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Location: 1493
Date: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Format: 360 x 510mm.
Color: Col. ancien.
Condition: Some very minor marginal staining. Else good condition with wide margins.
Text in Latin, each paragraph separated by the triumphant cross with orb representing Christ's reign over the world (it is of..
22 000€
Location: 1587
Date: Amsterdam, 1587
Format: 282 x 524mm.
Color: Col.
Condition: Some minor paper thinness along centerfold. Paper slightly age-toned, as usual. Very good condition.
Gerard Mercator's great world map of 1569 was condensed into double hemispherical form by his son Rumold. It first appeared i..
9 500€
Location: 1605
Date: Leyde, 1605
Format: 295 x 495mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
Condition: Repair of a marginal upper and lower center fold split.In good condition. A strong and dark impression.
The engraver Jan van Doetecum has copied this world map from the double-hemispherical one engraved by his father Baptista for..
4 500€
Location: 1646
Date: Frankfurt 1646
Format: 257 x 354mm.
Color: Col.
Condition: Paper slightly age-toned and slightly spotted. Generally in good condition.
A reduced version of Blaeu's world map lacking the decorative borders. The engraving is neatly executed, with Germanic touche..
2 000€
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Location: 1668
Date: Paris, 1668
Format: 335 x 590mm.
Color: Beau col. ancien.
Condition: Sous passepartout. Papier légèrement jauni le long de la pliure médiane, infimes rousseurs.
Deuxième état. Gravée par Louis Cordier. Océan rehaussée de vert. La californie est représentée comme une île. Les contours d..
2 000€
Location: 1680
Date: Oxford, 1680
Format: 395 x 530mm.
Color: Col.
Condition: Some remains of old fraying and minor browning to centerfold. Good condition overall. Wide margins.
A beautifully decorative world map taken from the 'English Atlas' by Moses Pitt and Steven Swart, based on an earlier engrave..
5 800€
Location: 1680
Date: Amsterdam, 1680
Format: 479 x 597mm.
Color: Beau col. ancien.
Condition: Pli central restauré et doublé. Papier légèrement jauni. Dimensions de la carte: 479 x 570 mm.
According to Shirley, De Wit's map is one of the most attractive of its time. The brilliant scenes in the corners combine ima..
4 000€
Location: 1690
Date: Paris, 1690
Format: 458 x 600mm.
Color: Col.
Condition: Some rimpling along centerfold and on the left part of the map. Repair of split and tear lower part centerfold 9cm and 3cm respectively into the engraved area. Localised paper thinness. <br />Good condition.
Coronelli, Vincenzo M. / De Tillemont. c.1690. Le Globe Terrestre Represente en Devx Plans Hemispheres, Et en Diverses Avtres..
3 000€
Location: 1700
Date: Amsterdam, ca. 1700
Format: 508 x 582mm.
Color: Beau col. d'époque.
Condition: Paper enforcement on verso. A sharp impression with full contemporary color on a bright sheet
Interesting and detailed world map, cartographically up-to-date and showing the routes of explorers, including Magellan, Damp..
4 400€
Location: 1704
Date: Venice 1704
Format: 380 x 537mm.
Color: Limites en col. ancien.
Condition: Bon exemplaire. Contrecollé à l'origine sur une grande feuille de papier.
Nicolas Sanson's map of the ancient world, engraved by Jean Somer Pruthenus was issued separately in 1657 before being incorp..
1 000€
Location: 1705
Date: Paris, 1705
Format: 226 x 338mm.
Color: Limites en col. ancien.
Condition: Wide margins. Good and dark impression.
Uncommon world map in Mercator's projection, which first appeared in De Fer's Atlas Curieux.Showing California as an island. ..
800€
Location: 1705
Date: Nuremberg, 1705
Format: 483 x 572mm.
Color: Beau col. ancien.
Condition: In good condition.
The world centred around the North Pole is depicted on the dial of a beautiful full size mantle-piece clock with California a..
1 500€
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Location: 1710
Date: Kyoto, "Hoei 7" (= Year of the Tiger = 1710
Format: 1145 x 1415mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
Condition: Strong impression, printed on several sheets of native paper, joined. Some worming, and pin holes on old crossing of foldings. Folded as usual and mounted on 2 blue cardboards with title-piece. (size 240x180mm), in modern linen case.
This map is a great example for Japanese world maps representing Buddhist cosmology with real world cartography. It is the ea..
15 000€
Location: 1730
Date: Germany 1730
Format: 480 x 545mm.
Color: Col.
Condition: Some browning in the margins, centerfold underlaid, else in a good condition.
Vibrantly decorative world map surrounded by vivid engravings of natural phenomena such as waterspouts, a rainbow, earthquake..
2 900€
Location: 1740
Date: Nuremberg, 1740
Format: 485 x 577mm.
Color: Limites en col. ancien.
Condition: In very good condition. With later colour addition.
Baroque period world map in double hemispheres showing the shapes of land masses exactly calculated from astronomical observa..
800€
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Location: 1746
Date: Nuremberg, 1746
Format: 445 x 520mm.
Color: In attractive colours
Condition: Clear impression. Wide margins.
Word map in double hemisphere. In center two smaller hemispheres of the north and south pole are shown. Two interesting diagr..
1 700€
Location: 1755
Date: Italy, ca. 1755
Format: 175 x 195mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
Condition: Wood block print. Good condition. Size of paper 175 x 195mm.
Double hemisphere world map with a broad banner carrying the title. In the ocean are currents shown and in top and bottom are..
750€
Location: 1759
Date: Kopenhagen, 1759
Format: 163 x 244mm.
Color: Col. ancien.
Condition: Paper slightly age-toned. In good condition.
Rare double hemisphere world map printed in Copenhagen. Title and many names in Danish, from " Fra Holbergs Geographie". In ..
750€
Location: 1774
Date: Venice, 1774
Format: 290 x 420mm.
Color: Col. ancien.
Condition: Two very small worm holes (lower center part) filled in. Very good condition.
Attractive Italian map presented on Mercator's projection and featuring the voyages of Cook and Bougainville. Greenland is sh..
450€
Location: 1784
Date: Venice, 1776 - 1784
Format: 460 x 648mm.
Color: Limites en col. ancien.
Condition: Printed on heavy paper with large margins. Good impression. Very good condition.
Double hemisphere world map, from an unusual perspective. Paris is located at the centre of the hemisphere, so that Europe, A..
3 000€
Location: 1786
Date: Paris, Robert de Vaugondy/Delamarche, 1786
Format: 985 x 1150mm.
Color: Limites en col. ancien.
Condition: Large map dissected in 20 sheets and mounted on linen. Slightly water staining.
Large world map showing the sea tracks of Captain Cook in his three Pacific voyages published by C. F. Delamarche.Rare state ..
3 500€
Location: 1789
Date: Paris, 1789
Format: 520 x 760mm.
Color: Col.
Condition: Short margins with some usual age toning.
Dated 1761, this state is unknown. "Desnos' includes a fine combination of up to date cartographic information and the routes..
4 000€
Location: 1803
Date: Augsbourg, 1803
Format: 455 x 615mm.
Color: Col.
Condition: Infime décoloration le long du pli horizontal supplémentaire.
Uncommon and detailed world map in double hemisphere. In upper corners insets of North- and South Pole projections. Detailed ..
1 400€
Location: 1838
Date: Paris, 1838
Format: 295 x 410mm.
Color: Limites en col. ancien.
Condition: In very good condition.
One of the last decorative maps of the area. In side panels representations of the four seasons. From his "Atlas Universel Il..
300€
Location: 1839
Date: London, 1839
Format: 480 x 595mm.
Color: Limites en col. ancien.
Condition: In good general condition, although there is some light foxing, minor staining, and some paper damage to top left margin.
This is a detailed steel-engraved map of the ancient world, stretching from Europe eastwards to the Black Sea and beyond, sou..
250€