Attractive pair of engraved globes, illustrating the Terrestrial World and Celestial World. The Terrestrial Globe is oriented to show the Eastern Hemisphere, including a wild mid-18th Century illustarion of Australia. The Celestial Globe is oriented...
Decorative title page from Janvier's Atlas Moderne, engraved by Monnet in 1762 and thereafter used for the next 20 years as the title page for this highly successful atlas.
An 18th-Century Image of an American Elephant or Mastodon! Four separately published allegorical mezzotints, showing representations of America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. The mezzotints were made by the famed German artist and printmaker Johann Elias...
Finely executed plan by Mr. de Lancelles. M. de Lancelles was likely an engineer in the Army of the Prince of Soubise.
8 engraved maps (including the three sheets of the "Draught of the River Missisippi"). viii (including title and half-title), 99 pages. (Complete.) Quarto. Half red leather over contemporary boards, rebacked and recornered. An Exceptional Example of...
Attractive pair of engraved globes, illustrating the Terrestrial World and Celestial World. The Terrestrial Globe is oriented to show the Eastern Hemisphere, including a wild mid-18th Century illustration of Australia. The Celestial Globe is oriented...
Striking Eighteenth-Century Map of Asia Fine example of Tobias Conrad Lotter's large format map of Asia, based on the cartography of the pre-eminent French cartographer of the eighteenth-century, Guillaume de L’Isle. The map embraces the whole of...
Manuscript Map Showing the New Hampshire Grants Which Would Become The State of Vermont Finely executed manuscript map delineating the New Hampshire Grants, the first meaningful delineation of the future state of Vermont. The map extends north to...
Scarce early Vue Optique showing the wharf at Salem, Massachusetts, by the German artist and engraver Balthasar Friedrich Leizelt. View of Salem showing a harbor and shipyard with ships with British flags and boats. On the docs ae warehouses. Men in...
Decorative map of the Caribbean, extending from South Florida to the Northern edge of South America and the Windward and Leeward Islands. Nice detail in the Bahamas. Great Cayman and Little Caymans are shown. Decorative title vignette.
An interesting map on a north hemispheric projection, showing the regions then actively explored by the Russian, French and English. Includes notes on Dutch, Portuguese and English discoveries near the North Pole. The projection is based upon Phillipe...
An interesting map on a north hemispheric projection, showing the regions then being actively explored by the Russians, French and English. The projection is based upon Phillipe Buache's work from the prior decade and illustrates one view of the...
An excellent map of Hudson's Bay, Labrador, Hudson's Straits and neighboring regions from Bellin's Histoire General des Voyages. Includes numerous bays, islands, rivers, mountains and notes regarding explorations.
First Printing of Domingo del Castillo's 1541 Map of Baja and the West Coast of Mexico Fine example of Domingo del Castillo's map of Mexico, which appeared in Lorenzana's Historia de Nueva-España, escrita por su esclarecido conquistador Hernan...
Attractive and painterly engraved view of Amsterdam. A key identifies 44 landmarks. A number of sailing craft and other boats, tradesman and gentry in the foreground. A nice example of this fine view.
One of the Earliest Maps of the Kiev Guberniya Rare separately published map of the Kiev region, published in St. Petersburg. The map depicts the Kiev Guberniya in fine detail, perhaps more so than any prior map. The map is issued at the end of the...