Fantastic Matching Set of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Globes, Including Captain John Smith's Lost Earliest Mapping of Virginia. Exceptional matching pair of 17-inch (44 cm) globes by the famed mapmakers Johannes Janssonius and Jodocus Hondius II,...
Fine example of Blaeu's map of the Islands of Jersey and Guernsey, including decorative embellishments. Beginning in 1645, Johannes Blaeu published his first atlas of the counties of England and Wales , which comprises Vol. IV of the Theatrum Orbis...
Fine old color, gold leaf heightened example of Blaeu's map of the Islands of Jesey and Guernsey, including decorative embellishments. Beginning in 1645, Johannes Blaeu published his first atlas of the counties of England and Wales, which comprises...
Scarce map of the British Isles at the time of the Romans, from Briet's Theatre geographique de l'Europe, contenant la division de ses royaumes et provinces.
Nicholas Sanson's 1648 double-page engraved map of the Netherlands.
Nicolas Sanson's 1648 double-page engraved map of Switzerland. The map extends from Anneci, Aosta, Lago Magiore, Lago Como and Bergamo in the south to Brisgow, Friburg, Lake Constance and Landsburg in the north. Centered on Lucerne.
Nice old hand-color example of Sanson's 1641 double-page engraved map of the Rhineland and Alsace. Nicolas Sanson (1600-1667) sometimes called Nicolas Sanson d'Abbeville or Sanson d'Abbeville, was the most important French cartographer of the 17th...
Nice old hand-color example of Sanson's 1641 double-page engraved map of the Duchy of Cleves. Nicolas Sanson (1600-1667) sometimes called Nicolas Sanson d'Abbeville or Sanson d'Abbeville, was the most important French cartographer of the 17th century....
Striking example of Sanson's map of Russia, Poland and Ukraine, extending from the Gulf of Finland to Petite Tartary and to Bulgaria and Tartaria.
Nicolas Sanson's 1648 double-page engraved map of northeastern Italy, showing Istria and the top of the Gulf of Venice to Genoa and the Lake Regions, centered on the Po River and Venice.
Nicolas Sanson's 1648 double-page engraved map of Tuscany and the Papal States.
Nicolas Sanson's 1648 double-page engraved map of Calabria, the Strait of Messina, and northern Sicily.
Nicolas Sanson's 1648 double-page engraved map of the Kingdom of Naples.
This a rare view of Venice from the French atlas maker and royal cartographer Jean Boisseau. The stunning view presented shows the city of the Doges in a magnificent bird's eye format, focusing on the main island and surrounding islets, but with the...