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The Pathways of Empire Delineated: Map Showing The Steam Comunication And Overland Routes between England, India, China & Australia…
An illuminating and attractive map that illustrates one of the foundations of British imperial power--the key trade routes by both land and sea between England and its fa...
Date: London, 1856
![Venecie. [Venice] Foliu XLIIII.](/uploads/cache/49420-250x250.jpg)
Venecie. [Venice] Foliu XLIIII.
A very fine panoramic view of Venice (192x525mm.) Verso a view of Padua. Schedel's view of Venice is one of the earliest obtainable views of the city. The view is based o...
Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
II Regno di Francia Diviso in Provincie e Governi ove su`Le Frontiere di esso Rappresenta il Teatro della Guerre di Flandria Germania Savoja e Lombardia.
Very rare wall map of France depicting "The Kingdom of France divided into Provinces and Governments with on its borders the Theater of War of Flanders, Germany, Sav...
Date: Naples, 1704
![[Figura del Mondo universale].](/uploads/cache/48963-250x250.jpg)
[Figura del Mondo universale].
Münster's map of the World is one of the most recognized world maps of the 16th Century. Italian text edition published in Cologne without the title. This example is fro...
Date: Arnold Birckmann heirs, Cologne, 1575
Introduction a la Geographie
Engraved title, with 91 double-page engraved maps mostly including European nations, but including World and continents, Turkey, the Holy Land, Persia, China, Japan, Egyp...
Date: Paris, 1756
Pagus Helvetiae Abbatiscellanus .. Valle Rhenana. . .
Scarce. A splendid map of the Swiss Alps, the area south west of the Boden See and west of the River Rhine, centered on Appenzell, St. Gallen. Engraved by Tobias C. Lotte...
Date: Augsbourg, 1760
Serenissimae Reipublicae Genuensis Ducatus et Dominii.
Includes the coast of the Riviera from Nice to La Spezia. A most decorative and rare map because it was only included in the Vrients' editions of the Ortelius Theatrum . ...
Date: Antwerp, 1609-1641
![[Lower half] Amerique Septentrionale avec les Routes, Distances en miles, Limites et Etablissements François et Anglois Par le Docteur Mitchel Traduit de 'Anglois..](/uploads/cache/49378-250x250.jpg)
[Lower half] Amerique Septentrionale avec les Routes, Distances en miles, Limites et Etablissements François et Anglois Par le Docteur Mitchel Traduit de 'Anglois..
This is the important 1777 Georges Le Rouge French edition of the seminal John Mitchell map of the eastern part of North America. The Mitchell map is considered the singl...
Date: Paris, 1777
Insula Tiberina.
View of the Tiber Island depicted as a ship, showing the Temple of Aesculapius, the obelisk and other monuments. Printed by Giovanni Orlandi in1602 from a copperplate or...
Date: Rome, 1585-1602
![America Settentrionale Colle Nuove Scoperte Sin All Anno 1688. . . (together with] America meridionale . . .](/uploads/cache/49063-250x250.jpg)
America Settentrionale Colle Nuove Scoperte Sin All Anno 1688. . . (together with] America meridionale . . .
Gorgeous example of Coronelli's famous four- sheet map of America. One of the best examples of California as an island. The map also includes extensive annotations on the...
Date: Venice, 1690
La Place de Saint Marc a Venise.
A very attractive Town plan of the place St Marc in Venice.Joan Blaeu published during his life three town books of Italy: Citta del Vaticano, Rome, and Napoli. By the ye...
Date: Amsterdam, 1705
![[12 volumes] Recueil des voyages qui ont servi à l'établissement et aux progrez de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales, forméedans les Provinces-Unies des Païs-Bas...](/uploads/cache/43700-250x250.jpg)
[12 volumes] Recueil des voyages qui ont servi à l'établissement et aux progrez de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales, forméedans les Provinces-Unies des Païs-Bas...
An important, richly illustrated compendium of the first Dutch voyages to East India, of great interest for the history and establishment of the Dutch global trade, parti...
Date: Rouen, Pierre Le Boucher, 1725
![[Naval battle].](/uploads/cache/49259-250x250.jpg)
[Naval battle].
The engraving was printed by Giovanni Orlandi in1602 from a copperplate originally engraved for the "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", with the imprints of Duc...
Date: Rome, 1585-1602
Plan of the City of Barcelona.
From Rapin's History of England , a nicely detailed plan of Barcelona, the capital of Catalonia. The plate contains a 19 point legend and the presentation is enhanced wit...
Date: London, c.1745
Petite Place de S. Marc.
View of St Mark’s Square, lithographed in Venice by G. Brizeghel, published here with French captions in "Album delle principali vedute di Venezia". In origi...
Date: Venice, c.1855
Leaf on vellum from a Missal.
A very fine Missal leaf, written in Latin. RECTO: A wonderful initial P decorated with pen work in red, purple and blue. The initial is 6x6cm. VERSO: 18 lines written in ...
Date: France, c. 1410
Tabulae Italiae, Corsicae, Sardiniae, et adjacentium..
A decorative map by this famous Dutch mapmaker. The border contains views of the main cities, largely inspired by the Civitates Orbis Terrarum by Braun & Hogenberg: R...
Date: Amsterdam, 1628,1640
Qua late patet S. Marci area major novum Regim Palatium versus.
Qua late patet S. Marci area major novum Regim Palatium versus". View of piazza San Marco, the church of San Geminiano at the far end, figures and market stalls in t...
Date: Venice, 1763
Veue du Pont de Rialto de Venise.
Spectaculair view of Rialto bridge in Venice. Joan Blaeu published during his life three town-books of Italy: Citta del Vaticano, Roma and Napoli. By the year 1672 a fire...
Date: Amsterdam, 1705
Prise de la ville de Venise le 3 floréal an 5.
Capture of the City of Venice on 3 Floréal, Year V", engraved by Pierre-Adrien Le Beau after Thomas-Charles Naudet. Deposited at the Bibliothèque nationale.During ...
Date: Paris, chez Jean, c. 1798
![Palatii farnesii Romae… duarum Herculis statuarum icones [Farnese Palace Interior].](/uploads/cache/49258-250x250.jpg)
Palatii farnesii Romae… duarum Herculis statuarum icones [Farnese Palace Interior].
The print, depicting the interior of the Palazzo Farnese in Rome, was printed by Giovanni Orlandi in1602 from a copperplate originally engraved for the "Speculum Ro...
Date: Rome, 1585-1602
Schlavoniae, Croatiae, Carniale.. Bosniae. . .
First state. Fine and early map of former Yugoslavia after a map of Hirschvogel (1552-1565) and used by A.Ortelius in his atlas 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [Atlas of the Who...
Date: Antwerp, 1579
Prospectus Plateae ad Divum Iacobum de Rivoalto ubi Mercatores conveniunt.
Prospectus Plateae ad Divum Iacobum de Rivoalto ubi Mercatores conveniunt. From the series "Prospectum Urbis Venetiarum" (Views of Venice). Published by Lodovic...
Date: Venice, c. 1763
Qua late patet S. Marci area major novum Regim Palatium versus.
Qua late patet S. Marci area major novum Regim Palatium versus". View of piazza San Marco, the church of San Geminiano at the far end, figures and market stalls in t...
Date: Venice, 1763
Canalis majoris caput qua Venetias ingreditur.
Canalis majoris caput qua Venetias ingreditur". A view of the Grand Canal with Santa Maria della Salute to the left after Canaletto.From the series of 12 views entit...
Date: Venice, c. 1766
Pacific Arena
A brightly colored second world war map covering the Pacific regions. Printed as Supplements to 'Fortune' in March 1942. This informative Pacific map comes with a good de...
Date: New York, 1942
Aedis Divi Rocchi facies rudis…
The Campo San Rocco. Title centred in the lower margin; “Mich. Marieschi del.t et inci.t” at the right corner of the cartouche. From the series "Magnificentiores...
Date: Venice, c. 1742
Veduta della Magnifica REGATA seguita in Venezia li 2. Aprile 1791 alla quale intervennero li Augusti Viaggiator.
Decorative engraving of a Venice regatta on the Grand Canal, by Teodoro Viero (1740-1819) after a paining by Canaletto.The tradition of Venetian origin of the race is lin...
Date: Venice, c. 1791
Secunda etas mundi. Folium XIII.
Schedel's world map was based on the cartographic system of Claudius Ptolemy, the great second-century AD geographer whose scholarship formed the foundation for map produ...
Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Estat De La Seigneurie De Venize en Italie.
Map of The Venetian Dominion inspired by the map of Jodocus Hondius. Published "A Paris Chez Pierre Marietti (sic), Rue Sainct Jacques A l'esperance". Decorated...
Date: Paris, ca. 1670
Pars Canalis Magni De Extendens A Laeva…
The Cannaregio on the Grand Canal, with the Ghetto in the background, seen from the Riva di Biasio. From the series "Magnificentiores Selectioresque Urbis Venetiarum...
Date: Venice, after 1757
Basilique S. Marc.
St Mark’s Basilica, lithographed in Venice by G. Brizeghel, published here with French captions in "Album delle principali vedute di Venezia". In original co...
Date: Venice, c.1855
A New and Accurate Map of the Kingdoms of Spain, Portugal and Part of France, The Islands of Majorca, Minorca &c.
Produced for “Universal Magazine” by J. Hinton. It was engraved by Richard William Seale (1703-1762). The map features an attractive rococo cartouche and compass ros...
Date: London, ca. 1760
Silesiae typus..
Fine and early map of Silesia after Martin Helwig (1516-1574) and used by A.Ortelius in his atlas 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [Atlas of the Whole World].Only included in the...
Date: Antwerp, 1598
Carte du theatre de la guerre L'Empire Ottoman ..
Very detailed and decorative map of the Ottoman Empire. Lower left a fine panoramic inset (185x80mm) with a view of Istanbul. Next to it a inset map of the Baltic Sea and...
Date: Rouen/ Paris, 1854
Orvis veteribus novi tabula nova. . .
Scarce map of the Ancient world, prepared by Nolin and published by L.J. Mondhare for his Atlas Général a l'usage des colleges et maisons d'education.. Louis Joseph Mon...
Date: Paris, 1781
A publica Bibliotheca ad majoris Canalis initium prospectus.
A publica Bibliotheca ad majoris Canalis initium prospectus". View of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, the column of San Teodoro at right, at left the Grand Canal,...
Date: Venice, 1763
![Carte de L'Amerique… / Carte Nouvelle de L'Europe Asie & Afrique… [Two sheets]](/uploads/cache/49267-250x250.jpg)
Carte de L'Amerique… / Carte Nouvelle de L'Europe Asie & Afrique… [Two sheets]
Rare. Two hemispheres printed on two sheets. A single decorative cartouche on each carries the title concluding with the imprint recorded above, and around each hemispher...
Date: Paris, 1661
A minore D: Marci Area Dalmatarum ripam.
A minore D: Marci Area Dalmatarum ripam". View of the Riva degli Schiavoni from the east including the Palazzo Ducale in the foreground. Apud Ludovicum Furlanetto su...
Date: Venice, c. 1763
The Situation in the Far East. (時局圖)
An unusual rendering of Tse's "Situation in the Far East". Tse Tsan-tai (1872-1939), a Chinese patriot, drew the original political cartoon in Hong Kong in 1899...
Date: China, n.d. but ca. 1980/1990
Prospectus Plateae et Ecclesiae Sancti Jacobi prope Pontem Rivi alti.
Prospectus Plateae et Ecclesiae Sancti Jacobi prope Pontem Rivi alti". The Church of San Giacomo di Rialto, at right Palazzo dei Dieci and the bridge of Rialto.From ...
Date: Venice, c. 1763
S. Georgii Majoris Ecclesiae prospectus.
S. Georgii Majoris Ecclesiae prospectus". S. Giorgio with the church and quay in sharp perspective.From the series "Prospectum Urbis Venetiarum" (Views of ...
Date: Venice, ca. 1791
Pons Rivoalti, utriumqque Ripae, et Aedes ad Orientem.
Pons Rivoalti, utriumqque Ripae, et Aedes ad Orientem." From the series "Prospectum Urbis Venetiarum" (Views of Venice). 1st state. Published by Lodovico F...
Date: Venice, 1763
Canalis majoris caput qua Venetias ingreditur.
Bucentaurus et Nundinae Venetae in die Ascensionis". The Doge leaving for the Lido on the Bucintoro on Ascension Day.From the series of 12 views entitled Feste Ducal...
Date: Venice, c. 1766
Habita a Serenissimo Duce in Basilica D.Marci ad populum allocutione…
Habita a Serenissimo Duce in Basilica D.Marci ad populum allocutione, ab eoque Dux salutatus, Armamentariorum humeris in sella gestatoria cum duobus proxime consanguineis...
Date: Venice, c. 1766-1770
Christophorus Clavius Bambergensis e societate iesu aetatis suae anno LXIX.
Rare portrait of Christopher Clavius or Clau (March 25, 1538 – February 12, 1612) was a German Jesuit mathematician and astronomer who was the main architect of the mod...
Date: Rome, 1606
Accuratissima Dominii Veneti in Italia..
Detailed and decorative map centered on Venice, Vicenze, Mantova, Parma and Bologna, extending from Stato di Milano and Genoa to Istria. Decorative title cartouche in upp...
Date: Amsterdam, c. 1690
Pons Rivoalti ad Occidentem, cum Aedibus Publicis utrique Lateri adjectis.
Pons Rivoalti ad Occidentem, cum Aedibus Publicis utrique Lateri adjectis."From the series "Prospectum Urbis Venetiarum" (Views of Venice). 1st state. Publ...
Date: Venice, 1763
Nova Europae descriptio.
Four panels in columns on each side show portraits of Kings and Queens of European countries. The top border contains panoramas of Rome, Amsterdam, Paris, London, Seville...
Date: Amsterdam, c. 1660
A cidade de Angra na ilha de Iesuxpo da Tercera..
Spectacular perspective view of the harbour and town of Angra on the island of Terceira in the Azores. It was at the time an important port and administrative centre of t...
Date: Amsterdam, 1598
![Venditori di pesci (Anguele). Marchands de petite poissons. [Fish Sellers of Venice]](/uploads/cache/49430-250x250.jpg)
Venditori di pesci (Anguele). Marchands de petite poissons. [Fish Sellers of Venice]
Small Fish Sellers. From a series of lithographs depicting various Venetian trades, published in Venice by Galvani. Subjects include genre figures such as fishmongers, ch...
Date: Venice, c. 1835
![Ornithon sive Aviarum M. Varronis Pyrro.Ligorio.Neap.inv. [The reconstruction by Pirro Ligorio of the aviary of Marcus Varro].](/uploads/cache/49261-250x250.jpg)
Ornithon sive Aviarum M. Varronis Pyrro.Ligorio.Neap.inv. [The reconstruction by Pirro Ligorio of the aviary of Marcus Varro].
The print, depicting the reconstruction by Pirro Ligorio of the aviary of Marcus Varro in Rome, was printed by Giovanni Orlandi in 1602 from a copperplate originally eng...
Date: Rome, 1581-1602
Magnae Britaniae Tabula; Comprehendens Angliae, Scotiae, Ac Hiberniae Regna . . .
Rare Dutch map of the British Isles in very attractive full original color. In this state the wording "Scilly Isles" is added. A decorative title cartouche in t...
Date: Amsterdam, after 1694
(Set of 4 maps) Itinéraire de Pékin à Sartchy
Set of 4 geological maps from the "Nouvelle Archives du Museum" printed by Becquet.1) Route de Pekin a Suen-Hoa-Fou2) Route de Thae-Seu-Tchouang aux tentes mong...
Date: Paris, ca. 1880
Logement des troupes de la garnison. . .
Seven coupons "Logement des troupes de la garnison ce billet servira pour trente nuits" giving a soldier the right for housing at 738 Rue de Venus in Antwerp in...
Date: Antwerp, 1813
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
Russia & Poland.
Charming, folding map of Russia and Poland, giving a detailed overview of Europe from Baltic to Caspian Sea. Railways and rivers prominently delineated.In lower left a ke...
Date: London, ca. 1890
Itinera Varia Auctoris.
From A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, and of some other rare and undescribed Animals, Quadrupeds, Reptiles, fishes, insects, &c.. The map shows Edwards' journeys ...
Date: London, 1746
Carte des Isles Nicobar... (with) Plan particulier du Port compris entre les Isles Nacaveri, Souri, et Tricutte.
French chart of Isles of Nicobar in Gulf of Bengal near Birmanie and Sumatra. Prepared by Jacques-François L'Abbé Dicquemare (1733-1789). Latitude and longitude scales,...
Date: Paris, Brest, chez Demonville, 1775
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
Walachia Servia, Bulgaria, Romania.
The cartographer of this map was Gerard Mercator. This attractive map of the Eastern Balkans is centered on Bulgaria and includes the Bosphorus and Constantinople. The Da...
Date: Oxford, 1680
Universalis Cosmographia.
A very desirable cordiform (heart-shaped) world map from Johann Honter's 'Rudimentum'. The map is a reduced version of Waldseemüller's and Apianus' earlier world maps. T...
Date: Zurich, Froschauer, ca. 1546/1548
Leaf on vellum from a printed Book of Hours.
21 lines of printed text, surrounded by renaissance borders decorated with flowers, vases, religious scenes and a figure symbolizing the Danse Macabre consists of the dea...
Date: Paris, Germain Hardouyn, c.1520-1540
Tabula Secunda Europe (Spain & Portugal)
Wood block printed large-format Ptolemaic map of the Iberian Peninsula from the 1513 edition of Waldseemüller's Geographia.This Ptolemaic map comes from the first so cal...
Date: Strasburg, 1513
Geological Survey of Victoria.
The portfolio with the gold stamped title "Geological Survey of Victoria", contains 51 sheets maps. There is a pocket attached to the inside front cover contain...
Date: Mining and Geological Department, Melbourne, ca. 1864
![[Lot of 10 leaves] Catalogus doctorum…in Cosmographia Sebastiani…/ Index Cosmographicus.](/uploads/cache/48294-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 10 leaves] Catalogus doctorum…in Cosmographia Sebastiani…/ Index Cosmographicus.
Ten leaves with several wood blocks with index taken from the "Cosmographia". From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and ...
Date: Basel, 1552
Cygnus.
Uncommon celestial print of Cygnus, published by Corbinianus Thomas in the Manuductio ad Astronomiam, Juxta modum Bayeri, Mathematici celeberrimi, concinnata, multis,…e...
Date: Frankfurt / Leipzig, c.1730
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
![[Lot of 2 maps] Map of part of New South Wales Australia shewing position of Commonwealth Territory / Map of New South Wales Australia…](/uploads/cache/49457-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 2 maps] Map of part of New South Wales Australia shewing position of Commonwealth Territory / Map of New South Wales Australia…
Two maps depicting the region of New South Wales and the area designated as the future Commonwealth Territory (which later became the Australian Capital Territory).The fi...
Date: Department of Lands, Sydney NSW, 1911
Nieuwe Hemels Spiegel waer door den hemel, aerde en zee dadelik kan afgemeten werden. Noyt gesien en dat op alles Polus hooghten seer noodig voor Stierlieden.
Copper engraving made by Andreas van Luchtenburg in Rotterdam, published separately by Cornelis Danckerts. We see the starry sky as observed from the northern hemispher...
Date: Danckerts, ca. 1700
Carte Reduite, des Cotes De L'Acadie, de L'Isle Royale, et de la Partie Meridionale de L'Isle de Terre Neuve.
An important chart of Nova Scotia, southern Newfoundland and the Grand Banks, prepared after Chabert's voyage to Canada to update the French charts of Eastern Canada. It ...
Date: Paris, 1753
Americae Nova Descriptio.
Final state. According to Philip Burden, "this scarce map is America's first single-sheet map with decorative borders." A re-issue of the 1614 plate by Pieter v...
Date: Amsterdam, 1652
Potentissimo Borussorum Regi Friderico Wilhelmo...
Large and sought-after 2-sheet map of an area of Lithuania and Eastern Prussia (Russian province of Kaliningrad) stretching from Klaipeda (Memel) in the north to Goldap i...
Date: Nuremberg, 1735
![[Rare double hemisphere celestial chart]](/uploads/cache/41404-250x250.jpg)
[Rare double hemisphere celestial chart]
Rare double hemisphere celestial chart, published by Jollain in 1667. Published in "Trésor Des Cartes Geographiques Des Principaux Estats de Lunivers".This atl...
Date: Paris, 1667
L'Italia Settentrionale presa da quella del Sig. Zannoni.
Rare map of Italy with inset map with Corsica and Sardinia, from "Atlante Novissimo ad uso Dei Giovani Studiosi Contenuto In Carte XXVII.", published by Giovann...
Date: Rome, 1780
Topographical map of Hokkaido with localities of useful minerals.
Bilingual (English/Japanese) topographic map (1:1,500,000) of Hokkaido Island detailing the distribution of mineral deposits and mining sites (“useful minerals”), pub...
Date: Hokkaidōchō (Gouvernement de Hokkaidō), Sapporo, 1891
Canberra Contour Survey.
An important large-scale folding map by Charles Scrivener of the present-day city of Canberra, featuring contour lines and elevation data, created as part of the prelimin...
Date: Department of Lands, Sydney N.S.W. July, 1909
![Insulae Philippinae [Philippines].](/uploads/cache/49446-250x250.jpg)
Insulae Philippinae [Philippines].
A miniature map of Philippines, centered on Mindanao and Luzon. Title cartouche on the upper left corner. First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were e...
Date: Amsterdam, 1598/ca. 1600
Diocesi Padovana Con Tutta La Sua Estensione Ne Vicini Territori.
This large map depicts the entire extent of the Diocese of Padua and the surrounding territories, with a detailed topographical rendering. It features rich Baroque ornam...
Date: Padova, 1720
Planisferio Celeste contenente le stelle dalla 1 alla 5 grandezza. . .
Decorative large double hemisphere celestial chart, centred on the north and south poles with descriptive key to zodiac signs in German, French and Italian. Showing stars...
Date: Milan, c.1822
