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[Lot of 11 maps of the Strait of Magellan] Carte du detroit de Magellan avec les Routes de la Bodeuse et de l'Etoile.
Carte du Detroit de Magellan avec les Routes de la Bodeuse et de l'Etoile taken by the French discoverer Comte de Bougainvile, L.A. With in addition 10 maps / prints of...
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1790
Selling price: $258
Sold in 2022
[Lot of 2 prints] TABLEAU ANALYTIQUE des différentes positions de la Sphère, des diff'rents systèmes, des révolutions et des distances des Planètes, &c.
Attractive set of two prints with a celestial and a terrestial globe, two spheres demonstrating the celestial systems of Ptolemy and Copernicus and several other diag...
Place & Date: Pris, c. 1790
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2023
Globo Terrestre Delineato sulle ultime osservazioni con i viaggi e nuove scoperte del Cap. Cook, inglese
One of four sheets that make up Cassini's terrestrial globe of 1790 which measured 34cm in diameter and delineated the tracks of all three of Captain Cook’s voyages, a...
Place & Date: Rome, 1790
Selling price: $400
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A Man of Prince William's Sound / A Woman of Prince William's Sound.
A pair of copperplate engravings of a man and a woman from Prince William's Sound in Gulf of Alaska - taken rom drawings by John Webber from John Hawkesworth's account of...
Place & Date: London, ca 1790
Selling price: $5
Sold in 2023
A General Chart Exhibiting the Discoveries Made by Captn. James Cook in This and His Two Preceding Voyages; with the Tracks of the Ships Under His Command, by Lieutt. Robers of His Majesty's Royal Navy
This scarce, large map is based on Mercator's projection and was compiled by Lieut. Henry Roberts from Cook's surveys after the third expedition. The map, centered on Aus...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1790
Selling price: $1130
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A Perspective View of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem, and other Structures.
A nice copperplate engraving of the main churches to be found in Jerusalem toward the end of the eighteen century. Beneath the engraving is a lettered table of the tower...
Place & Date: London, ca 1790
Selling price: $16
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The Egyptian Pyramids with a View of part of the Nile &c.
A rather fanciful and possibly imagined copperplate view of the famous Egyptian Pyramids, (which all come to very pointy tips!) and the covering part of the mighty river ...
Place & Date: London, ca 1790
Selling price: $3
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A View of Tunis on the Coast of Barbary.
An very attractive copperplate view of the north African city of Tunis in a region then known as the Barbary Coast, produced for Middleton's Complete System of Geography....
Place & Date: London, ca 1790
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2023
No title: Map of Philippines, Taiwan and China.
Interesting map centred on the Philippines. Showing the tracks of Byron, Wallis and Marshall.
Place & Date: Vienna 1790
Selling price: $420
Sold in 2017
Partie de L'Afrique..
Map showing Southern part of Africa. Left and right box with geographical information for each part country on the continent.Prepared by Louis Brion de la Tour and publis...
Place & Date: Paris 1790
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2009
La destruction de la Statue royale a Nouvelle York.
One of the few European prints dealing with the Revolutionary war.J. Chereau was a publisher of optical print, established in Paris, rue St.Jacques. In the eighteenth and...
Place & Date: Paris, 1790
Selling price: $600
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Asia / L'Asie: Asia personified as a woman.
A woman setting on a carpet and surrounded by two servants, an elephant and a monkey.
Place & Date: France c. 1790
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2015
Pays Bas françois et Autrichien..
Map of Belgium. With on verso a chart showing the coasts of the French Channel.Louis Capitaine (1749-1797) worked with Belleyme and Chanlaire on Topographical maps of Fra...
Place & Date: Paris ca.1790
Selling price: $20
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Sphére Armillaire.
Armillary sphere.
Place & Date: Paris 1790
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2009
Carte welche die fahrt und Entdeckungen des Capitäns COOK, CLERKE, und GORE, in dem Jahren 1776_1780 vorstellt.
Showing the Pacific, with the tracks of Cook in 1777, Captain Clarck in 1779 and Captain Gore 1779.
Place & Date: Germany c.1790
Selling price: $325
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L' America.
A small map depicting the Americas, from the Italian edition of Claude Buffier's 'Geographie Universelle'.
Place & Date: Venice, 1790
Selling price: $85
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L' Italie Divisée en tous ses Etats..
Decorative map of Italy, showing Corsica and Sardinia. With ornamental title cartouche and inset map of the Mediterranean including Tunis, Malta and Pantelleria.Flanked b...
Place & Date: Paris, 1790
Selling price: $95
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La Suede, et la Norwege Avec l'Islande..
Finely engraved map of Scandinavia, with inset map of Iceland in the upper left and decorative title cartouche.The map is flanked by two columns of French text containing...
Place & Date: Paris, 1790
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2010
La Russie Européenne Conformément à l'Atlas de cet Empire. . .
Attractive map of the European part of Russia. Decorated with a title cartouche in the lower left corner.The map is flanked by two columns of French text containing geogr...
Place & Date: Paris, 1790
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2009
Turquie Européenne, Avec les Pays limitrophes..
Copper engraved map centered on Greece, extending northwards and eastwards to include the Balkans and Ukraine as well as Cyprus.The map is flanked by two columns of Frenc...
Place & Date: Paris, 1790
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2012
L'Ecosse..
Decorative map showing Scotland divided into northern and southern portions with all the county divisions noted. Embellished with fine title cartouche.The map is flanked ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1790
Selling price: $50
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Etats du Roi des Deux Siciles avec les Métropoles Ecclésiastiques et tous leurs Suffragans..
Attractive map of southern Italy and Sicily with ornamental rococo-style title cartouche.The map is flanked by two columns of French text containing geographical informat...
Place & Date: Paris, 1790
Selling price: $10
Sold in 2023
Etats de l' Eglise, de Toscane, Modène et Luques..
Decorative map of Italy covering the region centered on Florence and extending to show Modena, Bologna and Rome.With major cities of the area named among which Siena, Are...
Place & Date: Paris, 1790
Selling price: $170
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Fahrt des Lieut. William Bligh von Tofoa.. Timor..
Uncommon map showing the track of Wimmiam Bligh in 1789 on his ship Bounty Jakarta to Timor. With 3 inset maps: East coast of New Holland.Bligh's Islands and the Hebrides...
Place & Date: Berlin 1790
Selling price: $250
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Charte von dem weg den die Schiffe Alexander..
Fine and rare map of Australia and Indonesia and the Philippines. Showing the track, from Port Jackson in New South Wales to Batavia, of the vessels Alexander and Scarbor...
Place & Date: Berlin 1790
Selling price: $300
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La Hongrie avec les Provinces adjacentes. . .
Attractive map of Hungary, adorned with a rococo-style title cartouche.Left and right box with geographical information about the area. Printed on 2 paste-on slips.Prepar...
Place & Date: Paris, 1790
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2009
Le Danemark divisé par Provinces et Dioceses sous une Métropole..
Finely engraved map of Denmark, extending eastwards to show all islands including Bornholm. Decorative rococo-style cartouche.Left and right box with geographical informa...
Place & Date: Paris, 1790
Selling price: $30
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Les Pays Bas Francois Autrichiens, et Hollandois, Divisee en Provinces Civiles et Esslesiastiques..
A decorative copper engraved map of Benelux which extends to include portions of France and Germany. Decorative rococo-style cartouche.Left and right box with geographica...
Place & Date: Paris, 1790
Selling price: $40
Sold in 2008
Partie de L'Afrique.. Le Congo, La Cafrerie &c.
Map showing the southern part of Africa with decorative rococo-style cartouche.Left and right box with geographical information for each part of the area. Printed on 2 pa...
Place & Date: Paris, 1790
Selling price: $200
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L'Irlande divisée..
Map showing Ireland, decorated with a rococo-style cartouche. Left and right a box with geographical information in French about the country (rivers, counties etc.). Prin...
Place & Date: Paris, 1790
Selling price: $60
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Chine, et Indes Avec les Isles avec les Isles, d'après les descriptions les plus exactes . . . 1790.
Attractive map of southern Asia, most of the East Indies, including China, Malaysia, Java, Borneo and the Philippines.Extending westwards to include India, the northern r...
Place & Date: Paris, 1790
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2018
Charte von dem weg den die Schiffe Alexander..
Fine map of Australia and Indonesia and the Philippines. Showing the track, from Port Jackson in New South Wales to Batavia, of the vessels Alexander and Scarborough in t...
Place & Date: Berlin 1790
Selling price: $430
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Kaart van Nieuw Zuid Wales of de oostlijke kust van Nieuw Holland.
Dutch edition of this map by Cook, who was the first published full-scale map of the east coast of Australia as charted by Cook in the Endeavour in 1770. All names are tr...
Place & Date: Haarlem c.1790
Selling price: $360
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Vue de la Basse Ville a Quebec vers le Fleuve St. Laurent.
A lovely view of the river and city of Quebec with a ship and boat in the foreground. Engraved for a Vue d'Optique, it was designed to be viewed in a special apparatus th...
Place & Date: Augsburg, ca.1790
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2008
Vue perspective des Environs de Leyden en Holande.
Attractive print of the Pieterskerk in the center of Leiden.J. Chereau was a publisher of optical prints, established in Paris, rue St.Jacques. In the eighteenth and nine...
Place & Date: Paris 1790
Selling price: $150
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Partie de L'Afrique.. L'Egypte, La Barbarie, La Nigritie &c.
Map showing the northern half of Africa with decorative rococo-style cartouche.Flanked by two columns of French text containing geographical information about the area. M...
Place & Date: Paris, 1790
Selling price: $60
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L' Asie Dressée pour l' étude de la Géographie..
Highly decorative map of Asia embellished with a landscape style title cartouche and several sailing ships.The map is of interest for the use of Mer de Corée, the sea be...
Place & Date: Paris, 1790
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2010
[No title] Kamtschatskisches Meer.
Engraved by S. V.Dorn. Early map of Alaska.
Place & Date: Germany 1790
Selling price: $185
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A chart Shewing the Tracks & Discoveries in The Pacific Ocean Made By Capt. Cook and Capt. Clerke..
Map of Pacific Ocean showing tracks of Resolution and Discovery in the years 1777-1780 made by Capt. Cook and Capt. Clerke. Engraved by Matthew Smith.
Place & Date: London 1790
Selling price: $400
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La Turchia d. Europa.
A small map depicting Greece and the Balkan, from the Italian edition of Claude Buffier's ' Geographie Universelle'.
Place & Date: Venice, 1790
Selling price: $50
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Les Isles de Sardaigne et de Corse..
Attractive copper engraved map of Corsica and Sardinia with Rome at extreme left. Good detail throughout including villages, rivers, and coastlines. Decorated with a nice...
Place & Date: Paris 1790
Selling price: $130
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Etats de l' Eglise, de Toscane, Modene et Luques..
Decorative map covering the region centered on Florence and extending to show Rome and Modena. Decorative cartouche and rococo style border.
Place & Date: Paris 1790
Selling price: $110
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Estats du Roi des Duex Siciles..
Attractive map of southern Italy and Sicily. Decorative rococo-style cartouche and surrounding border that was printed from a separate copper plate.
Place & Date: Paris 1790
Selling price: $95
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Partie de l' Italie Comprenant les Etats du Roy de Sardaigne
Attractive map of northwest Italy and the Golfo di Genova. Adorned with a very nice title cartouche and enclosed in a rococo-style border.
Place & Date: Paris 1790
Selling price: $95
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L' Etat de Venise et le Duche de Mantoue
Nice map covering the region centered on Venice and extending to include Modena and Bologne, and eastward to Trieste and Istria. Decorated with a fine title cartouche and...
Place & Date: Paris 1790
Selling price: $85
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Carte Generale des Indes Orientales..
Uncommon map of South East Asia based on Jansson's map of 1641, with good detail on Philippines. Showing Taiwan and the Southern part of Japan. Many Dutch names especiall...
Place & Date: Paris, 1790
Selling price: $1000
Sold in 2011
Africa.
An uncommon map of the African continent, engraved by Marco di Pietro, probably for Luigi Rossi's 'Nuovo Atlante Universe'.
Place & Date: Milan, c. 1790
Selling price: $140
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Karte des Mexicanischen Meerbusens und der anstofsenden Inseln und Laender..
Fine map of the Crribbean. Included in the uncommon German text edition of Campens travels.Engraved by Knittel.
Place & Date: Reutlingen, c.1790
Selling price: $80
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Vue de la Haute ville a Quebec..
A beautiful view of square at the road to the Millbarracks in Quebec with soldiers in the foreground. Engraved for a Vue d'Optique, it was designed to be viewed in a spec...
Place & Date: Augsburg 1790
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2008
L' Asia.
A small map depicting the Asia continent, from the Italian edition of Claude Buffier's ' Geographie Universelle'.
Place & Date: Venice, 1790
Selling price: $70
Sold in 2009
Vue de l' Isle d' Otahiti et de plusieurs Pirogues.
Captain James Cook (1728-79), explorer, circumnavigator and hydrographer. Three voyages, 1768-71, 1772-75 and 1776-79. From 1778 on printed editions of' Captain Cook's Tr...
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1790
Selling price: $65
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Etats de Pologne et de Lithuanie..
Handsome map of Poland and Lithuania with decorative title cartouche.The map is flanked by two columns of French text containing geographical information about the area. ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1790
Selling price: $60
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L' Afrique Dressée pour l' étude de la Géographie..
Highly decorative map of Africa embellished with a landscape style title cartouche and several sailing ships.The interior of the continent contains little geographical in...
Place & Date: Paris, 1790
Selling price: $180
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ou nouvelle méthode pour apprendre la géographie,..
Atlas for the children with 24 maps of the World and continents and maps of European countries. Size of the maps: 13x17cm size of the binding: 17x11x3cm.With fine engrave...
Place & Date: Lyon, Bruyset Père & Fils, 1790
Selling price: $800
Sold in 2008
Koran Page
Single leaf from a Koran manuscript on paper in gold leaf, tempera and ink. Black text in Arabic with interlinear red text in Persian. The script is Nasta?liq. Beautiful ...
Place & Date: India, circa 1790
Selling price: $550
Sold in 2008
Uomo del Brasile. / Homme du Brasil.
Full portrait of a Brazilian hunter. From "Raccolta di ? stampe." a series of historically significant eighteenth-century copper plate engravings by Venetian en...
Place & Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2013
Le Mole St Nicolas dans l'Isle de St Domingue, Vu du Mouillage
Drawn by Nicolas Ozanne and engraved by Jeanne F. Ozanne.
Place & Date: Paris, c.1790
Selling price: $255
Sold in 2008
Vue de La Place et de la Fontaine de Top-Hané.
So-called optical print of Tophane and Kılıç Ali Paşa Mosque. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular speciality es...
Place & Date: Paris, 1790
Selling price: $300
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Carte de Asie dresse´e pour l'instruction / par Guil. Delisle et Phil. Buache ? nouvellement revue et augmentee´ par Dezauche.
Map of Asia. Relief shown pictorially. Small inset map on the upper right corner. Published by Dezauche.Notable for depiction of Hokkaido, here called "I.Chicha ou J...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1790
Selling price: $350
Sold in 2009
Carte de l'Espagne Dressée par Guillaume Delisle sur la description de Rodrigo Mendez Sylva . . . Le tout augmenté et vérifié en 1765 Par Phil. Buache, de l'Académie des Sciences.
Map of Spain and Portugal, including the North African coast and good detail for Majorca, Minorca and Ibiza. Taken from the Atlas Géographique.. published by Dezauche, a...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1790
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2022
La Citta di Venezia.
Uncommon and decorative plan of Venice.
Place & Date: Italy, ca. 1790
Selling price: $50
Sold in 2009
A Chart of the Interior part of North America demonstrating the very great possibility of an Island of Navigation from Hudson's Bay to the West Coast
Rare and curious map of a supposed "Northwest Passage" from the Hudson Bay into the Pacific Ocean. Based upon the explorations of John Meares in 1788 and 1789....
Place & Date: London, 1790
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2009
Canada, Louisiane, États-Unis.
Uncommon third state with changed title cartouche and corrigés par le Cen.Lamarche son successeur added to title.Two maps on one sheet. The map of the western part of No...
Place & Date: Paris, 1790
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2010
Vue Des Montagnes Escarpées De Fraisler, Sur La Côte Orientale De La Baye George Dans L'Amérique Septentrionale. Atlas de ce Continent, par Desbares.
Fine view of St. Georges Bay, Nova Scotia, east coast of Canada. '12.' inscribed upper right. Engraved by Pillement. "A Paris, chez Noel, Md. D'Estampes, Rue St. Jac...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1790
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2021
China.
Map of China, including Taiwan and Korea.
Place & Date: London, c. 1790
Selling price: $105
Sold in 2010
La Wolhynia e la Podolia divise ne' loro Palatinati.
From "Atlante geografico" by Bartolomeo Borghi (1750-1821), published in Sienna 1788-1800.
Place & Date: Siena, Presso Pazzini Carli, 1790
Selling price: $140
Sold in 2010
Present Sweden & Norway.
Charming map of Scandinavia, with some detail in Sweden, Norway and Finland. Engraved by Samuel John Neele. (1758-1824) and published by Thomas Stackhouse (1756-1836)
Place & Date: London, T.Stackhouse, 1790
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2010
France divided into Metropolitan circles departments & districts.
Map of France with an inset of Corsica in the same scale. William Faden (1750?-1836) was Geographer to His Majesty and to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales.
Place & Date: London, 1790
Selling price: $60
Sold in 2010
Carte des marches du quartier générale de l'Armée Rusienne fait sous le Commandement de S.E. Le Feld Marechal Comte de Butturlin. . .
Manuscript map of Poland showing the campaign of Marshal Butterlin in 1761 at the conclusion of the "Seven-year's War" (1756 - 1763). To the right an almost dai...
Place & Date: France, c.1761-1790
Selling price: $900
Sold in 2014
Nouveau Mexique, Louisiane, Canada. . .
Map showing United States and Canada. Left and right a box with geographical information for each part country on the continent.Prepared by Louis Brion de la Tour and pub...
Place & Date: Paris, 1790
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2016
De collegiaale kerk van St.Pieter te Boxtel.
Rare print of St. Pieter church in Boxtel.
Place & Date: Netherlands, c.1790
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2011
La destruction de la Statue royale a Nouvelle York.
One of the few European prints dealing with the Revolutionary war.J. Chereau was a publisher of optical prints, established in Paris, rue St.Jacques. In the eighteenth an...
Place & Date: Paris, 1790
Selling price: $210
Sold in 2012
General Charte von Ungarn :mit seinem Nebenländern Croatien, Dalmatien, Slavonien und Siebenbürgen, ingleichen Gallizien und der Bukowina nebst. . .
Map of Hungary prepared by F. L. Güssefeld and published by Homann Heirs. Engraved by I. Rausch.
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1790
Selling price: $175
Sold in 2012
Vue de la Bataille Navale des Flottes Russes et Turques . . .
Very decorative engraving of a battle between Russian and Turkish men-of-war on July 5th, 1770. After a painting of Franc Swain.
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1790
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2016
Presqu 'Isle Des Indes Orientales,..
Detailed map of India with inset map (220x155mm) of the entree of the river Ganges. With decorative scene with an elephant underneath the title cartouche.
Place & Date: Paris, 1790
Selling price: $55
Sold in 2012
Uomai, nativo di Ulaietea condotto in Inghilterra nell' anno 1774 da Tobia Furneaux, Gentiluomo Inglese. / Omai, natif d'Ulaietea Conduit en Angleterre dans l'an 1774 par Tobie Furneaux, Gentilhomme Anglois.
Full portrait of an Omai, a Native of Ulaietea, was brought into England in 1774 by Tobias Furneaux. Probably based on a drawing by Nathaniel Dance Holland (1734-1811).A ...
Place & Date: Venice, Antonio Zatta, c.1790
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2012
[No tittle - With Russian text] Poland and the Baltic Sea.
Detailed map of Poland after Rizzi-Zanoni's map of 1783 here in Russian. The map was prepared by the Italian astronomer, geographer and cartographer Giovanni Antonio Rizz...
Place & Date: mperial Academy of St. Petersburg, ca. 1790
Selling price: $875
Sold in 2012
Terre de Kerguelen Appellee par M. Cook, Isle de la Desolation.
Interesting copper engraved map of the Kerguelen Islands including Plan du Havre de Noel, & Plan du Port Palliser.BONNE, RIGOBERT (1729-1795). Bonne was “Royal Hydr...
Place & Date: Paris, 1790
Selling price: $35
Sold in 2015
Plan de Kronstadt.
Map shows a city map of Kronstadt.
Place & Date: Paris, 1790
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2014
Hémisphére Occidental.
Map of Western hemisphere.Left and right a box with geographical information for spheres of different types.Prepared by Louis Brion de la Tour and published by Louis Char...
Place & Date: Paris, 1790
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2020