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Manuscript leaf on vellum from a Dutch Book of Hours.
RECTO: Two 1-line capitals in red, blue or burnished gold with extensive penworkVERSO: One 1-line capitals in red, blue or burnished gold with extensive penwork.
Date: Flanders ca.1450
Ministry of health warned . . .
Uncommon Soviet propaganda poster against tobacco consumption.Read more about the Soviet propaganda poster. [+]
Date: Moscow, 1988
Etats du Grand-Seigneur en Asie, empire de Perse, pays des Usbecs, Arabie et Egypte.
Detailed map of the region bounded by the Black Sea, Georgia, the Caspian, Uzbekistan, The Indian Ocean, Saudi Arabia (here called \"Arabie Heureuse\"), Egypt a...
Date: Venise, 1778
Arabie.
Uncommon miniature map of the Arabian peninsula, from Pierre Duval's La Geographie Universeille dated 1676. Following his Cartes de géographie in 1657, Pierre Duval publ...
Date: Paris, 1676
Sexta Etas Mudi. / Simon Beatus .. / Folio CCLIIII.
A very fine presentation of the circumcision of Simon (192 x 223 mm.). RECTO: a falling star, a portrait of a King and an officer wearing armour. Page from the richest il...
Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
[Title page] Perspective die hooch-gheroemde conste..
Title page from Perspective, Dat is, de hooch-gheroemde conste eens schijnende in oft door-siende ooghen-ghesichtespunt ... (&c.) by Hans, or Johannes Vredeman de Vri...
Date: Leiden, 1604
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
Hemisphaerii Borealis Coeli et Terrae Sphaeri Cascenographia.
A finely executed celestial chart of the Northern Sky, illustrating the constellations of the Northern Hemisphere superimposed over the Pacific Ocean, first published by ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1661
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Discus Chronologicus Regum utriusque Siciliae et Ducum Princ
Chronological volvelle table showing the Sicilian rulers from the year 0 until 1730. COMPLETE with its volvelle. Each circle corresponds to a jurisdiction.
Date: Nuremberg, 1750
Plan De l'Action.. Auprès de Wynendale le 28 Sept. 1708.
A rare broadside sheet represents a conventional battle plan near the town of Torhout with the Castle Wynendale. The plan depicts the situation of 28 September 1708. Incl...
Date: Bruxelles, c.1708
Woman of Brabant.
Very fine view of a woman wearing the traditional dress of Brabant.
Date: London, 1817
Utrecht.
A very RARE panoramic view of Utrecht, including a numbered legend in the lower part.Engraved by Jean Crepy (the father) who was active as an engraver and publisher at th...
Date: Paris, 1690-1720
Flessingue Ville de l'Ile de Walcheren. [Vlissingen]
A very RARE panoramic view of the city of Vlissingen. The plate is numbered in red pencil in the upper right corner.Engraved by Jean Crepy (the father), who was active as...
Date: Paris, 1690-1720
Madeburga [ Maagdenburg Folio CLXXX ]
Double-page panoramic view of Magdeburg. A imaginary view, however the earliest obtainable view of this period.Two page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous...
Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Sexta Etas Mundi. Ratisbonna. [Ratisbonne]
A very fine presentation of the city of Ratisbon, in Germany, centered on the cathedral (Dim. : 191 mm W : 525 mm).Overleaf a very nice view of Vienna, with two swans on ...
Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
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
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
Allegory of geography.
Two putty studying a terrestrial globe, one of them holding a pair of dividers. The information on the globe is clearly imaginary but the two cartouches and ships are typ...
Date: Bruges, ca. 1700
Het Klooster ten Hage (Marienhage Eindhoven)
Very rare lithography of the ruin of the monastery of Ten Haghe in Eindhoven. Lithographed by M.Mouret, published in "oud-Nederland en de uit vroegere dagen overgebl...
Date: Nijmegen, 1837-1846
Peregrinationis Divi Pauli Typus corographicus. . .
A splendid map depicting the travels of Paulus. With two fine scenes in top. Showing the countries along the Mediterranean, including Cyprus and Italy. A first edition wi...
Date: Antwerp, 1595
A unique composite atlas with updated Porro maps.
Unique composite atlas containing in total 84 maps - 82 maps engraved by Girolamo Porro and heavenly reworked around 1686 and 2 newly engraved maps; Piccola Tartaria (Cr...
Date: Venice, 1686
Carte du Gouvernement de Provence, suivant les nouvelles observations...
Fine copper engraved and decorative map of the Provence region in the south of France. It includes the cities of Nimes, Viviers, Avignon, Aix and Nice. The pictorial cart...
Date: Amsterdam 1728
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
Kantong [The Dutch Folly Fort off Canton]
Charming 18th water color on paper depicting The Dutch "Folly Fort" off Canton. Probably made by a western artist visiting China.Forts were built in several pla...
Date: Canton?, c.1750
Franciae orientalis../ Monasteriensis et osnaburgensis..
From 'Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [Atlas of the Whole World]' published in Antwerp. French text on verso.The map of Frankenland is prepared by Sebastian Rotenhan (1478-1532) ...
Date: Antwerp, c.1574
(EUROPE).
The map of Europe has been identified as the work of Hieronimus Münzer (1437-1508), a Nuremberg physician who supplied the geographical contents of the chronicle. The Eu...
Date: Nuremberg, 1493
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Edward Fitzgerald translation)
Edward FitzGerald, an outstanding writer who has done more than anyone to popularise English poetry. His best-known work, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1859), began by be...
Date: England, ca. 1930
Corea and Japan.
A fine large-scale map of Japan and Korea showing an increasingly refined outline to the Japanese islands but still oversized Korean peninsula. The strait south of Korea,...
Date: Edinburgh, 1816
Nieuwe Kaart van de Westfaalse Kreits..
Isaac Tirion was born in Utrecht ca. 1705. He came to Amsterdam ca. 1725. Tirion published a number of important books, many of which are still in demand for their intere...
Date: Amsterdam, 1745
Biturigum.
A miniature map of the Berry. Fine cartouche in the upper left corner.First published in 1598 in his Caert-Thresoor, the plates were executed by the most famous engravers...
Date: Amsterdam/Frankfurt 1609
Carte de la Turquie, de l'Arabie et de la Perse..
Large map of the Near East, based upon earlier maps by De L'Isle. Shows also most part of the Mediterranean basin as well as north-eastern Africa. Relief shown pictoriall...
Date: Amsterdam c. 1745
Hydrograhica descriptio
This very rare chart is important as the first printed sea chart of the Mediterranean coast of Spain, Gibraltar, also depicting the northern coast of Marocco.Willem Bar...
Date: Amsterdam, W.Blaeu, 1612
Tabula Bergarum ad Zomam Stenbergae et novorum ibi operum.
The map gives an outline of the Scheldt from Bergen op Zoom to Antwerp, with all the ramparts built between 1622 and 1627.
Date: Amsterdam, 1647
[Title page] Le Theatre du Monde ou Nouvel Atlas.
Architectural frontage with the title and imprint printed on paste-on slips.Parts of the item are heightened in gold. Read more about maps heightened in gold
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Carte Universelle, signed 'par S.de Caus Ingenieur et Architecte du Roy 1624
A magnificent manuscript map of the world, probably made for Cardinal Richelieu (1585-1642), the “father of the modern state system” (Kissinger), given the author a...
Date: Paris, 1624
Die Republic Holland oder die Verenigte Niederlande..
Charming map of the Netherlands, with inset maps of Novi Belgium area in America and Indonesia. With a fine cartouche.
Date: Leipzig, 1749
Ceuta Ville d'Afrique au D'estroit de Gibraltar.
A very RARE panoramic view of the city of Ceuta, including a numbered legend in both lower corners.Published by the brothers Chéreau, active in Paris at rue st.Jacques a...
Date: Paris c.1720
Carte du Katay, ou Empire de Kin : pour servir a l'Histoire de Jenghiz Khan, raportée dans l'Histoire generale des voyages, tirée de l'Angloise.
The map is of interest for the use of East Sea, the sea between Korea and Japan, here called "Mer de Corée".Fine map of Korea and China's Yellow Sea. Complete ...
Date: Paris, 1750
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Constantinopolis.
A spectacular woodcut panorama of the ancient city of Constantinople, proporting to show the pre-Turk city (for example naming St Sophia). (235x522mm).One of the earliest...
Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
A ship's hour glass
The element common to celestial position-finding, the calculation of speed for dead reckoning and even everyday life at sea is the time: hence ways of determining and kee...
Date: ca. 1790
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
(Lübeck) Lvbeca vrbs. imperialis libera. civitatvm. Wandalicarvm. . . .
Impressive, more than 3 meters wide panoramic town view after a woodblock engraving from Elias Diebel, initially made in 1552. Of this original woodblock, Bachmann mentio...
Date: Germany, c. 1855
Carte Réduite Des Côtes Orientales De L' Amérique Septentrionale Contenant Partie du Nouveau Jersey.. Virginie.. Georgie..
Uncommon chart that extends from Delaware Bay and Philadelphia south through much of Georgia to Island Amelia and St. Johns River. Fleur-de-lis and rhumb lines fill the s...
Date: Paris, 1778
Kaart van de Gaspar Straaten volgens opnemingen van J.Stolze, D.Ross, enz.
Very large and rare chart centered on the strait between Bangka's southeastern seacoast and Belitung's western shores.Short front views of the coastal relief are shown in...
Date: Amsterdam 1843
Sexta Etas Mudi. Symon Apostolus.. Folio CVII.
A very nice presentation of the martyr of Simon, sawn in half at Suanir, and Mathias stoned to death at Colchis in 80 AD. Overleaf, it shows the martyr of Matthew and Jud...
Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Leaf on vellum from a manuscript Book of Hours.
RECTO: One 2-lines initial decorated with flower in liquid gold on colored grounds and seven 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and six line-fillers in sam...
Date: France, ca.1530
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
Quinta Asie Tabvla.
A woodblock map of ancient Median and Persian lands in modern-day Iran is from Martin Waldseemüller's 1513 edition of Ptolemy, a landmark work that contributed to major ...
Date: Strasbourg, J. Schott, 1513
Nouvelle Mappa Monde.
State 2 of this fine double hemisphere world map, from an unusual perspective, with a "Mer de L'Ouest" or "Sea of the West". Paris is located at the c...
Date: Venice, 1776 - 1784
Posesiones de America : Isla de Cuba. [together with] Isla de Cuba. . .
Wall size sea chart and map of land areas showing all of Cuba, part of Florida Keys plus San Adios and Salvador Grande in the Bahamas.Minute topographical, political, and...
Date: Madrid, 1853 / 1851
Southern - Concan.. - The falls of Gokank..
Hand colored lithography representing a view of the Gokak Falls, located on the Ghataprabha river. Plate N° 14. From Souvenirs d'un voyage dans l'Inde, exécuté de 1834...
Date: Paris, 1843
[The creation of the world - First day]
Attractive page from the Nuremberg Chronicle, showing the creation of the world: the First Day, showing the celestial choir (God\'s creation of the angels) surrounding th...
Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Les jeunes voyageurs en Europe, ou description raisonnée des divers pays compris dans cette partie du monde.
The second edition of this fine travel companion is illustrated with 16 very decorative maps, each map surrounded by local products and specialties of the region. Include...
Date: Paris, Thiériot, 1827
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
[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 &qu...
Date: Venice, 1776 - 1784
Rotterdamse Diergaarde. . .
Decorative view of the Zoo of Rotterdam. To the right is the house of the zoo's manager. Decorated with personages in typical dress watching lions.
Date: Amsterdam, 1860
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
(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
Caerte der Noordt cufte van Engelandt, beginnende van Robinhodes baij tot Coket Eijlandt. . . .
A very early Dutch text edition of this detailed chart of the northern coast of England. The mileage cartouche has no Latin captures. West to the top.Decorated by a color...
Date: Leiden, Plantijn, 1585
Sexta Etas Mundi. Foliu CXXXV [Text page with S. Hieronymus, the patron of theological learning].
Text page with woodcuts of the following saints: S. Hieronymus, the patron of theological learning (100x80mm.)VERSO is printed with text and images of Popes and Kings.Pag...
Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
[ First Separate Map of Michigan Territory ] Geographical, statistical, and historical map of Michigan territory.
The map illustrates Michigan Territory and the so-called "Indian Line" shortly after the Treaty of Chicago (1821), the third of three treaties with the Native A...
Date: Philadelphia, 1822
[Crimea]. Carte de la Cromée.
Mapmaker, Captain Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen (1735-1819). Published by H. Friesman in 1787. This map first appeared in 1776 and was the first Russian map of the newly ann...
Date: Amsterdam, H. Frieseman, 1787
Otago Capo dell'Isola d'Amsterdam nel Mare Pacifico del Sud. / Otago Chef de l'Isle d'Amsterdam dans la Mer Pacifique du Sud. .. [Tongatapu, Tonga]
Otago was a native of the island of Tongatapu, Tonga. The island was first sighted by Europeans in 1643 by Abel Tasman, commanding two ships. “Tasman named the island &...
Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
Coffre Sculpté des Habitants de la nouvelle Zélande. [Tome III Pl. 13.]
A carved chest of New Zealand, as a specimen of the carving of the country. Engraving drawn after John Frederick Miller (1759-1796). John Frederick Miller was an English ...
Date: Paris, 1773
Hausse-col militaire des insulaires de la Mer du Sud. [Tome II Pl. 12.]
Maori warrior rise-collar. From the French edition of James Cook's first voyage entitled Relation des voyages entrepris par ordre de sa Majesté Britannique actuellement ...
Date: Paris, 1773
Instruments des insulaires de la Mer du Sud. [Tome II Pl. 15.]
Divers tools. From the French edition of James Cook's first voyage entitled Relation des voyages entrepris par ordre de sa Majesté Britannique actuellement régnante pou...
Date: Paris, 1773
Emouchoir des Otahitiens avec ses manches. [Tome II Pl. 13.]
The print depicts three ceremonial fly-whisks from Tahiti. Each object features ornate carved handles with anthropomorphic figures and long flowing fibers, accompanied by...
Date: Paris, 1773
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
Vue de l'Isle d'Ulietéa avec une double Pirogue et un hangar où les Insulaires retirent leurs bâtiments de mer. [Tome III Pl. 5.]
A view on the Island of Ulietea, French Polynesia, of a dugout boat house and a beautifully engraved pirogue at sea. From the French edition of James Cook's first voyage ...
Date: Paris, 1773
Vue de l'Isle d'Huaheine avec La Maison de Dieu, et un petit Autel couvert d'offrandes. [Tome III Pl. 4.]
A view of the Island of Huaheine, Tahiti, a beautiful tropical Owharra tree in the foreground and a depiction of the House of God with its offertory. From the French edit...
Date: Paris, 1773
Village fortifié bâti sur un Rocher troué de la Nouvelle Zélande. [Tome III Pl. 10.]
A view of a village fortified on a hollow rock in New Zealand. Engraved by François Godefroi. From the French edition of James Cook's first voyage entitled Relation des ...
Date: Paris, 1774
Cession de l'Isle d'Ohahiti au Capitaine Wallis par la Reine Obéréa. [Tome II Pl. 2.]
Queen Oberea's transfer ceremony to Captain Wallis on Tahiti.Engraved by François Godefroi. From the French edition of James Cook's first voyage entitled Relation des vo...
Date: Paris, 1774
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
Manière dont on expose les morts à Otahiti. [Tome II Pl. 16.]
A view of a Tahitian funeral home in a beautiful landscape. Engraved by Demouchy. From the French edition of James Cook's first voyage entitled Relation des voyages entre...
Date: Paris, 1773
[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
[The Admiralty Islands and New Britain inhabitants fishing. Papua New Guinea ].
Aquatint depicting fishermen in dugouts engraved by A. Biasioli. Plate N° 14. From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de la...
Date: Milan, 1827
[New Caledonians ].
Aquatint depicting New Caledonians engraved by Biasioli. Plate N° 71. From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement, de la milice,...
Date: Milan, 1827
[Pirogues in the bay of the voyage of the Resolution. The Marquesas Islands ].
Aquatint depicting men in pirogues in the Bay of the Resolution from the Marquesas Islands engraved by Biasioli. Plate N° 91. From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Anci...
Date: Milan, 1827
[Marquesas Islands headdresses and head ornaments ].
Aquatint depicting Marquesas Islanders in traditional headdresses and a variety of head ornaments engraved by Bonatti. Plate N° 90. From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costum...
Date: Milan, 1827
[Easter Island inhabitants ].
Aquatint depicting 2 portraits of Easter Island inhabitants and 2 men rowing in a pirogue. Engraved by Carlo Bottigella. Plate N° 88. From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Cost...
Date: Milan, 1827