A classic 16th century Dutch map of Cyprus

ORTELIUS, Abraham.

Cypri Insulae Nova Descript. 1573.

Antwerp, 1579, Latin edition. Coloured. 350 x 500mm.

Stock ID : 23476

£1,500

Map of Ancient Greece by Ortelius, rare first printing

ORTELIUS, Abraham.

Graecia Sophiani.

Antwerp, 1587. French text edition. Original colour. 350 x 490mm.

Stock ID : 23549

£1,000

16th century map of the Grand Duchy of Florence

ORTELIUS, Abraham.

Florentini Dominii, Fidelissima et Nova Descriptio. Auctore D. Stephano Monacho Montisoliveti.

Antwerp, 1595, Latin text. Original colour. 340 x 465mm.

Stock ID : 20312

£980

Ortelius's famous early map of Russia

ORTELIUS, Abraham.

Russiae, Moscoviae et Tartariae Descriptio. Auctore Antonio Ienkensono Anglo.

Antwerp: 1595, Latin text edition. Old colour. 360 x 450mm.

Stock ID : 20317

£1,900

Early 17th century map of Iceland in fabulous early colour

MERCATOR, Gerard.

Islandia.

Amsterdam: Jocodus Hondius, 1608-12, Latin text edition. Original colour. 285 x 430mm.

Stock ID : 23475

£1,800

A 17th century old map of Italy according to Ptolemy

MAGINI, Giovanni Antonio.

Italia Antica di Cl: Tolomeo

Venice: Fabio Magini, 1620. Coloured Sheet 335 x 470mm.

Stock ID : 20903

£750

17th century old maps of the West Indian Islands

HONDIUS, Jodocus.

Cuba Insula; Hispaniola Insula; Insula Jamaica; Ins. S.Joannis: I.S.Margareta cum Confiniis.

Amsterdam, Henricus Hondius, 1623, Latin text edition. Original colour. 355 x 495mm.

Stock ID : 23456

£1,200

The Muscovy Company whaling at Svalbard

EDGE, Thomas.

['Greenland' & 'Edges Island'.]

London: Henry Featherstone, 1625. 295 x 335mm.

Stock ID : 23464

£950

Blaeu's striking two-sheet map of the Rhine, Meuse and Moselle

BLAEU, Willem Janszoon.

Rhenus Fluviorum Europae celeberrimus cum Mosa, Mosella, et reliquis, in illum se exonerantibus fluminibus.

Amsterdam, c.1635. Original colour. Two sheets conjoined, total 420 x 960mm.

Stock ID : 23490

£850

17th century prospect of Jerusalem

MERIAN, Matthaus.

Ierusalem.

Frankfurt, c.1650. Coloured. 215 x 335mm.

Stock ID : 23237

£500

A 17th century townplan of Cambridge

HERMANNIDES, Rutger.

Cambridge Cambrids.

Amsterdam: Aegidius Janssonius Valckenier, c.1661. Coloured. 110 x 130mm.

Stock ID : 22774

£350

17th century plate illustrating the Solar Year

MALLET, Alain Manesson.

De la Sphere XXIV.

Paris, 1683. Coloured. 145 x 95mm, set in letterpress.

Stock ID : 23835

£225

17th century plate representing the science of cosmography

MALLET, Alain Manesson.

Cosmographie ou Science du Monde.

Paris, 1683. Coloured. 140 x 100mm, set in letterpress.

Stock ID : 23836

£225

The Adriatic under the control of Venice

MORTIER, Pierre.

Le Golfe de Venise, Avec les Principaux Caps, Promontoires, & Ports de Mer. Dressé sur les Memoires les plus Nouveauz du P.Coronelli, & Autres, par le S.r Sanson, Geographe du Roy.

Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, c.1690. Original colour. 575 x 740mm.

Stock ID : 23446

£1,800

A 17th century chart relating health to planetary alignment

ZAHN, Johann.

Pro Crisibus Morborum et Aspectibus Planetarum.

Nuremberg: J.C.Lochner, 1696. Coloured. 360 x 425mm.

Stock ID : 23563

£800

A 17th century old map of Ireland

VISSCHER, Nicolas.

Hiberniae Regnum...

Amsterdam, Peter Schenk c.1700. Original colour with later additions. 575 x 480mm.

Stock ID : 23553

£850

A rare map of Cyprus in classical times

MORTIER, Pierre.

Cyprus Insula Cujus circuitus est. Si intrentus Sinus, Stadiorum MMM CCCC XX. longitudo verõ. à Clidibus ad Acamantem Stadiorum MCCCC.

Amsterdam, 1725. Original colour. 335 x 425mm, with wide margins.

Stock ID : 23552

£3,000

Early Italian plan of London

VALEGIO, Francesco.

Londra.

Padua, Lasor à Varea, 1713, set in a page of text. 85 x 120mm.

Stock ID : 18640

£350

Early view of the Great Mosque in Mecca, with the Kaaba

CHATELAIN, Henri Abraham.

Le Temple de la Mecque avec une Description Exacte de tout ce qu'on y Voit & Des Ceremoniesqu'on y fait.

Amsterdam, 1720. Coloured. 380 x 440mm.

Stock ID : 23462

£600

A Dutch edition of rhe first printed map to accurately plot the Mississippi River

DELISLE, Guillaume.

Carte du Mexique et de la Floride des Terres Angloises et des Isles Antilles, du Cours et des Environs de la Riviere de Mississipi. Dressée Sur un grand nombre de memoires principalement sur ceux de M.rs d'Iberville et le Sueur.

Amsterdam, Jean Covens & Corneille Mortier, 1722. Original colour. 500 x 615mm.

Stock ID : 23463

£1,700

A fine townplan of Biblical Jerusalem with a contemporary prospect

SEUTTER, Matthäus.

Prospectus Sanctae olim et celeberrimae urbis Hierosolymae... Prospect der vormals Heiligen und Welt Berühmtem Stadt Jerusalem...

Augsburg, c.1735. Fine original colour. 500 x 575mm.

Stock ID : 23451

£1,500

18th century map of Ireland with bright original colour

SEUTTER, Matthäus.

Regnum Hiberniae, tam secundum IV Provincias Principales Ultoniam, Connaciam, Lageniam, Momonium...

Augsburg, c.1742. Original body colour. 585 x 500mm.

Stock ID : 22406

£750

A pre-Cook discoveries map of Australia

BELLIN, Jacques-Nicolas.

Carte Réduite des Terres Australes... 1753.

Paris, 1753. Coloured. 210 x 280mm.

Stock ID : 22937

£1,000

The 'Stetson' Map, with an early mapping of the United States

HOMANN HEIRS.

Charte über die XIII vereinigte Staaten von Nord-America, Entworfen durch F.L.Güssefelt...

Nuremberg, 1784. Original colour. 460 x 575mm.

Stock ID : 23452

£1,000

A French edition of Rocque's vintage map of London

TARDIEU, Pierre François.

Londres (avec le Bourg de Southwark).

Paris, 1765. Fine contemporary colour. 330 x 470mm.

Stock ID : 23454

£980

A French edition of an important map of the St Lawrence valley

CARVER, Jonathan.

Nouvelle Carte de la Province de Quebec selon l'Edit du Roi d'Angleterre du 7. 8.bre 1763 par le Capitaine Carver et autres Traduite de l'Anglois.

Paris: Georges-Louis Le Rouge, 1777. Original outline colour. 510 x 680mm.

Stock ID : 23477

£1,600

Cook's mapping of New Zealand

BONNE, Rigobert.

Carte De La Nouvelle Zéelande.

Paris, c.1778. Coloured. 360 x 240mm.

Stock ID : 19641

£750

A two-sheet map of the West Indies and Gulf of Mexico

BUACHE, Philippe.

Carte du Golphe du Mexique et des Isles Antilles Reduite de la Grande Carte Angloise de Popple.

Paris, Dezauche, c.1780. Coloured. Two sheets conjoined, total 500 x 940mm.

Stock ID : 23455

£1,900

A 18th century world map in a single sphere

BUACHE, Philippe.

Planisphere Physique Où l'on voit du Pole-Septentrional ce que l'on connoît de Terres ete de Mers Avec les Grandes Chaînes de Montagnes, qui, traversant le Globe...

Paris: Dezauche, 1781. Original colour. 345 x 450mm, with very wide margins.

Stock ID : 22532

£500

A rare early 19th century geographical card game

JOUY, Victor-Joseph Etienne de.

Jeu de Cartes Geographiques, Orné de figures gravées avec soin et représentant les différens peuples de la terre dans le costume particulier à chacun d'eux; destiné à l'instruction et à l'amusement de la jeunesse des deux sexes. Sixieme Jeu.

Lille: Vanackere, & Paris: H. Nicolle, c.1806. Original paper box (110 x 75 x 25mm), with title label; 47 (of 48) cards, folding rule sheet and folding world map.

Stock ID : 23826

£950

Early 19th century original table of maritime flags

ROSSI, Luigi.

Prospetto generale delle bandiere che si inalberano a bordo dei bastimenti di guerra e mercantili di tutte le nazioni all'epoca del primo Giugno 1820...

Milan: Batelli & Fanfani, c.1820. Original colour 450 X 610mm.

Stock ID : 23465

£750

A Georgian board game based on the British monarchy

WALLIS, J. & E.

The Royal Game of British Sovereigns, exhibiting The most remarkable events in each Reign from Egbert to George III.

London J. & E. Wallis, and Sidmouth: J. Wallis Jn.r, c.1820. Original colour. Dissected and laid on linen, as issued, total 490 x 620mm, lacking 'Explanation' booklet.

Stock ID : 23564

£750

A panorama of Rio de Janeiro on tour in Edinburgh

BURFORD, Robert.

Description of a View of the City of St. Sebastian, and the Bay of Rio Janeiro, Now Exhibiting in the New Rotunda, Mound. Painted by Robert Burford, Leicester Square, London, from Drawings Taken in 1823.

Edinburgh: Printed by T. Turnbull and Sons, 1830. Pamphlet, 8vo, later wrapper and case; letterpress title, pp.12, with folding wood-engraving, sheet 280 x 430mm.

Stock ID : 23828

£700

Chart of the Sun

BLUNT, Charles F.

The Sun as seen from the Different Planets.

London: David Bogue, c. 1845. Wood engraving. 150 x 190mm.

Stock ID : 19245

£175

19th century illustration of Mars

BLUNT, Charles F.

The Planet Mars.

London: David Bogue, c. 1845. Wood engraving on thick paper. 150 x 190mm.

Stock ID : 22365

£275

Mid 19th century map of North America with decorative vignettes

TALLIS, John.

North America.

London, John Tallis & Co., 1851. Original outline colour. Steel engraving, sheet: 365 x 265mm.

Stock ID : 23386

£240

Mid-19th century map of the World showing the British Empire

TALLIS, John.

The World on Mercator's Projection.

London, John Tallis & Co., 1851. Original outline and body colour. Steel engraving, sheet 265 x 365mm.

Stock ID : 23388

£160

Map of the United States with decorative vignettes

TALLIS, John.

United States.

London, John Tallis & Co, c.1851. Original outline colour. Steel engraving, printed area 255 x 340mm,

Stock ID : 23481

£300

Map of Eastern Canada with vignettes

TALLIS, John.

East Canada and New Brunswick.

London, John Tallis & Co., c.1851. Original outline colour. Steel engraving, printed area 260 x 340mm.

Stock ID : 23482

£150

A mid-19th century map of Canada with vignette views

TALLIS, John.

British America.

London: John Tallis & Co.,, c.1851. Steel engraving with original colour. Printed area 265 x 340mm.

Stock ID : 23483

£180

Mid-19th century map of the Indian Ocean

TALLIS, John.

Islands in the Indian Ocean.

London, John Tallis & Co., c.1851. Steel engraving with original outline colour. Printed area 270 x 335mm.

Stock ID : 23484

£160

Decorative map of Sweden and Norway

TALLIS, John.

Sweden and Norway.

London: J. & F. Tallis, c.1851. Original outline colour with additions. Steel engraving, printed area 350 x 250mm.

Stock ID : 23485

£160

A mid-19th century map of Germany with decorative vignettes

TALLIS, John.

Germany.

London, J. & F. Tallis, c.1851. Steel engraving with original outline colour, printed area 350 x 250mm.

Stock ID : 23486

£120

Mid 19th century map of Europe with decorative vignettes

TALLIS, John.

Europe.

London: J. & F. Tallis, 1851. Steel engraving with original outline colour. Printed area 270 x 330mm.

Stock ID : 23487

£180

Map of England and Wales with vignettes

TALLIS, John.

England and Wales.

London: J. & F. Tallis, c.1851. Steel engraving, printed area 350 x 260mm.

Stock ID : 23491

£180

19th century map of Scotland with decorative vignettes

TALLIS, John.

Scotland.

London, J. & F. Tallis, c.1851. Original outline colour. Steel engraving, printed area 350 x 260mm.

Stock ID : 23492

£280

Mid 19th century map of Egypt with vignettes

TALLIS, John.

Egypt and Arabia Petraea.

London: J. & F. Tallis, c.1851. Original outline colour. Steel engraving, 355 x 240mm.

Stock ID : 23494

£160

Mid 19th century map of the different post routes to India

TALLIS, John.

Overland Route to India.

London, John Tallis & Co., c.1851. Steel engraving with original outline colour. 355 x 250mm.

Stock ID : 23495

£170

Mid 19th century map of Austria and the Habsburg Empire

TALLIS, John.

Austria.

London, c.1851. Steel engraving with original outline colour. Printed area 260 x 330mm.

Stock ID : 23497

£160

A mid 19th century map of West Canada with vignettes

TALLIS, John.

West Canada.

London, John Tallis & Co., c.1851. Original outline colour. Printed area 260 x 340mm.

Stock ID : 23498

£160