A San Francisco native, Macouillard was an accomplished artist, having studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts and the Art Students League of New York. He became Art Director of the Velvetone Poster Company in San Francisco and designed...
Antique woodblock from the 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle depicting the genealogy of Saint Henry The Emperor on verso. On the recto is an image of Emperor Henry II and Saint Kunigunde holding a model of a cathedral church in Bamberg that had been founded by...
![[Facsimile - 15th Century Portolan Sea Chart] Portolan des Iehuda ben Zara](/map/small/64285.jpg)
Impressive modern facsimile of the Iehuda Ben Zara portolan of the Mediterranean from 1497. The beautiful chart extends from the British Isles in the northwest to the Red Sea in the southeast and depicts all of the Mediterranean with the exception of...
![[Early Facsimile - First Image of Native Americans] Dise figur anzaigt uns das volck und insel die gefunden ist](/map/small/66590.jpg)
Early Facsimile of One of the Most Important American Images Ever Produced. From the Collection of Famed Map Scholar Edward Luther Stevenson. Photographic facsimile of an extremely rare German broadside illustrating and describing the natives...
![[World Map--Daniel's Dream]](/map/small/61734jc.jpg)
Fascinating early map of the world, found in apocalyptic literature and first published in Wittenberg in 1529 or 1530. The map was originally used by the printer Hans Lufft to illustrate works on the prophet Daniel by Martin Luther and others, linking...
Etching and engraving on laid paper. A brilliant, richly-inked early impression of the humorous print after Bruegel's famous roundel. Trimmed to platemark or just to the image all around. This is the first issue of the plate, by Martinus Petri,...
Finely engraved image of mounted and unmounted soldiers. The image appeared in the 1568 Venice edition of Ludovico Ariosto's Orlandi Furioso, which first published in 1515, but not completed until 1532. Orlando furioso (the Frenzy of Orlando) is an...
![Meerwunder und Seltzame Thier/Wie Die In Den Mitnacßtigen Landern Gefunden Werden [Munster's Famous Chart of Sea Monsters]](/map/small/70061.jpg)
Münster’s Monster Menagerie Fine example of Münster’s sought-after chart of terrestrial and sea monsters. The imagery is based in large part on Olaus Magnus' famed, and unobtainable, Carta Marina of 1539. The chart was published as part of...
![Abrahamii Ortellii Quem Urbs Urbium Antuerpia Edidit…MDXCIIX… [title page]](/map/small/65679.jpg)
Engraved Title Page with portrait of Ortelius, small map of Eastern Hemisphere and other embellishments.
![[Celestial & Terrestrial Globes] Francesco Secondo Re Di Francia](/map/small/63242.jpg)
Scarce decorative engraved sheet, presenting a pair of celestial and terrestrial globes, from Le imprese illvstri del s.or Ieronimo Rvscelli. Aggivntovi nvovam.te il qvarto libro da Vincenzo Rvscelli da Viterbo.. (1584)
Rare contemporary portrait of Benedictus Arias Montanus, Philippe Galle.
![[Compass Rose &c] Ventorum Index (and) Vocabulorum Geographicorum](/map/small/61684.jpg)
Striking example of a 32 point compass rose, with a geographical vocabulary map. A fine decorative image.
Rare Pair of Broadsides Illustrating The Gunpowder Plot, engraved by Crispin Van Passe. Top Image Eygentliche Abbildung wie ettlich Englische Edelleut einen Raht schliessen den König sampt dem gantzen Parlament mit Pulfer zuvertilgen Above, the...
Finely engrave landscape with peasants along a roadside Creek, fishing, washing sheep and attending to the business of the day. One of a series of etchings of the four seasons, engraved by Hendrik Hondius, the Younger ca 1617, after a painting by...
Interesting image of a cherub rotating the earth, from a rare Jesuit emblem book, entitled Imago Prrimi Aaeculi Soc. Iesu a Provincia Flandro-Belgica Ejusdejm . . .
Rare Astrological Broadside The image shows a series of 12 astrological signs, with a dedication to Francesco Maria Zambeccari, a member of an important noble family in Bologna. Giuseppe Rosaccio was born in Pordenone around 1530. He graduated in...
