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![[ 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 gouver...
Date: Milan, 1827
Siberia & Central Asia.
This map covers the eastern section of Russia as well as China, Japan, Korea, India and Tibet. The map is of interest for the use of Sea of Corea, the sea between Korea a...
Date: Boston, 1835
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 ...
Date: Paris, ca. 1930
A Hysterical Map of the Yellowstone Park. . .
A funny 1936 pictorial map of Yellowstone Park, that was 'hatched and scratched' by the American printer and humourist Jolly Elmer Lindgren. This wonderful map covers the...
Date: Spokane, 1936
Bison Iubatus.
Etching of a bison by Leendert Brasser (1727 - 1793) after a painting of the Dutch artist Gerrit van den Heuvel.An early portrait of a bison, etched by Leendert Brasser (...
Date: Rotterdam, 1766-1793
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
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
Carta particolare che comincia con il c.apo Aldea è Finisce con il capo Degortam. . .
Dudley’s magnificent chart shows the south west coast of Africa with the Tropic of Capricorn, located at about 23.5 degrees south. Without the privilege, but with "...
Date: Florence, 1645
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...
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1728
Plan du Port du Sud de la Baie de la Recherche / Croquis de la Baie des Moules. . .
A French maritime chart of the Port du Sud in Research Bay and the mouth of the Bay of Mussels, both in southern Tasmania. This is the edition of the extremely rare atlas...
Date: Paris, ca 1807
Hollandia Comitatus.
Orientated west to the top of the sheet, this presents the County of Holland in the classical orientation for seventeenth century maps, with Amsterdam at the center. The ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1647
Amérique Centrale.
Decorative map of Central America from Géographie Universelle, Atlas Migeon. With an inset map of the Isthmus of Panama lower left corner and a panoramic view of Mexico ...
Date: Paris, 1874
![[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
Africa nova Tabula.
Very rare map of Africa separately published. This derivative map by Nicolas Picart is based upon the second state of Janssonius' map of 1623, after the lower border had ...
Date: Paris, 1644
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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
Persian miniature paintings, Mogul Dynasty.
Indo/Persian, Mogul Dynasty miniature painting in delicate Opaque watercolors on paper, with Islamic scripts on recto and verso. Miniature about 135 x 150mm. Painted in g...
Date: Northern Indian Mogul dynasty, ca 1800-1850
Campagne du Roi de Prusse de 1778 à 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...
Date: Geneva, Paris, Mérigot le jeune, 1784
Historic Map - Naaukeurige Kaart Van Tartaryen, Soo als dat door W De Rubruquis doorreyst.
This attractive map published by Pieter van der Aa, shows Tartary abd the ancient Silk Road region. The map shows the track of William of Rubruck (Willem van Rubroeck or ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1713-1729
Romani Imperii Oriens est Descriptio Geographica. . .
A fine map of the Near East. The map was first published by Tavernier and later by Mariette. This edition is dated 1637 with the address of Pierre Mariette at rue S. Jacq...
Date: Paris, after 1637
A new and accurate map of Mexico or New Spain with California New Mexico . . .
With inset of Galapagos islands. A wonderfully engraved map showing the entire American South from Carolina to California, as well as all of Mexico and Central America. A...
Date: London, 1747
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
Delineatio Duorum Oppidorum, Ortat.
Early map of the Banda Islands.Theodore de Bry, a German engraver and book dealer, began a compilation of early voyages in 1590 and had published six parts at the time of...
Date: Frankfurt, 1609
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Vorstellung der Evangelisch-Ostindischen Kirche Augsburger Protestanten.
It is a very decorative and rare print to commemorate the 200-year Confession of the Augsburg Protestant Confession. Engraved by J. Kleinschmidt after a design of E. Ridi...
Date: Augsburg, 1732
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
Hispaniae novae sive magnae recens et vera descriptio. 1579
This was the standard map of the area for a generation, copied by De Bry, Quad and Hondius. Even though Herrera (Spain's Royal Cosmographer) and Wytfliet worked 20 years ...
Date: Antwerp, 1598
![[Europe depicted as a Queen]](/uploads/cache/41499-250x250.jpg)
[Europe depicted as a Queen]
Among the most striking of early cartographic curiosities is Europe regina or Queen of the world first published by Johannes Bucius' and populized by Sebastian Münster.....
Date: France, ca. 1860
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries. 12
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
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
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
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 show...
Date: Hanoï, 1976
Inventio Maris Magallanici.
Allegorical scene allegorical image celebrating the circumnavigation of the earth by Ferdinand Magellan. The image shows Magellan on board of his ship, surrounded by myth...
Date: Frankfurt, 1594
De Texel Stroom .. vant Marsdiep./ Caarte van De Mase...
Two decorative charts on one sheet, one depicting Texel and the entrance of the Zuider Zee with an inset showing the north coast of West-Friesland, the other depicting th...
Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Pianta della citta di Ravenna.
Very finely engraved and detailed plan of Ravenna. Engraved by V.Angeli and included in: Atlante Geografico dell Italia. To the lower left a key to the principal building...
Date: Rome, 1860
Americae Retectio (Allegory of the Discovery of America)
Allegorical scene commemorating the discovery of America. The main image shows Neptune, supporting a Globe, flanked by Flora-representing Florence, and Janus-representin...
Date: Frankfurt, 1594
![View in the island of Cracatoa. [Rakata in the Sunda Strait]](/uploads/cache/30051-250x250.jpg)
View in the island of Cracatoa. [Rakata in the Sunda Strait]
Early view of the volcano Krakatoa (Indonesian name: Krakatau), on the Indonesian island of Rakata in the Sunda Strait, taken from "Views in the South Seas" bei...
Date: London, Boydell and Co., 1808
ETATS-UNIS DE L'AMÉRIQUE SEPTENTRIONALE Avec LES ISLES ROYALE, DE TERRE NEUVE, DE S.T JEAN, L'ACADIE, &c. 1785. Supplement a l'Atlas de M. Robert de Vaugondy a Paris Ches Boudet Ingenieur du Roi.
A map of the eastern United States with "Supplément à l'atlas de M. Robert de Vaugondy à Paris chez Boudet Imprimeur du Roi", in place of the attribution to ...
Date: Paris, 1785
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
![Plan de la partie sud des Iles Furneaux [with] Carte générale de la Partie Sud-Est de la Terre de Diémen . . .](/uploads/cache/46365-250x250.jpg)
Plan de la partie sud des Iles Furneaux [with] Carte générale de la Partie Sud-Est de la Terre de Diémen . . .
Two maps on one sheet, on top a map of the southern portion of Cape Barren Island, Clarke Island, and islets in the southern part of the Furneaux Group.With in lower part...
Date: Paris, 1824
DE LA SPHERE. Figure XXXIV.
A fine celestial map depicting the northern constellations in allegorical form. Fully engraved, it presents two sailing ships and a harbour in the background.From the Fre...
Date: Paris, 1683
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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 are in black.VERSO: The staves are in red and the notes are in b...
Date: Italy, 1480
![[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
![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 Pé...
Date: Paris, 1824
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
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
(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
Bataille de la Moskwa Remportée par l'Armée Française le 7 Septembre 1812...
Uncommon print showing the siege of Moscow on September 7, 1812 by Napoleon Bonaparte.Jean was a well-known publisher of optical prints and other popular prints, establis...
Date: Paris, ca. 1815
Constatinopolis.
Panoramic town-view of Constantinople (Istanbul). Woodcut published in the so-called pirate edition of the "small Schedel" in Augsburg, 1497, Latin edition. Ori...
Date: Augsburg, Johann Schönsperger. 1497
Octava Asie Tabula (The Silk Road Area.)
Woodblock printed large-format map showing Northern India with Central Asia including the Himalayas and China. From the 1513 edition of Waldseemüller's Geographia.In the...
Date: Strasburg, 1513
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
Asiae Nova Descriptio.
Final State of Pieter Van Den Keere's Rare Map of Asia--The first map of Asia to include decorative panels.The map has an interesting south positioning of the Caspian Sea...
Date: Amsterdam, 1636
Mapa Polski i Krajów Osciennych - Wydanie trzecie. Opracowal Stanislaw Max. Wydani M. Arcta.
‘The Birth of Modern Poland on a map’ - an excellent wall map of Poland and surrounding regions, published in Warsaw near the end of World War I, when Poland’s fate...
Date: Warsaw, [H. Sklodowski], 1918
Nieuwe Wassende Graade Zee Kaart over de Spaanse Zee Vant Kanaal tot 't Eyland Cuba In Westindia.
Rare two-sheet blue-back sea chart of the Atlantic and Eastern part of North America., published by Gerard Van Keulen. The map extends from the latitude of Newfoundland a...
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1728-1751
![Vue de l'Isle d'Otahiti et de plusieurs Pirogues. [Tome II Pl. 11.]](/uploads/cache/26102-250x250.jpg)
Vue de l'Isle d'Otahiti et de plusieurs Pirogues. [Tome II Pl. 11.]
View of the Island of Tahiti and dugouts. From the French edition of James Cook's first voyage entitled Relation des voyages entrepris par ordre de sa Majesté Britanniqu...
Date: Paris, 1773
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
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
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: Panel border of acanthus leaves and flowers on a partly liquid gold and dark red ground, height 1-line initial in liquid gold on colored grounds and three line fil...
Date: France, ca. 1420-1480
.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 ...
Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1535
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
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
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: Panel border of acanthus leaves and flowers on a partly liquid gold and dark red ground, one 2-line initial and one 1-line initial in liquid gold on colored ground...
Date: France, c.1450
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
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
![[Papua New Guinea Inhabitants ].](/uploads/cache/26364-250x250.jpg)
[Papua New Guinea Inhabitants ].
Aquatint depicts three men in a pirogue engraved by Fumagalli. Plate N° 75. From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de la m...
Date: Milan, 1827
![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
![[Queen Obera welcoming Captain Wallis. Tahiti ].](/uploads/cache/26381-250x250.jpg)
[Queen Obera welcoming Captain Wallis. Tahiti ].
Aquatint depicting Queen Obera welcoming Captain Wallis upon his arrival in Tahiti. Engraved by Gallina. Plate N° 82. From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Mo...
Date: Milan, 1827
Tabula ducatus Limburch et comitatus Valckenburch. . .
The map describes the southern part of Limburg and reaches into Belgium (Liege, Verviers) and Germany. With two very decorative cartouches.
Date: Amsterdam, 1690
Terki, ville de la Circassie, dans l'Asie.
A very detailed panoramic view of Terki in the Caucasus, the capital of one of the most powerful Dagestani potentates of southeast Asia.Showing the Volga River.The town o...
Date: Leiden, c. 1719
![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
Bibliomappe. Chronologie Historique et Géographique par MM. Année et Vivien bound with : Bibliomappe, ou Livre-Cartes: Leçons Méthodiques de Chronologie et de Géographie, . . .
With 67 maps (1 folding) by A.M. Perrot. Published in Paris. Most maps have original color. The atlas is complete very rare, as it was issued in 15 separate installments ...
Date: Paris, Renard, 1827 / 1824-1826
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
Indiae extra Gangem Pars Septentrionalis. Indiae extra Gangem Pars Meridionalis.
The map on the left depicts the northern portion of the India Ganges region, representing Burma (Myanmar), Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos. The right one depicts th...
Date: Utrecht / Amsterdam, J.Halma, 1683
(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
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
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
Waschinga Sahba's Grab.. (Wakonda Creek.)
Original aquatint engraving for Travels in the Interior of North America between 1832-34 . Engraved by Ch. Vogel. The finest work on American Indian life and the American...
Date: London/ Paris/ Coblenz, 1839
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours In Latin and French.
24 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with flowers, vases and figures. Gothic type, text in Latin, numerous one and two-line initials in g...
Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c. 1520-1540
Asia.
Uncommon map of Asia. Engraved by Marco di Pietro.The map is of interest for the use of G. di Corea, for the sea between Korea and Japan.Published by Carlo Antonio Barbie...
Date: Milan, 1807
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
View of Singapore
Very rare view of Singapore from the Singapore River Basin. With a numbered key (1-19) underneath the illustration. In the center Government Hill with Governer's House (1...
Date: ca. 1850
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
