruins of an old wooden fence, and a dead tree, after the original sketches by Lesueur, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes b...
Date: Paris, 1824
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, re...
Date: Rome, 1797
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
![[Set of two maps showing world in Mercator projection, with Ottoman script]](/uploads/cache/44328-250x250.jpg)
[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 : عمومولاياةÙ...
Date: Istanbul, 1325 or 1909
(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
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 meuilleu...
Date: Venice, 1784
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
![Actualites. [News]](/uploads/cache/46547-250x250.jpg)
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
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 dow...
Date: Rome, 1798
![Loandas St.Paulo [Luanda]](/uploads/cache/48500-250x250.jpg)
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 ci...
Date: Amsterdam, c. 1685-1690
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
![[ First Separate Map of Michigan Territory ] Geographical, statistical, and historical map of Michigan territory.](/uploads/cache/25931-250x250.jpg)
[ First Separate Map of Michigan Territory ] Geographical, statistical, and historical map of Michigan territory.
The map illustrates Michigan Territory and the so-called "Indian Line" shortly after the Treaty of Chicago (1821), the third of three treaties with the Native A...
Date: Philadelphia, 1822
![[A Chinese vessel ] Naves Chinensibus usitatae velis arundineis & anchoris ligneis.](/uploads/cache/29498-250x250.jpg)
[A Chinese vessel ] Naves Chinensibus usitatae velis arundineis & anchoris ligneis.
Showing a Chinese vessel, print taken from Linschoten's famous voyages to the East of 1583-92, here published by De Bry the year after they first appeared as a separate b...
Date: Frankfurt, 1599
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
![Figure 38 troisieme partie. [Hors riding]](/uploads/cache/14164-250x250.jpg)
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
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
(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
(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
![Imposita saxo Jacob cervice quiescens Aligeros scalas vidit imre choros. Gene[sis] 28](/uploads/cache/47690-250x250.jpg)
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
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
Recueil de cartes géographiques pour la description de l'Indostan . . .
First French edition, the maps revised by Jean Nicholas Buache. The English original edition was published in London in 1783 by Brown under the title "Memoir of a ...
Date: Paris, Poignée, an VIII = 1800
(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
L'Arabia delineata sulle ultime osservazioni.
First edition on laid paper. Cassini’s splendid early map of Arabia.
Date: Rome, 1797
![[Voyage en Suisse / Reise die Schweiz.]](/uploads/cache/48396-250x250.jpg)
[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
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
