Map of the Pacific from S.E. Asia to Pitcarin Island. with illustrated cartouche, showing title on a rocky island

Dimensions (W x H): 29 x 21.5 / 11½ x 8½

Map of Pacific islands to the west of Australia, as far as Pitcairn Island. Pictorial cartouche with title on sail of boat near rocky coast

Dimensions (W x H): 30 x 22 / 12 x 8½

Conrad Martin Metz was an eminent engraver in the chalk manner and aquatint. He received his education in art under the celebrated Bartolozzi. Bartolozzi, the main engraver of this collection, developed his style to imitate the subtleties of renaissance and baroque chalk drawings and became ...

Dimensions (W x H): 23 x 26.5 / 9 x 10½

Conrad Martin Metz was an eminent engraver in the chalk manner and aquatint. He received his education in art under the celebrated Bartolozzi. Bartolozzi developed his style to imitate the subtleties of renaissance and baroque chalk drawings and became deservedly famous for his stipple engraving. ...

Dimensions (W x H): 23 x 30.5 / 9 x 12

Beautiful and detailed map of Europe, with ornate illustrated cartouche, with cherubs above, reclining figure and children below amongst , globe lyre, paints, barrels and packages. List of cities and their locations at lower right, seven scales at lower left

Dimensions (W x H): 57 x 59 / 22½ x 23

A splendid map of the Rome area, with regions clearly delineated. Magnificent baroque cartouche with title surrounded by ornate shell, in a woodland landscape whilst above,there is a regal tent containing a gold crown guarded by cherubs

Dimensions (W x H): 56 x 48 / 22 x 19

Detailed map of Germany coloured by region, decorative cartouche at top left

Dimensions (W x H): 25.5 x 20 / 10 x 8

Very attractive little map of Northern Asia, from the Black Sea to Japan

Dimensions (W x H): 25 x 19 / 10 x 7½

Matthaeus Seutter was one of the most important of the German cartographers and publishers. Born in Augsburg, Seutter served an apprenticeship in Nuremberg with J.B.Homann and later Seutter established his own map business in Augsburg. The Seutter publishing house produced a great number of maps, ...

Dimensions (W x H): 58.5 x 50.5 / 23 x 20

Magnificent twin hemisphere celestial map, with six secondary hemispheres - in the corners and at upper and lower centrefolds. Showing the rotation of the Planets, according to Tycho Brahe, Ptolemy and Copernicus, and the relationships of the sun to the earth and moon. Four globes, two on lower ...

Dimensions (W x H): 57 x 48 / 22½ x 19