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Boats of the Friendly Islands. [together with] A Sailing Canoe of Otaheite.
Early view of Queen charlotte's sound, taken from "Views in the South Seas" being a very important and early views depicting scenes encountered while employed a...
Place & Date: London, Boydell and Co., 1808
View of the harbour of Taloo, in the island of Eimeo.
John Webber View of the Harbour of Taloo on Moorea (Society Islands), from "Views in the South Seas" being a very important and early views depicting scenes enc...
Place & Date: London, Boydell and Co., 1808
A Toopapaoo of a Chief, with a priest making his offering to the Morai, in Huoheine. [Huaheine - the Society Islands]
A view of a chief's raised burial chamber in Huaheine, Society Islands, taken from "Views in the South Seas" being a very important and early view depicting sce...
Place & Date: London, Boydell and Co., 1808
The narta, or Sledge for burdens in Kamtschatka.
The narta, or Sledge for burdens in Kamtschatka, taken from "Views in the South Seas" being a very important and early views depicting scenes encountered while ...
Place & Date: London, Boydell and Co., 1808
View in the island of Cracatoa.
Early view of the volcano Krakatoa (Indonesian name: Krakatau), on the Indonesian island of Rakata in the Sunda Strait, taken from "Views in the South Seas" bei...
Place & Date: London, Boydell and Co., 1808
The Fan palm, in the island of Cracatoa.
The Fan palm, on the island of Krakatoa (Indonesian name: Krakatau), in the Sunda Strait, taken from "Views in the South Seas" being a very important and early ...
Place & Date: London, Boydell and Co., 1808
A view in Oheitepeha Bay in the Island of Otaheite. (Tahiti)
A view of Vaitepiha Bay (Tahiti), with a mountainous landscape, with a river in the centre, a small canoe, Tahitian houses to the right, and a Tahitian couple in the left...
Place & Date: London, Boydell and Co., 1808
Par Brevets. / Eau admirable de Cologne, de A. Farina, ancien Distillateur de Cologne, breveté, Place Juliers, N°11.
Advertising Broadsheet promoting the toilet water "Eau de Cologne". Ornated with the royal coat of arms of France and 2 two-headed eagles. With the printed sign...
Place & Date: After 1810
Les environs d'Ostende. XII.
Beautiful view of Oostende. A somewhat fanciful depiction of the harbor of Oostende, with merchant on the foreground and large vessels in the sea. The item is signed (Dre...
Place & Date: Belgium, c. 1811
Carte von West=Gallizien welche auf allerhöchsten Befehl Seiner Kaiserlich oesterreichischen und Königlich apostolischen Majestät in den Jahren 1801 bis 1804. . .
Important early map of Western Galicia, as given to Austria by the third Partition of Poland (1795). Due to its long development period, a rare map rich in detail shows t...
Place & Date: Vienna, (1808) after 1811
[Title page] Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes éxécuté par ordre de S.M l'Empereur et Roi.
Set of two title pages from the atlas part of "Voyage de decouvertes aux terres australes", Freycinet and Peron's accounts of the French cartographic expedition...
Place & Date: Paris, Langois, 1811
Département de Montenotte Divisé en 4 arrondissemens et en 30 cantons.
Published in the "Atlas National de France" at Chanlaire. Engraved by P.A.F. Tardieu. Represents the department of Apennines which was under French administrati...
Place & Date: Paris, 1790-1811
Carte des routes de poste de la Russie européenne, exécutée par ordre de S.E.M. le duc de Feltre ministre de la Guerre, ...
Post-route map on a scale of 1:2 500 000 made during the French campaign in Russia, which began June 24, 1812. With a table of the conventional signs and a table of conve...
Place & Date: Paris, Dépôt Général de la Guerre 1812
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
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La Crise salutaire.
In this` fine French caricature we see Napoleon seated in side profile to the left on an ornate chair-commode, clasping his knees, benign forward to vomit into a bowl hel...
Place & Date: Paris, 1814
Generalkarte vom Königreich Preussen u. d. Herz[ogtum] Warschau nach astronomischen Ortsbestim[m]ungen und geodätischen Messungen. . .
Rare seemingly unrecorded map of Poland with its borders after the Congress of Vienna, probably based on a lost first edition of Daniel Friedrich Sotzmann's (1754-1840) m...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, Schneider & Weigel 1815
Corea and Japan.
A fine large-scale map of Japan and Korea showing an increasingly refined outline to the Japanese islands but still oversized Korean peninsula. The strait south of Korea,...
Place & Date: Edinburgh, 1816
Timor. Vue de la rade, de la ville et du fort de Coupang, dans l'île de Timor.
Nice double page view of the town Kupang, formerly known as Koepang. In the center is the Dutch V.O.C. fort. From Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François...
Place & Date: Paris, 1807-1816
Langley's New Travelling and Commercial Map . . .
A highly desirable, detailed and uncommon map of England and Wales, published by Langley and Belch. The map is flanked by a pair of large and detailed explanation tables,...
Place & Date: London, 1817
Nuova Pianta Iconografica.. Venezia.
Precise bird's-eye town-plan of Venice, clearly depicting the city's architectural landmark, being a reduction of Ughi's 8-sheet map of 1725. There is a grid engraved ove...
Place & Date: Venice, 1818
Account of a voyage of discovery to the west coast of Corea.
BRITAIN'S FIRST ACCURATE ACCOUNT OF KOREA & OKINAWANS. With an appendix containing charts and various hydrographical and scientific notices by captain Basil Hall and ...
Place & Date: London, 1818
Hundeliebhaberey.
Engraved by Joseph Stöber, (born in Vienna 13. June 1768, died 12 March 1852) after design of Matthäus Loder (1781-1828). From Castelli, "Zerrbilder menschlicher T...
Place & Date: Wien, 1818
Grimafsirter Tanz.
Engraved by Joseph Stöber, (born in Vienna 13. June 1768, died 12 March 1852) after design of Matthäus Loder (1781-1828). From Castelli, "Zerrbilder menschlicher T...
Place & Date: Wien, 1818
Modesucht.
Engraved by Joseph Stöber, (born in Vienna 13. June 1768, died 12 March 1852) after design of Matthäus Loder (1781-1828). From Castelli, "Zerrbilder menschlicher T...
Place & Date: Wien, 1818
Vogel Liebhaberey.
Engraved by Joseph Stöber, (born in Vienna 13. June 1768, died 12 March 1852) after design of Matthäus Loder (1781-1828). From Castelli, "Zerrbilder menschlicher T...
Place & Date: Wien, 1818
Frefser.
Engraved by Joseph Stöber, (born in Vienna 13. June 1768, died 12 March 1852) after design of Matthäus Loder (1781-1828). From Castelli, "Zerrbilder menschlicher T...
Place & Date: Wien, 1818
Schmetterlingsfang.
Engraved by Joseph Stöber, (born in Vienna 13. June 1768, died 12 March 1852) after design of Matthäus Loder (1781-1828). From Castelli, "Zerrbilder menschlicher T...
Place & Date: Wien, 1818
Liebeserklärung.
Engraved by Joseph Stöber, (born in Vienna 13. June 1768, died 12 March 1852) after design of Matthäus Loder (1781-1828). From Castelli, "Zerrbilder menschlicher T...
Place & Date: Wien, 1818
Säufer.
Engraved by Joseph Stöber, (born in Vienna 13. June 1768, died 12 March 1852) after design of Matthäus Loder (1781-1828). From Castelli, "Zerrbilder menschlicher T...
Place & Date: Wien, 1818
Zerstreuung.
Engraved by Joseph Stöber, (born in Vienna 13. June 1768, died 12 March 1852) after design of Matthäus Loder (1781-1828). From Castelli, "Zerrbilder menschlicher T...
Place & Date: Wien, 1818
Voyage of his majesty’s ship Alceste, along the Coast of Corea, to the island of Lewchew, with an account of her subsequent shipwreck, by John M’LEOD. Surgeon of the Alceste.
Second and best edition, with frontispiece portrait of Captain Maxwell and five fine hand-colored aquatint plates, including a plate not present in the first edition of t...
Place & Date: London, John Murray, 1818
Carte d'Afrique Dressée pour l'instruction par Guillaume DeLisle. . .
The map is a rare re-issue of the Delisle map of 1722. In his first map of the continent in 1700, Delisle re-measured the Mediterranean, being the first to establish its ...
Place & Date: Paris, J.Dezauche, 1819
Vue de Gattweick et de l'embouchure du Rhin, dans la Mer du Nord.
Very decorative view of Katwijk. Signed lower right, Louis Bleuler au chateau de Laufen . Original design by Louis Bleuer. This gouache was the model for his aquatint in ...
Place & Date: 1820
Chungguk-do
Chungguk-do [Map of China] taken from a Korean printed Ch’onha chido [Atlas of all under Heaven] which is a 19th century version of the traditional Korean atlas produce...
Place & Date: Korea, ca. 1820
Manuscript plan of Havana harbour.
Manuscript chart with good nautical detail and soundings of Havana harbour.
Place & Date: Spain c.1820
Carte de l'Arabie d'après les différents morceaux qu'a donnés M. Niebuh...
Detailed map of the Arabian peninsular, after Niebuhr, with scales in lower left corner. Engraved by Pierre-Paul Dubuisson.More about Mapping of Arabia [+]
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1820
Very fine folding fan with painting of Minerva, Juno and 2 peacocks.
Small folding fan made of double skin sheet, mounted in English style, painted with gouache and depicting Minerva and Juno sitting near each other and receiving the visit...
Place & Date: ca. 1820
Jeu Royal de la vie d'Henri IV.
Large sheet with an animated Goose-game of 63 numbered squares, spiral, counterclockwise, centripetal focused on the French king Henri IV.André Basset offers the life of...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1816-1820
La Curiosite punie, aventure hydrauli-comique et vraie.
A charming and delightful hand colored etching in the grand French style of the early nineteenth century from "Musee Grotesque No. 20" : La Curiosite punie, ave...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1816-1820
London in Miniature With The Surrounding Villages. An Entire New Plan In which the Improvements both present and intended are actually reduced, by permission, from the surveys of the Several Proprietors. . .
Hand-coloured engraved map, dissected and mounted on linen, orange publishers label on one side, extending west to east from Kensington to East India and Greenwich Dock a...
Place & Date: London, 1821
Oursins.
Decorative plate of a sea urchin, engraved by Boquet. Marie Jules César Lelorgne de Savigny (April 5, 1777 - October 5, 1851) was a French zoologist. In 1798 he traveled...
Place & Date: Paris, 1822
Oursins.
Showing sand dollars, sea urchin, etc. engraved by Macret. Marie Jules César Lelorgne de Savigny (April 5, 1777 - October 5, 1851) was a French zoologist. In 1798 he tra...
Place & Date: Paris, 1822
Astéries.
Decorative engraving of a star fish, engraved by Boquet. Marie Jules César Lelorgne de Savigny (April 5, 1777 - October 5, 1851) was a French zoologist. In 1798 he trave...
Place & Date: Paris, 1822
Hommards.
Decorative engraving of a lobster, by Tresca. Marie Jules César Lelorgne de Savigny (April 5, 1777 - October 5, 1851) was a French zoologist. In 1798 he traveled to Egyp...
Place & Date: Paris, 1822
Astéries.
Decorative engraving of star fishes, by Macret and Leleu. Marie Jules César Lelorgne de Savigny (April 5, 1777 - October 5, 1851) was a French zoologist. In 1798 he trav...
Place & Date: Paris, 1822
Het Huisje door Czaar Peter den Grooten in den Jare 1697 te Zaandam bewoond.
Engraved by Cornelis van Baarsel (Utrecht 1761 - Amsterdam 1826-08-17) after a design of T. Monsieur M.Z. who made his drawing "after nature".A first state, the...
Place & Date: Zaandam, 1823
Nouvelle-Hollande. Gnoung-A-Gnougn-A, Mour-Re-Mour-Ga ( Dit Collins). [plate XVII]
A portrait of a male Tasmanian Aboriginal Gnoung-A-Gnougn-A, Mour-Re-Mour-Ga ( Dit Collins) by Lesueur, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François Pér...
Place & Date: Paris, 1824
Nouvelle-Hollande: Nelle. Galles du sud - Navigation. [plate XXIII]
An aboriginal camp fire, with a pirogue and two men navigating , after the original sketches by Lesueur, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François Pé...
Place & Date: Paris, 1824
Nouvelle-Hollande: Terre dEndracht - Cabane des naturels de la Presqu'Ile de Péron. [plate XXIV]
An aboriginal camp fire, after the original sketches by Lesueur, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François Péron, 1824.The French expedition under Ni...
Place & Date: Paris, 1824
Timor. Naba-Leba Roi de L'Ile Solor. [plate XXV]
A portrait of a male Naba-Leba by Lesueur, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François Péron, 1824.The French expedition under Nicolas Baudin, was comm...
Place & Date: Paris, 1824
Timor. Canda Jeune fille Malaise. [plate XXVI]
A portrait of a female Canda by Lesueur, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François Péron, 1824.The French expedition under Nicolas Baudin, was commis...
Place & Date: Paris, 1824
Nouvelle-Hollande: Ile King. - L'Eléphant -marin ou Phoque à trompe. [plate XXXII]
Plate illustrating seals by Lesueur, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François Péron, 1824.The French expedition under Nicolas Baudin, was commission...
Place & Date: Paris, 1824
Timor. Rhinolophe Cruménifére. [plate XXXV]
Plate illustrating Horseshoe bats from Timor Island, by Lesueur, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François Péron, 1824.The French expedition under Ni...
Place & Date: Paris, 1824
Nouvelle-Hollande Nelle Galles du sud. Vue d'une partie de la ville de Sydney capitale des Colonies Anglaises aux Terres Australes . . . [plate XXXVII]
Important view of Sydney Cove from Dawes Point looking eastward from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François Péron, 1824. This is one of the earliest de...
Place & Date: Paris, 1824
Plan de la partie sud des Iles Furneaux [with] Carte générale de la Partie Sud-Est de la Terre de Diémen . . .
Two maps on one sheet, on top a map of the southern portion of Cape Barren Island, Clarke Island, and islets in the southern part of the Furneaux Group.With in lower part...
Place & Date: Paris, 1824
Plan de la Baie Laplace [with] Esquisse du Port Western [with] Plan des Iles Forestier [with] Esquisse du Port Champagny.
Four maps on one sheet, Laplace Bay, Western Harbour, Forestier islands and Champagny Harbour, from Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François Péron, 1824....
Place & Date: Paris, 1824
The Traveller's Guide. A Map Of The Roads, Canals And Steam Boat Routes Of The United States ... Designed for the use of Travellers, By H.S. Tanner.
Rare first edition of Tanner's travel map in pocket map form, in it original red leather covers, with the map and no text, as issued. Ristow says the first edition was 18...
Place & Date: Philadelphia, 1825
Le Chantier d'Amsterdam.
Decorative lithography representing the head quarters of the V.O.C. and shipyard in Amsterdam. The building serves nowadays as the Maritime Museum. After a painting by A....
Place & Date: Brussels, J. B. A. Jobard, 1825
Carte Geographique, Statistique et Historique de Guatimala.
A nice detailed map of Guatemala from Buchon's Atlas Gégraphique Statistique, historique et chronologique des deux Ameriques et des isles adjacentes traduit de l'atlas e...
Place & Date: Paris, 1825
Carte Geographique, Statistique et Historique de l'Amerique Meridionale.
A nice detailed map of South America from Buchon's Atlas Gégraphique Statistique, historique et chronologique des deux Ameriques et des isles adjacentes traduit de l'atl...
Place & Date: Paris, 1825
Carte Geographique, Statistique et Historique du Perou.
A nice detailed map of Peru from Buchon's Atlas Gégraphique Statistique, historique et chronologique des deux Ameriques et des isles adjacentes traduit de l'atlas exécu...
Place & Date: Paris, 1825
Carte Geographique, Statistique et Historique de Buenos-Ayres.
A nice detailed map of what is today northern Argentina (Rep. of Buenos Ayres or the United Provinces of South America) from Buchon's Atlas Gégraphique Statistique, hist...
Place & Date: Paris, 1825
Carte Geographique, Statistique et Historique de la Guyane.
A nice detailed map of Guyana from Buchon's Atlas Gégraphique Statistique, historique et chronologique des deux Ameriques et des isles adjacentes traduit de l'atlas exé...
Place & Date: Paris, 1825
Carte Geographique, Statistique et Historique du Paraguay.
A nice detailed map of Paraguay from Buchon's Atlas Gégraphique Statistique, historique et chronologique des deux Ameriques et des isles adjacentes traduit de l'atlas ex...
Place & Date: Paris, 1825
Carte Geographique, Statistique et Historique du Bresil.
A nice detailed map of Brazil from Buchon's Atlas Gégraphique Statistique, historique et chronologique des deux Ameriques et des isles adjacentes traduit de l'atlas exé...
Place & Date: Paris, 1825
Carte des Principales Montagnes du Globe.
A nice detailed depiction of the principal mountains of the world from Buchon's Atlas Gégraphique Statistique, historique et chronologique des deux Ameriques et des isle...
Place & Date: Paris, 1825
Carte des Principales Riviers du Globe.
A nice detailed depiction of the principal rivers of the world from Buchon's Atlas Gégraphique Statistique, historique et chronologique des deux Ameriques et des isles a...
Place & Date: Paris, 1825
Carte Géographique .. Kentucky.
Detailed map of Kentucky. From J.A. Buchon, "Atlas Gégraphique Statistique, historique et chronologique des deux Ameriques et des isles adjacentes; traduit de l'atl...
Place & Date: Paris, 1825
Bibliomappe. Chronologie Historique et Géographique par MM. Année et Vivien bound with : Bibliomappe, ou Livre-Cartes: Leçons Méthodiques de Chronologie et de Géographie, . . .
With 67 maps (1 folding) by A.M. Perrot. Published in Paris. Most maps have original color. The atlas is complete very rare, as it was issued in 15 separate installments ...
Place & Date: Paris, Renard, 1827 / 1824-1826
Province de Pologne contenant 22 Col. une M.on Prof 5 Pen. 2 Nov. 6 Rés. 30 Maisons 1050 Jésuites.
Rare map of Poland from "Atlas Universel indiquant les établissemens des Jésuites: avec la manière dont ils divisent la terre, suivi desévénemens remarquables d...
Place & Date: Paris, Ambroise Dupont , 1826
Les jeunes voyageurs en Europe, ou description raisonnée des divers pays compris dans cette partie du monde.
The second edition of this fine travel companion is illustrated with 16 very decorative maps, each map surrounded by local products and specialties of the region. Include...
Place & Date: Paris, Thiériot, 1827
[ Traditional tools from New Caledonia ].
Aquatint depicting a variety of traditional tools from New Caledonia engraved by Rossi. Plate N° 72. From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoi...
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
[ Spitzbergen ]
Two aquatints depicting the northern coasts of the Spitzbergen engraved by Fumagalli. From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouvernement...
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
[ Niagara Falls ]
Two aquatints depicting the Horse Shoe Fall (also known as Canadian Falls at the top) and the Fort Schloper Fall (bottom) engraved by Biasolé. From Giulio Ferrario's wor...
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
[ View of an inn and a horse carriage. ].
Aquatint depicting a view of an inn and a horse carriage engraved by Fumagalli. Plate N°44.From Giulio Ferrario's work Le Costume Ancien et Moderne ou Histoire du gouver...
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
[ William Penn's treaty with the Indians in 1681 ].
Aquatint depicting William Penn's treaty with the Indians in 1681, after a painting by Benjamin West.William Penn (October 14, 1644 - July 30, 1718) was founder and "...
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
[ A typical Timucua Indians Village ].
Aquatint depicting a typical Timucua Indians Village engraved by Fumagalli, after Jacques LeMoyne. The Timucua of northeast Florida (the Saturiwa and Agua Dulce tribes) a...
Place & Date: Milan, 1827
Partie de la Chine. N°.74 (Including South Korea)
Covering the Mouth of the Yangtze area in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and southwestern Korea with the island of Quelpart (Jeju-do). Shows explorers' routes, including La Perou...
Place & Date: Brussels, 1825-1827
Partie de la Chine N°87. (Covers Jiangxi, Fujian and parts of Zhejiang, Guangdong, Hunan and Hubei.)
Covers Jiangxi, Fujian and parts of Zhejiang, Guangdong, Hunan and Hubei.From his famous Atlas Universel . This atlas was one of the most remarkable world atlases ever pr...
Place & Date: Brussels, 1825-1827
Partie de la Chine N°86. (Covers Guizhou and parts of Yunnan, Guangxi, Hunan, Hubei and Sichuan.)
Covers Guizhou and parts of Yunnan, Guangxi, Hunan, Hubei and Sichuan.From his famous Atlas Universel . This atlas was one of the most remarkable world atlases ever produ...
Place & Date: Brussels, 1825-1827