Imaginary maps
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Location: 1493
Published: Nuremberg, 12 July 1493
Size: 360 x 510mm.
Color: In original colours.
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: 1535
Published: Lyons, M. Servetus, 1535
Size: 312 x 430mm.
Color: Coloured.
Condition: In very good condition, with wide margins. Paper slightly age-toned. No text on verso.
Based on Waldseemüller's map. Border and ornament are by Hans Holbein and Graf.The maps show Northern Africa as it was known ..
1,500€
![MÜNSTER, S. - [Sea monsters] De regni Settentrionali Monstri marini & terrestri…](https://www.loeb-larocque.com/eshop/image/cache/catalog/Lgimg/49169-275x210w.jpg "MÜNSTER, S. - [Sea monsters] De regni Settentrionali Monstri marini & terrestri…")
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Location: 1587
Published: Magdeburg, 1587
Size: 325 x 215mm.
Color: Uncoloured
Condition: 2 works in 1 vol. Early German edition of Bünting's Itinerarium illustrated with 12 (10 double-page) woodcut maps and plans: 2 world maps (including the famous clover-leaf map), Europe as Virgin, Asia as Pegasus, Africa, 4 maps of the Holy Land, map of the Eastern Mediterranean and plans of Jerusalem and the temple. Bound with the first edition of a curious work by Nachenmacher. - Bünting with usual slight browning and foxing.<br> Old ownership inscription on title. Bound in contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, two clasps, and intials MS and 1589. Generally a very good and early example. Overall a very nice copy in a contemporary binding, unrestored, of a book often found in very worn condition.
Bünting, H. Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae. Das ist: Ein Reisebuch, Uber die gantze heilige Schrifft, in zwey Bücher geteilet...
26,000€
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Location: 1598
Published: Antwerp, 1598
Size: 370 x 440mm.
Color: Uncoloured.
Condition: French text on the verso. Wide margins and a strong and dark impression. In fine condition.
Depicting Africa from the Mediterranean to the Mountains of the Moon placed just below Mozambique...
700€
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Location: 1603
Published: Antwerp, 1603
Size: 335 x 490mm.
Color: Uncolored
Condition: In very good condition. Latin text on verso.
Perhaps the most famous map of Iceland. On the south side of the island a collection of all possible sea monsters is depicted..
13,000€
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Location: 1608
Published: Amsterdam, 1608
Size: 133 x 184mm.
Color: Uncoloured.
Condition: Paper slightly browned. Else good condition.
Map of the North Pole regions from the 1608 second edition of Jodocus Hondius' Atlas Minor.A reduction of the 1606 Mercator-H..
500€
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Location: 1635
Published: Brunswick, ca. 1635
Size: 272 x 362mm.
Color: Uncoloured.
Condition: Double page copper engraved map. German text on verso.
EXTREMELY RARE FIRST STATE. Asia depicted as the flying horse Pegasus. Below the depiction 3 lines of engraved Latin text. Do..
4,500€
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Location: 1640
Published: Brunswick, 1640
Size: 275 x 365mm.
Color: Uncoloured.
Condition: German text on verso. Fine dark impression with small margins at three sides, only at bottom trimmed with slight loss of lettering. Unobtrusive marginal imperfections mended.
Asia depicted as the flying horse Pegasus. Double page copper engraved map from Heinrich Bünting's “Itinerarium Sacrae Script..
4,500€
Location: 1644
Published: Amsterdam, 1644
Size: 410 x 552mm.
Color: Colored
Condition: A dark impression. Printed on heavy paper. Mint condition and coloring.
On either side columns depicting the manner of dress in the major countries of Europe, surmounted by nine city views and plan..
3,500€
Location: 1647
Published: Rome, Franciscus Corbelletus, 1632-1647
Size: 350 x 240mm.
Color: Uncoloured.
Condition: Two volumes in folio. Contemp. full calf, spine in compartments, richly gilt with 2 red title-labels, with boad richly gilt ornamental borders on side with large gilt central ornament of three 'fleurs de lys' (LOUIS QUATORZE PRESENTATION-BINDINGS).
With 2 engraved titles of the 'Leo Belgicus', with one paw resting on a shield bearing the title, large woodcut printer's dev..
9,000€
Location: 1700
Published: Amsterdam, 1700
Size: 325 x 463mm.
Color: Coloured.
Condition: A fold has been repaired and strenghened, left margin slim, some minor repairs to nicks and tears. Good dark impression, else in good condition.
This is a very unusual map depicting the region from Asia Minor to India and including all of the Arabian Peninsula within a ..
750€
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Location: 1710
Published: Kyoto, "Hoei 7" (= Year of the Tiger = 1710
Size: 1145 x 1415mm.
Color: Uncoloured.
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€
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Location: 1766
Published: Cosmopoli, 1766
Size: 175 x 238mm.
Color: Uncolored
Condition: In-8 de 40 pp. et une carte gravée dépliante ; couverture en papier dominoté (reliure moderne). - 8vo. 40pp. And copperplate printed map "Carta dell’isola del maritaggio. (175 x 238mm.) Rebound in decorative old paper wrapper. Very good condition. Rare in this condition.
Seconde édition en italien de la "Carte de l’isle de mariage" par Eustache Le Noble. Le texte qui accompagne la carte donne d..
1,300€
![BOHN, F. - Boertige reis door Europa. . . [with] Europa volgens de nieuwste verdeeling. . .](https://www.loeb-larocque.com/eshop/image/cache/catalog/image/new_upload/32642-275x210h.jpg "BOHN, F. - Boertige reis door Europa. . . [with] Europa volgens de nieuwste verdeeling. . .")
Location: 1794
Published: Haarlem, 1794
Size: 235 x 169mm.
Color: In original colours.
Condition: In-8. Seven parts in 3 volumes. Contemporary half calf, gilted spine with red leather spine labels with gilt lettering, marbled covers boards. Spine used. Inside very clean.
Rare illustrated publication about Europe with the title " Geheimzinnige toebereidselen tot eene boertige reis door Europa. [..
2,000€
Location: 1870
Published: Paris, Imprimerie Vallée, 1870
Size: 245 x 387mm.
Color: In attactive original colours.
Condition: Original hand-coloured lithograph. With horizontal and vertical fold. In good condition.
Carte d'Europe satirique pour l'année 1870 accompagnée d'un texte descriptif en bas de planche : L’ANGLETERRE, isolée, peste ..
900€
Location: 1871
Published: Paris, 1871
Size: 340 x 265mm.
Color: In original printed colours.
Condition: Original lithograph. One marginal tear just affecting a small part of in the middle left side.
Lithography showing a map of France with a caricature of General Trochu and other scenes imposed on it. Designed by the Fren..
750€
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Location: 1904
Published: Tokyo, April, 1904
Size: 415 x 570mm.
Color: Printed colors.
Condition: Folds as issued. In very good condition. Paper size 495x670mm.
A wonderful example of the rare 1904 Kisaburo Ohara satirical 'Octopus Map' of Europe being swallowed by an octopus (Russia)...
4,500€
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Location: 1914
Published: Lisbon, 1914
Size: 320 x 475mm.
Color: Printed colors
Condition: A linen backed map in excellent condition. Adequate but slim margins, good impression.
A really unusual and lovely map, published in Portugal at the outbreak of The Great War in 1914. This outbreak of war in Euro..
1,900€
Location: 1915
Published: La Zincografia, Milan, c. 1915
Size: 283 x 460mm.
Color: Uncolored
Condition: Slightly age-toned as usual.
Austro-Hungarian Octopus zinc lithographed map. A propaganda sheet attacking the Austro-Hungarian Empire, showing it as an oc..
500€
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