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DE BRUNHOFF, Jean
Four scenes showing Flora, a baby in her pram.
Dimensions (W x H): 51 x 30 / 20 x 12
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DE BRUNHOFF, Jean
Scene showing Babar having his photograph taken.
Dimensions (W x H): 25 x 31 / 10 x 12
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DE BRUNHOFF, Jean
Scene showing Babar family going by car and greeting elephants of the jungle.
Dimensions (W x H): 51.5 x 34 / 20½ x 13½
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DE BRUNHOFF, Laurent
Scene showing Celestville.
Dimensions (W x H): 51 x 35 / 20 x 14
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DE BRUNHOFF, Laurent
Scene showing elephants in boats on floaded Celestville.
Dimensions (W x H): 51 x 35 / 20 x 14
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DE BRUNHOFF, Jean
Scene showing elephants being bandaged by nurse elephants
Dimensions (W x H): 22 x 30 / 8½ x 12
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DE BRUNHOFF, Laurent
Scene Arthur being pulled back into the plane.
Dimensions (W x H): 25 x 32 / 10 x 12½
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DE BRUNHOFF, Jean
Scene showing 2 rhinos.
Dimensions (W x H): 22 x 30 / 8½ x 12
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DE BRUNHOFF, Laurent
Scene of Arthur and elephants on plane.
Dimensions (W x H): 25 x 32 / 20 x 12
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DE FER, Nicolas
An unusual and very attractive pair of engravings. One showing a terrestrial globe and a celestial globe. The other one of an armillary sphere showing four systems (the Copernican, Ptolemaic, Tycho-Brahe and composed systems). Nicolas de Fer (1646-1720) was the youngest son of Parisian print and ...
Dimensions (W x H): 28 x 21 / 11 x 8½
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DELISLE, Guillaume
The map represents the theatre of Alexander the Great's conquests between the Black Sea and Indus River, today's Turkey, Armenia, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, etc. Guilliame Delisle (1675-1726) is important as the first "scientific" cartographer who incorporated the most current information on ...
Dimensions (W x H): 84 x 47.5 / 33 x 18½
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HOLBEIN, Hans
Bartolozzi developed his style to imitate the subtleties of renaissance and baroque chalk drawings and became deservedly famous for his stipple engraving. The portraits in this collection show how effective this technique was in reproducing with such incredible fidelity Holbein's original designs. ...
Dimensions (W x H): 27.5 x 39.5 / 11 x 15½
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DELISLE, Guillaume
Guilliame Delisle (1675-1726) is important as the first "scientific" cartographer who incorporated the most current information on exploration and topography into his maps. He adopted entirely new principles in cartography and set about making a thorough reform in that subject. Delisle recognized ...
Dimensions (W x H): 65 x 47.5 / 25½ x 18½
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BUACHE, Philippe
An interesting geo-hydrographic map of the Atlantic Ocean and it’s islands. It is divided into two with one side showing the Atlantic Ocean and the coasts of Africa and Brazil and the other side a detailed examination of the archipelago of Fernando de Noronha. A note top left explains the purpose ...
Dimensions (W x H): 65 x 49.5 / 25½ x 19½
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DELISLE, Guillaume
Guilliame Delisle (1675-1726) is important as the first "scientific" cartographer who incorporated the most current information on exploration and topography into his maps. He adopted entirely new principles in cartography and set about making a thorough reform in that subject. Delisle recognized ...
Dimensions (W x H): 64 x 50 / 25 x 19½
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DELISLE, Guillaume
Senlis is a town and commune located about 50 km north of central Paris, in the Picardie région, in the Oise département. Detailed to show many villages, towns, roads and even individual trees to indicate forests. With two insets: "Plan de Crespy" and "Plan de la Ville de Senlis". Surrounded by ...
Dimensions (W x H): 64.5 x 47 / 25½ x 18½
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DELISLE, Guillaume
Very decorative map of the northern coast of Africa, Spain, Italy and the Mediterranean with the islands of Sardinia, Corsica, Majorca, Minorca etc. Sicily features a smoking Mount Aetna. Embellished with three architectural cartouches and a compass rose.
Dimensions (W x H): 64 x 48 / 25 x 19
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DE FER, Nicolas
An unusual engraving of three globes on a table. At centre is an armillary sphere, the ‘Sphere Artificielle’ flanked by two smaller globes - a terrestrial globe, and a celestial globe. Text at the top below title describes the Sphere Artificielle ‘It is an instrument that represents the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 32 x 22.5 / 12½ x 9
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DELISLE, Guillaume
Guilliame Delisle (1675-1726) is important as the first "scientific" cartographer who incorporated the most current information on exploration and topography into his maps. He adopted entirely new principles in cartography and set about making a thorough reform in that subject. Delisle recognized ...
Dimensions (W x H): 62 x 48 / 24½ x 19
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DELISLE, Guillaume
Guilliame Delisle (1675-1726) is important as the first "scientific" cartographer who incorporated the most current information on exploration and topography into his maps. He adopted entirely new principles in cartography and set about making a thorough reform in that subject. Delisle recognized ...
Dimensions (W x H): 84 x 47.5 / 33 x 18½
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HOLBEIN, Hans
Bartolozzi developed his style to imitate the subtleties of renaissance and baroque chalk drawings and became deservedly famous for his stipple engraving. The portraits in this collection show how effective this technique was in reproducing with such incredible fidelity Holbein's original designs.
Dimensions (W x H): 27.5 x 39.5 / 11 x 15½
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DE BRUNHOFF, Jean
Scene showing Babar entering a patisserie and then seated eating cakes
Dimensions (W x H): 25 x 31 / 10 x 12
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DELISLE, Guillaume
Guilliame Delisle (1675-1726) is important as the first "scientific" cartographer who incorporated the most current information on exploration and topography into his maps. He adopted entirely new principles in cartography and set about making a thorough reform in that subject. Delisle recognized ...
Dimensions (W x H): 64 x 49 / 25 x 19½
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DELISLE, Guillaume
Detailed map of central Italy centered on Rome, in the south Pompeii, in top the island of Giglio and the town Orbetello. Lower left inset plan of ancient Rome. Guilliame Delisle (1675-1726) is important as the first "scientific" cartographer who incorporated the most current information on ...
Dimensions (W x H): 62 x 45.5 / 25 x 19½
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DELISLE, Guillaume
Guilliame Delisle (1675-1726) is important as the first "scientific" cartographer who incorporated the most current information on exploration and topography into his maps. He adopted entirely new principles in cartography and set about making a thorough reform in that subject. Delisle recognized ...
Dimensions (W x H): 63.5 x 46.5 / 25 x 18½
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DELISLE, Guillaume
Guilliame Delisle (1675-1726) is important as the first "scientific" cartographer who incorporated the most current information on exploration and topography into his maps. He adopted entirely new principles in cartography and set about making a thorough reform in that subject. Delisle recognized ...
Dimensions (W x H): 63.5 x 50 / 25 x 19½
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ROBERTS, David
A beautiful rustic scene looking across to The Escorial in the distance. This palatial complex, 45 kilometres northwest of Madrid, lies at the foot of the Sierra de Guadarrama mountain range which is depicted here in Roberts’s stunning view. In the foreground of the picture to the left is a wooden ...
Dimensions (W x H): 39 x 28 / 15½ x 11
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DE BRUNHOFF, Jean
Scene showing elephant family on the beach.
Dimensions (W x H): 24 x 32 / 9½ x 12½
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DE BRUNHOFF, Laurent
Scene of Babar in the jungle with naughty monkeys.
Dimensions (W x H): 50.5 x 33 / 20 x 13
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DE BRUNHOFF, Jean
Scene showing three elephants and a monkey going fishing for fish and shrimps. Another scene underneath the text showing an elephant and the monkey meeting a crab.
Dimensions (W x H): 24 x 32 / 9½ x 12½
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DE BRUNHOFF, Jean
Scene showing an elephant watching two camels drinking from a river.
Dimensions (W x H): 24 x 32 / 9½ x 12½
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DE BRUNHOFF, Jean
A scene showing three young elephants watching birds sailing.
Dimensions (W x H): 52 x 34 / 20½ x 13½
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DE BRUNHOFF, Jean
A scene showing Babar and camels crossing a bridge of hippos.
Dimensions (W x H): 51 x 33 / 20 x 13
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DE BRUNHOFF, Jean
A beautiful scene showing elephants dressed up as birds among lilies.
Dimensions (W x H): 51.5 x 35 / 20½ x 14
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DE BRUNHOFF, Jean
A beautiful scene showing elephants and birds watching a bird race.
Dimensions (W x H): 51.5 x 34 / 20½ x 13½
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DE BRUNHOFF, Jean
A fabulous scene showing elephants and birds dining in the garden with lantern light.
Dimensions (W x H): 24 x 32 / 9½ x 12½
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DE BRUNHOFF, Laurent
Scene of Babar travelling with camels.
Dimensions (W x H): 51.5 x 33 / 20½ x 13
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DE BRUNHOFF, Jean
A lovely scene showing Babar and kangaroos at the train station.
Dimensions (W x H): 24 x 32 / 9½ x 12½
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DE BRUNHOFF, Jean
An attractive scene showing an elephant flying on the back of a bird from a light house toward a sailing boat.
Dimensions (W x H): 24 x 32 / 9½ x 12½
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DE BRUNHOFF, Jean
An interesting picture showing elephants, monkeys and birds at a train station.
Dimensions (W x H): 51 x 33 / 20 x 13
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DE BRUNHOFF, Jean
Scene showing Babar and Celeste on a tiny island surrounded by the sea full of fish.
Dimensions (W x H): 24.5 x 30 / 9½ x 12
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DE BRUNHOFF, Jean
Scene showing Babar and Celeste making fire and drying clothes after they left their wrecked balloon on the beach.
Dimensions (W x H): 24.5 x 30 / 9½ x 12
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DE BRUNHOFF, Jean
Scene showing Babar and Celeste on a tiny island surrounded by the sea full of fish.
Dimensions (W x H): 24.5 x 30 / 9½ x 12
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DE BRUNHOFF, Jean
Scene showing Babar in his bed.
Dimensions (W x H): 24.5 x 31.5 / 9½ x 12½
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DE BRUNHOFF, Jean
Scene showing Babar and Celeste making fire and drying clothes after they left their wrecked balloon on the beach.
Dimensions (W x H): 24.5 x 30 / 9½ x 12
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DE BRUNHOFF, Jean
Wonderful scene of skiing Babar.
Dimensions (W x H): 51 x 34 / 20 x 13½
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DE BRUNHOFF, Jean
Scene showing Babar and the old lady who is helping him to pack.
Dimensions (W x H): 25.5 x 33 / 10 x 13
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DE BRUNHOFF, Jean
Scene showing Babar and Celeste watching a whale from the shore.
Dimensions (W x H): 24.5 x 30 / 9½ x 12
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DE BRUNHOFF, Jean
Wonderful scene of Babar at Fernando’s Circus.
Dimensions (W x H): 51 x 30 / 20 x 12
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DE BRUNHOFF, Jean
Babar and friends enjoy a picnic in the gardens of the Palace of Pleasure.
Dimensions (W x H): 51 x 30 / 20 x 12
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DELISLE, Guillaume and BUACHE, Philippe
Delisle was an important French cartographer of the early 18th century. He held the position of First Royal Geographer to the King. A detailed and informative map of the northern part of South America including some of central America north west and Paraguay in the south. The “Pays des Amazones” ...
Dimensions (W x H): 66.5 x 49.5 / 26 x 19½
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DELISLE, Guillaume
Delisle was an important French cartographer of the early 18th century. He held the position of First Royal Geographer to the King. A very detailed and beautiful map of Flanders (northern Belgium), as well as parts of Northern France including Lille. An interesting note at the top of this map ...
Dimensions (W x H): 66.2 x 50 / 26 x 19½
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DELISLE, Guillaume
Delisle was an important French cartographer of the early 18th century. He held the position of First Royal Geographer to the King. A detailed map of southern Africa from the Equator including the island of Madagascar and other islands in the Indian Ocean. The relief and rivers of the land are ...
Dimensions (W x H): 63.5 x 49.5 / 25 x 19½
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DELISLE, Guillaume
Delisle was an important French cartographer of the early 18th century. He held the position of First Royal Geographer to the King. Two interesting and richly detailed marine maps showing the Caspian sea with all it’s tributary rivers and surrounding lands. The first is a map of the northern ...
Dimensions (W x H): 62.7 x 44.5 / 24½ x 17½
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DELISLE, Guillaume
Delisle was an important French cartographer of the early 18th century. He held the position of First Royal Geographer to the King. Two fascinating and unusual map mondes of the antipodes of the Arctic and Antarctic Hemispheres. A handsome pair of hemispherical maps, showing the routes of the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 46.5 x 46.5 / 18½ x 18½
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DELISLE, Guillaume and BUACHE, Philippe
Delisle was an important French cartographer of the early 18th century. He held the position of First Royal Geographer to the King.Ornamental cartouche at top right. 13 scales at top left. The map shows the whole of Italy, her islands and the Dalmatian coast. The northern parts of Algiers and ...
Dimensions (W x H): 63.5 x 50 / 25 x 19½
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DELISLE, Guillaume
Delisle was an important French cartographer of the early 18th century. He held the position of First Royal Geographer to the King. An attractive map of this West Indies island and it’s neighbours including part of Cuba. Saint Domingue itself is shown with the relief of the land and it’s ...
Dimensions (W x H): 62.7 x 48.3 / 24½ x 19
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DELISLE, Guillaume
Delisle was an important French cartographer of the early 18th century. He held the position of First Royal Geographer to the King. An interesting map with the Arabian peninsula in the centre with the Middle East; North Africa; Asia and southern Europe surrounding it. The map extends from Spain ...
Dimensions (W x H): 63 x 47.2 / 25 x 18½
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DELISLE, Guillaume and BUACHE, Philippe
The map is in two parts, north and south, they are both of equal size. The northern map has a decorated cartouche, and shows the north of white Russia, and part of the arctic coast, reaches as far south as the Principality of Galicz. The southern map stretches to the northern tip of the Black Sea, ...
Dimensions (W x H): 66 x 50 / 26 x 19½
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DELISLE, Guillaume
Delisle was an important French cartographer of the early 18th century. He held the position of First Royal Geographer to the King. A map of what is now the Netherlands. Decorative cartouche upper left corner. Coast of England in the west to the region of Westphalia in Germany in the east and ...
Dimensions (W x H): 62.5 x 48.3 / 24½ x 19
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DELISLE, Guillaume
Delisle was an important French cartographer of the early 18th century. He held the position of First Royal Geographer to the King. An interesting map of the lower section of South America including Paraguay and Chili and from Peru in the north to the Diego Ramírez islands in the south. In the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 65.2 x 50 / 25½ x 19½
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DELISLE, Guillaume
Delisle was an important French cartographer of the early 18th century. He held the position of First Royal Geographer to the King. A detailed map of Denmark and part of the tip of Sweden with parts of northern Germany. Denmark’s islands are also shown in the centre in the Baltic Sea.
Dimensions (W x H): 64 x 49 / 25 x 19½
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LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van
Decorative print showing three coastal views of Ascunsion island in the Atlantic, numerous birds, flying fish and ships at sea, compass rose at sea, strapwork cartouche at top right, two secondary cartouches at left centre and lower right. Text in Latin and Dutch along lower edge. Linschoten lived ...
Dimensions (W x H): 32 x 25 / 12½ x 10
£500
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COLLINS, Capt. Greenvile
Sea chart of east coast of England. The map is very busy with rhumblines and soundings, compass point with north to right, decorated dedicatory cartoushe at lower right to ‘SR Ralph de la Valk, Vice Admiral of the Red... .Captain Greenvile Collins was an outstanding naval officer who became ...
Dimensions (W x H): 56 x 44 / 22 x 17½
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BELLIN, Jacques Nicolas
Handsome map of Normandy and the Channel Islands, showing the French coast from Granville to Pointe de la Percée. Title at lower right, rhumb lines, compass point, soundings at sea. Three scales of longitude marked - Tenerife, l’Isle de Fer and Paris.
Dimensions (W x H): 82 x 59.5 / 32½ x 23½
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CASSAS, Louis Francois
Magnificent engraving showing four figures looking into an unexcavated ruin. The ruin is almost submerged in the ground and covered with vegetation. Louis-François Cassas’ Voyage Pittoresque de la Syrie, de la Phoenicie, de la Palestine, et de la Basse-Egypte is perhaps the finest eighteenth ...
Dimensions (W x H): 41 x 29 / 16 x 11½
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CASSAS, Louis Francois
This beautiful engraving shows an exploration at the entrance to an unexcavated building. Three men with a flaming torch descend into the dark interior while five guards, with guns and a flute idly stand guard outside. Louis-François Cassas was one of the best French printmakers of the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 38 x 27 / 15 x 10½
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Seale, R.W.
A chart of the Pacific Ocean, showing the route of Commodore Anson from California and Mexico to the Philippines in 1743, during one of the last great buccaneering voyages. He was sent to the South Seas to harass the Spanish bases and plunder their shipping. Anson intercepted the treasure ship, the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 88 x 27 / 34½ x 10½
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BOWEN, Emannuel
Map of Denmark, the Skaggerak and western Baltic. Compass point, illustrated cartouche, showing a pair of horses in front of pine trees. Text below the cartouche states that ‘the sea coast is laid down.....according to....... van Keulen. The inland parts are chiefly taken from DeLisle’
Dimensions (W x H): 22.3 x 31.5 / 9 x 12½
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KIP, Johannes
This wonderful panorama is from the Nouveau théâtre de la Grand Bretagne, by Johannes Kip. The set of five volumes is celebrated for its survey of the country house during the Augustinian age, as recorded in the series of plates engraved by Kip himself. This ‘flourishing period of restoration, ...
Dimensions (W x H): 134 x 62 / 53 x 24½
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LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van
Attractive print of four Africans. Text in Latin and Dutch along lower edge. Linschoten lived and wrote at a time when exploration was rapidly opening up the world. His travel writings, in three parts, the famous ‘Itinerarium’, included ‘Description de l’Amerique’, ‘Le Grande Route de Mer’ and ...
Dimensions (W x H): 32 x 25 / 12½ x 10
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LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van
Attractive print of four people and two children in India. Text in Latin and Dutch along lower edge. Linschoten lived and wrote at a time when exploration was rapidly opening up the world. His travel writings, in three parts, the famous ‘Itinerarium’, included ‘Description de l’Amerique’, ‘Le ...
Dimensions (W x H): 32 x 25 / 12½ x 10
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LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van
Attractive print of four people and two children in India. Text in Latin and Dutch along lower edge. Linschoten lived and wrote at a time when exploration was rapidly opening up the world. His travel writings, in three parts, the famous ‘Itinerarium’, included ‘Description de l’Amerique’, ‘Le ...
Dimensions (W x H): 32 x 25 / 12½ x 10
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SEM (Georges Goursat)
Georges Goursat SEM (1863-1934) attained a high level of success with his wonderful portrayals of Paris at the turn of the century. This outstanding caricaturist was a member of the Salon des Humoristes and an officer of the Legion of Honor. His works offer us glimpses into Parisian high society ...
Dimensions (W x H): 55.5 x 51.5 / 22 x 20½
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MERIAN, Matthaus
An attractive map/bird’s eye view of Algiers showing the city walls, the moat, outlying forts and settlements, by Matthew Merian. Merian was not only a publisher, but an accomplished engraver in his own right. Born in Basel, Switzerland, he spent most of his life in Frankfurt where he met and ...
Dimensions (W x H): 35 x 22 / 14 x 8½
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GOTTFRIED, Johann Ludwig
This map is a reduced version of the one Merian engraved for Johann Ludwig Gottfried in 1631. It is one of many derivative maps of the Jodocus Hondius, 1618. One noticeable difference is the altered perspective of the inset map of Greenland. Matthew Merian was not only a publisher, but an ...
Dimensions (W x H): 36 x 27.5 / 14 x 11
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ZATTA, Antonio
Map of north America, fairly accurately depicted apart from the north-west Canadian coast and Alaska, which were still unexplored. With pictorial cartouche at lower left with trees, nuts and vegetation, and a fence surrounding title. Antonio Zatta was one of the leading cartographers and ...
Dimensions (W x H): 42 x 33 / 16½ x 13
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CASSAS, Louis Francois
Magnificent engraving of one of Antioch’s ruined gates, with a procession of merchants and their heavily laden camels. Louis-François Cassas was one of the best French printmakers of the eighteenth century. His Voyage Pittoresque de la Syrie, de la Phoenicie, de la Palestine, et de la Basse-Egypte ...
Dimensions (W x H): 46.5 x 29 / 18½ x 11½
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CASSAS, Louis Francois
Magnificent engraving of the ruined gate of Antioch in the mountains. Louis-François Cassas was one of the best French printmakers of the eighteenth century. His Voyage Pittoresque de la Syrie, de la Phoenicie, de la Palestine, et de la Basse-Egypte is perhaps the finest eighteenth century ...
Dimensions (W x H): 43.5 x 30 / 17 x 12
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ZATTA, Antonio
An attractive map of Asia Minor with title cartouche in the upper left-hand side. Antonio Zatta was one of the leading cartographers and publishers of the time, and his Atlante Novissimo was one of the most beautifully produced of 18th century atlases. He drew on the work of other cartographers - ...
Dimensions (W x H): 40 x 31.1 / 15½ x 12
£255
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CASSAS, Louis Francois
Magnificent engraving of a hill in Galilee near the Nazareth road. Louis-François Cassas was one of the best French printmakers of the eighteenth century. His Voyage Pittoresque de la Syrie, de la Phoenicie, de la Palestine, et de la Basse-Egypte is perhaps the finest eighteenth century illustrated ...
Dimensions (W x H): 43 x 30 / 17 x 12
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BRION DE LA TOUR, Louis
An attractive engraving of two celestial globes: Sphere de Copernic and Sphere de Ptolemée. Brion de la Tour was one of the most prolific French cartographers of the mid-eighteenth century, and this beautiful print, elegantly surrounded by an ornate border, is a fine example of his work.
Dimensions (W x H): 30 x 28 / 12 x 11
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CASSAS, Louis Francois
Beautiful print of a caravan leaving the Gates of Aleaxandria. Louis-François Cassas was one of the best French printmakers of the eighteenth century, His Voyage Pittoresque de la Syrie, de la Phoenicie, de la Palestine, et de la Basse-Egypte is perhaps the finest eighteenth century illustrated ...
Dimensions (W x H): 35 x 26 / 14 x 10
£435
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CASSAS, Louis Francois
Spectacular exterior view of one of the gates of Cairo, with camels and traders in the foreground. Louis-François Cassas was one of the best French printmakers of the eighteenth century, His Voyage Pittoresque de la Syrie, de la Phoenicie, de la Palestine, et de la Basse-Egypte is perhaps the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 26 x 45 / 10 x 17½
£230
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CASSAS, Louis Francois
Magnificent engraving of a bas relief cut into the rock near the pyramids Louis-François Cassas was one of the best French printmakers of the eighteenth century. His Voyage Pittoresque de la Syrie, de la Phoenicie, de la Palestine, et de la Basse-Egypte is perhaps the finest eighteenth century ...
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LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van
Fabulous print of a Brahman cremation ceremony. Text in Latin and Dutch along lower edge. Linschoten lived and wrote at a time when exploration was rapidly opening up the world. His travel writings, in three parts, the famous ‘Itinerarium’, included ‘Description de l’Amerique’, ‘Le Grande Route de ...
Dimensions (W x H): 32 x 25 / 12½ x 10
£475
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TOFINO DE SAN MIGUEL, Don Vincente.
Splendid chart of the southern coast of Spain, the Balearic islands and North Africa. Title cartouche with decorated frame at upper left. Stamp of ‘Deposito de la Marina’ at top left. Tofino(1732-1795) is the best known Spanish Marine cartographer. His Atlas Maritimo established the prime meridian ...
Dimensions (W x H): 81 x 55.5 / 32 x 22
£475
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DELISLE, Guillaume
Delisle was an important French cartographer of the early 18th century. He held the position of First Royal Geographer to the King. An interesting map of Africa including the Mediterranean and southern Europe in the north as well as the Arabian peninsula and part of the Maldives in the east. In ...
Dimensions (W x H): 64.7 x 50 / 25½ x 19½
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DELISLE, Guillaume and BUACHE, Philippe
Delisle was an important French cartographer of the early 18th century. He held the position of First Royal Geographer to the King. A magnificent and detailed map of Asia, cartouche at right, ‘Avertissement’ at top right, containing details about the projection, and difficulties of making an ...
Dimensions (W x H): 62 x 48.5 / 24½ x 19
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DELISLE, Guillaume
Delisle was an important French cartographer of the early 18th century. He held the position of First Royal Geographer to the King. An interesting and detailed map of Europe with Iceland in top left corner and North Africa lower left. Parts of Arabia lower right and the Caspian Sea in the east. ...
Dimensions (W x H): 62 x 49.7 / 24½ x 19½
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LA PEROUSE, Jean Francois de Galaup
Interesting chart of part of the south-western Pacific, showing the routes taken by the Spanish explorer Don Francisco Antonio Maurelle in 1781 along the northern coast of New Guinea and across the Pacific to Fiji and Tonga. Maurelle was credited with the discovery of the Hermit Islands on this ...
Dimensions (W x H): 49 x 34 / 19½ x 13½
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/ LA PÉROUSE, Jean Francois de Galaup
Interesting chart of part of the south-western Pacific, showing the routes taken by the Spanish explorer Don Francisco Antonio Maurelle in 1781 along the northern coast of New Guinea and across the Pacific to Fiji and Tonga. Maurelle was credited with the discovery of the Hermit Islands on this ...
Dimensions (W x H): 49 x 34 / 19½ x 13½
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COOK, Captain James R N
A fine chart of the Cook Straits dividing New Zealand's North and South Islands showing Admiralty Bay, Queen Charlotte's Sound, Cloudy Bay, Cape Palliser and detailed coastal topography. The North and South Islands are named “Partie De Tavai Poe Na Mmoo”, and “Partie D'Eahe I No Mauwe”. With ...
Dimensions (W x H): 27.5 x 27 / 11 x 10½
£200
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DELISLE, Guillaume
Delisle was an important French cartographer of the early 18th century. He held the position of First Royal Geographer to the King. A detailed map of France showing the relief of the land and the various regions. A scale lower left shows the different distances between different areas. Germany ...
Dimensions (W x H): 62 x 49 / 24½ x 19½
£300
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DELISLE, Guillaume
Delisle was an important French cartographer of the early 18th century. He held the position of First Royal Geographer to the King. A map of French West Africa from Cap Blanc in the north to Cap Sagres in the south. The coast and slightly inland is well detailed but the land further inland is ...
Dimensions (W x H): 62 x 48.2 / 24½ x 19
£375
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DELISLE, Guillaume
Delisle was an important French cartographer of the early 18th century. He held the position of First Royal Geographer to the King. A map of Egypt, Nubia and Abyssinia. From Africa in the west to the Arabian peninsula in the east and the Mediterranean sea in the north to Sudan in the south. ...
Dimensions (W x H): 63 x 50 / 25 x 19½
£450
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DELISLE, Guillaume
Delisle was an important French cartographer of the early 18th century. He held the position of First Royal Geographer to the King. This is a detailed map of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). A decorative cartouche lower left and also round the scale top right. Part of India also shown top left. The ...
Dimensions (W x H): 57 x 42.2 / 22½ x 16½
£400
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DELISLE, Guillaume
Delisle was an important French cartographer of the early 18th century. He held the position of First Royal Geographer to the King. A detailed map of this island of the Antilles. The mountainous regions are shown and the coast is well detailed.
Dimensions (W x H): 62.5 x 48.5 / 24½ x 19
£500
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DELISLE, Guillaume
Delisle was an important French cartographer of the early 18th century. He held the position of First Royal Geographer to the King. This important and attractive map of the island of Sicily has an insert lower left focussing on the islands of Malta, Gozo and their neighbours. The inset has it’s ...
Dimensions (W x H): 59.5 x 49.5 / 23½ x 19½
£175
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SALT, Henry.
Attractive map of Amfile Bay on the Red Sea in Eritrea. Compass point and depth soundings. Inset map of ‘De Rachmah’ at lower right, 3 coastal profiles at lower left. Henry Salt (1785-1827) was an English artist and diplomat who spent several years in Egypt and Abyssinia in the early years of the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 40 x 31 / 15½ x 12
£250
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DELISLE, Guillaume
Delisle was an important French cartographer of the early 18th century. He held the position of First Royal Geographer to the King. A map of the north western part of Africa with the Cape Verde islands in the far west off the coast. Barbary (the countries of North Africa now known as Morocco, ...
Dimensions (W x H): 64 x 50 / 25 x 19½
£795
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BELLIN, Jacques-Nicolas (1703-1772)
Sea chart of the western Mediterranean from Cadiz in Spain to the mouth of the Tiber, showing the coasts of Spain, France, Italy and north Africa. Rhumb lines criss-cross the map, title cartouche at top left with three scales. Bellin was appointed hydrographer (chief cartographer) to the French ...
Dimensions (W x H): 79 x 55 / 31 x 21½
£1200
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CHÂTELAIN, Henri
A very attractive map of eastern North America with galleons in the sea and native Americans hunting various animals on land. The Mississippi Basin is shown in detail, though a little conjectured. One inset showing the coastline of Louisiana from Ascension Bay to St. Joseph's Bay, and another, ...
Dimensions (W x H): 48 x 42 / 19 x 16½
£895
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BONNE, Rigobert
An early map of New Zealand showing the coast in some detail with numerous depth soundings to North Island and the route taken by Captain Cooke.The charting of the coast is complete apart from a small sections, mainly in South Island.Four inset maps of Riviere se la Tamise, Baye de Tolaga, Baye des ...
Dimensions (W x H): 23.5 x 34 / 9½ x 13½
£700
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DE L’ISLE, Guillaume and BUACHE, Philippe
The map is in two parts, north and south, they are both of equal size. The northern map has a decorated cartouche, and shows the north of white Russia, and part of the arctic coast, reaches as far south as ‘Petersbourg’. The southern map stretches to the northern tip of the Black Sea, the Volga ...
Dimensions (W x H): 66 x 50 / 26 x 19½
£300
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DELISLE, Guillaume
Delisle was an important French cartographer of the early 18th century. He held the position of First Royal Geographer to the King. An interesting map of what was known as Persia. From Russia in the north to the Persian Gulf in the south and Syria in the west to modern day Afghanistan in the ...
Dimensions (W x H): 63 x 49 / 25 x 19½
£295
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DELISLE, Guillaume
Delisle was an important French cartographer of the early 18th century. He held the position of First Royal Geographer to the King. A detailed map of Switzerland. An explanation of the marks on the maps lower right. A note upper left describes the cantons. The title lists all the cantons with ...
Dimensions (W x H): 65 x 49.8 / 25½ x 19½
£345
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DE L’ISLE, Guillaume and BUACHE, Philippe
A splendid and detailed map, if a little fanciful. The map covers most of central Asia, Siberia and China. Lack of knowledge didn’t deter de l’Isle from putting in as much detail on unexplored lands in the north and east as the well explored parts. Decorated cartouche at lower left
Dimensions (W x H): 63 x 48.5 / 25 x 19
£395
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DELISLE, Guillaume and BUACHE, Philippe
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