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Kamchatka according to A.Erman . . .
FIRST EDITION Map of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Siberia, from Gazetteer of the World. Drawn by Augustus Petermann, engraved by G. H. Swanston.
Place & Date: London / Edinburgh, 1850
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 135 x 150mm. Painted in g...
Place & Date: Northern Indian Mogul dynasty, ca 1800-1850
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
![Posesiones de America : Isla de Cuba. [together with] Isla de Cuba. . .](/uploads/cache/23458-250x250.jpg)
Posesiones de America : Isla de Cuba. [together with] Isla de Cuba. . .
Wall size sea chart and map of land areas showing all of Cuba, part of Florida Keys plus San Adios and Salvador Grande in the Bahamas.Minute topographical, political, and...
Place & Date: Madrid, 1853 / 1851
Plan de Constantinople, non compris ses faubourgs. Grave d'apres les documents du ministere de la Guerre par E. Olivier.
A very rare lithographic town-plan of Istanbul, Scale 98 yards to one inch., printed in Pera, Istanbul by E. Olivier. The ornate design on the top of the title is a tugh...
Place & Date: Péra, Istanbul, 1851
Part of South Australia.
Decorative steel engraved map of part of South Australia, surrounded by illustrations of Adelaide, natives on a catamaran, an Australian dog and a nymphicus bird illustra...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1851
New South Wales.
Decorative steel engraved map of New South Wales, surrounded by illustrations of Sydney Cove, native trees and the seal of New South Wales. Interlocking border design. Ta...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1851
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
Australia.
Decorative steel engraved map of Australia, surrounded by illustrations of Sydney harbor, birds, kangaroos and local people. Interlocking border design. Taken from "...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1851
Simori.
Portrait of Simori.Von Siebold was born in Wurtzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In Japan, where Von Siebold arrived in 1823 at ...
Place & Date: Leiden, 1832-1852
![Dépt. De L'Aude. N°10. [ Carcassonne ]](/uploads/cache/27089-250x250.jpg)
Dépt. De L'Aude. N°10. [ Carcassonne ]
Map of the Aude region, centered on the town of Carcassonne. Reaching to the right till the Mediterranean.Lovely map from one of the last decorative atlases of the ninete...
Place & Date: Paris, A. Combette, 1852
Algérie, Colonie Française. N°87.
Map of Algeria.Lovely map from one of the last decorative atlases of the nineteenth century.The rather simple map is framed by medallion portraits and coats of arms, and ...
Place & Date: Paris, A. Combette, 1852
ABIETUM phyllulae et pulvini.s. Tab. 137.
From his famous work 'Flora Japonica'. Von Siebold was born in Wurtzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In Japan, where Von Siebold...
Place & Date: Leiden, 1852
La Corvette la recherche au milieu des glaces.
Beautiful lithograph by A. Mayer and Bayot of the corvette "La recherche" surrounded by Ice. Published by Arthus-Bertrand and Lemercier in Paris.From Joseph Pau...
Place & Date: Paris. Arthus-Bertrand, 1838-1852
(The City And Harbour Of Sydney From Near Vaucluse.)
One of the most sought after views of the city and harbour of Sydney seen from Near Vaucluse, 1852. Magnificent hand-colored tinted lithograph and finished by gum-Arabic....
Place & Date: London, J. Hogarth, 1852
Gezigt op de haven en de baai van Nagasaki.
A very rare birds-eye view showing Deshima and Nagasaki bay. Von Siebold was born in Würtzburg, in Germany, and worked for the Dutch government as a doctor in Java. In J...
Place & Date: Leiden 1832-1852
Map of the Great Salt Lake And Adjacent Country in the Territory Of Utah. Surveyed in 1849 and 1850, under the orders of Col. J.J. Abert ...
Map of the Great Salt Lake And Adjacent Country in the Territory Of Utah. Surveyed in 1849 and 1850, under the orders of Col. J.J. Abert .. by Capt. Howard Stansbury .. a...
Place & Date: Ackerman, New York, 1852
![[Collection of six maps of Australia and New Zealand.]](/uploads/cache/48412-250x250.jpg)
[Collection of six maps of Australia and New Zealand.]
Collection of maps including 6 engraved maps by 19th century German, French and English cartographers depicting Australia and New Zealand.This made to order atlas contain...
Place & Date: Germany, 1832-1852
![ISLA DE CUBA [with 2 maps] Plano Pintoresco De La Habana con los numeros de las casas B. May y Ca. 1853. (with) Inset map Puerto y Cereanias De La Habana. (with) 14 views of Havana & prominent buildings.](/uploads/cache/36720-250x250.jpg)
ISLA DE CUBA [with 2 maps] Plano Pintoresco De La Habana con los numeros de las casas B. May y Ca. 1853. (with) Inset map Puerto y Cereanias De La Habana. (with) 14 views of Havana & prominent buildings.
Lithographic town-plan surrounded with views of the city of Havana including the "Fuente De La India En El Paseo De Isabel 2a." and "Vista Gral De La Haban...
Place & Date: Havana, 1853
![Le Sacre Hagard [Haggard-falcon]](/uploads/cache/44315-250x250.jpg)
Le Sacre Hagard [Haggard-falcon]
A beautiful elephant folio sized colored lithograph of a Hagard Falcon, taken from the famous book on Falconry Traite de Fauconnerie by Schlegel and A.H. Verster van Wulv...
Place & Date: Leiden, 1844-1853
The town & harbour of Sevastopol with the batteries & approaches. . .
Rare colored linen backed map showing the harbour and town of Sevastopol, with soundings. In upper left corner a inset map (65x150mm) of the Black Sea. In bottom part a l...
Place & Date: London, March 27th, 1854
The Crimea, chiefly from surveys made by order of the Russian government. . .
Map of Crimea and the Sea of Azov. In lower right corner two inset maps showing Sebastopol inlet and harbour and a second one with the Black Sea. This second maps shows t...
Place & Date: London, 1854
(Lübeck) Lvbeca vrbs. imperialis libera. civitatvm. Wandalicarvm. . . .
Impressive more than 3 meters wide panoramic town view after a woodblock engraving from Elias Diebel, initially made in 1552. Of this original woodblock, Bachmann mention...
Place & Date: Germany, c. 1855
Military map of the countries between Odessa & Perekop with the stations of the Russian forces.
Rare colored linen-backed map showing Russian troop positions and Odessa Batteries. On the inside of the cover a list of "Wyld's list of recent publications : seat o...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1855
Carte d'unne partie de l'Arabie Septentrionale Pour suivre les Voyages de Mr. G.A. Vallin. . .
This is the original hand-drawn map by Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun of "Carte d'unne partie de l'Arabie Septentrionale Pour suivre les Voyages de Mr. G.A. Wallin",...
Place & Date: Paris, November 1855
Provincie Noord-Braband. / Breda, de Langstraat. . .
Decorative and uncommon custume plate lithographed by R. de Vries and published by Frans Buffa & Zonen in Amsterdam. A group of 4 women from the area of Baronie van B...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1857
Provincie Noord-Braband.
Decorative and uncommon costume plate lithographed by Desguerrois & Co. and published by Frans Buffa & Zonen in Amsterdam. 12 illustrations of Brabant costumes: 1...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1857
Borneo (together with) The Philippine Islands.
Two maps on one sheet. Both maps are highly detailed, filled with place names. The Philippines are shown from the Bashee Islands in the north to the Sooloo Archipelago in...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1858
Circoscrizione delle Provincie ecclesiastiche e Diocesi nei regni del Belgio, ed Olanda (Tav LXI)
This large-format map showing Belgium and Holland with its different dioceses. The map is finely engraved and beautifully colored and was prepared by Girolamo Petri, a la...
Place & Date: Rome, 1858
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
Sick and wounded embarking at Hong-Kong on Board the Steamer.
Large view of the harbour with numerous ships and people. From the Illustrated London News, October 23, 1858.
Place & Date: London, October 1858
Salzbourg.
Uncommon and decorative lithography published by Carl Johan Billmark and printed by Lemercier in Paris, 55 rue de Seine, the leading firm in Europe at that time. From: It...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1859
Malte Vue prise de la Mer. - Malta Vista lomada del mar.
Very decorative view of the Grand Harbour of Malta by Louis Lebreton, published in "Ports de Mer d’Europe" in 1859 by L. Turgis in Paris.This lithography show...
Place & Date: Paris, Turgis, 1859
Tableau Sphéroïdal de la Terre ou Mappemonde en deux Hémispères. . .
Large steel engraving presenting the whole World in different projections, namely showing the convexity of the Earth.At the bottom a temperature contour map of the world ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1860
Rotterdamse Diergaarde. . .
Decorative view of Zoo of Rotterdam. To the right the house of the manager of the zoo. Decorated with personages in typical dress watching lions.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1860
Souvenirs des Pyrénées. Vues prises aux environs des eaux thermales de Bagnères-de-Bigorre, Bagnères-de-Luchon, Cauteretz, Saint-Sauveur, Barèges, Les-eaux-Bonnes, Les-Eaux-Chaudes & Pau.
The thermal baths Bagnères de Bigorre, Bagnères de Luchon, Cauteretz, Saint-Sauveur, Barèges, Les Eaux-Bonnes and Pau in the Pyrenees. Beautiful collection of 24 litho...
Place & Date: Pau, A.Basset, ca. 1860
L'escadre alliée bombarde les forts extérieurs de Sébastopol. (18 octobre 1854)
Beautiful Crimean War lithography by Becquet after a painting by Louis Le Breton. The print illustrates the ships "Fort Constantin", "la ville de Paris&quo...
Place & Date: Paris, 1860
AFFAIRES D'ORIENT Départ des Grenadiers de la Garde Anglaise, à bord du Steamer transatlantique l'Orenoco. . .
Beautiful lithography of the British steamboat "l'Orenoco" departure from Southampton in May 1854, with soldiers leaving for the Crimean War. After a design Lou...
Place & Date: Paris, Lemercier, c.1860
(Title page) Vedute dei principali monumenti di Venezia.
Decorative title page with in the lower part small inset view of Doge Palace, St. Marco and a gondola.
Place & Date: Venice, 1860
(Untitled view from Scutari with a view of Constantinople)
Panoramic view from Scutari with a view of Constantinople in the distance, after a design by Johann Schranz. Published by J. Missiriè.
Place & Date: Paris, 1860
Manuscript page from a Shahnameh, The Book of Kings, written by Ferdowsi.
Page with large miniature 187 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
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
A fan combining views of Hong Kong (right), Canton (center), and Macau.
The fan shows nice images of Macau, Hong Kong and Canton on onside and on verso a garden with 45 characters welcoming a rider on his white horse. Their clothes are height...
Place & Date: China, ca. 1850-1860
Country pleasures.
Folding fan made of a double sheet of lithographed paper, enhanced with gouache and watercolor, with a decoration of three cartouches with gallant scenes of French countr...
Place & Date: France, ca. 1850-1860
A fan combines views of Hong Kong (right), Canton (left), China, ca 1850-1860.
The fan shows nice images of Hong Kong and Canton on onside and on verso a garden with 39 characters welcoming a rider on his white horse. Their clothes are heightened in...
Place & Date: China, ca. 1850-1860
Militairy manuscript map of the end of Yangzi River across Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang areas, with 3 red seals of the Ever-Victorious Army.
In lower left corner an inset plan of Songjiang District with Shanghai with a grid and the area is divided with red doted border lines.The map has three red seals of the ...
Place & Date: China, ca 1862
Plan de la rade de Macao (chine) Levé d'après les ordres mr. Rocquemaurel.
Very detailed chart of Macao and several of the surrounding Islands, and features numerous depth soundings throughout. Prepared by captain, Gaston de Rocquemaurel. Logo o...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1856 / 1863
![[Macaire] Abus de l'article 214 du code civil. Madame mon épouse... (Plate 50)](/uploads/cache/17389-250x250.jpg)
[Macaire] Abus de l'article 214 du code civil. Madame mon épouse... (Plate 50)
Macaire personified the clever business man, who was willing at any time to throw moral and ethical principles overboard for a quick buck. His personality fitted exactly ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1864
![[Macaire] Pensionnat Robert-Macaire. Mr le professeur. . . (Plate 4)](/uploads/cache/17390-250x250.jpg)
[Macaire] Pensionnat Robert-Macaire. Mr le professeur. . . (Plate 4)
Macaire personified the clever businessman, who was willing at any time to throw moral and ethical principles overboard for a quick buck. His personality fitted exactly t...
Place & Date: Paris, 1864
Kiepert's Physikalische Wandkarten. VI. Nord-America.
Large folding school wall map of North and Central America printed in chromo-lithography. Published by Dieter Reimer and printed by Leopold Kraatz in Berlin. Three inset...
Place & Date: Berlin, Dieter Reimer, 1864
Atlas usuel de Géographie Moderne…
Complete with title page, contents page, and all 32 double-page maps of European and regional maps of the world, including Oceania, the Americas, Asia, Africa, etc. All i...
Place & Date: Paris, c. 1865
Selling price: $1200
Sold in 2024
Carte générale de L'Empire Ottoman en Europe et en Asie dressée par Henri Kiepert . . .
Large School wall map of Turkish Empire printed in chromo-lithography. Published by Dieter Reimer and printed by Ferdind Barth in Berlin. This rare map has two insets in ...
Place & Date: Berlin, Verlag von Dietrich Reimer, 1867
Town of Bedford Westchester Co. NY.
Fine lithographed map of the town of Bedford. The map provides the names of specific homeowners, as well as information about the occupations and physical locations of th...
Place & Date: New York, 1867
Plan of Yonkers Town of Yonkers Westchester Co. N.Y. . . .
Fine lithographed map of Yonkers, New York. The map provides the names of specific homeowners, as well as information about the occupations and physical locations of the ...
Place & Date: New York, 1867
Plan of the Borough of New Rochelle, Westchester Co. N.Y.
Fine lithographed map of the plan of the Borough of New Rochelle. The map provides the names of specific homeowners, as well as information about the occupations and phys...
Place & Date: New York, 1867
Plan of the Beekmanton Tarryntown and Ivring. Westchester Co. N.Y.
Fine lithographed map of the plan of the Beekmantown, Tarrytown, and Irving, New York. The map provides the names of specific homeowners, as well as information about the...
Place & Date: New York, 1867
North Pacific.
Huge three sheet so-called Blue-back sailing chart of the Northern Pacific including China, Korea (with Matu Is. and Liancourt), Japan, Philippines, Kamchatka, Hawaii, Al...
Place & Date: London, 1868
CARTE de la Côte Occidentale de COREE, Plan Croquis de la Rivière HAN-KANG ou de SEOUL, depuis son Embouchure jusqu'à Séoul, dressée en 1866 ...
Uncommon chart of the Han-Kang River from its mouth to Seoul, prepared in 1866 by order of C.A. ROZE, Commander-in-Chief of the French " la Station des Mers de Chine...
Place & Date: Paris, 1868
Carte Des Detroits De Singapour Durian, Jombol et Rhio Dressee d'apres les travaux Anglais et Hollandais les plus recents . . . 1866
Rare separately issued chart of Singapore, extending to Johore, Battam, Bintang, Rempang, Galang, Jombol, Suji, Sanbon and neighboring islands, depicting coastal features...
Place & Date: Paris, 1870
L'Homme A La Boule.
Satirical print in which Count Otto von Bismarck balances on the world with one spurred foot entering France, and wearing only his underpants which are marked with the Ge...
Place & Date: Paris, 1870-1871
L'Homme A La Boule.
Satirical print in which Count Otto von Bismarck balances on the world with one spurred foot entering France, and wearing only his underpants which are marked with the Ge...
Place & Date: Paris, 1870-1871
Cadran Politique au casque magique de guillaume.
A rare broad sheet about the Franco-Prussian War. Showing a large clock with in the center William I, the German Emperor, surrounded by 12 stages of the war.Printed by Gi...
Place & Date: Paris, c.1872
TYO SYEN Corée par les Missionnaires de Corée de la société des missions etrangéres.
A very nice map and rare map of Korea. Prepared by R.P.Carceri who was an missioner active for de la Sociéte des Missions Etrangères.Published as a supplement to Journa...
Place & Date: Lyon, 1872
Selling price: $700
Sold in 2023
Kiepert's Physikalische Wandkarten IV. ASIEN. . .
Wall map of Asia printed in chromo lithography. Published by "Stich und Druck der lith. Anst. Von Leopold Kraatz in Berlin". Physical map showing the Asian cont...
Place & Date: Berlin, D. Reimer, 1873
Mer de Chine - Detroit De Singapour Partie Comprise Entre Singaour et Le Dett. De Malacca d'apres les travaux du Commr. J.W. Reed de la Marine Royale d'Angleterr, ...
A detailed chart of Singapore Strait, drawn from an English Chart by J.W. Reed, who surveyed Singapore and environs between 1865 and 1869, aboard the H.M.S. Rifleman.The ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1873
Amérique Centrale.
Decorative map of Central America from Géographie Universelle, Atlas Migeon. With an inset map of the Isthmus of Panama lower left corner and a panoramic view of Mexico ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1874
Carte du Kouy-Tchéou.
Detailed map of Guizhou Province prepared by Mgr. Faurie and other sources supplied by missionaries. Published in "Les Missions Catholique". Engraved by P. Méa...
Place & Date: Lyon, c.1874
![Carte du Tche-Kiang. [ Zhejiang province ]](/uploads/cache/30921-250x250.jpg)
Carte du Tche-Kiang. [ Zhejiang province ]
Map of Tche Kiang, prepared by Bishop Edmond-François Guierry, C.M. (Vicar Apostolic of Zhejiang, China) after sources supplied by missionaries. Published in "Les M...
Place & Date: Paris, 1874
Nieuwe kaart van het Koningrijk der Nederlanden. . .
Uncommon map of the Netherlands prepared by J.S. Smulders and P. H. Witkamp and lithographed by Z.M. den Koning in the Hague. Dated.Showing The Kingdom of the Netherlands...
Place & Date: The Hague, 1874
La Pieuvre Germanique.
Scarce lithographed plate not dated, by Eugène Danzanvilliers, printed by Grandremy in Paris. The plate listed by Adhemar is dated 1874. Eugène Danzanvilliers was a dra...
Place & Date: Paris, 28 Quai de la Rapée, c.1874
La pericolante ostinata. Papagallo No. 20 Anno II.
Design by Augusto Grossi. Taken from the Italian satirical newspaper Il Papagallo, a satirical magazine founded in January 1873 by Augusto Grossi (1835-1919), which speci...
Place & Date: Bologne, 1874
Compass.
A very nicely crafted sloop compass in original box. The compass is gimbaled and is executed in beautiful red copper. Made and signed by F.J. Kloos & Son of Rotterdam...
Place & Date: Rotterdam, 1850-1875
Sint Catharinakerk te Eindhoven.
Uncommon woodblock engraving of St.Catharina church of Eindhoven, built by the well-known architect P.Cuijpers. Published in Katholieke Illustratie.The "katholieke i...
Place & Date: 'sHertogenbosch, Henri Bogaerts, 1875
Histoire de la Guerre Civile en Amerique par M. Le Comte de Paris, Ancien Aide de Camp du General Mac Clellan (McClellan). ...
These 30 maps were made by Vorzet to accompany Louis Phillipe d'Orleans' (Comte de Paris) multi volume "Histoire de la Guerre Civile en Amérique". The set incl...
Place & Date: Paris. Michel Levy Freres, 1875
New York Ferry Boat. (Bac à vapeur de New York).
A very decorative print showing the New York Ferry Boat "Fulton," published by Currier & Ives. The Ferry boat "Fulton" sails to the right. A singl...
Place & Date: New York, ca. 1875
Carte Astronomique de L'Univers.
A large and decorative, informative chart illustrating and describing the Solar System, backed by the stars, printed in blue and black, surrounded by further 17 vignette ...
Place & Date: Paris, 1875
Trop d'Appetit par A. Le Petit.
Dated in lower right dated "Le 9 juin 1875". The drawing is representing an alligator's jaw wearing a Prussian helmet, and about to chew a globe. Alfred Le Peti...
Place & Date: Paris, 1875
Atlas de Géographie Physique, Politique, Ancienne et Moderne contenant les cartes générales et particulières toutes les parties du Monde.
Complete with title page, contents page, and all 35 double-page maps of European and regional maps of the world, including Oceania, the Americas, Asia, Africa, etc. All i...
Place & Date: Paris, 1875
Selling price: $1280
Sold in 2024
Mapa geogra´fico de la mayor parte de la Ame´rica Meridional que contiene los paises por donde debe trazarse la li´nia divisoria que divida los dominios de Espan~a y Portugal. . .
Rare first edition of the map drawn by Francisco Requena (1743-1824) after his expedition to the Amazon in order to delineate the boundary between the Spanish and Portugu...
Place & Date: Bourquin, F. Philadelphia, ca. 1876
Société de la Charité Maternelle à Paris. Plan de le ville de Paris, Divisé par Quartiers avec Nomenclature.
>Rare atlas de Paris dressé par E. Devrainne, divisé en 80 quartiers et colorié par Le Roux (Le Roux pinxit). Illustré d'une page de titre aux armes de Paris avec ...
Place & Date: Imprimerie Mercier, Clichy, 1876