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[Incunable] (Rudimentum novitiorum: French:) La mer des histoires.

One of the rarest of French illustrated incunables. The Mer des histoires (?A sea of stories?) is the French adaptation of the Latin Rudimentum novitiorum, an abridged h...

$37100 / ≈ €34118
Publisher: LE BRET,G.
Date: Lyon: Jean Du Pré, 20-23 August 1491
Selling price: $37100
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Register Des Buchs der Chronicken und geschichten mit figure...

FIRST EDITION IN GERMAN. The famous Nuremberg Chronicle, a history of the world, published the year that Columbus returned to Europe after discovering America. The text i...

$32750 / ≈ €30117
Publisher: SCHEDEL, H.
Date: Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 23 Decembre, 1493
Selling price: $32750
Sold in 2017

 

Supplementum. Supplementi de la Chroniche vulgare novamante agionto & emendato al anno 1503.

Interesting Italian text edition of this important chronicle, first published in Latin in 1483.With large woodcut title-border, woodcut border on leaf A1 and 107 (2 full-...

$9800 / ≈ €9012
Publisher: JACOBUS PHILIPPUS DE BERGAMO.
Date: Venise, Georgio de Rusconi, August 7th. 1508
Selling price: $9800
Sold in 2008

 

Geographia universalis, vetus et nova, complectens. . .

The rare FIRST EDITION of Sebastian Münster's Geographia Universalis, published in 1540. This was a new and important edition of Ptolemy, with redesigned maps and the te...

$45000 / ≈ €41383
Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Date: Basel, 1540
Selling price: $45000
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(Fragment from the Cosmographia)

This fragment of the Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster covers the entire mathematical and geographical introductions given in Book I. In these twenty-two pages Münster...

$425 / ≈ €391
Publisher: MÜNSTER, Sebastian.
Date: Basel, 1544
Selling price: $425
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In Somnium Scipionis Libri II.. [With world map]

With 5 schematic woodcuts and a fine woodcut map of the world (80 x 80 mm). The famous map of the world appears in the different printing in the 15th. and 16th Century in...

$1500 / ≈ €1379
Publisher: MACROBIUS,A.
Date: Leyden 1550
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2010

 

Cosmographiae universalis lib. VI.

Rare first Latin edition illustrated with a title-page within woodcut border, woodcut portrait of Munster on verso; 14 woodcut double-page maps, including 2 world maps (t...

$12500 / ≈ €11495
Publisher: MÜNSTER, S.
Date: Basle, H. Petri, 1550
Selling price: $12500
Sold in 2019

 

Biblia Sacra.

Famous "Polyglot" Bible, printed by the famous Plantin firm and prepared under the direction of Philip II of Spain. Including a world map well-known for its sho...

$13000 / ≈ €11955
Publisher: ARIAS MONTANUS, B.
Date: Antwerp, 1583
Selling price: $13000
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Epitome. Du Theatre du Monde d'Abraham Ortelius.

Third French text edition in an oblong format of this illustrated treatise of geography, which is considered as the first modern pocket-atlas. The atlas was printed by Pl...

$3500 / ≈ €3219
Publisher: ORTELIUS, A. / GALLE, Ph.
Date: Antwerp, 1588
Selling price: $3500
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Itinerarium sacrae scripturae. . .

A relatively early edition of this famous book includes a world map in a cloverleaf (Shirley 142). The three principal continents, Europe, Asia, and Africa, are arranged ...

$30000 / ≈ €27589
Publisher: BÜNTING, H.
Date: Magdeburg, 1591
Selling price: $30000
Sold in 2013

 

Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae. Das ist: Ein Reisebuch uber die gantze heilige Schrifft. Zuvor gemehret mit einem Büchlein De monetis et mensuris. . .

The book includes a world map in the form of a clover leaf (Shirley 142). The three principal continents, Europe, Asia and Africa, are arranged in the form of a clover le...

$18000 / ≈ €16553
Publisher: BÜNTING, H.
Date: Magdeburg, P. Donat for A. Kirchner, 1592
Selling price: $18000
Sold in 2009

 

Geografia cioe Descrittione Universale della Terra ... Nuovamente ... Rincontrati, & Corretti ... Gio. Ant. Magini ... Opera ... Tradotta dal R.D. Leonardo Cernoti

The first edition of Leonardo Cernoti's Italian translation of Ptolemy's Geografia based on the 1596 Latin edition of Magini published by G. B. & G. Galignani in 1597...

$11500 / ≈ €10576
Publisher: MAGINI, G.A.
Date: Venice, 1597
Selling price: $11500
Sold in 2011

 

Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino Tradotta di Greco nell'Idioma Volgare Italiano da Girolamo Ruscelli

Sixth edition of Ruscelli's translation of Ptolemy's Geografia edited and extended by Giuseppe Rosaccio published by the Hires of M. Sessa in 1598 and 1599.Illustrated wi...

$11250 / ≈ €10346
Publisher: RUSCELLI, G.
Date: Venice, 1598
Selling price: $11250
Sold in 2010

 

Geografia cioe Descrittione Universale della Terra ... Nuovamente ... Rincontrati, & Corretti ... Gio. Ant. Magini ... Opera ... Tradotta dal R.D. Leonardo Cernoti

The first edition of Leonardo Cernoti's Italian translation of Ptolemy's Geografia based on the 1596 Latin edition of Magini published by G. B. & G. Galignani in 1597...

$5000 / ≈ €4598
Publisher: MAGINI, G.A.
Date: Venice, 1598
Selling price: $5000
Sold in 2015

 

Epitome Theatri Orteliani, praecipuarum orbis regionum delineationes...

Latin pocket-size atlas of Ortelius' "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum", published for those who could not afford the expensive large atlases of the time. "A new se...

$6200 / ≈ €5702
Publisher: ORTELIUS, Abraham / GALLE, Filips.
Date: Antwerp J.B., Vrients, 1601
Selling price: $6200
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Atlas - Tabularum geographicorum contractum libri quinque. [with 148 maps]

Uncommon French text edition, published by Christoffle Goyot, in Leiden for Cornelis Claes. The Caert-Thresoor of 1598 set a new standard for minor atlases. Scholars like...

$2200 / ≈ €2023
Publisher: LANGENES, B. / BERTIUS, P.
Date: Leiden, Christoffle Goyot, 1602
Selling price: $2200
Sold in 2019

 

Thresor de Chartes, contenant les Tableaux de tous les Pays du Monde...

French text edition of the "Caert-Thresoor" first published in 1598, printed by Mattheaus BeckerII in Frankfurt am Main for Hendrick Laurensz, who succeeded his...

$6000 / ≈ €5518
Publisher: LANGENES, Barent.
Date: Frankfurt am main, Matthias Becker for Hanry Laurentz, c. 1609
Selling price: $6000
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Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes...

Latin text edition. With the Mercator-Hondius double portrait, inserted from 1613 in the various editions of the Atlas. "In the first decade of the seventeenth centu...

$35025 / ≈ €32210
Publisher: MERCATOR, G./ HONDIUS, J.
Date: Amsterdam, 1613
Selling price: $35025
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Atlas Minor. . .

Uncommon early French text-edition of this influential pocket atlas, published by Johannes Janssonius. The plates were executed by two of Holland's finest engravers, Abra...

$6000 / ≈ €5518
Publisher: MERCATOR, G. / JANSSONIUS, J.
Date: Amsterdam, 1613
Selling price: $6000
Sold in 2012

 

Omnium Belgii, sive Inferioris Germaniae, Regionum Descriptio.

First edition in Latin of the oblong edition. Illustrated with 105 maps and views featuring Belgium, the Netherlands and the north of France. Variant without the genera...

$3350 / ≈ €3081
Publisher: GUICCIARDINI, L.
Date: Arnhem, J. Jansson, 1616
Selling price: $3350
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Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum

Third edition of this rare and influential pocket atlas. All maps are fine and dark impressions. World map engraved by J.Hondius (signed) is appearing twice; celestial ch...

$14600 / ≈ €13426
Publisher: BERTIUS,P.
Date: Amsterdam, J.Hondius, 1618
Selling price: $14600
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Atlas Minor [Dutch edition]

Uncommon DUTCH text-edition of this influential pocket atlas, published by Johannes Janssonius. The plates were executed by two of Holland's finest engravers, Abraham Goo...

$10250 / ≈ €9426
Publisher: MERCATOR, G. / JANSSONIUS, J.
Date: Amsterdam, (1628) 1630
Selling price: $10250
Sold in 2012

 

Histoire de la navigation.. aux Indes Orientales..

Incomplete copy of the last and most complete edition in French of this work that may be called the most important travel book of all periods. Unfortunately only 2 maps (...

$4800 / ≈ €4414
Publisher: LINSCHOTEN, J.H. VAN
Date: Amsterdam, 1638
Selling price: $4800
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Histoire de la Navigation.

A fine example of Linschoten's classic illustrated travelogue to the East and West Indies, termed by Lach “the most important of the firsthand accounts published indepe...

$70000 / ≈ €64373
Publisher: LINSCHOTEN, J.H.
Date: Amsterdam, Evert Cloppenburgh, 1638

 

Archontologia Cosmica..

A first edition of this cosmographia by one of Germany most important publishers. The Archontologia Cosmica.. it was prepared by L.Gottfried.Illustrated with 65 copper en...

$4800 / ≈ €4414
Publisher: GOTTFRIED,L./ MERIAN,M.
Date: Frankfurt 1638
Selling price: $4800
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Britannia, sive Florentiss. regnorum Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae, insularumq. adiacentium ex .

This miniature atlas is an abridged version of Camden's Brittania published by the Blaeu family in Amsterdam. It contains a total of 19 maps, with county maps taken from ...

$550 / ≈ €506
Publisher: CAMDEN,W. BLAEU, W.
Date: Amsterdam, 1639
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2018

 

Vierde Stuck der Aerdrycks-Beschryving, welck vervat Engelandt, i.e. Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. vol 4, England & Wales.

>An outstanding example of Joannes Blaeu's "Vierde Stuck der Aerdrycks-Beschryving, welck vervat Engelandt, i.e. Theatrum Orbis Terrarum": being volume 4, En...

$30000 / ≈ €27589
Publisher: BLAEU, J.
Date: Amsterdam, 1648
Selling price: $30000
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Historiae Universalis cum Sacraetum prophanae nucleus. . .

Charming universal history book with 15 charming wood cut engraved maps. The main copper engraved title page records Ulm under the title. This is the rare FIRST EDITION ...

$1050 / ≈ €966
Publisher: BUCELINI, G.
Date: Ulm, Johannem Görlinum, 1650
Selling price: $1050
Sold in 2008

 

L'Asie En Plusieurs Cartes Nouvelles. . .

Apparently an unknown variant, maybe a state between 1652 and 1662. The title-page bears the date of the first edition (1652), the address of the second edition (B) missp...

$2400 / ≈ €2207
Publisher: SANSON, N.
Date: Paris, l'Autheur, 1652
Selling price: $2400
Sold in 2017

 

Theatre Geographiqiue de L'Europe. . .

Atlas illustrated with 57 double-page maps (of 60). Maps 24 (Bourgogne), 25 (Bresse) and 49 (Allemagne) are missing. The maps are numbered in ink in the upper right-hand ...

Publisher: MARIETTE, P.
Date: Paris, 1653
Selling price: $10500
Sold in 2019

 

[Atlas]

>Early edition of Sanson’s atlas Cartes générales de toutes les parties du monde, before title page. Illustrated with 74 double page maps in original outline color...

$6900 / ≈ €6345
Publisher: SANSON, N. / MARIETTE, P.
Date: Paris, ca. 1655
Selling price: $6900
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L'Asie en plusievers cartes nouvelles, et exactes, &c

17 copper-engraved double-page maps, outlined in contemp. color. Sheets measure: 27.3 x 36.5 cm. Plate images measure: approx. 20.0 x 26.0 cm., each map varying by a cm. ...

$2800 / ≈ €2575
Publisher: SANSON, S.
Date: Paris, Chez L'Autheur, rue S. Jacques, 1658
Selling price: $2800
Sold in 2016

 

BIBLIA, dat is de gantsche H. Schrifture, vervattende alle de canonijcke boecken des Ouden en des Nieuwen Testaments.

Richly bound copy of the official Dutch 'Staten-Bijbel' after the Synod from Dordrecht. With engraved general title, 2 separate titles, 6 double-page engraved maps by Nic...

$3000 / ≈ €2759
Publisher: Wed. Paulus Aertsz. van Ravesteyn.
Date: Amsterdam, 1660
Selling price: $3000
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L'Affrique En Plusieurs Cartes Nouvelles, et exactes, &c.

Edition illustrated with 18 maps in original outline colors dated 1656. No date and title page and maps not numbered (according to Pastoureau 1 C, maps are numbered).Nico...

$2400 / ≈ €2207
Publisher: SANSON, N.
Date: Paris, l'Auteur, after 1662

 

Tractatus de Globis coelesti et terrestri eorumque usu. Primum conscriptus a Roberto Hues Anglo atque iterum a Iudoce Hondio excusus?opera et studio J.I.Pontani?Adjicitur Brevarium totius orbis Terrarum Petri Bertii.

Small 8vo, 18 unnumb. leaves, 231 pp, old calf (rebacked). With 4 fold. engr. plates.First published in London in 1594 to accompany Emery Molyneux' globes. The text was r...

$2200 / ≈ €2023
Publisher: FORREST,E.D.
Date: Oxford, 1663
Selling price: $2200
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Douziéme volume de la Geographie Blavariane.. (America)

In 1662 Joan Blaeu published the most famous of his atlases, the 11-volume Atlas Major in Latin. In the following year editions in French , Dutch , Spanish and German edi...

$20025 / ≈ €18415
Publisher: BLAEU,J.
Date: Amsterdam 1667
Selling price: $20025
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A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World.

John Speed's miniature atlas, published in 1668, 3rd Edition. A rare edition that does not include the maps of British Isles. List of maps include: World map, Asia, Afric...

$4400 / ≈ €4046
Publisher: SPEED, J.
Date: Roger Rea, London, 1668
Selling price: $4400
Sold in 2016

 

Het eerste deel van het Brandende Veen. . .

The text body of the extremely rare sea atlas by Arent Roggeveen, describing the American waters. The text pages have numerous figures of coastlines, plans, small town vi...

$5100 / ≈ €4690
Publisher: ROGGEVEEN, A.
Date: Amsterdam, Pieter Goos, n.d. 1675 Amsterdam, Pieter Goos, n.d. 1675
Selling price: $5100
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Cartes generales de la geographie ancienne et nouvelle ou les empires, monarchies, royaumes? Par les Sr. SANSON Geographes ordinaires de sa Majestè. TOME I. & II

The atlas has two printed title pages and two index sheets (the contents of the atlas does not correspond with the contents of the index sheets)Cartes generales de la geo...

$28100 / ≈ €25841
Publisher: SANSON,N./ MARIETTE,P.
Date: Paris Pierre Mariette, 1675
Selling price: $28100
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Le Grand & Nouveau Miroir ou Flambeau de la Mer.

Unrecorded french text edition. Engraved title-page, 32 double-page charts, 1 engraved text-chart of St.MALO, numerous woodcuts of astronomical diagrams, compass, geometr...

$37000 / ≈ €34026
Publisher: GOOS, P.
Date: Amsterdam, 1676
Selling price: $37000
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La Géographie Universelle contenant.

Edition unknown to Pastoureau.

$80000 / ≈ €73569
Publisher: DUVAL, P.
Date: Paris, l'Auteur et Nicolas Langlois, 1682
Selling price: $80000
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La Géographie Universelle contenant. Les Descriptions, les cartes, et le Blason, des principaux Païs du Monde.

Rare pocket atlas of the world by Pierre Duval with the maps in original outlines colors (except for the China map) and the coats-of-arms and titles-pages beautifully emb...

$2700 / ≈ €2483
Publisher: DUVAL, Pierre.
Date: Paris, l'Auteur et Nicolas Langlois, 1682
Selling price: $2700
Sold in 2017

 

Le Grand & Nouveau Miroir ou Flambeau de la Mer..

A RARE EDITION of a French text edition of this fine Dutch Sea atlas of the West European waters with mostly plates originally engraved by Pieter Goos, who passed into th...

$8900 / ≈ €8185
Publisher: GOOS, P. / ROBIJN, J. / LOOTS, J.
Date: Amsterdam, J. Robijn, 1684
Selling price: $8900
Sold in 2015

 

Atlas Terrestris: or a Book of Mapps of all the Empires, Monarchies, Kingdoms, Regions, . . . in the whole World.

One of a series of composite world atlases of varying contents published by John Seller (fl.1658-1698) from 1676 onwards and among one of the very earliest English world ...

$12000 / ≈ €11035
Publisher: SELLER, J.
Date: London: John Seller, [no date] c. 1684
Selling price: $12000
Sold in 2010

 

Atlas Nouveau. [With 74 single or double-page maps]

Atlas illustrated with 74 single or double-page maps, printed on strong paper and in original outline colors. It also includes the "Catalogue des Cartes et Tables G...

$30000 / ≈ €27589
Publisher: JAILLOT, H.
Date: Paris, 1684

 

Kurtze Beschreibung von dem Ursprung, Aufnehmen, Gebiete und Regierung der Weltberühmten Republick Venedig.

Short description of the origin, recording, and government areas of the world-famous “Venice Republick.” The first and only edition of this rare work. The copper eng...

$1601 / ≈ €1472
Publisher: SANDRART, J.
Date: Nuremberg, 1686
Selling price: $1601
Sold in 2015

 

A tutor to Astronomy and Geography. Or an easie and speedy way to know the Use of both the Globes, Celestial and Terestrial. With an appendix shewing the Use of the Ptolemaick Sphere. The fourth edition...

A tutor to Astronomy and Geography. Or an easie and speedy way to know the Use of both the Globes, Celestial and Terestrial. With an appendix shewing the Use of the Ptole...

$1000 / ≈ €920
Publisher: Moxon, J.
Date: 4th edition, London, 1686
Selling price: $1000
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Memoires, historiques & geographiques du Royaume de la Moree, Negrepont, & des places maritimes jusques à Thessalonique. Recueillis & enrichis des cartes des païs & des plas des places.

First French translation and first Dutch edition of Vincenzo Maria Coronelli's (1650-1718) history of Greece, one of the basic source works on the Peloponnesus.On both co...

$6000 / ≈ €5518
Publisher: CORONELLI, Vincenzo.
Date: Amsterdam, Wolfgang, Waesberge, Boom, Van Someren, 1686
Selling price: $6000
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Description de tout l'univers, en plusieurs Cartes, et en divers Traittez de Géographie et d'Histoire...

Very rare edition of this popular atlas by Nicolas Sanson, published by Arnout van Ravestein, in Amsterdam, in 1699.Pastoureau only mentions a Dutch version of Sanson's a...

$2700 / ≈ €2483
Publisher: SANSON d'Abbeville, Nicolas (Father and son).
Date: Amsterdam, Van Ravestein, 1699
Selling price: $2700
Sold in 2018

 

A System of Geography: or, a New & Accurate Description of the Earth in all its Empires, Kingdoms and States.

FIRST EDITION of Moll's important work with the title printed in red and black, 40 engraved maps, 2 full-page, small engraved map in text, 2 engraved solar diagrams. The...

$6700 / ≈ €6161
Publisher: MOLL, Herman
Date: London, for A. and J. Churchill, 1701
Selling price: $6700
Sold in 2014

 

Recueil des Voyages qui ont Servi a l'Etablissement et aux Progres de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales...

Very rare account of the Dutch voyages after Commelin. With title, 1 plate and 14 folding maps, including maps of Novaya Zemlya, Spitsbergen, Madagascar, St. Helena, Sout...

$700 / ≈ €644
Publisher: ESTIENNE, R.
Date: Amsterdam, 1702
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2013

 

Atlas curieux Paris.

A fine series of 10 double page plans of Paris (c.450x530mm) showing the town's development during several ages. Prepared by Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d' Anville,(1697-17...

$3750 / ≈ €3449
Publisher: D'ANVILLE, Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon
Date: Paris 1705
Selling price: $3750
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LES TABLETTES GUERRIERES, OU CARTES CHOISIES POUR LA COMMODITE DES OFFICIERS.

Most maps decorated with a borders showing town views and plans. The map of America with the island of California with an indented coastline and the place names R. d' Est...

$3100 / ≈ €2851
Publisher: LA FEUILLE, PAUL DE (1688--1727).
Date: Amsterdam, 1709
Selling price: $3100
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Nova totius geographica telluris projectio. . .

This is the first atlas of Gerard Valk, publisher, engraver and manufacturer of globes in Amsterdam. The latter joined in 1673 Petrus Schenck for the publication of maps....

$16940 / ≈ €15578
Publisher: VALK, G.
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1711
Selling price: $16940
Sold in 2023

 

Introduction a la Geographie..

Second edition of this charming travel compendium. The title page illustrated with miniature world map in double hemisphere showing California as an island, with imprint ...

$55 / ≈ €51
Publisher: DE FER,N./ DANET
Date: Paris, 1717
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2008

 

Atlas with 19 maps, 2 Family trees and 3 historical tables.

Atlas including a double hemisphere world map, maps of Europe, Asia, Africa, North America (engraved by Cordier, showing California as an Island, based upon Sanson's land...

$4775 / ≈ €4391
Publisher: JAILLOT, A.H.
Date: Paris, 1719
Selling price: $4775
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Le Nouveau et Curieux Atlas Geographique et historique, ou Le Divertissement des Empereurs, Roys, et Princes. Tant dans la Guerre que dans la Paix. Dédié A Son A.R. Monseigneur le Duc d'Orléans Regent du Roîaume de France.

Charming world atlas with double hemisphere world and the North American map feature the Island of California. In Asia and the Pacific, Australia is incompletely mapped a...

$2300 / ≈ €2115
Publisher: CHIQUET, J.
Date: Paris, 1719

 

Habillemens de plusieurs nations représentez au naturel, en cent trente-sept belles figures.

Illustrated with a title page and 132 engraved plates of costumes (of 136) not following the numbering but grouped by countries.The plates showing various nations from al...

$1750 / ≈ €1609
Publisher: VAN DER AA, Pieter.
Date: Leiden, Pierre van der Aa, c. 1720
Selling price: $1750
Sold in 2018

 

(Recueil de plans et ports de la Méditerranée).

Superb atlas of the Mediterranean containing 19 charts (including 1 double) engraved by Starckman, Coélemans, and B. Randon Hunting and mounted on heavy paper. Each char...

$30000 / ≈ €27589
Publisher: MICHELOT (Henri) & BREMOND (Laurent).
Date: Marseille, Laurent Brémond,1715-1726
Selling price: $30000
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Discours sur l'histoire universelle..

Three volumes with 26 maps, including the World and Continents, Israel, Middle sea area, Russia, Scandinavia,Denmark, Iceland,Poland, Britain, England, Scotland,Ireland,N...

$1500 / ≈ €1379
Publisher: BOSSUET, J.B.
Date: Amsterdam, 1730
Selling price: $1500
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Britannia Depicta or Ogilby Improv'd. . .

A nice English atlas of reduced road maps from John Ogilby's earlier survey of 1675. Four editions and many reprints were published, the last in 1764. This example is a f...

Publisher: OWEN, J. / BOWEN E.
Date: London, ca 1730

 

[Recueil de Voyages au Nord].

Extract from volume III of the "Recueil de Voyages au Nord", containing the reports of Linschoten's voyages, the first to the North through the Strait of Nassau...

$300 / ≈ €276
Publisher: BERNARD, J. F. / LINSCHOTEN, Jean Hugues de.
Date: Amsterdam, Bernard, 1732
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2022

 

BRUZEN DE LA MARTINIERE: Introduction a l'histoire de l'Asie de l'Afrique et de l'Amérique.

Volume 2 (of 2) of his "Introduction a l'histoire de l'Asie de l'Afrique et de l'Amérique", complete with map of America, including a California as a island.Th...

$335 / ≈ €308
Publisher: SANSON, Nicolas.
Date: Amsterdam, Zacharie Chatelain, 1735
Selling price: $335
Sold in 2021

 

Avantures du Sr. C. Le Beau, avocat en parlement ou Voyage curieux et nouveau parmi les Sauvages de l'Amérique Septentrionale. Dans lequel on trouvera une Description du Canada… Ouvrage enrichi d'une Carte et des figures necessaires.

A description of Huron, Iroquois, and Algonquin customs, written in charming style and based, the Author claims, on observations made on a trip to America in 1729." ...

$2500 / ≈ €2299
Publisher: LE BEAU, C.
Date: Amsterdam, 1738

 

(Chatelain "Atlas Historique" in 7 volumes.]

Henri Abraham Chatelain, whose Atlas Historique was one of the most expansive encyclopedias of the age. First published in 1705, Chatelain's Atlas Historique was part o...

$40000 / ≈ €36785
Publisher: CHATELAIN, H.
Date: Amsterdam: Chez Zacharie Châtelain, 1732 - 1739

 

Méthode Pour Etudier La Geographie . . . & un Catalogue des Cartes Geographiques, des Relations, Voyages, & Descriptions les plus necessaires pour la Geographie.

Volume 1 (1705) frontispiece and 46 plates. Volume 2 (1708) frontispiece and 37 plates. Volume 3 (1708) frontispiece and 30 plates. Volume 4 (1714) frontispiece and 34...

$38500 / ≈ €35405
Publisher: CHATELAIN, H.
Date: Amsterdam: Chez Zacharie Châtelain, 1732 - 1739
Selling price: $38500
Sold in 2023

 

The Use of the Globes or The General Doctrine of the Sphere. To which is added a Synopsis of the Doctrine of Eclipses.

8vo, iv, 162, (2) p., old calf (slightly worn). With engr.front. and 29 fold. maps and plates.Plates includes advertisement of Senex' terrestrial and celestial globes, wo...

$2050 / ≈ €1885
Publisher: WRIGHT, Th.
Date: London, J.Senex, 1740
Selling price: $2050
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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

 

Le Neptune Oriental ou Routier Général des Côtes des Indes Orientales et de la Chine...

First edition. - D'Après de Mannevillette (1707-1780) was a famous French sailor and hydrographer. During a voyage to China in 1728 he succeeded in correcting the latitu...

$16100 / ≈ €14806
Publisher: D'APRES DE MANNEVILETTE.
Date: Paris, Jean-François Robustel, 1745
Selling price: $16100
Sold in 2011

 

Routier des côtes des Indes orientales et de la Chine.

FIRST EDITION. This rare Pilot to the East Indies was published simultaneously to accompany the large "Neptune Oriental" atlas, which was one of the greatest ma...

Publisher: APRÈS DE MANNEVILLETTE , Jean-Baptiste d'.
Date: Paris, Delespine, 1745

 

Atlas Portatif.

Small hand atlas of the world with 33 of 34 maps. Map nr. 4 (De Nieuwe en Ouden Oppervlakke en Doorzigtkundige Aardryks Bollen) is missing. The title page and register ar...

$1400 / ≈ €1287
Publisher: LAT, J. / KEYSER, J.
Date: Almelo, 1747
Selling price: $1400
Sold in 2013

 

(Atlas with 23 maps by Homann)

Homann composite atlas including a double-hemispherical world map, continental maps of Europe, Africa and Asia, and region specific maps of most European countries, like ...

$2200 / ≈ €2023
Publisher: HOMANN HEIRS.
Date: Nuremberg, 1748
Selling price: $2200
Sold in 2019

 

Atlas Silesiae Id Est Ducatus Silesiae Generaliter Quatuor Mappis…

Large atlas of Silesia illustrated with 20 double page copper engraved maps, 4 overview maps and 16 large scale detailed maps with decorative cartouches.The Atlas Silesia...

$7000 / ≈ €6437
Publisher: HOMANN HEIRS.
Date: Homann Heirs, Nürnberg, 1750

 

Atlas nouveau portatif à l'usage des militaires et du voyageur.

>Charming atlas with an engraved title, and 91 numbered and engraved double-page maps in orginal out line colors. The atlas starts by 36 pages text entitled 'Introduct...

Publisher: LE ROUGE (Georges-Louis).
Date: Paris, Le Rouge, Prault, Veuve Robinot, Briasson, 1756
Selling price: $2300
Sold in 2022

 

Allgemeine Historie der Reisen zu Wasser und zu Lande: oder Sammlung aller Reisebeschreibungen, welche bis itzo in verschiedenen Sprachen von allen Volkernherausgegeben worden. . .

Collection of travel exploration of South and North America. With 19 copperengravings (10 folded maps). The maps of N. Bellin showing: (1) South-American continent, (2) G...

$700 / ≈ €644
Publisher: Schwabe, J.J.
Date: Leipzig, 1757
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2009

 

Dictionaire Géographique Universel, ou Description des Royaumes, Provinces, Villes... etc.

A very fine copy of Vosgien's geographical dictionary with a world map in two hemispheres and a map of Europe.

$250 / ≈ €230
Publisher: VOSGIEN
Date: Paris, 1759
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2019

 

Etrennes Géographiques.

Rare and charming small atlas of France. Includes 30 colored and copper-engraved double-page maps by Lattré. Engraved frontispiece and title. With a general map of Fra...

$360 / ≈ €331
Publisher: DU CAILLE
Date: Paris, 1761
Selling price: $360
Sold in 2009

 

A New, General, and Universal Atlas...

Published by A. Dury, Robert Sayer & Carrington Bowles; oblong 12mo; engraved title, dedication plus 39 Copper Engraved Maps (Complete) Incl 6 folding. The folding ma...

$1250 / ≈ €1150
Publisher: KITCHIN, Th.
Date: London, 1761
Selling price: $1250
Sold in 2016

 

The Large English Atlas, or, a New Set of Maps of All the Counties of England and Wales.

FIRST EDITION. "The Large English Atlas" is the most important eighteenth-century English atlas to be published before the appearance of John Cary's new English...

$4000 / ≈ €3678
Publisher: BOWEN, Emanuel & KITCHIN, Thomas.
Date: Londen, T. Bowles, John Bowles and Robert Sayer, [n.d.] ca. 1762
Selling price: $4000
Sold in 2017

 

Atlas Geographicus portatilis XXIX mappis orbis habitabilis regna exhibens ... Kurzgefasste Geographie

Pocket atlas of T. Lotter and T. Lobeck. Bound with "Kurzgefasste Geographie" of Lobeck. With one world map, one celestial map, 4 continents and 37 european map...

$1600 / ≈ €1471
Publisher: LOTTER, T.C.
Date: Augsburg, 1762
Selling price: $1600
Sold in 2010