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Carte des Isles Kouriles Diapres la Carte Russe. . .

A striking map of Northern Japan and the contiguous islands and coastline. Features a decorative title cartouche. Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772) was one of the most i...

$29 / ≈ â‚¬27
Maker / Publisher: Bellin, J.N.
Place & Date: Paris, 1754
Selling price: $29
Sold in 2020

 


Carte du Spits-Berg.

A map of the island of Spitsbergen where the Dutch had a whaling station in the summer season.Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1702-720) was the most important French hydrographer...

$90 / ≈ â‚¬84
Maker / Publisher: BELLIN, J.N.
Place & Date: Paris. c. 1755
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2018

 


Antigue une des Antilles aux Anglois.

Fine map of Antigua with locations of forts, settlements, and plantations with details of the coastline, anchorages and navigational hazards.George Louis Le Rouge was act...

$65 / ≈ â‚¬61
Maker / Publisher: LE ROUGE,G.L.
Place & Date: Paris 1756
Selling price: $65
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L'Isle St. Christophle.. La Barbade..

Two maps on one sheet showing Barbados and St. Christophers. George Louis Le Rouge was active from 1740- till 1780 as a publisher, and was appointed engineer for the King...

$100 / ≈ â‚¬94
Maker / Publisher: LE ROUGE,G.L.
Place & Date: Paris 1756
Selling price: $100
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Les Isles du Spitsberg.

Fine map of Spitsbergen. George Louis Le Rouge was active from 1740- till 1780 as a publisher, and was appointed engineer for the King of France. From his Atlas Nouveau P...

$25 / ≈ â‚¬23
Maker / Publisher: LE ROUGE,G.L.
Place & Date: Paris 1756
Selling price: $25
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Grundriss von der Stadt Boston und ihren Gegenden.

Rare German edition of the Bellin plan of the city of Boston, its harbor and its surrounding area.The most important buildings, forts with their amount of cannons, lighth...

$250 / ≈ â‚¬234
Maker / Publisher: BELLIN, N.
Place & Date: Paris, 1756
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2014

 


VORSTELLUNG einiger Gegender und Plaetze in NORD-AMERICA

A copperplate, old colored map consisting of three different Plans, issued during the early days of the Seven Years’ War for commercial reasons. Heir Homann produced th...

$575 / ≈ â‚¬538
Maker / Publisher: HOMANN H.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1756
Selling price: $575
Sold in 2017

 


L'Isle St. Christophle. . . La Barbade. . .

Two maps on one sheet showing Barbados and St. Christophers. Physical map detail is depicted rather than topographical information. A few place names, capes and bays are ...

$55 / ≈ â‚¬51
Maker / Publisher: LE ROUGE, G.L.
Place & Date: Paris, 1756
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2019

 


Plan de la Ville de Quebec.

A beautifully engraved mid-18th century plan of Quebec. The work contains a 24 point legend which identifies key sites and places of interest. Enhanced with a compass ros...

$230 / ≈ â‚¬215
Maker / Publisher: PREVOST
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1757
Selling price: $230
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Grundriss der Stadt Quebec.

Plan of Quebec with table of explanations to the right side. From a German edition of Prevost's 'Hist. des Voyages'. Jacques Nicolaas Bellin (1703-1772) was one of the mo...

$90 / ≈ â‚¬84
Maker / Publisher: BELLIN,J.N.
Place & Date: Paris 1757
Selling price: $90
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A Plan of the City, and Fortifications, of Louisburg, from a Survey made by Richard Gridley / A Plan of the City and Harbour of Louisburg

Important and very rare map describing the first siege of Louisbourg in 1745The copper engraved map published by Thomas Jefferys in 1757 showing the Siege of Louisbourg, ...

$3000 / ≈ â‚¬2807
Maker / Publisher: Jefferys, T.
Place & Date: London, 1757
Selling price: $3000
Sold in 2011

 


A Plan of the City, and Fortifications, of Louisburg, from a Survey made by Richard Gridley / A Plan of the City and Harbour of Louisburg.

Important and very rare map describing the first siege of Louisbourg in 1745 - Very rare first state of the Gridley/Jefferys plan of the 1745 Siege of Louisbourg.Large Fr...

$3000 / ≈ â‚¬2807
Maker / Publisher: JEFFERYS, T.
Place & Date: London, Thomas Jefferys, 20 April 1757
Selling price: $3000
Sold in 2013

 


A Physical Planisphere wherein are represented all the known Lands and Seas in the Great Chains of Mountains. . .

This is the elegant 1757 Philippe Buache map of the world represented on an unusual polar projection rendered from the North Pole. The map covers from the North Pole Arct...

$165 / ≈ â‚¬154
Maker / Publisher: BUACHE, P.
Place & Date: London, 1757
Selling price: $165
Sold in 2019

 


Carte du Spits-Berg..

A good engraved map of Spitsbergen. The geographical features are typical with somewhat exaggerated bays and inlets. From l'Histoire générale des voyages .

$30 / ≈ â‚¬28
Maker / Publisher: BELLIN,J.N.
Place & Date: Paris 1758
Selling price: $30
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Carte Réduite des Mers du Nord Pour servir a l'Histoire Generale des Voyages.

General map of the Arctic Region including part of Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Scandinavia and part of the Russian shores.

$80 / ≈ â‚¬75
Maker / Publisher: BELLIN,J.N.
Place & Date: Paris 1758
Selling price: $80
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Carte Du Spits-Berg Suivant les Hollandois . . . 1758

A decorative map of Spitsbergen (Svalbard) with the adjacent islands of Franz Josef Land and Jan Mayan. The geographical features are typical with somewhat exaggerated ba...

$50 / ≈ â‚¬47
Maker / Publisher: BELLIN, J.N.
Place & Date: Paris, 1758
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2008

 


Carte Réduite des Mers du Nord Pour servir a l'Histoire Generale des Voyages.

Folding map of the Arctic Region including part of Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Scandinavia and part of the Russian shores.From l'Histoire générale des voyages. Jacques ...

$70 / ≈ â‚¬66
Maker / Publisher: BELLIN, J. N.
Place & Date: Paris, 1758
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2011

 


Carte de l'Isle de la Guadeloupe.

Jacques Bellin's elegant map of Guadeloupe, and the adjacent islands of Les Sainte and Marie Galante. With excellent topographical details, many place names, radiating rh...

$55 / ≈ â‚¬51
Maker / Publisher: BELLIN, J.
Place & Date: Paris, 1758
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2020

 


Carte Réduite des Mers du Nord Pour servir a l'Histoire Generale des Voyages.

A lovely general map of the Arctic Regions, including parts of Western, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Scandinavia, the British Isles, and portions of western Russian shores...

$50 / ≈ â‚¬47
Maker / Publisher: BELLIN, J.N.
Place & Date: Paris, 1758
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2018

 


Carte de l'Isle de la Barbade. . .

One of the finest early maps or charts of Barbados. The island is divided into parishes and details cities & towns, mountains, forests, anchorages, shouls, and rocks....

$55 / ≈ â‚¬51
Maker / Publisher: BELLIN, J.N.
Place & Date: Paris, 1758
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2020

 


Quebek de hoofdstad van Kanada.

A handsome copper engraved map, closely copied from a similar plan by Thomas Jeffreys. The map depicts the English siege and attack on Quebec, which resulted in the city'...

$325 / ≈ â‚¬304
Maker / Publisher: TIRION, I.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1759
Selling price: $325
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A View of the Landing the New England Forces in ye Expedition against Cape Breton, 1745.

Depicting a view of the fortress siege at Louisbourg in New France in 1745, done by J. Steven and "Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill & Carri...

$1100 / ≈ â‚¬1029
Maker / Publisher: STEVENS, J.
Place & Date: London, ca. 1760
Selling price: $1100
Sold in 2017

 


Carte de l'Isle de la Grenade Dressee au Depost des Cartes et Plans de la Marine...

Large-scale sea chart of this mountainous island in the Windward Islands with great detail of the roads, villages, and ports. Above the decorative title cartouche is a pr...

$250 / ≈ â‚¬234
Maker / Publisher: BELLIN,J.N.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1760
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2015

 


Nuova Carta del Polo Arctico secondo l'ultime offervazioni.

A lovely map centered on the North Pole and the surrounding countries. From the Italian edition of Thomas Salmon's 'Modern History: or, the present state of all Nations. ...

$210 / ≈ â‚¬197
Maker / Publisher: ALBRIZZI, / TIRION, Isaak.
Place & Date: Venice, 1740-1762
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2020

 


Carte des Isles Sittuees au Nord de St. Domingue..

Decorative map of the islands north of S.Domingo. Showing soundings and much detail.

$240 / ≈ â‚¬225
Maker / Publisher: BELLIN,N.
Place & Date: Paris 1763
Selling price: $240
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A map of West India Islands.

Uncommon miniature map of Caribbean with the southern tip of Florida, engraved by Thomas Kitching for "A New General and Universal Atlas Containing Forty five Maps b...

$50 / ≈ â‚¬47
Maker / Publisher: DURY, A. / SAYER, R. / KITCHIN, T.
Place & Date: London, 1761-1763
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2017

 


Port de Louisbourg dans l'Isle Royale.

This chart shows the harbour of Louisburg in the southeast portion of the island Nova Scotia in great detail.The only issue of this version of Bellin's map, slightly larg...

$80 / ≈ â‚¬75
Maker / Publisher: BELLIN,J.N.
Place & Date: Paris 1764
Selling price: $80
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Plan de la ville de Louisbourg dans l'Isle Royale.

A plan of the city of Louisburg on l'Isle Royale.The only issue of this version of Bellin's map, slightly larger than the common version. Depths shown by soundings.From B...

$80 / ≈ â‚¬75
Maker / Publisher: BELLIN,J.N.
Place & Date: Paris 1764
Selling price: $80
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Carte Réduite du Golf du Mexique et des Isles de l'Amérique

This chart shows the Caribbean islands.The only issue of this version of Bellin's map, slightly larger than the common version. From Bellin's Petit atlas maritime.Tome I ...

$310 / ≈ â‚¬290
Maker / Publisher: BELLIN,J.N.
Place & Date: Paris 1764
Selling price: $310
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Plan de la Ville de Port Royal.

Plan of the city of Port Royal on Arcadia.The only issue of this version of Bellin's map, slightly larger than the common version. From Bellin's Petit atlas maritime.Tome...

$50 / ≈ â‚¬47
Maker / Publisher: BELLIN,J.N.
Place & Date: Paris 1764
Selling price: $50
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Kaart van geheel Guajana of de Wilden -Kust / Het Eiland Kurassau. / De Haven en 't Kasteel van Kurassau / Kaart van de Volksplanting aan Demerary en Rio d'Essequebo.

Izaak Tirion (d. 1769) Amsterdam publisher. His ' Nieuwe en beknopte handatlas' saw 6 editions between before 1740 and after 1784. Also ' Tegenwoordige staat van alle vol...

$426 / ≈ â‚¬399
Maker / Publisher: TIRION, I.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1765
Selling price: $426
Sold in 2017

 


A Plan of the Town and Harbour of Louisbourg. . . A Plan of the City and Harbour of Havana. . . A Plan of the Town and Harbour of Cartagena. . .

"A Plan of the Town and Harbour of Louisbourg [on sheet with] A Plan of the City and Harbour of Havana [and] A Plan of the Town and Harbour of Cartagena [and] A Plan...

$85 / ≈ â‚¬80
Maker / Publisher: GIBSON, J.
Place & Date: London, 1765
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2020

 


Globe Terestre - Globe Céléste.

A decorative copper plate of a large pair of globes on ornate rococo-style bases. The Globe Terrestre is centered on the Eastern Hemisphere. The Globe Celeste is showing ...

$100 / ≈ â‚¬94
Maker / Publisher: BRION, N.
Place & Date: Paris, 1766
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2008

 


Three Copper Engravings by DIDEROT Featuring Asronomical Instruments (Heliometer & Micrometer)

This set of three (3) antique prints originate from: 'The Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une Société de Gens de let...

$12 / ≈ â‚¬11
Maker / Publisher: DIDEROT, D.
Place & Date: Paris, 1771
Selling price: $12
Sold in 2017

 


Three Copper Engraved Diderot Astronomical Instruments (Secteur & Heliometer).

This set of three (3) antique prints originate from: 'The Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une Société de Gens de let...

$20 / ≈ â‚¬19
Maker / Publisher: DIDEROT, D.
Place & Date: Paris, 1771
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2017

 


Three Copper Engravings by DIDEROT Featuring Astronomical Instruments .

This set of three (3) antique prints originate from: 'The Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une Société de Gens de let...

$15 / ≈ â‚¬14
Maker / Publisher: DIDEROT, D.
Place & Date: Paris, 1771
Selling price: $15
Sold in 2017

 


Carte du Golphe du Mexique et des Isles de L'Amerique.

Uncommon edition of this fine map of the Gulf of Mexico. With French text in title cartouche and an additional title in Dutch underneath the map.FromAtlas Portatif pour s...

$480 / ≈ â‚¬449
Maker / Publisher: HARREVELT, E. van / CHANGUION, D.J.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1773
Selling price: $480
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Tête d'un guerrier de la Nouvelle Zélande. [Tome III Pl. 12.]

Portrait of a Maori warrior. From the French edition of James Cook's first voyage entitled Relation des voyages entrepris par ordre de sa Majesté Britannique actuellemen...

$30 / ≈ â‚¬28
Maker / Publisher: COOK, Captain James.
Place & Date: Paris, 1773
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2008

 


Vue de la Baye de Matavaï à Otahiti appellée Havre du Port - Royal par le Capitaine Wallis. [Tome II Pl. 9.]

View of the Matavaï Bay in Tahiti, named The Haven of the Royal Port by Captain WallisFrom the French edition of James Cook's first voyage entitled Relation des voyages ...

$50 / ≈ â‚¬47
Maker / Publisher: COOK, Captain James.
Place & Date: Paris, 1773
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016

 


Espève de Massue des Habitants de la Nouvelle Zélande appellées Patous-patous vus de côté du tranchant et du bout. Ils ont de 14 à 18 ouces de long. [Tome III Pl. 15.]

Decorated bludgeons. From the French edition of James Cook's first voyage entitled Relation des voyages entrepris par ordre de sa Majesté Britannique actuellement régna...

$30 / ≈ â‚¬28
Maker / Publisher: COOK, Captain James.
Place & Date: Paris, 1773
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2016

 


Pirogue de guerre de la Nouvelle Zélande. [Tome III Pl. 14.]

A warrior dugout from New Zealand rowing along the coast. From the French edition of James Cook's first voyage entitled Relation des voyages entrepris par ordre de sa Maj...

$50 / ≈ â‚¬47
Maker / Publisher: COOK, Captain James.
Place & Date: Paris, 1773
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2008

 


A View of the Endeavour River, on the coast of New Holland ...

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...

$260 / ≈ â‚¬243
Maker / Publisher: COOK, J.
Place & Date: London, 1773
Selling price: $260
Sold in 2016

 


Entrance of Endeavour River / Botany Bay in new South Wales.

A scarce pair of very early nautical charts of Botany Bay and the mouth of the Endeavour River in the newly discovered colony of New South Wales. The charts are based on ...

$375 / ≈ â‚¬351
Maker / Publisher: HAWKESWORTH, J.
Place & Date: London, 1773
Selling price: $375
Sold in 2017

 


[A set of 6 Astronomical copperplate engravings].

A set of 6 engravings by J. Mynde from "Ferguson's "Astronomy Explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's Principles. ."[Plate 1] 'The Solar System'.[Plate 2] 'The T...

$50 / ≈ â‚¬47
Maker / Publisher: FERGUSON, James / MYNDE, J.
Place & Date: London, ca 1773
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020

 


Globus Terrestris ad Sphaeram Obliquam Delineatus / Globus Coelestis cum Astrodictico Artificiali Iunctus.

Hand colored engraving showing terrestrial and celestial globes.

$1300 / ≈ â‚¬1216
Maker / Publisher: Lotter, T.C.
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1774
Selling price: $1300
Sold in 2008

 


Carte des Isles de la Societé découvertes par le Lieut.t J. Cook 1769.

Map of the islands of Maurua, Bolabola, Otaha, Ulietéa and Huaheine. In upper right corner "Tome III Pl. 1". As James Cook writes in his journal on page 39 : &...

$150 / ≈ â‚¬140
Maker / Publisher: COOK, Captain James.
Place & Date: Paris, 1774
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2014

 


Carte et vues de l'Isle Pitcairn. [Tome I Pl. 9.]

Map of the Island of Pitcairn with four profile views. This map is taken from the first French edition of James Cook's first voyage entitled Relation des voyages entrepri...

$40 / ≈ â‚¬37
Maker / Publisher: COOK, Captain James.
Place & Date: Paris, 1774
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2012

 


N.elle Irlande. [Tome I Pl. 12.]

Chart of New Ireland. New Ireland is a large island in Papua New Guinea. It is the main and largest island of the New Ireland Province. It lies northeast of the island of...

$30 / ≈ â‚¬28
Maker / Publisher: COOK, Captain James.
Place & Date: Paris, 1774
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2020

 


Carte des Découvertes du Capne Carteret dans la Nle Bretagne. . . . [Tome I Pl. 13.]

An attractive map showing partial outlines of Papua New Guinea and New Britain, the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago northwest of New Guinea. This map is taken ...

$200 / ≈ â‚¬187
Maker / Publisher: COOK, Captain James.
Place & Date: Paris, 1774
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2009

 


Trois vues des Isles de L'Amirauté. . . [Tome I Pl. 14.]

Coastline profiles of the Admiralty Islands. This map is taken from the first French edition of James Cook's first voyage entitled Relation des voyages entrepris par ordr...

$40 / ≈ â‚¬37
Maker / Publisher: COOK, Captain James.
Place & Date: Paris, 1774
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2020

 


Isle de Sir Charles Saunder. . . / Isle Osnabrug. . . / Isle de l'Amiral Keppel. . . / Isle de Wallis. . . [Tome II Pl. 3.]

Coastline charts of the Admiralty Islands, near New Guinea. This map is taken from the first French edition of James Cook's first voyage entitled Relation des voyages ent...

$30 / ≈ â‚¬28
Maker / Publisher: COOK, Captain James.
Place & Date: Paris, 1774
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2014

 


Isles de Wallis. Tome II Pl. 25.

Chart of the Wallis Islands. Willis Island is an island in an external territory of Australia, located beyond the Great Barrier Reef in the Coral Sea some 420 km east of ...

$80 / ≈ â‚¬75
Maker / Publisher: COOK, Captain James.
Place & Date: Paris, 1774
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2013

 


Quadrupede nommé Kanguroo, trouvé sur la Côte de la Nle. Hollande. [Tome IV Pl. 2.]

Attractive and early print of a Kangaroo, engraved from an oil painting by George Stubbs, a famous 18th century artist working in London, who used as a model a skin broug...

$180 / ≈ â‚¬168
Maker / Publisher: COOK, Captain James.
Place & Date: Paris, 1774
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2008

 


Tome II. Pl. 14 - Instruments des Insulaires de la Mer du Sud.

Taken from the first French edition of James Cook's first voyage entitled Relation des voyages entrepris par ordre de sa Majesté Britannique actuellement régnante pour...

$30 / ≈ â‚¬28
Maker / Publisher: COOK, Captain James.
Place & Date: Paris, 1774
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2018

 


Carte d'une Partie de la Côte, de la Nle Galles Meridle depuis le Cap Tribulation jusqu'au Detroit de l'Endeavour par le Lieut. J. Cook 1770.

Map of a part of the New Galles Meridle Coastline in Australia from the Cap Tribulation to the Endeavour Detroit. This map is taken from the first French edition of James...

$550 / ≈ â‚¬515
Maker / Publisher: COOK, James.
Place & Date: Paris, 1774
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2021

 


[Carte Réduite Des Îles Antilles..] & [Carte Réduite Des Debouquements De St. Domingue..]

A well engraved and highly detailed two-in-one chart of the Lesser Antilles (from the eastern tip of Puerto Rico to St. Vincent and Barbados) and of the Turks and Caicos ...

$850 / ≈ â‚¬795
Maker / Publisher: DÉPÔT GÉNÉRAL DE LA MARINE
Place & Date: Paris, 1775
Selling price: $850
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The Caribbee Islands, The Virgin islands, and the Isle of Porto Rico. . .

Engraved nautical chart showing rhumb lines, shoals, anchorages, etc. Relief shown pictorially, depths by soundings. Covers area south to Barbados. The nautical informati...

$400 / ≈ â‚¬374
Maker / Publisher: JEFFERYS, T.
Place & Date: London, Sayer and Bennett, 1775
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2012

 


The Windward Passage, with the several passages, from the east end of Cuba, and the north part of St. Domingo.

Engraved nautical chart showing tracks, rhumb lines, etc. Covers part of the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands. A partial compass roses anchor the bottom of the ch...

$375 / ≈ â‚¬351
Maker / Publisher: JEFFERYS, T.
Place & Date: London, Sayer and Bennett, 1775
Selling price: $375
Sold in 2012

 


Quadrupede nomme Kanguroo, trouve sur la Cote de la Nouvelle Hollande.

An illustration from the French publication of John Hawkesworth’s "Account of the Voyages undertaken…for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere" (Lon...

$65 / ≈ â‚¬61
Maker / Publisher: HAWKESWORTH.
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1775
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2020

 


Plan de la Ville de Quebec / Vue De Quebec, Capitale du Canada / Karte von der Insel Montreal..

3 engravings illustrating plans and views of two cities belonging to the French speaking part of Canada.1 Detailed plan of the city of Quebec, uncolored. An uncommon issu...

$690 / ≈ â‚¬646
Maker / Publisher: LE ROUGE,G.L. / RASPISCHEN HANDLUNG
Place & Date: Paris / Nurnberg 1694-1776
Selling price: $690
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Charte von einem Theile des Süd=Meeres. . .

Showing the Pacific, with the track of the English vessel Delphin under Comodor Byron, and Tamar by Captain Mouat, in 1765. The Delphin by Captain Wallis and the Swallow ...

$400 / ≈ â‚¬374
Maker / Publisher: MYLIUS
Place & Date: Berlin, 1776
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2013

 


The death of General Wolfe.

This original copper engraving is from "The Death of General Wolfe", famous 1770 painting by the Anglo-American artist Benjamin West. It depicts the death of Br...

$120 / ≈ â‚¬112
Maker / Publisher: WEST, Woollett
Place & Date: London, 1776
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2014

 


Veduta di S. Eustachio

This is a rare view of St. Eustatius (Statia) in the Dutch West Indies, which had the distinction of being the first foreign nation to officially recognize the newly form...

$950 / ≈ â‚¬889
Maker / Publisher: MATRAINI, N.
Place & Date: Italy, 1777
Selling price: $950
Sold in 2012

 


Chart of Discoveries made in the South Pacific Ocean...

An interesting copper-engraved sea-chart of Captain Cook's exploration of New Caledonia and the islands of Vanuatu in 1774. Tracks the route of the ship Resolution betwee...

$27 / ≈ â‚¬25
Maker / Publisher: COOK, J.
Place & Date: London, 1777
Selling price: $27
Sold in 2016

 


Kaart van de Golf van Mexico, de Eilanden en de Aangrenzende Landschappen.

A map of the Caribbean from the Dutch edition of Robertson''s "History of America".

$200 / ≈ â‚¬187
Maker / Publisher: KITCHIN, Th.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1778
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2019

 


Carte du Golfe du Mexique des isles et des pays adjacens . . .

Detailed map of Caribbean. The map was prepared by William Roberts (1721-1793) in 1777 for the English edition, in 1778 the first French edition followed, L'Histoire de L...

$100 / ≈ â‚¬94
Maker / Publisher: ROBBERTS, W.
Place & Date: Paris, Panckoucke, 1778
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2011

 


A Jew Rabbi or King Uzziah

An important mezzotint print by William Pether after a 1635 painting by Rembrandt. While some have identified the sitter simply as a Rabbi, others have linked him to King...

$233 / ≈ â‚¬218
Maker / Publisher: PETHER, W.
Place & Date: London, 1778
Selling price: $233
Sold in 2015

 


Carte des Deux Regions Polaires Jusqu'au 45.e Degre de Latitude.

Interesting map of the poles showing numerous tracks of explorers, including Tasman, Furneaux, Halley, Marion, and the 1773 expedition of Cook. There is an unusual and ut...

$100 / ≈ â‚¬94
Maker / Publisher: BUFFON, G.
Place & Date: Paris, 1778
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2018

 


Plan du Port et Ville de Louisbourg levé en 1756...

French chartof Louisbourg in 1756.Made under the direction of M. de Sartine. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Below title, engraved seal of Depot Gene...

$230 / ≈ â‚¬215
Maker / Publisher: DEPOT GÉNÉRAL DE LA MARINE
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2015

 


New and Accurate Plan of the River St. Lawrence, from the Falls of Montmorenci to Sillery, with the Operations of the Siege of Quebec 1763

Plan of the siege of Quebec, published in Published in: "The General History of the Late War", first published in 1766, and also in 1775 and 1779 and in "T...

$170 / ≈ â‚¬159
Maker / Publisher: ENTICK, J.
Place & Date: London / Manchester, 1762 - 1779
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2016

 


Plan of St. Lucia in the West Indies

A detailed plan by Thomas Bowen of the battle between the English and French forces in St. Lucia during the Revolutionary War. It illustrates the various attacks, and cou...

$91 / ≈ â‚¬85
Maker / Publisher: BOWEN, T.,
Place & Date: London, 1779
Selling price: $91
Sold in 2016

 


Globe Terrestre / Globe Celeste.

An attractive and inexpensive late eighteenth century copperplate engraving showing a terrestrial and celestial globe on their fine rings and bases, as engraved for Middl...

$17 / ≈ â‚¬16
Maker / Publisher: MIDDLETON.
Place & Date: London 1779
Selling price: $17
Sold in 2020

 


Carte d'une partie de l'Amérique pour la navigation des isles et du Golfe du Mexique.

A stunning and very scarce, highly detailed map of the Gulf of Mexico, Florida, Central America and the Caribbean from JA Dezauche, the successor to Buache and De L'Isle....

$1000 / ≈ â‚¬936
Maker / Publisher: BUACHE, Philippe / DEZAUCHE, Jean André
Place & Date: Paris, 1780
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2020

 


[Prospect der Strasse gegen der Kirche der Recolecten in der obern Stadt zu Quebec. Vuë de la Rue des Recolets dans la haute Ville de Quebec ]

A so-called optical print showing a decorative imaginary of Québec, with a street view with soldiers marching, and pedestrians, an idealized view depicting Québec as a...

$225 / ≈ â‚¬211
Maker / Publisher: ACADEMIE
Place & Date: Augsburg, ca. 1780
Selling price: $225
Sold in 2011

 


[Prospect des Haupt Plazes der Untern Stadt zu Quebec. ]

A so-called optical print showing a decorative imaginary town-view of Québec, with a street view with soldiers marching, and pedestrians, an idealized view depicting QuÃ...

$225 / ≈ â‚¬211
Maker / Publisher: ACADEMIE
Place & Date: Augsburg, ca.1780
Selling price: $225
Sold in 2011

 


Carte des declinaisons et inclinaisons de L'aiguille aimantee redigee d'apres la table des observations magnetiques faites par les voyageurs depuis l'annee 1775

Map of Australasia with imaginary line joining coastline of Australia and New Guinea.Plate No. 6 of an 8 sheet map which was probably compiled from the reports of La Pero...

$1200 / ≈ â‚¬1123
Maker / Publisher: BUFFON, G. L.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1780
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2012

 


Vue de la Rue des Recolets dans la haute Ville de Quebec - Prospect der Strasse, gegen der Kirche der Recolecten in der obern Stadt zu Quebec.

Curious optical print of Quebec, showing a street scene with soldiers and pedestrians. 'In considering the fictitious views of Canada, made up wholly from the imagination...

$250 / ≈ â‚¬234
Maker / Publisher: HABERMANN, F. X.
Place & Date: Augsburg, c1780
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2014

 


Plan du Typa ou de Macao, Plan de la Baye D'Awatska, Partie du Japon.

A pleasing copper engraving with separate detailed maps of Kamchatka, part of Japan, and the Island of Macao. The Kamchatka map includes an inset: “Plan du Havre de St....

$38 / ≈ â‚¬36
Maker / Publisher: BONNE, Rigobert.
Place & Date: Paris, 1780
Selling price: $38
Sold in 2018

 


Carte des Isles Antilles dans L\'Amérique Septentrionale avec la majeure partie des Isles Lucayes..

Rare Revolutionary War chart of the the tip of South Florida and the Caribbean, prepared to illustrate a part of the Theatre of War between the English and Americans. Wit...

$1350 / ≈ â‚¬1263
Maker / Publisher: ESNAUTS ET RAPILLY.
Place & Date: Paris, 1782
Selling price: $1350
Sold in 2008

 


West Indies agreeable to the most approved Maps and Charts .

This highly detailed map shows the Colonial possessions in the West Indies. It covers from Florida, with its southern tip made up of several large islands, through the Ba...

$200 / ≈ â‚¬187
Maker / Publisher: KITCHIN, Thomas
Place & Date: London, 1782
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2016