Rare Separately Published Nicolas Berey Map of America Fine example of Nicolas Berey's rare map of America, first published in Paris in 1658. The map is largely based upon the earlier maps of Bertius and Tavernier, published in the 1620s, which...
Beautifully hand-colored example of Visscher's famous map of the Western Hemisphere, showing California as an Island and a small slice of New Zealand at the lower-left corner, next to the title cartouche. Visscher's map became the proto-type map for...
Eye-catching Seventeenth-Century Carte-à-Figure Map of the Americas—An English Rarity Rare, separately-issued English map of the Americas, published in London by Robert Walton. This remarkable map is Walton's version the carte-à-figures style...
Eye-catching Seventeenth-Century Carte-à-Figure Map of the Americas—An English Rarity Rare, separately-issued English map of the Americas, published in London by Robert Walton. This remarkable map is Walton's version the carte-à-figures style...
An English Rarity Rare, separately-issued English map of the Americas, published in London by Robert Walton. The present example lacks the decorative borders, which may have been trimmed away before the map was bound in the 17th Century. Walton's...
Rare English map of Europe, published in London by Robert Walton. Walton's map shows all mainland Europe, extending northwards beyond North Cape to include Greenland, Nova Zemla, and Sir Hugh Willoughby's Land. This last place was named after the...
First proof state of De Wit's very rare map of the British Isles. De Wit's map is based on Jansson's map of the British Isles. This examples is the first of two proof states with the cartouche blank, as well as certain topographical features and place...
One of the Earliest and Rarest Sea Charts of the British Isles. Rare sea chart of the British Isles, by Arnold Colom, from Colom's Zee Atlas Ofte Water-Wereldt. Oriented with east at the top, this is one of the earliest sea charts of the entirety of...
Nicolas Sanson's 1658 double-page engraved map of the British Isles, engraved by Melchior Tavernier and published by Pierre Mariette. Nice example of Sanson's first map of the British Isles. The distortion of lreland and the condensed size of Scotland...
Nicolas Sanson's double-page engraved map of northern England, focusing on Northumberland. The map was published in Paris in 1658. The map features an impressive cartouche of horses and putti.
Gorgeous old color example of Jansson's map of Fiorentino, centered on Florence. Includes Siena, Perugia, Luca, and Pisa. Two large decorative cartouches. This example includes rich full hand coloring and was likely bound into a deluxe edition of...
Nicolas Sanson's double-page engraved map of Italy, with a large, attractive cartouche in the lower left. Published in Paris in 1658. The map was first issued by Tavernier in the 1640s.
Nicolas Sanson's engraved map of Sardinia, published in Paris in 1658.
Nicolas Sanson's double-page engraved map of the Iberian Peninsula, with Spain, Portugal, and Balearics. The map was published in Paris in 1658.
Rare sea chart of the Scandinavia, extending from Iceland to Spitzberg and Nova Zembla. Of note, this is one of, if not the earliest appearance of the reference to the sighting of land on the East Coast of Greenland by Gael Hamkes in 1654. Includes a...
Striking large format map of Arabia and the Red Sea, published by Jansson. The map references the "Mare Elcatif or Sinus Persicus," showing both the Persian and Arab names for the Gulf between Persia and Saudi Arabia. This reflects both the name used...
