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![[Persia, Afghanistan and Pakistan map with Ottoman script]](/uploads/cache/44316-250x250.jpg)
[Persia, Afghanistan and Pakistan map with Ottoman script]
Postcard size map in Ottoman script showing Persia, Afghanistan and Pakistan prepared by Mehmet EŞREF in a small atlas : عمومولاياةىشهانيىحاوىكوچكاطلاس [Umum-i vilayat-ı...
Date: Istanbul, 1325 or 1909
Le Royaume de Siam avec les Royaumes. . .
Influential map of the Malay peninsula, Sumatra, Java and Borneo, centered on Singapore. Mortier incorporated information provided by the French Jesuits and charts the ro...
Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Pascaerte Van't Westelyckste der Middelandsche Zee. . .
An eye-catching chart of the western part of the Mediterranean Sea.Pieter Goos (ca. 1616-1675) was one of the most important cartographer, engraver, publisher and print s...
Date: Amsterdam, 1666
![[Australia and New Zealand map with Ottoman script.]](/uploads/cache/44313-250x250.jpg)
[Australia and New Zealand map with Ottoman script.]
Post card size map in Ottoman script showing Australia and New Zealand prepared by Mehmet EŞREF in a small atlas : عمومولاياةىشهانيىحاوىكوچكاطلاس [Umum-i vilayat-ı Şaha...
Date: Istanbul, 1325 or 1909
Grande Tartarie (de L'Asie / Figure V).
A fine and uncommon early 17th century map of Tartary with Korea. and the name USBECK showing in present-day Usbekistan.From the French text edition of "Description ...
Date: Paris, 1683
Alabama. Official Highway map 1942.
Folding road map of Alabama. Published in Montgomery, Alabama by Paragon Press. Mileage chart and six city plans in margin; verso includes text and photos. Scale [ca. 1:8...
Date: Alabama, Paragon Press, 1942
Coupon 94 voor een jaar interest voor f 1000 by hunne hoog vorstelyke doorluchtigheden de heere Frederik regeerende furst von Waldek. . .
9 Coupons for one year interest of 1000 florins being 50 florins payable on January 1796, 1797, 1798, 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803, 1804. For a loan made out by The Hague...
Date: The Hague / Amsterdam, 1786
Carta del Teatro della Guerra in Polonia - 1831.
Oversized rare 1831 war map of Poland and Lithuania published during the Polish - Russian War in 1831, published by Presso l'incisore Stanislao Stucchi. Stucchi, was born...
Date: Milan, 1831
Bond # 86 against a one year interest of 1000 Dutch Florins by Frederik ruler of Waldeck.
Bond for 10 years against one year interest of 1000 florins being 50 florins payable on January 1795 until 1804. For a loan made out by the The Hague bankers Abraham and ...
Date: The Hague / Amsterdam, 1786
Lisbona.
A rare panoramic view of Lisbon with over the whole length of the lower part 3 columns of poems in Latin, Dutch and French.Published by Dancker Danckerts (1634-1666)Colle...
Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Il cacciatore - Giuoco Dilettevole.
Game of the Goose with 63 numbered boxes, rules in the lower margin. In this game, more players can play and a prismatic die is used with 14 numbers. Whoever goes to the ...
Date: Milan, ca. 1900
L'Italie distinguée suivant l'estendue de tous les Estats, Royaumes, républiques, Duchés, Principautés, &c.
Decorative map of Italy including Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily engraved by Cordier and published by Desnos. A text at lower right refers to the earthquake of Messine in 1...
Date: Paris, Desnos, 1783
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Pas-Caert vande ghelegetheyt vande Schans te Santvliet, Vertoonede de verdroncken overwaeterde Landen, nieuw aengewasse gorsingen,. . .
Showing the surrounding countryside of the cities of Antwerp, Santvliet, Lillo, Bergen op zoom, etc. The map is ponctuated by several fortifications to indicate the main ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Bond and 8 coupons # 93 against a one year interest of 1000 Dutch Florins by Frederik ruler of Waldeck.
Bond for 10 years against one year interest of 1000 florins being 50 florins payable on January 1795 until 1804. With 8 pay-out coupons for one year interest of 1000 flor...
Date: The Hague / Amsterdam, 1786
![[Scene of a meeting. The Friendly Islands ].](/uploads/cache/26386-250x250.jpg)
[Scene of a meeting. The Friendly Islands ].
Aquatint depicting an indoor meeting in the Friendly Islands. Plate N°79. From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de la mili...
Date: Milan, 1827
Macedonia, Epirus et Achaia.
Nice map of northern Greece with the southern parts of present day Macedonia and Albania. Includes the region of Athens. Strapwork title cartouche and Spanish text on ver...
Date: Amsterdam, 1650
System of Penal Law, prepared for the State of Louisiana , comprising codes of offenses and punishments, of procedure, of prison discipline, and of evidence applicable as well to civil as to criminal cases.
The "Enquiries" of Rush and Bradford and the Pennsylvania movement toward abolition of the death penalty had a little immediate impact on the practices of other...
Date: New-Orleans, Benjamin Levy, 1824
![[Portrait of Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius.]](/uploads/cache/49107-250x250.jpg)
[Portrait of Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius.]
Arguably the finest engraved portrait of early mapmakers. In the well-executed design, Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius are seated within an architectural cartouche of...
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
![Air France [poster].](/uploads/cache/44299-250x250.jpg)
Air France [poster].
A superb double-sided Air France folding poster, featuring bold colored graphics. Published as a serious piece of marketing put out by the airline showing off their state...
Date: Paris, 1955
Carte du Congo et du Pays des Cafres. . .
Detailed copper-engraved map of southern Africa providing numerous particulars and comments concerning European trade, native kingdoms, and mineral wealth. Includes Madag...
Date: Amsterdam, c. 1730
Vue de l'Hotel du Lord Maire, qui comprend.. (London)
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular speciality establishments in Paris, Augsburg and London which produced optical viewing devices and spec...
Date: Augsburg 1750
![[Asia map with Ottoman script]](/uploads/cache/44317-250x250.jpg)
[Asia map with Ottoman script]
Postcard size map in Ottoman script showing Asia, prepared by Mehmet EŞREF in a small atlas : عمومولاياةىشهانيىحاوىكوچكاطلاس [Umum-i vilayat-ı Şahaneyi havi küçük at...
Date: Istanbul, 1325 or 1909
Pascaart..de Zuyder-Zee, Texel..Vlie-stroom..'t Amelander…
An eye-catching chart of the Zuiderzee with east to the top.Pieter Goos (ca. 1616-1675) was one of the most important cartographer, engraver, publisher and print seller o...
Date: Amsterdam, 1666
De Tesselstroom met de Gaten van Marsdiep./ De Mase met. . .
Three charts on one sheet depicting the entrances to the Zuiderzee between Holland, Texel and Vlieland. The entrances of the Maas with Rotterdam and in a small inset the ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1662
Share of 100 Francs. No. 003841 (Share certificate)
Beautifully engraved certificate from the "Société Financière de Madagascar", share certificate No. 003841 for one hundred shares, in a 5,000000 francs loan. Te...
Date: Paris, 1929
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
![[Set of two maps of the Pacific Ocean with transportation lines, with Ottoman script]](/uploads/cache/44327-250x250.jpg)
[Set of two maps of the Pacific Ocean with transportation lines, with Ottoman script]
Two post card size maps showing the Pacific Ocean with transportation lines. The maps are in Ottoman script prepared by Mehmet EŞREF in a small atlas : عمومولاياةىشهانيى...
Date: Istanbul, Şirket-i Mürettibiye ve Karacoğlu Matbaas, 1800
![[Lot of 25 leaves of France, Brabant, Netherlands, Luxemburg]](/uploads/cache/48264-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 25 leaves of France, Brabant, Netherlands, Luxemburg]
1552 MÜNSTER, S. - Twenty-five text leaves with wood block illustrations relating to France, Brabant, the Netherlands and Luxembourg
Date: Basel, 1552
Nieuwe kaart van America.
An attractive map of both the Americas, by one of the leading mapmakers in 18th century Amsterdam. Isaak Tirion (d. 1769) was a Amsterdam publisher. His "Nieuwe en b...
Date: Amsterdam, 1765
Saba Aethiopum Regina venit ad Salomonem, cum magnis Opibus aromatum, Auri, ac Gemmarum. ( Plate 47)
Fine etching by Nicolas Chapron, after Raphaël's (Raffaello Sanzio) frescoes in the Vatican Loggia. Scene illustrating the visit of the Queen of Sheba.From the first Pari...
Date: Paris, Petrus Mariette, 1649
Insula Islandiae delineatio. . .
A nice, large map of Iceland published by Homann Heirs. The country is divided into four differently colored regions, with a lettered title at the top of the map, mileage...
Date: Nuremberg, 1761
Transisalania vulgo Over-Yssel auct. N. ten Have. . .
Map of the central part of the Netherlands, prepared by N. ten Have with a decorative cartouche lower left.Joachim Ottens (1663 - 1719) and his sons Renier and Joshua wer...
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1750
Charte von China und den angränzenden Ländern und Völkerschaften so wie den letzten Kaiser Tschien-Long. . .
Uncommon map of China on a scale of ca. 1:6,000,000. The map's complete title is “Charte von China und den angränzenden Ländern, und Völkerschaften so wie sie dem letzten...
Date: Parague, 1812
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Paskaart van Guinea van C.Verde tot R. deGalion.
Rare edition of Doncker's sea chart of Guinea coast. From an atlas printed in 1668, "l'Atlas de MER ou MONDE AQUATIQUE, Remontrant toutes lescôtes de la Mer…".H...
Date: Amsterdam, 1660-1668
Übersichtskarte von Ost-Asien im Maßstabe 1: 5.000.000 mit 14 Beikarten in großen Maßstäben . . .
A large, uncommon map of East Asia prepared by Karl Peucker, and published by Ataria & Co. Striking and heavily annotated with information on China, Korea, Japan, and...
Date: Vienna, Artaria, 1904
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries. 38.
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
De Zee-Kuste vant Landt te Noort-oosten sorterende onder Norweghen ende eendeels onder Sweden alsoe tlandt aldaer in zijn gedaente is, van Distelberch tot Waersberghe.
A rare Latin text edition of this early and detailed chart of the coast of Norway of this landmark contribution to the science of navigation. Decorated by a large title c...
Date: Leiden, Plantijn, 1585
L'Amerique Meridionale Dressée sur les Observations de Mrs de l'Academie Royale des Sciences . . .
Rare state of " L’Amerique Meridionale. Chez l’Auteur sur le Quai de l’Horloge a la Courone de Diamans avec Privilege du Roy pour 20 ans, 1700".Fine map of Sout...
Date: Paris, 1700
Accion de 10 pesos. No. 110,931 (Share certificate)
Beautifully engraved certificate from the "Compania Azucarera de Paraiso Novillero S.A. Republica Mexicana", share certificate No.110,931 for one share, in a $ ...
Date: Paris, 1924
Sexta etas mundi. CCVIII
On recto the portrait of Dominic, founder of the Dominican Order of Preaching Friars, is represented by a full-length woodcut. Francis, founder of the Franciscan Order, i...
Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Grande Tartarie.
A very nice small map of Central Asia extending from the Caspian Sea to the Pacific Ocean. From Francisco Giustiniani for El Atlas abreviado o el nuevo compendio de la Ge...
Date: Leon de Francia (Lyon), Jaime Certa, 1739
Moris Beneficio Comendatus Tabaci usus. Der durch die Mode beliebt gemachteTaback
Copper-plate engraving showing a group of fashionably dressed men and women smoking long-stemmed pipes around a table in front of a garden hedge. "Paulus Decker inv....
Date: Augsburg, 1700
Accion de 10 pesos. No. 110,930 (Share certificate)
Beautifully engraved certificate from the "Plantations Réunies de l'Ouest africain SA", share certificate No.232.781 for one hundred shares, in a 30,000,000 loa...
Date: Paris, Abidjan, 1930
![Une Kirguisiene par devant. [together with] Une Kirguisienne par derriere.](/uploads/cache/32991-250x250.jpg)
Une Kirguisiene par devant. [together with] Une Kirguisienne par derriere.
1780 - ROTH, Ch. M. Two costume plates showing natives of Kyrgyzstan
Date: St. Petersbourg, C.G. Müller, 1776-1780
A Mapp of Batavia with all itts Forts.
Wonderful, scarce, and decorative plan of present-day Jakarta, showing the City and its immediate environs, the surrounding rice fields intersected by a network of waterw...
Date: London, Printed for A. and J. Churchill, 1703
El Indostan por D. Juan Lopez.
Uncommon map of India and Shri Lanka published by Juan Lopez (1765-1830) and included in his "Atlas Universal o collection de mapas nuevos. . ." first published...
Date: Madrid, 1817
![Hoo Daihiko Kinen Hiko Sugoroku [ [訪欧大飛行記念飛行双六 ]](/uploads/cache/46569-250x250.jpg)
Hoo Daihiko Kinen Hiko Sugoroku [ [訪欧大飛行記念飛行双六 ]
FIRST EDITION. A rare paper board game celebrating a flight from Tokyo to Rome Europe. Published in by Osaka Asahi Shinbun.This color offset-printed sugoroku (a paper “bo...
Date: Osaka, Taisho 14 or 1925
Giuoco dell' Oca. La tentazione
Uncommon Italian Game of the Goose in 90 boxes. The rules of the game are explained as follows: "REGOLA DEL GIUOCO: Questo giuoco è composto di 90 numeri e può servi...
Date: Italy, ca. 1900
Divisione Militare di Novara. Novara / Lomellina.
Very finely engraved and detailed map of the province of Novara. Upper right corners, two inset plans of Novara and Mortara. Key on the lower right side. Engraved by Vett...
Date: Rome, 1860
Polna vulgo Polm insign : Bohemia. . .
This is a view of Polna from the southwest, looking across the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands from a slightly elevated viewpoint. In addition to the parish church (D) in the...
Date: Cologne, 1617
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries. 19.
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
Carte du pays de Montenegro dressée d'après les opérations géodétiques . . .
Rare map of Montenegro prepared by Mr. le Comte Fedor de Karacsay (1787-1859) and engraved by Pietro Allodi. The title is in Russian, Arabic and French.In lower left corn...
Date: Vienna, ca. 1838
Plan de la Ville et du Chateau de Batavia en l'Isle de Iava / Ware affbeeldinge wegens het Casteel ende Stadt Batavia gelegen opt groot Eylant Java.
Detailed East oriented plan of Jakarta former Batavia on Java / Indonesia. With bird eye view from sea side, various ships and a lion. Two inset keys with detailed descri...
Date: Leiden, 1730
Nova tabula geographica complectens borealiorem..
A finely engraved pair of maps designed to be cut and joined together to provide a continuous coastline of North America from the Carolinas to Newfoundland and along the ...
Date: Amsterdam 1720
(South America) - Delineatio omnium orarum totius Australis partis Americae, dictae Peruvianae, a R. de la Plata, Brasiliam Pariam, et Castellam auream una cum omnibus…
1593 LINSCHOTEN, J.H. van - Decorative map of South America, which goes as far north as part of Florida, is extremely well-detailed along the coast.
Date: Amsterdam, 1593
![[2 maps] Partie Septentrionale.. Partie Meridionale du Royaume de Portugal..](/uploads/cache/25084-250x250.jpg)
[2 maps] Partie Septentrionale.. Partie Meridionale du Royaume de Portugal..
A detailed two sheet map of Portugal showing the roads, prepared by N.Bellin. Venetian edition of the map by Bellin, to whom Santini gives credit in the cartouche.From &...
Date: Venice, 1776 - 1784
POLONIAE finitimarumque locorum descrip:tio. Auctore WENCESLAO GRODECCIO. Polono.
Ortelius' map of Poland, being a close copy of Grodecki / Pograbka's map of 1558/62 map, itself based on Wapovsky 1526 (Karrow 56) With Latin text on verso, a state 4 and...
Date: Antwerp, 1592
![Terre de Diemen. Grou-Agara. [plate X]](/uploads/cache/46273-250x250.jpg)
Terre de Diemen. Grou-Agara. [plate X]
A portrait of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Grou-Agara, after the original sketches by Lesueur, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François Péron, 1824.The Fre...
Date: Paris, 1824
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Vue de la Maison de Northumberland a Charing Cross. . .
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular speciality establishments in Paris, Augsburg and London which produced optical viewing devices and spec...
Date: Augsburg 1750
Carte du Golphe du Mexique et des Isles de l'Amerique.
Attractive map of the islands of the Caribbean that includes those parts of the United States & Mexico that border the Gulf of Mexico, Central America, and the northe...
Date: Paris, 1754
Oceania.
Uncommon map of the Pacific Ocean prepared by Francesco Costantino Marmocchi. Above the map "Geografia Commerciale". From "Il Globo Atlante di carte Geogra...
Date: Genova, Paolo Rivara fu Giacomo, 1858
![[Title page for ] Atlas Novus Terrarum orbis Imperia.](/uploads/cache/47938-250x250.jpg)
[Title page for ] Atlas Novus Terrarum orbis Imperia.
Title page from Atlas Novus printed by Johann Ernst Udelbulner. Large elaborately engraved sheet with numerous allegorical figures. A large globe, showing the Eastern Hem...
Date: Nuremberg, 1732
Traiectum Wttrecht
Fine plan of Utrecht from the townbooks "Novum Ac Magnum Theatrum Urbium Belgicae Liberae Ac Foederatae".FRAMED : Additional shipping costs apply. The item is l...
Date: Amsterdam, 1649
Plan de Palma ville capitalle de l'Isle de Majorque.
Bird's eye-view of Palma de Majorca. Wind rose in the lower left corner. Nicolas de Fer [1646-1720] was one of the most prolific and influential French geographers and ca...
Date: Paris, 1715
L'Italia antica-romana.
A rare and detailed double-page map of ancient Italy. According to the title cartouche, prepared by A de La Sage for l'Atlante Storico, Letterario, Biografico, Archeologi...
Date: Venice, 1840
Northumbr. Cumberladia Dunelm. Episcop.
A map of the most northern part of England, from the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius' Atlas Minor.Shortly after the publication of the big folio-atlases the ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Dona del Regno di Granata. / Femme du Roy.me de Granade.
A full portrait of a woman from Granada, situated at Lake Nicaragua or Cocibolca. From "Raccolta di stampe", a series of historically significant eighteenth-c...
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
Governo di Venezia / Provincie di Padova e di Rovigo.
Very finely engraved and detailed map of the government of Venice. Lower left corner, two inset plans of Padova and Rovigo. Upper right corner, a key. Engraved by Vettori...
Date: Rome, 1860
Tartariae sive Magni Chami Imperium.
This is a very early depiction of the northern Pacific, with the first mapping of Northwest Coast of America and probably the first map to name California 'C. Califormio...
Date: Antwerp, c. 1608-1612
Floride.
A charming map of Florida, also showing Cuba, Golf of Mexico & St Augustine.Title in curtain draped at top. French text on verso.From the original 1683 text edition o...
Date: Paris, 1683
Nouvelle Carte pour conduire a la Connoissance de la Marine . . .
This is a fascinating folio sheet filled with engravings of ships and navigation instruments. At center is a large view of a frigate showing the rigging in great detail. ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
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Air France transporte tout partout.
Nice poster designed by Guy Georget, promoting the freight service of Air France.Guy Georget (1911-1992), was a French poster designer and illustrator. Georget's first co...
Date: Perceval, Paris, 1958
Castello Sancto Angelo di Roma.
The print features the Castello Sant' Angelo in Rome, bound in an album, perhaps from the "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae." Copper engraving and published by A...
Date: Rome, Antonio Lafreri, ca. 1573
Divisione Militare di Cuneo. Mondovi / Alba.
Very finely engraved and detailed map of Cuneo, centered on the towns of Mondovi and Alba. Lower corners, two inset plans of Mondovi and Alba. Upper right corner, a key. ...
Date: Rome, 1860
La Transilvania.
A scarce and very attractive detailed map of Transylvania and includes numerous coats of arms in the body of the map and a large decorative title cartouche. Scale cartouc...
Date: Venice, 1696
Prospectus septem turrium in urbe Constantinopolitana / Vüe des sept Tours ou Prisons d'etat à Constantinople. . .
Imaginary view inside Istanbul showing the State prison, the seven towers to Constantinople, a so-called optical print.
Date: Augsburg 1750
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
24 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with scenes and figures.The firm of Thielman Kerver is best known for its lovely printed Books of Ho...
Date: Paris, Philippe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre, ca. 1502
Amstelodami celeberrimi hollandiae emporii delineatio nova.
Frederik de Wit’s beautiful bird's-eye view of the city. The Amstel river is still open water flowing through the city's heart. Only near the Dam, has it been covered by ...
Date: Amsterdam, c.1700
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand (R...
Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
L'Europe Dressée Sur les Nouvelles observations. . .
A rare and monumental wall map of Europe, with original outline color, of four joined sheets, surrounded by text and vignettes printed on separate sheets.Created in 1740 ...
Date: Paris, 1700-1740
