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![Hanc Tabulam continens Laetam Pharnambuci.. . [Brazil].](/uploads/cache/16521-250x250.jpg)
Hanc Tabulam continens Laetam Pharnambuci.. . [Brazil].
An extremely rare and decorative map of coast-line of Pernambuco. With one inset: In the upper left corner a map of Brazil, with title in five lines Dutch and five lines ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
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...
Place & Date: Milan, 1807
A new map of the English Empire in America. . .
This fine English map of eastern North America including Canada engraved by John Harris and first published by Robert Morden. John Senex acquired and made minor alteratio...
Place & Date: London, 1720
Nova Africa descriptio.
A beautifully engraved and most attractive "carte à figures"- map of the African continent. Bordered, above, by panels showing panorama's of Cairo, Alexandria,...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1660
Middelbourg Ville la plus considerable de l'Isle de Walcheren et du Comté de Zelande l'une des huit provinces Unis des pais-bas . .
A very decorative and extremely rare of Middelburg, including a numbered (1-19) key in lower part. Published by Jacques Chéreau, (1688 - 1776). Engraved by Aveline and ...
Place & Date: Paris, ca.1750
Entrée des forêts de la rivière Sedger. . .
Exquisite contemporary colored lithograph of Sedger's river in the Chili, with as seen by Dumont D'Urville's, with Indians. Drawn by Louis Le Breton, lithographed by Bich...
Place & Date: Paris, 1846
Rivage du port Saint-Nicolas.
Exquisite contemporary colored lithograph of Port Saint-Nicolmas Bay in most southern part of South America, with Dumont D'Urville's officers making landfall. Drawn by E....
Place & Date: Paris, 1846
Carte nouvelle de Moscovie represente la partie Septentrionale dressée par G.De L'Isle. . .
Uncommon map covering the area north of Moscow, including Lapland. Prepared by G. de L'Isle.Joachim Ottens (1663 - 1719) and his sons Renier and Joshua were prominent Dut...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Occidentalis Americae partis.
The most beautifully engraved early map of the Caribbean, including Florida and the Southeast. The map includes representations of Columbus' ships and various notes regar...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594
Nieuwe Wassende Graadige Pas-kaart van de Kust van Guinea en Brasilia.
Rare two-sheet sea chart of the coasts of Brazil, West Africa and South Africa, published by Johannes Van Keulen (the younger), circa 1720.The chart shows the western coa...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1751
Americae Sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio.
This is the second copperplate of Ortelius' map showing the western hemisphere, showing the prominent bulge in the South American coastline. An important map because of i...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1579
Kaartje van Asia. . .
Attractive and rare map of Asia. From Atlas Portatif . With a curious and oversized Hokkaido. The map is of interest for the use of Corease Zee for the sea between Korea ...
Place & Date: Deventer, 1742
DANSEUSE. Costumes Persans 9.
A beautiful hand colored lithograph of an elegant dancing girl from Persia published in the French work "Galerie Royale de Costumes peints d´après nature par diver...
Place & Date: Paris, Chez Aubert & Cie., 1842-1848
Penisola Dell India di la dal Gange Diusa ne i Regni, che in essasi contengono et accresciuta di varie notizie. Da Giacomo Cantelli da Vignola e conforme le Relationi di alcuni Padri della Compa di Giesu di Monsu Tavernier . . . 1683
Giacomo Rossi's fine late 17th century map of Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia and part of Sumatra.. Engraved by Franciscus Donia. Issued in Il Mercurio geografico In lower r...
Place & Date: Rome, 1683-1688
![The Coast of New Found Land From Salmon Cove to Cape Bonavista. . . [together with] The Coast of New Found Land from Cape-Raze to Cape St-Francis.](/uploads/cache/40658-250x250.jpg)
The Coast of New Found Land From Salmon Cove to Cape Bonavista. . . [together with] The Coast of New Found Land from Cape-Raze to Cape St-Francis.
Two charts showing the coast of New Found Land from Salmon Cove to Cape Bonavista and from Cape-Raze to Cape St-Francis. With inset chart of Trinity HarborGrierson publis...
Place & Date: Dublin, 1767
The Harbour of Casco Bay and Islands Adjacent Bt Capt. Cyprian Southicke.
The earliest printed chart of Casco Bay, an inlet of the Gulf of Maine on the southern coast of Maine, New England. First issued in 1720 by Mount and Page, it remained in...
Place & Date: Dublin, 1767
Nova Virginiae Tabula.
A fine example of Blaeu's map of Virginia and the Chesapeake region is based on the first state of Smith's map, 1612, and is slightly larger and more expertly engraved.Th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Die Alte Stadt.
Chromo lithographed poster, "Die Alt Stadt - Ausstellung des Saechsischen Handwerks und Kunstgewerbes Dresden 1896", by Otto Fischer. Plate 68, published in Mai...
Place & Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, April 1897
Insularum Moluccarum Nova description.
Exquisite map of the famous Spice Islands based on the islands described by Jan Huyghen van Linschoten. This map was the first large-scale map of the region and depicts t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1730
Course de Baque et Disposition des Quadrilles, dans l'Amphiteatre seconde journée.
An early and intriguing engraving recording one of the most celebrated and spectacular festivals held at Paris by the young Louis XIV. The multi-day tournament took place...
Place & Date: Paris, imprimerie royale, 1670
(Totius Americae nova et exacta tabula ex) optimis tum geographorum tum aliorum scriptis collecta et ad hodiernam regnorum principatuum et maiorum partium distinctionem accomodata.
Eastern part of a two-sheet map of America, with attribution to Willem Blaeu. According to Philip Burden, the map was derived from Cornelius Danckert's 1647 map of the sa...
Place & Date: Rome, 1679
Piazza e tempio di Santa Maria della Rotonda gia l'Antico Pantheon.
Monumental engraving showing the Pantheon in Rome, in its setting, with below a ground-plan and elevation. Fountain in front, adjacent buildings and carriages and people ...
Place & Date: Rome, 1693
La Basilica Vaticana consacrata al Principe de gli Apostoli . . .
Monumental engraving showing the Papal Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican, in its setting, with below a coat of arms with dedication to Cardinal Sigismondo Chigi. Obili...
Place & Date: Rome, 1693
Palatinatus Rheni Nova et Accurata Descriptio.
Early state (1630) of Visscher's "carte à figures"- map of the German Rhine River Valley. Inset views of Frankfurt am Main, Mainz, Speyer, Worms and Heidelberg...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
![[Bantam].](/uploads/cache/37970-250x250.jpg)
[Bantam].
Text engravings from "Premier livre de l'histoire de la navigation aux Indes Orientales, par les hollandois, et des choses a eux advenues . . . ", being the cla...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornille Nicolas, 1609
![[Incas lay siege to Cusco.]](/uploads/cache/40353-250x250.jpg)
[Incas lay siege to Cusco.]
Atahualpa’s brother, Manco, organized a long and bloody siege to reoccupy the Inca capital, which eventually spread to open rebellion throughout the land. Pizarro, who ...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Selling price: $75
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![[The Dutch covalesce on the Isle Santa Clara.]](/uploads/cache/40359-250x250.jpg)
[The Dutch covalesce on the Isle Santa Clara.]
Fanciful map of the Island of Santa Clara (Isla Do Francez), as seen by the Dutch in 1599, during the exploration of Olivier de Noort, published by Theodore de Bry, one y...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, M.Merian, 1633
Ses Amputations se Poursuivent Methodiquement.
Propaganda map, produced under the NAZI collaborating Vichy French regime and designed to inspire revulsion and hatred of the English among the French, while frequently d...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1941 / ca. 1960
World Flight Routes (all in Japanese).
A large very decorative Japanese world map published as sugoroku (a Japanese game which might be compared to backgammon) published as a supplement to the 1930 New Year’...
Place & Date: Osaka, 1930
Carte Astronomique de L'Univers.
A large and decorative, informative chart illustrating and describing the Solar System, backed by the stars, printed in blue and black, surrounded by further 17 vignette ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1875
![[Soil map] Virginia-Maryland-West Virginia, Leesburg sheet.](/uploads/cache/23257-250x250.jpg)
[Soil map] Virginia-Maryland-West Virginia, Leesburg sheet.
Early color lithographed soil map by Julius Bien & Co. in New York for Department of Agriculture. Legends at side give detail on soil type, etc. They also include int...
Place & Date: New York, 1903
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[Butterflies]
Plate CXXIV from Carl Gustav Jablonsky and J.F.W. Herbst: "Natursystem aller bekannten in- und ausländischen Insecten", engraved by Bodenehr. Carl Gustav Jablo...
Place & Date: Berlin, J. Pauli, 1785-1806
![[Portrait] Johannes Baptista Homann . . .](/uploads/cache/36599-250x250.jpg)
[Portrait] Johannes Baptista Homann . . .
Stunning full portrait of the Imperial Geographer of the Holy Roman Empire, Johann Baptist Homann (1664-1724) who was born in the Bavarian town of Kammlach. Educated at a...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, c.1740
Nouvelle Carte des dix-sept Provinces des Pays-Bas.
Map of the 17 provinces of the Netherlands. In an inset upper left corner 17 coats of arms of each province and vignettes. The Channel is filled with Naval battles fought...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1720
A-Na-Cam-E-Gish-Ca. A Chippeway Chief.
Half-length portrait of Anacamegishca, bare-chested, wearing a blanket and a peace medal. A-Na-Cam-E-Gish-Ca (1785-1862) - was a Chippeway Indian Chief. The Chippewa is o...
Place & Date: Philadelphia, 1837
Ca-Ta-He-Cas-Sa-Black Hoof. Principal Chief of the Shawanoes.
Half-length portrait of Catahecassa wearing a dark colored jacked, grey vest, white shirt, and grey head scarf.A wonderful hand colored lithograph of Ca-Ta-He-Cas-Sa-Blac...
Place & Date: Philadelphia, 1837
Major Ridge. A Cherokee Chief.
Head and shoulders portrait of Major Ridge,(1771-1839) wearing a blue jacket, gold or yellow vest, white shirt, and black cravat. A Cherokee Chief, who as a Cherokee lead...
Place & Date: Philadelphia, 1837
Abrahamus Ortelius Antuerpianus cosmographus natus a. MDXXVII
Portrait of Abraham Ortelius (Abraham Ortel), famous cartographer born in Antwerp and after studying Greek, Latin and mathematics set up a business there with his sister,...
Place & Date: Antwerp, c.1650
Selling price: $225
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ABRAHAMUS ORTELIUS ANTVERPIANUS Orteli dum proponis spectantibus Orbem, Quam tua delectant structa Theatra homines! . . .
Portrait of Abraham Ortelius (Abraham Ortel), famous cartographer born in Antwerp and after studying Greek, Latin and mathematics set up business there with his sister, a...
Place & Date: Antwerp, c.1595
Christophorus Columbus Liguriensis Indiarum Primus Inventor Anno MCCCCXCII.
Portrait of Christopher Columbus (c. 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506), explorer, colonizer, and navigator, born in the Republic of Genoa, in north-western Italy. Under th...
Place & Date: Antwerp, c.1700
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2023
Allerneuester geographisch- und topographischer Schau-Platz von Africa und Ost-Indien. . .
An early issue of this important book by Johann Wolfgang Heydt's describing the Dutch factories, settlements and stations at the hands of the Dutch East India Company in ...
Place & Date: Wilhermsdorf, Tetscher u. Nürnberg, Homanns Erben, 1744
MG Militair Gezag. De schakel tusschen de Geallieerden en Nederland.
Poster on the Allied military cooperation published by the Dutch Military Government. The poster has three colorful linked rings against a dark black and blue background....
Place & Date: London, James Haworth & Brother LTD, 1944 - 1945
Één doel - Één wil. (Koninklijke Marine)
Poster on the Allied military cooperation published by the Dutch Military Government. ¨Poster with stylised portraits of an infantryman, airman and sailor, turned in pro...
Place & Date: London, James Haworth & Brother LTD, 1944 - 1945
De Pen Gun Weekblad voor de Nederlandsche Strijdkrachten.
Poster designed by Willem Anthonie Oepts (1904 - 1988), published by the Dutch Military Government for "De Pen gun".The designer Willem Anthonie Oepts (1904 - 1...
Place & Date: Weert, Smeets, 1945
A Newe mape of Poland Done into English by I.Speede.
A wonderful map of Poland. Incorporated into Speed's 'Prospect Of The Most Famous Parts Of The World.' Includes birds-eye views of Cracow, Dantzick, Posna, Crossen, Sando...
Place & Date: London, 1627
U.R.S.S. Energie Eléctrique. (5)
Map of Russia. Publicity poster for Russia's electrical production. Text in French. Editions de l'Agence de presse Novosti".More about War Maps & Propaganda maps...
Place & Date: USSR, 1978
Perspective print by Vredeman de Vries. 5
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 ...
Place & Date: The Hague, 1604 - 1605
Carte du Canada ou de la Nouvelle France.
A later edition of Guillaume De l'Isle's map. It still includes the fictitious discoveries of Baron de Lahoutan: the legendary River Longue etc. The northwest corner of H...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1730
Hamburgum.
Engraved bird's-eye town-plan of Hamburg, two keys below. Frederick de Wit published after 1694 a town book of European and Asian cities (Theatrum Praecipuarum Totius Eur...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1694
Germania.
Second state of this rare "carte à figures"- map of Germany, The Netherlands, Poland and central Europe. Bordered on three sides with portraits and views. In t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1607
Asia secunda pars in forma Pegasi.
UNRECORDED PLATE or STATE. Asia depicted as the flying horse Pegasus. Below the depiction 3 lines of engraved Latin text. Double page copper engraved map from Heinrich BÃ...
Place & Date: Brunswick, ca. 1635
Die Zyp / La Zype.
A miniature map showing the polder of De Zype. Title cartouche in the upper side.First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were executed by the most famou...
Place & Date: Amsterdam / Frankfurt, 1609
Guyana, Surinam, Amapa.
Very rare Ottoman printed map of Guyana, Suriname and Amapa. With Trinidad, an inset map of the mouth of the Rivers Essequibo, Courantyne, Suriname with Paramaribo.From C...
Place & Date: Uskudar (Istanbul), 1803
Selling price: $1750
Sold in 2024
Oost-Frise, ou Le Comté d'Embden . . .
Fine map of East Friesland with a decorative cartouche and small scale of miles.Alexis-Hubert Jaillot (1632-1712), was a French cartographer. He joined the Sanson heirs a...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1692
Military map of the countries between Odessa & Perekop with the stations of the Russian forces.
Rare colored linen-backed map showing Russian troop positions and Odessa Batteries. On the inside of the cover a list of "Wyld's list of recent publications : seat o...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1855
Pascarte van Europa Beginnende vande Canael tot aen Spitbergen, en van Ysland tot aen Nova Zemla . . .
An eye-catching chart of northern Europe with a coastline from northern Russia to the Dutch English Channel in the south. Good detail on Iceland. North to the top.In the ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1666
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
14 Lines of text in Latin and three 1-line initials in blue on colored grounds.RECTO: 14 Lines of text in Latin and three 1-line initials in blue on colored grounds with ...
Place & Date: France, ca.1470
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
14 Lines of text in Latin and three 1-line initials in blue on colored grounds.RECTO: 14 Lines of text in Latin and four 1-line initials in blue on colored grounds with l...
Place & Date: France, ca.1470
Carte des Iles Hawaii.
A lovely small map of the complete chain of Pacific islands known today as the Hawaiian islands, from Dumont d'Urville's atlas "Voyage pittoresque autour du Monde.&q...
Place & Date: Paris, 1834
Gustaaf Willem Baron van Imhoff.
Decorative portrait of Gustaaf Willem Baron van Imhoff, who was Governor for the V.O.C. (Dutch East Indian Company) in Indonesia.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1745
Americae Pars Magis Cognita. Chorographia nobilis & opulentae Peruanae Provinciae, atque Brasiliae, . . . MDXCII
First state. Although a map of South America it does include much of what is now the southern United States. There are two elaborate, strap-work cartouches with the one a...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1592
![Tabula electoratus Brandenburgici, Meckelenburgi, et maximae partis Pomeraniae, ex variis, famosissimisq[ue] auctoribus summo studio concinnata. . .](/uploads/cache/37545-250x250.jpg)
Tabula electoratus Brandenburgici, Meckelenburgi, et maximae partis Pomeraniae, ex variis, famosissimisq[ue] auctoribus summo studio concinnata. . .
Uncommon "carte à figures"- map engraved by the master engraver Abraham Goos and published by Claes Jansz. Visscher (1587-1652). The map shows the part of west...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Plan of Yonkers Town of Yonkers Westchester Co. N.Y. . . .
Fine lithographed map of Yonkers, New York. The map provides the names of specific homeowners, as well as information about the occupations and physical locations of the ...
Place & Date: New York, 1867
Plan of the Borough of New Rochelle, Westchester Co. N.Y.
Fine lithographed map of the plan of the Borough of New Rochelle. The map provides the names of specific homeowners, as well as information about the occupations and phys...
Place & Date: New York, 1867
Plan of the Beekmanton Tarryntown and Ivring. Westchester Co. N.Y.
Fine lithographed map of the plan of the Beekmantown, Tarrytown, and Irving, New York. The map provides the names of specific homeowners, as well as information about the...
Place & Date: New York, 1867
L'Arabie.
Small detailed map of the Arabian Peninsula. From Atlas Portatif Universel, by Robert de Vaugondy.Page 162 outside border top right.
Place & Date: Paris, later than 1749
New Jersey entworfen von D.F. Sotzmann. Hamburg bey Carl Ernst Bohn 1796 . . . NO.VIII
Extremely rare map of New Hampshire prepared by Daniel Friedrich Sotzmann for Christopher Ebeling's "Erdbeschreibung von Amerika", a project ended after only te...
Place & Date: Hamburg, Carl Ernst Bohn, 1797
Die Insel Formosa neu abgemessen auf Befehl Kaysers Kamhi.
One of the earliest obtainable printed maps of Taiwan or Formosa Island. It was issued around 1726 to illustrate Joseph Stöcklein's [Stoecklein] compellation of Jesuit m...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1726
New Yok entworfen von D.F. Sotzmann. Hamburg bey Carl Ernst Bohn 1799 . . . NO.VII
An extremely rare map of New York prepared by Daniel Friedrich Sotzmann for Christopher Ebeling's "Erdbeschreibung von Amerika", a project ended after only ten ...
Place & Date: Hamburg, Carl Ernst Bohn, 1799
Rhode Island entworfen von D.F. Sotzmann. Hamburg bey Carl Ernst Bohn 1798 . . . NO.V
Extremely rare map of Rhode Island prepared by Daniel Friedrich Sotzmann for Christopher Ebeling's "Erdbeschreibung von Amerika", a project ended after only ten...
Place & Date: Hamburg, Carl Ernst Bohn, 1797
Wallis's Guide for Strangers Through London.
Engraved plan with original hand-coloring, with title and alphabetical list of the principal streets below. Published by Edward Wellis 42 Skinner Street.With "An alp...
Place & Date: London, E.Wallis, ca. 1840
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1652
Daniae Regni Typum..
A first state. Very decorative "carte à figures"- map of Denmark with the signature of the engraver Abraham Goos. Printed on heavy paper, in spite of its repai...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629
A plan of the City and Environs of Philadelphia. . .
The Lotter edition of Scull & Heap's seminal Philadelphia map, which map was first issued in 1752.Holmes' grid plan for the city is shown, situated between the rivers...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1777
Map of Russia and Poland.
Charming, folding map of Russia, Poland and Baltic States, still in its original publisher's blind stamped linen wrapper with yellow label. With yellow advertisements at ...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1894
Straat Riouw onder opzicht van de commissie tot verbetering der Indische Zeekaarten..
Very large and rare so-called Blue Back centered on the strait passing between the Riau Islands. It contains an inset map with enlarged details of Riouw Harbor on Bintang...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1843
Sumatrae et insularum Locorumque nonnullorum circumiacentium. . .
Fine depicting the Island of Sumatra and the southern coasts of Malaysia from Quedo to Johore.North is orientated to the left of the page.Singapore is probably identifie...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica..
The first of four states of the map. French text on verso. One of the most beautiful world maps ever engraved and one of the most influential in promulgating the Californ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630-1633
SETTSU MEISHO ZUE. Illustrations of famous places in Settsu.
Settsu Meisho Zue was printed in two series of 8 and 4 volumes. The principal illustrator was Takehara Shunchosai, but many illustrations in the 4 volumes supplement are ...
Place & Date: Osaka, Yanagiwara Kibei, Kansei 8-10 or 1796-1798
Vue de Gattweick et de l'embouchure du Rhin, dans la Mer du Nord.
Very decorative view of Katwijk. Signed lower right, Louis Bleuler au chateau de Laufen . Original design by Louis Bleuer. This gouache was the model for his aquatint in ...
Place & Date: 1820