Myanmar (Burma)/ Thailand/ Bangladesh. FRIES, L., PTOLEMY, C. [Lyons: 1522/ 1535] [On verso:] Tabula XI Asiae. 11 x 16 inches. Fine hand color; excellent condition. One of the earliest acquirable maps to focus on a specific region of Southeast Asia. The areas depicted on the map is primarily today’s Myanmar.....
Atlas. ORTELIUS, A./ GALLE, F. [Antwerp, 1579] Le Miroir Du Monde, Reduict Premierement En Rithme… A Anvers, De l’Imprimerie de Christofle Plantin, pour Philippe Galle. M.D.LXXIX.Oblong octavo in contemp. Vellum, ties lacking; 72 maps, 6 of which folding; slight edge wear to text leaves, partial cropping to some folding maps for.....
British Isles/ History of Cartography. MERCATOR, G./ PTOLEMY, C. [Cologne: 1584] Europae. I. Tab: 13 3/8 x 16 inches. Fine hand color; two light stains upper left & right (less pronounced on the actual map than in the image), else excellent condition. .....
A very early and revealing map of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions at the time of initial colonization. "A superbly executed engraving, [the map] depicts the northeastern American coastline as it was perceived by European geographers one hundred years after the discovery of the New World. [It] marks the approximate.....
World. QUAD, M. [Cologne, 1600] Typus Orbis Terrarum, Ad Imitationem Gerhardi Mercatoris... 8 ½ x 12 ¼ inches. Strong impression, margins close but no loss, excellent condition. .....
Berkshire/ Windsor Castle. SPEED, John [London, 1614 (?)] Barkshire Described. Performed by I. Speede and are to be sold in the Popes head Alley by I. Sud and Georg Humble Cum Privilegio. 15 x 20 inches. Fine hand color; expertly mended worming in centerfold with reinstatement of part of title.....
A finely engraved general map of Italy that appeared in the first atlas of Italy published in Italy. It depicts Italy with place names that were in use during the Roman Imperial Period of the Second Century A. D. While closely based on a map by Gerard Mercator from his.....
Roman Empire/ The Peutinger Table. ORTELIUS, A. [Antwerp, 1598/ 1624] Tabula Itineraria Antiquae… Four sheets, each approximately 16 ½ x 20 ½ inches. Centerfold reinforced with rice paper, a few marginal mends, else excellent. .....
A vigorously decorative map of Africa--the first in English but adopting the rich Dutch cartes a figures style so popular at the time. As is customarily seen on 17th century maps, Africa's interior is filled with fictitious mountains, rivers and lakes as well as notations concerning legends, notably where gold.....
Antwerp/ Financial History. VISSCHER, C.J. /VISSCHER, N. J. [Amsterdam, c. 1630] Marchionatus Sacri Romani Imperii… C.J. Visscher Excudebat. 18 x 21 ¾ inches. Fine original color; bit of edge chipping & toning in margins, else excellent. .....
World/ Northwest Passage/ Australiana. KEERE, P. VAN DEN/ JANSSON, J. [Amsterdam, 1621/c. 1636] Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula. 15 1/2 x 21 inches. Fine hand color; a few mended, inconspicuous into engraved surface & along a vertical crease, largely in margins, good overall. .....
Stockholm, Sweden. MERIAN, M. [Frankfurt am Main, 1638`] Stockholm. 7 ½ x 13 inches. Marginal mend well away from printed image, else excellent condition. A superb bird’s-eye view, published just after Stockholm had become the official capital of the Swedish Empire. The view is oriented to the south.....
One of the finest early maps of Cyprus in a beautiful original-color example. Its magnificent cartouche portrays Venus, pulled on a sea-chariot by two swans, accompanied by Cupid (distinguishable from an ordinary putto by the arrow he brandishes.) The waters around the island are embellished with three ships, two compass.....
Bermuda. BLAEU, W./ NORWOOD, R. [Amsterdam, 1642] Mappa Aestivarum Insularum, alias Barmudas . . . 15 7/8 x 21 inches. Superb original color; a few light marginal stains, mend in lower right corner, well away from printed image, else excellent. The most richly decorative, early.....
An exceptionally fresh example, in brilliant original color, of the earliest separate map of the area that now includes Hong Kong. Macau, Guangzhou (Canton), and several other place names appear in the Zhu (Pearl) River delta, and Hainan Island to the southwest is quite well detailed. Finely engraved Oriental figures.....
Hungary. SANSON, N. [Paris, 1666] Hungaria Regnum . . . 16 ¼ x 19 ½ inches. Original outline color; fine condition. An attractive, scarce and accurate map of Hungary by the foremost French cartographer of the 17th century, in a fine example with original outline color.
A map that is as historically important as it is attractive: it was the culmination of all the surveys conducted by the Dutch colonists of New Netherlands during their first three decades in America. It is also the first printed map to delineate the shape of Manhattan with relative accuracy;.....
A most attractive map with rich Dutch coloring of the period of Scandinavia centering on Sweden and Finland but including eastern Norway. Also depicted is all of present day Estonia and part of Latvia along with a portion of northwestern Russia. The coats-of-arms of several of these nations adorn the.....
Grand Banks/ Newfoundland. KEULEN, Johannes van [Amsterdam, 1695] Pas-kaart Van de Grand Banq By Terra Neuff... 20 x 23 inches. On double-ply paper as issued; fine hand color; a faint stain, else a fine, bright example. .....
This large, oblique aerial view of Milan is certainly among the most beautiful early depictions of the city known. The city's structures are shown with considerable architectural detail, especially the larger structures such as the Duomo in center of the work. In all, 256 structures are listed and keyed to.....
A bright, beautiful copy of one of the most ambitious and finely engraved works of urban cartography ever produced: it depicts every structure existing in Paris at the time. This remarkable engraving enables the viewer to virtually hover a few hundred feet above the city and take in the exquisite.....
Beijing. HARRIS, John/ CAMPBELL, John [London: 1744] Plans of the Old & New City of Peking ye. Metropolis of China. 14 x 8 3/4 inches. Copperplate engraving. Excellent condition. Revealing, early plans of Beijing, formerly Peking, depicting the then contemporary city along with the ancient, original city. Legends at lower.....
Philippines. ANSON, G. [London: 1749] Carte du Canal des Isles Philippines. 21 x 16 ½ inches. Fine hand color; excellent condition. A handsome chart.....
China/ Korea. ROBERT DE VAUGONDY, G. [Paris: 1751] L’Empire De La Chine dresse d’apres les Cartes de l’Atlas Chinois… 19 x 20 ½ inches. Copperplate engraving with original outline color. Invisible mend lower centerfold, mend in lower margin, very good overall. This.....
Northeast/ Old Northwest/ South. ROBERT DE VAUGONDY, Didier. [Paris, 1755] Amerique Septentrionale, dressee, sur les Relations les plus modernes des Voyageurs et Navigateurs 18 ¾ x 22 ¾ inches. Original outline color; excellent condition. First state of a well-detailed map of a soon-to-be contested part of.....
