When the Spanish arrived in Cajamarca, they found only a few inhabitants. The Inca army was camped in the surrounding hills and the residence of the Inca king, Atahualpa, was a few miles away, so de Soto went ahead to meet him and to announce the arrival in the town of Pizarro and his troops. As de Soto approached, he pulled his stallion to a halt in front of Atahualpa and the foam from the horse’s mouth was said to have flown into the face of the Inca king. Many of the nobles, who had never s...

When the Spanish discovered the silver mines of Potosí, they organised the transport of the rich ore westward by llama trains across the Altiplano and down to Arica on the coast, where it would be transported by ship to Panama. These strange creatures would sit down when angered or overburdened and, neither beatings nor kind words would make the animals get up again. If any of them ran away, they had to be shot to recover their valuable cargo.In 1631, Johann Ludwig Gottfried inherited Theodor D...

The natives of Hispaniola, who saw no end to the fearful oppression of Spanish rule, preferred death. So many, devoid of all hope, went into the woods to kill their children and hang themselves. After taking certain natural poisons, the women followed their husbands to death by means of the noose. Others threw themselves down mountains, jumped into the sea or into rivers, while some died by self-imposed starvation or even stabbed themselves to death with razor sharp stone knives:In 1631 Johann L...

This impressive plate provides a comprehensive list of the ecclesiastical divisions in the country with their corresponding coats of arms. A small inset map depicts the location of the various churches across France (95 x 105mm.)Zacharie Chatelain (d.1723) was the father of Henri Abraham (1684-1743) and Zacharie Junior (1690-1754).They worked as a partnership publishing the Atlas Historique, Ou Nouvelle Introduction A L’Histoire … under several different Chatelain imprints, depending on the ...

Copper engraved plan centered on gardens of the Louvre by Jean-Joseph Sulpis (1826–1911) after a model by Adolphe Berty. Plate 5bis from "Topographie historique du vieux Paris". The publication was started by Adolphe Berty and continued by H. Legrand and L.-M. Tisserand, Th. Vacquer and Camille Platon.

Copper engraved plan centered on Louvre by Jean-Joseph Sulpis (1826–1911) after a model by Adolphe Berty. Plate 5 from "Topographie historique du vieux Paris". The publication was started by Adolphe Berty and continued by H. Legrand and L.-M. Tisserand, Th. Vacquer and Camille Platon.

Plan of the center of Paris showing Tivoli district with Madalene and Clichy. Lithography and pen and ink. Drawn in are the planned workshop of Serrurerie Théophile Mignon, 30 rue de la Bienfaisance.

Finely engraved plan of Rheims.

Fine plan of Paris, engraved by Taylor. "With the complete system of its fortifications and strong detached". Adorned with many vignettes engraved with monuments of Paris.

Map of the Isle de France and Champagne regions, from Nicolas de Fer's "L'Atlas curieux ou le Monde réprésente dans des cartes. "The "Atlas Curieux" is a geographic encyclopedia of images and a celebration of the French Empire under the Sun King, with maps of French possessions in the western hemisphere, maps of France, with detailed views of the grand waterworks at Marly, views of the great palaces and chateaux, views and plans of the Paris Observatory, and samples of military architecture. I...

Map of the Picardie region, from Nicolas de Fer's "L'Atlas curieux ou le Monde réprésente dans des cartes. "The "Atlas Curieux" is a geographic encyclopedia of images and a celebration of the French Empire under the Sun King, with maps of French possessions in the western hemisphere, maps of France, with detailed views of the grand waterworks at Marly, views of the great palaces and chateaux, views and plans of the Paris Observatory, and samples of military architecture. Issued in six annual p...

Map of the Dauphiné region, from Nicolas de Fer's "L'Atlas curieux ou le Monde réprésente dans des cartes. "The "Atlas Curieux" is a geographic encyclopedia of images and a celebration of the French Empire under the Sun King, with maps of French possessions in the western hemisphere, maps of France, with detailed views of the grand waterworks at Marly, views of the great palaces and chateaux, views and plans of the Paris Observatory, and samples of military architecture. Issued in six annual ...

Nine small chromolithography's trade cards for Ville de Saint Denis, each with French regions and places, with description in French on each verso.Cards of the regions : Bearn, Berry, Le Bourbonnais, Roussillon, Comté de Foix, Nivernais, Corse, Marche and L'Aunis.

Nine small chromolithography trade cards for Ville de Saint-Denis, each with French regions and places, with description in French on each verso.Cards of the regions: Lorraine, Bourgogne, Flandre, Lyonnais, Alsace, Champagne, Artois, Orléanais, Dauphiné.

A fine and uncommon early 17th century map of France.From the French text edition of "Description d'Univers", 1683. by Allain Manneson Mallet (1630-1706), a well travelled military engineer and geographer who worked in 17th century France under King Louis XIV.

Four maps of France surrounded by historical and genealogical information to the history, chronology, ancient and modern genealogy of the french monarchy.Henri Abraham Chatelain (1684 – 1743) was a Huguenot pastor of Parisian origins. He lived consecutively in Paris, St. Martins, London (c. 1710), the Hague (c. 1721) and Amsterdam (c. 1728). He is best known as a Dutch cartographer and more specifically for his cartographic contribution in the seminal seven volume Atlas Historique, published f...

Rare map of France, from "Atlante Novissimo ad uso Dei Giovani Studiosi Contenuto In Carte XXVII.", published by Giovanni Zempel in Rome, ca. 1780.The map is based on Claude Buffier (1661-1737) geography.

Eye-bird view of Valenciennes.

Very rare map including Bayonne and Dax in the south west of France. With inset plan of "Plan de la ville Dax.". Engraved by Henri le Roy. With the address "Chez F. DLa Pointe sur le quay de l'horloge".

Plan of the city of Saint Cloud, from Nicolas de Fer's "L'Atlas curieux ou le Monde réprésente dans des cartes. "The "Atlas Curieux" is a geographic encyclopedia of images and a celebration of the French Empire under the Sun King, with maps of French possessions in the western hemisphere, maps of France, with detailed views of the grand waterworks at Marly, views of the great palaces and chateaux, views and plans of the Paris Observatory, and samples of military architecture. Issued in six ann...