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L'Angleterre... par Mr. Philippe. . .
An unusual copper engraved map of England, also showing parts of Ireland. Filled with places names in England. Decorative title cartouche. With a curious climatalogical s...
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
Selling price: $48
Sold in 2020
![Carte Des Nouvelles Decouvertes dresseee par Phil. Buache... [with] Extrait d'une Carte Japonoise de l'Univers apportee en Europe par Kaempfer . . . [Bay of the West]](/uploads/cache/46319-250x250.jpg)
Carte Des Nouvelles Decouvertes dresseee par Phil. Buache... [with] Extrait d'une Carte Japonoise de l'Univers apportee en Europe par Kaempfer . . . [Bay of the West]
A very interesting pair of rare maps published as a single sheet in the 10 part series of maps created by Robert de Vaugondy in his 'supplement Receuil de 10 cartes trait...
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
Carte de l'Asie divisée en ses principaux etats, projettée et assujettie au ciel par M. Bonne, Hydrographe du Roi.
A very rare and large 18th century map of the Asian continent. This map can only be found in a few institutional collections. An impressive and artistic cartouche.
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2020
Antique map of the Channel Islands.
A nice antique map of the Channel Islands, published in the English Gentleman's Magazine. Inset at top left of Cornet Castle. Mileage scale.
Place & Date: London, 1779
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2020
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...
Place & Date: London 1779
Selling price: $17
Sold in 2020
Carte de la Manche des costes de France parties de celle d'Espagne jusqu'au Cap Orgetal.
A very rare sea-chart of the Channel between England and France, including the Bay of Biscay with the coasts of northern Spain, and even a small tip of Ireland. A very ap...
Place & Date: Bordeaux, 1779
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2021
L'Isle de la Dominique par M.J.M.Anglois. . .
A handsome map of the Caribbean island of Dominica. There are "Observations" at lower left, and "Suite des observations" at lower right, both providin...
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
Selling price: $440
Sold in 2023
Chirurgie, plate XXIV
Showing a eye-surgeon at work from the medical section of Diderot's Encyclopaedia. Engraved by Bernard after a design of Goussier. Very important work as it is giving an ...
Place & Date: Paris 1779
Selling price: $110
Sold in 2015
Carte d'Asie. . .
Detailed map of Asia with inset map of Siberia and the east coast of America with a "Nord-Ouest" passage.The map is of interest for the use of East Sea, the sea...
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
Selling price: $600
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Marché Désclaves Pl.XI. / Coton / Ventilateur et Mache.
Plates from the small edition of Diderot's Encyclopaedia. Engraved by Laurent. Very important work as it is giving an inventory of the science and craftsmanship of the 18...
Place & Date: Paris 1779
Selling price: $50
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Carte Générale des Découvertes de l'Amiral de Fonte representant la grande probabilité d'un Passage au Nord Ouest. . .
Robert de Vaugondy based this map of the northern Pacific and Alaska on a publication by Thomas Jefferys in London in 1768. Published in the supplement to Diderot’s &qu...
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2013
Il Mappamondo o sia Descrizione Generale del Globo.
Double-hemisphere world, with allegorical figures of the Four Continents in the corners. Published just after the news of Cook's first circumnavigation was published, his...
Place & Date: Venice 1779
Selling price: $1300
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Posizione diversa degliabitanti della terra.
Attractive Italian illustration describing 5 astronomical spheres and a compass rose. From ?Atlante Novissimo.? Attractive and finely engraved.
Place & Date: Venice 1779
Selling price: $150
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Tavola Sferica.
Attractive Italian astronomical chart with 5 spheres showing Latitudes and Longitudes, with 8 smaller spheres depicting the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Mars & Venus. From &qu...
Place & Date: Venice, 1779
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2013
Tavola Cosmografica .I. Mappa dell' Universo e de due pui celebri sistemi planetarj..
Double-hemispheres, celestial projections from the northern and southern hemispheres. Drawn by Castellan, embellished by Pittori and engraved by Zuliani. Blank on verso.F...
Place & Date: Venice 1779
Selling price: $200
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An Accurate Map of the East Indies.
A detailed map of India and Indo China from Middleton's "Complete System of Geography".
Place & Date: London, 1779
Selling price: $120
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Vista oriental de la ciudad de Chinchilla.
Scarce city view from "ATLANTE ESPAÑOL - Don Bernardo Espinalt y Garcia" engraved by Palomino, showing Chinchilla de Monte Aragón in Albacete. Numerous buildi...
Place & Date: Madrid, 1779
Selling price: $95
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Vista oriental de la ciudad de Villena.
Scarce city view from "ATLANTE ESPAÑOL - Don Bernardo Espinalt y Garcia" engraved by Palomino, showing Villena, a strategic important city close to Alicante. N...
Place & Date: Madrid 1779
Selling price: $95
Sold in 2008
Vista septentrional de la ciudad de Tervel.
Scarce city view from "ATLANTE ESPAÑOL - Don Bernardo Espinalt y Garcia" engraved by Palomino, showing Tervel and its strong city walls. Numerous buildings are...
Place & Date: Madrid, 1779
Selling price: $100
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Vista occidental de la ciudad de Alcudia.
Scarce city view from "ATLANTE ESPAÑOL - Don Bernardo Espinalt y Garcia" engraved by Palomino, showing Alcudia, a town in the northern part of the Balearic Isl...
Place & Date: Madrid, 1779
Selling price: $100
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Vista occidental de la ciudad de Murcia
Scarce city view from "ATLANTE ESPAÑOL - Don Bernardo Espinalt y Garcia" engraved by Palomino, showing Murcia as seen from the East. Numerous buildings are nam...
Place & Date: Madrid 1779
Selling price: $100
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Vista meridional de la ciudad de Albarracin
Scarce city view from "ATLANTE ESPAÑOL - Don Bernardo Espinalt y Garcia" engraved by Palomino, showing Albarracin in Teruel, Aragon. Numerous buildings are nam...
Place & Date: Madrid 1779
Selling price: $80
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Vista meridional de la ciudad de Palma de Mallorca
Scarce city view from "ATLANTE ESPAÑOL - Don Bernardo Espinalt y Garcia" engraved by Palomino, showing Palma de Mallorca from its seaside including 3 sailing s...
Place & Date: Madrid 1779
Selling price: $240
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Mapa del Reyno de Murcia dividido en sus partidos
Scarce map of the area around Murcia from "ATLANTE ESPAÑOL - Don Bernardo Espinalt y Garcia" engraved by Palomino. Includes many placenames, a large title cart...
Place & Date: Madrid 1779
Selling price: $90
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Atlante Espanol, ó descripcion general de todo el reyno de Espana.
Rare titlepage from "ATLANTE ESPAÑOL - Tomo.1. Reyno de Murcia" issued by Don Bernardo Espinalt y Garcia and engraved by Palomino. A rural scene with a farmer ...
Place & Date: Madrid 1779
Selling price: $155
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Atlante Espanol, ó descripcion general de todo el reyno de Espana
Rare titlepage from "ATLANTE ESPAÑOL - Tomo.3. Reino de Mallorca" issued by Don Bernardo Espinalt y Garcia and engraved by Palomino. Shows an harbour with sail...
Place & Date: Madrid 1779
Selling price: $105
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Chirurgie, plate V.
Showing instruments and sections of internal organs, from the medical section of Diderot's Encyclopaedia. Engraved by Bernard after a design of Goussier.Very important wo...
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2010
Chirurgie, plate XXV.
Showing an eye-surgeon at work and various instruments, from the medical section of Diderot's "Encyclopaedia". Engraved by Bernard after a design of Goussier.Ve...
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2013
Chirurgie, plate IX.
Showing medical instruments, from the medical section of Diderot's Encyclopaedia. Engraved by Bernard after a design of Goussier.Very important work as it is giving an in...
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2016
Chirurgie, plate VII.
Showing medical tools and bondages, from the medical section of Diderot's Encyclopaedia. Engraved by Bernard after a design of Goussier.Very important work as it is givin...
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2016
Chirurgie, plate XIII.
Showing male perineal anatomy section and physician at work from the medical section of Diderot\'s Encyclopaedia. Engraved by Bernard after a design of Goussier.Very impo...
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2009
Chirurgie, plate XXVIII.
Showing female breast anatomy examples and medical tools, from the medical section of Diderot's Encyclopaedia. Engraved by Bernard after a design of Goussier.Very importa...
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2016
Carte générale des découvertes de l'Admiral de Fonte ..
Based on the map of the northern Pacific, published by Jacques-Nicolas de l'Isle in Paris in 1752. Shows clearly the extraordinary network of channels supposed to link th...
Place & Date: Paris 1779
Selling price: $120
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Carte générale des découvertes de l'Admiral de Fonte ..
Based on the map of the northern Pacific, published by Jacques-Nicolas de l'Isle in Paris in 1752. Shows clearly the extraordinary network of channels supposed to link th...
Place & Date: Paris 1779
Selling price: $120
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Carte de la Californie et des Pays Nord-Ouest..4de Carte
Diderot's famous 2 on 1 map showing the two early mappings of the west coast of North America, the first after Visscher, the second after Plancius' World map. Both show t...
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2013
A Chorographical Map of the Province of New-York in North America, Divided into Counties, Manors, Patents and Townships ... January 1st. 1779.
CLAUDE JOSEPH SAUTHIER’S SUPERB MAP OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW YORK IS A TOUR-DE-FORCE. Sauthier (1736-1802) was an engineer who accompanied Governor William Tryon to North...
Place & Date: London, January 1st. 1779
Selling price: $3000
Sold in 2013
Atlante Espanol, ó descripcion general de todo el reyno de Espana. . .
Rare title page from \"ATLANTE ESPAÑOL - Tomo.1. Reyno de Murcia\" issued by Don Bernardo Espinalt y Garcia and engraved by Palomino. A rural scene with a farm...
Place & Date: Madrid, 1779
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2010
Vista meridional de la ciudad de Albarracin
Scarce and very decorative city view published in "ATLANTE ESPAÑOL - Don Bernardo Espinalt y Garcia" engraved by Palomino, showing Albarracin in Teruel, Aragon...
Place & Date: Madrid, 1779
Selling price: $90
Sold in 2008
Carte de la Californie suivant..
Five maps on one folding sheet, showing the development of the mapping of California. The map is from Diderot's "Encyclopedie" which contains ten maps o...
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
Selling price: $500
Sold in 2009
![Carte Des Nouvelles Decouvertes dresseee par Phil. Buache... [with] Extrait d'une Carte Japonoise de l'Univers apportee en Europe par Kaempfer . . . [Bay of the West]](/uploads/cache/25609-250x250.jpg)
Carte Des Nouvelles Decouvertes dresseee par Phil. Buache... [with] Extrait d'une Carte Japonoise de l'Univers apportee en Europe par Kaempfer . . . [Bay of the West]
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 the Mediterranean, to flow from ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2014
Carte Générale des Découvertes de l'Amiral de Fonte, et autres . . .
A map from Diderot's Encyclopédie which makes the case for a northwest passage. Included as part of the evidence is the route of Admiral De Fonte, a completely fictitiou...
Place & Date: Paris, (1752) 1779
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2011
Carte générale des découvertes de l''Amiral de Fonte. . .
Based on the map of the northern Pacific, published by Jacques-Nicolas de l''Isle in Paris in 1752. It shows clearly the extraordinary network of channels supposed to lin...
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
Selling price: $170
Sold in 2014
Carte de l'Egypte Ancienne et Moderne, dressee sur celle du R.P. Sicard et autres, assujetties aux observations astronomiques, par le Sr. Robert de Vaugondy
A splendid map of ancient Egypt, shows entire Nile valley in great detail. Large cartouche by Haussard shows ruins and a flirtatious sphinx.The map was prepared by the Ve...
Place & Date: Venice, 1779
Selling price: $240
Sold in 2009
Carte de la Californie et des Pays Nord-Ouest ?
The map is from Diderot's Encyclopedie which contains ten maps of America, Asia and the Arctic Regions. This 2 on 1 map shows the two early mappings of the west coast of ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
Selling price: $130
Sold in 2010
Carte de la Californie suivant . . .
Five maps on one folding sheet, showing the development of the mapping of California. The map is from Diderot's "Encyclopedie" which contains ten maps of Americ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
Selling price: $301
Sold in 2009
Carte des Nouvelles découvertes ?
The map is from Diderot's 'Encyclopedia' which contains ten maps of Asia, America and the Arctic Regions. In both maps there are texts ago. by Kaempfer who refers to voya...
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2009
Carte qui représnte ? Terres Arctiques ... Suppl.Carte 9.
From Diderot's Encyclopaedia. Four maps on one sheet showing Hudson Bay according to Sanson's map of 1750 and De L'Isle 1700 and 1703. One map showing track of Henri Elli...
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2010
La Scozia Settentrionale Divisa Nelle Sue Contee Particolari
This is a top half of a two sheet map of Scotland showing northern Scotland by Antonio Zatta, engraved by Pitteri. Shows regions of Strathnavern, Ross-shire, Inverness, M...
Place & Date: Venice, 1779
Selling price: $65
Sold in 2010
La Scozia Meridionale divisa Nelle sue Contee Particolari di Nuova Projezione.
A detailed map of regions in Scotland by Antonio Zatta. Depicts major cities such as Carrick, Galloway, and Perth, and major river systems in the area. This map also show...
Place & Date: Venice, 1779
Selling price: $155
Sold in 2010
Plan du port de Chibouctou à la cote de l'Acadie avec les cotes voisines. . .
Chart of the vicinity of Halifax Harbor from Chebucto Head to the head of Bedford Basin.Issued in Neptune americo-septentrionale by "Depot Général de la Marine&quo...
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2013
Provincia di Essex di nuova Projezione / Provincia di Middlesex di nuova Projezione. . .
Maps of Essex county (top) and Middlesex county (bottom), a former county, both located in the Southeast Greater London region by Antonio Zatta. The cities of Kingston an...
Place & Date: Venice, 1779
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2010
La Scoza Meridionale Divisa Nelle Sue Contee Particolari Di Nuova Projezionev Venezia 1779 Autonio Zatta
Attractive map of Southern Scotland by Antonio Zatta engraved by Giovanni Marco Pitteri one of Italy’s greatest engravers.A copper engraving with beautiful hand colorin...
Place & Date: Venice, 1779
Selling price: $160
Sold in 2018
Destroit des Dardanelles..
Decorative view of Istanbul and 'Hellespont'. With a numbered key (1-20) in bottom. Profile view of Istanbul and the Marmora Sea on the horizon.
Place & Date: Paris 1780
Selling price: $190
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London and Westminster in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth Anno Dom 1563.
A rare 18th century pull out town plan of London, as it was known during the time of Elizabeth I. This work is very much patterned after the famous first large scale plan...
Place & Date: London, 1780
Selling price: $360
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Les États Unis de L'Amerique Septentrionale..
Attractive map covering the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes and Texas region, prepared by R.Bonne and included in his "Atlas Ecyclopédique.."Ri...
Place & Date: Paris 1780
Selling price: $225
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Les États Unis de L''Amerique Septentrionale..
Attractive map covering North Americas east coast. Prepared by R.Bonne and included in his "Atlas Ecyclopédique.."Rigobert Bonne (1727-1795) was engi...
Place & Date: Paris 1780
Selling price: $210
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Plan de la Ville Fort et Port d'Alger.
This plan of Algiers, published originally in Bellin's Petit Atlas Maritime and was later issued in vol.III of the Abbé Prévost's "Histoire g&a...
Place & Date: Paris c.1780
Selling price: $30
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Cartes de Decouvertes faites dans la Pacifique..
A handsome map of New Caledonia and the Hebredees, tracing the track of Captain James Cook's voyage. Attractive coloring.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1780
Selling price: $250
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A general view of the city of Amsterdam from the Ye.
"A so-called optical print. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular speciality establishments in Paris, Augsburg and London, which produce...
Place & Date: London 1780
Selling price: $360
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Pagi Basileensis qui pars est reipublicae Helvetiorum..
Detailed map of Basle Canton, centered on Basel and Rheinfelden.With fine title cartouche with panoramic view of Basel and heraldic figures like Neptune's, Mercury, Justi...
Place & Date: Augsburg 1780
Selling price: $380
Sold in 2013
La Grande Mosquee a la Mekke.
A very fine view of the temple of Mecca.
Place & Date: France, ca. 1780
Selling price: $100
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Mappa geographica Asiae Minoris Antiquae..
A detailed of Turkey, Black Sea and Cyprus.
Place & Date: Germany c.1780
Selling price: $90
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Les colonies des Européens en Amérique.
Map of the American continent showing the European settlements.
Place & Date: Paris, c.1780
Selling price: $30
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Gezicht van het West-Indisch-Huys, op de binnen plaats..
Taken from his Atlas of Amsterdam. Inside-square of the West Indian Company headquarters at Amsterdam. Several traders are shown
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1780
Selling price: $180
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L'Alemagne divisée... / Carte de l'Empire d'Alemagne?
2 decorative maps of Germany with nice title cartouches.
Place & Date: Paris c.1780
Selling price: $50
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(Map of Poland and Prussia.)
Map centered on the Baltic depicting Prussia and North Poland.
Place & Date: Paris c.1780
Selling price: $52
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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....
Place & Date: Paris, 1780
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2020
Carte Réduite Des Côtes Orientales De L' Amérique Septentrionale Contenant Celles des provinces de New-York et de la Nouvelle Angleterre..
A well engraved and highly detailed chart that was issued in Neptune americo-septentrionale. Showing the East Coast from Chaleur Bay to New Jersey, encompassing all of Ne...
Place & Date: Paris, 1780
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2020
Planisphaerium Coeleste. Verlegt von I.M.Probst.
Scarce and very handsome celestial chart showing the constellations in allegorical form. Published by the lesser known brother Johann Michael Probst.Tucked between the cu...
Place & Date: Augsburg 1780
Selling price: $250
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In notitiam ecclesiasticam Africae..
An engraved map of the Northern Africa coast, and the Mediterranean with good detail on the islands of Sardinia, Corsica, Majorca, Minorca, etc. Embellished with an uncol...
Place & Date: Paris, 1780
Selling price: $100
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Altare
Uncommon celestial print showing the constellation of Altar, engraved by Johann Christoph Berndt and published by Johann Philipp Andreae (1700-1757).Published in the 'Mer...
Place & Date: Nuremberg c.1780
Selling price: $160
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![[Title page] Recueil Des Principaux Plans des Ports et Rades de la Mer Méditerranée, Estraits de ma carte en Douze Feüilles Dediée à Mons. Le Duc de Choiseul Ministre de la guerre et de la Marine ..](/uploads/cache/17242-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Recueil Des Principaux Plans des Ports et Rades de la Mer Méditerranée, Estraits de ma carte en Douze Feüilles Dediée à Mons. Le Duc de Choiseul Ministre de la guerre et de la Marine ..
Title page from a famous chart book by Jean-Louis Jacquier-Roux, here one of the later editions published in Italy by Pre Meucci.
Place & Date: Livourne, c.1780
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2009
Theatrum Historicum.. Romani tu Barbarorum.. Pars Occidentalis..
Showing the Roman Empire by G. de l'Isle, French cartographer, pupil of Cassini, called Father of Modern Geography. In upper left hand corner the Western hemisphere. Engr...
Place & Date: Paris, 1780
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2008
Carte de Suisse ou sont les Cantos de ..
General map of Switzerland with all the cantons good detail. In upper part 24 coats of arms of the different cantons.
Place & Date: Paris, 1780
Selling price: $250
Sold in 2014
Pontis D. Jobi super Canalem Regium extensi eiusq vicinic Prospectus.
Decorative and dramatic engraved print of a bridge in Venice. Published by Domenico Lovisa (c.1690-c.1750), and engraved by Sipion Feramosca.
Place & Date: Venice 1780
Selling price: $265
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Partie du Nord de L'Amerique Septentrionale..
Rigobert Bonne (1727-1795), a prolific French cartographer, flourished between about 1760 and 1778, working in the French Hydrographical Office, and appointed as Hydrogra...
Place & Date: Paris 1780
Selling price: $100
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Cour des Lions dans le Palais..a Granada.
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular speciality establishments in Paris, Augsburg and London which produced optical viewing devices and spec...
Place & Date: Italy / France 1780
Selling price: $60
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CARTE DES ISLES ANTILLES ou du VENT AVEC LA PARTIE ORIENTALE DES ISLES SOUS LE VENT
Beautiful and detailed copper-engraved map the lesser Antilles, from Puerto Rico to the coast of Venezuela. The map bears seven distance scales. From "Atlas de toute...
Place & Date: Paris, c1780
Selling price: $80
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SUPPLÉMENT POUR LES ISLES ANTILLES, EXTRAIT DES CARTES ANGLOISES...
Beautiful and detailed copper-engraved map with excellent detail on the Virgin Islands + 9 inset maps of: Barbuda, St. Kitts, Antigua, Dominica, St. Lucia, Barbados, St. ...
Place & Date: Paris, c1780
Selling price: $80
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L'Ancien Monde et le Nouveau.
A bold border and decorative title cartouche enclose this map of the world. The double hemisphere includes the peninsular of California, a filled-in Northwest coast of No...
Place & Date: Paris 1780
Selling price: $150
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