Gallery Highlights


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GUILLAUME DE L'ISLE and his 32,5cm. celestial globe.

To our knowledge, the only known example of this 12-inch (32,5cm.) celestial library globe, published by "one of the foremost cartographers of the age (Shirley), here in its scarce first address "Rue des Canettes" and dated 1700.

Temperance (Temperantia) from The Virtues

Temperance (Temperantia) from The Virtues by Pieter Breughel. Antwerp, Hieronymus Cock, 1580

Original copperplate

Original copperplate.  Shows the coast of southern Morocco, the Sahara with the Canary Islands. Copperplates that had been used in the production of early maps are of the greatest rarity and few of any period are known to have survived. Because of the value of copper and its malleability, plates would often have their original engravings beaten out and then re-used for other projects. 

Carta geographica generalatus carlostatuensiscum adgacentibus confinis turcicis et venetis martinimis dolmatio istrensibus.

Carta geographica generalatus carlostatuensiscum adgacentibus confinis turcicis et venetis martinimis dolmatio istrensibus.

A first state celestial globe, 18inch / 46cm, by Gerard and Leonard Valk

VALK, G. / L. - [A magnificent 18 inch. (46 cm.) diameter celestial globe] URANOGRAPHIA / SYDERUM ET STELLARUM... VALK, G. / L. (Amsterdam, 1711)

The first sea atlas

A second and final French edition of this important sea atlas. Two engraved frontispieces, figure with volvelle, full-page figure, 48 double-page charts (one numbered 19.2) and two small maps, all engraved on copper, and 22 profiles engraved in wood, including 4 full-page.

Amstelodamum, Celebre Emporium Forma Plana

Very rare and decorative plan of Amsterdam with Visscher's imprint. With a panoramic view seen from the IJ and further insets of Council House, The Exchange, House of the Dutch East India Company and House of the West India Company.

Gerard Van Spaendonck

A native of Flanders, Gerard van Spaendonck studied under the decorative painter Guillaume-Jacques Herreyns in Antwerp in the 1760s. In 1769, he left for Paris and, having been appointed miniature painter to the newly crowned Louis XVI in 1774, he became a candidate for membership of the Académie Royale the following year, making his Salon début in 1777.

A rare and impressive pictorial Qing Empire map of the western part of Taiwan.

A rare and impressive pictorial Qing Empire map of the western part of Taiwan. Gouache on paper. The map is filled with numerous small pictorial scenes of aboriginals at deer hunting and scenes of daily life. Chinese merchants, voyagers, military scenes, and arriving Chinese junks. Along the top is a red line., the so-called thóo-gû-kau 

Indie moet vrij vecht ervoor.

KEELEY, P. - Indie moet vrij vecht ervoor. London, J.Haworth & Brother Ltd, 1944. War propaganda poster by Patrick (Pat) Cokayne Keely, who died in 1970, was a British graphic artist known for his Second World War posters for the Ministry of Information along with stylized commercial posters for publishers, the GPO and public transport.