Plate published in "Les costumes régionaux de France" with illustrations by Gratiane de Gardilanne (painter and designer) and Elisabeth Whitney Moffat.Costume plate printed in collotype, pochoir and retouched by hand. Dimension of 24.5 x 38cm. The originals were donated by an American patron to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and constitute a set of 200 plates. Good condition.

Plate published in "Les costumes régionaux de France" with illustrations by Gratiane de Gardilanne (painter and designer) and Elisabeth Whitney Moffat.Costume plate printed in collotype, pochoir and retouched by hand. Dimension of 24.5 x 38cm. The originals were donated by an American patron to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and constitute a set of 200 plates. Good condition.

A finely engraved map of the Province prepared by Pierre-Jean de Bompar who published a single sheet map of the Province in 1591. Title cartouche in the upper left-hand corner. Engraved by Baptista Doetichum.

Separately issued map of Burgundy area. Two maps of Burgundy region on a plate. Separately published map, without text on the verso. Second state with the date 1597 removed from the title cartouche. This is the rarest Burgundy map of the four that Ortelius made.

Portrait of Ludovicus XV, set in a decorative border.In lower part "Jo. Es. Nilson, inv et excutiv Aug V. et à Paris chez Rosselin Rue St. Jaques a l'Autel Saumur". Prepared by Johann Esaias Nilson (1721-88), 'the German Watteau'. Nilson was part of a family of artists and established himself as the leading Augsburg artist of his day, whose influence extended across publishing, art academies, a role as court painter, and the decorative arts (especially ceramics).Louis XV, known as Louis the Bel...

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 engraved by John Seller, here with the address "Sold by Ri. Mount at the Postern on Great Tower Hill LONDON". Mount and Page was a firm of religious and maritime publishers that flourished in the 18th century. The name became well-known worldwide as an imprint of nautical charts.The firm was founded in 1701 by Richard Mount (1654–172...

Prepared by Jacob Surhon who made a manuscript map of Artois for which he received 36 Livres from Charles V in 1554. For security reasons the map was not published. Only in 1579, when Antwerp was independent for a short time, Ortelius used the map for publication in his atlas.This is the last and very rare state with the signature of Theodorus Galle.

FIRST EDITION of this finely engraved plan of Paris by P. F. Tardieu and prepared by DuBuisson. This detailed plan of Paris includes la Place Louis XV, la Bastille, but does not have the city walls. The first edition was included in " l'Atlas nouveau" of E. Mentelle. The second state (after 1792) has the text "Plan routier de la ville de Paris…", in the righthand lettered key, added.

Very rare map of the Benelux, centered on the Netherlands. According to van der Heijden only known in 6 examples. Two compass-roses with rumb lines but without the names of the wind directions. Very decorative title cartouche with legend, and underneath a large escutcheon with the coats-of-arms of all the XVII Provinces.The maps shows a striking resemblance, also in details, the one by Jodocus Hondius of 1593 and to the map in four sheets of 1602. For the greater part the text in the title carto...

This large-format map of The Netherlands with its different dioceses. The map is finely engraved and beautifully colored and was prepared by Girolamo Petri, a lawyer who served as a senior official within the Vatican’s State Secretariat, the arm of the Holy See responsible for managing its relationships with foreign powers. The map shows the various dioceses, which are each distinguished by their own bright colors, marking their seats, as well as other major towns. While key geographical featu...

Second state of this rare and decorative plan of Amsterdam with Visscher's imprint. With a panoramic view seen from the IJ and further insets of Council House, The Exchange, House of the Dutch East India Company and House of the West India Company. This state figures the fourth extension with the projected growth of the city added to the left half of the sheet; on the west side, the "Realeneiland" has been extended, above the image of the west India House, the imprint of Visscher has been added,...

It is a charming book illustrated with portraits of Willem of Orange and Prince Maurits and eight engraved armorial plates. Followed by thirthy engraved views or scenes of Dutch cities, most with Latin text at the foot.The plates include views of Amsterdam, Leiden, a skating scene, and Prince Maurits sailing wagon. The Anatomy Theatre of the University of Leiden with a finely attired man looking at the dissected body of a man lying on the central table, surrounded by concentric benches with hum...

Tweevoudigh onderwiis van de Hemelsche en Aerdsche Globen; Het een Na de meyning van Ptolemeus met een vasten Aerdkloot; Het ander Na de Natuerlijcke stelling van N. Copernicus met een loopenden Aerdkloot:Willem Blaeu's guide to the making of globes, first published in 1620, here reprinted by his son, Joan.The book consists of two parts; volume I : Astronomical principles of celestial and terrestrial globes based on the inadequate hypothesis of Ptolemy.Volume II : Astronomical principles of glob...

This Goose game board is inspired by Jules Verne's novel whose boxes are illustrated with town views and figures and the center is occupied by a world map. Vignette illustrations numbered from 1 to 80, captioned in French and arranged counterclockwise.The game block illustrates views of arrival in New York (75), Chicago (68), San Francisco (57). The diverse illustrations also include Hong Kong, Singapore (44), Yankees (72), Japanese, Calcutta (25), Bombay (21), etc.The first two numbered blocks ...

An eye-catching chart of the Baltic Sea. Engraved by Gerard Coeck.Pieter Goos (ca. 1616-1675) was one of the most important cartographers, engravers, publishers and print sellers of Amsterdam. His widow continued business at her husband's death. She re-issued 'Nieuwe Groote Zee-Spiegel in 1676.The map is in a strictly contemporary coloring and of the highest level. 

Rare first edition of this atlas of the provinces of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg. Engraved title page, with : "Gedruckt t' Amsterdam by Abraham Goos Plaetsnyder wonende op den Dam in 't vergulde Caertboeck.Our atlas is conform to the copy described in Koeman/Krogt : "One copy is known of the B-edition without text (Brussel KB IV). All maps in this copy are in the second variant".A. Goos published on his own a single atlas, the " Nieuw Nederlandtsch Caertboeck" with 23 maps. He receive...

The so-called Kruquius map is a wall-map of the Delfland water board district. The map consists of 25 engraved map sheets. Several maps flanked by fine large armorial cartouches. All sheets together cover a wall map with a total area of 230 x 280 cm. The map was often bound in a rich gilted calf binding and presented as gifts to important persons. The atlas than included also the overview map. According to Prof. Koeman "Thanks to the quality of the cartography (a “sensitive” scale of 1:10,00...

Folded fan, painted in gouache a ship pulled by two horses. On board, a large company, among others joins them while fishermen watch the scene.Reverse painted with an exotic flower. Monogram "SK" on the left.The ivory frame is engraved with flowers enhanced with silver foil.

A very decorative and large chromolithographed plate showing a line up of international vessels at Spithead, June 26th, 1897 In Honour of her Majesty Queen Victoria'a Diamond Jubilee. Below names of all International and British vessels giving presence on that day.

View of Vienne, engraved by François de La Pointe.