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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...

Les Royaumes de Suede et Norwege divisés par Provinces..

Detailed map of Scandinavia, with inset of Iceland. The author is M. Janvier.

Atlas Géographique des quatre parties du monde par Guillaume de L'Isle et Phil. Buache.

Incomplete atlas published by Ph.Buache. Including engraved title, world map in double hemispheres, Europe, Plan topo-Hydrographique du Detroit de Gibraltar (by Treutel &...

Mappa Paraquariae in multis a me correcta. . .

A rare map of Paraguay from Dobrizhoffer Martin (1717-1791) Historia de Avipones y Mocobies. Engraved by F.Assner.The map includes all of Argentina from 11º to 370º sou...

Ceremonie de la grande Feste que les Chinois celebre le 24 de la Lune d'Aoust dans la principale Place de Pekin.

An optical view of festivities on the 24th of August in Bejing.

Carte des Isles Britanniques.

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...

Le Nord de l'Europe.

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...

Tempête sur Mer.

So-called optical print. Showing a English and French ships at rough sea. Mondhare was one of the well-known publishers of optical prints, established in Paris.In the eig...

Kaart van het Eiland Jamaika.

An uncommon and very attractive map of Jamaica. The island's mountains are boldly engraved and excellent detail of the various river systems is provided. The parishes are...

Mappa Geographica..Indiae Occidentalis..

Six varying sized insets depict the West Indies: Panama, Saint Augustine, Vera Cruz, Santo Domingo, and, a birds-eye view of Mexico City. The primary, largest inset map h...

La Sphère Artificielle ou Armilaire Oblique.

Decorative copper plate showing armillary Sphere, two spheres according to Copernicus and Ptolemy and two diagrams.Sphere on a decorative stand.

World map.

Elaborately engraved double hemisphere map, showing California as an island. Taken from the rare Atlas methodicus explorandis juvenum profectibus in studio geographico ad...

Poland Corrected & Improve'd from the best authorities..

Uncommon map of Poland, prepared by John Barber, and engraved for and published in William Guthrie's new Geographical Grammer.With typical 18th century title cartouche lo...

Riviere Tamise et Baye Mercure à la Nle. Zelande ..

A detailed chart after Cook?s charting of Mercury Bay and the Hauraki Bay at Auckland, New Zealand with soundings anchorages and other navigational data, with two insets ...

Vue du Port et de la Ville de L'Amekk dans Larbie..

So called optical print of Mekka. In lower part of the print the title: Vue du Port et de la Ville de L'Amekk dans Larbie heureuse a 5 lieues de la Mar Rouge .Rare.In the...

Delineatio Pagi Tigurini ex observationibus recentissimis et accuratissimis : accedit seorsim in tabella dominum Sax et Forsteck.

Detailed map centered on Zurich. With very fine cartouches, upper right 36 coats of arms of cities in the region.Engraved by Tobias C. Lotter.

Pagi Basileensis qui pars est reipublicae Helvetiorum..

Detailed map of Basle Canton, centred on Basel and Rheinfelden.With fine title cartouche with panoramic view of Basel and heraldic figures like Neptune's, Mercury, Justit...

J.Anckerstöm a killer of King Gustave III.

Decorative aquatint engraving after Witterquits.

Veue de Constantinople.

Naïve panoramic view of Istanbul.

Kaart van het Zuidlyk Eind van Amerika. 1775.

Uncommon chart of the tip of South America, showing Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and the Falkland Islands. With an inset of Staaten Land in the lower right corner.Publishe...

Carte de Maidenland ou de la Virginie de Hawkins.. Et du Canal Falkland..

Fine chart of the Falkland Islands called Maidenland or Virginie by Sir Richard Hawkins who discovered the islands in 1574.Also shows the Canal Falkland, the Strait betwe...

Charte von einem Theile des Süd-Meeres..

Map of the southern Pacific Ocean with Australia, New Zealand, and South America.

Karte von der Süd-See oder dem Stillen Meere..

The right hand sheet of a 2-sheet map of the Pacific. Depicting Mexico and California, most northern name is Punta de los Reyes, most southern is Acapulco, including Bay ...

Vue de la Ville Bethlehem. . .

So-called optical print of the city Bethlehem in Israel, showing an angel announcing the birth of Jesus Christ. One of the well-known and earliest publishers of optical p...

Prospectus Turris Bethlemi prope Ulyssipponem - Vue de la Tour de Bellem.

Optical view of the Belém Tower located in the Belém district of Lisbon, Portugal.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular speciality establis...

Groenland.

Carte de la Grece dressée sur un grand nombre de memoires..

Detailed copper-engraved map of Greece with its neighboring countries, including southern Italy and part of Cyprus. Relief shown pictorially. With large decorative title ...

Mappa Geographica.. Indiae Occidentalis..

Six varying sized insets depict the West Indies: Panama, Saint Augustine, Vera Cruz, Santo Domingo, and a birds-eye view of Mexico City. The primary, largest inset map ha...

Carte du Nouvelle Royaume de Grenade, de Andalousie et de la Guyane.

Copper engraved for "Atlas de Toutes les Parties Connues du Globe Terrestre". From Panama to the mouth of the Amazon. BONNE, RIGOBERT (1729-1795). Bonne was â€...

Imperii Romani Pars Occidentalis. Hispania. L'Espagne..

Detailed map of the Hibernian Peninsula and Baleares islands, showing also southwestern part of France.Decorative title cartouche in the lower right corner.

Partie de Turquie en Europe.

Nicolas Sanson (1600-67), ' father of the French cartography' and founder of the Sanson firm. Atlas ' Cartes générales de toutes les parties du Monde', 1658-70 and a po...

Carte des Isles Kouriles.

An attractive and unusual map of the Kuriles Islands and the northern coast of Hokkaido. The map includes numerous inaccuracies and fanciful names for a number of the isl...

Atlas nouveau Portatif a l' Usage des Militaires Colleges et du Voyageur, Tome Ier.

Nice title-page of a French pocket-atlas.

Demonstrations Geometriques, des Spheres Droite, Paralelle, et Oblique.

Louis Brion de la Tour (1756-1823), ' Atlas Géneral, Civil et Ecclésiastique', 1766, ' Atlas Général', 1790-98. Louis Charles Desnos (fl.1750-70).A celestial print fr...

VUE DE MALTE. [View of Malta -Valetta].

A so-called optical print. A very decorative and extremely rare view of Valetta, seen from the sea. The mirror-image title in top reads :Vue de la partie sud est de la vi...

Vue de la ville de Batavia.

A so-called optical print showing a bird's eye view of Batavia, Java (now Djakarta, Indonesia), the headquarters of the V.O.C. in Indonesia. In the foreground many Dutch ...

Vue perpective de l'Isle de St.Helene appartenant a la Compagnie Angloise pour les Indes Orientales.

Decorative optical view of St.Helena with in foreground British ships. The island is well-known as after Napoleon Bonaparte was captured by the Royal Navy, he was held ho...

L'Ancien et le Nouveau Mexique avec la Floride et la Basse Louisiane. Partie Occidentale.

Excellent early map of California, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico. Very detailed with many towns, jesuit missions, forts, Indian areas, etc. Early geography of in...

Carte de L'Arabie, rédigée en grande partie d'après le voyge récent et les Cartes de M. Niebuhr par le Sr. Brion de la Tour. . .

Giving good detail of the Arabian peninsula. From "Histoire Universel" by Louis Brion de la Tour.

Vue de Malte.

Uncommon optical print of the harbour viewof Valletta on Malta. Text in French. Basset was a well-known publisher of optical prints, established in Paris, rue St.Jacques....

Vue de la ville de Naples.

A so-called optical print showing a panoramic view of Naples with a busy harbour.More about optical prints.

Mappe-Monde Sur Le Plan De L\'Equateur HémisphÞre Méridional

Beautiful colored map of the southern hemisphere by Rigobert Bonne.

Mappe-Monde sur un Plan Horizontal, situé Ó 45d de latitude Sud. Hemisphire Occidental

Beautiful colored map of the Southwestern Hemisphere by Rigobert Bonne.

Carte des Royaumes d' Espagne et de Portugal divisés par . . .

A detailed map of Spain and Portugal. Embellished with an attractive title-cartouche. Published by Charles François Delamarche (1740-1817), a Paris-based geographer and ...

A General View of the City of Constantinople / Vue Générale de la Ville de Constantinople.

A panoramic view of Constantinople. Printed for F. West 83 Fleet Street, London.

Carte Nouvelle des Posséssions Angloises en Amérique. . .

Third state, of this rare and attractive map shows Eastern Canada and the American colonies. It is important as it gives a clear notion of the international intrigues and...

Carte de l'Amérique Méridionale, pour l'Histoire Générale des Voyages in 8º.

A nice map of South-America.

Vue du Cap de Bonne Esperance.

A fanciful, but rare optical print of the Cape of Good Hope". Published by Louis-Joseph Mondhare, who was a well-known publisher of optical prints, established from ...

Provincia di Lorena.

Scarce manuscript map of the Lorraine region. Includes the cities of Metz, Verdun, Nancy,... Finely executed and detailed map by an Italian hand, showing the cities repre...

Provincia di Borgogna.

Rare manuscript map of the French border to Switzerland. Centered on Besancon, including the Lake de Geneva in Switzerland. Finely executed and detailed map by an Italia...

Gezicht van het West-Indisch-Huys, op de binnen plaats.

Inside-square of the West Indian Company headquarters at Amsterdam.Several traders are shown.Taken from his "Afbeeldingen van de wyd-vermaarde koopstad Amsterdam&quo...

Plan of Dresden, Capital of Saxony.

Small plan of Dresden.

Carte de la Province de Quantong ou Lyau-tong et du Royaume de Kau-Li ou Cor�e . . .

Map of Korea. The language on the map is Dutch and French. The notation at the bottom indicates that the prime meridian is set at Ferro Island, otherwise known as El Hier...

Carte de la Hongrie et Partie Septentrionale de la Turquie. . .

Showing the region between the Gulf of Venice and Croatia to the Black Sea, including Bulgaria, Romania, Macedonia, Ukraine, Hungary, and part of Poland and Bohemia.Decor...

Het eiland cyprus door R.Pococke.

Rare map of Cyprus from a Dutch edition of ""Description Of The East And Some Other Countries" by R. Pococke. "Beschryving van het Oosten enz. Door de...

Carte de la Province de Quantong ou Lyau-tong et du Royaume de Kau-Li ou Corée . . .

Map of Korea. The language on the map is Dutch and French. The notation at the bottom indicates that the prime meridian is set at Ferro Island, otherwise known as El Hier...

Montlouis.

Montlouis (Languedoc-Roussillon).

Monument de Mausoli batis par Arthemise mis au nombre d'une des 7 merveille du Monde.

Optical print from the series of 7 engravings "Seven wonders of the ancient world". Showing the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus.Located in Bodrum, about 50 km sout...

Vue du superbe Temple de Ste Sophie aujourd'huy Mosquée principale à Constantinople.

A fanciful depiction of the Aya Sofya in Istanbul. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular specialty establishments in Paris, Augsburg and Lond...

Carte du Kamtchakta. . .

An early detailed map of the Kamchatka peninsula, based on the work of Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov, who travelled in the area 1737-41.Drawn and engraved by Laurent fo...

La France Divisee en Provinces et en Generalites?

Map of France.

Carte de la baie des chaleurs a la côte occidentale du golfe de St Laurent. . . / Plan du havre de Ristigouche.

A well engraved and highly detailed two-in-one chart of "la baie des chaleurs" in Canada along the St. Laurence.Prepared in 1724 by L'Hermite and edited by the ...

Carte de la Province de Quantong ou Lyau-tong et du Royaume de Kau-Li ou Corée . . .

Map of Korea. The map is of interest for the use of East Sea, the sea between Korea and Japan, here called "Mer de Corée Meer von Korea." Decorative title car...

China.

Decorative map by the noted English cartographer Thomas Jeffreys, Geographer to George III and the Prince of Wales.

La France Divisee en Provinces et en Generalites Dont le plan est selui de l'ancienne Gaule. . .

A beautiful, large scale, highly detailed, 18th century map of France modeled on a plan of ancient Gaul by Jean Baptiste Bourguignon D'Anville, with major boundaries colo...

Magnae Britanniae Tabula, comprehendens Angliae, Scotiae ac Hiberniae.

The 1702 Delisle general map of the British Isles, copied by Pierre Mortier in 1702 and here in a second state with the address of Jean Covens and Cornelis Mortier.The Am...

A map of Quan-Tong or Lea-Tonge province, and the kingdom of Kau-Li or Corea . . .

Detailed map of Korea, Liaodong, and the tip of Shandong Province prepared by Thomas Kitchin for Thomas Salmon's Universal Traveller, based on D'Anville's landmark map of...

Vue d'un Temple Chinois.

So called optical print showing the interior of a Chinese temple. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular specialty establishments in Paris, Au...

Vue du superbe Temple du Serpent dans la Ville de Juida a la Chine.

Uncommon, so-called optical print of a imaginary interior of a Chinese temple, decorated with vases and two large Buddha's in the center. In the eighteenth and nineteenth...

[Title page] Géographie moderne avec une introduction. . .

Engraved title page from Jean Baptiste Louis Clouet (1730-1790) influential "Géographie Moderne" first published in 1767 and reissued in several editions well ...

Vue de l\'Isle et de la ville Batavia appartenant aux Hollandois. . .

So called optical print of present-day Jakarta. Published by the well-known Paris publisher Daumont after a design of Jan van Ryne in 1754. Van Ryne was born in the Nethe...

Constantinopolis.

Beautiful optical printof Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire between 1453 and 1922. It was officially renamed to its modern Turkish name Istanbul in 1930, ...

A map of Quan-Tong or Lea-Tonge province, and the kingdom of Kau-Li or Corea . . .

Detailed map of Korea, Liaodong, and the tip of Shandong Province prepared by Thomas Kitchin for Thomas Salmon's Universal Traveler, based on D'Anville's landmark map of ...

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

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

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

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

Large paper leaf from an Armenian prayer(?)-book in manuscript.

Large paper leaf from an Armenian prayer(?)-book in manuscript on heavy shiny paper.32 lines of text in black ink, partly in red ink, in a Bolorgir hand. RECTO: Large hea...

Vue de la prise des forts et ville de havane par les Anglois en 1762.

So-called optical print illustrating a perspective view of the siege of Havana by the English troops in 1762.Mondhare, active at rue St.Jacques a l'Hotel Saumur, was a we...

J.Anckerstöm a killer of King Gustave III.

Uncommon and decorative aquatint full length portrait of J.Anckerstöm. This aquatint by T.C. Lotter was made after a design of Witterquits.Gustav III (1746 – 1792) was...

Los reynos de España y Portugal, según las últimas y nuevas observaciones de las Academias de Paris y de Londres.

Very rare, likely separately issued map of Spain and Portugal with text in Spanish. Based on a map by William Faden from London.

[Title page] Géographie moderne avec une introduction. . .

Engraved title page from Jean Baptiste Louis Clouet (1730-1790) influential "Géographie Moderne" first published in 1767 and reissued in several editions well ...