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Le Japon.
The map is of interest for the use of Mer de Corée, for the sea between Korea and Japan. Small detailed map of Japan and Korea. Dated 1749. A note next to island "...
Date: Paris, 1749
L'Inde de la le Gange, suivant les nouvelles observations...
Uncommon edition of this map of Malaysia, Thailand, Indo China and the Northern parts of the islands of Sumatra and Borneo. Singapore marked as Sincapour. With decorative...
Date: Amsterdam, 1728
Candie.
A panoramic view, showing the Turkish siege of Candia, with a numbered key (1-33) at the bottom locating 33 points of interest. of Crete coast and the Turkish vessels (33...
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1678
Carte du Siège Présidial Dax... Nouvellement Deseignee Par le...
Very rare map including Bayonne and Dax in the southwest of France. With inset plan of "Plan de la ville Dax.". With the address "Chez F. Dela Pointe sur l...
Date: Paris, 1638
![Nouvelle-Hollande: Nelle. Galles du sud - Navigation. [plate XXIII]](/uploads/cache/46345-250x250.jpg)
Nouvelle-Hollande: Nelle. Galles du sud - Navigation. [plate XXIII]
An aboriginal camp fire, with a pirogue and two men navigating , after the original sketches by Lesueur, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François Péron...
Date: Paris, 1824
La Dépêche Grand Format.
Chromo lithographed poster of Les Maîtres de l'Affiche being plate n°140. The "Les Maîtres de l'Affiche" contained 256 small for lithographic prints of the best...
Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, 1898
![Les Forbans [Board game]](/uploads/cache/49165-250x250.jpg)
Les Forbans [Board game]
Game board designed by Lucien Boucher, without any randomness, which is rare for that time. The board which is cut in four parts show a world map drawn by Lucien Boucher....
Date: Paris, Perceval, ca. 1950
A plat of the East Sea. By William Fisher and Richard Mount...
An important sea chart of the East Sea with coast lines of Poland, Russia, Sweden, published by William Fisher and Richard Mount in London.Richard Mount (1654-1722) was a...
Date: London, 1695
Tercia Etas Mundi. Folium. XXXVII
The Latin text page is illustrated with a depictions of Kings, Noble men and women and scientists. Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Nuremberg Chro...
Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
![[Title page] Les plans et profils de toutes les principales villes et lieux considerables de France . . .](/uploads/cache/48026-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Les plans et profils de toutes les principales villes et lieux considerables de France . . .
Title page of the first part of the atlas "Les plans et profils de toutes les principales villes et lieux considerables de France", by Nicolas Tassin.Nicolas Ta...
Date: Paris, 1634
Inferior Germania.
A rare miniature map of present-day The Netherlands and Belgium. Strap-work title cartouche in the lower right corner with scale. Expertly engraved by Petrus Kaerius, the...
Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Prospectus Castelli Boxtel.
One of the earliest views of the Castle of Boxtel. Engraved by Henricus Cause. With a description in Latin, French and Dutch.
Date: Amsterdam, 1695
Hollandia Comitatus.
1647 BLAEU,W. - The County of Holland by Holland's foremost map publisher from the Golden Age of Dutch cartography.
Date: Amsterdam, 1647
Arcenal de l'Amirauté.
A decorative print of the 'T Landts Magazyn , or 'Scheepvaart Museum' (Naval Museum).
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1700
Carte de la Nouvelle France, ou se voit le cours des Grandes Rivieres de S. Laurens & de Mississipi..
Derived from de Fer's 1718 map, from west of the Mississippi it contains a mass of inland detail with notes and vignettes of the indigenous peoples and fauna of North Ame...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Het! (Nyet! No!).
Original vintage Soviet propaganda poster - Het! (Nyet! No!) - featuring a great illustration of a US space shuttle circling the earth and leaving a trail in the shape of...
Date: Russia, 1985
Pascaert van Engelant Van t'Voorlandt tot aen Blakeney waer in te sien is de mont vande Teemse.
Two charts on one sheet. One decorative sea chart of the southeast coast of England with an inset of the Thames till London, embellished with two title cartouches, a ship...
Date: Amsterdam, 1666
.Tabu nova partis Aphri.
This is Laurent Fries' 1535 edition of the earliest acquirable modern mapping of Africa north of the Equator.Based on Waldseemüller's map. The maps show Northern Africa a...
Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1535
The Crimea by James Wyld Geographer to the Queen & H.R.H. Prince Albert.
Fourth edition of this folding map of the Crimea. In upper right corner an inset map of the areas around the Black Sea; "The Town & Harbor of Sevastopol with the...
Date: London, 1855
![Recueil de costumes. Imagini degl'abiti con cui Va uestita la Nobiltà della Serenis.ma Republica di Venezia. Suivi de: [Augsburger Kleidertrachten].](/uploads/cache/48425-250x250.jpg)
Recueil de costumes. Imagini degl'abiti con cui Va uestita la Nobiltà della Serenis.ma Republica di Venezia. Suivi de: [Augsburger Kleidertrachten].
Imagini degl'abiti con cui Va uestita la Nobiltà della Serenis.ma Republica di Venezia. Dedicate all'Illmo et Ecc.mo Sig.r Andrea da Leze Degnis.mo Proc.tor di S: Marco. ...
Date: Venezia, Ragheno, 1702 / Augsbourg, J. Wolff, ca. 1715
![Donna dell' Isola d' Erramanga una delle nuove Ebridi nel Mar Pacifico. / Femme de l'Isle d'Erramanga une des nouvelles Hebrides dans la Mer Pacifique. [Vanuatu]](/uploads/cache/26396-250x250.jpg)
Donna dell' Isola d' Erramanga una delle nuove Ebridi nel Mar Pacifico. / Femme de l'Isle d'Erramanga une des nouvelles Hebrides dans la Mer Pacifique. [Vanuatu]
Full portrait of a woman, native of the island of Erramanga in the New Hebrides, officially the New Hebrides Condominium, the colonial name for the island group in the So...
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
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...
Date: Amsterdam, 1645
Uomo della nuova Caledonia Isola del Mar Pacifico. / Homme de la nouvelle Calédonie Isle dans la Mer Pacifique.
Full portrait of a native 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
![[ View of an inn and a horse carriage. ].](/uploads/cache/27552-250x250.jpg)
[ View of an inn and a horse carriage. ].
Aquatint depicting a view of an inn and a horse carriage engraved by Fumagalli. Plate N°44.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvern...
Date: Milan, 1827
(Fragment of a text leaf from Universal Chronicle)
Fragment of a text leaf, showing a miniature depicting two Kings who are greeting each other surrounded by their knights. The metal cut has contemporary hand coloring and...
Date: Paris, c.1490-1500
To Quoc Viet Nam Giau Va Dep (Vietnam).
Economic map of Vietnam published in 1976.Features Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and part of Thailand. With a key referring to agricultural productions and fauna…The map shows ...
Date: Hanoï, 1976
![Nouvelle-Hollande: Ile King. - L'Eléphant -marin ou Phoque à trompe. [plate XXXII]](/uploads/cache/46354-250x250.jpg)
Nouvelle-Hollande: Ile King. - L'Eléphant -marin ou Phoque à trompe. [plate XXXII]
Plate illustrating seals by Lesueur, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François Péron, 1824.The French expedition under Nicolas Baudin, was commissioned ...
Date: Paris, 1824
Compania General De Tabacos De Filipinas - (Certificate) Accion ordinarias de 500 Pesetas, Barcelona, 27.10.1969.
Beautifully engraved certificate from the Compania General De Tabacos De Filipinas issued in 1985. This historic document has an ornate border around it with a vignette o...
Date: Barcelona, 1969
Kaerte en Afbeeldinge vande Geheele Jurisdictie van Stantdarbuyten Gelegen in de Generaliteit onder Marquisaet van Bergen op den Zoom
With a large title cartouche with signature of the maker Adriaan van der Ende, : Kaerte en Afbeeldinge vande Geheele Jurisdictie van Stantdarbuyten Gelegen in de Generali...
Date: Willemstad, 1737
Rotterdamse Diergaarde. . .
Decorative view of the Zoo of Rotterdam. To the right is the house of the zoo's manager. Decorated with personages in typical dress watching lions.
Date: Amsterdam, 1860
De kornet van vuil gewin of wortel en besse postiljon op zyn mager, doch niewlyks gemest varken uitschreewende de kompany is vol.
Page taken from "Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid : vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der actie, bubbel en windnegotie, in Vrankryk, Engeland, en de Ne...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
(Index sheet) General Tableau zur Karte von Alt Ost und West Preussen nebst dem aufgenommenen Trigonometrischen Netz. . .
Index sheet of this important multi-sheet map of Prussia, Lithuania, and Poland.Section XXIV of the rare first edition of this important 25-sheet map prepared by Friedric...
Date: Berlin, 1802-1810
![Vue de l'Isle d'Ulietéa avec une double Pirogue et un hangar où les Insulaires retirent leurs bâtiments de mer. [Tome III Pl. 5.]](/uploads/cache/26106-250x250.jpg)
Vue de l'Isle d'Ulietéa avec une double Pirogue et un hangar où les Insulaires retirent leurs bâtiments de mer. [Tome III Pl. 5.]
A view on the Island of Ulietea, French Polynesia, of a dugout boat house and a beautifully engraved pirogue at sea. From the French edition of James Cook's first voyage ...
Date: Paris, 1773
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A very fine antiphonary leaf, written in Latin , probably Rome. RECTO: The staves are in red and the notes in black.VERSO: Tw wonderful initial ,A and O, decorated with p...
Date: Italy, 1480
![[Tahitian tools ].](/uploads/cache/26378-250x250.jpg)
[Tahitian tools ].
Aquatint depicting a variety of Tahitian tools engraved by Rivelanti. Plate N° 85. From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, ...
Date: Milan, 1827
![[The French left in Fort Charles suffer the scarcity of provisions. (Virginia]](/uploads/cache/48529-250x250.jpg)
[The French left in Fort Charles suffer the scarcity of provisions. (Virginia]
An Indian town visited by the French of Charlesfort in search for food. After a drawing by LeMoyne. Charlesfort-Santa Elena is on what is now Parris Island, South Carolin...
Date: Frankfurt, 1594
![[Tahitian warrior dugouts ].](/uploads/cache/26377-250x250.jpg)
[Tahitian warrior dugouts ].
Aquatint depicting a view of Tahitian warrior dugouts engraved by Fumagalli. Plate N° 86. From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvern...
Date: Milan, 1827
Ormus. (Hormuz)
This very interesting early engraving shows the ships of the Dutchman Van den Broecke, who in December 1628 left his directorship in Surat. Before returning to Batavia he...
Date: Amsterdam, F. Bernard, 1725
Carte d'Europe divisée en ses Empires et Royaumes.
Uncommon and decorative wall map of Europe, prepared by Clouet. Superb decoration including a wonderful rococo border with vignettes describing historical scenes. Below t...
Date: Paris, Mondhare, 1788
Pas-Caart van de Oost Zee verthooende alle de ghelegenheydt tusschen t Eylandt Rugen ende Wyborg. . .
An eye-catching chart of the Baltic Sea. Engraved by Gerard Coeck.Pieter Goos (ca. 1616-1675) was one of the most important cartographers, engravers, publishers and print...
Date: Amsterdam, 1666
Ambassades mémorables de la Compagnie des Indes orientales des Provinces Unies vers les empereurs du Japon.
First edition in French of this important work on Japan, a work whose illustrations "represent a high-water mark in book illustrations of the 17th century" (Lac...
Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Carte de la Baie des Chiens-Marins (Shark's Bay de Dampier). . .
A strikingly detailed chart of a portion of the coastline of Western Australia, titled 'Carte de la Baie des Chiens-Marins, which William Dampier also explored. The chart...
Date: Paris, 1807
Florentia Pulcherrima et Ruriae Civitas.
Detailed bird's-eye view of the town of Florence in Tuscany region, first published in Frederick de Wit's rare town book. With two keys 1-17 and 1-228 to important spots ...
Date: Amsterdam, Leiden, 1697 / 1729
(Art déco gouache)
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The goua...
Date: Paris, ca. 1930
Rerum per octennium in Brasilia Et alibi nuper gestarum, Sub Praefectura Illustrissimi Comitis I. Mauritii, Nassoviae, (...) Historia.
First edition. Commissioned by Johan Maurits van Nassau (governor of Brazil between 1636-1644 and founder of "Mauritsstad" (present-day Recife)) and illustrated...
Date: Amsterdam, J. Blaeu, 1647
Portrait de George Washington.
Portrait of the first president of the United States of America.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume ancien et moderne ou histoire du gouvernement, de la milice, de la ...
Date: Milan 1827
![Vue de l'Isle d'Huaheine avec La Maison de Dieu, et un petit Autel couvert d'offrandes. [Tome III Pl. 4.]](/uploads/cache/26108-250x250.jpg)
Vue de l'Isle d'Huaheine avec La Maison de Dieu, et un petit Autel couvert d'offrandes. [Tome III Pl. 4.]
A view of the Island of Huaheine, Tahiti, a beautiful tropical Owharra tree in the foreground and a depiction of the House of God with its offertory. From the French edit...
Date: Paris, 1773
![[Easter Island inhabitants ].](/uploads/cache/26375-250x250.jpg)
[Easter Island inhabitants ].
Aquatint depicting 2 portraits of Easter Island inhabitants and 2 men rowing in a pirogue. Engraved by Carlo Bottigella. Plate N° 88. From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costu...
Date: Milan, 1827
Inde.
Decorative poster advertising flights to India made by Georges Mathieu. The poster is one of a series of 15 composed of posters of Greece, Israel, Germany, Great Britain,...
Date: Paris, 1967
Oriens, Persia, India etc.
Uncommon map of Persia, Armenia, Arabian Peninsular and part of India. Prepared by Christoph Cellarius (1638-1707). From Geographia Antiqua...
Date: Leipzig, Gledisch, 1732
Kaart van een gedeelte van de Noord Kust van Java en Straat Sunda van Tanjong Kaik tot den vierden hoek bij Anjer..
Very large and rare chart depicting Java's northern seacoast.Coastal profiles are present at the bottom of the map.The chart is prepared by B.H.Staring, J.A.G.Rietveld an...
Date: Amsterdam 1843-1844
Quartum Praelium Coniovian inter et Fluvium Rio Grande XVII Ian
Decorative engraving of the fourth sea battle with the Portuguese fleet offshore at the Rio Grande, in1640. Engraved by J. van Brosterhuyzen after a design by Frans J. Po...
Date: Joannes Blaeu, Amsterdam 1647
Habillement de l'Empereur de la Chine & des Dames de son Palais..
This impressive engraving is a wonderful example of Chatelain’s elegant plates.Divided in 3 panels, showing examples of costumes of Chinese ladies and those of the king o...
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1728
Contado di Zelanda..
A most attractive and decorative map by Vincenzo Coronelli. An elaborate title cartouche garlanded with intertwined flowers and dedicated to Vincenzo Caualli. The remarka...
Date: Venice 1692
Art déco gouache with winter scene.
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The goua...
Date: Paris, ca. 1930
Provincia ecclesiastica di Malines nel Belgio (Tav LXII)
This large-format map of Belgium with its different dioceses. The map is finely engraved and beautifully colored and was prepared by Girolamo Petri, a lawyer who served a...
Date: Rome, 1858
KOUSHI NYUJO no Zu - HANABUSA Legation enters in Palace, Seoul.
A scene of Japanese legation HANABUSA who are entering the Royal Palace, Seoul.
Date: August 8, MEIJI 27th year or 1894
Russian Empire in Europe from the Dr. D'Anville of the Royal Academy. . .
Rare map of Russia, prepared by John Bayly (active 1755-1794) after D'Anville. In the lower-left corner parts of the Caspian and Black Sea. In the upper right corner Nova...
Date: London, ca. 1782
Freti Magellanici ac novi Freti vulgo Le Maire. . .
A fine map of Tierra del Fuego. With an explanatory text of the passage by Barent Jansz. Potgieter, who accompanied Captain Sebald de Weert to the Straits in 1599/1600, w...
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1633
Air France dans tous les ciels.
Original lithograph advertising poster for Air France, by Badia Vilato Xavier. Signed in the upper right corner. The poster has always occupied a special place in Air Fra...
Date: Imprimerie Perceval, Paris, 1951
t'Oost-Indisch-Huys.
A decorative print of the East Indian House, the headquarters of the V.O.C., a place for meeting, trading and storage of spices and ship equipment. The maps and charts we...
Date: Amsterdam, 1760-1767
Het Friessche Doolhoff, het beruchte dorp Molk-Worren
Uncommon map made in 1718 by Johannes Hilarides, principal at the Latin School in Bolsward.. Probably the only printed plan of a Frisian village of that time. The map was...
Date: Amsterdam, 1705
Voyage of his majesty’s ship Alceste, along the Coast of Corea, to the island of Lewchew, with an account of her subsequent shipwreck, by John M’LEOD. Surgeon of the Alceste.
The second and best edition, with a frontispiece portrait of Captain Maxwell and five fine hand-colored aquatint plates, including a plate not present in the first editio...
Date: London, John Murray, 1818
Terrae Yemen Maxima Pars, seu Imperii Imami, Principatus Kaukeban nec non ditionum Haschid u Bekil, Nehhm, Chaulan, Abu Arisch et Aden Tabula ...
South-west Arabia, with the Saudi Arabian city of Jizan south to Aden. With a fine title, cartouche. Based on a map by Carsten Niebuhr. With the name Sinus Arabicus Mare ...
Date: Augsbourg, 1774
Governo di Venezia / Provincia di Udine.
Very finely engraved and detailed map of the area of Udine, with Trieste in lower right corner. Lower left corner an inset plan of Trieste : upper right corner, an inset ...
Date: Rome, 1860
![Manila the perl of the Orient. Guide book to the intending visitor [with several photos and 3 plans of Manila]](/uploads/cache/48356-250x250.jpg)
Manila the perl of the Orient. Guide book to the intending visitor [with several photos and 3 plans of Manila]
Charming 1908 Guide book to with several photos and 3 folding plans of Manilla. Published by the "Manila merchants' association", directed by O'Connell, Daniel....
Date: Manilla, 1908
Campagne du Roi de Prusse de 1778 Ã 1779.
The book is illustrated with a two-sheet folding map "Carte d'une partie du Royaume de Bohême et de la Moravie ainsi que d'une partie de la Silésie". Prepared b...
Date: Geneva, Paris, Mérigot le jeune, 1784
Harper's, March.
Chromo lithographed poster of Les Maîtres de l'Affiche being plate n°20. The "Les Maîtres de l'Affiche" contained 256 small for lithographic prints of the best ...
Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, 1896
AUSTRALIE
Detailed folding maps of Australia. In upper left corner "Atlas Universal" and in upper right corner "Carte 78".In lower left "Dessiné: le trait ...
Date: Paris, ca. 1930
Pan.
Chromo lithographed poster of Les Maitres de l'Affiche n°67. The "Les Maitres de l'Affiche" contained 256 small for lithographic prints of the best posters of t...
Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, 1896
La Reine de la chine.
Very rare and decorative costume plate. In the background : Palais Royal Peking. Beneath the plate a descriptive text about the Queen of China.Bears the address : Se vend...
Date: Paris, ca. 1685
Carte du Golfe de Bengale, Mer de Indes, et Riviere du Gange, Avec les Pais et Iles d'alentour, Savoir les Cotes de Malabar, Cormandel, Ile de Ceylon, Les Maldives . . .
Detailed 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, Golconda, ...
Date: Leiden, 1719
First annual exhibition in the United States . . .
Chromo lithographed poster of Les Maîtres de l'Affiche being plate n°112. The "Les Maîtres de l'Affiche" contained 256 small for lithographic prints of the best...
Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, 1898
General-Karte der sichtbaren Seite der Mond-oberflaeche zugleich als Übersichts-Blatt zur grössern Mondkarte von Wilh. Beer und Joh: Heinr. Mädler.
An early representation of the viewable surface of the moon by Johann Heinrich Mädler (1794-1874) and Wilhelm Beer (1797-1850).Ignoring the occasional pre-telescopic app...
Date: Berlin, 1837
![[Title page] De Praecipuis, Totius Universi Urbibus, Liber Secundus.](/uploads/cache/47934-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] De Praecipuis, Totius Universi Urbibus, Liber Secundus.
Allegorical title page, from Volume 2 of Braun & Hogenberg's Civitatus Orbis Terrarum.At the top are figures representing Religion and Politics, placed on either side...
Date: Cologne, 1582
Division du Globe Terrestre par zones.. - Correspondance du Globe Terrestre avec la situation des habitants du monde.
A charming representation of various planetary models and systems according to the latest mathematical and scientific schemes of the day.From Le Nouveau et Curieux Atlas ...
Date: Paris, 1719
![Donna dell' Isola di Tanna, una delle nuove Ebridi nel Mar Pacifico. / Femme de l' Isle de Tanna, une des nouvelles Hebrides dans la Mer Pacifique. [Vanuatu]](/uploads/cache/26398-250x250.jpg)
Donna dell' Isola di Tanna, una delle nuove Ebridi nel Mar Pacifico. / Femme de l' Isle de Tanna, une des nouvelles Hebrides dans la Mer Pacifique. [Vanuatu]
Full portrait of a woman, a native from the island of Mallico in the New Hebrides, officially the New Hebrides Condominium, the colonial name for the island group in the ...
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
Donna dell' Isola di S.a Cristina una delle Marchesi nel Mar del Sud. / Femme de l' Isle de S.e Christine une des Marquises dans la Mer du Sud.
Full portrait of a woman from the Saint Christina Island. A rare engraving from "Raccolata di stampe ... di varie nazioni". From the original drawing by William...
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
Mer de Chine - Detroit De Singapour Partie Comprise Entre Singaour et Le Dett. De Malacca d'apres les travaux du Commr. J.W. Reed de la Marine Royale d'Angleterr...
Mer de Chine - Detroit De Singapour Partie Comprise Entre Singaour et Le Dett. De Malacca d'apres les travaux du Commr. J.W. Reed de la Marine Royale d'Angleterr, execute...
Date: London, 1871
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
Leaf from a mid 15 th. century manuscript Book of Hours. Written on vellum in neat Gothic book hand.VERSO: 17 lines of text, with 2-line capital in red and blue, heighten...
Date: France ca.1470
