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[Incunable] (Rudimentum novitiorum: French:) La mer des histoires.

One of the rarest of French illustrated incunables. The Mer des histoires (?A sea of stories?) is the French adaptation of the Latin Rudimentum novitiorum, an abridged h...

Register Des Buchs der Chronicken und geschichten mit figure...

FIRST EDITION IN GERMAN. The famous Nuremberg Chronicle, a history of the world, published the year that Columbus returned to Europe after discovering America. The text i...

Supplementum. Supplementi de la Chroniche vulgare novamante agionto & emendato al anno 1503.

Interesting Italian text edition of this important chronicle, first published in Latin in 1483.With large woodcut title-border, woodcut border on leaf A1 and 107 (2 full-...

Geographia universalis, vetus et nova, complectens. . .

The rare FIRST EDITION of Sebastian Münster's Geographia Universalis, published in 1540. This was a new and important edition of Ptolemy, with redesigned maps and the te...

(Fragment from the Cosmographia)

This fragment of the Cosmographia by Sebastian Münster covers the entire mathematical and geographical introductions given in Book I. In these twenty-two pages Münster...

In Somnium Scipionis Libri II.. [With world map]

With 5 schematic woodcuts and a fine woodcut map of the world (80 x 80 mm). The famous map of the world appears in the different printing in the 15th. and 16th Century in...

Cosmographiae universalis lib. VI.

Rare first Latin edition illustrated with a title-page within woodcut border, woodcut portrait of Munster on verso; 14 woodcut double-page maps, including 2 world maps (t...

Biblia Sacra.

Famous "Polyglot" Bible, printed by the famous Plantin firm and prepared under the direction of Philip II of Spain. Including a world map well-known for its sho...

Epitome. Du Theatre du Monde d'Abraham Ortelius.

Third French text edition in an oblong format of this illustrated treatise of geography, which is considered as the first modern pocket-atlas. The atlas was printed by Pl...

Itinerarium sacrae scripturae. . .

A relatively early edition of this famous book includes a world map in a cloverleaf (Shirley 142). The three principal continents, Europe, Asia, and Africa, are arranged ...

Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae. Das ist: Ein Reisebuch uber die gantze heilige Schrifft. Zuvor gemehret mit einem Büchlein De monetis et mensuris. . .

The book includes a world map in the form of a clover leaf (Shirley 142). The three principal continents, Europe, Asia and Africa, are arranged in the form of a clover le...

Geografia cioe Descrittione Universale della Terra ... Nuovamente ... Rincontrati, & Corretti ... Gio. Ant. Magini ... Opera ... Tradotta dal R.D. Leonardo Cernoti

The first edition of Leonardo Cernoti's Italian translation of Ptolemy's Geografia based on the 1596 Latin edition of Magini published by G. B. & G. Galignani in 1597...

Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo Alessandrino Tradotta di Greco nell'Idioma Volgare Italiano da Girolamo Ruscelli

Sixth edition of Ruscelli's translation of Ptolemy's Geografia edited and extended by Giuseppe Rosaccio published by the Hires of M. Sessa in 1598 and 1599.Illustrated wi...

Geografia cioe Descrittione Universale della Terra ... Nuovamente ... Rincontrati, & Corretti ... Gio. Ant. Magini ... Opera ... Tradotta dal R.D. Leonardo Cernoti

The first edition of Leonardo Cernoti's Italian translation of Ptolemy's Geografia based on the 1596 Latin edition of Magini published by G. B. & G. Galignani in 1597...

Epitome Theatri Orteliani, praecipuarum orbis regionum delineationes...

Latin pocket-size atlas of Ortelius' "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum", published for those who could not afford the expensive large atlases of the time. "A new se...

Atlas - Tabularum geographicorum contractum libri quinque. [with 148 maps]

Uncommon French text edition, published by Christoffle Goyot, in Leiden for Cornelis Claes. The Caert-Thresoor of 1598 set a new standard for minor atlases. Scholars like...

Thresor de Chartes, contenant les Tableaux de tous les Pays du Monde...

French text edition of the "Caert-Thresoor" first published in 1598, printed by Mattheaus BeckerII in Frankfurt am Main for Hendrick Laurensz, who succeeded his...

Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes...

Latin text edition. With the Mercator-Hondius double portrait, inserted from 1613 in the various editions of the Atlas. "In the first decade of the seventeenth centu...

Atlas Minor. . .

Uncommon early French text-edition of this influential pocket atlas, published by Johannes Janssonius. The plates were executed by two of Holland's finest engravers, Abra...

Omnium Belgii, sive Inferioris Germaniae, Regionum Descriptio.

First edition in Latin of the oblong edition. Illustrated with 105 maps and views featuring Belgium, the Netherlands and the north of France. Variant without the genera...

Tabularum Geographicarum Contractarum

Third edition of this rare and influential pocket atlas. All maps are fine and dark impressions. World map engraved by J.Hondius (signed) is appearing twice; celestial ch...

Atlas Minor [Dutch edition]

Uncommon DUTCH text-edition of this influential pocket atlas, published by Johannes Janssonius. The plates were executed by two of Holland's finest engravers, Abraham Goo...

Archontologia Cosmica..

A first edition of this cosmographia by one of Germany most important publishers. The Archontologia Cosmica.. it was prepared by L.Gottfried.Illustrated with 65 copper en...

Histoire de la navigation.. aux Indes Orientales..

Incomplete copy of the last and most complete edition in French of this work that may be called the most important travel book of all periods. Unfortunately only 2 maps (...

Britannia, sive Florentiss. regnorum Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae, insularumq. adiacentium ex .

This miniature atlas is an abridged version of Camden's Brittania published by the Blaeu family in Amsterdam. It contains a total of 19 maps, with county maps taken from ...

Vierde Stuck der Aerdrycks-Beschryving, welck vervat Engelandt, i.e. Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. vol 4, England & Wales.

>An outstanding example of Joannes Blaeu's "Vierde Stuck der Aerdrycks-Beschryving, welck vervat Engelandt, i.e. Theatrum Orbis Terrarum": being volume 4, En...

Historiae Universalis cum Sacraetum prophanae nucleus. . .

Charming universal history book with 15 charming wood cut engraved maps. The main copper engraved title page records Ulm under the title. This is the rare FIRST EDITION ...

L'Asie En Plusieurs Cartes Nouvelles. . .

Apparently an unknown variant, maybe a state between 1652 and 1662. The title-page bears the date of the first edition (1652), the address of the second edition (B) missp...

[Atlas]

>Early edition of Sanson’s atlas Cartes générales de toutes les parties du monde, before title page. Illustrated with 74 double page maps in original outline color...

L'Asie en plusievers cartes nouvelles, et exactes, &c

17 copper-engraved double-page maps, outlined in contemp. color. Sheets measure: 27.3 x 36.5 cm. Plate images measure: approx. 20.0 x 26.0 cm., each map varying by a cm. ...

BIBLIA, dat is de gantsche H. Schrifture, vervattende alle de canonijcke boecken des Ouden en des Nieuwen Testaments.

Richly bound copy of the official Dutch 'Staten-Bijbel' after the Synod from Dordrecht. With engraved general title, 2 separate titles, 6 double-page engraved maps by Nic...

Tractatus de Globis coelesti et terrestri eorumque usu. Primum conscriptus a Roberto Hues Anglo atque iterum a Iudoce Hondio excusus?opera et studio J.I.Pontani?Adjicitur Brevarium totius orbis Terrarum Petri Bertii.

Small 8vo, 18 unnumb. leaves, 231 pp, old calf (rebacked). With 4 fold. engr. plates.First published in London in 1594 to accompany Emery Molyneux' globes. The text was r...

Douziéme volume de la Geographie Blavariane.. (America)

In 1662 Joan Blaeu published the most famous of his atlases, the 11-volume Atlas Major in Latin. In the following year editions in French , Dutch , Spanish and German edi...

A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World.

John Speed's miniature atlas, published in 1668, 3rd Edition. A rare edition that does not include the maps of British Isles. List of maps include: World map, Asia, Afric...

Cartes generales de la geographie ancienne et nouvelle ou les empires, monarchies, royaumes? Par les Sr. SANSON Geographes ordinaires de sa Majestè. TOME I. & II

The atlas has two printed title pages and two index sheets (the contents of the atlas does not correspond with the contents of the index sheets)Cartes generales de la geo...

Het eerste deel van het Brandende Veen. . .

The text body of the extremely rare sea atlas by Arent Roggeveen, describing the American waters. The text pages have numerous figures of coastlines, plans, small town vi...

Le Grand & Nouveau Miroir ou Flambeau de la Mer.

Unrecorded french text edition. Engraved title-page, 32 double-page charts, 1 engraved text-chart of St.MALO, numerous woodcuts of astronomical diagrams, compass, geometr...

La Géographie Universelle contenant.

Edition unknown to Pastoureau.

La Géographie Universelle contenant. Les Descriptions, les cartes, et le Blason, des principaux Païs du Monde.

Rare pocket atlas of the world by Pierre Duval with the maps in original outlines colors (except for the China map) and the coats-of-arms and titles-pages beautifully emb...

Atlas Terrestris: or a Book of Mapps of all the Empires, Monarchies, Kingdoms, Regions, . . . in the whole World.

One of a series of composite world atlases of varying contents published by John Seller (fl.1658-1698) from 1676 onwards and among one of the very earliest English world ...

Le Grand & Nouveau Miroir ou Flambeau de la Mer..

A RARE EDITION of a French text edition of this fine Dutch Sea atlas of the West European waters with mostly plates originally engraved by Pieter Goos, who passed into th...

A tutor to Astronomy and Geography. Or an easie and speedy way to know the Use of both the Globes, Celestial and Terestrial. With an appendix shewing the Use of the Ptolemaick Sphere. The fourth edition...

A tutor to Astronomy and Geography. Or an easie and speedy way to know the Use of both the Globes, Celestial and Terestrial. With an appendix shewing the Use of the Ptole...

Memoires, historiques & geographiques du Royaume de la Moree, Negrepont, & des places maritimes jusques à Thessalonique. Recueillis & enrichis des cartes des païs & des plas des places.

First French translation and first Dutch edition of Vincenzo Maria Coronelli's (1650-1718) history of Greece, one of the basic source works on the Peloponnesus.On both co...

Kurtze Beschreibung von dem Ursprung, Aufnehmen, Gebiete und Regierung der Weltberühmten Republick Venedig.

Short description of the origin, recording, and government areas of the world-famous “Venice Republick.” The first and only edition of this rare work. The copper eng...

Description de tout l'univers, en plusieurs Cartes, et en divers Traittez de Géographie et d'Histoire...

Very rare edition of this popular atlas by Nicolas Sanson, published by Arnout van Ravestein, in Amsterdam, in 1699.Pastoureau only mentions a Dutch version of Sanson's a...

A System of Geography: or, a New & Accurate Description of the Earth in all its Empires, Kingdoms and States.

FIRST EDITION of Moll's important work with the title printed in red and black, 40 engraved maps, 2 full-page, small engraved map in text, 2 engraved solar diagrams. The...

Recueil des Voyages qui ont Servi a l'Etablissement et aux Progres de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales...

Very rare account of the Dutch voyages after Commelin. With title, 1 plate and 14 folding maps, including maps of Novaya Zemlya, Spitsbergen, Madagascar, St. Helena, Sout...

Atlas curieux Paris.

A fine series of 10 double page plans of Paris (c.450x530mm) showing the town's development during several ages. Prepared by Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d' Anville,(1697-17...

LES TABLETTES GUERRIERES, OU CARTES CHOISIES POUR LA COMMODITE DES OFFICIERS.

Most maps decorated with a borders showing town views and plans. The map of America with the island of California with an indented coastline and the place names R. d' Est...

Nova totius geographica telluris projectio. . .

This is the first atlas of Gerard Valk, publisher, engraver and manufacturer of globes in Amsterdam. The latter joined in 1673 Petrus Schenck for the publication of maps....

Introduction a la Geographie..

Second edition of this charming travel compendium. The title page illustrated with miniature world map in double hemisphere showing California as an island, with imprint ...

Atlas with 19 maps, 2 Family trees and 3 historical tables.

Atlas including a double hemisphere world map, maps of Europe, Asia, Africa, North America (engraved by Cordier, showing California as an Island, based upon Sanson's land...

Habillemens de plusieurs nations représentez au naturel, en cent trente-sept belles figures.

Illustrated with a title page and 132 engraved plates of costumes (of 136) not following the numbering but grouped by countries.The plates showing various nations from al...

(Recueil de plans et ports de la Méditerranée).

Superb atlas of the Mediterranean containing 19 charts (including 1 double) engraved by Starckman, Coélemans, and B. Randon Hunting and mounted on heavy paper. Each char...

Discours sur l'histoire universelle..

Three volumes with 26 maps, including the World and Continents, Israel, Middle sea area, Russia, Scandinavia,Denmark, Iceland,Poland, Britain, England, Scotland,Ireland,N...

Britannia Depicta or Ogilby Improv'd. . .

A nice English atlas of reduced road maps from John Ogilby's earlier survey of 1675. Four editions and many reprints were published, the last in 1764. This example is a f...

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[Recueil de Voyages au Nord].

Extract from volume III of the "Recueil de Voyages au Nord", containing the reports of Linschoten's voyages, the first to the North through the Strait of Nassau...

BRUZEN DE LA MARTINIERE: Introduction a l'histoire de l'Asie de l'Afrique et de l'Amérique.

Volume 2 (of 2) of his "Introduction a l'histoire de l'Asie de l'Afrique et de l'Amérique", complete with map of America, including a California as a island.Th...

Avantures du Sr. C. Le Beau, avocat en parlement ou Voyage curieux et nouveau parmi les Sauvages de l'Amérique Septentrionale. Dans lequel on trouvera une Description du Canada… Ouvrage enrichi d'une Carte et des figures necessaires.

A description of Huron, Iroquois, and Algonquin customs, written in charming style and based, the Author claims, on observations made on a trip to America in 1729." ...

The Use of the Globes or The General Doctrine of the Sphere. To which is added a Synopsis of the Doctrine of Eclipses.

8vo, iv, 162, (2) p., old calf (slightly worn). With engr.front. and 29 fold. maps and plates.Plates includes advertisement of Senex' terrestrial and celestial globes, wo...

Le Neptune Oriental ou Routier Général des Côtes des Indes Orientales et de la Chine...

First edition. - D'Après de Mannevillette (1707-1780) was a famous French sailor and hydrographer. During a voyage to China in 1728 he succeeded in correcting the latitu...

Le Neptune Oriental ou routier general des Cotes des Indes orientales et de la Chine..

THE RARE FIRST EDITION of this important French Sea Atlas of the Red Sea, India, the East Indies, Indochina and Formosa.2° (640 x 490 mm). Title printed in red and b...

Routier des côtes des Indes orientales et de la Chine.

FIRST EDITION. This rare Pilot to the East Indies was published simultaneously to accompany the large "Neptune Oriental" atlas, which was one of the greatest ma...

Atlas Portatif.

Small hand atlas of the world with 33 of 34 maps. Map nr. 4 (De Nieuwe en Ouden Oppervlakke en Doorzigtkundige Aardryks Bollen) is missing. The title page and register ar...

(Atlas with 23 maps by Homann)

Homann composite atlas including a double-hemispherical world map, continental maps of Europe, Africa and Asia, and region specific maps of most European countries, like ...

Atlas nouveau portatif à l'usage des militaires et du voyageur.

>Charming atlas with an engraved title, and 91 numbered and engraved double-page maps in orginal out line colors. The atlas starts by 36 pages text entitled 'Introduct...

Allgemeine Historie der Reisen zu Wasser und zu Lande: oder Sammlung aller Reisebeschreibungen, welche bis itzo in verschiedenen Sprachen von allen Volkernherausgegeben worden. . .

Collection of travel exploration of South and North America. With 19 copperengravings (10 folded maps). The maps of N. Bellin showing: (1) South-American continent, (2) G...

Dictionaire Géographique Universel, ou Description des Royaumes, Provinces, Villes... etc.

A very fine copy of Vosgien's geographical dictionary with a world map in two hemispheres and a map of Europe.

Etrennes Géographiques.

Rare and charming small atlas of France. Includes 30 colored and copper-engraved double-page maps by Lattré. Engraved frontispiece and title. With a general map of Fra...

A New, General, and Universal Atlas...

Published by A. Dury, Robert Sayer & Carrington Bowles; oblong 12mo; engraved title, dedication plus 39 Copper Engraved Maps (Complete) Incl 6 folding. The folding ma...

Atlas moderne ou collection de cartes sur toutes les parties du globe terrestre par plusieurs auteurs.

Typical 18th century French atlas, including maps by Janvier, Rizzi Zannoni and Bonne. Decorative title page: two women holding the title in a large drape, the page is fi...

Atlas Geographicus portatilis XXIX mappis orbis habitabilis regna exhibens ... Kurzgefasste Geographie

Pocket atlas of T. Lotter and T. Lobeck. Bound with "Kurzgefasste Geographie" of Lobeck. With one world map, one celestial map, 4 continents and 37 european map...

Le Geographe Manuel, Contenant La Description de Tous les Pays du Monde.

Miniature Atlas in French featuring maps of The World, The Americas, Asia, Africa, Europe & France. Atlas is by Jean Joseph Georges Abbe d'Expilly who was a French di...

The Large English Atlas, or, a New Set of Maps of All the Counties of England and Wales.

FIRST EDITION. "The Large English Atlas" is the most important eighteenth-century English atlas to be published before the appearance of John Cary's new English...

Les Revolutions de l'Univers.

First edition of this historical atlas presenting the political devisions of Eurasia from the dispersion of the Childern of Noah until the reunion of Lorraine to France....

Receuil Des Principaux Plans des Ports.. Mer Mediterranee..

A good copy of this practical pilot book, clearly intended for use on shipboard. Containing 65 sea charts on heavy paper in black and white. Paper is crisp and impression...

Le Petit atlas maritime. Recueil de cartes et plans des quatre parties du monde, en cinq volumes.

Important maritime atlas in five volumes, containing seven titles, dedication, 5 tables and 580 engraved maps and plans. Volume I: North America and the Caribbean, 102 m...

A Collection of Plans of the Principal Cities of Great Britain and Ireland, with Maps of the Coast of the Said Kingdoms. . .

A charming pocket atlas divided into two sections, firstly a series of 21 coastal and island plans detailing harbours and shoals round Great Britain and Ireland.The secon...

Atlas Ecclésiastique..

Very fine world atlas, each map is set in a fine Rococo border and each map has a charming title cartouche. Most maps are dated 1766 some have an older date.Of particular...

Kitchin's post-Chaise Companion through England and Wales.

large 8vo, oblong, 8 p., hlf. vellum (modern), 104 uncol. maps (15.5 x 20.4 cm), excellent condition.A fine copy of this popular pocket atlas with index, a general map of...