Gallery Highlights

SUHARAYA MOHE - Bunken Edo oezu. [Tokyo] Bunken Edo oezu : kan / zuko Kanamaru Hikogoro Kagenao. Kyowa 3 or 1803. Impressive large-scale plan of Edo (Tokyo, based on a map by Ochikochi Doin. 

First edition of this large cornerstone map of Florida, produced during the Third Seminole War. The map was issued to illustrate "Memoir to accompany a Military Map of The Peninsula Of Florida", published in 1856. The main areas of activity during the Third Seminole War, the territory just west of Lake Okeechobee, and the northern end of Big Cypress Swamp, are shown in incomparable detail.

BLANFORD, Henry Francis. Rainfall chart of India, showing the average annual distribution of the rainfall according to locality and season. Calcutta, 1883/January 1884.

Two captains chart books from the Genova privateer "Stella del Mare" made during its voyage from Genova to Macao and Hongkong

One of the few manuscript charts on vellum in private hands, signed by Isaac de Graaf. ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT MAP IN RED, GREEN, AND BLACK INK showing the Java Sea centered on the Island of Java, the Southern part of Borneo, and parts of Sumatra, with Bali Island nearby.

AN EARLY ISSUE of this biting and vulgar satire on the Mississippi and South Sea Bubbles and an extraordinary visual record with 78 plates of the first banking crash, showing the shocking effects of the “South Sea Bubble” in France, England and Holland, and placing John Law (1671-1729), with his Mississippi company scheme, squarely at the center of the disastrous chain of events.

Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer (1533-1606), one of the brightest lights of Dutch Golden-Age mapmaking, distinguished himself from many of his fellow stars by some 14 years of seafaring

Description geographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique de l'empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise.

Rare and highly important chart of the Indian Ocean extending from the Cape of Good Hope to the Far East and Australia, printed on vellum, covering the east coast of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, India, South East Asia, the East Indies, and with an important delineation of Australia. This is one of the preeminent charts from Johannes van Keulen's oeuvre and one of the great Indian Ocean maps. The plates for this map were originally prepared by Pieter Goos in circa 1658.

An important and rare atlas by the Danckerts family: containing 86 maps and double plates, most in color, titled in Latin, sometimes in Dutch or French: With an allegorical title; six plates; two spheres; seventy-seven maps are numbered in pen.