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![[Title page] Atlas Nouveau contenant toutes les parties du monde . . .](/uploads/cache/49114-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Atlas Nouveau contenant toutes les parties du monde . . .
Fine title page of classical architectural design incorporating portraits of royalty and battle scenes.
Date: Paris, 1696
Guiana sive Amazonum regio.
This very rare map shows northwest Latin America with Surinam and French Guiana and was engraved by Johann Philipp Thelott. The map comes from the work of Johann Joachim ...
Date: Frankfurt, 1669
![[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
[Lot of 7 pages from a German Bible printed in 1477
These incunabula page are from the 7th German Bible printed by Günther Zainer in Augsburg in 1477.
Date: Augsburg, 1477
![[Beatles]](/uploads/cache/49038-250x250.jpg)
[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
Polus Arcticus cum vicinis regionibus.
Map of the North Pole regions from the 1608 second edition of Jodocus Hondius' Atlas Minor.A reduction of the 1606 Mercator-Hondius folio map (which is a later state of t...
Date: Amsterdam, 1608
View of Singapore
Very rare view of Singapore from the Singapore River Basin. With a numbered key (1-19) underneath the illustration. In the center Government Hill with Governer's House (1...
Date: ca. 1850
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
Caes. Flavius Anicius Iustinianus Semp. August.
The engraving depicts a half length oval portrait of "Caes. Flavius Anicius Iustinianus".Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver and publisher in D...
Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
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
Le Indie Orientali.
A nice map of the East Indies, published in Rome at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Shows from the Persian Gulf across Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh, then sout...
Date: Rome, ca 1803
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
![Naumaohiae [sic] id est navalis pugnae ex vetusteis lapidum et nummorum monumenteis graphica deformatio.](/uploads/cache/49142-250x250.jpg)
Naumaohiae [sic] id est navalis pugnae ex vetusteis lapidum et nummorum monumenteis graphica deformatio.
Naval engagement set inside an arena, spectators in the stands attending the event; reclining river god and nymphs in the lower part. From "Speculum Romanae Magnific...
Date: Rome, ca. 1575
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
Fossa Sanctae Mariae.
Detailed map of part of the country between rivers Rhine and Meuse showing a canal to be dug between 1626 and 1628 between Rheinberg in Germany and Venlo. A deficiency of...
Date: Amsterdam, 1645
Hippodrome au pont de l'Alma . . .
Chromo lithographed poster, "Hippodrome au pont de l'Alma . . .", by Jules Chéret (1836–1932). Plate 125, published in Maître 32, on July 1898. The "Le...
Date: Paris, Imprimerie Chaix, April 1897
A Humorous Diplomatic Atlas of Europe and Asia. / 滑稽欧亜外交地図 / Kokkei Ō-A Gaikō Chizu.
A wonderful example of the rare 1904 Kisaburo Ohara satirical 'Octopus Map' of Europe being swallowed by an octopus (Russia). Composed at the outbreak of the Russo-Japane...
Date: Tokyo, April, 1904
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
Map showing the cotton growing belt in the United States Prepared for and copyrighted by Geo. H.Mc.Fadden & Bro., cotton merchands based in Phiiladelphia, USA 1892.
A rare map showing the cotton-growing Belts in the Southern States for 1892. Prepared for and copyrighted by Geo. H. Mc.Fadden & Bro., cotton merchants based in Phila...
Date: Philadelphia, 1892
Wassende graade paskaart vertonende alle de Zeekusten van Europa, de geheele middelandsche Zee…
Wassende graade paskaart vertonende alle de Zeekusten van Europa, de geheele middelandsche Zee, als cock ten Noordwesten, en Noordoosten soo veer als ons tot noch toe bek...
Date: Amsterdam, 1658
Imperii Russici tabula generalis quo ad fieri potuit / accuratissime descripta opera et studio Ioannis Kyrilow, …
General 1734 large-format map of the Russian Empire compiled by Ivan Kirilov (1689/1695]-1737), the Chief Secretary of the Governing Senate in St. Petersburg in 1734. ...
Date: Saint Petersburg : [Academy of Sciences], 1734
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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
Belgium, sive Inferior Germania post omnes…
Third state (only 3 recorded copies) of this scarce map of the 17 Provinces, published by Peter Verbiest in Antwerp. West at top. The maps by Pieter van den Keere in 1607...
Date: Antwerp, 1636
(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
![Les Forbans [Board game]](/uploads/cache/49165-250x250.jpg)
Les Forbans [Board game]
Game board designed by Lucien Boucher, without any randomness, which is rare for that time. The board which is cut in four parts show a world map drawn by Lucien Boucher....
Date: Paris, Perceval, ca. 1950
![[Sea monsters] De regni Settentrionali Monstri marini & terrestri…](/uploads/cache/49169-250x250.jpg)
[Sea monsters] De regni Settentrionali Monstri marini & terrestri…
Münster's plate of monsters of both land and sea, taken from an Italian text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summary of Renaissance kno...
Date: Basel, 1558
Europa recens descripta à Guilielmo Blaeuw.
On either side columns depicting the manner of dress in the major countries of Europe, surmounted by nine city views and plans.For European mapmakers their own continent ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1644
Carte des parties nord et ouest de L' Amerique. . .
An interesting map of North America, based upon an earlier map by Thomas Engel. His map of North America was issued in his 'Memoires Observations Geographique' in 1765, a...
Date: Paris, 1772
Dell Germania Egrana.
Early woodcut view of the city of Egra (Cheb) in the Czech Republic. From the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia, which is a short and complete summary of...
Date: Basel, 1552
![[The Philippines]](/uploads/cache/49201-250x250.jpg)
[The Philippines]
Fine chart depicting the Islands of the Philippines. Little interior detail is given but the coastlines, settlements and principal coastal features are identified. An att...
Date: Amsterdam, 1724
De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas suscepta ab Societate Jesu, ex P. Matthaei Ricci.
Very rare first edition of the most influential Western description of China since the 13th-century account by Marco Polo. Printed in Latin with an engraved title page in...
Date: Augustæ Vind. (Augsburg), C. Mangium, 1615
![Grote Atlas van de Verenigde Oost-Indische [Complete set of 7 volumes] Compagnie/Comprehensive Atlas of the Dutch United East India Company](/uploads/cache/49206-250x250.jpg)
Grote Atlas van de Verenigde Oost-Indische [Complete set of 7 volumes] Compagnie/Comprehensive Atlas of the Dutch United East India Company
This seven volume atlas was published in a limited edition. It covers all territories and possessions under the Charter of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) from 1602-17...
Date: Voorburg, Asia Maior/Atlas Maior, 2006-2010
Nouvelle carte du royaume de Bengale.
Map of Bengal Kingdom prepared by J.N.Bellin.
Date: Amsterdam, Leipzig, 1763
Theatre de la guerre sur la coste de Coromandel.
Map of Coromandel coast prepared by J.N.Bellin.
Date: Amsterdam, Leipzig, 1763
![[Rain Distribution].](/uploads/cache/46151-250x250.jpg)
[Rain Distribution].
A detailed map from Учебный Географический Атлас published by the very successful St. Petersburg publisher "Cartographic institution A.Ilin...
Date: St. Petersburg, 1899
![[Isothermal Linti].](/uploads/cache/46152-250x250.jpg)
[Isothermal Linti].
A detailed map from Учебный Географический Атлас published by the very successful St. Petersburg publisher "Cartographic institution A.Ilin...
Date: St. Petersburg, 1899
![[Religion Map].](/uploads/cache/46153-250x250.jpg)
[Religion Map].
A detailed map from Учебный Географический Атлас published by the very successful St. Petersburg publisher "Cartographic institution A.Ilin...
Date: St. Petersburg, 1899
![[Europe].](/uploads/cache/46155-250x250.jpg)
[Europe].
A detailed map from Учебный Географический Атлас published by the very successful St. Petersburg publisher "Cartographic institution A.Ilin...
Date: St. Petersburg, 1899
![[Euroidenic Columns all parts of the light].](/uploads/cache/46171-250x250.jpg)
[Euroidenic Columns all parts of the light].
A detailed map from Учебный Географический Атлас published by the very successful St. Petersburg publisher "Cartographic institution A.Ilin...
Date: St. Petersburg, 1899
![[Asia].](/uploads/cache/image-250x250.png)
[Asia].
A detailed map from Учебный Географический Атлас published by the very successful St. Petersburg publisher "Cartographic institution A.Ilin...
Date: St. Petersburg, 1899
![[Africa].](/uploads/cache/46177-250x250.jpg)
[Africa].
A detailed map from Учебный Географический Атлас published by the very successful St. Petersburg publisher "Cartographic institution A.Ilin...
Date: St. Petersburg, 1899
Citta di Varsavia.
Fine city view engraving of Warsaw, Poland by Thomas Salmon. Published in Rome by Giambattista Albrizzi in 1740. Giambattita Albrizzi was a famous Venetian publisher and ...
Date: Venice, 1740-1756
Croquis d'expression. La maman - Est il gentil à manger son sucre d'orge . . . (Plate 31)
The mother: - Isn't he cute licking his barley sugar candy… one would think a young man of twenty years… He absolutely must become a lawyer!.Lithography published by ...
Date: Paris, 21 10 1838
Magni Mogolis Imperium.
Important map of India, based upon William Baffin's map of India, first published in about 1619. The map is bounded by Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh and extends in...
Date: Amsterdam, 1650
![Hindostan [India]](/uploads/cache/49208-250x250.jpg)
Hindostan [India]
A fine copper engraved map of Hindoostan (now India) drawn and engraved by Alexander Findlay and published by Thomas Kelly, London in 1814
Date: London, 1814
![[6 Post cards of young woman seated on a globe ]](/uploads/cache/41502-250x250.jpg)
[6 Post cards of young woman seated on a globe ]
Complete set of 6 pictorial post cards showing young women seated on a globe. Signed "Morin". Unsent.More aboutcartographical curiosities [+]
Date: Italy, ca. 1920
Nova Helvetiae Tabula.
A most decorative "carte à figures" map with panoramic views of Lucern, S.Gal, Bern, Solothurn, Schafhausen in upper border and Basel and Zurich in lower left ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Belgium Foederatum auctius et emendatius edit..
Map of the northern part of the Netherlands. With a decorative title cartouche, with an inset map of South East Asia.
Date: Augsburg 1760
Le grand combat ov Monsieur de Montmorancy admiral de Fance . . .
Attractive view of the naval Battle of Saint-Martin de Ré, fought on 15 September 1625 between the Huguenot fleet of La Rochelle, commanded by Admiral Jean Guiton- Admir...
Date: Paris, 1625
Plan du Tien-tang ou du temple, où l'empereur sacrifie à Chang-ti sous le titre de souverain seigneur de la terre.
Nice example of d'Anville's plan of Tien-tang temple, from "Atlas général de la Chine..."" prepared by Jesuit missionaries and commissioned by Emperor Ka...
Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735
Vienne.
Charming view of Vienna. Title in curtain draped at top. French text on verso.From the original 1683 text edition of "Description d'Univers. . ." by Allain Man...
Date: Paris, 1683
Carte generale des treze cantons de Suisses. Valley Ligues Grise, Maison Dieu et Valteline. 1654
Rare figured border map of Switzerland. In lower corners views of Basel and Zurich. In the top views of Luzern, St. Gallen, Bern, Solothurn and Schaffhausen. In the left ...
Date: Paris, ca. 1654
Amerique Septentrionale suivant la carte de Pople faite à Londres en 20 feuilles.
The key sheet to Henry Le Rouge/Popple wall map of the British Colonies in North America. Appears in the author's Atlas Général [1741-62].Key map of the French editio...
Date: Paris, Le Rouge, 1742
![[Haida Gwaii,] Baye Swallow . . . / Havre Byron /Côté septentrional de la plus grande des Isles de la Reine Charlotte. . . .](/uploads/cache/25888-250x250.jpg)
[Haida Gwaii,] Baye Swallow . . . / Havre Byron /Côté septentrional de la plus grande des Isles de la Reine Charlotte. . . .
Map of Swallow's Bay and a coastline profile of the Queen Charlotte Islands and Captain Byron's Heaven.Queen Charlotte Islands, with their modern name Haida Gwaii, is an ...
Date: Paris, 1774
A manuscript leaf from a Book of Hours.
RECTO: One 2-line and eight 1-line initials in liquid gold on colored grounds and five line-fillers. colorful panel border in he right margin of acanthus leaves and flowe...
Date: Italy, ca. 1490
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, Brussels...
Date: Amsterdam, 1618/1631
![Manuscript leaf from a very early [around 1300] Breviary.](/uploads/cache/49216-250x250.jpg)
Manuscript leaf from a very early [around 1300] Breviary.
Both sides are illuminated with striking initials extending with elaborate pen work into the margin.RECTO: One two-line initial in blue and red with contrasting penwork, ...
Date: Northern France or Flanders, ca. 1300
![Manuscript leaf from a very early [around 1300] Breviary.](/uploads/cache/49217-250x250.jpg)
Manuscript leaf from a very early [around 1300] Breviary.
Both sides are illuminated with striking initials extending with elaborate pen work into the margin.RECTO: One two-line initial in blue and red with contrasting penwork, ...
Date: Northern France or Flanders, ca. 1300
![[Chinese propaganda poster]. We Shall Liberate Taiwan !](/uploads/cache/49024-250x250.jpg)
[Chinese propaganda poster]. We Shall Liberate Taiwan !
Chinese propaganda poster : "We Shall Liberate Taiwan!", by the Hongyingbi (Red Eagle Brush) unit of the Air Force Unit of Nanjing Military Region.The Chinese d...
Date: China, 1971
L'Afrique divisée en ses principaux Etats, assujettie aux observations astronomique.
Rare and attractive map of Africa, ornated with a decorative title cartouche showing luxuriant nature and a lion. With two inset maps : "Carte particulière du Cap ...
Date: Paris, Lattré, 1788
Carte d'Afrique divisée en ses Principaux Etats.
A rare and detailed map of Africa prepared by Jean-Baptiste Poirson (1761-1831). Includes an inset stating the European Possessions in Africa.Deserts are well highlighted...
Date: Paris, chez Jean, An VI 1798
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
Carte des Etats de Pologne et du Grand Duché de Lithunanie.
Uncommon map of Poland prepared by Sanson and revised by Eustache Hérisson (1759-18.. ) and engraved by Cordier. The map was published by the last family member of the J...
Date: Paris, Jean, 1831
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
Carte Generale des Etats-Unis De L'Amerique Septentionale . . .
One of the earliest obtainable maps to show the United States From Coast to Coast, published in Paris by A.H. Brue.The map is especially interesting west of the Mississip...
Date: Paris, 1820
Nouveau Plan Géométral de la Ville de Lyon, Avec ses projets d'agrandissement & d'embellissement, Divisé par Arrondissements;
Large map of Lyon with, at the bottom left, a large inset depicting "The surroundings of Lyon, according to Cassini" and at the bottom right, a double table of ...
Date: Lyon, Chez Vegezzy, M.d d'Estampes,1826
RESTORED CROSSTAFF SEGMENT
RESTORED CROSSTAFF SEGMENT, Dutch, 1757, signed “I*v*K” for Johannes van Keulen, dated “1757” and numbered “23.” The staff is made of ebony, 11/16” (18 mm)...
Date: Amsterdam, 1757
Cary's New Terrestrial Globe Exhibiting The Tracks and Discoveries made by Captain Cook; Als...
An early Regency 21-inch terrestrial globe CARY, John and William. - Cary's New Terrestrial Globe Exhibiting The Tracks and Discoveries made by Captain Cook; Also those o...
Date: London, 1815/1818
![[Lot of 5 leaves] Noerdlinga civitas imperialis…/ Nemetum civitatis…Spiram appellant / Situs & figura… Trevirensis / Situs civitatis Confluentinae… / Civitas Lunaeburgensis…](/uploads/cache/48259-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 5 leaves] Noerdlinga civitas imperialis…/ Nemetum civitatis…Spiram appellant / Situs & figura… Trevirensis / Situs civitatis Confluentinae… / Civitas Lunaeburgensis…
Five text leaves with woodblock-printed early bird's-eye views of Nördlingen, Speyer, Trier, Koblenz, and Lüneburg, from the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmo...
Date: Basel, 1552
![[Lot of 8 leaves of Great Britain, Edinburgh]](/uploads/cache/48262-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 8 leaves of Great Britain, Edinburgh]
Eight text leaves with woodblock illustrations relating to Great Britain and Edinburgh, featuring small maps and views, from the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cos...
Date: Basel, 1552
![[Lot of 205 leaves of Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Alsace and Brabant].](/uploads/cache/48263-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 205 leaves of Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Alsace and Brabant].
205 text leaves illustrated with views and maps relating to Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Alsace and Brabant from the 1552 Latin text edition of Münster's Cosmographia...
Date: Basel, 1552
Tabula nova Poloniae et Silesiae.
Second state, dated 1630 underneath the title. A finely engraved carte á figures with cartouche representing in the four corners of the map : Kings ( on the left side Si...
Date: Amsterdam, 1630