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Moluccae Insulae Celeberrimi.
Willem Blaeu's very fine map of the Spice islands, with a detailed map of the Island of Bachian in a handsome border. Further embellished with a large title-cartouche, an...
Date: Amsterdam, ca 1635
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Persia Sive Sophorum Regnum.
In 1636 the by then obsolete map of Persia by Jodocus Hondius is replaced by a new map by J. Janssonius. Embellished with two cartouches.
Date: Amsterdam, 1636
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Persia Sive Sophorum Regum.
Decorative map of Persia extending from Saudi Arabia and Turkey to the Indus River, centered on Persia, with the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf in the South and Caspian and...
Date: Frankfurt, 1636
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Turcicum Imperium.
Merian's map of the Turkish Empire, showing the area from Sicily and Italy until the Caspian Sea, the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea, Socotra Island, and Saudi Arabia.
Date: Frankfurt, ca.1636
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Galatia cujus populi Tolistobogi, Tectosages, Trocmi, mox provincia sub romanis in primam et secundam divisa et in ea romana itineraria ex tabula Peutingeriana. . .
Rare map of northern Turkey, centered around Ancyra (Ankara) and illustrates the provinces inhabited by the three Celtic tribes (Tolistobogi, Tectosages, and Trocmi) that...
Date: Paris, after 1637
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Tartariae sive Magni Chami Imperium.
Fine map of Tartary, including northern part of China, and tip of Korea.
Date: Amsterdam 1638
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MOLUCCAE Insulae Celeberrimae.
The earliest full-scale and highly decorative map of the "Spice Islands". In addition to a sumptuous title cartouche, the map features an inset of the Island of...
Date: Amsterdam, 1635-1638
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Cyprus Insulae.
Blaeu's beautiful map of Cyprus embellished with a very decorative title cartouche, a scale cartouche, two coats of arms, two wind roses and three sailing ships.As Willem...
Date: Amsterdam, 1638
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Terra Sancta quae in Sacris Terra Promissionis..
Very decorative map of Palestine. Orientated west to the top. The decoration is inspired by the Old Testament. Moses stands to the left of the title cartouche, Aaron to t...
Date: Amsterdam, 1638
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Natolia, quae olim Asia minor.
A finely designed map of Turkey and Cyprus from the great Blaeu family of Amsterdam.As Willem Blaeu died in 1638 most of his maps are actually published by his son Joan. ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1638
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Persia sive Sophorum Regnum.
A finely designed map from the great Blaeu family of Amsterdam. With decorative title cartouche. With dedication to Theodorus Tholing and dated 1634, in lower right corne...
Date: Amsterdam, 1638
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China Veteribus Sinarum Regio.
This was the first of Blaeu's maps of China. In 1655 he was to publish the famous map of Father Martini, with many of the earlier inaccuracies present on this map correct...
Date: Amsterdam, 1638
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India quae Orientalis dicitur, et insulae adiacentes.
Extending from India to Japan and showing parts of Australia. It is indeed one of the first printed maps to show identifiable parts of Australia. It was not revised until...
Date: Amsterdam, 1638
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Moluccae Insulae Celeberrimae.
Showing the geographical features of the islands, and decorated with ships, sea monsters and a handsome cartouche. With an inset of Bachian island.One of the most appeali...
Date: Amsterdam, 1638
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India quae Orientalis dicitur, et insulae adiacentes.
Extending from India to Japan and showing parts of Australia. It is indeed one of the first printed maps to show identifiable parts of Australia. It was not revised until...
Date: Amsterdam, c.1638
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Chorographia Terrae Sanctae in Angustiorem formam Redacta et ex Variis Auctoribus a Multis Erroribus Expurgata . . .
Large attractive plan of the Holy Land in east orientation. First published in Antwerp 1632. Centered a city plan of Jerusalem after Villalpando 'Hierosolymae Veteris Ima...
Date: Antwerp, 1638
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China Veteribus Sinarum Regio.
This was the first of Blaeu's maps of China. In 1655 he was to publish the famous map of Father Martini, with many of the earlier inaccuracies present on this map correct...
Date: Paris / Amsterdam, 1638
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Exacta & accurata.. regionibus China, Cauchinchina, Camboja..
...the Far East and the Malay Archipelago are represented in such detail as was known only to the Portuguese at that time and had never before shown on a printed map. (S...
Date: Amsterdam, 1599-1638
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IAPONIAE Nova Descriptio.
2nd state of Hondius map. Janssonius replaced the Japanese ship with a European one. Korea shown as an island.
Date: Amsterdam, 1639
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IAPONIAE Nova Descriptio.
2nd state of Hondius map. Janssonius replaced the Japanese ship with a European one.
Date: Amsterdam, 1639
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Regni Chinensis Descriptio.
Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden), ex off, Elzeviriana, in-24o, (viii) + 365 pp + (9) nn pp (index), with decorative engraved title depicting a map of China and 2 woodcut costum...
Date: Leiden, Elzevier,1639
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Indiae Orientalis Nova Descriptio.
From "Atlas Novus, sive theatrum orbus terrarum." Amsterdam, 1639 A.D. French text to verso.The map shows area of south east Asia with their countries of Indone...
Date: Amsterdam, 1639
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Natolia, quae olim Asia minor.
A finely designed map from the great Blaeu family of Amsterdam.
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
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TERRA SANCTA quae in Sacris Terra Promissionis?
The Holy Land, Promised Land or Palestine. Oriented to the west. Shows the entire Palestine on both sides of the Jordan, the shore line running from Tripoli as far as the...
Date: Amsterdam 1640
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Moluccae Insulae Celeberrimae.
Nice map of the Moluccan Islands in the Indonesian Archipelago.Beautiful cartouches. Verso blanc.
Date: Amsterdam, c 1640
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Cyprus Insulae.
Janssonius' beautiful chart of Cyprus embellished with a very decorative title cartouche.
Date: Amsterdam 1640
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China Veteribus Sinarum Regio nunc Incolis Tame dicta.
Elegant 17th century map of China and Japan. The map is closely modelled on Janssonius' map of 1633. The detail includes the eastern part of China (bounded in the west by...
Date: Amsterdam 1640
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Cyprus Insulae.
Janssonius' beautiful map of Cyprus embellished with a very decorative title cartouche.
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
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China Veteribus Sinarum Regio.
Based on Jesuit surveys, the map represents the next major revision in the cartography of China after Ortelius' 1584 map. Korea, however, is still an island, and Japan co...
Date: Amsterdam 1640
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Insularum Moluccarum Nova descriptio.
Exquisite map of the famous Spice Islands based on the islands described by Jan Huyghen van Linschoten. This map was the first large scale map of the region and depicts t...
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
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Pecheli sive Peking imperii sinarum provincia prima.
The map of the province of Peking from Joan Blaeu's Novus Atlas Sinensis , the first atlas of china with maps by the hand of the Italian Jesuit Martino Martini. A beautif...
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
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Cyprus Insula.
Blaeu's beautiful map of Cyprus embellished with a very decorative title cartouche, a scale cartouche, two coats of arms, two wind roses and three sailing ships.With &quo...
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
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Byzantium nunc Constantinopolis.
One of the finest and most sought-after views of Istanbul. Viewed from the village of Scutari, the City is shown with all its fortifications, the original Genouse distric...
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
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Carte de l' Asie. . . Didiée a Maitre Pierre Petit. . .
Rare map of Asia, with the address of Michel van Lochom, dated 1640.The map is of interest for the dual-naming of the sea between Korea and Japan, here called "MER D...
Date: Paris, c. 1640
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Insularum Moluccarum Nova descriptio.
The small spice islands off the west coast of the island of Halmahera in the eastern part of the archipelago. With an imposing title cartouche, together with finely drawn...
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
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Natolia, quae olim Asia minor. [shows Cyprus]
A finely designed map from the great Blaeu family of Amsterdam. Decorative map of Asia Minor, showing Cyprus and the Islands in the Aegean. Embellished with a banner cart...
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
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Asia Nova Descriptio.
A very fine and decorative example of early seventeenth century map engraving as practiced in The Netherlands. Several sources appear to have been used in the compilation...
Date: Amsterdam, 1606 -1640
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Asia noviter delineata.
Superb engraved map of Asia with Latin text on verso. This magnificent “cornerstone” map is a fine example of the famous “carte-a-figures” maps created by the Bla...
Date: Amsterdam, ca 1640
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Pecheli sive Peking imperii sinarum provincia prima.
The map of the province of Peking from Joan Blaeu's Novus Atlas Sinensis , the first atlas of china with maps by the hand of the Italian Jesuit Martino Martini. A beautif...
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
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Pecheli sive Peking imperii sinarum provincia prima.
The map of the province of Peking from Joan Blaeu's Novus Atlas Sinensis , the first atlas of china with maps by the hand of the Italian Jesuit Martino Martini. A beautif...
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
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Pecheli sive Peking imperii sinarum provincia prima.
The map of the province of Peking from Joan Blaeu's Novus Atlas Sinensis , the first atlas of china with maps by the hand of the Italian Jesuit Martino Martini. A beautif...
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
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Insularum Moluccarum Nova descriptio.
Exquisite map of the famous Spice Islands based on the islands described by Jan Huyghen van Linschoten. This map was the first large scale map of the region and depicts t...
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
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Moluccae Insulae Celeberrimae.
This plate was originally engraved in the 1620, and published as a loose-sheet by Jodocus Hondius II. At his death in August 1629 this map was, among 39 other copper plat...
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
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Insularum Moluccarum Nova descriptio.
Exquisite map of the famous Spice Islands based on the islands described by Jan Huyghen van Linschoten.This map was the first large scale map of the region and depicts th...
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
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Persia sive Sophorum Regnum.
Merian's decorative and detailed map of Persia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the Arab States, the Strait of Hormuz, the Caspian Sea, and extending until the Indus River.
Date: Frankfurt, ca. 1640
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Insularum Moluccarum Nova descriptio.
Exquisite map of the famous Spice Islands based on the islands described by Jan Huyghen van Linschoten.This map was the first large scale map of the region and depicts th...
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
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Insula Zeilan olim Taprobana nunc incolis tenarisim.
Janssonius' map of Sri Lanka. Including many VOC settlements and forts, several major town marked with a crown. Very decorative item with two large title and scale cartou...
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
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Moluccae Insulae Celeberrimae.
This plate was originally engraved in the 1620, and published as a loose-sheet by Jodocus Hondius II. At his death in August 1629 this map was, among 39 other copper plat...
Date: Amsterdam, 1640
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China Veteribus Sinarum Regio nunc Incolis Tame dicta
Willem and Johan Blaeu's map of China, with Japan and Korea. With the Great Wall forming the northern boundary of China and the fictitious lake Chiamay.Title in a cartouc...
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1640
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De gelegenheyt van t'paradys ende t'landt van Canaan. . .
Very attractive map, showing the location of Paradise. Two vignettes depict the Temptation of Adam and Eve, and their Expulsion from the Garden of Eden.
Date: Amsterdam, 1642
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CONSTANTINOPOLI.
A beautiful hand-colored copperplate birds-eye view/map showing Istanbul/Constantinople, with a chart with numbered places-names. Showing multiple ships and buildings. An...
Date: Venice, 1642
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Tabula Geographica, in qua regiones Cananaeae, et locorum situs. . .
This is the second state of the Petrus Plancius bible map. D.R.M. Mathes , whose identity we don't really know (Doctor Rudolf Mercator, Mathematicus ??), made minimal cha...
Date: Amsterdam, 1643
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Waerachtige beschryvinge vande wydvermaerde Conincklicke Hooft Stadt Jerusalem.
Engraved by Baptista van Doetechum for a bible printed by Jan Everts Cloppenburg. The bible maps of 1590 are the earliest of Plancius compilations to survive.Very rare pl...
Date: Amsterdam, 1643
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India quae Orientalis dicitur...
Map of South East Asia showing the area between India in the West and parts of Japan, the Marianas and New Guinea/Australia in the East. Copper engraving in original colo...
Date: Amsterdam, c. 1644
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Natoliae Quae Olim Asia Minor.
Blaeu's decorative map of Asia Minor, showing Turkey, Cyprus and the Islands in the Aegean.This attractive map shows all of Turkey, Cyprus and the Aegean Islands to a rel...
Date: Amsterdam, 1644
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Persia sive Sophorum Regnum.
A finely designed map from the great Blaeu family of Amsterdam. With decorative title cartouche. The cartouches and decorations are colored artistically.There are very g...
Date: Amsterdam, 1644
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Natolia, quae olim Asia minor.
A finely designed map of Turkey and Cyprus from the great Blaeu family of Amsterdam.As Willem Blaeu died in 1638 most of his maps are actually published by his son Joan. ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1644
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Asia recens Summa cura delineata.
Very rare map of Asia separately published. Derivative map by Picart of Hondius' rare separately issued map of 1618, with the lower panels removed. Surrounded with three ...
Date: Paris, 1644
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Indiae Orientalis nova descriptio.
An important map of South East Asia, noteworthy for being amongst the first maps to include any information on the discoveries made by the Dutch vessel Duyfkens in New Gu...
Date: Amsterdam 1645
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Indiae Orientalis nova descriptio.
An important map of South East Asia, noteworthy for being amongst the first maps to include any information on the discoveries made by the Dutch vessel Duyfkens in New Gu...
Date: Amsterdam 1645
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Insularum Moluccarum Nova descriptio - Amstelodami, Apud Ioannem Ianßonium.
Shows the islands Moluccas of Indonesia. Very decorative map.
Date: Amsterdam, 1645
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Tartaria sive Magni Chami imperium.
Detailed and decorative map of Tartary [i.e. Mongolia and Siberia] which is annotated with the major cities and towns of the region. Chinae Regni Pars [i.e. China] is sho...
Date: Amsterdam, 1645
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Tartaria sive Magni Chami Imperium.
Detailed and decorative map of Tartary and Northern part of China. Northern tip of Korea included. The Chinese Great Wall is depicted, with Central Asia, extending from M...
Date: Amsterdam, 1645
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Tartariae sive Magni Chami Imperium.
Fine map of Tartary, including northern part of China, and tip of Korea.
Date: Amsterdam, 1645
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Tartaria sive Magni Chami Imperium.
A detailed and decorative map of Tartary and the northern part of China. The very northern tip of Korea included. The Chinese Great Wall is depicted, with Central Asia, e...
Date: Amsterdam, 1645
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Indiae Orientalis nova descriptio.
An important map of South East Asia, noteworthy for being amongst the first maps to include any information on the discoveries made by the Dutch vessel Duyfkens in New Gu...
Date: Amsterdam, 1645
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Asia Noviter Delineata.
A superb Carte-à-figures of Asia, adorned with five vignettes on either side which depict natives in mufti, and 9 small views of cities at the top, incl. Calcutta, Goa, ...
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1645
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Turkey - Maltese Order, - OSMAN FILS D'IBRAHIM EMPEREUR DES TURCS
Fine antique copper engraving with the portraits of Osman, son of Emperor/Sultan Ibrahim, and of his mother ,an Imperial Concubine. With engraved explanatory text ,in dec...
Date: Paris, 1645
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Asia carta di ciasete piu moderna. (Japan)
Rare Japan map of the Blancus/Moreira type. The place names follow Ginnaro, though he invented numerous additional imaginative names. From the first edition of hisDell'Ar...
Date: Florence 1646
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De heylige en wytvermaerde stadt Jerusalem.
Imaginary plan of ancient Jerusalem with all the principal sites numbered and keyed to a table at bottom. Shows the city with the Second Temple and Herrod's Castle and th...
Date: Amsterdam 1646
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Goa
Beautiful birdeye view of Goa in India from Matthaus Merian. Showing the city at the beginning of the 17th century with many ships in the harbour and a cartouche describi...
Date: Frankfurt, 1646
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Palestinae sive Terrae Sanctae quae et Promissionis Nova Tabula ad SS. Bibliorum Intelligentiam Delineata ex Christiano Adrichomio collecta
A uncommon map of the Holy Land, based on Christian von Adrichem's two-sheet map of 1590. This map shows the shoreline from Sidon to Alexandria, and includes the mouth of...
Date: Paris, 1646
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Descriptio terrarum in quasdispersi sunt structores turris Babel.
SCARCE early map of the Mediterranean, the Middle East, and northern Africa. Many areas and coast lines distorted! The Near East is highly detailed with numerous ancient ...
Date: Amsterdam, after1646
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Asia.
This lovely miniature map of the continent of Asia is a single page with text on verso taken from John Speed's folio atlas, and is signed with Van den Keere's Latinized n...
Date: London, 1646
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GOA.
This southern oriented map depicts the Portuguese colony of Goa, which is situated on the west coast of India and was a key port of trade for merchants. The map is very d...
Date: Frankfurt, ca. 1646
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Turcicum Imperium.
A very handsome map with a particularly fine cartouche showing the Turkish Sultan on his throne and allegorical figures at either side brandishing weapons. At right is a ...
Date: Amsterdam 1647
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Magni Mogolis Imperium.
An attractive map of northern India and Central Asia bounded by Pakistan, Afganistan and Bangladesh and extening inland up the Ganges and Indus Rivers to Tartary and the ...
Date: Amsterdam, 1647
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Magni Mogolis Imperium.
An attractive map of northern India and Central Asia bounded by Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh and extending inland up the Ganges and Indus Rivers to Tartary and th...
Date: Amsterdam, 1647
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Vera Delineatio Prouinciae Fertilissimae . . .
Detailed map of the Southern Caspian Sea, showing the area north of Tehran. From the rare first edition "Offt begehrte Beschreibung der newen orientalischen Rejse, s...
Date: Schleßwig, Zur Glocken, 1647
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[ Lot of 3 items of the Holy Land] Perigrinatie ofte Veertich-jarige Reyse, Der Kinderen Israels.
The rare ' Wandering Children Israel ' map by Jacob Savry from a Dutch bible. Right bottom 3 vignettes with the Camp Israel, Vessels of the Temple and a priest. Above the...
Date: Amsterdam, 1647
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