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Carta geographica generalatus carlostatuensiscum adgacentibus confinis turcicis et venetis...
Fine and rare manuscript map of Croatia and the Dalmatian coast from the early eighteenth century. Oriented to the south the map details the Venetian, Austrian and Turkis...
Place & Date: Venice , c. 1700
L'Europe en Sept 1939. Ille terrarum mihi angulus ridet.
A rare oversized serio-comic map of Europe at the start of the Second World War depicting stereotypes of 31 countries, as listed in the key lower right, including Brit...
Place & Date: Bruges, Leon Burghgraeve, 1939
Deutschlands Postkarte begraenzt von Oesterreich, Preussen, Frankreich, Holland, Italien und der Schweiz. . .
Detailed and important post road map prepared by Ignaz Heymann. The map shows, the Low Countries, Germany, Poland, Austria, Hungary, etc.Borders in original out-line colo...
Place & Date: Triest, 1800
Quarta etas mudi Folio LVIII [Rome]
Double text page in German with a woodblock Rome (23x53cm.)On verso a view of Genua (193x222mm). Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Nuremberg Chro...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Latium.
Based on classical authors' sources, specifically Virgilius, Plinius, Varro, Halicarnasseus, Festus and Ausonius.Philip Wingius in his letter to Ortelius from 1592 mentio...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1595
Carte des routes de poste de la Russie européenne, exécutée par ordre de S.E.M. le duc de Feltre ministre de la Guerre, ...
Post-route map on a scale of 1:2 500 000 made during the French campaign in Russia, which began June 24, 1812. With a table of the conventional signs and a table of conve...
Place & Date: Paris, Dépôt Général de la Guerre 1812
Het Friessche Doolhoff, het beruchte dorp Molk-Worren
Uncommon map made in 1718 by Johannes Hilarides, principal at the Latin School in Bolsward.. Probably the only printed plan of a Frisian village of that time. The map was...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1705
[Set of 6 maps] Charta öfver Storfurstendömet Finland på Friherre S. G. Hermelins Anstalt och Omkostnad. Sammandragen och författad af C. P. Hällström. Philos. Magister och Auscultant i Kongl. BergsColl. 1799.
This is the beautiful set of key map and separate maps of Samuel Gustav Hermelins map of Finland. The maps have been engraved by Fredrik Akrel, a very skilled and product...
Place & Date: Källa: J.Strang & E.- S. Harju: Suomen karttakirja 1799
London in Miniature With The Surrounding Villages. An Entire New Plan In which the Improvements both present and intended are actually reduced, by permission, from the surveys of the Several Proprietors. . .
Hand-coloured engraved map, dissected and mounted on linen, orange publishers label on one side, extending west to east from Kensington to East India and Greenwich Dock a...
Place & Date: London, 1821
Candia [Map of the island Crete]
Very rare map of the island Crete published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. Per Mare, e per Terra, & infieme quello di Terra Santa...
Place & Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, W.Blaeu, 1612
Chaerte vande Wieringer waert, de welcke inden jaere XVI… (Wieringerwaard)
Rare wall map of the Wieringerwaard polder, as raffled on 12 July 1611. The polder was laid dry in 1610. It border, and also the border of the municipality, were the Zuid...
Place & Date: 1741-1744
Theatrum praecipuarum urbium Ducatus Brabantiae. / bound with : [Hogenbergs Geschichtsblätter].
Volume including two series :1st series : [Schut, Pieter Hendricksz]. Theatrum praecipuarum urbium Ducatus Brabantiae… Illustrated with an engraved title page and 43 pl...
Place & Date: (Amsterdam), N. Visscher, 1657 / Cologne, 1566-1579
Romani Imperii Imago.
Very rare map in a first edition by Jacques Honervogt. Copied after a map by Ortelius but much rarer. The medallion portraits are of Romulus and Remus - the genealogical ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1630
Nova Germaniae Descriptio..
A finely engraved carte à figures, with the side borders depicting emperors, while the upper and lower panels contain finely engraved miniature town prospects, among the...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1632
[Voyage en Suisse / Reise die Schweiz.]
A first edition children's folding board game of Switzerland and its many places and sights to visit. Although it is missing most of its original components (dice, cards,...
Place & Date: Switzerland, 1891
Mappa Humoristico da Europa.
A really unusual and lovely map, published in Portugal at the outbreak of The Great War in 1914. This outbreak of war in Europe was the result of a complex sequence of ev...
Place & Date: Lisbon, 1914
Currus Veliferi Illmi. Pr. Mauritii Nassouvii. (Prince Maurits' sailing-carriage, designed by Simon Stevin. )
Prince Maurits' sailing carriages had been designed by Simon Stevin. The Prince, always accessible to new inventions of his old instructor, could not please the foreign a...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1649
Habiti delle Donne Venetiane . . .
Title page of the book Habiti delle Donne Venetiane" (Dress of Venetian Women) which consists of twenty numbered plates of ornately dressed women. This very decorati...
Place & Date: Venice, ca. 1591
(Sea-chart of Catalunia, Languedoc, Provence, Cote d'Azur, Riviera, Corsica with Marseille, Cannes, Nice, Monaco.)
This very rare chart is important as the first printed sea chart of France's Mediterranean coast, also depicting Catalunya's northern coast, the Italian Cote d'Azur till ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1607
Nova et recens emendata totius Regni Ungariae una cum adiacentibus et finitimis regionisbus delineatio.
Engraved map by Jan van Deutecum, here the very rare first edition published by Cornelis Nicola in Asterdam in 1596. In very attractive original coloring.A re-issued was ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cornelius Nicol, 1596
Urbium Londini et West-Monasterii nec non Surburbii Southwark Accurata Ichnographia ,., Neuester Grundris der Staedte London und West-Munster, Samt der Vorstadt Southwark ,.,
Detailed plan of London, extending from Grosvenor Square in the west to Mile End to the east, To the right inset views of St, James's Square, and Custom House, elevations...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1736
[Spain and Portugal]
A rare map of Spain and Portugal engraved by Jan and Lucas van Deutecom and published by Gerard de Jode, Antwerp 1593. Latin text on verso.The map appeared in the second ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1593
La Piovra Russa. Carta Serio-Comica Pel 1878.
Very rare political caricature map by Grossi of the nations of Europe, published in Bologna in the supplement of the newspaper "Le Perroquet / Al papagallo, N° 15, ...
Place & Date: Bologne, 14 avril 1878
Le comte de Namur et partie des Duchez de Brabant. . .
Decorative map centered on Namen and including the towns of Liege, Leuven, Charleroi, Dinant, Luxemburg, etc. by François Jollain (ca. 1641 – 18 April 1704).Rare "...
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1692
Malte Vue prise de la Mer. - Malta Vista lomada del mar.
Very decorative view of the Grand Harbour of Malta by Louis Lebreton, published in "Ports de Mer d’Europe" in 1859 by L. Turgis in Paris.This lithography show...
Place & Date: Paris, Turgis, 1859
Coloniensis Archiepisscopatus.
Extremely rare first edition of this beautiful map of Cologne and Dusseldorff.Jodocus Hondius Jr. planned to produce a new modern atlas less dependent on the Mercator pla...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1629
Excelsiori (Rana N. 28 - Cent. 20).
"After so many wars and so many troubles, young Russia, in a more serene glaze all the beautiful sun of freedom you will enjoy ... ". Fascinating allegorical sa...
Place & Date: Bologna, 1905
Deliciae Batavicae.
It is a charming book illustrated with portraits of Willem of Orange and Prince Maurits and eight engraved armorial plates. Followed by 30 engraved views or scenes of ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1618
Hollandia Comitatus.
Orientated west to the top of the sheet, this presents the County of Holland in the classical orientation for seventeenth-century maps, with Amsterdam at the center. The ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Belgii sive Germaniae Inferioris accuratissima tabula.
Very rare and very decorative map with in the right and left borders costumed figures and town plans alternately. In top and bottom border town plans and views.Separate p...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1631
Carte du Palatinat du Rhin.
Decorative "carte à figures"- map centered on Koblenz, Metz, Strasburg, Manheim and Heidelberg, with the river Rhine by François Jollain (ca. 1641 – 18 Apri...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1688
't Hooge Heemraedschap van Delfland met alle de Steden, Dorpen, Ambachten, Litmaten, Polders, (etc.).
The so-called Kruquius map is a wall-map of the Delfland water board district. The map consists of 25 engraved map sheets. Several maps flanked by fine large armorial car...
Place & Date: Delft, 1712-1750
Tafel der Lender darin der Apostel Paulus geprediget hat.
Rare wood block map depicting the Mediterranean, with an over-sized Cyprus from the final Dutch edition of Heinrich Bünting's famous Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae, a boo...
Place & Date: Magdeburg, 1581
(Art déco gouache with winter scene of The Palace of Westminster )
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The ...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1930
Comitatus Flandria.
A highly decorative map with in the left and right top corners the pictures of archduke Albert of Austria and Isabella, queen of Spain. In the left and right borders cost...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1648
Tabula Russiae.
One of the most decorative maps of Russia, based on the work of Fedor Borisovich. Visscher's version of Hessel Gerritsz' rare map of Russia. In an inset -130x170mm- a pla...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1651
ATLAS RUSSICUS mappa una generali et undeviginti specialibus vastissimum Imperium Russicum cum adiacentibus regionibus [repeated in French].
After an unnumbered general map of Russia there are 13 numbered maps that cover European Russia (scale 1, 1.527.000). The other (last) 6 maps cover Asian Russia (Siberia,...
Place & Date: St Peterburg, Akademie von Wissenschaften. 1745
Lutetia Furens. Das ist : Die wütende Statt PARIS.
Rarissime placard dirigé contre la Ligue et le duc de Mayenne. La gravure est signée I.S. (marque inconnue). Ce placard en latin et en allemand est une reprise de l’e...
Place & Date: France ca.. 1594
Ignographia candiae tertia a turcis obsessae in lucem edita a F. de Wit.
A scarce broadsheet plan and view of Heraklion on one sheet: prospect 180 x 495mm, map 395 x 495mm., in the lower part a printed description "Abbildung der starken S...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Province de Pologne contenant 22 Col. une M.on Prof 5 Pen. 2 Nov. 6 Rés. 30 Maisons 1050 Jésuites.
Rare map of Poland from "Atlas Universel indiquant les établissemens des Jésuites: avec la manière dont ils divisent la terre, suivi desévénemens remarquables d...
Place & Date: Paris, Ambroise Dupont , 1826
Frisia occidentalis.
A rare separately published carte-a-figures of Friesland by Geelkercken in its first state. The title and the coats of arms of the eleven Frisian towns appear in the cent...
Place & Date: [Leeuwarden], Dierick Albertsen, 1618
Amstelodamum, Celebre Emporium Forma Plana.
Second state of this rare and decorative plan of Amsterdam with Visscher's imprint. With a panoramic view seen from the IJ and further insets of Council House, The Exchan...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1636
Nova XVII Provinciarum Inferioris Germaniae descriptio .
Extremely rare map of the Benelux by Frederick de Widt. Originally engraved and published by P.Kaerius in 1607. In 1662 the plate came in the possession of Frederick de W...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1662
Daniae regni typum . . .
Second Edition, now for the first time with a date (1630), this rare map which - like that of Janssonius-Kaerius - is based on John Speed's map of 1626. The side borders ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Ducatus Prussiae tam Polono Regiae. . .
This is a rare issue of Frederick de Wit's attractive map of the northern part of Poland, Prussia and the Baltic regions.Very decorative title cartouche, including three ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1698
La Pieuvre Germanique.
Scarce lithographed plate not dated, by Eugène Danzanvilliers, printed by Grandremy in Paris. The plate listed by Adhemar is dated 1874. Eugène Danzanvilliers was a dra...
Place & Date: Paris, 28 Quai de la Rapée, c.1874
Nieuwe en Nette Afteekening van het Eyland Corsica en het Eyland Elba vertoonende alle desselfs Havenen, Steeden en Rivieren . . .
Highly decorative large sea chart of Corsica, Sardinia and Elba, including multiple sailing ships, compass roses, cartouche, coat of arms, rhumb lines, topographical deta...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1710
Vue et description des principales villes de l'Armenie et de la Georgie avec les habillements des femmes du pays, et ceux des prêtres et religieux armeniens. . .Tom: V N° 11 Pag: 28
View and description of the principal Armenian and Georgian cities with illustrations of Armenian women's garments as well as priests' and monks' clothing. The views are ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1720
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...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
[West Central London from Booth's Poverty Map of London]
A map of West Central London, one section (of twenty) of an extended version of the incredibly influential Poverty Map, originally published in Charles Booth's 'Life and ...
Place & Date: London, 1900
Typus Frisiae Orientalis à Dullarto
One of the most decorative maps of East Frisia and its important shipping center of Emden and the Watten Islands, from the cartography of Ubbo Emmius, a local cartographe...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1624
(EUROPE).
A woodcut colored map of northern and central Europe. The first modern map of the area. Second printed map of the North, after the woodcut map published in the 'Ulm' Ptol...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1493
Universe Europae Maritime Eiusque Navigationis Descriptio. Generale Pascaerte van Europa . . .
This general chart of north-western Europe and the surrounding coastal waters is from the rare pilot-guide De Spiegel der Zeevaerdt , printed by Christopher Plantin in Le...
Place & Date: Leyden, 1584
Carte particulière des environs de St Peters-bourg. . . / Plan de la ville faubourg et environs de St Petersbourg. . . / Carte pour l'intelligence de la guerre de Moscovie et de Suede. . .
A scarce and unusual plan of Saint Petersburg shown at a large scale and also, in a separate compartment, shown in its geographical context between the Gulf of Finland an...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1741
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
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
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
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). Showing the part of western Po...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
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
Generalkarte vom Königreich Preussen u. d. Herz[ogtum] Warschau nach astronomischen Ortsbestim[m]ungen und geodätischen Messungen. . .
Rare seemingly unrecorded map of Poland with its borders after the Congress of Vienna, probably based on a lost first edition of Daniel Friedrich Sotzmann's (1754-1840) m...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, Schneider & Weigel 1815
I Europa / Das dritteil der Welt.
Very early wood cut printed map of Europe with South to the top. In the lower-left corner we see Poland, Livonia and parts of England and Ireland in the lower right corne...
Place & Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566
( II Germania) / Tütschland.
Very early wood cut printed map of Germany, Poland, The Low Countries, Alsace and part Europe with of Switzerland, Croatia. Originally engraved in 1548. Included in "...
Place & Date: Zurich, Christoffel Froschover, 1548,1552-1566
Nuova Pianta Iconografica.. Venezia.
Precise bird's-eye town-plan of Venice, clearly depicting the city's architectural landmark, being a reduction of Ughi's 8-sheet map of 1725. There is a grid engraved ove...
Place & Date: Venice, 1818
Parte settentrionale dell' Irlanda / Irlanda parte meridionale . . .
A beautiful and flamboyantly engraved grand two-sheet map of Ireland. Embellished with two cartouches, a vessel under sail and a sea monster.The map is the product of the...
Place & Date: Venice, 1696
Les Provinces confederées du Pais-Bas
The first wall map of the Seven Provinces of 1651, re-issued as 'Stoel des Oorlogs' by Covens & Mortier. The first issue of the present wall-map is known to be includ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1740
[ Manuscript map of the Ligurian coast from Pietra to Genova ].
Very detailed French manuscript map of the Ligurian coast from Pietra and Finale, Savone to Genoa with the Maritime Alps in the background. The Liguria coast borders to n...
Place & Date: France, ca. 1790-1800
Bern in der Schweitz.
Very fine panoramic of Bern. With a numbered key (1-25) of principal buildings in town.
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1740
Les vallées du Piemont. Habitees par les Vaudois ou Berbets. . .
Detailed map of Piedmont region covering French and Italian territories. Surrounded by a French text description "Description des vallées du Piemont qu'habitent par...
Place & Date: Paris, 1690
A Map of the Environs of Constantinople Drawn from a great number of accurate astronomical & geographical manuscripts and printed documents, by A. Arrowsmith 1801 and 1804.
Arrowsmith’s large and detailed map of the Ottoman Empire and the Black Sea, with Cyprus, Crete and the Greek Islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Albania, Bosnia and Herz...
Place & Date: London, No.10 Soho Square, 4th September 1804
Cajanie, ou Bothnie Orientale Tirée de celles d'Andr Burae et de Isaac Massa. . .
Map of the Northern part of Gulf of Bothnia, today's border area between Sweden and Finland. The map derive from the work of the Swedish cartographer Andreas Bureus and I...
Place & Date: Paris, P.Mariette, 1666
EUROP, and the cheife Cities contayned therin described. . .
A good impression from an early edition of this famous and decorative "carte à figures"- map from the first world atlas produced by an Englishman - John Speed'...
Place & Date: London, 1627 - 1676
Optique de St.Cloud.
This perspective view of St. Cloud comprises 6 hand colored images of the grand Bassin d'Apollon viewed through an square and two round holes cut out from the front card ...
Place & Date: Paris, ca.1845
Paris.
A spectacular panoramic view of Paris, with legends numbered from 1-70 in French. With the title in a banderol.After a design by Friedrich Bernhard Werner (1690-1776) who...
Place & Date: Augsbourg, ca. 1740
Pianta Geografia delle Isole di Malta, e Gozo della Sagra Religione Gerosolimitana di S. Giovanni delineata, ed incisa in quest anno 1761.
A rare map of Malta and Gozo printed by the priest Antonio Bova (1688 - 1775), who was active as engraver in Palermo ca. 1727-1773. He produced cartographic engravings, s...
Place & Date: Bova Ant., Palermo, 1761
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 ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
De Haven en Straat von Gibraltar, Niewlyks getekend, en in`t licht gebracht door Johannes Covens en Cornelis Mortier tot Amsterdam.
Decorative map showing the siege of Gibraltar during the Spanish war of succession. This highly interesting map is richly ornated with three additional inset maps and vie...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1710
La mer Mediterranee divisee en ses principales parties ou mers. . .
Very large map centered on the Mediterranean. With a sub title along upper margin "La Mer Mediterranée divisée en Mer de Levant et de Ponant Subdivisées en Leurs ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c.1705