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Lo Stati Presente di Tutti i Paesi e Popoli del Mondo..
This most uncommon work provides an interesting focus on the dissemination of the outline of Japan provided by Kaempfer. Beside the description of Japan, the book include...
Date: Venice, 1734
Carte des Isles du Japon Esquelles est remarque la Route..
This uncommon map of Japan, which is on a fairly large scale, contains comments about the nature of the country. For instance, Ocsaqui (Okazaki, near Nagoya) is said to h...
Date: Paris 1679
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
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
Histoire Naturelle, Civile, Et Ecclésiastique..'
First French edition, published by P.Gosse, J.Neaulme and B.Lakeman. The basic work on Japan from the second half of the 17th century when it was still forbidden to forei...
Date: Amsterdam, 1729
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
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...
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
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
Vue de Boston vers le Cale du Port.
A view of the port of Boston, the center of New England shipping in the colonial period. The closing of the port after the Boston Tea Party led to the calling of the Firs...
- $400 / ≈ €400
Date: Augsburg 1762
Manuscript map of the Bay of Nagasaki.
An extremely rare manuscript chart in brown ink and wash color on a printed sheet of paper with a system of rhumblines and latitude scales. This chart shows the Bay of Na...
Date: Amsterdam, 1750
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...
Date: Amsterdam, c. 1740
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
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
Nader prolongatie van het Octroy voor de Westindische Compagnie voor den tyd van nog dertig jaaren. . .
A proclamation by the Dutch States General, dated 1761, extending the charter of the Dutch West India Company for another thirty years. Like the 1730 proclamation, it has...
Date: Amsterdam, 1761
Poloniae, Lituaniaeq descriptio.
Fine general map of Poland. Rare; the second plate appearing in post-1595 edition of the Theatrum. Only used until 1612.Based on the now lost map of Waclaw Grodecki. Show...
Date: Antwerp, 1612
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
Nuevo plano de la ciudad de Buenos Aires y parte del partido de avellaneda . . .
A rare detailed city plan of Buenos Aires prepared in 1912 by Ernesto Escalante. The plan depicts the city from the Partido de Avellaneda and the Villa Riachuelo to the R...
Date: Buenos Aires, 1912
Gustaaf Willem Baron van Imhoff.
Decorative portrait of Gustaaf Willem Baron van Imhoff, who was Governor for the V.O.C. (Dutch East Indian Company) in Indonesia.
Date: Amsterdam, 1745
![Kantong [The Dutch Folly Fort off Canton]](/uploads/cache/05714-500x500.jpg)
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
Nangasakij.
Charming 18th watercolor on paper depicting a panoramic view of Nagasaki and the factory Deshima of the V.OC. Probably made by a Western artist visiting Japan.RARE. Due ...
Date: c.1750
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
De Stadt Jerusalem.
Plan of ancient Jerusalem from a Dutch bible after Villalpando. The print is in contemporary colors, which is extremely rare for a plate like this. Lower left the Temple ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1710
Horizon ring for globe.
Printed horizon ring for a 28cm diameter German globe. The ring is divided in quarters, and engraved two by two on one copper plate. The size of the paper is 44 x 33cm. T...
Date: Germany, 1720
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...
Date: Venice, 1818
Guyana, Surinam, Amapa.
Very rare Ottoman printed map of Guyana, Suriname and Amapa. With Trinidad, inset map of the mouth of the Rivers Essequibo, Courantyne, Suriname with Paramaribo, etc.From...
Date: Üsküdar (Istanbul), 1803
Bern in der Schweitz.
Very fine panoramic of Bern. With a numbered key (1-25) of principal buildings in town.
Date: Augsburg, 1740
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
La Florida/ Peruviae Auriferae regionis Typus/ Guastecan.
The Chaves map of Florida is a prime example of an explorer's map since it records the recent discoveries of Cabeza de Vaca, De Soto, and Moscoso. The map revealed little...
Date: Antwerp, 1592
Turcici Imperii Imago.
The map shows the Ottoman Empire with Turkey, Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Arabia and North Eastern Africa. The map is decorated with a title cartouche and a portrait of...
Date: Amsterdam, 1629
Leaf on vellum from an antiphonary.
A more than 600 years old antiphonary leaf, written in Besançon, in 1370. Musical notation on 4 bars, the staves are in red and the notes in black: numerous pen-flourish...
Date: Besançon, 1370
Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio.
Gerard Mercator's great world map of 1569 was condensed into double hemispherical form by his son Rumold. It first appeared in 1587 in Casaubon's edition of Strabo's Geog...
Date: Amsterdam, 1595-1609
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
![Hanc Tabulam continens Laetam Pharnambuci.. . [Brazil].](/uploads/cache/16521-500x500.jpg)
Hanc Tabulam continens Laetam Pharnambuci.. . [Brazil].
An extremely rare and decorative map of coast-line of Pernambuco. With one inset: In the upper left corner a map of Brazil, with title in five lines Dutch and five lines ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Les honneurs du Panthéon . . . . (Plate 433 from La Caricature.)
On the front wall is written: "To the great men and women, our country is grateful". This lithograph shows people hanging in front of the Panthéon, and may be ...
Date: Paris, October 23, 1834
Desciption de lopulente et manifique ville de Venise.
Extremely rare panoramic of Venice and neighboring islands (Murano, Burano, Torcello and Mazorbo), clearly depicting the city's architectural landmark. The surrounding l...
Date: Paris, 1646
Dutch Trade Bead.
An extremely rare necklace made from authentic early 17th-century glass beads produced in the Netherlands. This rare and early Dutch Trade bead is built up from irregular...
Date: Middelburg, before 1623
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
(Lübeck) Lvbeca vrbs. imperialis libera. civitatvm. Wandalicarvm. . . .
Impressive more than 3 meters wide panoramic town view after a woodbock engraving from Elias Diebel, originally made in 1552. Of this original woodblock Bachmann mentions...
Date: Germany, c. 1855
Sincapour.
Early view of Singapore after Paris and engraved in aquatint technique by Sigismond Himely (1801-1872). Published as plate 28 in Voyage autour du monde par les mers de l'...
Date: Paris, Finot, 1835
![Hong Kong. [Queen's Road]](/uploads/cache/24362-500x500.jpg)
Hong Kong. [Queen's Road]
Finely executed watercolor made by Henri Dieth of a charming atmospheric street scene at Queen's Road in Hong Kong. The watercolor is made after Eduard Hildebrandt (1818-...
Date: Germany, 1882
![Hongkong Piratenstrasse. [Pirate Street]](/uploads/cache/24363-500x500.jpg)
Hongkong Piratenstrasse. [Pirate Street]
Finely executed watercolor made by Henri Dieth of a charming street scene at "Pirate Street" in Hong Kong. The watercolor is made after Eduard Hildebrandt (1818...
Date: Germany, 1882
Runde Strasse in Peking.
Finely executed water color made by Henri Dieth of a charming street scene in Peking. The water color is made after Eduard Hildebrandt (1818-1869). Hildebrandt, was born ...
Date: Germany, 1882
![Nieuwe Pas=Caart strekkende van Pta Cataon tot Pta. Lamtoan, langs de kusten van Cochinchina, Tonquin, Quangsi en Quantung [?] van Macao.](/uploads/cache/24951-500x500.jpg)
Nieuwe Pas=Caart strekkende van Pta Cataon tot Pta. Lamtoan, langs de kusten van Cochinchina, Tonquin, Quangsi en Quantung [?] van Macao.
A finely engraved and detailed chart of Vietnam reaching to Macao and present-day Hong Kong..Very rare: only included in the 6th volume (so-called secret atlas) of Van Ke...
Date: Amsterdam, 1753
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
CANTON Kong-Teheou.
Very detailed (1:1.000.000) map centered on Macao and Victoria Island, showing soundings, English, Australian, Danish telegraph lines reaching Hong Kong and extended to M...
Date: Paris, 1898 updated for june 1904
Carte des côtes du Golfe du Mexique compris entre la pointe sud de la presqu'Ile de la Floride et la pointe nord de la presqu'Ile d'Yucatan: Dresée d'après le observations et las plans des espagnols, et publièe par ordre du Minstre de la Marine . . .
Detailed and important early chart of the Gulf Coast and Florida and dated 1800. First French edition of "the first printed [map] to show and name Galveston Bay&quo...
Date: Paris, 1800
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
Belchrijuinghe vande zee custen van Engelandt. . .
A rare Dutch text edition of this early detailed chart of the northern coast of England. West to the top. Mileage cartouche has no Latin captures. Decorated by a colorful...
Date: Leiden, Plantijn, 1585
Die zee custe van Noorweghen tusschen der Noess en Mardou. . .
A rare Dutch text edition of this early and detailed chart of the coast of Norway. Decorated by a colorful title cartouche and scale cartouche, one compass rose, several ...
Date: Leiden, Plantijn, 1585
Zee caerte vande Sondt tvermaerste van Danemarcke . . .
A detailed chart of the coast of Denmark and its islands, Copenhagen in center of chart. West to the top. Decorated by a title, scale and descriptive cartouche, a compass...
Date: Leiden, Plantijn, 1585
![[Crimea]. Carte de la Cromée.](/uploads/cache/25719-500x500.jpg)
[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
Reis-kaart van het Britsche gezantschap van Hang-choe-foe naar Quang-choe-foe of Kanton in China.
Uncommon map of eastern part of China, showing a journey of the English Embassy from Hangzhou (south of Shanghai) to Guangzhou (Canton). The maps is giving a wealth of in...
Date: Netherlands, c.1800
Erfolgte Kapitulation zwischen dem General Bonaparte und den Gross Leister von Malta. Vor der Hauptstadt Walette zu Maltha, am 10 Juni 1798.
Copper engraving with three scenes and one portrait on one sheet. In upper a view of Bonaparte arriving at Valletta. Published in "Allgemeine Welt-Chronik oder neue ...
Date: Zittau, 1798-1800
Carte D'Amerique Divisée en ses Principaux Pays. . .
Rare. Uncommon and decorative wall map of America, prepared by Clouet. With superb decorative borders, 170mm wide at the sides and 150mm at the bottom, containing twenty ...
Date: Paris, Cadiz, 1785
Carte d'Europe . . .
Rare. Uncommon and decorative wall map of Europe, prepared by Clouet. With superb decoration including a wonderful rococo border with vignettes describing historical scen...
Date: Paris, 1785-1788
De golf van Bengalen.
Rare of the Indian Ocean, with nice detail on Ceylon (Sri Lanka) with compass roses and system of rhumb lines, soundings and anchorage's. Many place names. The plate was...
Date: Amsterdam, after 1669-1712
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
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...
Date: Bova Ant., Palermo, 1761
![Vue de la Rivière d'Endeavour sur la Côte de la Nouvelle Hollande ou le Vaisseau fut mis à la bande. [Tome IV Pl. 1ère.]](/uploads/cache/26093-500x500.jpg)
Vue de la Rivière d'Endeavour sur la Côte de la Nouvelle Hollande ou le Vaisseau fut mis à la bande. [Tome IV Pl. 1ère.]
The first known landscape drawing of the east coast of Australia. A View of the Endeavour River, on the coast of New Holland, where the ship was laid on shore, in order t...
Date: Paris, 1773
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
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
Carte historique de la France, et l'Angleterre depuis la naissance de Jésus-Christ jusqu'à l'an 1700, qui contient en abrégé les événements principaux de ces royaumes pendant l'empire romain. . .
A rare wall map showing a chronological tree of French and English historical events from the year of the birth of Christ until 1700. The map is prepared by Jérôme Andr...
Date: Paris, c. 1721
![Anverpia, nobile in Barbantia oppidum, parrim maritimum . . . [Antwerp]](/uploads/cache/26518-500x500.jpg)
Anverpia, nobile in Barbantia oppidum, parrim maritimum . . . [Antwerp]
The bird's-eye plan provides an excellent view of the citadel, city, docks and fortifications. The city was defended by a line of fortification and a moat constructed und...
Date: Cologne, 1585
Canibales Insulae.
Rare, early Dutch nautical chart of the Caribbean from Puerto Rico southward.
Date: Amsterdam, 1670
Pas-Kaat vaneen gedeelte van de Aethiopische Zee behelsende de Kusten Zanguebar, Ajan en Abex, en een gedeelte van de Arabische Kust. . .
A finely engraved and detailed chart of the most eastern tip of Africa, including Somalia, Djibouti, Yemen, Mauritius, and many other islands in the Indian Ocean.Very rar...
Date: Amsterdam, 1753
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
![[ Manuscript map of the Ligurian coast from Pietra to Genova ].](/uploads/cache/26627-500x500.jpg)
[ 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...
Date: France, ca. 1790-1800
Plan de Constantinople, non compris ses faubourgs. Grave d'apres les documents du ministere de la Guerre par E. Olivier.
A very rare lithographic town-plan of Istanbul, Scale 98 yards to one inch., printed in Pera, Istanbul by E. Olivier. The ornate design on the top of the title is a tugh...
Date: Péra, Istanbul, 1851
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
Carte de la Coste de La Rochelle a Brouaige et de l'Isle d'Oleron Observee par le S.r de Chattillon ingenieur du Roy.
Map of the island of Oléron, with an inset in lower left corner showing the route of an English fleet to La Rochelle. At the time of mapping the area was a stronghold of...
Date: Paris, 1627
The Traveller's Guide. A Map Of The Roads, Canals And Steam Boat Routes Of The United States ... Designed for the use of Travellers, By H.S. Tanner.
Rare first edition of Tanner's travel map in pocket map form, in it original red leather covers, with the map and no text, as issued. Ristow says the first edition was 18...
Date: Philadelphia, 1825
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...
Date: Augsburg, ca. 1740
![ATLAS RUSSICUS mappa una generali et undeviginti specialibus vastissimum Imperium Russicum cum adiacentibus regionibus [repeated in French].](/uploads/cache/27877-500x500.jpg)
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,...
Date: St Peterburg, Akademie von Wissenschaften. 1745
Imperii Russici et Tartariae Universae tabula novissima.
Decorative and rare map covering Russia, Tibet, China, Tartary, Korea, Taiwan and Japan prepared by J. M. Hasius. The sea between Japan and Korea is mentioned Mare Orient...
Date: Utrecht, 1743
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...
Date: Amsterdam, 1710
![.Tabula III Asiae. [Caucass and Armenia.]](/uploads/cache/27894-500x500.jpg)
.Tabula III Asiae. [Caucass and Armenia.]
Ptolemaic map of the region south of the Caucasus Mountains and between the Caspian Sea as far south as the headwaters of the Tigris River in the south and the Black Sea,...
Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1535
![.Taprobana Ins. Tabula XII Asiae. [Sri Lanka.]](/uploads/cache/27928-500x500.jpg)
.Taprobana Ins. Tabula XII Asiae. [Sri Lanka.]
Ptolemy's mythical island of Taprobana originally became associated with Sri Lanka although it was sometimes confused with Sumatra. Taprobana, as it was called on most ea...
Date: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1535
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
Europa, ad magnae Europae Gerardi Mercatoris. . .
General map of Europe, as well as Americae Pars, Greenland, Iceland, a Polar landmass, along with the mythical islands of Frisland, Drogeo, and Bradain. A large strapwork...
Date: Amsterdam, 1628
Portugalliae que olim Lusitania..
The best-known map of Portugal, after Alvares Secco (1560), orientated west to the top of the sheet. Secco's map was copied by many mapmakers and publishers for upwards o...
Date: Amsterdam, 1628