Europa recens descripta à Guilielmo Blaeuw.
On either side columns depicting the manner of dress in the major countries of Europe, surmounted by nine city views and plans.For European mapmakers their own continent contained few mysteries or secrets by the seventeenth century. However, the mythical island of Frisland still appears between Iceland and Greenland. The map is decorated with ships and a sea monster on the sea, bears on northern Russia, and lions on North Africa.
€3.250
Maker : BLAEU, W.
Place : Amsterdam
Date : 1644
New York von der Seeseite aus gesehen.
Very decorate view of New-York. J.Hesse was known as a portrait painter and publisher of lithographs. A long panorama of the shoreline from the sea, with sailing vessels and American steamships in the busy port.
€700
Maker : HESSE, J.
Place : Berlin
Date : c. 1850
Plan des paroisses de Paris avec la distinction des parties éparses qui en dépendent dressé... par J. Junié, Ingén. Géogr. De Monseigneur l'Archeveque et géomètre des Eaux et forêts de ...
Large wall map size plan of Paris in 4 separate sheets, if joined forming a plan of Paris of 93 x 60cm. This plan is a 1904 version of a manuscript plan drawn in 1786 by Junié for A.-L. Le Clerc de Juigné.Published by Service des Travaux historiques de la Ville de Paris. To the left and right, a lettered key with a list of parishes with their boundaries and legends.Top right, title in an ornate cartouche: two women, symbolizing piety and justice, around the arms of LeClerc de Juigné (1728-1...
€750
Maker : JUNIÉ, J.
Place : Service des Travaux historiques de la Ville de Paris
Date : 1904
L'Europe en Sept 1939. Ille terrarum mihi angulus ridet.
A rare oversized serio-comic map of Europe at the start of the Second World War depicting stereotypes of 31 countries, as listed in the key lower right, including Britain as a woman with battleships on leads; France as Marianne, leading her troops into battle; Germany, with a swastika sash, stabbing a female Poland; and Russia as a Cossack holding a hammer and sickle, his arm around a large brown bear. Very scarce, although as mentioned on the map 150 were printed, only three, nos. 8, 9, 10, 13...
€9.000
Maker : VLAANDEREN, Cornelis André
Place : Bruges, Leon Burghgraeve
Date : 1939
