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![ORDINES SACRI ROMANI IMP: AB OTTONE III INSTITVTI [I&II] [The ranks of the Holy Roman Empire, as established by Otto the Third].](/uploads/cache/38736-250x250.jpg)
ORDINES SACRI ROMANI IMP: AB OTTONE III INSTITVTI [I&II] [The ranks of the Holy Roman Empire, as established by Otto the Third].
Very decorative print (in two plates), remarkably and elegantly painted, of the ranks of the Holy Roman Empire, as established by Otto the Third. After Gerard de Jode and...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1624
Book of Hours
Book of Hours (Horae use of Rome) printed page circa 1507, Higman done for Simon Vestre with hand colored engravings, borders in gold and other colors. The type is Gothic...
Place & Date: Rome 1507
Province ecclesiastiche di Lione e Sens in Francia (Tav LV)
This large-format Lion and Sens map is finely engraved and beautifully colored and was prepared by Girolamo Petri, a lawyer who served as a senior official within the Vat...
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Rome, 1858
L'Alemagne Divisee par Cercles (In Cyrillic).
An unusual rare, and highly detailed 1780 copper engraved map of the German Empire, printed in St. Petersbourg, Russia, in Cyrillic by Janvier & Lattré. The map cove...
Place & Date: St. Perersbourg, 1780
Caricature anti-cholérique.
Lithography with underneath the illustration "Moi je traite le choléra par le champagne, c’est le système Mayeux, nom de D... ! "In 1832, there was a devast...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1832
Nova Hispaniae, Chili, Peruviae, et Guatimalae Littorae...
An early edition of this superb chart of the Pacific Ocean, oriented with north to the left of the sheet, showing the coasts of Peru, Chili, Ecuador, Colombia, Honduras, ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1675
Selling price: $850
Sold in 2022
Mappa Totius Mundi vel Planiglobium Terrestris.
"Uncommon German world map showing California as an island. A large island ""Terra Esonis"", north of Japan has been joined to the coast of Ameri...
Place & Date: Germany c.1720
Insulae Divi Martini et Uliarus, vulgo L'Isle de Ré et Oleron.
Map of Ré and Oléron islands. Depicting the west coast of France, showing La Rochelle. Several vessels and sailing ships dot the Atlantic ocean. Three wind roses indica...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, after 1646
Carte de La Tartarie Orientale..
Uncommon edition of this fine map of Tartary with the Island of Sakhalin. In lower right engraved 21b.From Atlas Portatif pour servir a l'intelligence de l'Histoire Philo...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1773
Fossa Sanctae Mariae.
Detailed map of part of the country between rivers Rhine and Meuse showing a canal to be dug between 1626 and 1628 between Rheinberg in Germany and Venlo. A deficiency of...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1645
William Tecuseh Sherman The Great General of our small army.
Illustration of General William T. Sherman, full-length portrait, standing, facing right, holding binoculars, his sword resting on a campstool behind him. Published in Ne...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: New York, 1881
Ranunculus Hortensis erectus flore simplici luteo. / Ranunculus Montanus maior flore luteo. / Ranunculus erectus minimus flore pleno luteo...
Splendourful representation of 3 Ranunculaceae. From the first edition of the Hortus Eystettensis, printed and issued from Basilius Besler in Nuremberg 1613.Basilius Bes...
Place & Date: Nuremberg 1613
Weissensee.
Very decorative and rare panoramic town view of Weissensee in Thürigen, Bez. Erfurt.The engraver and publisher of prints, Mrs. Anna Beek of the Hague, enlarged the print...
Place & Date: The Hague, ca. 1642
Carte de la Partie Meridionale du Bresil.
Copper engraved map covering the southern part of Brazil, Uruguay and part of northern Argentina. Nice detail throughout.
Place & Date: Paris 1783
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
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The Sea Coasts of France from Olone to Cape Machicaca in Biscay . . .
Detailed chart of Biscay Bay, showing the Coast of Brittany. The chart is oriented with north-east at the top and includes two large insets of the Loire River with Nantes...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1680
![[The French left in Fort Charles suffer the scarcity of provisions.]](/uploads/cache/48529-250x250.jpg)
[The French left in Fort Charles suffer the scarcity of provisions.]
An Indian town visited by the French of Charlesfort in search for food. After a drawing by LeMoyne. Charlesfort-Santa Elena is on what is now Parris Island, South Carolin...
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1594
Join The Sun on a Ski-run in France.
This charming vintage ski poster was printed in 1950's by the French Tourism Board to promote skiing in France. The artwork was created by Jacques Dubois. It reads, ?Join...
Place & Date: Paris, Imp SA Courbet, 1950
Launa vulgo Laun Bohemiae civitas.
Bird's-eye views of Louny in Bohemia by G. Hoefnagel. The copperplate was made for Braun and Hogenberg's town book. However there the print has been transformed by the en...
Place & Date: The Hague, 1700
Large 13-person library (from Huxian Farmers' painting Exhibition)
A library with students with a western world map at the wall. Published by Shanghai renmin chubanshe (上海人民出...
Place & Date: Shanghai, September, 1974 / Janury 1975
Gouvernement General du Languedoc, divise en ses ..
Map of Languedoc. Numerous place-names of counties, cities, towns, physical features. Prepared by N.Sanson. This edition carries the date 1667 and the publishers address ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1667
Aracam.
A rare miniature map of Thailand and Burma. Title cartouche on the upper left corner. First published in 1598 in his 'Caert-Thresoor', the plates were executed by the mos...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
![[Title page] Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.](/uploads/cache/47940-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.
A decorative title page of the first atlas ever made shows five female figures as allegorical representatives of the continents, grouped around the title. According to P...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1570 or later.
Selling price: $500
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Sexta etas mudi CCXXXIX.
The Latin text page is describing the crusade against the Bohemian heretics in the time of emperor Sigismund Nuremberg Chronicle, published the year that Columbus returne...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
A Map of the Environs of Constantinople Drawn from a great number of accurate astronomical & geographical manuscripts and printed documents, by A. Arrowsmith 1801 and 1804.
Arrowsmith’s large and detailed map of the Ottoman Empire and the Black Sea, with Cyprus, Crete and the Greek Islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Albania, Bosnia and Herz...
Place & Date: London, No.10 Soho Square, 4th September 1804
Carte Particuliere de la Hongrie de la Transilvanie de la Croatie et de la Sclavonie Dressée sur les Onservations de Mr. Le Comte Marsilli. . . Par G. Delisle.
Map of Hungary and Slovakia and adjacent parts of Croatia, Serbia and Romania (Transylvania). Prepared by Marsilli, published by Dezauche.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1780
Toujours des sangsues!
Lithograph depicting a corpulent physician diagnoses more leeches for a young woman, who lies drained. In 1832, there was a devastating cholera epidemic in Paris.Publishe...
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1832
Carte Reduite du globe Terrestre. . .
Fine world map in a Mercator projection. From Voyages autour du monde et vers les deux pôles par terre et par mer.. by Pierre Marie François vicomte de Pages (1748-1793...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1782
Africa Vectus.
A striking example of Sanson's fine map of ancient Africa, with a wonderful cartouche adorned with eagles. Although the overall shape of Africa, and its surrounds, confor...
Place & Date: Paris, 1650
Selling price: $180
Sold in 2021
Carte des Déclinaisons et Inclinaisons de L'Aiguille Aimantée..Table 4.
An uncommon chart which displays magnetic declination and inclination in the Pacific. It shows part of America, Russia, China, Korea, Japan, Philippins etc.Published in B...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1780
Carte de l'Amérique Septentrionale Divisée en ses principaux Etats.
Map of North and Central America. From Atlas de la Géographie de toutes les parties du monde .. Ouvrage destiné pour l'education, et nécessaire aux négocians, aux voy...
Place & Date: Paris, Prudhomme, Levrault, Debray, 1806
Selling price: $48
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Tableau général et raisonné du Globe Terrestre. . .
Uncommon double hemisphere world map showing the tracks of Cook (1771-73, 1771 and Clarcke (1779). Surrounded by geographical information for each continent along with us...
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: Paris 1792
Art déco label for Georges Salomon Paris.
Lithographed perfume label "Savon Cold cream N°1531 - Georges Salomon Paris" laid on original cardboard sheet. A striking example of commercial artworks produc...
Place & Date: Paris, between 1925 and 1930
![Gothembourg [Gothenburg]](/uploads/cache/22093-250x250.jpg)
Gothembourg [Gothenburg]
Uncommon and decorative lithography of Gothenburg, published by Carl Johan Billmark and printed by Lemercier in Paris, 55 rue de Seine, the leading firm in Europe at that...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1859
Grande Capucine Tropoeolum majus. L.
The true Nasturtium, stipple engraving by P.F. Le Grand after designs by the Dutch-born Gerard van Spaendonck (1746-1822).Taken from the rare work "Fleurs dessinées...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1800
Les Gens de Justice. - Mr. le juge de paix a rendu sa décision, le sparties sont censées conciliées.
Second state (of 2), with text. From "Les Gens de Justice". Text below image : - Mr. le juge de paix a rendu sa décision, le sparties sont censées conciliées...
Place & Date: Paris, 1845-1848
Coeli Stellati Christiani Haemisphaerium Prius.
This stunning celestial chart presents the constellations according to Christian symbolism. It is based on the work of the early 17th century astronomer, Julius Schiller,...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1708
![[Lot of 5 maps of the Iberian peninsula / Belearics]](/uploads/cache/18379-(2)-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 5 maps of the Iberian peninsula / Belearics]
Guillaume de l' Isle (1675-1724), Royal Geographer, was the most influential cartographer of the first quarter of the 18th century. ' Atlas de Géographie' (1700-12), pos...
Place & Date: 1701
Selling price: $210
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Biturigium.
Miniature map of the middle of France with in the centre of the map Bourges, with major cities named. Strapwork title cartouche at the top. Latin text on verso.
Place & Date: Antwerp 1609
General view of the Hudson at Adley's. . . N°29.
A panoramic view of the Hudson River at Adley's.From 8e Livraison Amérique Septentrionale - Etat de New York. After Jacques Milbert and lithographed by Jacottet, the fig...
- $120 / ≈ €112
Place & Date: Paris, Henri Gaugain & Cie, 1829
Peich ou Peider de Nation Persienne Laquais du Grand Seigneur. (13 )
Sought-after copper engraved plate taken from Laonikos Chalcocondyle’s "L'histoire de la décadence de l'empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs." by...
Place & Date: Paris, Mathieu Guillemot, 1650
Mappa Geographica Regni Poloniae ex novissimis quotquot sunt mappis specialibus composita et al L.L. Stereographicae projectionis revocata a Tob. Mayero. . . .
Decorative map of Poland after Tobias Mayer who was based on Barnikel's map of Curland (1747) and Jan Nieprzecki's map of Lithuania (1749).Poland extends from Glogau and ...
- $600 / ≈ €561
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1757
Isola d'Oleron, nella piaggie occidentali della Francia.
A beautiful and rare map showing île d'Oleron.The remarkable Vincenzo Coronelli (1650-1718), encyclopaedist, geographer, inventor and Doctor of Theology, was citizen of ...
Place & Date: Venice, 1690
Isola del Re Nel Mare di Guascogna . . .
A beautiful map showing Ile de Ré in Bretagne, located in the Bay of Biscay off the coast of France, from Vincenzo Coronelli's Corso Geografico Universale.Italian text o...
Place & Date: Venice, 1690
Carte generale des Etats du Czar. Empereur de Moscovie, ou L'on voit ce que ce prince possede en Europe ..
An impressive map of Russian Tartary and part of China with key tables to the towns. Depicting the different states belonging to the Czar in Asia and Europe, showing the ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1720
Niche in the form of a cartouche.
A lavishly decorated etching by the famous brother's Joannes and Lucas van Doetecum, after Cornelis II de Vriendt or better known as Cornelis FLORIS (1514 - 1572 or 1575)...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1556
Selling price: $500
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Indian painting on paper.
Fine miniature, presenting a couple in love making position. The miniature has been painted in India in early 20th century. The miniature is 165 x 110 mm, painted in oil ...
Place & Date: India, ca. 1920
Zolnok.
Panoramic view of Szolnok (solnok) is the county seat of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county in central Hungary. Its location on the banks of the Tisza river, at the heart of th...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Nuremberg, Jacob Sandrart, 1684
Nova Zembla
From the diary of Gerrit de Veer published in 1605, adventures during the search of the Northeast passage. The first vignette shows a man being mauled by a polar bear, wh...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1651
Kort begrip der oude en nieuwe staatkundige Geographie: behelzende eene beschryving der heerschappyen, in welken de aarde verdeeld is, haare gelegenheid. . .
Sixth edition- Interesting geographical compendium, prepared by Johann Hubner en W.A. Bachiene. Of particular interest is the section starting with pages 589 with "O...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Covens / Mortier, Utrecht, Poolsum, 1758
Carte D'Amerique..
This is a typically fine map by Guillaume de l'Isle, here with the address Sur le Quay d'Horloge , dated 1722.Early second state. The west coast of North America is delin...
Place & Date: Paris, 1722
![[2 maps] Carte de L'Amerique Septent. [together with] Carte de L'Amerique Merid.le.](/uploads/cache/48326-250x250.jpg)
[2 maps] Carte de L'Amerique Septent. [together with] Carte de L'Amerique Merid.le.
Probably a separate publication of this fine set of maps of Northern and Southern America. Signed and dated in lower left corner.
Place & Date: Brussels, 1830
Homme & Femme Ottawas.
Hand-colored mezzotint of Native Americans engraved by Félix Mixelle and Lachaussée Jeune after Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur.As an etcher, drawer and writer, Grasse...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Paris,1801-1806
Provincia ecclesiastica di Malines nel Belgio (Tav LXII)
This large-format map of Belgium with its different dioceses. The map is finely engraved and beautifully colored and was prepared by Girolamo Petri, a lawyer who served a...
Place & Date: Rome, 1858
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Africae nova descriptio.
Much of the geographical information contained in this extremely decorative map of Africa is still based on the Ptolemaic maps, with the Nile shown with its source in the...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1635
Buda Citerioris Hungariae Caput Regni avita sedes. vulgo Ofen.
Shows the Hungarian capital of Budapest. Originally engraved for the Civitates. Compiled and written by George Braun, Canon of Cologne Cathedral. The drawings was made by...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1617
Histoire et Statistique de la France ancienne et moderne, depuis le temps des Gaulois jusqu'à nos jours. Extrait des ouvrages chronologiques et statistiques de M. Arnault-Robert.
An extensive timetable of France with a wealth of historical information during the regimes of the Kings from Theodomir (418-420) until Louis XVI, until the Revolution an...
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1839
La Savoia divisa nelle sue Principali Provincie da Giacomo Cantelli da Vignola . . .
Late 17th century maps of the Savoy region, based on the reports of Giacomo Cantelli da Vignola and published in Roma in Giacomo de Rossi's world atlas Mercurio Geografic...
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Rome, 1692
Stiria.
Detailed map of Stiria, the most eastern part of Austria, centered on Graz.Mercator was born in Rupelmonde in Flanders and studied in Louvain under Gemma Frisius, Dutch w...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1606
Helsingborgh in Schone.
Manuscript fortification town plan of Helsingborgh showing the walled city. Drawn in brown ink and nicely hand colored. Renau was a mathematician, military engineer and c...
Place & Date: Sedan ca. 1651
Paris
One of the earliest and most beautiful panoramic views of Paris, based on Sebastian Muenster’s map from 1569. Latin title in cartouche top-left and French title in a ca...
Place & Date: Cologne, 1575
Selling price: $2200
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Statt und Ambtt Wantzleben.
Very decorative and rare panoramic town view of Wanzleben, Bez. Magdeburg.The engraver and publisher of prints, Mrs. Anna Beek of the Hague, enlarged the print and mounte...
Place & Date: The Hague, ca. 1642
![Tabula Asiae III [Black & Caspian Sea Region]](/uploads/cache/41831-250x250.jpg)
Tabula Asiae III [Black & Caspian Sea Region]
Attractive woodblock Ptolemaic map, depicting Armenia and in the Right part of the Caspian Sea with Noes Arch, believed to have come to rest in a mountain in Armenia acco...
Place & Date: Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1545
Part of Prussia.
Attractive example of the scarce 1828 Malte-Brun map of modern day Poland and Lithuania. Published by Samuel Walker in 1828 as part of the American edition of Conrad Malt...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Boston, 1828
L'Italie et les Isles circomvoisines..
Map of ltaly including the islands of Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica, with original or early outline hand-color. Numerous place-names of counties, cities, towns, physical f...
Place & Date: Paris 1689
Cathédrale d'Isaac et Palais du Sénat. Vue prise de la Néva. (17 juillet 1839).
A view from the port of the Isaac Cathedral and the Senat Palace in Saint Petersburg on July 17 1839. Plate taken from the first illustrated account of Russian architectu...
Place & Date: Paris, 1845
Der erst Thurnir - The First Tournament.
Wood cut illustration; overall size 33 x 22,5 cm; German text on verso. depiction of noblemen and horses preparing for a tournament in a courtyard. from: 'ThurnierBuch....
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1579
Prospectus primarii telonii caesarei prope turrim rubram Viennae. . .
So-called optical print, showing Red tower in Vienna.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular specialty establishments in Paris, Augsburg and Lo...
- $80 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: Italy c.1790
Theatrum Historicum. . . Romani tu Barbarorum. . . Pars Occidentalis. . .
Showing the Roman Empire by G. de l'Isle, French cartographer, and pupil of Cassini, called Father of Modern Geography. In the upper left-hand corner western hemisphere.C...
Place & Date: Paris, 1705
Selling price: $58
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La Siberia Orientale.
Uncommon map of Oriental Siberia prepared by Francesco Costantino Marmocchi. Above the map "Geografia Commerciale". From "Il Globo Atlante di carte Geograf...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Genova, Paolo Rivara fu Giacomo, 1858
Carte éventail offert par Cinzano ( Gironde and Aveyron)
Edited map fans offered by alcohol Cinzano, n °11. Patented model SGDG, representing one a map of the Gironde and Aveyron region. Printed by Blondel La Rougery.
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1930
Locataires et Propriétaires. La reconduite du propriétaire. (Pl 27)
A couple is saying goodbye to their landlord as he leaves their apartment. From "Locataires et Propriétaires" [Tenants and Landlords], number 27, published in ...
- $175 / ≈ €164
Place & Date: Paris, Le Charivari, December 2, 1847
L'Afrique divisée suivant l'estendue de ses principales parties ou sont distingués les vns des autres . . .
A second state of this fine mile-stone map of Africa with a decorative title and scale cartouche. As the title indicates, this map is based on the geography of Guillaume ...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Paris, 1685
![[Text page with Kings, Queens, Saints and Popes. Sexta Etas Mundi. Folium. CXI].](/uploads/cache/46888-250x250.jpg)
[Text page with Kings, Queens, Saints and Popes. Sexta Etas Mundi. Folium. CXI].
Recto text page with woodcuts of Kings. Verso text page with woodcuts of Saints and Popes. Page from the richest illustrated Incunable, the famous: Nuremberg Chronicle, p...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
RuerMonde (Roermond)
This bird's-eye plan is reduced from Braun & Hogenberg's important plan of the city. It provides an excellent view of the city at the river Maas. The chart is embelli...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1612
Peregrinationis Divi Pauli Typus…
A splendid map depicting the travels of Paulus. With two fine scenes in top. Showing the countries along the Mediterranean, including Cyprus and Italy. Based on Mercator'...
Place & Date: Antwerp, 1624
Selling price: $350
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Nuremberga. Folio C.
Double page panoramic view of Nuremberg. Lettered above the view: "NVREMBERGA"; and with the names of the city's two most famous churches, S. Lorenz and S. Seba...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Selling price: $1500
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Terra Sancta que in Sacris Terra Promissionis ol: Palestina.
This map of Palestine extending from the Lebanon mountains to the Dead Sea is based on the large map by P.Laicksteen and Chr.'s-Grooten in the latter part of the sixteent...
- $675 / ≈ €632
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1630
D' Admiralyteyts Huys - La maison de l'Amirauté.
Decorative print of the Admiralty House of the V.O.C., now-a-days Maritime Museum in Amsterdam.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c.1720
![[View of Gulf of Trieste].](/uploads/cache/45191-250x250.jpg)
[View of Gulf of Trieste].
Very rare view of Gulf of Trieste published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. Per Mare, e per Terra, & infieme quello di Terra Santa...
Place & Date: Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598