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Hanc VIENNAE Quam vides Geometricam faciem Archimedem Siracusanum, Augustinus Hirsfogel a suo depictam radio imitatus est Anno. 1552.
Rare copper engraving of the circular plan of Vienna with its bastions, walls and wall towers, and gates. It shows the fortress Vienna after thoroughly modernizing its de...
Place & Date: Vienna, around 1700
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2019
Chine.
RARE miniature map of China, Korea, Japan and Taiwan. The map is of interest for the use of East Sea, the sea between Korea and Japan, here called "Mer Orientale&quo...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1700
Selling price: $225
Sold in 2023
GEOGRAPHISCHE UNIVERSAL-ZEIG UND SCHLAG-UHR.[Rare first edition]
A map of the Northern Hemisphere showing California as an Island. Inspired by the German clockmaker Zacharias Landteck. The map is placed within an engraved table case cl...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, ca 1700
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2020
Veteris Pannonia utriusque nec non Illyrici descriptio Geographica . . .
A delightful map of the ancient Dalmatian coastline, that includes parts of modern day Austria, Hungary and Croatia, engraved by Joseph Thoal, and printed at the Seminary...
Place & Date: Padua, ca 1700
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2023
Primi Elementi, o introductione al Corso Geografico..
An introduction to geography, with a double hemisphere, spheres of longitude and latitude and distance tables, showing equator, climate zones, etc. Several smaller diagra...
Place & Date: Venice, 1700
Selling price: $325
Sold in 2020
Phasis Lunae in orbem insinuatae Crescentis, observata Segedini Anno MDCXCVI Die 9. Julii st. N. hor.i. a Oocc.
Two moon projections on one sheet according to J. Hevelius.
Place & Date: ca. 1700
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2020
Carte Particuliere des Costes de l ' Afrique depuis Cabo Ledi jusques au Cap de Bone Esperance.
Carte Particuliere des Costes de l ' Afrique depuis Cabo Ledi jusques au Cap de Bone Esperance. Pieter Mortier (1661-1711), Amsterdam bookseller and printer of French des...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2020
Port d'Alger.
A fine copper engraved city view of Algiers, in Algeria from about 1700.
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1700
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2020
Verzolium Oppidum.
A large birds-eye view of the town of Verzuolo. The town lies between Cuneo and Torino. Superbly engraved with numerous houses, a monastery, and the general landscape. A ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1700
Selling price: $290
Sold in 2021
Plan du Chasteau de Dinant.
A plan of the castle of Dinant in Belgium, showing the fortifications. It features a ribbon decorative cartouche, and a detailed table of key places.
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1700
Selling price: $11
Sold in 2020
Africae in Tabula Geographica Delineatio.
An attractive and detailed map of Africa, drawn by Zurner and published by Pieter Schenk. It's an updated version of the previous Schenk map, which was based on Visscher....
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1700
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2020
Africae Pars Australis.
Africa south of the equator. Beautiful cartouche with the title above in a scroll. Nice margins, excellent condition.
Place & Date: Munich, 1700
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2020
Hos Globos Terracqueum, ac Coelestem Dicat. . .
A very rare pair of 15 cm (6 inch) globe gores.Two sets of 12 gores on 2 sheets for a pair of terrestial and celestial globes. Terrestria: California as an island, Terra ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1700
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2020
Tira Honoranza Tutti.
Game of the Goose board with four concentric ovals containing squares with dice, human figures or owls, in the center a crowned owl atop a crown resting on three dice sho...
Place & Date: Lucca, ca 1700
Selling price: $555
Sold in 2020
Carver's new map of North America. . .
6 maps on a sheet Carver's map of North America, among other maps of Strait Anian.
Place & Date: England, ca. 1700
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2020
Les XVII Provincies des Pais Bas.
Map of the Netherlands, with coats of arms.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
Idea dell'Universo.
A set of diagrams relating to astronomy and astrology, with wind head borders. The subjects include a perpetual calendar, the zodiac, the parts of the body dominated by e...
Place & Date: Venice, c. 1700
Selling price: $2500
Sold in 2021
A Sea Chart of part of the Coasts of Gallisia and Portugall from Capo do Finisterre...
An unusual sea-chart of Portugal, two parts on one sheet. The top part is from Villa Nova until Peniche, the bottom part from Peniche until Lagos in the Algarve. Includes...
Place & Date: London, ca 1700
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2021
LE CAP DE BONNE ESPERANCE.
Probably the finest view of Cape Town. Beautifully engraved. A sea battle in the foreground with at least 15 galleons.With Tabletop mountain as the backdrop. Two putti ho...
Place & Date: Leiden, ca 1700
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2021
[Lot of 9 maps / prints of SOUTH AFRICA] Carte du Congo et du Pays des Cafres.
Guillaume de l 'Isle's influential map of South Africa. Guillaume de l' Isle (1675-1724), Royal Geographer, was the most influential cartographer of the first quarter of ...
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1700
Selling price: $230
Sold in 2022
Pas-Kaert van de Cust van Noorwegen Beginnende van Der Neus tot aen Bommel Sond.
Very decorative sea chart of Norway by J. Van Keulen, shows VVest Agder and Rogaland, oriented to the East. Plate number 12 in lower right corner.Inset chart: Pascaertie ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2022
Henricus Hondius.
Portrait of Henricus Hondius. Fredericus Bouttats fecit, Ioan Meyssens excud.
Place & Date: Antwerpen, 1700
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2023
Nova Tabula Indiae Orientalis.
Covers an area from the Cape of Good Hope to Japan, including the East Indies, and Australia as discovered by Tasman lettered Nova Hollandia, Terradel Zur . An unchanged ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Selling price: $4000
Sold in 2023
T' LANTS MAGESYN.
A decorative print of the 'T Landts Magazyn of the V.O.C. now-a-days the Maritime Museum.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2023
Cimbebas et Caffariae Littora a Catenbela ad Promontorium ..
A delightful Dutch sea chart that shows the coast of Angola, south-west Africa and South Africa up to Port Elizabeth. A truly classic sea chart of Dutch school with excel...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2023
Partie de la Haute Aethiopie ...
Map of the East coast of Africa. From Description de tout l'Univers, published by François Halma.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2011
Afrique ou Libie Ulterieure ou sont le Saara ou Desert, ...
Map of the Ivory Coast. From Description de tout l'Univers, published by François Halma.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2011
Pays, et Coste des Caffres : Empires de Monomatapa Monoemugi, &c.
Map of southern Africa. From Description de tout l'Univers, published by François Halma.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2011
Europe.
General map of Europe. From Description de tout l'Univers, published by François Halma.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2011
Egypte divisée en ses Douze Cassilifs, ...
Map of Egypt. From Description de tout l'Univers, published by François Halma.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2012
Northamptoniae Comitatus Descriptio.
This rare and important map is one of a series of county maps attributed to William Smith the antiquarian, each lacking the cartographer's name and consequently often ref...
Place & Date: London, 1700
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2013
Regni Poloniae et Ducatus Lithuaniae Voliniae. . .
Rare issue of Justus Danckerts attractive map of Poland and Lithuania.Decorative title cartouche upper left hand corner.The map has strong original coloring, the titles f...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2013
La Espana Dedicata all Ill Ed Ecc Sig. D. Carmine Niccolo Caracciolo. . .
Rare map of Spain and Portugal. Engraved by Andrea Magliar and published by Paolo Petrini. Based on a map of Nicholas De Fer.This is the first edition of the map, which i...
Place & Date: Naples, 1700
Selling price: $450
Sold in 2013
Typus Totius Orbis Terraquei Geographice Delineatus.
Finely engraved set of 12 globe gores. Fascinating Northwest Passage treatment. Excellent detail in Australia and a nice bit of New Zealand shown, along with a curious ov...
Place & Date: Munich, 1700
Selling price: $376
Sold in 2014
Terre Ferme et Nouv. Royaume de Grenade et Popaian.
Charming and uncommon map of today territory of Colombia. Decorated with a compass rose and title cartouche.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2015
Cartes des pays et des peuples du Cap de bonne Esperance nouvellemt decouverts par les Hollandois.
French manuscript map of Cape of Good Hope, as it was at about 1670. With a key (A-C) pointing to the Dutch fortress, Table Mountain and Lion's head.
Place & Date: France, ca. 1670-1700
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2012
Les Etats de la couronne de Pologne.
Fine map of Poland, engraved by A. de Winter for "Description de tout L'Univers en plusieurs cartes, & en divers traitez de Geographie et d'Histoire. . .".
Place & Date: Amsterdam, F.Halma, 1700
Selling price: $175
Sold in 2012
Belgium foederatum emendatius auctum. . .
Rare issue of Justus Danckert's attractive map of present-day The Netherlands.Decorative title cartouche upper left hand corner.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2022
Ultraiectini dominii tabula.
Rare issue of Justus Danckert's attractive map of the province of Utrecht. Shows the land development in Utrecht, Holland, near the Zuyder Zee and it shows Utrecht, Amers...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2012
Ducatus Brabantiae tabula continens sacri imperii. . .
Rare issue of Cornelis Danckert's attractive map of Brabant.Decorative title cartouche lower left hand corner.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2023
Carte des Etats de Suede, de Dannemarq, et de Pologne sur le Mer Batlique. . .
Map covers Poland and Lithuania. Decorative title cartouche supported by a bear and a wild horse in lower right corner.In itself complete, but the right sheet, only, of a...
Place & Date: Paris, 1700
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2012
Repraesentatio Geographica Itineris Maritimi Navis Victoriae..
This very graphic map of the world is presented on a north polar projection and depicting all of the world except the South Pole. California is shown as an island and the...
Place & Date: Munich, ca. 1700
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2012
Waer wort de wysheyt ghevonden. . ./ Den omganc des hemels heb ick alleen omgegaen en dien doorwandelt.
Small map of an imaginary Land of Wisdom according to Job 28 "Where Can Wisdom Be Found". The map is surrounded with quotes from the bible and inside we see the...
Place & Date: Netherlands, ca. 1700
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2012
Sonnenburch
Very decorative and rare panoramic of Sonnenburg near Küstrin .The engraver and publisher of prints, Mrs. Anna Beek of the Hague, enlarged the print and mounted it on l...
Place & Date: The Hague 1700
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2012
Liebenwalde.
Very decorative and rare panoramic of Liebenwalde a.d. Olse, Schlesien .The engraver and publisher of prints, Mrs. Anna Beek of the Hague, enlarged the print and mounted...
Place & Date: The Hague, ca. 1700
Selling price: $1500
Sold in 2012
Nieuw Aerdsch Pleyn.
This rare world map in acartographical unusual" single polar projection.The copper plate was first published separately by Jacob Robyn in 1696. Already around 1700, ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1700
Selling price: $5800
Sold in 2019
Veue ou Profil de Barcelone Capitale de Catalogne.
Panoramic view of Barcelona, with 23-point key.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1700
Selling price: $240
Sold
(5 Maps !!!!!) Carte generale du monde. . ./ Voyage des enfant d\'israel / Het heylige land...Israels /Byzondere Kaart van de Landen daar de Apostelen. . . / Carte de la situation du paradis terrestre. . .
Beautiful world map from a Dutch Bible. The map is drawn on Mercator's projection with CALIFORNIA AS AN ISLAND and the Detroit d'Anian connected by dotted lines through t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Selling price: $604
Sold in 2013
Nieuwe Pascaert van al de Carnarisse Eylande.
One of the most rare and sought after early maps of the Canary Islands. This large nautical map includes a latitude scale, a compass rose in the centre and a complex syst...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Selling price: $420
Sold in 2017
Exactissima totius danubii fluvii tabula et minores. . .
Showing the western part of the course of the River Danube. Including the towns of Heidelberg, Venice, Vienna, Budapest, etc. Published by Theodor Danckerts.The part has ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2013
[Title page] De Munt der Graaven van Holland.
Title page from Kornelis van Alkemade's important book De Munt der Graaven van Holland. The book was printed in Delft by Andriez Voorstad, and was a banker's guide to cir...
Place & Date: Delft, Andriez Voorstad, 1700
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2013
Carte de la TERRE SAINTE..
A fine map of the Holy Land depicting the tribes of Israel. A fine cartouche with Jesus preaching and healing. The scales with a cartographer and his pupil.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2014
Carte Particuliere des Pais ou Les Apotres ont Preche l'Euan Gile; des Lieux les Plus Renommez de Leurs Voyages, et de la Route de St. Paul a Rome.
Detailed map of the Mediterranean and Middle East, illustrating the travels of St. Paul as he journeyed from Jerusalem to Rome. Very detailed, with numerous place names...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c1700
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2013
Tyrus.
This hand-colored, copper plate engraving shows a view of the port and city of Tyrus or Tyre, Lebanon. This scarce topographical print by de Bruyn is from: 'Voyage au Lev...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2015
Marina di Tripoli & Tripoli.
This hand-colored, copper plate engraving shows two views of the port and city of Tripoli,Lybia. This scarce print is from: 'Voyage au Levant…” published by Henri de ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2013
De Heylige en Wytvermaerde Stadt Jerusalem eerst genaemt Salem Genesis 14 Vers 18.
Very attractive imaginary bird's-eye of Jerusalem, showing the city laid out in blocksWith 36 principal sites numbered (1-36, A-D) and keyed to a table in lower margin. ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1700
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2014
Le Cap de Bonne Esperance.
Fine view of Capetown from the seaside. With numerous sailing ships in the front. Tabletop mountaion in the back. Two putti holding the title banner. A six number key exp...
Place & Date: Leiden, c1700
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2013
Ducatus Brunsuicensis in Eiusdem Tres Principatus Calenbergicum.
Fine map of the Duchy of Braunsweig. Featuring a large, splendid cartouche with nine coats of arms. The cities are shown as a detailed, miniature fortification. There are...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1700
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2017
Cette Carte de Californie et du Nouveau Mexique.
A most important map, identifying by numerical code some 314 places in New Mexico, and showing in detail California as an island, although based on Sanson's monumental ma...
Place & Date: Paris, 1700
Selling price: $735
Sold in 2013
L\'Europe divisée suivant l\'estendue de ses principaux Estats...
Fine map of Europe, engraved by Cordier. With date "1695" in manuscript.
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1700
Selling price: $226
Sold in 2013
Paskaart van de Zee-kusten van Italie, Dalmatie, Sicilia, Grecia, Morea Malte en Candie. . .
A scarce, extensive nautical chart of the Mediterranean Sea, printed from two plates. We were not able to locate other specimens of this map. It depicts the coastlines of...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, circa 1700
Selling price: $7000
Sold in 2013
Ceylan, et les Maldives.
Exquisite map of Sri Lanka and the Maldives, with the southern tip of India shown at the top. Sri Lanka is shown in an inset named Ceylan Isle, qui est la Taprobane des A...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1700
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2014
L'Asie suivant Mr. de Lisle de L'Academie royale des sciences.
RARE miniature map of Asia after de L'Isle. The map is of interest for the use of East Sea, the sea between Korea and Japan, here called "Mer Orientale".With Co...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1700
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2014
Chine.
RARE miniature map of China, Korea, Japan and Taiwan. The map is of interest for the use of East Sea, the sea between Korea and Japan, here called "Mer Orientale&quo...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1700
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2014
Imperium Russicum omnisque Tartaria.
Very finely engraved miniature map of Asian part of Russia with Korea and Japan. The map is of interest for the use of East Sea, the sea between Korea and Japan, here cal...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1700
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2023
Pas caerte vande Custen van Loango, Angoy als mede en gedeelte van Angola, van C. de Lopa Goncalves, tot aen R. de Zaire.
Sea-chart of the coast of Loango.Latitude scale, compass rose and system of rhumb lines, soundings, anchorage's, etc.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1700
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2014
Pas caert van de Custen van Angola Van Rio de Zaire tot C. Negro. alles op zyn ware coers verheyt geleyt.
Sea-chart of the coast of Angola.Latitude scale, compass rose and system of rhumb lines, soundings, anchorage's, etc. Number "8" in lower right corner.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1700
Selling price: $165
Sold in 2014
Schets des Gronds van de Stad Jerusalem.
Uncommon plan of ancient Jerusalem.
Place & Date: ca. 1700
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2014
Veritable Representation des Premieres Matieres ou Elements avec leurs Directions. . .
A very rare double-page engraved circular representation of the world depicted in circular layers with Hell at its core, consisting of 9 concentric circles including the ...
Place & Date: Haarlem, 1650 - 1700
Selling price: $22000
Sold in 2014
CARTE QUI REPRESENTE TOUTES LES PIECES QUI SONT COMPRISE DANS L'ARCHITECTURE MILITAIRE OU L'ART DES FORTIFICATIONS...
Attractive copper-engraved print of military objects, weapons, cannons, fortifications, buildings, ships, tools, etc. Includes an extensive key with more than 84 descript...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2015
A New Map of Ancient Gaul or Gallia Transalpina.
A striking map of Ancient France during the time of Augustus Caesar. Includes a wonderful large title cartouche that includes fruit, ribbons and the Gloucester coat of ar...
Place & Date: Oxford, 1700
Selling price: $89
Sold in 2017
Ancient Asia.
Map of ancient Asia engraved by Michael Burghers of Oxford University. Dedicated to the Duke of Gloucester.With several interesting legends, a legend in the vicinity of t...
Place & Date: Oxford, 1700
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2015
(Hercules and Hippolyte, Queen of the Amazons.)
PROOF. Engraving by Jean Pesne (1623–1700) after Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), showing Hercules and Hippolyte (Queen of the Amazons.) Proof state before title "Herc...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1700
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2015
Scortatores.
Engraving by Crispin de Passe the Younger (Dutch, 1593–1670) and published by his father Crispijn de Passe the Elder (circa 1565-1637) who was an engraver, draughtsman ...
Place & Date: Antwerp, c.1700
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2016
Coniuges (marriage partners)
Engraving by Crispin de Passe the Younger (Dutch, 1593–1670) after and published by his father Crispijn de Passe the Elder (circa 1565-1637) who was an engraver, draugh...
Place & Date: Antwerp, c.1700
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
The East & West Prospect of Bushey Hall.
A very detailed plan of Bushey Hall with even the people quite detailed. It was published by Sir Henry Chauncy in "HISTORICAL ANTIQUITIES OF HERTFORDSHIRE" in 1...
Place & Date: London, 1700
Selling price: $17
Sold in 2019
Plan exact des fortifications du Château de Choczim sur le Niester : avec le forts et retranchements de l'Armée des Turcs, défaite en 1673 par Jean Sobieski. . .
Depicting the victory of Jan Sobieski over the Turks at Khotyn in Ukraine in 1673. The victory allowed the Poles to revoke the unfavorable Peace of Buczacz and set the st...
Place & Date: Leiden, P. van der AA, ca. 1700
Selling price: $950
Sold in 2015
Polacre a la voille.
Scarce copper-engraved illustration of a 17th century sailing ship. Fantastic view with sailors working on the ship with full sails, cannons, etc. With a second ship, and...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1693-1700
Selling price: $335
Sold in 2015
Partie Orientale de l'Amérique Angloise.
This is the eastern half of Mortier's two-sheet map of the eastern United States and Canada: "Carte Nouvelle de l'Amerique Angloise. This sheet, focusing almost all ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1700
Selling price: $205
Sold in 2016
A New Map of Ancient Scandinavia together with as much more of y Northern Part of Ancient Europe as Anvers to Present Denmark & Moscovia
A map of Scandinavia, with an inset map of “Present Denmark”, from Edward Wells' "A New Sett Of Mapps Of Ancient And Present Geography ...". The engraver of...
Place & Date: Oxford, 1700
Selling price: $135
Sold in 2018