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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
Ioannes III. Rex. Poloniae (Portrait of Johann III. Sobieski)
On verso a text in brown ink "1674 Giovanni Sobieski Gran Maresciallo della Polonia, che poscia lo fece suo Re, perchè a Cokrim vinse li Turchi, e la liberò dai tr...
Date: Ulm, ca. 1690
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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 ...
Date: Paris, 1824
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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
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
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…"...
Date: Amsterdam, 1660-1668
Pianta della citta di Roma.
Published in "Atlante Geografico dell' Italia". Uncommon and decorative town-plan of Rome. With a numbered key. Engraved by P.Manzoni.
Date: Florence, 1845
Platte Gront van de Hofstede Waterlant toebehorende den Ed. Achtb. Heer Dirk Trip Schepen te Amsterdam.
Uncommon plan of Hofstede Waterlant. Published in Hollandsche Arcadia. Title in Dutch and French "Plan de la Maison et Jardins appartenant a l'Illustre Dirk Trip Ech...
Date: Amsterdam, 1740
Oui ex vobis sine peccato est primus in allam Joan 8.
A superb example of this illustration from the New Testament showing Jesus and the woman taken in adultery (often called Pericope Adulterae[a] for short) is a passage (pe...
Date: Antwerp, 1585
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
Leaf on vellum from a antiphonary.
A leaf from a Medieval Antiphonal or Choir Missal for Spanish use, in Latin on an extremely heavy vellum. Justification: 360x246mm. Text is in Spanish rounded gothic hand...
Date: Sevilla, ca.1520
Aiguille verte - Chamonix N°6 Sud
Magnificent 1:10,000 scale color printed map of l'Aiguille verte (Chamonix N°6 Sud) based on stereotopographic ground and aerial surveys carried out in the field in 1950...
Date: Paris, 1953
![Vue d'un Rocher troué de la Nouvelle Zélande. [Tome III Pl. 8.]](/uploads/cache/26112-250x250.jpg)
Vue d'un Rocher troué de la Nouvelle Zélande. [Tome III Pl. 8.]
A view of a New Zealand landscape and seascape through a hollow rock. Engraved by Demouchy. From the French edition of James Cook's first voyage entitled Relation des voy...
Date: Paris, 1773
Carte du Brabant.
Map of Brabant with the address : Chez l’Auteur sur le Quai de l’Horloge (address erased after Horloge). Avec privilege du Roy. 1705." Guillaume de l'Isle's (167...
Date: Paris, 1705
La Galerie Comique.
A lithograph by Gustave Frison, showing three town inhabitants discussing a clyster or syringe found in a public place. They think it may be a musical instrument, without...
Date: Paris, ca 1870
(South America) - Delineatio omnium orarum totius Australis partis Americae, dictae Peruvianae, a R. de la Plata, Brasiliam Pariam, et Castellam auream una cum omnibus…
A particularly lush example of Dutch decorative cartography boasting two intricate strapwork cartouches. Linschoten was one of the prime movers of Dutch and British expan...
Date: Amsterdam, 1593
![[Cloth Map of Europe]](/uploads/cache/47148-250x250.jpg)
[Cloth Map of Europe]
Anglo-centric cloth map of Europe produced during WWI.Serbia, the spark that lit the conflagration of World War One, isn’t even labeled on this interesting cloth map of...
Date: London, c. 1915
![Mapa geral do Brasil / organizado pelos J. Carneiro da Silva e Pedro Voss. [Together with] Micro geografia do Brasil. [Together with] Pequeno Mapa do Brasil.](/uploads/cache/45466-250x250.jpg)
Mapa geral do Brasil / organizado pelos J. Carneiro da Silva e Pedro Voss. [Together with] Micro geografia do Brasil. [Together with] Pequeno Mapa do Brasil.
Large folding national map published by "Comp. Melhoramentos de São Paulo Industrias de Papel". Nova edicao revista 1946. Figures for all states. "Futuro ...
Date: São Paulo, 1946
Carte du Diocese de Beziers . . .
Fine map of the diocese of Béziers with the address : A Paris Chez l’Auteur sur le Quai de l’Horloge a l’Aigle d’Or, avec Privil. Pr . 20 ans Mai 1708.In early 1...
Date: Paris, 1708
Insulae Palaos seu Novae Philippinae 87 Alias Archipelagus S. Lazari ven Carolinae . . .
Map of Philippine archipelago. Stöcklein's work is a compound of letters of the Jesuit missionaries from all over the world and here particularly the ones stationed at t...
Date: Augsburg, 1726
Presqu''isle de L'Inde de ça le Gange.
Uncommon miniature map of India from Pierre Duval's La Geographie Universeille dated 1676. Following his Cartes de geographie in 1657, Pierre Duval published this smaller...
Date: Paris, 1676
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
Carte du Mexique et de la Floride.
Third state, with "Quai de l'Horloge" imprint. Renard’s imprint has been erased”. It was the first printed map to portray accurately the course and mouth of...
Date: Paris, 1703
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...
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
Save (the) world for us.
Uncommon Soviet propaganda poster. Text translates to : Save (the) world for us.Read more about the Soviet propaganda poster. [+]
Date: Moscow, 1989
Ultonia Oriental.
Map depicting part of Ulster, with the south-western tip of Scotland in the upper right. From the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius' Atlas Minor.Shortly after ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1608
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
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
Scotland.
An attractive steel engraved map of Scotland, with each county divided by a different color. Many place names and physical features shown.The Arrowsmith family members we...
Date: London, 1839
![[View of Gulf of Trieste].](/uploads/cache/45191-250x250.jpg)
[View of Gulf of Trieste].
Very rare view of Gulf of Trieste 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
Het Hooge Heemraedtschap van Schielandt.
This beautiful wall map of "Het Hooge Heemraedtschap van Schielandt" is on nine attached leaves (each leaf 49x58,5 cm. ) engraved by J. VINGBOOMS after J.J. STA...
Date: Rotterdam, A. van Hoorn, 1684
Upper Canada &c.
A beautiful, large scale map of Upper Canada, and portions of the American states of New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. The province of 'Upper' Canada was created by the B...
Date: London, 1839
![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 “...
Date: Osaka, Taisho 14 or 1925
![[Set of 3 optical prints] Vue du Pallais du l'Empereur de Perse avec la Mosquée, ou Eglise a Ispahan.](/uploads/cache/49123-250x250.jpg)
[Set of 3 optical prints] Vue du Pallais du l'Empereur de Perse avec la Mosquée, ou Eglise a Ispahan.
An optical print of the court of the Persian Emperor. Engraved by F.X. Habermann (1721-1796). The Academie Imperiale was a well-known publisher of optical prints establis...
Date: Augsburg, 1750
Divisione Militare di Alessandria. Provincie di Casale e di Asti.
"Published in ""Atlante Geografico dell' Italia"". With inset cartouche with detailed plans of the cities of Asti and Casale. Showing the river P...
Date: Florence, 1845
La Galerie Comique.
Lithograph by Gustave Frison showing a man writing a letter "to Monsieur Battaupieu, Manufacturer of trumpets for the Last Judgment…." (which is written in fu...
Date: Paris, ca 1870
![[Map of river Rhine.]](/uploads/cache/47453-250x250.jpg)
[Map of river Rhine.]
Map of the River Rhine from Boden See until Wesel. Left hand part of a 2-sheet map.
Date: Amsterdam, 1660
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Malines. [Mechelen]
A very RARE panoramic town view of Mechelen, including a numbered legend in the left lower corner.Published by the brothers Chéreau, active in Paris at rue st.Jacques au...
Date: Paris, c.1720
Westphalia Ducatus.
Originally engraved for Jodocus Hondius II, at his death in August 1629 this map was, among 39 other copper plates,purchased by Willem Blaeu who deleted Hondius' name and...
Date: Amsterdam, 1634
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Uomo del Paraguai nell' America Meridionalle. / Homme du Paraguai dans l'Amerique Meridionalle.
Full portrait of a person from Paraguay. From "Raccolta di stampe." a series of historically significant eighteenth-century copper plate engravings by Venetia...
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
![[Title page for] Recueil de cartes sur la geographie ancienne . . .](/uploads/cache/47729-250x250.jpg)
[Title page for] Recueil de cartes sur la geographie ancienne . . .
Title-frontispiece of "Recueil de cartes sur la geographie ancienne", published by Rigobert Bonne in 1783, engraved by Louis Legrand.More about title pages [+]
Date: Paris, 1783
Saba, ville en Perse.
Decorative view of Sabā / Dakān Sorkh) which is a village in Vahdatiyeh Rural District in present-day Iran.In the foreground are camels and horses. This well-executed e...
Date: Leiden, 1719
![[A lady playing a piano.]](/uploads/cache/46519-250x250.jpg)
[A lady playing a piano.]
Lovely art deco etching with hand coloring showing a lady playing piano. The artwork is signed in black pencil, but not identifiable.
Date: Paris, ca. 1930
![Fille Jakoute par derrière [together with] Fille Jakoute par devant.](/uploads/cache/32984-250x250.jpg)
Fille Jakoute par derrière [together with] Fille Jakoute par devant.
Uncommon copper-engraved costume plate from Johann Gottlieb Georgi "Beschreibung aller Nationen des russischen Reichs" (1776), the work stands out for the hand-...
Date: St. Petersbourg, C.G. Müller, 1776-1780
Nuovo Mondo parte Settentrionale.
Uncommon map of North America prepared by Francesco Costantino Marmocchi. Above the map "Geografia Commerciale". From "Il Globo Atlante di carte Geografich...
Date: Genova, Paolo Rivara fu Giacomo, 1858
Atlas de Géographie Physique, Politique, Ancienne et Moderne contenant les cartes générales et particulières toutes les parties du Monde.
Complete with title page, contents page, and all 35 double-page maps of European and regional maps of the world, including Oceania, the Americas, Asia, Africa, etc. All i...
Date: Paris, 1875
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![[Stop race of nuclear weapons.]](/uploads/cache/47059-250x250.jpg)
[Stop race of nuclear weapons.]
Uncommon Soviet propaganda poster.Read more about the Soviet propaganda poster. [+]
Date: Moscow, 1986
Hark ! Hark ! The dogs do bark.
This scarce political caricature map of Europe depicts the continent at the outbreak of World War I, or as it was called at the time, the Great War. Designed by Johnson, ...
Date: London, Johnson Riddle & Co.,1914
Belgium sive Inferior Germania post omnes..
Early map of the Low Countries, engraved by Abraham Goos and published for the first time in 1618. In the top border town-views of Amsterdam, Dordrecht, Antwerp, and Brus...
Date: Amsterdam, 1618/1631
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[Beatles]
Plate III from Carl Gustav Jablonsky and J.F.W. Herbst: "Natursystem aller bekannten in- und ausländischen Insecten", engraved by Bodenehr. Carl Gustav Jablons...
Date: Berlin, J. Pauli, 1785-1806
Carte populaire des opérations de la guerre. 2ème édition.
Folding map. War Operations Map showing a part of Europe, published by Epinal.
Date: Paris, ca. 1919
Asiae Nova Apud Hudo Allardt. / Nova et exacta Asiae geograpicha descriptio.
Rare map of Asia, with relief shown pictorially. Shows Great wall of China and the mythical island of Yedso north of Japan. Title at head of map: Nova et exacta Asiae geo...
Date: Amsterdam, 1660-1665
Tabula Asiae I.
Uncommon first edition of this classical map of Turkey, prepared by Ptolemy.Girolamo Ruscelli's edition of Ptolemy's Geographia included newly engraved copperplates by Gi...
Date: Venice, 1561
Corte ende waerachtige beschrijvinghe van het Fort de Schencken-Schans. . .
Map of the Schencken-Schans fortress printed with text. Text in Dutch and French.
Date: Antwerp, 1635
Carte des Détroits Singapore, Durain..
An exceptionally rare nautical chart of Singapore and direct vicinity issued by Urban Dortet de Tessan, under the patronage of Louis Philippe I of France. When Singapore...
Date: Paris, 1848
Carte D'Amerique divisée en ses principaux Pays Dressée sur les Mémoires les plus recents, et sur differents Voyages et assujettie aux Observations Astronomiques de Mrs. de l'Academie Royal des Sciences Par Mr. l'Abbe Clouet . . . 1774.
The rare 1774 edition of this fine map of the western hemisphere published by Clouet in Rouen. A later edition with the date 1787 also exists. With inset map "Carte ...
Date: Paris, 1774
Gelriae, Cliviae, Finitimorumque Locorum Verissima..
East to the top. Fine map of Geldria and Limburg, prepared by Christian s'Grooten. Very fine title cartouche lower right with painter's utensils around the cartouche. ...
Date: Antwerp, 1598
Compartimento Pisano.
Very finely engraved and detailed map centered on Pisa, including Livorno. Centered on the lower part, an inset plan of Pisa. Lower left corner, a key. Engraved by Vetto...
Date: Rome, 1860
Art Deco gouache with Japanese scene.
Lovely art-deco gouache by Lucien Baubaut of an elaborately robed Japanese woman. The colors are simply stunning jewel-toned emerald, violet, deep purple, saffron and tan...
Date: Paris, ca. 1930
De Landvoogdy der Moluccos met de Aangrenzende Eylanden . . .
Two charts on one sheet depicting the Moluccas islands. Little interior detail is given but the coastlines, settlements and principal coastal features are identified. To ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1726
L'Europe divisée en tous ses états, dressée sur les nouveaux mémoires et suivant les dernières observations.
Rare wall map of the European continent, published by the Parisian publisher Sébastien G. Longchamp.The map is surrounded by a magnificent Rococo-style frame decorated w...
Date: Paris, 1757
Carte Routière de la Pologne indiquant les partages de ce Royaume…
Carte Routière de la Pologne indiquant les partages de ce Royaume qui ont été faits depuis 1772, 1795 &a". Map prepared by Hérisson and published by Basset. ...
Date: Paris, Basset, 1831
Conversing by the Scented Pool.
Lovely art deco pochoir by Russo-Italo artist Endré (Andrew de Passano) 1905-93. Exotic and gorgeously colored Art Deco print of an elaborately robed Chinese couple, cle...
Date: Paris, ca. 1930
Karte von dem groessten Theil des Landes Jemen Imame, Kaukeban &c.
Large map of Yemen from "Allgemeiner grosser Atlas" published by P. J. Schalbacher - 1786-1800. Based on the observations of the Danish explorer Carsten Niebuhr...
Date: Vienna, 1789
Département de Montenotte Divisé en 4 arrondissemens et en 30 cantons.
Published in the "Atlas National de France" at Chanlaire. Engraved by P.A.F. Tardieu. Represents the department of Apennines which was under French administrati...
Date: Paris, 1790-1811
United States.
A lovely large map of the Untied States, as it was at the time of publication. Each state shown in a different outline color. Nothing is shown west of Louisiana, Arkansas...
Date: London, 1839
Les Jouissance du Juste Milieu.
[The Joys of the Happy Medium.] A waiter is about to serve a customer with a clyster pump and water jug. It looks as though the man has a 'menu' in one hand. On another t...
Date: Paris, ca 1820
The island of Formosa.
A small, but historically important map of Taiwan (the first American lithograph of Taiwan) made by the American Commodore Matthew C. Perry and published by Ackerman. The...
Date: New York, 1856
![Chambery / Turo / Coucy le Chateau. . . [5 prints]](/uploads/cache/14386-250x250.jpg)
Chambery / Turo / Coucy le Chateau. . . [5 prints]
A set of 5 prints. A nice view of Chambery: in Savoie; a charming view of Coucy le Chateau, engraved by Picquenot; a very fine plan of Tours, including a lettered key on ...
Date: Paris, 1580 -1750
West Indies.
A fine, detailed steel engraved map comprising Florida, Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, the Windward, and the Leeward Islands, the northern Columbian coastline, Panama, Gu...
Date: London, 1839
Illuminated leaf from a liturgical Psalter.
Rare illuminated leaf from a liturgical Psalter in Latin with the reading from the Vulgate Bible. Lines in a slightly irregular gothic hand, black ink, plummet ruling. Ve...
Date: England, c. 1280
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Wilhem Hoffmann Dresden.
Chromo lithographed poster, "Wilhelm Hoffmann Dresden.", after Otto Fischer. Plate 127, published in Maître 32, on July 1898. The "Les Maitres de l'Affich...
Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, April 1896
Comitatus Flandria.
Second state of this scarce Carte-a-Figures of Flanders, published by Peter Verbiest in Antwerp decorated with 3 side panels without bottom border (variant of the second ...
Date: Antwerp, 1637
Carte De L'Indostan Servant à Indiquer Les Possessions Françaises En Asie.
Map of a part of Asia, with Sri Lanka, From " Nouvel Atlas du royaume de France, ou cartes détaillées des Gaules, de la France à l'époque de 1789, des 86 départ...
Date: Paris, 1826
Carte de L'Egypte de la Nubie de L'Abissinie..
Including the Arabian Peninsula. Giving good detail on Egypt. Engraved by Desrosiers. Address and date changed, now with the imprint "A Paris Chez l’Auteur sur le ...
Date: Paris, November 1707
Great or Asiatick Tartary, Agreeable to Modern History.
A map from the Frozen Ocean in the north to Usbec Tartary in the south, from Moscow in the west to China Tartary and Peking in the east. Rivers and mountains feature prom...
Date: London, ca. 1727
Carte du Paraguay du Chili.
A finely engraved, detailed map of the southern half of South America. Prepared by de l'Isle with the imprint "Chez l’Auteur sur le Quai de l’Horloge avec Privil...
Date: Paris, L. Renard, 1703
Vue de Nangasaki
View over the town from the water, identifying clearly Deshima with Japanese sloops in the fore ground. Engraved by Alp.Boilly.
Date: Paris, 1842
![[Title page] Atlas Novus Terrarum Orbis Imperia. . .](/uploads/cache/49113-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Atlas Novus Terrarum Orbis Imperia. . .
The lovely title page from Homann's Grosser Atlas uber de Gantsa Welt (Grand Atlas of all the World)with striking color and features. It shows Atlas and Hercules / Herakl...
Date: Nuremberg, ca 1737
