George Vivian (1798-1873), draughtsman and painter from London, travelled through Spain and Portugal making sketches of many old buildings and towns. On his return Vivian made the drawings famous publishing a collection of lithographs under the title "Scenery of Portugal & Spain". The work consists ...

Dimensions (W x H): 41.5 x 28.5 / 16½ x 11

A beautiful little map of Turkey from Porcacchi’s famous atlas, also showing Crete and many of the Aegean Islands. Atlases of islands were very popular at the time. The map occupies the centre of a larger page ( 19 x 29.5cm) with text in Italian above and below.

Dimensions (W x H): 17 x 13 / 6½ x 5

Attractive map of the southern part of South America with two inset maps, one of Santiago (‘Saint Jago’), the other of Terra del Fuego. Decorative title cartouche at lower left. Lots of interesting annotations throughout the map. Emmanuel Bowen was one of the leading English mapmakers of the ...

Dimensions (W x H): 43.5 x 36.5 / 17 x 14½

Attractive map of the southern part of South America with two inset maps, one of Santiago (‘Saint Jago’), the other of Terra del Fuego. Attractive cartouche at lower left. Emmanuel Bowen was one of the leading English mapmakers of the eighteenth-century, and was unusual in that he was cartographer ...

Dimensions (W x H): 42 x 35 / 16½ x 14

Beautiful engraving of the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore, Cathedral Church of Florence and the procession outside. Laurie and Whittle carried on business from about 1790, taking over the stock of Robert Sayer's publishing house in 1792-93.

Dimensions (W x H): 45 x 29.5 / 17½ x 11½

A beautiful early map of the Americas and the Pacific, showing a vast southern continent that includes ‘Tierra del Fuego’ and ‘Nova Guinea’. Simple title cartouche at lower left. Title and short text in German on top border. Ref: Burden, The Mapping of North America, entry 67

Dimensions (W x H): 36.5 x 33.5 / 14½ x 13

A beautiful sea chart of part of the Indian Ocean, north west coast of Madagascar, and islands to the east including Maurtitius. Robert Dudley’s principal work was the Dell Arcano del Mare which was first published in Florence in 1646, the second edition was in 1661. It was the first sea atlas ...

Dimensions (W x H): 39 x 48 / 15½ x 19

An attractive map of South Africa with four inset maps of Contorni del Capo, Distritto di Giorgio, Contorni della Citta di Graham and Citta del Capo (Cape Town). This is from a very attractive and scarce atlas by a cartographer from Naples. Marzolla prints extensive notes with his maps, listing his ...

Dimensions (W x H): 50 x 45 / 19½ x 17½

Important early map of the Straits of Magellan, predating the discovery of the Straits of Le Maire. A classic early Mercator map, featuring 3 large strapwork cartouches, one of which includes a profile view of the entrance to the Strait. The ornate compass rose point downward, indicating North at ...

Dimensions (W x H): 46 x 35 / 18 x 14

Beautiful map of Tierra del Fuego and the Magellan Straits from Jansson’s edition of Mercator’s Atlas Minor. Petrus Kaerius, Abraham Goos and others, engraved additional maps showing new discoveries.

Dimensions (W x H): 19 x 14 / 7½ x 5½

An attractive map of the fortified Spanish capital showing from the west the Casa Real del Campo and beautiful gardens to Campo Grande to the east and Puerto de los Pozos de la Nieve in the north to Portillo de Embajadores in the south. Vignettes of the important municipal and sacred buildings run ...

Dimensions (W x H): 37.9 x 33 / 15 x 13

The map shows central America. There are two inset maps within ornamental floral borders- one of the western coast of South America to its southern tip, the other is a map of ‘St. Franciscus Bay’ on Tierra del Fuego, Ornamental cartouche, decorated with sails and navigational aids. Compass on the ...

Dimensions (W x H): 55 x 35 / 21½ x 14

A beautiful view of Rome for atop a hill. The view encorporate the vast city with St. Peter’s basilica and the Piazza del Popolo on the left close by to the Colosseum. The Arno River sweeps through the city and off into the hills. Good margins.

Dimensions (W x H): 33.6 x 26 / 13 x 10

This handsome plate depicts Anson's raid on the town of Paita. His capture of the Spanish vessel Nuestra Senhora del Carmin, led to intelligence which convinced Anson that he could capture the town and then demand ransom from its governor. When the governor refused to cooperate, Anson burned the ...

Dimensions (W x H): 49.5 x 22 / 19½ x 8½

Ortelius' oval map was based on a large 21-sheet world map published by his colleague, Gerard Mercator in 1569. Mercator apparently encouraged Ortelius to make use of his research as well as to do some amendments. This is a magnificent example of Ortelius's third world map, replacing the first two ...

Dimensions (W x H): 49.5 x 36 / 19½ x 14

A beautiful sea chart of the south coast of Portugal and Spain with the Strait of Gibraltar embellished with ships and sea monsters. Robert Dudley was an English sailor and engineer, whose principal work was Dell Arcano del Mare ("Concerning the secrets of the sea"), which is considered one of the ...

Dimensions (W x H): 67.5 x 46.5 / 26½ x 18½

George Vivian (1798-1873), draughtsman and painter from London, travelled through Spain and Portugal making sketches of many old buildings and towns. On his return Vivian made the drawings famous publishing a collection of lithographs under the title "Scenery of Portugal & Spain". The work consists ...

Dimensions (W x H): 25 x 18 / 10 x 7

Handsome view from a height, of the barren mountainous coast of Tierra del Fuego, with a tiny ship in the bay below, and a bird perched on a rock in the foreground.

Dimensions (W x H): 37 x 23.5 / 14½ x 9½