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Grande Capucine. Tropaeolum majus. L.
Indian cress or monks cress, 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
La China e Giapone.
Uncommon map of China, Korea, Japan and Taiwan (I.Formosa), only one town labeled, Tayoan. Very strange shape for Japan.The map is of interest for the use of Mar di Corea...
Place & Date: Italy, ca. 1800
Deutschlands Postkarte begraenzt von Oesterreich, Preussen, Frankreich, Holland, Italien und der Schweiz. . .
Detailed and important post road map prepared by Ignaz Heymann. The map shows, the Low Countries, Germany, Poland, Austria, Hungary, etc.Borders in original out-line colo...
Place & Date: Triest, 1800
Recueil de cartes géographiques pour la description de l'Indostan . . .
First French edition, the maps revised by Jean Nicholas Buache. The English original edition was published in London in 1783 by Brown under the title "Memoir of a ...
Place & Date: Paris, Poignée, an VIII = 1800
Early 19th century magnetic dry card compass with wooden bowl,
Brass dry rose marine compass, in its mahogany case. The mariner's compass, which enabled mariners to know the direction in which they were sailing, has always been one o...
Place & Date: ca. 1800
Shinkan Nagasaki no Dzu.
The oldest of these so-called Nagasaki pictures (Nagasaki-zu) were two panoramic prints by the artist Chikujuken that served as guides to the city of Nagasaki for visitor...
Place & Date: Nagasaki, 1801
Kaart Van Nieuw Zeeland in de Jaaren 1769 en 1770 bezogt door den Luitenant J. Cook met het Schip De Endeavour.
A uncommon issue of this key map of New Zealand from the Dutch edition of Cook's map of New Zealand, published in 'Reize rondom de Waereld door James Cook', a Dutch editi...
Place & Date: Leyden, Amsterdam & The Hague: Honcoop, Allart & van Cleef, 1795-1801
![Schat-Kamer ofte konst der stuurlieden, inhoudende Een duidelyke onderwyzinge in de navigatie. . . [bound with] Geographische Tadfel vande Graaden.. Voornaamste Zee-haavens. . .](/uploads/cache/33114-250x250.jpg)
Schat-Kamer ofte konst der stuurlieden, inhoudende Een duidelyke onderwyzinge in de navigatie. . . [bound with] Geographische Tadfel vande Graaden.. Voornaamste Zee-haavens. . .
Rare and important manual originally prepared by Klaas de Vries and improved by Evert Floryn and S.Hollander of the "Schat-Kamer ofte konst der stuurlieden" (Tr...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Wed. Gerard Hulst van Keulen, 1802
United States of North America. Carte des Etats-Unis de l'Amerique Septentrionale / copiée et gravée sur celle d'Arrowsmith, corrigée et considérablement augmentée... par P. F. Tardieu...
FIRST EDITION. An impressive wall map here in 4 unjoined sheets and large margins. RARE in these untouched, full sheets. Recorded examples are usually offered as folding ...
Place & Date: Paris: An XI - 1802
Guyana, Surinam, Amapa.
Very rare Ottoman printed map of Guyana, Suriname and Amapa. With Trinidad, an inset map of the mouth of the Rivers Essequibo, Courantyne, Suriname with Paramaribo.From C...
Place & Date: Uskudar (Istanbul), 1803
Selling price: $1750
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![Bunken Edo oezu. [Tokyo]](/uploads/cache/12826-250x250.jpg)
Bunken Edo oezu. [Tokyo]
Based on map by Ochikochi Doin. Oriented with north to the right. An extraordinary wood block-printed town-plan now-a-day Tokyo, and a fine example of Edo cartography. Th...
Place & Date: Edo, ca. 1803
Teatro della guerra nelle Flandre Austriache e Francesi. . .
Rare folio-sized map of Belgium by Antonio Zatta e Figli, from a never-finished atlas by the ‘Società Calcografia’, a partnership of the two main Venetian publishers...
Place & Date: Venise, 1803
Le Indie Orientali.
A nice map of the East Indies, published in Rome at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Shows from the Persian Gulf across Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh, then sout...
Place & Date: Rome, ca 1803
Daar is niet aan aftedingen: het is de gezette prijs.
Fine color plate from "Afbeeldingen van de Kleeding, Zeden en Gewoonten in de BataafscheRepubliek..". A young woman in local dress buying jewellery.Plate number...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1804
Map of China.
Showing China, Taiwan and Korea, divided into provinces with the main cities marked. The map is of interest for the use of Sea of Corea, the sea between Korea and Japan, ...
Place & Date: London, 1804
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
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[Butterflies]
Plate CXXIV from Carl Gustav Jablonsky and J.F.W. Herbst: "Natursystem aller bekannten in- und ausländischen Insecten", engraved by Bodenehr. Carl Gustav Jablo...
Place & Date: Berlin, J. Pauli, 1785-1806
Paraguay, Chili, Terre Magellan ?
Map of Paraguay, Chili, and Argentina . By C. F. Delamarche, successor of Robert de Vaugondy, Geographer.
Place & Date: Paris, 1794 -1806
![Morokoshi Meisho Zue [Illustrated Description of Famous Sites of China].](/uploads/cache/34118-250x250.jpg)
Morokoshi Meisho Zue [Illustrated Description of Famous Sites of China].
Published in Osaka, Kawachiya Genhichiro, et al. [8 book sellers], slightly later issue but apparently in Edo period, using all the same woodblocks of original first edit...
Place & Date: Osaka, Edo, slightly later than Bunka 3, year of the tiger - 1806
Siberie ou Russie Asiatique, Tartarie Chinoise, Pays des Eluts et Isles du Japon.
Map of the Kamchatka peninsula, Russian Far East., Korea, Japan, with Hokkaido labeled "Terre del Jeso".By C. F. Delamarche, successor of Robert de Vaugondy, Ge...
Place & Date: Paris, 1794 - 1806
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[Beatles]
Plate III from Carl Gustav Jablonsky and J.F.W. Herbst: "Natursystem aller bekannten in- und ausländischen Insecten", engraved by Bodenehr. Carl Gustav Jablons...
Place & Date: Berlin, J. Pauli, 1785-1806
Asia.
Uncommon map of Asia. Engraved by Marco di Pietro.The map is of interest for the use of G. di Corea, for the sea between Korea and Japan.Published by Carlo Antonio Barbie...
Place & Date: Milan, 1807
Plan de la Baie de L'Adventure. . .
A French maritime chart of Adventure Bay in S.E. Tasmania. Adventure Bay is the name of both a township and a geographical feature on the eastern side of Bruny Island. Th...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1807
Plan du Port du Sud de la Baie de la Recherche / Croquis de la Baie des Moules. . .
A French maritime charts of the Port du Sud in Research Bay and the mouth of the Bay of Mussels, both in southern Tasmania. This is the edition of the extremely rare atla...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1807
Plan du Port du Nord de la Baie de la Recherche.
A French maritime chart of the plan of the northern portion of Recherche Bay on the S.E. tip of Tasmania. The chart has some physical detail, outlining trees and hills, b...
Place & Date: Paris, ca 1807
Plan du Port Jackson / Plan du Comte de Cumberland.
Two maps on one sheet showing the earliest scientific surveys of Port Jackson and the area surrounding Sydney Harbour, undertaken by the French in 1802. This is the editi...
Place & Date: Paris, 1807
Carte de la Baie des Chiens-Marins (Shark's Bay de Dampier). . .
A strikingly detailed chart of a portion of the coastline of Western Australia, titled 'Carte de la Baie des Chiens-Marins, which was also explored by William Dampier. Th...
Place & Date: Paris, 1807
Plan de L'Isle de Paque / Plan de la Baie de Cook.
Two engraved maps and four coastal profiles of Easter Island in the Pacific. First published in the Atlas du Voyage de la Perouse. This is the edition of the extremely ra...
Place & Date: Paris, 1797-1807
Carte de L'Archipel de La Recherche a la partie Occidentale de la Terre de Nuyts. . .
A large and detailed chart of the southern West Australian coast centered on the region of Esperance and the surrounding islands.Terre de Nuyts is the name that was forme...
Place & Date: Paris 1807
Carte Réduite Du Golphe Du Mexique Et Des Isles De L' Amérique..
A well engraved and highly detailed chart prepared by Bellin of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. In addition to a magnificent title cartouche and a color key to the ...
Place & Date: Paris dated year 17, or 1808
Carta militar das principaes estradas de Portugal.
Rare road map of Portugal in a scale of ca 1:470000. At the bottom right and left legends in Portuguese and French. Engraved by Romão Eloy de Almeida, who was a Portugue...
Place & Date: Lisbone, 1808
![Boats of the Friendly Islands. [together with] A Sailing Canoe of Otaheite.](/uploads/cache/30041-250x250.jpg)
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]](/uploads/cache/30045-250x250.jpg)
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.
Webber's view of transport in Kamtchatka, Russia, showing the sledge dogs hooked up to the sledge, and their master on skis, taken from "Views in the South Seas"...
Place & Date: London, Boydell and Co., 1808
![View in the island of Cracatoa. [Rakata in the Sunda Strait]](/uploads/cache/30051-250x250.jpg)
View in the island of Cracatoa. [Rakata in the Sunda Strait]
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
(Index sheet) General Tableau zur Karte von Alt Ost und West Preussen nebst dem aufgenommenen Trigonometrischen Netz. . .
Index sheet of this important multi sheet map of Prussia, Lithuania and Poland.Section XXIV of the rare first edition of this important 25-sheet map prepared by Friedrich...
Place & Date: Berlin, 1802-1810
(Sheet X with Puk Bay from) General Tableau zur Karte von Alt Ost und West Preussen nebst dem aufgenommenen Trigonometrischen Netz. . .
Sheet IV with Zalew Wislany and the towns of Elblag, Paslek, Braniewo, etc of this important multi sheet map of Prussia, Lithuania and Poland.The rare first edition of th...
Place & Date: Berlin, 1802-1810
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.](/uploads/cache/39732-250x250.jpg)
[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
Selling price: $400
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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. . .](/uploads/cache/37060-250x250.jpg)
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
![[Title page] Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes . . . Deuxieme partie.](/uploads/cache/46363-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes . . . Deuxieme partie.
Title page of the atlas Voyage de découvertes aux terres Australes by François Péron, 1824. The French expedition under Nicolas Baudin, was commissioned to chart the c...
Place & Date: Paris, 1807-1816
Woman of Brabant.
Very fine view of a woman wearing the traditional dress of Brabant.
Place & Date: London, 1817
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
Black, Dutch Red and White Current.
Color aquatint and stipple engraved plate of fruits by George Brookshaw (1751-1823) from his "Pomona Britannica; or, a Collection of the most esteemed fruits at pres...
Place & Date: London, Bensley and son, 1817
Cherries.
Color aquatint and stipple engraved plate of fruits by George Brookshaw (1751-1823) from his "Pomona Britannica; or, a Collection of the most esteemed fruits at pres...
Place & Date: London, Bensley and son, 1817
Cherries.
Color aquatint and stipple engraved plate of fruits by George Brookshaw (1751-1823) from his "Pomona Britannica; or, a Collection of the most esteemed fruits at pres...
Place & Date: London, Bensley and son, 1817
Nuova Pianta Iconografica.. Venezia.
Venice's precise bird' s-eye town plan clearly depicts the city's architectural landmark. A reduction of Ughi's 8-sheet map of 1725. A grid is engraved over the plan, ref...
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.
The second and best edition, with a frontispiece portrait of Captain Maxwell and five fine hand-colored aquatint plates, including a plate not present in the first editio...
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
![[ First Separate Map of Michigan Territory ] Geographical, statistical, and historical map of Michigan territory.](/uploads/cache/25931-250x250.jpg)
[ First Separate Map of Michigan Territory ] Geographical, statistical, and historical map of Michigan territory.
The map illustrates Michigan Territory and the so-called "Indian Line" shortly after the Treaty of Chicago (1821), the third of three treaties with the Native A...
Place & Date: Philadelphia, 1822
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