![[Assortment of Navigational Tools]](/map/small/67822.jpg)
An intriguing collection of various tools used throughout the seventeenth century for the purposes of navigation and astronomy. This work would have originally accompanied a text documenting the twenty or so images here portrayed. Many figures are...
Fine example of Cellarius's chart illustrating Tycho Brahe's unique geo-heliocentric model of the universe, first published by Jan Jansson in 1660 and re-issued in 1708 by Schenk & Vallk. In the late 16th century, Tycho Brahe, an important Danish...
A Rare Chart of Winds Rare separately published chart illustrating a 22 point compass, along with the names of 32 different wind directions, given in 6 different languages. The 32 winds are showing in six languages including: Dutch French...
Rare early allegorical print, published in London. The view has been attributed to Wencaslaus Hollar. A cedar tree representing the traditional episcopal church, inscribed on the trunk 'The Church Catholick', with two smaller shoots from the trunk...
Contemporary portait of Eberhard Werner Happel. Eberhard Werner Happel (1647 - 1690) was a German author, novelist, journalist and polymath. He produced a number of interesting maps, including a world map showing the oceans currents. He also produced...
![[Aztec God Quezalcoatl] Der Mexicanische Abgott Vizlipuzli](/map/small/69062.jpg)
Fine image of "The Mexican Idol Vizipuzli," an image of the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl, the God of the Sun, Wind and Wisdom. The image appeared in Happel's Thesaurus Exoticorum. Oder eine mit Außländischen Raritäten und Geschichten Wohlversehene...
![[Decorative Title Page--Table Des Cartes . . . ]](/map/small/63856.jpg)
Decorative contents page from a Mortier atlas. The map includes several iconic images of the period, including Atlas holding the globe on his shoulders and the great library scene across the bottom of the image. Fine old color example, with clean...
Utopia -- The Slothful Variety Despite the name, the map is note a reflection of St. Thomas More's ideal society. Schlarraffenland is the German Fool's Paradise, a land of vice and debauchery. The map follows the theme of Hans Sachs Der Meistersinger...
With an Early Depiction of Global Time Zones Superb separately-issued engraved broadside with Hermes at the center and a series of concentric rings emanating outward, allowing the calculation things as diverse as astronomical phenomena, phases of the...
![Sphaera Armillaris Copernicana [Rare Broadside of the Leiden Sphere]](/map/small/26065.jpg)
Fine broadside illustrating the so-called "Leiden Sphere," engraved by Pieter Vander Aa, in Leiden. The Leiden Sphere, a mechanical armillary sphere or orrery, was built around 1670 by the clockmaker Steven Tracy, for the mayor of Rotterdam. It is...
Elaborate allegorical map showing the art of war, by land and by sea.
![[Miniature on Vellum in gold and colors] Orbis Nulla Plaga est, Quam Sol non Ditet Jesus](/map/small/62347.jpg)
An Illuminated Manuscript Map of the World on Vellum! Finely executed hand drawn miniature map of the world, celebrating the spread of Catholicism by the Jesuits. A representation of the baby Jesus is shown between the two hemispheres, with the...
Utopia -- The Slothful Variety Despite the name, the map is note a reflection of St. Thomas More's ideal society. Schlarraffenland is the German Fool's Paradise, a land of vice and debauchery. The map follows the theme of Hans Sachs Der Meistersinger...
![[Sunda and Lilliput, etc. from Gulliver's Travels]](/map/small/54927.jpg)
Liliput and Sunda -- From Gulliver's Travels Lilliput is an island nation to the southwest of Sumatra and the Sunda Straits, discovered in 1699 by Lemuel Gulliver, a surgeon on a merchant ship that was shipwrecked on the island. The inhabitants are...
![[Australia and Houyhnhnms Land from Gulliver's Travels]](/map/small/54999.jpg)
Houyhnhnms Land and the Coast of Australia -- From Gulliver's Travels The Houyhnhnms are a race of intelligent horses described in the last part of Jonathan Swift's satirical Gulliver's Travels. The map shows Houyhnhnms Land to be south of...
![[Allegorical Map of Love!] Representation Symbolique et ingenieuse projettée en Siege et en Bombardement, comme il faut empecher prudemment les attaques de L'amour.](/map/small/47259.jpg)
Famous hand-colored engraved allegorical map, representing the battle for the heart. This is a wonderful and scarce allegorical map representing the trials and tribulations of romantic entanglement, published by one of Germany's greatest mapmakers of...
