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Het stadhuis, van vooren.
The former Amsterdam Town Hall, now the Royal Palace. Copper engraving by Frans de Bakker after Reinier Vinkeles (1741-1816).From the well-known description of Amsterdam ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1765
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, 1765
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2023
Carta Topografica dell' Isola Del Maritaggio di Monsieur le Boble per la prima volta. Tradotta dal francese in italiano.
Second Italian printing of Eustache Le Noble’s "Carte de l’isle de marriage." The book’s text offers instructions on how to reach this matrimonial island ...
Place & Date: Cosmopoli, 1766
America settentrionale. . .
Rare map of North America drawn directly from the work of Nicholas De Fer and N. Sanson's famous map of 1650. The map is engraved by Antonius Donzel Gallus.With open Grea...
Place & Date: Napels, 1766
Carte Réduite De La Partie Septentrionale De L'' Isle De Terre Neuve..
A well engraved and highly detailed chart, corrected to 1767. Elaborate hand-colored cartouche, rhumb lines.Shows northern part of Newfoundland and southern coast of Labr...
Place & Date: Paris, 1767
![The Coast of New Found Land From Salmon Cove to Cape Bonavista. . . [together with] The Coast of New Found Land from Cape-Raze to Cape St-Francis.](/uploads/cache/40658-250x250.jpg)
The Coast of New Found Land From Salmon Cove to Cape Bonavista. . . [together with] The Coast of New Found Land from Cape-Raze to Cape St-Francis.
Two charts showing the coast of New Found Land from Salmon Cove to Cape Bonavista and from Cape-Raze to Cape St-Francis. With inset chart of Trinity HarborGrierson publis...
Place & Date: Dublin, 1767
The Harbour of Casco Bay and Islands Adjacent Bt Capt. Cyprian Southicke.
The earliest printed chart of Casco Bay, an inlet of the Gulf of Maine on the southern coast of Maine, New England. First issued in 1720 by Mount and Page, it remained in...
Place & Date: Dublin, 1767
s'Lands en Oost-Indische Lynbanen.
A decorative print of the Lynbanen a place were V.O.C. ship riggings and ropes were produced and kept.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1760-1767
t'Oost-Indisch-Huys.
A decorative print of the East Indian House, the headquarters of the V.O.C., a place for meeting, trading and storage of spices and ship equipment. The maps and charts we...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1760-1767
s'Lands en Oost-Indische Lynbanen. & t'Oost-Indisch-Huys.
A decorative print of the Lynbanen a place were V.O.C. ship riggings and ropes were produced and kept.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1760-1767
Vermakelykheden van Brabant, en deszelfs onderhoorige Landen... (2 volumes)
Topographical and iconographical work on Brabant illustrated with 1 engr. title-vignette and 190 engraved views, plans & armorial plates by J. Harrewijn, G. Bouttats ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, P.J. Entrop, 1768
Nieuwe kaart van Kanada . . .
Nice map of the Bay of Hudson, In Labrador, a small inset of Nova Scotia. The map is dated 1769. All text is in Dutch. The map shows the region shortly after the conclusi...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1769
Plan der Stadt Quebec Haupstadt in Neu Franckreich oder Canada.
Town-plan of Quebec, with an inset view of the town in the lower right corner. In the upper right a recapitulation of the main military actions prior to the surrender of ...
Place & Date: Nurnberg, 1770
Asia Concinnata Secundum Observationes Academiae Regalis . . .
A version of De L'Isle's map. T.C. Lotter married M. Seutter's daughter in 1740 and succeeded him in 1756. Lotter used the copperplate of Seutter, he only changed the nam...
Place & Date: Augsburg, ca. 1770
Réjouissances du Peuple près de la Pyramide d'Illumination, élévée sur l'Esplanade de la Porte de Mars et Distribution de Vivres, fontaines de Vin , sous les Ordres de Mrs. Du Conseil de la Ville, à Reims le 27 Aoust 1765.
Engraved by Varin after Moreau Jr. The print shows a lightning spectacle held in Reims on 27 August 1765.
Place & Date: Paris, 1771
(upper sheets only) Asia According to the Sieur D'Anville Divided into its Empires, Kingdoms and States Showing the European Settlements in the East Indies and all the New Discoveries . . . 1772
Highly detailed map of Russia, including Turkey, China and Korea. Based on the cartography of the famous French cartographer Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d' Anville. Only th...
Place & Date: London, 1772
Carte de L'Isle de Caiene et de ses environs.
Uncommon edition of this accurate map of Cayenne. In lower right engraved "31."From Atlas Portatif pour servir a l'intelligence de l'Histoire Philosophique et P...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1773
![Vue de la Rivière d'Endeavour sur la Côte de la Nouvelle Hollande ou le Vaisseau fut mis à la bande. [Tome IV Pl. 1ère.]](/uploads/cache/26093-250x250.jpg)
Vue de la Rivière d'Endeavour sur la Côte de la Nouvelle Hollande ou le Vaisseau fut mis à la bande. [Tome IV Pl. 1ère.]
The first known landscape drawing of the east coast of Australia. A View of the Endeavour River, on the coast of New Holland, where the ship was laid on shore, in order t...
Place & Date: Paris, 1773
Carte de la Coste d'Arabie.
Uncommon issue of this very nice map of the Arabian peninsula. Depicted is Saudi Arabia, Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.With French text in title cartouche and an additiona...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1773
Nouvelle carte de l'Isle de Java.
A very nice map centred on the island of Java.With French text in title cartouche and an additional title in Dutch underneath the map.Read more Early maps of South East A...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1773
Terrae Yemen Maxima Pars, seu Imperii Imami, Principatus Kaukeban nec non ditionum Haschid u Bekil, Nehhm, Chaulan, Abu Arisch et Aden Tabula ...
South-west Arabia, with the Saudi Arabian city of Jizan south to Aden. With a fine title, cartouche. Based on a map by Carsten Niebuhr. With the name Sinus Arabicus Mare ...
Place & Date: Augsbourg, 1774
GLOBUS TERRESTRIS ad sphaeram obliquam delineatus. and the GLOBUS COELESTIS cum Astrodictico artificiali iunctus.
A very handsome, large copper engraving of a pair of globes. Ribbon style titles and German text panel at bottom.
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1774
![[HAWAII] - Plan de la baye de Karakakooa.](/uploads/cache/48173-250x250.jpg)
[HAWAII] - Plan de la baye de Karakakooa.
Beautiful map showing the islands forming the Hawaiian archipelago, drawn up during Cook's third voyage: Oneeheow or Ni'ihau, Atooi or Kauai, Woahoo or O'ahu, Morotoi or ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1774
A chart of the China Sea inscribed to Monsr. D'APRES de MANNEVILLETTE .. To A.Dalrymple.
This most important milestone chart is based upon the surveys made from navigational surveys by Alexander Dalrymple (1737-1808]. He was the first hydrographer of the Brit...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1775
![Planisphere celeste Septentrional. . . [together with] Planisphere celeste meridional. . .](/uploads/cache/35291-250x250.jpg)
Planisphere celeste Septentrional. . . [together with] Planisphere celeste meridional. . .
Beautiful set of celestial charts of the northern and southern skies by the well-known French astronomer, Philippe de La Hire. Surrounded by panels of astronomical notes ...
Place & Date: Paris, ca.1775
![Schat-Kamer ofte konst der stuurlieden, behelzende een duidelyke onderwyzinge in de navigatie. . . [bound with] Tafelen bevattende De Sinussum, tangenten en Secanten. . . [bound with] Geographische Tadfel...](/uploads/cache/33112-250x250.jpg)
Schat-Kamer ofte konst der stuurlieden, behelzende een duidelyke onderwyzinge in de navigatie. . . [bound with] Tafelen bevattende De Sinussum, tangenten en Secanten. . . [bound with] Geographische Tadfel...
Schat-Kamer ofte konst der stuurlieden, behelzende een duidelyke onderwyzinge in de navigatie. . . [bound with] Tafelen bevattende De Sinussum, tangenten en Secanten. . ....
Place & Date: Amsterdam, J. v. Keulen en Zoonen, 1777
A Map of the most Inhabited part of New England containing the Provinces of Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire, with the Colonies of Connecticut and Rhode Island.
A copper engraving in four sheets, published in Georges Louis Le Rouge, in his "Atlas Ameriqua in Septentrional Contenant les details des differentes provinces, de c...
Place & Date: Paris, 1777
A plan of the City and Environs of Philadelphia. . .
The Lotter edition of Scull & Heap's seminal Philadelphia map, which map was first issued in 1752.Holmes' grid plan for the city is shown, situated between the rivers...
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1777
![[ Text / title page Charts of the coasts and harbours of New England . . .]](/uploads/cache/44832-250x250.jpg)
[ Text / title page Charts of the coasts and harbours of New England . . .]
Letter press text page, taken from the "Atlantic Neptune".The Atlantic Neptune is universally recognised as one of the most magnificent atlases ever made.Exampl...
Place & Date: London, 1777
Ilse Paese de' Selvaggi.. Lago Superiore. (Florida and the Bahamas)
Antonio Zatta published an Italian version of the John Mitchell map in twelve sheet. This sheet depicts Lake Superior in the Bellin version, as it appeared on the Mitchel...
Place & Date: Venice, 1778
Etats du Grand-Seigneur en Asie, empire de Perse, pays des Usbecs, Arabie et Egypte.
Detailed map of the region bounded by the Black Sea, Georgia, the Caspian, Uzbekistan, The Indian Ocean, Saudi Arabia (here called \"Arabie Heureuse\"), Egypt a...
Place & Date: Venise, 1778
Carte Réduite Des Côtes Orientales De L' Amérique Septentrionale Contenant Partie du Nouveau Jersey.. Virginie.. Georgie..
Uncommon chart that extends from Delaware Bay and Philadelphia south through much of Georgia to Island Amelia and St. Johns River. Fleur-de-lis and rhumb lines fill the s...
Place & Date: Paris, 1778
Nouvel atlas geographique & historique.. / Nieuwe en geographische en historische Atlas..
This second edition of this charming travel compendium is becoming relatively scarce nowadays.Illustrated with a charming frontispiece, two uncolored plates of a sphere, ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1778
Africa juxta navigationes et observat recentissimas. . .
Miniature map of Africa, a reduction of the Seutter folio map based on Homann''s cartography of 1715. Very detailed - much of it fictitious. The Nile is shown not only or...
Place & Date: Augsburg, J.M.Will, 1778
A new & accurate map of Asia, Drawn from the most approved modern maps & charts / by Thos. Bowen.
The map is of interest for the use of Sea of Korea, the sea between Korea and Japan.Detailed map of Asia from Saudi Arabia, Persia, Russia, India, China, Japan to Southea...
Place & Date: London, J.Cooke, 1777-1778
Selling price: $600
Sold in 2023
Mappa Geographica provinciae Nova Ebboraci ab Anglis NEW-YORK dictae. . .
During the Revolution, this map afforded British commanders an excellent overview of areas that would be crucial in the early years of the war, particularly the Hudson Va...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1778
Chirurgie, plate XII
Showing medical chair and physician at work from the medical section of Diderot's Encyclopaedia. Engraved by Bernard after a design of Goussier. Very important work as it...
Place & Date: Paris 1779
Carte des parties Nord et est de l'Asie..
Five maps on one sheet show the Northern Russian territories in Europe and Asia, including the western coastline from Siberia, Japan, and Korea with the island of "Q...
Place & Date: Paris, 1779
![[Title page] Atlante Novissimo, Tomo I . . .](/uploads/cache/43898-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Atlante Novissimo, Tomo I . . .
Decorative Venitian frontispiece from Antonio Zatta's "Atlante Novissimo tomo I".
Place & Date: Venice, 1779
Gezicht van het Admiraliteits-Magazyn en Scheeps Timmerwerf.
Formerly the V.O.C. warehouse and arsenal for the Admiralty of Amsterdam, now-a-days the Scheepvaartmuseum (Maritime Museum). Taken from the "Atlas of Amsterdam"...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1780
A Perspective View of the Admiralty Office, Dock-Yard, Storehouses &c. at Amsterdam.
Decorative engraving giving good detail of the intense activity in the Amsterdam dockyards.Engraved for BANKES's New System of Geography
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1780
Carte d'une Partie des Cotes de la Floride et de la Louisiane, Contenant le Cours du Mississipi...
A well engraved and highly detailed chart of part of the Gulf Coast, dated 1778 that was issued in Neptune americo-septentrionale. The chart covers the area between St. J...
Place & Date: Paris, 1778-1780
Vue du Magazin de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales. . .
So-called optical print of the formerly the V.O.C. warehouse and arsenal for the Admiralty of Amsterdam, now-a-days the Scheepvaartmuseum (Maritime Museum).In the eightee...
Place & Date: France, 1780
Madrid.
Extremely rare town-view of Madrid. Engraved by Francesco Ambrosi.With a second title in lower part "Madrid Ciudad Capital Del Reyno D'Espana y real corte de los rey...
Place & Date: Bassano del Grappa, c.1780
Gezicht van het Oost-Indisch-Huys, op de binnen plaats te zien, tot Amsterdam.
Taken from the "Atlas of Amsterdam". Showing the inner square of the East Indian House of the V.O.C. in Amsterdam.A place for meeting, trading and storage of sp...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1780
La Pologne Dressée sur ce qu'en ot donné Starovolsk, Beauplan, Hartnoch. . .
Large map of Poland, Lithuania, Belarus and part of Ukraine. The map is filled with detail and decorated with a title cartouche flanked by mythological figures.According ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1773 - 1780
Vue perspective de l'interieur de la Salle du spectacle de Veronne en Italie.
Showing the Opera of Verona. Optical print published Mondhare, who was a well-known publisher of optical prints, established in rue St. Jacques in Paris. In the eighteent...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1780
Le globe terrestre representé en deux plans-hemispheres, Dressé sur la Projection de Mr. De la Hyre...
“This splendid GlobeTerrestre originally published by J.B. Nolin is one of the finest large-scale world maps to be produced and is a fitting bridge between the geograph...
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1780
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
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
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
Temple de la Mecque fidelement copiée sur un dessein de la bibliothèque Bodléienne, à Oxford.
View of the Mecca Temple.
Place & Date: Pqris, ca. 1780
![Ch'onha chido. [Atlas of all under Heaven]](/uploads/cache/44640-250x250.jpg)
Ch'onha chido. [Atlas of all under Heaven]
A late 18th-century Ch'onha chido atlas with 10 woodblock maps showing the World, China, and the 8 province maps of Korea (Hamgyeong, Gangwon, Jeolla, Gyeongsang, Pyeonga...
Place & Date: Korea, ca. 1780
Par permission sur l'aprobation des médecins du roi...la véritable Boule de Mars...
Printed broadsheet promoting the "Boule de Mars" (March Ball) produced and sold by Renault in Nancy and Paris. Ornated with the royal coat of arms of France. Pr...
Place & Date: Paris, ca.. 1780
![[Lot of 4 charts] Plan de la Baie et du Port de Camraigne / Plan de la Baie de Niatrang et du Golfe de Binkang / Plan de la Cote de Cochinchine. . . / Plan des Ports de Xuandai, Vung-Lam. . .](/uploads/cache/44795A-250x250.jpg)
[Lot of 4 charts] Plan de la Baie et du Port de Camraigne / Plan de la Baie de Niatrang et du Golfe de Binkang / Plan de la Cote de Cochinchine. . . / Plan des Ports de Xuandai, Vung-Lam. . .
[A set of four French sea charts numbered consecutively]. A set of 4 basic coastal sea charts of parts of southern French Indochina (Vietnam).Chart 295 centers on the reg...
Place & Date: Paris ca 1780
Inverted nautical Compass, called "mouchard" (~ "spy")
Inverted maritime compass called "mouchard" (spy) in wood and brass, signed "A Van Vastenhoud In Amsterdam". This type of compass was found in the cap...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1780
Plan de la ville de Maestricht avec ses attaques commandées par M. le maréchal de Saxe, depuis le 15 avril jusqu'au 3 may 1748 . . .
A plan of Maastricht rising after the capture of the city by the French troops led by the Marshal of Saxony. The city was besieged between 15 April and 3 May 1748, during...
Place & Date: Paris, 1781
ACTION N° 1155. Société du Commerce d'Asie & d'Afrique.
Share of 1 000 Florins d'Allemagne (1 000 Guilder) of the "Triester Handelsgesellschaft" (Société du Commerce d'Asie & d'Afrique) signed by duke Charles d...
Place & Date: Triest / Antwerpen, 1 October 1781
MARS Rejouissances du Papeguay. Les Triomphes d'un conquerant
Etching published by Louis Charles Desnos (1725-1805) with address of rue St.Jacques au Globe. He is also known for his output of wall maps and atlases.
Place & Date: Paris, 1782
Carte Générale de l'Empire des Russes et de la Tartarie Universelle.
Rare map of Tartary and Russia, including Korea and Japan prepared after J.B.Nolin and published by Monhare for his Atlas Général a l'usage des colleges et maisons d'ed...
Place & Date: Paris, 1783
Selling price: $400
Sold in 2023
Carte Geo-Hydrographique du Golfe du Mexique et de ses Isles..
Map of the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico showing the various islands and continental coastlines according to the 18th century Venetian cartography of Rizzi Zannoni.Illustr...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1783
Carte du Mexique et des Etats Unis d'Amérique...
A later edition of De l'Isle's foundation map of 1703, is widely regarded as one of the most influential maps in the history of American Cartography. This updated version...
Place & Date: Paris, 1783
Share of 1000 Florins to Michel de Knyff. N° 135.
Share of 1000 Florins, paid in four tranches at 250 Florins of Vienna, from "Compagnie Imperiale & Royale Octroyee d'Assurance de Commerce & d'escompte."...
Place & Date: Trieste, 1782 - 1783
![[Title page for] Recueil de cartes sur la geographie ancienne . . .](/uploads/cache/47729-250x250.jpg)
[Title page for] Recueil de cartes sur la geographie ancienne . . .
Title-frontispiece of "Recueil de cartes sur la geographie ancienne", published by Rigobert Bonne in 1783, engraved by Louis Legrand.More about title pages [+]
Place & Date: Paris, 1783
Nouvelle Mappa Monde.
State 2 of this fine double hemisphere world map, from an unusual perspective, with a "Mer de L'Ouest" or "Sea of the West". Paris is located at the c...
Place & Date: Venice, 1776 - 1784
Carte de l'Empire de Perse. . .
Map of the Persian empire by the Venetian cartographer and publisher François (Père) Santini and first published in Santini's 'Atlas Universel dressée sur les meuilleu...
Place & Date: Venice, 1784
La Tartaria Chinese.
With decorative title cartouche. Covering north eastern part of China, with good detail in Korea and a curious shape for Hokkaido (here called Jeso-Gasima ).Engraved by G...
Place & Date: Venice, 1784
La Tartaria Chinese.
With decorative title cartouche. Covering north eastern part of China, Korea and Hokkaido (here called Jeso-Gasima, Tartary including the Gobi Desert; also Peking and the...
Place & Date: Venice, 1784
Campagne du Roi de Prusse de 1778 à 1779.
The book is illustrated with a two-sheet folding map "Carte d'une partie du Royaume de Bohême et de la Moravie ainsi que d'une partie de la Silésie". Prepared...
Place & Date: Geneva, Paris, Mérigot le jeune, 1784
Tablaeu de l'Univers premiere partie/ .. seconde partie.
Uncommon and interesting manual containing a double hemisphere world map (with fine outer decoration and showing an imagined great sea in West America, easily the size of...
Place & Date: Luik, Belgium, 1784
M.Merian, l'Ancien célébre graveur . . .
Portrait of Matthäus Merian (1593-1650) by Hubert. Matthäus Merian der Ältere was a Swiss-born engraver who worked in Frankfurt for most of his career, where he also ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1784
Carte D'Amerique Divisée en ses Principaux Pays. . .
Rare. Uncommon and decorative wall map of America, prepared by Clouet. With superb decorative borders, 170mm wide at the sides and 150mm at the bottom, containing twenty ...
Place & Date: Paris, Cadiz, 1785
A scarce Real Compañia de Filipinas 250 Pesos deed issued in 1785
A scarce Real Compañia de Filipinas 250 Pesos deed issued in 1785. Share nº 23726, hand signed by several company officials.Engraved by Fernando Selma (1752-1810) after...
Place & Date: Spain, 1785
![[Title page] Atlante Novissimo, illustrato ed accresciuto . . .](/uploads/cache/43897-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Atlante Novissimo, illustrato ed accresciuto . . .
Decorative Venitian frontispiece from Antonio Zatta's Atlas Atlante Novissimo, illustrato ed accresciuto . . . . The outer decoration of this title page has a wealth of c...
Place & Date: Venice, 1785
Mariner’s compass
Inverted compass called "snitch" in wood painted in imitation of tortoiseshell and brass, signed "Ing MANN Maker Water Street Liverpool".
Place & Date: Liverpool, ca. 1785
Atlas in elephant folio.
Most of D'Anville's atlases were made up for the individual customer, so no two appear alike. Many of the 59 pages are multi-sheet maps, so the actual map sheet count is ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1771-1786
![[Crimea]. Carte de la Cromée.](/uploads/cache/25719-250x250.jpg)
[Crimea]. Carte de la Cromée.
Mapmaker, Captain Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen (1735-1819). Published by H. Friesman in 1787. This map first appeared in 1776 and was the first Russian map of the newly ann...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, H. Frieseman, 1787
Carte d'Asie divisée en ses principaux Etats.
Uncommon and decorative "carte à figures" - wall map, prepared by Clouet, with superb decoration, including a wonderful rococo border with 20 decorative vignet...
Place & Date: Paris, Mondhare, 1787
Calendrier de la cour, tiré des éphémérides, pour l'Année bissextile.. / Notebook bearing silver plates with the VOC monogram.
A personal gift, only made for the trustees of the V.O.C. The silver plate was probably made by Drick van Hengel and Company because an entry in the diary of mintmaster J...
Place & Date: Paris, 1787
Tableau des guerres de Frédéric le Grand: ou plans figurés de vingt-six batailles rangées, ou combats essentiels donnés dans les trois guerres de Silésie. . .
The book includes a large folded map "Tableaux des Guerres de Frédéric le Grand", showing a map of Prussia, with present-day Poland and Eastern Germany surrou...
Place & Date: Potzdam, Strasbourg, Paris, 1788