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![In einem Todt. . . [ Chateau Chenonceaux ]](/uploads/cache/13817-250x250.jpg)
In einem Todt. . . [ Chateau Chenonceaux ]
A very nice depiction of Chateau Chenonceaux near Tours, France within the foreground is a dead lion, surrounded by rabbits. With a verse in two languages underneath the ...
- $70 / ≈ €66
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1623-1678
S. Iohann. Plus vini abutitur quam temperanter.
A very nice view of S.Johann Kloster with in the foreground, a wolf eating grapes. The Abbey of Saint John is an ancient Benedictine monastery in the Swiss municipality o...
- $70 / ≈ €66
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1623-1678
![S. Victor in Franckr. [Paris].](/uploads/cache/13781-250x250.jpg)
S. Victor in Franckr. [Paris].
A very nice view of St. Victor church in Paris. In the foreground, a night watchman is depicted. With a verse in Latin and German underneath the picture. The German text ...
- $60 / ≈ €56
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1623-1678
S. Iulius.
A very nice view of the castle. On the foreground, several frogs are depicted with a verse in two languages underneath the picture.The poet and topographer from Comothau,...
- $60 / ≈ €56
Place & Date: Frankfurt 1623-1678
S. Iulius.
A very nice view of the castle of Saint Julius. On the foreground, several frogs are depicted. With a verse in two languages underneath the picture.The poet and topograph...
- $60 / ≈ €56
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1623-1678
Aeqvum est, tristes secludere curas (Lianges.)
A very nice view of the city Lianges. With a verse in two languages underneath the picture.The poet and topographer from Comothau, Daniel Meisner (1585-1625), started his...
- $60 / ≈ €56
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1623-1678
![S. Victor in Franckr. [France].](/uploads/cache/13770-250x250.jpg)
S. Victor in Franckr. [France].
A very nice view of the church. On the foreground, a night watchman is depicted. With a verse in two languages underneath the picture.The poet and topographer from Comoth...
- $40 / ≈ €37
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1623-1678
Stati della Corona di Polonia Divisa nella sue Principali Provincie e Palatinati da Guglielmo Sansone. . .
Rare map of Poland, Lithuania and the Ukraine. Copies of his first edition of 'Mercurio Geografico', published in 1674, do not contain a map of Poland. Only added in late...
- $1250 / ≈ €1170
Place & Date: Rome, 1678
Reiß in das Gelobte Land ... Mit nach dreyen andern Reißbeschreibungen vermehret, und schönen Kupfern gezieret.
Very rare first illustrated edition of collected travel accounts by citizens of Zürich, containing : Hans Jacob Amman, "Narrative of a trip to Palestine". The ...
Place & Date: Zürich, M. Schauffelberger Erbin, 1678
In einem Todt wollen alle zu Ritter werden.
A very nice view of a dead lion, surrounded by rabbits and in the background a French castle. With a verse in two languages underneath the picture. "In einem Todt, n...
- $70 / ≈ €66
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1623-1678
![S. Victor in Franckr. [The Abbey of St. Victor near Paris.].](/uploads/cache/13769-250x250.jpg)
S. Victor in Franckr. [The Abbey of St. Victor near Paris.].
A very nice view of the Abbey of St. Victor near Paris. On the foreground, a night watchman is depicted. With a verse in two languages underneath the picture.The poet Dan...
- $60 / ≈ €56
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1623-1678
![Cordelirs in Franckr. [France].](/uploads/cache/13812-250x250.jpg)
Cordelirs in Franckr. [France].
A panoramic view of the town of Cordeliers (probably imaginary) with in the center the church. In the foreground a man hunting a wolf. With a verse in two languages under...
- $50 / ≈ €47
Place & Date: Frankfurt 1623-1678
Montaigne de Ca.
In the foreground, a couple of which the man is holding a quadrant with a verse in two languages underneath the picture.The poet and topographer from Comothau, Daniel Mei...
- $85 / ≈ €80
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1623-1678
![[Title page] Theatri Europaei, oder Beschreibung . . .](/uploads/cache/41395-250x250.jpg)
[Title page] Theatri Europaei, oder Beschreibung . . .
Title page.
- $80 / ≈ €75
Place & Date: Frankfurt, Johann Görlin, 1679
(Totius Americae nova et exacta tabula ex) optimis tum geographorum tum aliorum scriptis collecta et ad hodiernam regnorum principatuum et maiorum partium distinctionem accomodata.
Eastern part of a two-sheet map of America, with attribution to Willem Blaeu. According to Philip Burden, the map was derived from Cornelius Danckert's 1647 map of the sa...
Place & Date: Rome, 1679
Description de la Tartarie. . .
Detailed map of Tartary, northern China and Korea as an island. The Caspian Sea in the utmost left. Numerous place-names of counties, cities, towns, physical features.Ala...
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Paris, 1679
Carte des Isles du Japon Esquelles est remarque la Route..
This uncommon map of Japan, which is on a fairly large scale, contains comments about the nature of the country. For instance, Ocsaqui (Okazaki, near Nagoya) is said to h...
Place & Date: Paris 1679
Carte des Isles du Japon Sequels est remarque la Route..
This uncommon map of Japan, a reduced version of his larger map, contains comments about the nature of the country. For instance, Ocsaqui (Okazaki, near Nagoya) is said t...
Place & Date: Paris / Amsterdam, 1679
Lesser Tartaria.
A late seventeenth-century English map of Siberia / Tartary.A scarce little map with accompanying engraved text (94x55mm) from "Atlas Minimus, or, A book of geograph...
- $200 / ≈ €187
Place & Date: London, 1679
Haute Partie de la Basse Saxe..
Fine map of the northeastern part of Germany, including Hamburg and the rivers Wesel and Elbe. This edition carries the date 1679. Nicolas Sanson was to bring about th...
- $75 / ≈ €70
Place & Date: Paris, 1679
Moscovie dite autrement Grande et Blanche Russie.
Somewhat scarce map of the Russia centered on Moscow, including Finland.
- $450 / ≈ €421
Place & Date: Paris, 1679
Indiae Orientalis nec non Insularum adiacentium.
Fine map of South East Asia from India to New Guinea with Japan and the southern tip of Korea in the upper right. The map leaves the question of Torres Straits unanswered...
- $1800 / ≈ €1684
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Goa.
A finely engraved, detailed plan of Goa. It also appeared in Gottfried’s Archontologia (1649). There is a cartouche identifying 43 buildings and the plan includes the h...
- $300 / ≈ €281
Place & Date: Frankfurt, 1680
Gouvernement General de Languedoc. Divise en ses Vint Deux Diocesez.
A lovely late seventeenth century map of the central south French region of Languedoc, part of which borders the Mediterranean Sea by Dutch publisher and cartographer, Fr...
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca 1680
L'Amerique, en plusieurs cartes nouvelles, et exactes, &c. En divers traitez de geographie, et d'histoire. Là où sont descrits succinctement, & avec une belle Methode, & facile.
Third edition, the text and maps of which are identical to the first given in 1657. However, the dedication to Nicolas Fouquet (2 pp.), disgraced in 1661, has been delete...
- $4500 / ≈ €4211
Place & Date: Paris, 1680
Imperii Russici sive Moscoviae . . .
With the imprints of Pierre Mortier, Amsterdam map seller and Christopher Browne, indicating London publication about 1700. De Wit gives credit to Nicolas Witsen, Amsterd...
- $500 / ≈ €468
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
'T Ryk van Persien.
An attractive miniature prepared by N. Sanson. Engraved by A.de Winter.
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Amsterdam, Utrecht, Halma, 1680
Tabula Tartariae et majoris partis regni Chinae.
Stretching from the Caspian Sea in the west to Formosa in the south-east. Including the peninsula of Korea, Japan and the east coast of Yedso. The Great Wall of China is ...
- $650 / ≈ €608
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Foederatae Belgicae Tabulae.
Fine, detailed map of the area of the modern Netherlands less the southern part of Limburg, of which the small area around the town of Maastricht is shown in the inset bo...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Nova Totius Westphaliae descriptio.
Map of the northern provinces of Germany, including the Wad islands. West to the top. Including Bremen, Hildesheim, Kassel, Düsseldorf, etc. Also including the Dutch pro...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Veue de la Ville, et du Port de Calais, di côte de la terre.
Showing the town of Calais; landscape with, in the left foreground, group of cavalrymen led by an officer and going to right, at right two soldiers walking alongside a ca...
Place & Date: Paris, ca. 1680
Belgium Foederatum emendate auctum et novissimé editum.
Fine detailed map of the area of the modern Netherlands less the southern part of Limburg. Title cartouche representing the commerce, the arts and the sciences. The Lion ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Nouvelle Carte geographique du Grand Royaume de Moscovie. . .
Scarce and detailed map centered on Moscow. Showing to the right the river Wolga and Azof in the south.
- $600 / ≈ €561
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Comitatus Flandriae Tabula, In Lucem Edita A Frederico De Wit.
Double page map of Flanders, the whole Belgian region northwest of Brussels, confined by Antwerp, Brussels, valenciennes, Arras, St. Omer and the Channel. Title heading a...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Ignographia candiae tertia a turcis obsessae in lucem edita a F. de Wit.
A scarce broadsheet plan and view of Heraklion on one sheet: prospect 180 x 495mm, map 395 x 495mm., in the lower part a printed description "Abbildung der starken S...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Nova et Accurata totius EUROPAE Descriptio Authore Frederico de Wit Amstelodami.
General map of Europe richly ornamented with small compass rose and Europa shown riding Zeus in the form of a bull, and several putti holding the title banner aloft.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Ambassades mémorables de la Compagnie des Indes orientales des Provinces Unies vers les empereurs du Japon.
First edition in French of this important work on Japan, a work whose illustrations "represent a high-water mark in book illustrations of the 17th century" (Lac...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Navarra Regnum.
RARE : The signature by Willem Blaeu in the lower right corner has been erased. The copperplate was published by Frederick de WitDecorative map of the region which includ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1645-1680
Mare Balticum. . . / Nieuwe Pascaert van de Oost Zee. . .
Decorative chart showing the Baltic sea, with a splendid cartouche of royal figures. A re-issue of the De Wit copper plates, now with many improvements.
- $2500 / ≈ €2339
Place & Date: Amsterdam ca.1680
Treves (Trier)
Rare and decorative view of the city of Trier and the river Moselle in the foreground. In the upper left corner the coat of arms of France. The Jollain family was a famil...
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Paris, 1680
Tabula Ducatus Brabantiae.
Detailed map orientated west to the top.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Tabula exactissima Regnorum Sueciae et Norvegiae..
Very fine and uncommon map of Scandinavia, after Andreas Buraeus, the father of Swedish cartography, whose map was compiled from original survey work. Dedicated to Gustav...
- $750 / ≈ €702
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
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
Walachia Servia, Bulgaria, Romania.
The cartographer of this map was Gerard Mercator. This attractive map of the Eastern Balkans is centered on Bulgaria and includes the Bosphorus and Constantinople. The Da...
Place & Date: Oxford, 1680
Tabula Tartariae et majoris partis regni Chinae.
Stretching from the Caspian Sea in the west to Formosa in the south-east. Including the peninsula of Korea, Japan and the east coast of Yedso. Decorated with finely engra...
- $800 / ≈ €749
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula.
A beautifully decorative world map taken from the 'English Atlas' by Moses Pitt and Steven Swart, based on an earlier engraved world map by Pieter van den Keere ca. 1630,...
Place & Date: Oxford, 1680
Tabula Tartariae et majoris partis regni Chinae.
Stretching from the Caspian Sea in the west to Formosa in the south-east. Including the peninsula of Korea, Japan, Taiwan and the east coast of Yedso. Decorated with fine...
- $900 / ≈ €842
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Turcicum Imperium.
Detailed map of the Turkish Empire by Holland's leading mapmaker at the end of the seventeenth century. The cartouche shows an Ottoman administrator or possibly the Sulta...
- $900 / ≈ €842
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Regnum Bohemia.. Silesia.. Moravia, et Lusatia..
Detailed map of Czechoslovakia including the towns of Dresden, Prague, Breslau, etc. With fine title cartouche upper left, putti carrying the coats of arms of Bohemia, Mo...
- $400 / ≈ €374
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
The Sea Coast of France from Ushent to Olone.
Chart showing the Brittany coast from Ushent to Ollone, with Belle-Ile. In insets : Rade de Brest and Mouth of the Loire between St. Nazaire and Nantes.Originally engrave...
Place & Date: London, ca. 1680
Pas-kaart vande Zee kusten van Venecuela met de Byleggende Eylanden. . .
Rare chart of the coast of Venezuela, including the islands of Curaçao, Bonaire, Aruba, etc.The chart has two insets, one (15x22cm) with a map of Curaçao, one smaller w...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Comitatus Namurci Tabula in Lucem. . .
Centered on Namen, with decorative title cartouche upper right.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Ducatus Lutzenburgi Novissima et Accuratissima Delineatio.
West to the top. Very detailed and fine map of Luxembourg, including the towns of Namur, Liege, Trier and Metz.
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Regnorum Castellae, Novae, Andalujsae, Granadae, Valentae, et Murciae Accurata Tabula
Decorative map of Southern Spain, extending from Salamanca and Segovia in the North, to the Gulfs of Valentia, Alicante and Cartagena in the east, the Straits of Gibralta...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1645-1680
Nova Orbis Tabula in Lucem edita A.F.de Wit.
According to Shirley, De Wit's map is one of the most attractive of its time. The brilliant scenes in the corners combine images of the four seasons, the elements, and th...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Accuratissima totius Asiae tabula..
The map includes a detailed depiction of South East Asia and the Far East. The northern tip of Australia (Hollandia Nova) is shown as are the important discoveries made t...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Nova Persiae Armeniae Natoliae et Arabiae.
This fine map shows the area East from Cyprus to Iran, including The Saudi Peninsula, Red Sea, Nile River, Cyprus, Asia Minor, the Gulf of Aden, the Indian Ocean, Armenia...
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Erpach.
The town of Heidelberg is in most southern point on the map, including the rivers Rhine, Necker and Main.Rare issue published in Oxford. In 1680 the copper plates of Jans...
- $100 / ≈ €94
Place & Date: Oxford, 1680
Insula Candia ejusque fortificatio.
An earlier and smaller version of De Wit's map of Candia. Richly engraved work, one of the most beautiful ever produced of Crete. There are insets of the fortifications a...
- $2500 / ≈ €2339
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1680
Constantinopolis.
Extremely rare panoramic town-view of Istanbul published by Frederick de Wit. With a numbered key (1-17) to principal places in town and a poem in Latin, Dutch, English a...
- $4000 / ≈ €3743
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Guinea.
A close copy of the map by Blaeu. Covers the Guinea and Benin coast. A very decorative map with a large title cartouche. At bottom right two putti area carrying an elepha...
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Tabula Ducatus Brabantiae continens Marchionatum Sacri Imperii et Dominium Mechliniense emendate à F. de Wit 1666
Shows present-day Belgium and Dutch province of Brabant. Including the Maas and Waal rivers. Shows Antwerp, Brussels, Namur, Liege and Venlo among other towns and cities....
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Selling price: $25
Sold in 2016
Pascaerte van Carybes, Nieu Neder landt, Brazil. . .
This progenitor chart covers the American shores of the Atlantic Ocean. This chart by Theunis Jacobsz. was most probably engraved close to his death in 1650 or shortly af...
- $2200 / ≈ €2059
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1653-1681
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Hern Johann Baptisten Taveniers..Vierzig Jaehrige Reize..
This German edition includes Tavernier's map of Japan in a reduced form (210x315mm) and contains legends about the country's nature, e.g., where gold is mined and plottin...
Place & Date: Nuremberg, 1681
Waere affbeeldinge wegens het casteel ende stadt Batavia.
A good impression of this finely engraved and detailed plan of Batavia, present-day Jakarta, the Dutch center of trading activities in the East Indies. Copied after Cleme...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1681
Histoire de la République de Venise.
The History of the Republic of Venice Historia della Republica Veneta (dal 1613 al 1671), in Italian, which goes from 1613 to 1671, was translated by François Tallemant,...
- $1800 / ≈ €1684
Place & Date: Cologne, Pierre Marteau, 1682
Amstelodami Veteris et Novissimi Delineatio per Joannem de Ram
Johannes de Ram’s very rare and beautiful map of Amsterdam, which is made after a map of Frederik de Wit. The river Amstel is still an open water flowing through the h...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, c.1682
Moscovia pars Australis.
Prepared by Isaac Massa, a Dutch map-maker who traveled to Russia, returning to Holland in 1609, bringing with him a large amount of original cartographic manuscript mate...
- $1000 / ≈ €936
Place & Date: Oxford, 1682
Paskaart van de Kuste van, Gualate en Arguyn. Beginnende van C. Bajador tot C. Blanco. . .
A nautical showing the northwestern coast of Africa, along Western Sahara from Cape Bojador to Cape Blanc. Ornate title cartouche in top right corner shows two main figur...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca.1682
Il regno della China detto presentente Catay e Magnin. . .
A rare and decorative Italian map of China and Japan, with Japan closely modelled on the indented Cardim outline and Hokkaido, called Yuppi , shown as an Asian peninsula....
Place & Date: Rome, 1682
Cosmography in Four Books. Containing the Chorography and History of the Whole World: and all the Principal Kingdoms, Provinces, Seas,
Extensive description of the world by Peter Heylyn. Here the 6th edition corrected and enlarged by the author. Including 4 maps.The map of America showing California as a...
- $900 / ≈ €842
Place & Date: London, 1682
![Abbaye d'Hautecombe. [Hautecombe Abbey]](/uploads/cache/45512-250x250.jpg)
Abbaye d'Hautecombe. [Hautecombe Abbey]
Showing in great detail a bird's-eye view of the Hautecombe Abbey, a former Cistercian monastery, later a Benedictine monastery, in Saint-Pierre-de-Curtille near Aix-les-...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1682
![Rumiliacum vulgo Rumilix. [Rumilly]](/uploads/cache/45513-250x250.jpg)
Rumiliacum vulgo Rumilix. [Rumilly]
Showing in great detail a bird's-eye view of the city of Rumilly in the Haute-Savoie, decorated with the coat of arms and a lettered key.From "Theatrum Sabaudiæ&quo...
- $150 / ≈ €140
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1682
Paskaart van de kust van Maroca beginnende van Larache tot aan C. Cantin. . .
A nautical sea chart of the coast of Morocco. Insert at top right: 'Nieuwe Afbeelding van de Rivier Rio Rebata in 't Groot".Bottom right: chart number '32'. Compass ...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, ca.1682
Jerusalem.
Engraved by Bastiaan Stoopendaal from Juan Bautista Villapando's imaginary town-plan of Jerusalem. This bird's-eye view is surrounded by 12 scenes, views and portraits of...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1682
Het Beloofde Landt Canaan door wandelt . . .
A beautifully engraved map of the ancient land of Canaan which roughly corresponds to present-day Israel. Cherubs hold up a draped cloth of key symbols, also a scale pane...
Place & Date: Amsterdam, 1682
Isle de Malthe.
A charming late 17th century French map of Malta and Gozo with a large pictorial cartouche depicting Neptune and a mermaid, a nautical sailing ship scene across the botto...
- $250 / ≈ €234
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
Malte.
A charming late 17th century French plan of La Valletta. With a ribbon style title cartouche and a nautical sailing ship scene across the top.By Allain Manneson Mallet (1...
- $225 / ≈ €211
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
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Finely etched depiction of a vessel, with a lettered key. With explanatory text on verso.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers.. (5 volumes), 1683. By All...
Place & Date: Paris, 1683
P.les de Virginie.
Attractive copper engraving, depicting a couple of native people of Florida.From the French text edition of Description d'Univers, 1683. by Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1...
- $110 / ≈ €103
Place & Date: Paris, 1683