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Two Pythons, Scarlet Ibis and Shama.
Plate LXII from Albertus Seba's 'Thesaurus', displaying a pair of snakes, a scarlet Ibis and a small bird on a branch. Albertus Seba (1665-1736) was a Dutch apothecary, z...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1734-1769
Selling price: $285
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Nieuwe Kaart van Kanada, De Landen aan de Hudson's-Baay en de Noordwestelyke deelen van Noord-Amerika. . .
A decorative, interesting map of Canada and the Upper Midwest. It is centered on the Great Lakes and Hudson's Bay and was published by Issak Tirion. The map depicts the r...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1769
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2022
PLAN DE FLORENCE.
A superb and scarce map of Florence by Lalande, from from 'Voyage en Italie' by LALANDE, J. J. DE.., with a detailed legend.Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande , 11 Ju...
Place & Date: Paris, 1769
Selling price: $150
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Carte Des Entrees De La Tamise
This is a beautiful antique nautical chart of the east coast of England, focusing on the counties of Suffolk Kent and Essex as well as the entrance to the Thames River. T...
Place & Date: Paris, 1769
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2023
Grondvlakte van Nieuw Orleans, de Hoosdstad van Louisiana / De Uitloop van de Rivier Missisippi / De oostelyke Ingang van de Missisippi, met een Plan van het Fort, 't Welk het Kanaal Beheerscht
A sought-after, beautiful, decorative sheet that shows three maps arranged around a significant compass rose. This work represents Tirion's version of a map that was firs...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1769
Selling price: $750
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NoordHollands..WestFriesland..Dregterland..Koggen enz.
A very detailed map of North Holland also showing the famous cities Enkhuizen, Hoorn and Alkmaar. With an inset of the islands Texel, Vlieland and Terschelling.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1769
Selling price: $349
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Guayana, Terre Ferme, Isles Antilles et N.lle Espagne.
Louis Brion de la Tour (1756-1823), ' Atlas Géneral, Civil et Ecclésiastique', 1766, ' Atlas Général', 1790-98. Louis Charles Desnos (fl.1750-70), Le Rouge's 'Atlas N...
Place & Date: Paris, 1769
Selling price: $300
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Turquie Européenne avec les états qui en sont tributaires.
Louis Brion de la Tour (1756-1823), ' Atlas Géneral, Civil et Ecclésiastique', 1766, ' Atlas Général', 1790-98. Louis Charles Desnos (fl.1750-70), Le Rouge's 'Atlas N...
Place & Date: Paris, 1769
Selling price: $125
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Nieuwe kaart van 't Kwartier Zutphen..
Map of the northern part of The Duchy Gelre, with Zutphen and Deventer.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1769
Selling price: $170
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l' Europe.
Louis Brion de la Tour (1756-1823), ' Atlas Géneral, Civil et Ecclésiastique', 1766, ' Atlas Général', 1790-98. Louis Charles Desnos (fl.1750-70), Le Rouge's 'Atlas N...
Place & Date: Paris, 1769
Selling price: $160
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Partie de l' Italy Comprenant les etats du Roy de Sardaigne, de Milan, Parme et Génes.
Louis Brion de la Tour (1756-1823), ' Atlas Géneral, Civil et Ecclésiastique', 1766, ' Atlas Général', 1790-98. Louis Charles Desnos (fl.1750-70), Le Rouge's 'Atlas N...
Place & Date: Paris, 1769
Selling price: $140
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Le Danemark
Louis Brion de la Tour (1756-1823), ' Atlas Géneral, Civil et Ecclésiastique', 1766, ' Atlas Général', 1790-98. Louis Charles Desnos (fl.1750-70), Le Rouge's 'Atlas N...
Place & Date: Paris, 1769
Selling price: $75
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Nieuwe Kaart van Europa
Nice map of Europe extending to include Iceland. Political divisions are delineated in original color and major cities are located.
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1769
Selling price: $150
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L'Europe Dressée..
Map of Europe, with an explanatory text on left/right sides. The map and the text are surrounded by a decorative frame, wrapped in garlands, on which stand out the instru...
Place & Date: Paris, 1768-1769
Selling price: $50
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Carte de L'Isle de Taiti par Le Lieutenant J.Cook.
This copper engraved map of the islands of Tahiti is one of the earliest charts of the island. Fully engraved to show its unique mountainous topography and rivers radiati...
Place & Date: Paris 1769
Selling price: $80
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Carte de L'Isle de Taiti par Le Lieutenant J.Cook.
A good engraved map of the island Tahiti, one of the earliest charts of the island. Fully engraved to show its unique mountainous topography and rivers radiating from the...
Place & Date: Paris, 1769
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2012
Le Globe Terrestre vû en convêxe par les deux Poles...
Scarce map showing the World in twin-hemispheres, centered on the Poles. Ornamental uncolored title cartouche. Northern Hemisphere shows large "Mer de l'Ouest"....
Place & Date: Paris, 1769
Selling price: $500
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Le Danemark
Louis Brion de la Tour (1756-1823), ' Atlas Géneral, Civil et Ecclésiastique', 1766, ' Atlas Général', 1790-98. Louis Charles Desnos (fl.1750-70), Le Rouge's 'Atlas N...
Place & Date: Paris, 1769
Selling price: $135
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Etats des deux Siciles.
Louis Brion de la Tour (1756-1823), ' Atlas Géneral, Civil et Ecclésiastique', 1766, ' Atlas Général', 1790-98. Louis Charles Desnos (fl.1750-70), Le Rouge's 'Atlas N...
Place & Date: Paris, 1769
Selling price: $180
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Nieuwe Kaart van Europa
Nice map of Europe extending to include Iceland. Political divisions are delineated in original color and major cities are located.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1769
Selling price: $150
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Empire de la Chine.
Small detailed map showing the eastern part of China as well as Korea. Including Taiwan and Hainan. Dated 1769.From Atlas Portatif Universel, by Robert de Vaugondy.Page 7...
Place & Date: Paris, later than 1769
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2008
Isles Philippines et Moluques.
Small detailed map showing the Philippines and part of Indonesia. From Atlas Portatif Universel, by Robert de Vaugondy.Page 73 outside border top right. Mary Sponberg Ped...
Place & Date: Paris, later than 1769
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2015
Plan de la Baye du Bon succès dans le détroit de le Maire. / Carte de la partie S. E. de la Terre de Feu. . . / 4 profils figurant la Terre de feu. Tome II Pl. 6.
Charts of the Detroit of Le Maire and of Tierra del Fuego in Spanish for "Land of Fire" situated on the southernmost tip of the South American mainland by the S...
Place & Date: Paris, 1769
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2008
Carte Nouvel le D'Amerique pour les..
Fine detailed and uncommon map of America. This map is most notable for it's depiction of Mer de L'Ouest or "Sea of the West": a great sea, easily the size of t...
Place & Date: Paris, 1769
Selling price: $650
Sold in 2010
A New & Accurate Map of the Krim Tartary, the Sea of Azof, and Parts of the Rivers Dneper, Bog and Kuban.
Interesting, engraved map of the northern Black Sea and southern Ukraine regions, during the period of hostilities between the Turks and Russians, 1768-74. Published in t...
Place & Date: London, 1769
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2013
Nouveau théâtre de la guerre entre les Russes les turcs et les polonois confédérés.
Very rare separately published map of Crime region. With a large title cartouche lower left "Nouveau theâtre de la guerre entre les russes, les turcs et les polonoi...
Place & Date: Paris, 1769
Selling price: $1250
Sold in 2010
![[SET OF 5 MAPS OF THE CASPIAN SEA, RUSSIA, ca. 1769]](/uploads/cache/91829-250x250.jpg)
[SET OF 5 MAPS OF THE CASPIAN SEA, RUSSIA, ca. 1769]
Interesting set of five copper-engraved maps of the Caspian Sea by or after D'Anville, dating to around 1769. List of the maps: 1: Premiere Révolution de la mer Caspie...
Place & Date: Paris, c1769
Selling price: $305
Sold in 2011
Isola di Corsica.
A very rare map of Corsica, published in " Relazione della Corsica, "which was an Italian translation of the work by Boswell " An Account of Corsica,"...
Place & Date: London, 1769
Selling price: $700
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(Dalmatien). Lower left sheet from the famous wall map 'Mappa Geographica novissima Regni Hungariae divisi in suos Comitatus'.
Lower left sheet from the famous wall map "Mappa Geographica novissima Regni Hungariae divisi in suos Comitatus" of Hungary. This part depicting part of Dalmati...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1769
Selling price: $350
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Empire de la Chine.
An attractive small detailed map showing the eastern part of China as well as Korea. Including Taiwan and Hainan. Dated 1769 in the cartouche.From ‘Atlas Portatif Unive...
Place & Date: Paris, 1769
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2016
Nieuwe kaart van 't Kwartier Zutphen. . .
Map of the northern part of The Duchy Gelre, with Zutphen and Deventer.Isaac Tirion was born in Utrecht ca. 1705. He came to Amsterdam ca. 1725. Tirion published a number...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1769
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2013
Nieuwe Kaart van Italie na de Nieuwste waarnemingen van de l'Isle en andere
Handsome and detailed map showing Italy as well as Corsica, Sardinia, Minorca, Croatia, Albania, Dalmatia, a bit of Provence, Malta and the northern coast of Africa. The ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1769
Selling price: $68
Sold in 2014
L'Europe Dressée. . .
Map of Europe, with an explanatory text on left and right sides.
Place & Date: Paris, 1768-1769
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2016
Vue nord ouest du Cap Corse.
The English fortresses at Cape Corse.From a French edition of Prévost d' Exile's ' Histoire. des Voyages', 1738-75.
Place & Date: Paris, 1769
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2018
Plan of the English fortresses at Dickscove Vue du sud du fort de Dickscove.
The English fortresses at Dickscove.From a French edition of Prévost d' Exile's ' Histoire. des Voyages', 1738-75.
Place & Date: Paris, 1769
Selling price: $30
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Vue nord des forts anglois et Hollandois d'Akra.
The Dutch and English forts at Accra. From a French edition of Prévost d' Exile's "Histoire des Voyages", 1738-1775. Crevecoeur, the Dutch fort and the English...
Place & Date: Paris, 1769
Selling price: $30
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Fort de Badenstein a Boutri.
Fortress Badenstein at Boutri.From a French edition of Prévost d' Exile's ' Histoire. des Voyages', 1738-75.
Place & Date: Paris, 1769
Selling price: $50
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Grondvlakte van Nieuw Orleans, de Hoosdstad van Louisiana / De Uitloop van de Rivier Missisippi / De oostelyke Ingang van de Missisippi, met een Plan van het Fort, 't Welk het Kanaal Beheerscht
A sought-after, beautiful, decorative sheet that shows three maps arranged around a large compass rose. This work represents Tirion's version of a first executed map by D...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1769
Selling price: $460
Sold in 2015
Nieuwe kaart van Kanada . . .
Nice map of the Bay of Hudson, In Labrador a small inset of Nova Scotia. The map is dated 1769. All text is in Dutch. The map shows the region shortly after the conclusio...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1769
Selling price: $475
Sold in 2016
Atlas Portatif des Milataires et des Voyageurs (Title Page).
Decorative title page by G. Le Rouge, who was lieutenant in the regiment of Saxe before establishing himself as publisher, compiler and editor of maps at the "rue de...
Place & Date: Paris , 1769
Selling price: $38
Sold in 2017
Le Globe Terrestre vu en convexe par les deux Poles, l'Equateur servant d'horison.
The rare double polar hemisphere world map, based on Cassini's projection. There are some geographical anomalies, Greenland is connected to Canada, the Mer de l'Ouest in ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1769
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2017
Carte exacte d'une Partie de L'Empire de Russie et de la Pologne meridionale renfermant l'Ukraine . . .
Rare map of Eastern Europe published by Facius Brothers, published in Bonn, including Poland, Lithuania, Russia and Ukraine. This is the first edition of the map, which w...
Place & Date: Bonn, 1769
Selling price: $2600
Sold in 2022
Chart of the Island Otaheite by Capt'n Cook.
Cook's mission on his First Voyage to the South Seas was to observe the passage of Venus across the Sun in 1769, at the request of the Royal Society. In the three months ...
Place & Date: London, 1769
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2018
Accurater Plan der Stadt London nebst Westminster, Southwark und den neu angebauteten Haeusern vom Jahr 1767.
Uncommon plan of London with Hyde Park, Sadlers Wells, Mile End, Newington Butts. Underneath the plan a translation of English words used in the map into German below.Sig...
Place & Date: Berlin, 1770
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2012
Regni Prussiae accurata delineatio.
Uncommon map of Prussia. The originally colored title cartouche is surrounded by mythological figures. From Atlas Portatif.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, ca. 1770
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2012
Regnum Poloniae ejusque confinis.
Uncommon map of Poland. From Atlas Portatif.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, ca. 1770
Selling price: $160
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Africa concinnata secundum observationes...
Lotter gives credit in the title cartouche to Guillaume De L'Isle. The Nile is correctly shown with its origins in Abyssinia and the other major rivers are shown fairly a...
Place & Date: Augsburg, ca.1770
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2012
Russia in Europe by Thos. Bowen
Showing "Russia in Europe" by Thomas Bowen. It was engraved for and published by "Barlow's General History of Europe" in about 1770. The map covers th...
Place & Date: London, c. 1770
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2015
Carte du District de Tranquebar.
A detailed map of Tharangambadi,(Tranquebar & vicinity) an early trading colony controlled by Denmark. It is in the current Indian state of Tamil Nadu on the Coromand...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1770
Selling price: $45
Sold in 2015
Theatrum belli Russorum Victoriis illustratum sive Nova et accurata Turcicarum et Tartaricum. . .
This is the re-issue of Seutter's map with the Privilege in lower left part. Uncommon and decorative map of Ukraine, showing the theatre of the Russo-Turkish War in the U...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, ca. 1770
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2016
Amplissima Ucraniae Regio, Palatinatus Kioviensem et Braclaviensem. . .
This is the re-issue of Seutter's map of Ukraine, with privilege underneath the title cartouche. With excellent detail of the topography, including rivers, hills, etc.Dec...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, ca. 1770
Selling price: $1100
Sold in 2013
Plan du fort Saint-Philippe dans L'isle de Minorque.
A military plan of Fort St. Philip with a key to the left, with references to the fortifications de San Carlos (Q) et Malborough (R). In upper right corner "N°.3.&q...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1770
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2013
Carte Topographique et Militaire de L'Isle Minorque.
A fine map of Minorca with inset of the Bay of Mahon. With an extensive "Instruction" to the right "ette Carte levée et dessinée par des Officiers de l'A...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1770
Selling price: $1550
Sold in 2013
Carte de L'Empire Ottoman Dans Son Etat Actuel.
Fine detailed copper engraved map of the Ottoman Empire in its actual state surrounding the area that is Turkey today. Block cartouche. Louis Brion de la Tour (1756-1823...
Place & Date: Paris, 1770
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2015
Carte de la Riviere de Kalbar.
Detailed coastal map of the Guinea coast of West Africa based on the 1699 voyage of James Barbot and John Grazilhier to the Kalabar River. This was the heart of the slave...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1770
Selling price: $16
Sold in 2015
Amplissima Ucraniae Regio, Palatinatus Kioviensem et Braclaviensem. . .
Seutter's map of Ukraine, with privilege underneath the title cartouche. With excellent detail of the topography, including rivers, hills, etc.Decorated with two attracti...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, ca. 1770
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2014
Frontieres de Turquie et de Russie Entre la Mer Caspienne et la Mer d'Asof renfermant le Kuban la Grande et Petitte Kabardie
Fine and rare map centered on present-day Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. Depicting the progress of the Russo-Turkish war between 1768-1774. In bottom northern part of A...
Place & Date: Paris, 1770
Selling price: $1150
Sold in 2014
Ravage près de Tivoli.
Fine copper engraving after a design by Claude Joseph Vernet (1714 Avignon - 1789 Paris) and engraved by Jacques Aliamet. (1726 Abbeville-1788 Paris)
Place & Date: Paris, Jean, ca.1770
Selling price: $163
Sold in 2014
Carte de la Partie Superieure de l' Inde en deça du Gange.
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, c. 1770
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2020
N. America.
Uncommon map of North America, with unfinished coast north of California. Shows "Quivira" and "The supposed Str. of Annian". Locates Indian tribes.
Place & Date: London, ca. 1770
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2014
S. America.
Uncommon map of South America. With many details and place names. With small specks of land "Terra Australis", "Port discover'd by Sir Francis Drake",...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1770
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2014
Nieuwe Kaart van Ierland.
28Izaak Tirion (d. 1769) Amsterdam publisher. His ' Nieuwe en beknopte handatlas' saw 6 editions between before 1740 and after 1784. Also ' Tegenwoordige staat van alle v...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1770
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2015
Two Hand-Colored Views of the Ruins of Ancient British Castles.
Two hand-colored views of English castles including: - "View of Norwich Castle" & - "A View of Lestwithiel Palace in Cornwall" These are copper ...
Place & Date: London, 1770
Selling price: $85
Sold in 2018
Veduta degli avanzi del Castro Pretorio nella Villa Adriana a Tivoli.
Original etching from the “Vedute di Roma”, which is the name for a collection of 135 monumental etchings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi. With those etchings he had a ...
Place & Date: Rome, 1770
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2014
![La Destruction de la flotte ottomanne par l'escadre russe sous les ordres de S.E. Mr le comte Orlow. Dans le port de Chisme la nuit du 7m juillet 1770 [together with] (Map of Bay between Cesme and Cios)](/uploads/cache/35506-250x250.jpg)
La Destruction de la flotte ottomanne par l'escadre russe sous les ordres de S.E. Mr le comte Orlow. Dans le port de Chisme la nuit du 7m juillet 1770 [together with] (Map of Bay between Cesme and Cios)
Very rare separately published print showing the siege of Cesme on 7th July 1770. The battle took place during the Russian Turkish war of 1768-1774 at Cesme, near Izmir i...
Place & Date: Paris, after 1770
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2015
A View of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich.
An optical print of the Christopher Wren Old Royal Naval College from the Thames.
Place & Date: London, circa 1770
Selling price: $185
Sold in 2022
Vue et Perspective de la Superbe Colomnade de Versailles.
Striking optical print featuring the columns and the gardens at Versailles, near Paris. France. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries many specialty establishments i...
Place & Date: Paris, 1770
Selling price: $109
Sold in 2016
North America Drawn & Engraved from the best Maps & Charts.
Important early hand-colored, copper engraved map of the British Colonies and the whole of North America, shortly after the conclusion of the French & Indian War and ...
Place & Date: London, 1770
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2015
Nieuwe Zee-Caart van de Propontis of Zee van Marmora, met de Twee Straaten Hellespont en t Naauw van Constantinopolen... P.D. Bohn 1770...
Very rare chart depicting the Sea of Marmora and the surrounding regions, including Constantinopel, Hellespont, the Dardeanelle Strait, part of Turkey and Greece. chart i...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1770
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2016
Neue Vorstellung von gantz Italien.
Unusual map of Italy during Roman times - from South Tyrol to Calabria, including a small part of Sicily. With numerous ancient place names. Published in "Neue Samml...
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1770
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2016
Vue de la Nouvelle Decoration de la Foire St. Germain.
A hand colored optical print published in Paris by Jacques Chereau in about 1770. During the 18th century there were several manufacturers of optical viewing devices and...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1770
Selling price: $17
Sold in 2019
Vue d'Une Partie du Bois de la Haye.
A hand colored optical print published in Paris by Jacques Chereau in about 1770. During the 18th century there were several manufacturers of optical viewing devices and ...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1770
Selling price: $17
Sold in 2019
Vue et Perspective d'Une Jardin du Roy d'Angleterre aux Environs de Londres.
A hand colored optical print of the King's garden in London, published in Paris by Basset in about 1770. During the 18th century there were several manufacturers of optic...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1770
Selling price: $12
Sold in 2018
Insularum Indicaru & Terrae Australis necdum fatis derectae Repraesentatio Geographica.
The map shows whole South-East Asia with partial Australia which only on the north-west coast was discovered.Read more Early maps of South East Asia [+]
Place & Date: 1770
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2021
![Illumination en réjouissance du Mariage de Louis Auguste Dauphin de France avec l'Archiduchesse Marie Antoinette sœur de l'Empereur : [16 mai 1770].](/uploads/cache/37420-250x250.jpg)
Illumination en réjouissance du Mariage de Louis Auguste Dauphin de France avec l'Archiduchesse Marie Antoinette sœur de l'Empereur : [16 mai 1770].
J. Chereau was a publisher of optical print, established in Paris, rue St.Jacques. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular speciality establish...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1770
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2017
![[Titlepage] Atlas Novus sive Tabulae Geographicae Totius Orbis Faciem. . .](/uploads/cache/38078-250x250.jpg)
[Titlepage] Atlas Novus sive Tabulae Geographicae Totius Orbis Faciem. . .
Very decorative title page from Atlas Novus printed by Tobias Conrad Lotter. Large, elaborately engraved sheet with numerous allegorical figures. The middle of the title ...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1770
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2017
America Septentrionalis, Concinnata juxta Observationes..
This exemplar represents Lotter's version of Delisle's foundation map of North America, published in 1700. The Great Lakes are actually based on the Coronelli model, whic...
Place & Date: Augsburg, ca. 1770
Selling price: $525
Sold in 2018
De la Pannonie, De la Liburnie, De la Dalmatie et de la Grece en General.
Fine map of what is now Croatia. By brion de la Tour and Charles Desnos in Paris in 1770. The map has much French text on either side and a very fancy border that was eng...
Place & Date: Paris , 1770
Selling price: $20
Sold in 2017
Carte Reduite Du Détroit de Magellan...
Bellin's important and interesting map of the Straits of Magellan and parts of Tierra del Fuego. Extends from Cap des Vierges to Cap de la Victoire. Indicating many bays,...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1770
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2017
Carte du Golphe de Bengale...
Nice chart of the Bay of Bengal. The map extends from Malabar to Sumatra and today Phuket area in Thailand. Including Pegu, Ceylon, and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. N...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1770
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2017