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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 ...
Publisher: DONCKER, H.
Date: Amsterdam, 1659
French composite atlas made up of rare maps published by Parisian editors from the 17th century , mainly by G. Jollain including scarce maps of America.
A rare French composite atlas including 90 maps, published by Parisian publishers from the 17th century, mainly by Gérard I Jollain, or by maps bought from Dutch...
Publisher: JOLLAIN, G.
Date: Paris, ca. 1675
Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid, vertoonende de opkomst, voortgang en ondergang der Actie, Bubbel en Windnegotie, in Vrankryk, Engeland, en de Nederlanden, gespleegt in den Jaare MDCCXX...
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, sho...
Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Carte de l'Amerique Septle. Pour Servir a l'intelligence de la Guerre entre les Anglois et les Insurgents...
Second state of this extremely rare separate publication. This separately issued map is one of the most beautiful of the thirteen American Colonies from the Revolutionary...
Publisher: BEAURAIN, Jean Chev. de
Date: Paris, ca. 1756
Use of Liége.
Contents of the Book of Hours : 1. ff. 2-7 : calender. In red and brown ink. Justification 115 x 75 mm. 2. ff. 8-11 : 4 passages des Evangiles : - Saint Jean 1, 1-...
Publisher: BOOKS OF HOURS
Date: c.1480
Jeu Royal de la vie d'Henri IV.
Large sheet with an animated game of goose of 63 numbered squares, spiral, counter clockwise, centripetal focused on the French king Henri IV.André Basset offers a life ...
Publisher: BASSET, P.A.
Date: Paris, ca. 1816-1820
Carte Generale de la Terre Napoleon (à la Nouvelle Hollande)... par M.L. Freycinet an 1808.
Fine map of part of Australia prepared by Louis Freycinet during his voyage under Captain Thomas Baudin in 1800-1803. The longitude is calculated from Paris.The cartouche...
Publisher: FREYCINET, M.L.
Date: Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1811
(World map). Americus Vespucio novo te Duce Ducta Freto Ambivi Meritoqs Vocor.
Manuscript world map showing the American and African continent and the southern parts of Asia. In the Indian Ocean a large depiction of Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512) o...
Publisher: FOGLY, A.
Date: Italy, ca. 1954
Carte de la Charte de L'Antique . . .
The rare French version of this decorative pictorial world map by MacDonald Gill. "This magnificent map drawn up while the Second World War still raged is already en...
Publisher: MACDONALD GILL, L.
Date: London, Alf Cooke Ltd, 1943
Le Neptune Oriental ou routier general des Cotes des Indes orientales et de la Chine..
THE RARE FIRST EDITION of this important French Sea Atlas of the Red Sea, India, the East Indies, Indochina and Formosa.2° (640 x 490 mm). Title printed in red and b...
Publisher: D'APRES DE MANNEVILLETTE.
Date: Paris, 1745
Tutte le strade conducono a Roma. [All roads lead to Rome]
Game board of the game "All roads lead to Rome" from the Fascist era, offered by the chocolate or cocoa company Talmone-Unica. Showing a world map surrounded by...
Publisher: ISTITUTO ITALIANO D'ARTI GRAFICHE - BERGAMO
Date: Turin, 1928
ST MORITZ.
An original Swiss travel poster for St. Moritz, 1948, lithograph in color on paper, depicting a smiling yellow sun skiing (the symbol of the Engadine region of Switzerlan...
Publisher: J.C MULLER A.G
Date: Zürich, 1948
ADSEC in Action from Thames to Rhine.
A pictorial map showing the allied movement from London on 14 March 1944 thru the conquest of Germany. Showing the track from London along Bristol, crossing the British C...
Publisher: ADSEC Engineers Section
Date: London, 1945
Temperance (Temperantia) from The Virtues.
Very decorative engraving by Philip Galle (Haarlem 1537–1612 Antwerp) after Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Breda (?) ca. 1525–1569 Brussels). The print was published by Hi...
Publisher: BREUGHEL, P.
Date: Antwerp, Hieronymus Cock, 1580
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...
Publisher: ALBRIZZI, G.
Date: Venice, 1734
Painting of Tupinamba cannibals of Brazil set in a local landscape on wooden panel.
The iconography of this painting is actually directly derived from one of the plates illustrating the third volume of "Grands Voyages" Theodore Bry devoted to B...
Publisher: Follower of Jan van Kessel
Date: ca. 1750
Aenwysinge van de Stadt Salvador, ende de Baya de Todos Los Santtos.
Extremely rare map of Salvador and Baia de Todos os Santos (Bay of Saints) published by the The Hague publisher Henricus Hondius (not to confuse with the Amsterdam H.Hond...
Publisher: HONDIUS, H.
Date: The Hague, 1624
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...
Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Date: Germany, 1720
L'Art arabe d'après les monuments du Kaire depuis le VIIe siècle jusqu'à la fin du XVIIIe.
Prisse d’Avennes was one of the foremost scholars of Arabic art and architecture of the 19th century; this work represents the summation of his studies. From the aspect...
Publisher: PRISSE D'AVENNES, Achille Constant.
Date: Paris, Morel, 1877
Par Brevets. / Eau admirable de Cologne, de A. Farina, ancien Distillateur de Cologne, breveté, Place Juliers, N°11.
Advertising Broadsheet promoting the toilet water "Eau de Cologne". Ornated with the royal coat of arms of France and 2 two-headed eagles. With the printed sign...
Publisher: FARIBA, A.
Date: After 1810
Par permission sur l'aprobation des médecins du roi...la véritable Boule de Mars...
Printed broadsheet promoting the "Boule de Mars" (March Ball) produced and sold by Renault in Nancy and Paris. Ornated with the royal coat of arms of France. Pr...
Publisher: Advertising placard for the
Date: Paris, ca.. 1780
AIR France - Réseau Aérien Mondial.
Original pictorial lithograph advertising planisphere poster from AIR France. The poster has a black back ground. In the lower right below the border '016/P/AF Printed in...
Publisher: BOUCHER, L.
Date: Imprimerie Perceval, Paris, ca. 1950
Kaart Van Nieuw Zeeland in de Jaaren 1769 en 1770 bezogt door den Luitenant J. Cook met het Schip De Endeavour.
A uncommon issue of this key map of New Zealand from the Dutch edition of Cook's map of New Zealand, published in 'Reize rondom de Waereld door James Cook', a Dutch editi...
Publisher: COOK, J.
Date: Leyden, Amsterdam & The Hague: Honcoop, Allart & van Cleef, 1795-1801
内務省地理局 (Administratif atlas of the Empire of Japan.)
Atlas of Japan published by the Home Ministry shortly after the start of Meiji period. The atlas contains 16 double page maps, with the border in original out line colors...
Publisher: Home Ministry (内務省, Naimu-shō)
Date: Tokyo, Meiji 14 or 1881
Waere Affbeeldinge Wegens het Casteel ende Stadt BATAVIA Gelegen opt Groot Eylant Java.
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...
Publisher: COVENS, J. / MORTIER, C.
Date: Amsterdam, 1721
Boats of the Friendly Islands. [together with] A Sailing Canoe of Otaheite.
Early view of Queen charlotte's sound, taken from "Views in the South Seas" being a very important and early views depicting scenes encountered while employed a...
Publisher: WEBBER, J.
Date: London, Boydell and Co., 1808
The narta, or Sledge for burdens in Kamtschatka.
The narta, or Sledge for burdens in Kamtschatka, taken from "Views in the South Seas" being a very important and early views depicting scenes encountered while ...
Publisher: WEBBER, J.
Date: London, Boydell and Co., 1808
Oursins.
Decorative plate of a sea urchin, engraved by Boquet. Marie Jules César Lelorgne de Savigny (April 5, 1777 - October 5, 1851) was a French zoologist. In 1798 he traveled...
Publisher: LELORGNE DE SAVIGNY, M.J.C.
Date: Paris, 1822
Hommards.
Decorative engraving of a lobster, by Tresca. Marie Jules César Lelorgne de Savigny (April 5, 1777 - October 5, 1851) was a French zoologist. In 1798 he traveled to Egyp...
Publisher: LELORGNE DE SAVIGNY, M,J.C.
Date: Paris, 1822
Astéries.
Decorative engraving of star fishes, by Macret and Leleu. Marie Jules César Lelorgne de Savigny (April 5, 1777 - October 5, 1851) was a French zoologist. In 1798 he trav...
Publisher: LELORGNE DE SAVIGNY, M,J.C.
Date: Paris, 1822
Ecuyère.
This is an original lithography for the Revue Verve, printed on arches for "Le Cirque" (The circle).Verve is an artistic and literary review founded in Paris in...
Publisher: LEGER, F.
Date: Paris, 1950
A newe mape of Tartary.
Early edition of one of the most decorative "carte à figures"- map of Tartary, known for its figured borders with costume figures, while above are vignettes of...
Publisher: SPEED, J. / HUMBLE, J.
Date: London, 1627
AIR France - Réseau Aérien Mondial.
"Réseau Aérien Mondial" original pictorial color lithographed advertising planisphere poster from AIR France. The poster has a black back ground. In the lower...
Publisher: BOUCHER, L.
Date: Imprimerie Perceval, Paris, ca. 1948
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...
Publisher: VISSCHER, C.J.
Date: Amsterdam, 1648
Planisphere des fuseaux horaires.
Poster showing the different time zones.
Publisher: ANONYMOUS
Date: Paris, ca. 1930
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...
Publisher: VISSCHER, C.J.
Date: Amsterdam, 1651
Province de Fo-Kien. [Includes West Coast of Taiwan]
Important map of Fujian Province, showing the east coast of China and the west coast of Taiwan. It shows that for the Manchu Qing, only the western half of Formosa was co...
Publisher: ANVILLE, J.B.D'
Date: The Hague, H. Scheurleer, 1737
[Map of Palestine ]
Map of Palestine from "La Mer des Hystoires" published by Dupré, Paris, 1536 "La Mer des Hystoires" is a translation into French of the famous "...
Publisher: MER DES HYSTOIRES
Date: Dupre, Paris, 1536
Au quartier Latin.
This image also appears on the Christmas cover of the magazine in 1900. This is the version before the magazine boilerplate was added, but "this black-and-white vers...
Publisher: MUCHA, A.
Date: Paris, ca. 1899
Kunst is allemaal flauwe kul.
Joop Schafthuizen is a Dutch artist known for his prints. He inspired some of the books written by his partner, the famous writer Gerard Reve. "Kunst is allemaal fla...
Publisher: SCHAFTHUIZEN, J. / REVE G.
Date: Rotterdam, 1976
A rare suite of 12 original etchings by Martin van Maele to the famous work by Edmond Haracourt.
A rare suite of 12 original etchings by Martin van Maele to the famous work by Edmond Haracourt. The series was published anonymously in a small edition. These etchings a...
Publisher: VAN MAELE, M.
Date: Nevers, Brussels, 1882,1883
Eight Indian erotic paintings, accordion mounted.
SUPERB SET of eight remarkable free miniatures, presenting couples in natural decorations. The miniatures are painted in Iran or India in late 19th - early 20th century]....
Publisher: IRAN or INDIA
Date: Iran, India, ca. 1900
Christophorus Columus Ligur Indiarum Prim invet A°1492
Very decorative portrait of Christopher Columbus (c. 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506), engraved by Theodor de Bry (1528-1593) and published in Jean Jacques Boissard, &quo...
Publisher: DE BRY, Th.
Date: Frankfurt a.M. 1597 - 1599
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 ...
Publisher: NOLIN, J.B. / CORONELLI, P.
Date: Paris, 1688
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...
Publisher: MERCATOR, R.
Date: Amsterdam, 1595-1609
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...
Publisher: LETI, G.
Date: Amsterdam, 1681
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,...
Publisher: Akademie von Wissenschaften
Date: St Peterburg, Akademie von Wissenschaften. 1745
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'...
Publisher: HIMELY, S.
Date: Paris, Finot, 1835
Danubius Fluminum Europaeorum Princeps, Secundum naturalem Suum Cursum Pontes, Stationes, et Accessoria Flumina, una cum intimatione Ubi et quinam Eorum Navigabilia . . .
Extremely rare and striking large format map of the course of the Danube, from its source to the Black Sea. Engraved by Johan Ulrich Kraus and published by Matthaeus Wagn...
Publisher: WAGNER, M.
Date: Ulm, 1686
La Lune à un Mètre [Mini poster for Paris Exposition Universelle)
Original lithograph poster for "Paris Exposition Universelle" held between April and November, 1900, which received 50 million visitors. In 1899, director Geor...
Publisher: TRUCHET, A.
Date: Paris, c.1900
Stoel des Oorlogs in America Waar in Vertoont Werden Alle Desself Voornaamste Eylande . . .
Large impressive map of the West Indies with the Gulf of Mexico and Florida. The map shows prominently in the center Cuba, Haiti, the Bahamas and Florida, which is here m...
Publisher: OTTENS, R. and J.
Date: Amsterdam, c. 1720
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...
Publisher: MERCATOR, G. / HONDIUS, J.
Date: Amsterdam, 1629
Map of Louisiana from D'Anville's Atlas.
This map presents a highly detailed treatment of the region from Cabo Del Norte to the Apalachiola River, centered on the mouth of the Mississippi and extending inland to...
Publisher: BOWEN, Th.
Date: London, 1788
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...
Publisher: /. S.
Date: France ca.. 1594
Ignographia candiae tertia a turcis obsessae in lucem edita a F. de Wit.
A scarce broadsheet plan and prospect of Heraklion on one sheet: prospect 180 x 495mm, map 395 x 495mm., in lower part a printed description "Abbildung der starken S...
Publisher: DE WIT, F.
Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Trop d'Appetit par A. Le Petit.
Dated in lower right dated "Le 9 juin 1875". The drawing is representing an alligator's jaw wearing a Prussian helmet, and about to chew a globe. Alfred Le Peti...
Publisher: LE PETIT, A.
Date: Paris, 1875
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...
Publisher: SANSON, N. / MARIETTE, P.
Date: Paris, 1654
Mercurius.
Mercury holding a caduceus and riding in a chariot drawn by two birds on the clouds in the sky, an extensive landscape with a harbour with goods being loaded and unloaded...
Publisher: DE VOS, M. after
Date: Antwerp, 1585
Lapis polaris magnes.
This is a plate from a series of twenty prints illustrating new inventions and discoveries (Nova Reperta) after Jan van der Straet. On image, bottom right: 'Ion. Stradanu...
Publisher: STRADANUS, Johannes / COLLAERT, Jan (II).
Date: Antwerp, Philips Galle, c. 1590
[Manuscript chart on vellum of the Java Sea]
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 o...
Publisher: GRAAF, I.
Date: Amsterdam, 1743
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...
Publisher: GEELKERCKEN, Nicolaes van.
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...
Publisher: VISSCHER, Claes Jansz.
Date: Amsterdam, c. 1636
Composite atlas of the Low Countries.
A composite atlas comprising 18 double-page engraved maps by or after Hessel Gerritsz, Theodoor Galle, Jacob van Deventer, Gerard Mercator, Peter Verbiest, Jean Surhon, C...
Publisher: GALLE, Theodoor.
Date: [Antwerp, c. 1633
Algemene kaart van Suriname Algemeene kaart van de Colonie of Provintie van Suriname : met de rivieren, districten, ontdekkingen door militaire togten. . .
Uncommon large scale map of of Suriname, indicating the different plantations and their owners. Consists of two glued-together sheets. Completed with funding by the Direc...
Publisher: DE LETH, H.
Date: Amsterdam, 1740
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 ...
Publisher: DUTCH
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1660
Leaf on vellum from an Italian manuscript Book of Hours.
A leaf from an Italian Book of Hours, written on vellum in the neighborhood of Ferrara, around 1480.The decorations of this leaf are extraordinary : the bouquet of flower...
Publisher: BOOK OF HOURS
Date: Italy, Ferrara, ca.1480
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...
Publisher: DENIS, L.
Date: Paris, Ambroise Dupont , 1826
Marshall Hjälpen.
Marshall Plan poster made by Gusta Aberg, showing barbed wire cut by pliers with slogan on pliers: Marshall Hjälpen This is one of the 25 finalists in the 1950 “Intra-...
Publisher: ABERG, G.
Date: Kühn & Zoon Rotterdam, 1950
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...
Publisher: BLAEU, J.
Date: Amsterdam, ca 1660
La Rareté de Prague / De Praagsche Rarirkiek.
A rare separately issued broadsheet satirising Cardinal Fleury, Louis XV of France, European heads of state and politicians at the time of the War of the Austrian Success...
Publisher: COOPER, T. / LAM
Date: Amsterdam, 1741
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...
Publisher: JACOBSZ.,Th. / DE WIDT, F.
Date: Amsterdam, 1662
Mapa geogra´fico de la mayor parte de la Ame´rica Meridional que contiene los paises por donde debe trazarse la li´nia divisoria que divida los dominios de Espan~a y Portugal. . .
Rare first edition of the map drawn by Francisco Requena (1743-1824) after his expedition to the Amazon in order to delineate the boundary between the Spanish and Portugu...
Publisher: REQUENA, F.
Date: Bourquin, F. Philadelphia, ca. 1876
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, ...
Publisher: BLAEU, J.
Date: Amsterdam, 1659
Outposts of Empire. Central Australia.
A large colored lithograph by John Vickery (1906-1983), he was an Australian artist. He worked in the fields of painting, illustration and advertising. He is the only Aus...
Publisher: VICKERY, John.
Date: London, ca 1937
Le Sacre Hagard [Haggard-falcon]
A beautiful elephant folio sized colored lithograph of a Hagard Falcon, taken from the famous book on Falconry Traite de Fauconnerie by Schlegel and A.H. Verster van Wulv...
Publisher: SCHLEGEL, ARNZ, A & COMP
Date: Leiden, 1844-1853
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 ...
Publisher: PISCATOR or VISSCHER,C.J.
Date: Amsterdam, 1630
Cunard to Canada.
Poster by Charles Eddowes Turner for Cunard lines. The poster shows The NEW SYLVANIA, one of the four new 22,000 - ton Cunarders which are the largest ever built for serv...
Publisher: TURNER, C.E
Date: England, ca. 1930
(Art déco gouache)
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The g...
Publisher: PICHON, R. (Workshop).
Date: Paris, ca. 1930
(Art déco gouache)
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The g...
Publisher: PICHON, R. (Workshop).
Date: Paris, ca. 1930
(Art déco gouache)
Outstanding "art deco" gouache (unsigned) from the workshop of "Robert Pichon. Ateliers de Dessin et Lithographie – 10, rue Rochechouart – Paris. The g...
Publisher: PICHON, R. (Workshop).
Date: Paris, ca. 1930