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Venetia. [Venice ]
Very rare view of Venice published in the first edition of "Viaggio da Venetia, a Costantinopoli. Per Mare, e per Terra, & infieme quello di Terra Santa. Da Gioseppe Rosaccio con brevita descritto".Several of the maps and plans resemble those in G. F. Camocio's "Isole famose", in particular the maps of the individual Greek islands, among which are Corfu, Crete, Cyprus, together with a map of Palestine and a view of Jerusalem.It is possible that many of the plates may originate from 1590-1597, wh...
€420

Maker : ROSACCIO, Giuseppe
Place : Venice, Giacomo Franco, 1598
Date : 1598
Venise. 1700
Extremely rare panoramic broad sheet panoramic town-view of Venice with underneath in letter press a description of the town's history.The view measures more than 1 meter. The foreground is animated with a great variety of sailing vessels.The printer's address is dated 1699, but the tile has the date 1700. Most likely, Jaillot published the view to celebrate the turn of the century!
€20.000

Maker : JAILLOT, H.
Place : Paris
Date : 1699
Habiti delle Donne Venetiane . . .
Title page of the book Habiti delle Donne Venetiane" (Dress of Venetian Women) which consists of twenty numbered plates of ornately dressed women. This very decorative title page shows in to Rialto Bridge and in the center a bird's-eye plan of Venice.Giacomo Franco (1556-1620) was born and grew in Venice, where he used to work. He was the son of painter Giovanni-Battista Franco (1510-1561), with whom he began his artistic training at the age of eleven. He worked as a painter, engraver, woodcutte...
€950

Maker : FRANCO, G.
Place : Venice
Date : ca. 1591
Les Provinces des Pais Bas Autrichiens contenants en XXIV Feuilles les comtées d'Artois, de Flandres, de Hainaut, de Namur et des Duchées de Luxembourg…
Rare wall map of the Catholic of Austrian Low Countries, roughly the southern part of present-day The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. Map has some large cartouches, ships in the North Sea.
$1.500

Maker : SEUTTER, M.
Place : Augsburg, 1725
Date : 1725
Nieuwe Paskaert van de Kust van HOLLANDT - Tussen Texel en de Maes.
Nieuwe Paskaert van de Kust van Hollandt Tussen Texel en de Maes. A very attractive sea chart off the coast of Holland by Johannes van Keulen with a pair of decorative cartouches, ships sailing off the coast, rhumb lines, compass rose etc. Van Keulen was the founder of the successful van Keulen firm that published charts, pilot guides and sea-atlases for over 2 centuries. In 1680, he published his immensely popular 'Zee Atlas ofte Water Werelt'.
€500

Maker : van Keulen, J.
Place : Amsterdam
Date : ca 1685
Hydrograhica descriptio
This very rare chart is important as the first printed sea chart of the Mediterranean coast of Spain, Gibraltar, also depicting the northern coast of Marocco.Willem Barentsz (1560-1597) was a famous pilot, discoverer and cartographer. Author of 'Nieuwe Beschrhryvinghe ende caertboeck van de Midlantsche Zee', the first printed pilot-guide of the Mediterranean. It is considered the supplement of Waghenaer's 'Spieghel der Zeevaerdt' for the Mediterranean waters.
€4.000

Maker : BARENDTSZ, W.
Place : Amsterdam, W. Blaeu
Date : 1612
[Lot of 6 Maps of Germany] PALATINATUS BAVARIAE.
[Lot of 6 Maps of Germany]- La Basse Partie Du Cercle Du Haut Rhein divisé en tous ses Estats et Souverainetés. 1696 -  (875x580 mm)- Wirtenberg Ducatus (Hondius) 1638 - (494x415 mm)- Partie Orientale Du Palatinat et Eslectorat Du Rhein. Les Eveschés De Spire, De Wormes et Le Comté de Linange. 1692 - (565x430 mm)An attractive map of Bayern, embellished with a fine strapwork title-cartouche and a cartouche with scales.From the Latin, 1613 edition.Gerard Mercator (1512-94). His ' Atlas sive...
€700

Maker : MERCATOR, G. / HONDIUS, J.
Place : Amsterdam
Date : 1619
De Texel Stroom .. vant Marsdiep./ Caarte van De Mase...
Two decorative charts on one sheet, one depicting Texel and the entrance of the Zuider Zee with an inset showing the north coast of West-Friesland, the other depicting the river Maas as far inland as Rotterdam and the islands of South Holland.
$600

Maker : GOOS, P.
Place : Amsterdam
Date : 1660
AFRICAE PROPRIAE TABULA In qua, Punica regna vides; Tyrios, et Agenoris / urbem.
AFRICAE PROPRIAE TABULA In qua, Punica regna vides; Tyrios, et Agenoris / urbem. Antique map of North Africa with Carthage. A very decorative map of North Africa with an inset with the town of Carthage. From the rare Spanish edition of Abraham Ortelius’ ‘Theatrum Orbis Terrarum’, published by Vrientius. Abraham Ortelius(1527-98), Dutch cartographer and publisher of the first modern atlas, ' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum' in 1570. Editions till 1612. Also an atlas of ancient cartography, the '...
€350

Maker : ORTELIUS, A.
Place : Antwerp
Date : 1590
Virulus marinus. Cete (Whale and whaling scene)
Whale and whaling scene, set against a mountainous landscape in the manner of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Plate number 1. The engraving is copied after Adrian Collaert plate in "Piscium Vivæ Icones" a series first published in Antwerp by Adriaen Collaert after 1598, later published between 1627 and 1677 by Galle family. Several copies were made of this series.Most of the ships in the background were copied from a series of ten prints known as the Sailing Vessels, executed by Frans Huys after des...
$300

Maker : COLLAERT, Adriaen (after)
Place : Antwerp
Date : after 1598
Osservazioni meteorologiche e punti neri all'orizzonte
Osservazioni meteorologiche e punti neri all'orizzonte
€450

Maker : Gioannetti Leonida diresse
Place : Italy
Date : 1896
Leti, Amsterdam
54x42,5 cm. Amstelodami Celeberrimi Hollandiae emporii Delineato Nova. Colored Copper engraving. G. Leti. Amsterdam 1690
€2.250

Maker : LETI, G.
Place : Amsterdam
Date : 1690
Celestial table globe. URANOGRAPHIA / SYDERUM ET STELLARUM / in Singulis Syderibus conspicuarum / exhibens Delineationem accuratissimam...
An extraordinary, eye-catching set of these rare globes.
€207.000

Maker : Valk Leonard, Valk, Gerard
Place : Amsterdam
Date : 1750
Kaart van de Reede van Batavia met de verschillende vaarwaters naar dezelve trigometrisch opgenomen op last van deb schout bijnacht E.Lucas.
Very large and rare so-called blue-black chart centered on Jakarta's harbor.The chart is prepared by B.G.Escher, I.A.C. Eschauzier, B.H.Staring and E.H.Boom during an expedition in 1841 by the ships Krokodil and Hekla. The chart is engraved by J.C.Zurcher and updated for and published in 1847 by Jacob Swart. When Gerard Hulst van Keulen died in 1801, his widow ran the firm until her death in 1810, at which time Johannes Hulst van Keulen became the last van Keulen to run the firm.In 1823, Jacob S...
$1.800

Maker : HULST VAN KEULEN, Wed. G.
Place : Amsterdam
Date : (1841) 1847
[Lot of 17 maps] L' ISLE DE FRANCE Pariensis agri descriptio. Francois de la Hoeye fecit, Jean le Clerc excud.
The map of Ile de France which Jean Leclerc added in his re-issue of Maurice Bouguereau's atlas 'Theatre Francois' , as ' La Theatre geographique de France' in 1619. An uncommon and decorative map.[Lot of 17]  maps of F R A N C E- L'Isle de France, Parisiensis agri descrip(tio). - Gouvernemens de Picardie, de Boulonnois, et d’Artois (1768)- V.  Descrittione del Regno della Gallia (1598)-La France Divisée en ses quarante Gouvernamens Généraux et Militaire.- - Topographia aug. Turon. duca...
€1.000

Maker : Jean Leclerc
Place : Paris
Date : 1619
[Lot of 7 Flower prints] Talauma mutabilis. flower Talauma mutabilis from 'FLORA MALESIANA' Arckenhausen del. / Hutz Lith.
The flower Talauma mutabilis from 'FLORA MALESIANA'. Talauma mutabilis by Karl Ludwig von Blume (9 June 1796, Braunschweig – 3 February 1862, Leiden) was a German-Dutch botanist. (3454)Lot of 7 flower prints.- Talauma mutabilis - Sobralia Macrantha- Détails de la liane femelle du Chili- Liane femelle du Chili- Détails de la lianne màle du Chili- Dianthus sinensis heddewigii- Dianthus sinensis laciniatus
€300

Maker : BLUME, Carl Ludwig. von
Place : Germany
Date : 1829