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Description des Gaules Celtique et Belgique
A fine map of Gallic France and Belgium by Claude Buy de Mornas. It is from “Atlas Méthodique et Elémentaire de Géographie et l’ Histoire”, published in 1761.The...
Place & Date: Paris, 1761
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2017
An Exact Plan of the Capital City and Port of Malta, with its Suburbs and Dependencies .
A detailed plan of Valletta, dedicated to the 'Grand Officers of the Order of St. John'.The map of Valletta is accompanied with a lettered and numbered key, identifying b...
Place & Date: London, 1761
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2017
Nova Tabula Geographica exhibens Ducatum Brabantiae Cum Pertinentiis et adjacentibus Regionibus . . .
A detailed regional map of Brabant, centered on Antwerp, Brusells, Mechlen and Louvain in Belgium, and extending north to Breda and east to Maastricht. Map is by Conrad L...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1761
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2019
Ducatus Iuliacensis, Cliviensis et Montensis, ut et Principatus Meursiani et Comitatus Zutphaniensis Novissima et Accuratissima Delineatio.
Map of North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) featuring the Duchies of Iuliacensis, Cliviensis and Berg. The map has a very large cartouche featuring five crests with crowns, a...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1761
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2019
Costes de France depuis Brest jusqu'a Dunkerque...
An interesting chart of the Channel with the English and French coasts. Extends from Bristol to Cornwall, all the way to London and Kent in England; and from Brest to Par...
Place & Date: Paris, 1761
Selling price: $18
Sold in 2017
Circuli Westphaliae Quoad Partem Septentrionalem. . .
A fine detailed regional map of Westphalia in Germany, extending from Bremen and Hamburg in the north to Cologne, Bonn, Dusseldorf, Aix, Wyck and Luttich in the south. Ar...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1761
Selling price: $21
Sold in 2019
Carte De L'Isle De Belle-Isle. . .
Large-scale sea chart of Belle-Ile, in upper right corner inset of the French coast with Belle-Ile, îles de Quiberon with the bay of Morbihan. With rhumb lines.Published...
Place & Date: Paris, 1761
Selling price: $1800
Sold in 2018
The East Prospect of the City of Philadelphia, in the Province of Pennsylvania.
This copper engraving view is based on the famous George Heap view, first published in c.1756. The print shows the city as a bustling river port of some importance and so...
Place & Date: London, 1761
Selling price: $1101
Sold in 2019
CARTE REDUITE de l' OCEAN OCCIDENTAL, Contenant les Costes Occidentales de l'Europe et de l' Afrique et les Cotes Orientales de l'Amerique . . .
This beautifully engraved chart shows the Atlantic Ocean north of the equator, delineated with rhumb lines. A good portion of each of the continents is shown with major p...
Place & Date: Paris, 1761
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2020
Partie du Cours du Fleuve de Saint Laurent... / Carte du Cours du Fleuve de Saint Laurent depuis Quebec jus.
A map of the banks of the St. Lawrence river from Quebec to the Atlantic in 2 sheets.[The other sheet also present in this auction !]Two charts horizontally oriented wit...
Place & Date: Paris, 1761
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2020
Carte du Cours du Fleuve de Saint Laurent. Depuisla Mer jusqu'a Quebec en Deux feuilles . . .
A map of the banks of the St. Lawrence river from Quebec to the Atlantic in 2 sheets. [1 of 2] Two insets with maps entitled "Baye des Sept Isles" and "Les...
Place & Date: Paris, 1761
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2020
An Accurate Map of England, Scotland and Ireland. . .
A fine hand-colored map of England, Scotland & Ireland by Seale, it was published in the “UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE” BY Hinton. colored by region, it features a decorati...
Place & Date: London, 1761
Selling price: $119
Sold in 2020
Octroy voor de Westindische Compagnie. . . 1761.
Full title: 'Nader prolongatie van het octroy voor de Westindische Compagnie voor den tyd van nog dertig jaaren'. A large broadside printed on four joined sheets publishe...
Place & Date: 's-Gravenhage, 1761
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2021
Circuli Westphaliae. . .
A nice, detailed map of Westphalia. Larger towns and cities are highlighted in red - these include, Bremmen, Hamburg, Cologne, Aix, Bonn, Munster, Meppen, Hannover, Emden...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1761
Selling price: $17
Sold in 2021
A celestial chart depicting the astronomical systems according to Ptolemy and to Tycho Brahe.
A celestial chart depicting the astronomical systems according to Ptolemy and to Tycho Brahe. Claude Buy de Mornas (dl 1783), géographe du roi (1764). Atlas 'Méthodique...
Place & Date: Paris, 1761
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2020
![SUITE DE L'HISTOIRE DES GOMERITES [ANCIENT GREEK MYTHOLOGICAL WORLD VIEW]](/uploads/cache/84967-250x250.jpg)
SUITE DE L'HISTOIRE DES GOMERITES [ANCIENT GREEK MYTHOLOGICAL WORLD VIEW]
A scarce map of the Ancient World. It includes plenty of french text and remarkably decorative borders found only in the deluxe edition of Buy De Mornas' 'Atlas Methodiqu...
Place & Date: Paris, 1761
Selling price: $31
Sold in 2021
A Large Chart of the Coast of Guinea From Sherbro To Cape Lopas
A large coastal sea chart with rhumb lines of mainly the Gold Coast, by Francis Lamb, published in 'The English Pilot, part V, 6th edition', London, Mount and Page, 1761....
Place & Date: London, 1761
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2022
Matching set of four wallmaps of America, Asia, America, Europe.
Rare and decorative set of four wall maps published by Louis Charles DESNOS ( fl.1750-1770), including a border with vignettes describing native scenes. Each panel is acc...
Place & Date: Paris, 1760-1761
Vue des bords de la Neva..
Sight of the edges of the river Neva between the Winter palace and the imperial Academy of sciences at Saint-Petersburg.
Place & Date: Saint-Petersbourg 1761
Selling price: $450
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Mappamondo ouerbo descrizione del Globo Terrestre . . .
Attractive Italian world map in double hemisphere. With curious outlines for North Americas west coast and Australia, with "Terra di Diemen", joined to the main...
Place & Date: Venice, 1761
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2011
Carte generale du globe terrestre construite & publiee par le S.r Isaac Brouckner geographe de S.M.I.C. exaninee & approuvee par M.r Daniel Bernoulli . . .
Attractive Italian world map presented in Mercator's projection and centered on Australia. Included in "Dizionario geografico portatile".Featuring the voyage of...
Place & Date: Venice, 1761
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2011
De la Longitude et de la Latitude. / Suite de la Longitude.
Claude Buy de Mornas (d. 1783), géographe du roi (1764). Atlas Méthodique et Elémentaire de Géographie et d' Histoire, 1761, Atlas Historique et Géographique, 1762. ...
Place & Date: Paris, L.C. Desnos, 1761
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2018
A correct plan of the cities of London & Westminster & Borough of Southwark including the bills o mortality with the additional buildings
This map of London was published as supplement to Volume 30 of the 'London Magazine' in 1761. Attributed to John Rocque, the map's title features in a panel below the pla...
Place & Date: London, 1761
Selling price: $142
Sold in 2013
Carte De L'Isle De Belle-Isle..
Large-scale sea of Belle-Ile, in upper right corner inset of the French coast with Belle-Ile, îles de Quiberon with the bay of Morbihan. With rhumb lines.Published by t...
Place & Date: Paris, 1761
Selling price: $1400
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Carte du Detroit de Gibraltar Dressée au Depost des Cartes et Plans de la Marine pour le service des Vaisseaux du Roy par Ordre de M. le Duc de Choiseul Ministre de la Guerre et de la Marine. . . N° 35
A very detailed chart prepared by J.N. Bellin of the Straits of Gibraltar locating harbors and bays and coastal soundings. Decorative title cartouche. Depicts Cape Trafal...
Place & Date: Paris, 1761
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2009
Vue de la superbe Entrée de l'Embassadeur de Siam a la Cour de Pekin.
So-called optical print illustrating a pompous parade to celebrate the arrival of the ambassador of Siam in Beijing.Mondhare was a well-known publisher of optical prints,...
Place & Date: Paris, 1761
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2010
Vue perspective de la grande Ceremonie du Couronnement de l'Empereur de la Chine.
So-called optical print illustrating the crowning of the Chinese emperor. It shows the throne at the center.Mondhare was a well-known publisher of optical prints, establi...
Place & Date: Paris, 1761
Selling price: $600
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Ceremonie de la grande Feste que les Chinois celebre le 24 de la Lune d'Aoust..
So-called optical print illustrating great festivities on the 24th of August in Beijing.Mondhare was a well-known publisher of optical prints, established in Paris, at ru...
Place & Date: Paris, 1761
Selling price: $600
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Climats d'Heures et de Mois.
Decorative map of the world showing one hemisphere divided into climates according to the length of the day.Left and right a box with information about these climates.Pre...
Place & Date: Paris, 1761
Selling price: $12
Sold in 2009
Accurate Carte des insul BelleIsle an der Mittägien Küste von Bretagne. . .
Map of Belle Isle. In the lower left corner a descriptive text with a chronology of the siege and occupation of the island "Accurate Carte der INSUL BELLE ISLE [Bell...
Place & Date: Nurnberg, 1761
Selling price: $540
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Partie du Cours du Fleuve de Saint Laurent... Carte du Cours du Fleuve de Saint Laurent depuis Quebec jus
Two charts horizontally oriented with tremendous detail of the rivers and shoreline. Decorated with three rococo-style cartouches and rhumb lines.Good margins sheet size ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1761
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2014
L'Amerique Septentrionale divisé en fes principaux.
A finely engraved map of North America, prepared by Janvier. The map is most notable for it's depiction of Mer de L'Quest or Sea of the West, a great sea, easily the size...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $750
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Carte Hydrographique de la Baye de Cadix..
A large and very handsome chart of the Bay of Cadiz, from the town of Rota to Cadiz. The piece contains dramatic coastal topography, forts, anchorages and soundings. Beau...
Place & Date: Paris, 1762
Selling price: $360
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Ducatus Sabaudiae, Principatus Pedemontium et ducatis Montisferrati.
Johan Baptist Homann (1663-1724). Outstanding German cartographer. Founder of the Homann publishing house. After the death of the son Johann Christoph, the firm continued...
Place & Date: Nurnberg, 1762
Selling price: $275
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Dominii Veneti.
Johan Baptist Homann (1663-1724). Outstanding German cartographer. Founder of the Homann publishing house. After the death of the son Johann Christoph, the firm continued...
Place & Date: Nürnberg, 1762
Selling price: $300
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Carte Réduite De L'Isle De Cube..
A well engraved and highly detailed chart that was issued in Neptune americo-septentrionale. This chart is based on Sayer & Bennett's chart that was issued in 1776 an...
Place & Date: Paris, 1762
Selling price: $1200
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![[Title page] Nouvel Atlas de la Généralité de Paris Divisé En ses 22 Elections ..](/uploads/cache/17245-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Nouvel Atlas de la Généralité de Paris Divisé En ses 22 Elections ..
Decorative title page with Mercury, Neptune, ships merchants, etc.
Place & Date: Paris, 1762
Selling price: $77
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Hémisphére Occidental.
Double hemisphere world map.Left and right a box with geographical information for spheres of different types.Prepared by Buy de Mornas, who was a professor of geography ...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $220
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Asie.
Map of Asia. With a curiously shaped Australia, and marked Partie du Continent inconnu.Left and right a box with geographical information for Asia.Prepared by Buy de Morn...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $60
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Amérique.
Map of north and south America.Left and right a box with geographical information for America.Prepared by Buy de Mornas, who was a professor of geography and history and ...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $80
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Histoire de la Découverte des Mondes Nouveau et Inconnu.
Double hemisphere map of the Arctic and Antarctic poles.Left and right a box with geographical information about the discovery of America and the arctic and Antarctic ear...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $122
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Souverainetés de l'Europe.
Map of the various sovereignty of Europe.Left and right a box with geographical information about the various Empires of Europe .Prepared by Buy de Mornas, who was a prof...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $57
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De l'Aërologie.
Decorative chart showing various celestial models.Left and right a box with geographical information about the Aero logy, Refraction, and Twilight.Prepared by Buy de Morn...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $100
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Pour les Vents.
Finely engraved chart shows the wind currents in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans, and the Arctic and Antarctic regions. Depicts 4 compass roses with wind directio...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $119
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La Manière de reconnoitre kes Principales Etoiles dans le Ciel.
Decorative chart of the Milky Way and positions of the stars in the Sky. Left and right a box with geographical information about the welkin .Prepared by Buy de Mornas, w...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $100
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Globe Céleste.
Attractive engraved celestial globe, oriented to show Leo, Taurus, Virgo, Ursa Major and Minor, Cancer and a handful of other constellations.Left and right a box with geo...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $120
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Des Planètes.
Interesting engraving showing contemporary instruments for charting the heavens and implementation of the instruments to observe the stars.Left and right a box with infor...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $65
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Des Planètes subalternes et de la Paralaxe.
Decorative engraving showing the phases of the moon.Left and right a box with geographical information about various planets .Prepared by Buy de Mornas, who was a profess...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $65
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Des Planètes en Particulier.
Chart of the solar system.Left and right a box with geographical information about various planets: "Mercury, Venus, La Terre, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn.Prepared by Buy ...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $100
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L'Amerique divisée Pars Grands Etats. . .
Engraved by Lattré. This map is most notable for its depiction of "Mer de L'Ouest" or "Sea of the West". A great sea, easily the size of the Mediterr...
Place & Date: Paris, 1762
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2020
Carta Geografica del Territorio Padovano.
Very fine decorative map of Venice and its immediate environs, the surrounding rice fields intersected by a network of waterways and canals.
Place & Date: Venice, 1740-1762
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2015
Carte de l'Egypte Ancienne et Moderne.
Jean Lattré, Paris-based engraver and publisher. Worked with Robert de Vaugondy, J. Janvier and R. Bonne. " Atlas Monderne', 1771, 1783 , 1793. Rigobert Bonne, Fren...
Place & Date: Paris, 1762
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2019
Différentes Projections Des Cartes.
Decorative map of the region "Île de France".Left and right a box with technical information concerning the different types of maps and the methods used to con...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $15
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De la Longitude et de la Latitude.
Decorative map showing the division of the two hemispheres respectively into parallels and meridians.Left and right a box with information's about latitude and longitude....
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $17
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Suite de la Longitude.
Decorative map showing one hemisphere divided into meridians.Left and right a box with further information's about longitude.Prepared by Buy de Mornas, who was a professo...
Place & Date: Paris, 1762
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2013
Du Zodiaque et de l'Eclyptique.
Decorative celestial chart showing the solar and lunar eclipses.Left and right a box with information about the zodiac and the ecliptic.Prepared by Buy de Mornas, who was...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $40
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Colures, Tropiques, Cercles Polaires, et leurs Usages.
Decorative chart showing the main celestial circles.Left and right a box with information about colures as well as tropical and polar circles.Prepared by Buy de Mornas, w...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $53
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De l'Horison.
Decorative chart representing the right, oblique and parallel sphere.Left and right a box with information about the horizon.Prepared by Buy de Mornas, who was a professo...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $40
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Observations sur les Points Cardinaux. Lignes et Cercles de..
Decorative world map presenting the four cardinal points on two hemispheres.Left and right a box with information about the cardinal points as well as the lines and the c...
Place & Date: Paris, 1762
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2008
Pôles du Monde, de l'Eclyptique, et de l'Horison. Points des..
Decorative map presenting a compass rose and a wind rose.Left and right a box with information about the cardinal points, the poles as well as the equinoctial and the sol...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $40
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Sistême de Descartes.
Decorative celestial map representing the solar system as conceived by Descartes.Left and right a box with information about the philosopher's ideas about the outer space...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $63
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Sistême de Copernic.
Decorative celestial map representing the solar system as conceived by Copernicus.Left and right a box with information about the philosopher's ideas about the outer spac...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $35
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Centre du Monde. Systêmes de Ptolomée et de Ticho-Brahé.
Decorative celestial map representing the conception of the universe according to Ptolomaeus and Ticho-Brahé.Left and right a box with information about both systems.Pre...
Place & Date: Paris, 1762
Selling price: $85
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Définitions Préliminaires des Termes de Géométrie Nécessaires..
Decorative map illustrating the geometrical figures at the basis of geometry.Left and right a box containing the basic concepts of geometry.Prepared by Buy de Mornas, who...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $41
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Introduction à la Géographie.
Decorative chart representing the celestial sphere.Left and right a box containing an introduction to geography.Prepared by Buy de Mornas, who was a professor of geograph...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $60
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L' Empire de Russie en Europe et en Asie.
Rigobert Bonne (1727-1795), French cartographer. His maps are found in a.o. Atlas Moderne (1762), Raynal's Histoire Philos. du Commerce des Indes (1774) and Atlas Encyclo...
Place & Date: Paris, 1762
Selling price: $90
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Diversité Des Ombres et Diverse Situation des Habitants de la Terre.
Decorative map of the world showing the system of shadows on the Earth depending on the different latitude and longitude degrees.Left and right a box with technical terms...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $45
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Climats d'Heures et de Mois.
Decorative map of the world showing one hemisphere divided into climates according to the length of the day.Left and right a box with information about these climates.Pre...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $25
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Division Astronomique de la Terre.
Decorative map of the world showing the astronomical division of the Earth as made by the geometricians.Left and right a box with information about the main lines, points...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $19
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Explication des Saisons.
Decorative celestial chart representing the Earth's revolution around the sun.Left and right a box with information explaining the phenomenon of the seasons.Prepared by B...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $30
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Carte de l\' Isle de la Martinique.
Homann Heirs (of Johann Baptist and Johann Christof) published: Grosser Atlas, 1731, 1737. Geogr. Maior, 1759, Atlas Homannianus, 1762.A map of the island of Martinique.
Place & Date: Nürnberg, 1762
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2011
Hemisphaerium Boreale - Hemisphaerium Australe.
Handsome miniature celestial chart depicting the mythological form of the constellations in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Two ecliptic diagrams are tucked betwee...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1762
Selling price: $90
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Carte Des Costes De Portugal et de Partie D'Espagne depuis le Cap de Finisterre Jusques au Dêtroit De Gibraltar.
Large scale chart of Portugal engraved by H. van Loon Sculp. With inset of the Bay of Lisbon and Cadiz.With rhumb lines radiating across the chart. Published by the Depot...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $700
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L'Afrique divisee en ses principaux etats par le sr. Janvier..
Excellent copper engraved map of the continent showing the extent of knowledge in the mid 18th century.While mostly accurate, it does have remnants of fantasy such as the...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $215
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L´Italie divisée en ses differents Etats, Royaumes et Republiques..
Attractive map of Italy and including Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, much of Provence and portions of the Balkans.Very decorative title cartouche, uncolored as issued. A seco...
Place & Date: Paris 1762
Selling price: $135
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Atlas moderne ou collection de cartes sur toutes les parties du globe terrestre par plusieurs auteurs.
Typical 18th century French atlas, including maps by Janvier, Rizzi Zannoni and Bonne. Decorative title page: two women holding the title in a large drape, the page is fi...
Place & Date: Paris, Lattré, 1762
Selling price: $2700
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De Stad Algiers.
A view of the town of Algiers as seen from the sea.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1762
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2020
Status Mutinensis.
Homann Heirs (of Johann Baptist and Johann Christof) published: Grosser Atlas, 1731, 1737. Geogr. Maior, 1759, Atlas Homannianus, 1762.A map of Modena and the area around...
Place & Date: Nürnberg, 1762
Selling price: $360
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Royaumes d'Espagne et de Portugal.
Detailed map of Spain, Portugal and Baleares islands. Showing also southwestern part of France and north Africa.
Place & Date: Paris, 1762
Selling price: $40
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Graeciae Antiquae Specimen Geographicum.
Decorative map of Ancient Greece, with a large, decorative, Rococo, title cartouche. With an inset depicting northern Greece. Jean Baptiste d'Anville (1697-1782) born in...
Place & Date: Paris, 1762
Selling price: $125
Sold in 2013