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Lamalou les Bains.
A beautiful early 20th century travel poster by A. Trinquier-Trianon. Focusing on the womens pool at a fashionable spa, this poster invites people to travel by rail to La...
Place & Date: Paris , 1905
Nikolskoï paroisse entre les villes de Soudogda et Mouroum.
A view of an old church. Figures are lithographed by Raffet. Plate taken from the first illustrated account of Russian architecture. This publication was the project of C...
- $150 / ≈ €132
Place & Date: Paris, 1844
Americae Mappa generalis.
Johann Baptist Homann's well-engraved second map of America has a large decorative cartouche. Detailed map of the western hemisphere.The interior of North America has new...
- $700 / ≈ €616
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1746
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[JESUIT PARAGUAY], - PARAQUARIA in qua R.R. P.P Soc. Jesu suas Missiones promovere, 1733
This map depicts the Jesuit missions in Paraguay and Uruguay with parts of Brazil, Bolivia, Argentina and Chile. The Parana and Paraguay Rivers are well defined, with the...
Place & Date: Vienna, 1733
Selling price: $100
Sold in 2022
Tete-chevre de la Caroline.
Very fine plate showing a bird species from Carolina engraved by J. M. Seligmann after a drawing of G. Edwards. Taken from the American section of one of the most beautif...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, Fleischmann, 1749-76.
Sebastopol.
Steel engraving of the harbour at Sebastopol in the Ukraine published by James Virtue around 1860.
- $45 / ≈ €40
Place & Date: London, 1860
Femme Tattare de Kazan.
Originally hand-colored costume mezzotint of a Kazakhstan women engraved by Félix Mixelle and Lachaussée Jeune after Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur.As an etcher, draw...
Place & Date: Paris,1801-1806
Moscauw.
It shows the city of Moscow from a slightly elevated viewpoint across the frozen Moskva River.The walled center of the city is depicted with its many churches and filled ...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Cercle de Westphalie divisé en tous ses Etats et Souverainetés.
Finely and crisply engraved map of central Germany, including the river Rhine from Deventer till Bonn, with Dusseldorf. In upper left , inset of the area of Emden until O...
- $100 / ≈ €88
Place & Date: Venice, 1776 - 1784
(Untitled map of northern Italy)
Including the towns of Milan, Bergamo, Mantova, Verona with the river Po in the bottom. One page from his multi sheet map "Carta del Territorio della Repubblica Casa...
- $250 / ≈ €220
Place & Date: Florence, 1797
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De la Geologie. Du Zodiaque et du L' Eclyptique, Explication des Saisons. [Lot of 3 maps]
Claude Buy de Mornas (d. 1783), géographe du roi (1764). Atlas Méthodique et Elémentaire de Géographie et d' Histoire, 1761, Atlas Historique et Géographique, 1762. ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1762-1764
Selling price: $190
Sold in 2023
Carte de la Turquie de L'Arabie et de la Perse.
This is the Amsterdam issue of De L'Isle's map of the Turkish Empire and Arabian Peninsula. It includes the Turkish Empire, the Mediterranean, Central Asia, and parts of ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1751
Carte d'Asie.
Fine map of Asia, with an interesting representation of Japan, Hokkaido, Sakhalin Island, Kamchatka, and Korea. Engraved by Alexandre Blondeau, who also worked for Depôt...
- $175 / ≈ €154
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1810
La Ville et le Château de Zélandia dans l' île de Tayovan.
This important copperplate engraving is one of the earliest European views of Taiwan, depicting the Dutch fortifications and trading settlement on the West coast of the i...
- $1800 / ≈ €1585
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1675
A Map of Turky, Arabia And Persia. Corrected from the latest Travels. . .
FIRST EDITION - Fine Turkish Empire map centered on Saudi Arabia, Cyprus and the Mediterranean Sea. Dated 1711, "Sold by John Senex at the Globe aga inst St. Dunstan...
- $1750 / ≈ €1541
Place & Date: London, 1721
Plan de la ville de Madras et de ses attaques.
Manuscript map, in black, brown and red ink, showing the fortifications of the city of Madras, now Chennai, on the east coast of India, north of Pondicherry.Showing the c...
- $2000 / ≈ €1761
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1760
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Septima Asie Tabvla. |Walsseemüller's map of Central Asia and the Silk Road]
Trapezoidal woodcut map showing the area east of the Sarygamysh Lake, about midway between the Caspian Sea and the (former) Aral Sea. It is one of the earliest obtainabl...
Place & Date: Strasburg, J. Schott, 1513
Maitre Chapotard lisant dans un journal judiciaire l'éloge de lui même par lui même.
Second state (of 2), with text, numbered 18. From "Les Gens de Justice", published "Chez Auber & Cie, Pl. de la Bourse,29". Text below image : Law...
- $900 / ≈ €792
Place & Date: Paris, 1848
Persian miniature paintings, Mogul Dynasty.
Indo/Persian, Mogul Dynasty miniature painting in delicate Opaque watercolors on paper, with Islamic scripts on recto and verso. Miniature about 70 x 150mm. Painted in gi...
Place & Date: Northern Indian Mogul dynasty, ca 1800-1850
Manuscript page from a Shahnameh, The Book of Kings, written by Ferdowsi.
Page with large miniature 160 x 160mm. from the Shahnameh, or ("The Book of Kings"), which is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 9...
Place & Date: Kashmir, ca. 1830-1860
Tingis, Lusitanis, Tangiara. / Tzaffin. / Septa. / Arzilla/ Sala.
Views of the five northern and western African coastal town-view on one sheet: Latin text.From the greatest publication in this genre!. The Civitates was compiled and wri...
- $600 / ≈ €528
Place & Date: Cologne, 1580
Double page manuscript page with Islamic prayers with beautiful headings throughout.
Fine double page brilliantly illuminated gilt leaves written by the scribe Abu Bakr Jami in Isfahan. The Arabic text contains Islamic prayers with beautiful headings thro...
Place & Date: Isfahan, ca. 1780
Bavaria.
Detailed map showing part of Bavaria. It covers the area between Ingolstadt and Salzburg.From the first French-text edition of Jodocus Hondius' Atlas Minor.Shortly after ...
- $50 / ≈ €44
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1608
Plan de la Ville et du Chateau de Batavia en l'Isle de Iava / Ware affbeeldinge wegens het Casteel ende Stadt Batavia gelegen opt groot Eylant Java.
Detailed East-oriented plan of Jakarta former Batavia on Java / Indonesia. With bird's-eye view from sea side, various ships and a lion. Two inset keys with detailed desc...
Place & Date: Leiden, 1730
Selling price: $300
Sold in 2019
Double page manuscript page from a Shahnameh, The Book of Kings, written by Ferdowsi.
Fine double page brilliantly illuminated gilt leaves written by the scribe Abu Bakr Jami in Isfahan. The Arabic text contains Islamic prayers with beautiful headings thro...
Place & Date: Isfahan, ca. 1780
Karte von Hudsons Meerenge und Meer Busen.
Map of the Hudson Bay.
Place & Date: Goettingen : A. Vandenhoeck, 1750
Selling price: $75
Sold in 2023
Carte des Isles de Maiorque Minorque et Yvice dediée A.M. le Comte de Maurepas Ministre et secretaire d'Etat. . .
Fine map of the Baleares with much detail, in lower part inset "Plan du Port de Mahon du Fort St. Philippe et ses Fortifications". The map is dedicated to Jean ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1740
Carte du Golfe de Bengale, Mer de Indes, et Riviere du Gange, Avec les Pais et Iles d'alentour, Savoir les Cotes de Malabar, Cormandel, Ile de Ceylon, Les Maldives . . .
Detailed map of the Southern part of India with Ceylon. Good detail along the coasts of Malabar, Coromandel, the Maldives islands and the Kingdoms of Visipour, Golconda, ...
- $375 / ≈ €330
Place & Date: Leiden, 1719
Partie Méridionale de la Russie Europeenne ou sont distinguees exactement toutes les Provinces, d'après le detail de l'Atlas Russien.
Detailed map of southern European Russia, including Yugoslavia. The map was first published by the Venetian cartographer and publisher François (Père) Santini and first...
- $400 / ≈ €352
Place & Date: Venice, 1784
Tabula Ducatus Brabantiae continens Marchionatum Sacri Imperii et Dominium Mechliniense emendate à F. de Wit 1666
Shows present-day Belgium and Dutch province of Brabant. Including the Maas and Waal rivers. Shows Antwerp, Brussels, Namur, Liege and Venlo among other towns and cities....
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2016
Nouvelle Carte de l'Etat de la Republique de Genes. Dressé sur les mémoires les plus nouveaux. . .
Uncommon map of the Ligurian coast around Genoa in northern Italy with three insets below of the harbors of Genoa and Bastia and the island of Corsica. Joachim Ottens (16...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1720
Selling price: $270
Sold in 2022
Les Provinces Unies des Pays Bas, suivant les nouvelles observations. . .
With decorative title cartouche upper left corner.This example is unusual in having the additional separately engraved decorative framework border around the map, the res...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1728
Zürich, - De la ville de Zurich
Nice example of Munster's woodcut birds-eye view of Zuerich , within French textSebastian Münster, a German geographer, cartographer, Hebraist, and theologian, was bor...
Place & Date: BASEL, ca 1550
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[Lot of 2 items] Isoletta Desima Abittata Dagli Olandesi Nel Giappone / Plan du port et de la ville de Nangasaki.
A rare view of the island Deshima with a numbered index table below image. From the Italian translation of T. SALMON, 'Hedendaegsche historie of tegenwoordige staet van a...
Place & Date: Venice, ca 1738
Selling price: $200
Sold in 2021
Africa mit seinen besundern Leandern / Thieren / und wunderbarlichen Dingen. (...)
A very early and attractively coloured map of Africa. A full leaf from the Cosmographei, published in Basel by Heinrich Petri in 1578. With a beautiful woodcut initial le...
Place & Date: Basel, 1578
Selling price: $120
Sold in 2021
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Weitzen [Vác / Waitzen]
Panoramic view of Vác / Waitzen with the Donau in the foreground Published in "Der Donau-Strand Mit allen seinen Ein- und Zuflüssen. . .". Published by Jacob ...
- $90 / ≈ €79
Place & Date: Nuremberg, Jacob Sandrart, 1684
Novus Atlas Absolutissimus... Die Wasser-Welt, oder See-Atlas.
Volume IX (Sea-Atlas) of the "Novus Atlas Absolutissimus". German text, letterpress title on slip within hand-colored engraved architectural border, heightened...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Janssonius heirs, 1657 [after 1664
Carte des troubles De L'Amerique Levée par Ordre du Chevalier Tryon. . . New-York.. Jersey..
A French edition of this uncommon Revolutionary War map describes the region from Salem Massachusetts to Buzzard's Bay south to the Delaware River and west to Lake Ontari...
- $1500 / ≈ €1321
Place & Date: Paris, 1778
Pascaerte van Carybes, Nieu Neder landt, Brazil. . .
This progenitor chart covers the American shores of the Atlantic Ocean. This chart by Theunis Jacobsz. was most probably engraved close to his death in 1650 or shortly af...
- $2200 / ≈ €1937
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1653-1681
La Gaule sous l'Empire Romain.
Detailed map of France, prepared by Charles V. Monin (fl.1830-1880) a French cartographer of Caen and Paris. Published in Atlas Universel de Géographie Ancienne &c M...
- $25 / ≈ €22
Place & Date: Paris, 1845
Les Gouvernements generaux de l'Isle de France et de Champagne, ou se trouvent les generalitez de Paris et Chaalons.
Map of the Isle de France and Champagne regions, from Nicolas de Fer's "L'Atlas curieux ou le Monde réprésente dans des cartes. "The "Atlas Curieux"...
Place & Date: Paris, 1705
Comitatus Hannoniae in quas quasque Castellanias Balliviatus. . .
This beautiful and detailed map, is centered on the Belgian city of Mons, and includes the towns of Doornick, Halle, Charleroy, Camerijk and Dounay. The larger towns are ...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, ca 1720
Selling price: $19
Sold in 2021
Les Suisses leurs sujets et leurs alliez. . .
Un uncommon map of Switzerland by Nolin.
- $250 / ≈ €220
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1760
Germania Antiqua. . .
A fine map of ancient Germany, Poland and the Netherlands from his "Atlas Universel".Gilles Robert de Vaugondy (1688–1766), also known as Le Sieur or Monsieur...
- $50 / ≈ €44
Place & Date: Paris, 1756
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Fig. 2. [ print depicting three armillary spheres]
Appealing print depicting three armillary spheres.From the German text edition of Description d'Univers.. (5 volumes), 1683. By Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706), a well...
- $150 / ≈ €132
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1684
Novum Amsterodamum. . .
Three engravings on one page are set in a decorative, separately engraved border. - In the upper left is a good example of one of the earliest available views of New York...
- $1200 / ≈ €1057
Place & Date: Leiden, 1729
Carte de l'Egypte Ancienne et Moderne..
Attractive map showing part of the course of the river Nile. Boundaries are outlined in hand color.Ornated with a decorative title cartouche representing a crocodile flan...
- $150 / ≈ €132
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1783
'Party Plans - Working Guarantee!'
An original Russian propaganda poster. Published by 'Plakat', Moscow, 1987.
Place & Date: Moscow, 1987
Portrait of Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius.
Arguably the finest engraved portrait of early mapmakers. In the well-executed design, Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius are seated within an architectural cartouche of...
Place & Date: Amsterdam 1630
Paris fashion plate. (207)
From Revue de la Mode. Gazette de la Famille.. Underneath the print are the names of the shops where the clothing's, perfumes, porcelains, flowers, etc., depicted in the ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1875
Selling price: $30
Sold in 2021
Terta Etas Mundi. Folio CCXVI
Two pages from the richest illustrated Incurable, the famous: Nuremberg Chronicle , published the year that Columbus returned to Europe after discovering America.The wood...
- $100 / ≈ €88
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
GENERAL CARTE DER GANZEN ERDKUGEL (German map of World).
A copperplate, colored map of the world by unknown artist. I. M. Burucker sculp.
Place & Date: Paris, 1880
Africa.
A lovely miniature map of the continent of Africa, published by Petrus Bertius, in Amsterdam at the beginning of the seventeenth century. There is a small strap-work titl...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Prosp. De la Vil: Poissy. Prosp. De la Vil: St. Denis.
A view of the towns of Poissy and Saint Denis in the Paris vicinities. Both prints are very well engraved with excellent detail. From Merian's Topographia Galliae. . . .
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1655
Le vieux Mexique ou nouvelle Espagne. . .
Attractive map covering the Gulf of Mexico through Central America also including parts of Cuba and Jamaica. It extends through Mexico to show the southern tip of Baja Ca...
Place & Date: Paris, 1705
Missouri.
An excellent 1855 example of Colton's map of Missouri. Like most of Colton's state maps, this map was derived from an earlier wall map of North America produced by Colton...
Place & Date: New York, 1855
Villes de la province de Koei-tcheou. VII
Four town plans : Koei-yang-fou, Ping-yuen-fou, Pou-ngan-tcheou and Tchin-yuen-fou. From "Description geographique, historique, chronologique, politique, et physique...
Place & Date: Paris, P.G. Le Mercier, 1735
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2022
Der Neuen Welt .. Nord America und Sud America..
Two maps on one sheet, showing eastern and western hemisphere. California as an island. To the left a map of Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia.
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1720
Cales. // Calais. // Duynkerke.
Fine unusual 1646 Merian copper engraved plate including a panoramic view of Calais, France, aerial plan of Calais, with its fortifications and the surrounding area, &a...
Place & Date: Zurich, 1646
Selling price: $5
Sold in 2023
Chaerte vande Wieringer waert, de welcke inden jaere XVI… (Wieringerwaard)
Rare wall map of the Wieringerwaard polder, as raffled on 12 July 1611. The polder was laid dry in 1610. It border, and also the border of the municipality, were the Zuid...
Place & Date: 1741-1744
Presqu''isle de L'Inde de ça le Gange.
Uncommon miniature map of India from Pierre Duval's La Geographie Universeille dated 1676. Following his Cartes de geographie in 1657, Pierre Duval published this smaller...
- $150 / ≈ €132
Place & Date: Paris, 1676
Iles Britanniques.
Detailed British Islands map, prepared by Charles V. Monin (fl.1830-1880) a French cartographer of Caen and Paris. Published in Atlas Universel de Géographie Ancienne &a...
- $25 / ≈ €22
Place & Date: Paris, 1845
Victoria or Port Phillip.
Decorative steel engraved map of Victoria or Port Phillip, surrounded by illustrations of Melbourne, indigenous people and the Glenelg River. Interlocking border design. ...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1851
Charte von China und den angränzenden Ländern und Völkerschaften so wie den letzten Kaiser Tschien-Long. . .
Uncommon map of China on a scale of ca. 1:6,000,000. The map's complete title is “Charte von China und den angränzenden Ländern, und Völkerschaften so wie sie dem le...
Place & Date: Parague, 1812
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2023
Guinea.
An attractive map covered with intersecting rhumb lines and decorated with monkeys, lions, elephants and native figures. With a dedication to Dr. Nicolas Tulp.
- $750 / ≈ €660
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1640
Fight north of Colenso on the 27th February, 1900. Situation about 5pm.
[Map no.9] On 27th February 1900, the pontoon bridge was moved to a position further east along the river and the British launched an attack across the Tugela on the hill...
Place & Date: Edinburgh, London, ca 1900
Selling price: $17
Sold in 2021
Suisse.
Detailed map of Switzerland, prepared by Charles V. Monin (fl.1830-1880) a French cartographer of Caen and Paris. Published in Atlas Universel de Géographie Ancienne &am...
- $45 / ≈ €40
Place & Date: Paris, 1845
Vue des Promenades et les Fontaines d'Ispahan.
Carmine was a well-known publisher of optical prints, established in Augsburg.Isfahan was once one of Central Asia's largest and most important cities, at the crossroads ...
- $250 / ≈ €220
Place & Date: Augsburg 1770
Homme-nord-est de l'Asie.
Originally hand-colored costume mezzotint of a man of Nord East Russia engraved by Félix Mixelle and Lachaussée Jeune after Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur.As an etche...
- $25 / ≈ €22
Place & Date: Paris,1801-1806
内務省地理局 (Administratif atlas of the Empire of Japan.)
Atlas of Japan published by the Home Ministry shortly after the start of Meiji period. The atlas contains 16 double page maps, with the border in original out line colors...
- $550 / ≈ €484
Place & Date: Tokyo, Meiji 14 or 1881
Germania.
Map of Germany by Peter Van Den Keere after John Speed. Showing Germany from the North Sea to Italy and Croatia” With borders of France, Poland, Hungary, Italy and Croa...
Place & Date: London, 1646
Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi Dressée sur un grand nombre de Memoires..
Covens & Mortier's issue of Delisle's influential map of the French possession of Louisiana. Updated to include New Orleans. When originally published in 1718, it was...
- $2400 / ≈ €2113
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c. 1745
Faber marinus, Halee, Gabio, Acipenser Zeelandicus. (Piscium Vivæ Icones - Fish)
Depiction of Faber marinus, Halee, Gabio, Acipenser Zeelandicus. Set against a mountainous landscape in the manner of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Plate number 8. The engra...
Place & Date: Antwerp, after 1598
Selling price: $150
Sold in 2023
Succession Des Empereurs Du Japon Avec Une Description Du Meurtre De L'Empereur Cubo Et La Reception Des Ambassadeurs Hollandais. . .
The plate is showing the murder of the Emperor Cubo at Kyoto, the arrival of one of the early Dutch embassies.A small map of Honshu in a central panel. Plate from his &qu...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1720
Carte Générale de Lombardie.
Fine map of Northern and middle part of Italy, engraved by A Peyrouin. According to the credit in the cartouche the map has been prepared by Pierre Duval.
- $300 / ≈ €264
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1650
Tunetanum Regnum.
Small map representing Tunisia and Algeria, surrounded by text in Dutch.Nicolaes de Clerck (de Klerc) was active as engraver and publisher in Delft from 1599-1621.Include...
- $100 / ≈ €88
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Cloppenburch, 1621
Prussiae nova tabula.
The map features a bold title cartouche, a ship, compass rose and a sea monster in the Baltic Sea. As indicated in the title cartouche, the map was prepared by the German...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1634
Selling price: $80
Sold in 2015
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Erla [Eger]
Panoramic view of Eger. Published in "Der Donau-Strand Mit allen seinen Ein- und Zuflüssen. . .". Published by Jacob Sandrart.
- $150 / ≈ €132
Place & Date: Nuremberg, Jacob Sandrart, 1684
Ducatus Holsatiae nova tabula.
Finely engraved map centered on the area north of Hamburg and Lubeck with two insets. This is a second state of a map initially made by Jodocus Hondius.
- $250 / ≈ €220
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635
Europa religionis Christiania, morum et pacis. . .
Miniature map of Europe, a reduction of Seutter''s folio map.From Atlas Minor, here published by Johann Martin Will, with his address in bottom center of the map.The cart...
- $200 / ≈ €176
Place & Date: Augsburg, J.M.Will, 1778