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Cartography & Exploration / Atlases, Charts, Maps & Globes

Large chart of European countries and their royal or noble families

[HERALDIC CHART - EUROPE]. [SPECHT, Caspar]. Historische en geographische tafel om te leren een kort begrip vande landen en staaten in Europa haar grootheyt, besitting en alles dat tot onderricht der liefhebbers van de landbeschryvinge dienen kan.
Amsterdam, Cornelis Danckerts II, [ca. 1703-1705]. Engraved chart (47.5 x 57 cm) printed on a single sheet of paper (51.5 x 61 cm), partly hand-coloured, including several coats of arms, with an added title in German engraved just above the image. Full description

€ 250

Charts & Maps Genealogy, Heraldry & Flags

The Seventeen Provinces: a detailed map with additional views of major cities
and examples of local dress

SPEED, John [and Pieter van der KEERE?]. A new mape of ye XVII provinces of Low Germanie.
[London], George Humble, 1626. 41 x 53 cm. Engraved map with hand coloured borders, probably by Pieter van den Keere (1571-after 1646). Incorporating a fine compass-rose with 32 rhumb lines and names of the wind-directions, a coat of arms of France, a title-cartouche, a legend ("A catalogue of the cities et [!] villages in everie Province") and an indication of scale (ca. 1:1.120.000). The map is topped by 8 hand coloured miniature profiles of major cities and bordered by hand coloured figures in local costume at the left (5 male figures) and right (5 female figures). Framed. Full description

€ 4,000

Belgium Charts & Maps Netherlands

A bestseller of illustrated 17th-century travel literature, probably printed by Izaak Elzevier

SPILBERGEN, Joris van and Jacob Le MAIRE. Miroir Oost & West-Indical, auquel sont descriptes les deux dernieres navigations, faictes es années 1614. 1615. 1616. 1617. & 1618.
Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius [printed by Izaak Elzevier?], 1621. Oblong 4to (17.5 x 23 cm). With 24 (of 25) engraved plates, including 5 double-page and 10 larger folding. Modern vellum. [4], 172 pp. Full description

€ 16,500

Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Medicine Book History, Printing & Typography Brazil Charts & Maps City Plans, Topography & Views Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Latin America Navigation Peru South America Travel & Voyages Asia Travel & Voyages South America Travel & Voyages Southeast Asia VOC

Socialist propaganda about the state of the Syria and its people after the March Revolution in 1963

[SYRIA - BA'ATH ARAB SOCIALIST PARTY]. Syria after two years of the March Revolution.
[Syria, Ba'ath Arab Socialist Party], 1965. 24 x 17 cm. With 28 photos on 16 plates and some tables in the text.
With: [MAP - SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC MINISTRY OF ECONOMY DIRECTORATE OF TOURISM]. Syria.
Damascus, Tourist Office, [ca. 1965]. Folded. 70 x 49.5 cm.
A brightly coloured folding map of Syria with some information about the country and its principal cities with a table of distances on the back, all text in the map and on the back is in English and Arabic.
Original publisher's printed wrappers, stapled. 175, [1 blank] pp. Full description

€ 850

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Charts & Maps

Extremely rare map of Damascus, printed in the field by British and allied troops in 1918

[SYRIA - EGYPTIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE]. Damascus.
[Damascus?], Field Survey Co[mpan]y. R.E., E.E.F., 7 October 1918. Map of Damascus (73.5 x 51 cm) printed in black and tan, on a scale of 1:10,000. Full description

€ 8,500

Charts & Maps West Asia

19th-century map of Arabia and Persia

TEESDALE, Henry. Persia and Arabia.
London, 1847. Engraved map (41 x 33 cm), hand-coloured in outline. Full description

€ 750

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Charts & Maps Iran / Persia

Mapping a large part of the Empty Quarter of the Rub' al Khali desert

THESIGER, W. Southern Arabia a journey through southern Rub el Khali October 1945 to February 1946.
London, 1946. Colour-printed map (66 x 46 cm). Full description

€ 1,800

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Charts & Maps

Engraved nautical chart of the southern Arabian coast

[THORNTON, John]. A large draught of the coast of Arabia from Maculla to Dofar. By Sam.l Thornton at the signe of England, Scotland, and Ireland, in the Minories London.
London, Samuel Thornton, [1711]. Engraved map (43 x 53 cm), hand-coloured in outline. Full description

€ 3,500

Arabian Peninsula & Gulf States Charts & Maps

Very rare first edition of a very interesting early 19th-centure travel guide for The Netherlands

[TRAVEL GUIDE - THE NETHERLANDS]. Le voyageur dans les Pays-Bas Unis. Ouvrage indispensable pour chacun qui voyage dans ces Pays. Orné de 28 cartes, plans, vues, etc.
Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, 1815. 12mo. With a title vignette showing the Amsterdam publishing house of Evert Maaskamp, 3 folding maps, 13 double-page maps by I.B.D.B., 3 double-page city plans of Amsterdam, the Hague and Rotterdam, 6 full-page plates of the coins in use in The Netherlands on 1 folding leaf and 2 full-page plates of the ground floor of the Amsterdam city hall and Paleis Het Loo; all coloured by a contemporary hand. Original publisher's blue paper wrappers over boards. [2], 380, XXII, [10] pp. Full description

€ 1,850

Netherlands

Japanese woodblock geography of the Middle and Near East and Indonesia, with 5 maps and 35 views

UCHIDA Masao. Yochi shiryaku [Compendium of world geography].
[Tokyo], Meiji 4 [= 1871]. (25.5 x 17 cm). With the title and all text in Japanese, printed from woodblocks on rice paper, with 1 double-page, 2 full-page and 2 half-page maps and 12 full-page and 23 half-page illustrations of architecture, people and costumes, topography, plants and animals. Original publisher's heavy paper wrapper. [1 blank], 59, [1] ll. Full description

€ 4,500

Charts & Maps City Plans, Topography & Views Indonesia / Dutch East Indies Iran / Persia Japan & Far East Turkey & Ottoman Empire

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Cartography & Exploration / Atlases, Charts, Maps & Globes

Large chart of European countries and their royal or noble families

The Seventeen Provinces: a detailed map with additional views of major cities
and examples of local dress

A bestseller of illustrated 17th-century travel literature, probably printed by Izaak Elzevier

Socialist propaganda about the state of the Syria and its people after the March Revolution in 1963

Extremely rare map of Damascus, printed in the field by British and allied troops in 1918

19th-century map of Arabia and Persia

Mapping a large part of the Empty Quarter of the Rub' al Khali desert

Engraved nautical chart of the southern Arabian coast

Very rare first edition of a very interesting early 19th-centure travel guide for The Netherlands

Japanese woodblock geography of the Middle and Near East and Indonesia, with 5 maps and 35 views

Censored copy of works on the language of the Holy Scripture by the orientalist Johannes Drusius

Turkish costumes after the famous series by Nicolas Nicolay

A newly discovered lizard and a strange plant-animal, both with a coloured illustration

Third edition of the Phaedrus fables in the famous Burman redaction

The Latin Phaedrus Fables with extended German notes to be used at Schools

One of the best 18th-century collections of travels and descriptions of various parts of the world,
with the fine Bowen maps

Cities and fortresses in the Dutch Seven Provinces in the 17th century

“German” Europe in the early 16th century, and Hispaniola in America

Dialogue between an engineer and a young man on military architecture

By the "finest 19th century lithographer of shipping scenes and ship portraits"

Portrait of the arrested Arminian preacher Slatius, one of the conspirators in the failed attempt to assassinate the Dutch Stadholder


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Cartography & Exploration / Atlases, Charts, Maps & Globes

Censored copy of works on the language of the Holy Scripture by the orientalist Johannes Drusius

Turkish costumes after the famous series by Nicolas Nicolay

A newly discovered lizard and a strange plant-animal, both with a coloured illustration

Third edition of the Phaedrus fables in the famous Burman redaction

The Latin Phaedrus Fables with extended German notes to be used at Schools

One of the best 18th-century collections of travels and descriptions of various parts of the world, with the fine Bowen maps

Cities and fortresses in the Dutch Seven Provinces in the 17th century

“German” Europe in the early 16th century, and Hispaniola in America

Dialogue between an engineer and a young man on military architecture

By the "finest 19th century lithographer of shipping scenes and ship portraits"

Portrait of the arrested Arminian preacher Slatius, one of the conspirators in the failed attempt to assassinate the Dutch Stadholder

One of the best 18th-century collections of travels and descriptions of various parts of the world,
with the fine Bowen maps