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Tractus Danubii, Fluminis in Europa Maximi, A Fontibus, Per Germaniam. . .
This is Blaeu’s first map of the Danube and surrounding regions. The Danube River runs through the map from the top left with its headwaters in the German Black Forest ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1634
Constantinopolitanae urbis effigies ad vivum expressa, quam Turcae Stampoldam vocant. A° MDCXXXV.
Large, decorative view of the city of Constantinople, with legend across the bottom. It is beautifully engraved with quaint scenes of everyday life, including hunters wit...
Date: Frankfurt, 1635
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 B...
Date: Brunswick, ca. 1635
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...
Date: Amsterdam, c. 1636
Danubius Fluvius Europae Maximus, a Fontibus ad Ostia..
Depicts the course of the Danube River, from its sources in the Alps to the Black Sea..Because of the dimensions the map was printed from two copper plates.With two very ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Peregrinations divi Pauli Tyrus Corographicus. . .
A beautifully executed and very rare map showing the peregrinations of St. Paul in the Eastern Mediterranean. The Mediterranean is ornated with two ships and two sea mons...
Date: Paris, ca. 1640
Virginiae Partis Australis, et Floridae Partis Orientalis.
Blaeu based this map on the Mercator-Hondius of 1606. A number of geographical improvements, however were incorporated, although two large fictions lakes accompanied by e...
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Hollandia.
The Allardt edition of Blaeu's map of Holland, first published in 1604, being the oldest Dutch map to include town views as decorative borders. The top and bottom borders...
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Asia secunda pars terrae in forma Pegasi.
Asia depicted as the flying horse Pegasus. Thiscartographical curiosity, double page copper engraved map, was published in Heinrich Bünting's “Itinerarium Sacrae Scrip...
Date: Brunswick, 1640
Statt Talbe an der Saal.
Very decorative and rare panoramic town view of Calbe a.d. Saale, Bez Magdeburg .The engraver and publisher of prints, Mrs. Anna Beek of the Hague, enlarged the print and...
Date: The Hague, ca. 1642
Wittstocs.
Very decorative and rare panoramic of Wittstock, Bez. Potsdam.The engraver and publisher of prints, Mrs. Anna Beek of the Hague, enlarged the print and mounted it on larg...
Date: The Hague, ca. 1642
Czaslaw.
Very decorative and rare panoramic of Czaslaw, Caslav, Tschslau in Böhmen.The engraver and publisher of prints, Mrs. Anna Beek of the Hague, enlarged the print and moun...
Date: The Hague, ca. 1642
ALBUM with 170 engravings of animals, landscapes, months, figures, ornamentations, etc. from the 17th century.
A collection of 170 engravings, for the greater part engraved by Jacob Honervogt but also by Mérian, Tempesta and others. - LANGLOIS (François). A series of 12 plate...
Date: Paris, ca. 1642
Asiae Minoris nova descriptio. Geographische Beschryvinge aller Landen... ende sendbrieuen der Apostele...
Extremely rare map from a Dutch bible, published by Dancker Danckerts. This map was included in a Dutch bible including several maps signed by C.Danckerts and one dated 1...
Date: Amsterdam, 1643
Curacao Eylandt.
One of the earliest separate maps of Curaçao. The map has nice topographical detail and features an ornate title cartouche. Published in de Laet's account of the history...
Date: Amsterdam, 1644
Nouvelle et exacte description du globe terrestre reveue corrigée et augmente´e suivant les derniéres relations des Anglais et Hollandois. Par Guillaume Blaeu 1645.
Extremely rare and decorative "carte a figures" world map published by Anthoine de Fer. The double hemisphere world map is surrounded by constellations of the A...
Date: Paris, 1645
Desciption de lopulente et manifique ville de Venise.
Extremely rare panoramic view of Venice and neighboring islands (Murano, Burano, Torcello and Mazorbo), clearly depicting the city's architectural landmark. The surroundi...
Date: Paris, 1646
Carta terza Generale del' Asia.
Rare first state of this important chart showing part of the north coast of New Guinea and islands of the Pacific Ocean. To the north of Japan the landmass of Isola di Ie...
Date: Florence, 1646
Carta prima Generale dell' Asia.
FIRST STATE of Robert Dudley's general chart of the Persian Gulf, going east through India to the southeastern coast of China showing Macau and the area of present-day Ho...
Date: Florence, 1646
Asia carta di ciasete piu moderna. (Japan)
Rare FIRST STATE of this important map for Korea and Japan map of the Blancus/Moreira type, but adds a huge 'Jesso' filling the top of this old map. The map is of interes...
Date: Florence, 1646-1647
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...
Date: Amsterdam, 1648
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Bressia vulgo Bresse. [colored by Van Santen]
Title cartouche with putti and surveyor with surveying instruments. Upper right-hand corner Geneva, lower left Lyon and in the center Bourg-en Bresse. Upper right-hand co...
Date: Amsterdam, 1650
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,...
Date: Antwerp, c.1650
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Tabula Anemographica seu Pyxis Nautica.
Impressive compass rose with a fleur de lis at the center and 32 wind directions flowing from it identified in six languages, Greek, Latin, French, Dutch, Italian, and Sp...
Date: Amsterdam, 1650
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...
Date: Amsterdam, 1651
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...
Date: Amsterdam, 1652
Carte des Trois Arabies. Tiree en Partie de l'Arabe de Nubie, en Partie de Divers autres Autheurs. . .
Rare map of the Arabian Peninsula, first published in 1654 and one of the first large maps focused specifically on the Arabian Peninsula. Sanson's map of the Arabian Peni...
Date: Paris, 1654
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Vues du port de Llivourne. (set of 6 prints)
Sought-after complete suite of 6 engravings by S[tefano] Della Bella [1610-1664]. in a second state (of 2).Della Bella was born in Florence in 1610, and studied the art ...
Date: 1654-1655
Terra Promissions.
A beautifully executed and very rare map of the Promised Land, divided into the 12 Tribes. The shore line runs in north-southwesterly direction from Sidon as far as Pelus...
Date: Paris, c.1655
Tweevoudigh onderwiis van de Hemelsche en Aerdsche Globen; Het een Na de meyning van Ptolemeus met een vasten Aerdkloot...
Tweevoudigh onderwiis van de Hemelsche en Aerdsche Globen; Het een Na de meyning van Ptolemeus met een vasten Aerdkloot; Het ander Na de Natuerlijcke stelling van N. Cope...
Date: Amsterdam, 1655
Moscovia urbs Metropolis totius Russiae Albae.
Detailed bird's-eye town-plan of Moscow from Janssonius' rare townbook. With a key (1-20) to important spots in town. The verso has French text and originates from Jansso...
Date: Amsterdam, 1657
Insula Huaena sive Venusia a Guiljelmo Blaeu cum sub Tychone Astronomiae operam daret, delineata.
Decorative map of the island Hvan in the Danish Sound. In the center Tycho Brahe's famous observatory Uraniborg established in 1576, under the patronage of Frederick II, ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1659
Pascaerte vande Caribische Eylanden, vande Barbados tot aende Bocht van Mexico ‘t Amsterdam By Hendrick Doncker. . .
First state. Rare. “This chart appeared in the first edition of Hendrick Doncker’s Zee-Atlas, of which no surviving example is known” -- Burden. This is an example ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1659
Xantung, sinarum imperii provincia quatra.
A map of the northern province ‘Xantung’ of China after the Jesuit Martino Martini.Shows the Great Wall and is centered on the Bohai Sea, and the Shandong and Liaonin...
Date: Amsterdam, ca 1660
Original copperplate.
Showing the coast of southern Morocco, the Sahara with the Canary Islands. Copperplates that had been used in the production of early maps are of the greatest rarity and ...
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1660
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[Printed on silk] Nova Totius Americae Sive Novi Orbis Tabula, Auct. Hugo Allardt.
Hugo Allard’s ca. 1661 map of the Americas, showing California as an island printed on silk. This separately issued map printed on paper is quite rare on the market. T...
Date: Amsterdam, 1661
Nova et Accuratissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula.
Since its appearance as an Appendix in 1630, the atlas launched by Willem Blaeu and continued by his son Joan had expanded greatly. But despite many new regional maps the...
Date: Amsterdam, 1662
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...
Date: Amsterdam, 1662
Novus Atlas Absolutissimus... Die Wasser-Welt, oder See-Atlas.
Volume IX (Sea-Atlas) of the "Novus Atlas Absolutissimus". German text, letterpress title on slip within hand-colored engraved architectural border, heightened...
Date: Amsterdam, Janssonius heirs, 1657 [after 1664
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...
Date: Paris, P.Mariette, 1666
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 ...
Date: Amsterdam, after 1666
An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham, Emperor of China deliver'd by their excellencies, Peter de Goyer and Jacob de Keyzer, at his imperial city of Peking. . .
Very rare first English text edition of this most important and early resource on China and the Chinese. Three parts in one folio by John Macock for the author.Part I: An...
Date: London : Printed by the Author at his house in White-Friers, 1669
Canibales Insulae.
Rare, early Dutch nautical chart of the Caribbean from Puerto Rico southward.
Date: Amsterdam, 1670
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'...
Date: London, 1627 - 1676
(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...
Date: Rome, 1679
Pas-kaart vande Zee kusten van Venecuela met de Byleggende Eylanden. . .
Rare chart of the coast of Venezuela, including the islands of Curaçao, Bonaire, Aruba, etc.The chart has two insets, one (15x22cm) with a map of Curaçao, one smaller w...
Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Nova Orbis Tabula in Lucem edita A.F.de Wit.
According to Shirley, De Wit's map is one of the most attractive of its time. The brilliant scenes in the corners combine images of the four seasons, the elements, and th...
Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula.
A beautifully decorative world map taken from the 'English Atlas' by Moses Pitt and Steven Swart, based on an earlier engraved world map by Pieter van den Keere ca. 1630,...
Date: Oxford, 1680
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...
Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Paskaerte van het inkoomen van de Maes, tot aen 't Eylandt Roosenburgh als mede 't Inkoomen van 't Goereesche Gat.. / Pascaert van 't Eylandt Roosenburgh door de Oude en Nieuwe Maes.
A very attractive sea chart on two sheets of the mouth of the river Maas. The left sheet shows Dordrecht, Rotterdam and the fortress at Willemstad. Rghthand sheet dep...
Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Hern Johann Baptisten Taveniers..Vierzig Jaehrige Reize..
This German edition includes Tavernier's map of Japan in a reduced form (210x315mm) and contains legends about the country's nature, e.g., where gold is mined and plottin...
Date: Nuremberg, 1681
Waere affbeeldinge wegens het casteel ende stadt Batavia.
A good impression of this finely engraved and detailed plan of Batavia, present-day Jakarta, the Dutch center of trading activities in the East Indies. Copied after Cleme...
Date: Amsterdam, 1681
Het Beloofde Landt Canaan door wandelt . . .
A beautifully engraved map of the ancient land of Canaan which roughly corresponds to present-day Israel. Cherubs hold up a draped cloth of key symbols, also a scale pane...
Date: Amsterdam, 1682
Jerusalem.
Engraved by Bastiaan Stoopendaal from Juan Bautista Villapando's imaginary town-plan of Jerusalem. This bird's-eye view is surrounded by 12 scenes, views and portraits of...
Date: Amsterdam, 1682
Il regno della China detto presentente Catay e Magnin. . .
A rare and decorative Italian map of China and Japan, with Japan closely modelled on the indented Cardim outline and Hokkaido, called Yuppi , shown as an Asian peninsula....
Date: Rome, 1682
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...
Date: Paris, ca. 1688
Archipelague du Mexique ou sont les Isles de Cuba..
Scarce map of Caribbean. A visually stunning map with a large title cartouche. This large one-sheet map was produced by the Venetian cosmographer Vincenzo Coronelli when ...
Date: Paris, 1688
Isola di Madagascar o di S. Lorenzo Scoperta dà Portoghesi nell anno 1506. . .
Decorative and highly detailed map of Madagascar, including 2 decorative cartouches and other embellishments.The remarkable Vincenzo Coronelli (1650-1718), was a Francisc...
Date: Venice, 1690
Saique batiment dont les turcs se servent. . .
A very decorative engraving of a Turkish vessel. From Mortier's famous maritime Atlas "Neptune François". Engraved by Jan van Vianen after a design by Henri Sb...
Date: Amsterdam, 1690
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...
Date: Paris, 1690
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[Il mondo a pezzi - Europa].
Satirical representation of the division of the world by the main European powers. At the center of the scene a globe on which is written "MONDO Maledeto Interesse ...
Date: Bologna, 1690
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 "...
Date: Paris, c. 1692
Het gezandtschap der Neerlandtsche Oost-Indische Compagnie, aan den grooten Tartarischen Cham, Den tegenwoordigen Keizer van China. . .
Third edition of this beautifully illustrated work on China. The first edition was published in 1665.Jan Nieuhof was a "Dutch traveler and adventurer" (1618-72)...
Date: Amsterdam, W. Waasberge, 1693
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...
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1694
Belgii novi, angliae novae, et partis Virginiae . . .
This example is state 3 of the original Janssonius plate, printed after Schenk acquired the plates at public auction in 1694 from the heirs of Jansson van Waesberge. The ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1694
Parte orientale della China.. / Parte occidentale della China. (2 sheets)
The map depicts the eastern part of China with Korea -correctly- as a peninsula. Formosa is included as well. Japan is partly visible i.e. the area of Yamaguchi, strait K...
Date: Venice, 1695
Vaisseau du premier rang portant pavillon d'amiral.
Fine double-page engraved plate of a naval vessel, with the various parts of the ship numbered and identified. From Mortier's "Neptune François". From Mortier'...
Date: Amsterdam, 1695
Marcomania hoggidi Merchesato de Moravia. . .
Although Komensky's map of Moravia was already known in his time, Coronelli used the obsolete map by Fabricius, with a lot of locations added by the publisher's unchained...
Date: Venice, 1696
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...
Date: Venice, 1696
Tractatorum biblicorum hoc est variarum in diversas materias biblicas commentationum... Tomus VI.
Book (tome. VI) illustrated with 3 folding maps and 9 copper-plate Biblical engravings by the German master Joseph à Montalegre, including the rare map of the double-hem...
Date: Wustius & Andrae, Frankfurt am Main, 1696
Ducatus Prussiae tam Polono Regiae. . .
Rare issue of Frederick de Wit's attractive map of northern part of Poland, Prussia and the Baltic regions.Very decorative title cartouche including 3 coats of arms. Seco...
Date: Amsterdam, 1698
Venise. 1700
Extremely rare panoramic broad sheet panoramic town-view of Venice with underneath in letter press a description of the town's history. The view measures more than 1 mete...
Date: Paris, 1699
Schlanium vulgo Schlani Bohemiae oppidum.
Very decorative and rare panoramic town view of Schlan, Schlanium s. Slany.The engraver and publisher of prints, Mrs. Anna Beek of the Hague, enlarged this print, origina...
Date: The Hague, 1700
Chorographia Terrae Sanctae in Angustiorem. . .
Rare. Large visually rich map decorated with illustrations of the sacred objects and places of Judaism. In the bottom center is a plan of ancient Jerusalem, and the route...
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1700
Launa vulgo Laun Bohemiae civitas.
Bird's-eye views of Louny in Bohemia by G. Hoefnagel. The copperplate was made for Braun and Hogenberg's town book. However there the print has been transformed by the en...
Date: The Hague, 1700
Volna.
Very decorative and rare panoramic town-view of Volna.The engraver and publisher of prints, Mrs. Anna Beek of the Hague, enlarged the print and mounted it on larger paper...
Date: The Hague, ca. 1700
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...
Date: Venice ?, c. 1700
Tschopau.
Very decorative and rare panoramic of Tschopau.The engraver and publisher of prints, Mrs. Anna Beek of the Hague, enlarged the print and mounted it on larger paper: she ...
Date: The Hague, ca. 1700
Sanitati et Voluptati inservientes herbae thee et caffe.
Copper-plate engraving showing a group of fashionably dressed men and women, drinking tea or coffee. "Paulus Decker inv. et del.; Ioh. Christoph Steudner sculp.; Mar...
Date: Augsburg, 1700
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 ...
Date: Amsterdam, c.1705