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"Uebersichtsplan" … "Lith. Anst. v. Bogdan Gisevius, Berlin"

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Description:

large and detailed engineering sheet on the lower Memel (Neman), the great river of Lithuania. It is sheet 1 of the atlas “Die Ströme Memel, Weichsel, Oder, Elbe, Weser und Rhein und die Märkischen Wasserstraßen”, published in Berlin in 1891 by the Royal Prussian Ministry of Public Works (Königlich Preußisches Ministerium der öffentlichen Arbeiten). The atlas reproduced the large wall plans that Prussia had exhibited at the Third International Inland Navigation Congress in Frankfurt am Main in 1888. Its 21 sheets cover the great rivers of Prussia, from the Memel in the east to the Rhine in the west, and the Memel opens the series on sheets 1 and 2. The text belonging to the plans was published separately in the “Denkschrift über die Ströme Memel, Weichsel, Oder, Elbe, Weser und Rhein” (1888). The sheets were printed in colour lithography by Bogdan Gisevius in Berlin.

Sheet 1, with its “overview and detail plans, depth and width profiles and river cross-sections”, shows how Prussian engineers tamed the Memel in the 19th century, regulating its course with groynes and embankments from the Russian border to the Curonian Lagoon.

• Overview map ("Uebersichtsplan"): the Memel from the Russian border at Schmalleningken (Smalininkai) past Ragnit and Tilsit to its delta. Here the river divides into the Russ (Rusnė) and the Gilge (Gilija), and these split again into the Atmath (Atmata), Skirwith (Skirvytė) and other arms before entering the Curonian Lagoon ("Das Kurische Haff"). The map also shows the Curonian Spit with Rossitten, Nidden (Nida) and Schwarzort (Juodkrantė), Memel (Klaipėda), Heydekrug (Šilutė), Prökuls (Priekulė) and Windenburg (Ventė), with the border between the Kingdom of Prussia and Russia.
• Regulation plans at 1:25,000: the regulation and winter harbour at Schmalleningken, the regulation at Sokaiten and at Tilsit, and the regulation and division of the river at Russ. The new works are marked in red, with the building periods from the 1870s to 1887.
• River cross-sections of the Memel at Schmalleningken, the Russ at Brionischken, the Gilge at Skören, the Atmath at Russ and the Skirwith at Skirwithell, with high, mean and low water levels.
• Water levels during the year 1886: a graph comparing the gauges at Schmalleningken, Tilsit, Schanzenkrug, Sollen and Russ, with the spring flood clearly visible in April.
• Longitudinal profiles ("Tiefenband") and width profiles ("Breitenband") of the Memel, Russ and Atmath, and of the Gilge, the Seckenburg Canal and the Nemonien, with tables of dimensions.
• "Stromtheilung der Memel" in 1772, 1822 and 1885: three maps showing how the division of the Memel into the Russ and the Gilge near Kallwen and Schanzenkrug changed over a century. They show the river's old arms ("Alte Memel", "Alte Russ"), its islands and sandbanks, and the new regulated channel.

An exceptional document of the Memel delta and the Lithuania Minor (Mažoji Lietuva) region, showing Rusnė, Šilutė, Klaipėda and the Curonian Lagoon in remarkable detail.

It is very rare on the market.

Cartographer:    Royal Prussian Ministry of Public Works (Königlich Preußisches Ministerium der öffentlichen Arbeiten)

Publisher:          Berlin; colour lithograph by Bogdan Gisevius

Sheet size:            61,0 x 50,5 cm
Year:                       1891
Technique:          colour lithograph

Condition:
Good condition. Laid down on canvas. Strong, clear printing with original colour. Water stains in the upper part of the sheet, light toning and soiling; edges with small chips and wear; the lower margin trimmed close, cutting through the printer's imprint.

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"Pomeraniae et rerum in ea memorabilium brevis descriptio E. Lubini" … "Nicolas Geilkerckius sculpsit"

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Description:

Six original sheets from the "Große Lubinsche Karte", the great wall map of the Duchy of Pomerania and one of the most splendid regional maps of the 17th century. Duke Philipp II of Pomerania-Stettin commissioned it from Eilhard Lubinus (Lübben), professor at the University of Rostock, who surveyed the whole duchy himself. The map was engraved in Amsterdam by Nicolaes Geilkercken on twelve copper plates. Assembled, they form a map of about 221 x 125 cm, with the Griffin dynasty's family tree, 49 town views and the coats of arms of 353 noble families. Only a few proof copies were printed in 1618, and they are virtually unobtainable. The plates were rediscovered in 1756 and reprinted in 1758, the edition in which the map is usually found today.

This group contains six of the twelve sheets: the two central sheets of the top row, with the title and the genealogy (sheets 2 and 3), and the complete bottom row, with the description of Pomerania and its town views (sheets 9 to 12).

Sheets 2 and 3: the title and the Griffin dynasty.

• The title: the great title runs across both sheets in a decorative frame.
• The family tree: below it, the family tree of the House of Griffin, the dukes of Pomerania, grows across the Baltic like a vine. It carries dozens of medallion portraits, from the earliest princes to the ducal family of Lubinus's own day, with dates of birth, marriages and burials. Among them is Eric of Pomerania, King of Denmark, Sweden and Norway.
• The coast: sheet 2 shows the island of Rügen with Arkona, Jasmund and Mönchgut. Sheet 3 has a large compass rose and the coast of eastern Pomerania around Stolp, Rügenwalde and Schlawe.
• Noble arms: along the top, a row of noble coats of arms "in alphabetical order, without prejudice to anyone".

Sheet 9: the description of Pomerania. Under the heading "Pomeraniae et rerum in ea memorabilium brevis descriptio E. Lubini", Lubinus's Latin account of the country begins. It is set in an architectural frame crowned by a river god and a sea nymph. Around it are views of Pasewalk, Ueckermünde, Greifenhagen (as a town plan), Damgarten, Richtenberg, Bahn (plan), Schlawe and a further town with a lettered key.

Sheet 10: the Oder. The map shows the Oder valley with Stettin, Damm, Gartz and Greifenhagen, the Dammscher See and Lake Madü, against the "Marchiae Pars" of Brandenburg. Beside the scale of miles, a surveyor works with compasses and instruments. The text describes Rügen, the bishopric of Cammin, the lordships of Lauenburg and Bütow, the climate, crops and the export of Pomeranian wool. Below are views of Zanow, Leba and Gartz.

Sheet 11: the engraver's signature. The map shows the country around Arnswalde and the Ihna river, with Geilkercken's signature "Nicolas Geilkerckius sculpsit" beside a putto, under a trophy of arms and musical instruments. The text describes the riches of Pomerania: fruit and wine, salt from Kolberg, amber from the coast, glassworks, bison, bears and wild horses, the falcons exported to France, England and Spain, and the famous fish of Lake Madü. Below are views of Damm (plan), Zachan and Jacobshagen.

Sheet 12: the lower right corner. A draped banner carries the arms of the Pomeranian lands above the history of Pomerania, from its conversion by St Otto of Bamberg to the Reformation and the founding of the University of Greifswald. It also gives a "Catalogus Urbium" listing the towns of the duchy and a "Catalogus Piscium" listing the fish of its waters. Around it are views of Cammin, Greifenberg, Rügenwalde, Saatzig, Bublitz, Körlin, Kolbatz and Friedrichswalde.

Every sheet is framed by bands of noble coats of arms with family names. A rare chance to own a substantial part of the most important early map of Pomerania, now divided between Germany and Poland.

Cartographer:   Eilhard Lubinus (1565 – 1621)

Engraver:             Nicolaes Geilkercken (c. 1585 – 1657)

Publisher:            Eilhard Lubinus

Leaf size:            64,0 x 52,0 cm (each sheet)
Year:                     1758 (plates engraved 1618)
Technique:         copper engraving

Condition:
Good condition. Six separate sheets with strong, dark impressions and wide margins; borders lightly outlined in yellow on two sheets. Light soiling and some spotting in the margins, a few marginal stains; sheet numbers in pencil in the upper right corners.
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"Printed for I. Bowles Print and Map seller at the Black Horse in Cornhill and T. Bowles Print & Mapseller next to the Chapter house in St. Pauls Church yard. 1708. Sold by H. Moll over against Devereux Court, without Temple Bar, and P. Overton Map & Printseller near St. Dunstans Church Fleetstreet, and by I. King Map & Printseller at ye Globe in the Poultry."
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Description:

A monumental two-sheet map of Europe by Herman Moll, the leading map-maker of early 18th-century London, from his great folio atlas "The World Described". The plate was first published in 1708 with a dedication to Queen Anne. After 1727 it was revised with a new portrait and a dedication to Queen Caroline, wife of George II. This is that later state, published while Caroline was queen (1727–1737).

The cartouche is one of the most theatrical of its time:

• The Queen: her portrait sits in a laurel wreath between the English rose and the Scottish thistle, above the dedication to "Her most Sacred Majesty Carolina, Queen of Great Britain, France & Ireland".
• The four continents: on the left, a feather-crowned Native American (America) beside a European carrying the Union flag (Europe). On the right, an African (Africa) and a turbaned figure in an ermine-lined robe (Asia).
• The royal arms: at the bottom, the arms of George II supported by the lion and the unicorn, with the mottoes "Honi soit qui mal y pense" and "Dieu et mon droit".

The map covers Europe from Iceland and the North Cape to the coast of North Africa, and from the Atlantic to the Caspian Sea, Persia and "Siberia or Dominions of Tartary". Russia is divided into "Moscovy in Europe" and "Moscovy in Asia". The map is densely filled with towns and rivers, with political borders in colour. Longitudes are given from both Ferro (El Hierro) and London, and a scale shows "Miles of Great Britain". The large Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is shown in detail.

The inset at lower right is titled "A New Draught of ye Artificiall Channel, and other great works, as Dams, Locks &c. made in order to Passage of Ships thro the Rivers of Ilafla and Camisinca, and to the Wolga as also to the Tanais or Don for a Communication between the Euxines and Caspian Seas". It shows Peter the Great's project to join the Volga and the Don, on which the English engineer John Perry worked. A dotted line on the main map continues the dreamed-of route from the canal through the Black Sea, the Bosphorus, the Aegean and the Mediterranean to the Atlantic.

A large, decorative and historically rich map of Europe, and a fine example of English map-making at the height of Moll's career.

Cartographer:  Herman Moll (1654 – 1732)

Publisher:          John & Thomas Bowles, Herman Moll, Philip Overton and John King
Leaf size:            98,0 x 63,5 cm (if two sheets joined)
Year:                     c. 1730 (plate dated 1708)
Technique:         copper engraving

Condition:
Good condition. Strong impression with old folds restored (few small losses present). Two separate sheets, possible to join. Light toning and minor spotting; light wear to the edges.
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Rare and large bird's-eye plan of Riga from Johannes Janssonius's town book of northern Europe, "Illustriorum principumque urbium septentrionalium Europae tabulae", also issued as "Theatrum praecipuarum urbium positarum ad septentrionalem Europae plagam" (Amsterdam, 1657). It shows Riga under Swedish rule, which began when Gustavus Adolphus captured the city in 1621. The medieval walls with their round towers and gates are surrounded by a ring of star-shaped earthen bastions and water-filled moats.

The plan is drawn from above the left bank of the Daugava, looking across the river at the walled town. Inside the walls, every street and block of gabled houses is drawn, with the main landmarks named in German: "Der Domm" (Riga Cathedral), "St. Petri" (St Peter's Church), "St. Iohannis" (St John's), "St. Iacobi" (St James's) and the "Raht Hauss" (Town Hall). At the western end, behind its own bastion, stands "Das Schloss", the castle of the Livonian Order. The outer works are labelled one by one: "Landt Thuern undt Pfort", "Land Bolwerck", "New Pfort Bolwerck", "St. Iacobs Bolwerck", "Batstabe Bolwerck", "Mart stal Bolwerck", "Ruter Bolwerck" and "Schloss Bolwerck".

In front of the city, the "Duina Fluvius" (Daugava) is crowded with merchant ships, small sailing craft and rowing boats along the quay, a reminder of Riga's role as one of the great trading ports of the Baltic. The foreground shows the river islands with farmsteads and trees, and a bastioned fort on the opposite bank. The coat of arms of Riga (the city gate with two towers, the lion's head and the crossed keys under a cross) appears in the upper left, and a compass rose sits on the river.

At about 51 x 40 cm, it is one of the largest and most decorative 17th-century plans of Riga, a highlight for any collection of Baltic city views.

Cartographer/Publisher: Johannes Janssonius (1588–1664)
Sheet size:                                55,0 x 42,8 cm
Year:                                           1657
Technique:                               copper engraving

Condition:
Good. Strong impression. Old folds flattened, with light creasing; some soiling and small stains in the margins; edges slightly irregular. Attractive hand coloring
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A decorative carte-à-figures map of Germany and Central Europe from John Speed's "A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World", the first world atlas compiled by an Englishman. George Humble first published it in London in 1627, and its maps are dated 1626. This map carries Humble's imprint, "Are to be sold in pops-head Alley by G. Humble", which was used on the editions before the Bassett & Chiswell issue of 1676.

The map shows the Holy Roman Empire in the years of the Thirty Years' War. It reaches from the Low Countries, Lorraine and Switzerland in the west to Prussia, Poland and Hungary in the east, and from Holstein and "The East Sea" (the Baltic) south to northern Italy and Bosnia. It is densely filled with towns, rivers, forests and mountains, and has a compass rose in "The Ocean Sea". The title cartouche, topped by the crowned double-headed imperial eagle.

The decorative border is what makes Speed's maps so sought after. Eight oval bird's-eye views run along the top: Heidelberg, Frankfurt am Main, Vienna, Prague, Cologne, Nuremberg, Strasbourg and Augsburg. The side panels show ten figures in German costume: a nobleman and a gentlewoman, a merchant and his wife, Bohemian and Swiss men and women, and a countryman and a countrywoman.

Verso. The back carries English text, "The Description of Germany", with a woodcut headpiece and a decorative initial. Speed explains the name "Germany" and its legendary founder Tuisco, the rivers and products of the land, and credits the invention of gunpowder to "Bertholdus Swart a Franciscan". He describes the government of the Empire, the seven Electors and their duties at the coronation, and the Emperor's three crowns of silver, iron and gold. He then surveys 35 provinces, from Westphalia, "famous for Swine and excellent Bacon", and Münster with its Anabaptist "King of Sion", to Bohemia, Silesia, Pomerania and Austria.

The text was written during the Thirty Years' War. It recalls the fall of Prague, when the King and Queen of Bohemia (Frederick V and Elizabeth Stuart, the "Winter King" and "Winter Queen") had to flee to Silesia. It also praises Count Mansfeld, "who to this day wars upon the Emperours party, in the behalfe of the Illustrious Palatine, and his unparalleled Lady Elizabeth, Sister to his Royall Majesty of England".

This is one of the most decorative 17th-century maps of Germany, by Britain's best-known early mapmaker.

Cartographer:     John Speed (1551 – 1629)

Publisher:              George Humble
Sheet size:            56,5 x 43,8 cm
Year:                       1626
Technique:            copper engraving

Condition:
Good condition. Strong impression on watermarked paper; narrow upper margin and wide lower margin; centrefold as issued. Light toning and minor spotting, mainly in the margins and on the verso.
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Description:

An original leaf from the first, Latin edition of Hartmann Schedel's Liber Chronicarum, the famous Nuremberg Chronicle, printed in Nuremberg by Anton Koberger on 12 July 1493. It is an incunable, a book printed before 1501. The leaf belongs to the section on Sarmatia, Schedel's name for the Kingdom of Poland and the Jagiellonian lands, Lithuania among them. That section is printed on unnumbered leaves near the end of the book.

Woodcut side. Under the heading "De Sarmacia regione Europe" is a large woodcut from the workshop of Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff. It shows an imaginary Sarmatian landscape from a bird's-eye view: castles on rocky heights, walled towns and church towers along a winding river, a long bridge, and a sea with sailing ships. At lower right are wooden buildings with a well-sweep and a trough, perhaps a reference to the salt production described in the text.

Below, under the heading "De regno Polonie et eius initio", a small woodcut of the royal insignia (orb, sceptre and crown) introduces the Latin text. It describes Sarmatia as a vast, thinly settled land under a harsh sky. Its borders are the Dnieper and the Don to the east, Hungary to the south, Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia and the Teutonic lands to the west, and the Baltic to the north. Kraków lies in Lesser Poland, Poznań and Gniezno in Greater Poland. From the legendary Duke Krak until Bolesław, only dukes ruled.

Text side. The text tells how Duke Bolesław received Emperor Otto in Poznań with great splendour. Silk cloth and robes decorated with gold and silver were spread along the road for three miles, and after every banquet the gold vessels were thrown into a well of unknown depth. Impressed, the emperor crowned Bolesław king, and Bolesław gave him the arm of St Adalbert, who had been killed by the Prussians. (Historically this was Otto III and Bolesław the Brave, at the Congress of Gniezno in the year 1000.)

Next comes the Lithuanian part of the story. The duke who ruled Lithuania and Ruthenia, Jogaila, was elected King of Poland. He accepted Christianity together with all his lands and joined Lithuania and Ruthenia to the Polish kingdom. He also defeated the Prussians, whose cities include Gdańsk and Toruń and the castle of Malbork, "the like of which no mortal is said to have seen".

The text then describes the country itself. Podolia has been laid waste by Tatars and Turks, yet it is so fertile that grass grows as tall as a man and honey is found everywhere. The Hercynian forest runs across Sarmatia from Kraków to Lithuania and Scythia, and bison ("bisontes") live in its northern part. There is no metal except lead, which the text blames on the cold planet Saturn. Salt, by contrast, is cut from the earth in huge blocks or boiled from brine, and it is the king's greatest treasure.

The page ends with a portrait of the Jagiellonian dynasty, written at the time:

• Władysław III, King of Poland and Hungary, who fell fighting the Turks.
• Casimir IV, Grand Duke of Lithuania and later King of Poland, and his marriage to Elisabeth of Austria, with whom he had six sons and five daughters.
• Their sons: Vladislaus, King of Bohemia and Hungary; Casimir, "of great talent and prudence", who died of illness (St Casimir, later patron saint of Lithuania); John Albert, the reigning King of Poland; Alexander, whom "the Lithuanians took as their duke after their father's death" and who is called the greatest ornament of all Sarmatia; Sigismund; and Frederick, Bishop of Kraków and Archbishop of Gniezno.
• The daughters married to the Duke of Bavaria, the Margrave of Brandenburg and the Duke of Pomerania.

Written while all five brothers were still alive, the text shows the Jagiellonian family at the moment Alexander had just become Grand Duke of Lithuania (1492).

This is an important early printed source on the Polish-Lithuanian state, with references to Jogaila, St Casimir and Grand Duke Alexander.

The Nuremberg Chronicles was the first printed history of the known world with about 2000 woodcuts the most picturesque work of the early time of printing. It became one of the most popular books of the 15th. century. The woodblock cutters were Michael Wolgemut, teacher of Albrecht Dürer and his stepson Wilhelm Pleydenwurff. The printing was carried out under the supervision of the great scholar-printer Anton Koberger.

Cartographer:      Hartmann Schedel (1440 – 1514)

Publisher:               Anton Koberger
Sheet size:               39,5 x 29,5 cm
Year:                          1493
Technique:              wood block

Condition:
Good condition. Watermarked paper. Strong, dark impression with good margins. Light water staining and some spotting in the outer margin, not touching the woodcut or text; minor soiling at the edges.

This is an original antique map published in 1493 and not a modern copy or reprint

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Early woodcut map of Poland and Lithuania from the German edition of Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia, published in Basel in 1598 by Sebastian Henricpetri. The map is printed on page 1236 (“Mccxxxvj”) of the Fourth Book, at the head of chapter 56. The chapter title translates as “Description of all the lands that were once subject to the Kingdom of Poland, or otherwise had dealings with it.”

The map covers the lands of the Polish–Lithuanian state, with north at the top. It runs from Danzig (“Dantzg”), Prussia (“Prüssen”), Thorn (“Thora”) and Silesia (“Schlesi”) in the west to Lithuania (“Litaw”), Vilnius (“Vilna”) and Kyiv (“Kyouia”) in the east, and south to Ruthenia (“Rüssen”) and Podolia. Other names include Kraków (“Cracow”), Lviv (“Lemburg”), Przemyśl (“Premisl”), Chełm, Płock (“Plotzko”), Grodno and Lutsk (“Lutzko”). The Vistula (“Wixel fl.”), Warta, Oder, Pilica, Narew, Neman and Bug rivers are marked. Forests are drawn as clusters of trees, mountains as small peaks and towns as little castle vignettes. The map also shows a “Sarmatie see” and the legendary “Amadoca see”, a lake taken from Ptolemy’s Geography.

Below the map, Münster begins his history of Poland’s rulers. He tells of Piast, a man of humble birth chosen as ruler at Kruszwica (“Crußnitz”), who moved the royal seat to Gniezno (“Gnesnam oder Gnisen”). He continues with Piast’s successors and with Mieszko I, the first Christian prince, baptized in 965 after marrying a daughter of Boleslaus of Bohemia. The text lists the nine bishoprics Mieszko founded, among them Gniezno, Kraków, Poznań and Płock, and ends with the marriage of his son Bolesław to a daughter of the King of Hungary in 984.

On the reverse (page 1235, “Mccxxxv”) is a typeset family tree of Poland’s rulers, titled “Von dem Hertzoge oder König Pyast vnd seinen nachkommenden Königen vnnd Fürsten” (Of Duke or King Piast and the kings and princes descended from him). Münster introduces it:

“So that you may see in brief how the kings and dukes of the land of Poland sprang from the first stem, Piast, I have drawn almost all of them into one figure. I will then take them one after another and tell briefly of their deeds and what happened in their time.”

Twenty-six numbered rulers run from Piast through the Piast dukes and kings. A line across the tree reads “Bey dieser Linien ist das Königlich Regiment blieben” (The royal rule remained with this line). The tree ends with the rulers connected to Lithuania: Queen Jadwiga (“Hedwig”) and her husband Jogaila (“Jagello, dessen Tauffnamme Vladislaus”, whose baptismal name was Władysław), then Władysław, King of Hungary and Poland, and Casimir, “Herr in Littaw vnd König zu Polandt” (Lord of Lithuania and King of Poland). Casimir’s sons follow: Władysław, Casimir (St. Casimir, patron saint of Lithuania), John Albert, Alexander, Frederick and Sigismund. The last name in the tree is Sigismund Augustus, the last Jagiellonian king of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.

Map comes from the rare German edition of Sebastian Münster’s Cosmography, titled “Cosmographey, das ist Beschreibung aller Länder, herzschaften und für nemesten Stetten des gantzen Erdbodens sampt ihren Gelegenheiten, Eygenschaften, Religion, Gebräuchen, Geschichten und Handtierungen... / durch hern Sebastianum Munster...”, published in 1598 by Sebastianum Henricpetri in Basel. It was one of the most influential geographical works of the 16th Century.
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Cartographer:      Sebastian Munster​ (1488 – 1552)

Publisher:              Sebastian Henricpetri

Sheet size:              34,4 x 21,7 cm
Year:                         1598
Technique:             woodcut

Condition:
Good condition.
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Extremely rare and decorative antique map of Poland, Lithuania, Livonia, Belarus and Ukraine, published in Paris under the name of Pierre Duval, Geographer to the King and nephew of Nicolas Sanson. Duval died in 1683, and his wife and daughters took over his business, so the date 1686 marks a posthumous issue.
The map covers the whole Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, from Pomerania and Silesia in the west to Smolensk and Muscovy in the east. It runs from Livonia and Courland in the north to Moldavia, Transylvania and the Black Sea coast in the south. Names appear in 17th-century French spellings, including Samogitie, Vilne (Vilnius), Troki (Trakai), Kouno (Kaunas), Grodno, Novogrodeck and Minsk. Forests, the Pripet marshes of Polesie, rivers and province lettering are drawn throughout.

A legend ("Explication des Marques") identifies archbishoprics, Catholic and "schismatic" (Orthodox) bishoprics, palatinates, castellanies, imperial and Hanseatic towns and battlefields. A scroll at upper left carries a French description of the kingdom. It covers the kingdom's size and produce, its elective monarchy (the king elected at Warsaw and crowned at Kraków by the Archbishop of Gniezno), the Polish nobility and cavalry, and the lands of the Cossacks ("Cosaques") Ukraine, Little Tartary ("Petite Tartarie"), the fortress of Kudack and Ochakiv ("Oczackou"), and the gulf labeled "Golfe de Nigropoli". Small pictorial views of Vienna and Pressburg sit at lower left, and the sheet carries the Paris imprint of Jollain ("Se vendent a Paris chez Iollain rue S. Iaque a l'Enfant Jesus, privilege du Roy.").

On top left corner description's translation:

"The scroll at upper left reads, in translation: Poland is the largest kingdom of Europe, more than 300 of our leagues long and a little less wide. It is fertile in grain, wax and honey; its finest furs come from Muscovy; and it enjoys both the Baltic and the Black Sea, the Vistula, Niemen and Dvina flowing to the Baltic and the Dnieper, Bug and Dniester to the Black Sea. The kingdom is elective: the King is elected by the Senate at Warsaw and crowned at Kraków by the Archbishop of Gniezno. The Church and the Senate make up the estates; the bishops rank first after the King, then the palatines and castellans. The nobles are equal, and only offices decide precedence. The Poles wear long garments, shave their beards and keep a single tuft of hair. Their cavalry has reached 100,000 horse, but confidence, and fear of making a king or the townsmen too powerful, has led them to neglect fortresses. Most towns are built of wood. The Cossacks form a militia against the Lesser Tatars and the Turks, living in the lower parts of Volhynia and Podolia called "Ukraine," that is, "Desert." Having rebelled in recent years, these people began the misfortunes of the State. The principal cities are Kraków, Poznań, Warsaw, Vladislau, Marienburg, Königsberg, Vilnius, Kyiv, Kamieniec and Lwów. Danzig, Elbing, Thorn and Culm, in Royal Prussia, are free cities under Poland's protection."

Separately issued sheet map, published in Paris by Gérard Jollain the younger (rue Saint-Jacques, à l'Enfant Jésus) under Pierre Duval's name, three years after Duval's death.

Author:                 Pierre Du Val (1618–1683)

Publisher:            Gérard Jollain II (1638–1724)
Sheet size:            54,9 x 44,6 cm
Year:                       1686
Technique:           copper engraving

Condition:
Good, original condition. Watermarked paper. Wide margins with the plate mark visible. Two small binding holes in the left margin and a few light marginal spots.

This is an original antique map published in 1686 and NOT a modern copy or reprint

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Very large, detailed panoramic engraving of the Swedish siege of Kraków in 1655, during the Second Northern War ("the Deluge" in Polish history). The old royal capital stretches across the middle distance below the Royal Castle on Wawel ("Arx Regia"), with the Vistula and the suburbs of Kazimierz, Stradom and Kleparz labeled. Mortar bombs arc over the walls and gunsmoke rises along the front. The Swedish army of King Charles X Gustav fills the foreground in ordered rows of tents, with the royal tent enclosure at the center. Gunners, cavalry, foragers and supply wagons crowd the lower edge. Two draped banners at the top list the Swedish cavalry ("Equitatus") and infantry ("Peditatus") regiments by letter. A 28-part key at the foot identifies the city's churches, monasteries, the Jesuit college and St. Florian's Gate. The title cartouche is crowned with the Swedish arms among flags, weapons and armor.

Despite the "ad viv." (from life) signature, Dahlbergh did not join the army until 1656. Polish researchers have noted that the skyline of Kraków is a mirror image, probably copied from Braun & Hogenberg's earlier view, while the encampment draws on Dahlbergh's own troop dispositions.

The drawing was made by Erik J. Dahlbergh, painter and architect in the service of Charles X Gustav, and engraved by Willem Swidde (signed "W. Swidde Sculp."). The plate is numbered N 16. It comes from Samuel von Pufendorf's history of the reign of Charles X Gustav, published by Christoph Riegel in Nuremberg in 1697.

Painter:               Erik Jönsson Dahlbergh (1625–1703)
Sheet size:          65,7 x 34,7 cm
Year:                     1697
Technique:         copper engraving

Condition:
Very good, original condition. Two sheets joined, as issued. Watermarked paper. Wide, clean margins with the plate mark visible.

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A large, detailed map of the Italian peninsula divided into its pre-unification states — the Republic of Venice (extending along the Istrian and Dalmatian coast), the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, the States of the Church, the Kingdom of Naples, the Kingdom of Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica — with Switzerland, the Tyrol, and the North African Barbary coast shown at the margins. The map explicitly credits its source material to two of the leading scientific cartographers of the later 18th century: Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (1697–1782), the great French Enlightenment geographer known for rigorous, source-critical mapmaking, and Giovanni Antonio Rizzi-Zannoni (1736–1814), the Italian cartographer famous for his detailed and highly accurate survey of the Kingdom of Naples — a notable pedigree reflecting the more scientifically-grounded cartography of this later period, as opposed to the more decorative conventions of a century earlier. A five-scale distance key at lower right accounts for the different regional mile measures then in use across Italy (Italian, Piedmontese, Roman, French, and German), and the title cartouche carries a decorative vignette.

Published and revised by the Homann Heirs in Nuremberg, 1790, with a corrected second state issued in 1798 — a late production from this long-running firm's final decades, well after its founding generation.

Cartographer:     Homann Erben (1724-1780)
Sheet size:              61,5 x 49,0 cm
Year:                        1798
Technique:            copper engraving

Condition:
Good condition, original hand coloring. Few restorations, wormholes and folding lines.

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The project's timing is part of what makes it compelling: work on the 77-sheet edition began during the 1812 campaign itself, while Napoleon's army was still in Russia. The earliest sheets reportedly sold well enough in Paris that Napoleon personally ordered, on 30 July 1812, that nothing further be released from the war depots — an order that reads, in hindsight, like an acknowledgment that the map amounted to detailed Russian military intelligence now in French hands.

Sheet A.6 itself carries both a Russian and a French scale — "Echelle en Verstes de 104½ au Degré" and "Echelle en Lieues de 25 au Degré (500000)" — reflecting its origin as a translated Russian survey adapted for French staff officers. Towns appear in French transliteration of their Russian-administered names (Kovno, Vilna, Rossiena), while the Curonian Spit and Lagoon keep their German forms (Curische Nehrung, Curisches Haff) right at the Prussian frontier. The spaced lettering "GOUV." running across the sheet continues onto neighboring sheets as "Gouvernement de Wilna" — correct for 1812, since Kaunas and Samogitia were not split off into a separate Kovno Governorate until 1842–43.

Sheets from this series are occasionally catalogued under the geographer Edme Mentelle, but that attribution doesn't hold up well: Mentelle's own major cartographic project of the period, the Atlas national de la France produced with Pierre-Grégoire Chanlaire, covered the French departments, not Russia. The Bibliothèque nationale de France and the University of Bern both catalogue this series under the Dépôt général de la Guerre alone, with no individual geographer credited.

Complete 77-sheet sets survive mainly in institutional collections such as the BnF and Bern; individual sheets reach the market far more often, and one centered on the Lithuanian heartland — Kaunas, Vilnius, Trakai — has obvious appeal for collectors of Napoleonic history or Baltic regional cartography alike.

Provenance & references:

• Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica), complete 77-sheet set, shelfmark btv1b5970618b
• Universitätsbibliothek Bern (e-rara.ch), SOB RoEu fol 129, DOI 10.3931/e-rara-88626
• Edme Mentelle & Pierre-Grégoire Chanlaire, Atlas national de la France, 1790–1811 (Mentelle's own documented cartographic project of the period — cited here to explain, not support, the alternate attribution sometimes seen in the trade)

Cartographer:   Pierre Antoine François Tardieu (1784 – 1869)

Publisher:             Dépôt général de la Guerre, Paris
Sheet size:            94.8 x 68.0 cm
Year:                      1812
Technique:           lithography

Condition:
In good condition, wide margins.

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Map comes from the Johann Baptist Homann atlas “Grosser Atlas ueber die ganze Welt“ published in Nuremberg 1736.

Cartographer:      Johann Baptist Homann (1664-1724)
Sheet size:              60,7 x 51,9 cm
Year:                         1736
Technique:            copper engraving

Condition:
Good condition, original hand coloring. Watermarked paper. Lower middle field separation present.

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Cartographer:     Jan Nieprecki (1719-1754)
Sheet size:             67,0 x 57,5 cm
Year:                        1795
Technique:           copper engraving

Condition:
Good condition. Original hand coloring. Wide margins. Strong press on watermarked paper, lightly age toned.

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Description:

One of Nicolas de Fer's most ambitious wall maps of Europe — the fully developed "text-and-emblem" edition, framed by its own explanatory apparatus rather than left to speak for itself.

De Fer, geographer to the King of Spain and to the Dauphin, first issued this map of Europe in 1695, drawn on the latest observations of the Royal Academy of Sciences; in that original state it was a comparatively plain sheet. The map is bordered by sixteen finely engraved medallions of the peoples of Europe in national dress, each with a brief character sketch and, for the principal nations, a view of their capital: the French of Paris, the Danes of Copenhagen, the Dutch of Amsterdam, the Germans, the English, the Swedes of Stockholm, the Poles, the Hungarians of Buda, the Italians of Rome, the Muscovites, the Turks of Constantinople, the Spanish of Madrid and the Portuguese of Lisbon — together with the Lapps and Samoyeds, the Greenlanders and Icelanders, and the Tartars at the map's furthest margins. These, together with the two flanking columns of engraved text — Description de l'Europe to the left, Explication des Ornemens de cette Carte to the right — were only added after de Fer's death in 1720, when his son-in-law Guillaume Danet inherited the business and reissued the plates from 1723.

This particular impression was printed later still: the title imprint credits another of de Fer's sons-in-law, J.F. Bénard, publishing from de Fer's own long-standing address on the Quai de l'Horloge, and is dated 1740 — while the dedication cartouche lower on the sheet retains Danet's imprint and the date 1730, a trace of the plate's passage between the two branches of the family firm.

The map extends from Greenland and the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Barbary coast and deserts of North Africa in the south, and east past the Black Sea and Crimea to the frontiers of Persia, with a dedication cartouche to Monseigneur le Dauphin.

Cartographer:   Nicolas de Fer / J.F. Bénard (dedication cartouche dated 1730, Guillaume Danet)

​Sheet size:          159,7 x 108,5 cm
Year:                      1740
Technique:           copper engraving

Condition:
Good condition. Contemporary highlighting in green. A few faint spots of foxing, mainly confined to the text panels. Engraved and laid down on canvas for wall display.
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“Campus Inter Bohum et Borystenem . . . ​Lectori S. Hunc Borysthenis tractum ut ad nostrum Geographiae tabulam . . .​”
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This is the famous Radvila's (Radziwill) map of Lithuania which occupies a very prominent position among works of European cartography from the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th century and is an important contribution to the progress in the mapping of the whole continent. The map had its beginning in 1586 when Prince Michael Radziwill commissioned M. Strubicz to survey the entire Lithuanian state which then included Poland. The resulting map was so accurate and detailed that it provided the basis for all subsequent maps of the area during the 17th and 18th centuries: rivers and small communities are not only indicated but considerable historical information is also provided. It also includes a number of historical notations and two vignettes illustrating important battles west of Smolensk and between Braclaw and Cherkasy. It is the first published map to include the name “Ukraina.” The region west of Kiova (Kyiv) is called Volynia Ulterior, quae tum Ukraina tum nis ab aliis volcitatur. The map shows 1020 towns and villages and within the boundaries of the Grand Dutchy of Lithuania alone there are 511 towns, 31 villages, and 1 monastery.

The second map showing the course of the Dnieper River from Cherkasy to the estuary on the Black Sea. The map is in strip style with two vertical maps following the course of the river, each decorated with cartouches and compass roses and including numerous lengthy notations describing the cataracts, cities, salt mines, fortresses, and the historical traditions of the Kozaks. Putti flank a large cartouche at bottom. French text on verso.

Two separate maps, can be joined together.

Comes from Willem Janszoon Blaeu French atlas ” Theatrum orbis terrarum, sive atlas novus in quo tabulae et descriptiones omnium regionum ” engraved by Graveris Hessel Gerritsz, published in Amsterdam, 1643.

Map Maker:       Hessel Gerritsz /  Willem Janszoon Blaeu
Sheets size:         77,2 x 78,7 cm​​ & 78,8 x 47,0 cm
Place / Date:​       Amsterdam / 1643
Technique:         copper engraving

Condition:
Good condition. Attractive hand coloring. Few restorations along the horizontal folds on verso. Few small marginal splits present.

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The map comes from Georges-Louis Le Rouge atlas "Atlas Nouveau Portatif" issued in Paris, 1756.

Cartographer:      Georges-Louis Le Rouge (17121 - 1790)
Sheet size:              34,0 x 23,2 cm
Year:                         1756
Technique:             copper engraving
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Condition:
Very good condition. Strong press on watermarked paper, contemporary coloring.

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"A General Map of Great Britain and Ireland with Part of Holland, Flandres, France &c. Agreable to Modern History, by the Heirs of late Mr Homann, at Nuremberg 1749. Priviledged by Emperour's Majesty."
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Description:

Detailed map of the British Isles, extending east to take in the adjoining coasts of Holland, Flanders and northern France. England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland are outlined in hand colour, with Scotland's shires further divided in red. A separate inset at upper right shows the Shetland Islands at the same scale as the main map, while the Orkneys appear in their correct position off the north coast of Scotland. The map is headed by a large cartouche enclosing the royal coat of arms, military trophies, navigational instruments and a sea monster rising from the waves. Three graphic scale bars — English statute miles, French leagues and German miles — appear at lower right.

This edition is drawn on the astronomical corrections of Tobias Mayer and is notable for its added English-language title, suggesting it was prepared with English buyers specifically in mind. The sheet retains its original atlas page number ("42") at upper right, confirming it was issued bound into a larger Homann Heirs atlas.

The map drawn by Johann Tobias Mayer and published by Homann Heirs in atlas “Maior Atlas Scholasticus ex Triginta Sex Generalibus et Specialibus…”  Nuremberg, 1749.

Cartographer: Johann Tobias Mayer (1723-1762) — German astronomer and cartographer, employed by the Homann Heirs in Nuremberg from 1746 to 1751, credited on the plate with correcting the map to recent astronomical observations

Publisher: Homann Heirs (Homann Erben)

Sheet size:              63,6 x 53,8 cm
Year:                        1749
Technique:            copper engraving

Condition:
Good condition. Contemporary coloring, paper with watermark.
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Rare and highly decorative map of Livonia and Courland — today's Estonia and Latvia — engraved by the celebrated Amsterdam cartographer Frederick de Wit. The map ranges from the Gulf of Finland (Sinus Finnici Pars) and Ingria in the north to the borders of Lithuania and Samogitia in the south, and from the Baltic islands of Oesel (Saaremaa) and Dago (Hiiumaa) in the west across to Lake Peipus, Pskov (Plescow) and the Muscovite frontier in the east.

The large title cartouche in the upper left corner is upheld by putti and crowned with two coats of arms — one the silver griffin of Livonia on a red field — while further winged cherubs bear garlands, and a trumpet-blowing putto crowns the scene. A second, smaller cartouche with a German-mile distance scale sits in the lower right of the sheet.

Comes from by Frederick de Wit "Atlas Maior" published in Amsterdam, 1680.

Cartographer:       Frederick de Wit​ (1630 – 1706)
Sheet size:               61,2 x 51,5 cm
Year:                         1680
Technique:             copper engraving

Condition:

Good condition. Contemporary hand coloring.

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Description:

A double-leaf woodcut view from Hartmann Schedel's Latin edition of the "Liber Chronicarum," published in Nuremberg in 1493, uniting two of the Chronicle's most celebrated city portraits of Rome and Genoa, Italy.

Unlike many of the town views in the Chronicle, which reused a small set of generic woodblocks for dozens of different (and sometimes entirely imaginary) towns, both Rome and Genoa were given custom, purpose-cut views — making this a particularly desirable pairing rather than a recycled one.

Folio LVIII depicts a sweeping panorama of Rome ("Roma"), one of the largest and most admired city views in the book. Landmarks are individually labeled across the skyline, including the Colosseum, Castel Sant'Angelo, St. Peter's, the papal palace, and the Tiber, all enclosed within the old city walls and gates.

Folio LVII shows the companion view of Genoa ("Genua"), introduced in the accompanying Latin text as "mistress and queen" of the Ligurians — a fortified hillside port city rendered in the same detailed, elevated perspective.

Page numbers: LVII & LVIII

The Nuremberg Chronicles was the first printed history of the known world with about 2000 woodcuts the most picturesque work of the early time of printing. It became one of the most popular books of the 15th. century. The woodblock cutters were Michael Wolgemut, teacher of Albrecht Dürer and his stepson Wilhelm Pleydenwurff. The printing was carried out under the supervision of the great scholar-printer Anton Koberger.

Cartographer:      Hartmann Schedel (1440 – 1514)
Sheet size:             55,0 x 41,0 cm
Year:                       1493
Technique:           wood block

Condition:
Good condition. A few wormholes and brownish spots present. Middle fold as issued.

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Description: 

Historically significant map documenting the theater of war during the French Revolutionary Wars of 1793, covering the vast region bounded by the river systems of the Rhine, Moselle, Meuse (Maas), Marne, Seine, and Scheldt. The map spans from Flanders and the Channel coast in the northwest, across Artois, Picardy, Champagne, and Lorraine, to the Rhineland, Alsace, Baden, and Württemberg in the east — encompassing the key military and political territories contested during the early years of the French Revolutionary campaigns, including the Austrian Netherlands, the Bishopric of Liège, Luxembourg, and the Palatinate.

Numerous towns are marked with small fortress/settlement symbols, and territorial boundaries are delicately outlined in hand-colored washes distinguishing the patchwork of contemporary states, bishoprics, and duchies. Two scale bars (Geographische Meilen and Französische Meilen) appear in the lower left.

The upper right corner bears an elaborate military trophy vignette — a pile of cannon, drums, flags, and halberds — beneath the title cartouche, reflecting the map's wartime subject matter. The imprint credits the design to Franz Ludwig Güssefeld, published in Nuremberg by the Homann Heirs ("Nürnberg bey d. Homann. Erben") under Imperial privilege, dated 1793.

Franz Ludwig Güssefeld was a highly influential Prussian cartographer, engineer, and surveyor renowned for creating exceptionally accurate regional and international maps.

Cartographer:   Franz Ludwig Güssefeld (1744 - 1808)

Sheet size:             65,5 x 53,6 cm

Year:                      1793

Technique:           copper engraving

Condition:
Good, original condition. Contemporary coloring. Watermarked paper. A round collector's/dealer stamp reading "Bücherei Heinrich Kohl" appears in the upper right corner, indicating a former collection provenance.

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Description:

Very detailed map of East Prussia (Ostpreußen), covering the region from the Baltic coast and the Curonian Lagoon (Curische Haff) in the north down to the Polish border ("Polnische Grenze") in the south, and bordered to the east by Lithuania ("Littauische Grenze"). The map richly details the historic districts of Samland, Natangen, Memel, Bartenland, and Oberland, with hundreds of towns, villages, forests, and lakes named throughout, including Königsberg's surrounding territory, the Frisches Haff, and the Spirding See.

An inset map in the upper left corner, titled "Westpreussische Grenze," details the adjoining West Prussian border region in finer scale. The upper right corner features an elegant title cartouche in the form of a classical stone pedestal set among trees, with an open book, laurel branch, and quill resting at its base.

The map was designed by Franz Ludwig Güssefeld and published by the Nuremberg's publishing house Homann Erben in 1775.

Cartographer:  Franz Ludwig Güssefeld (1744-1807)

Sheet size:            63,8 x 54,9 cm

Year:                      1775

Technique:         copper engraving

Condition:
Good condition. Brownish watermarked paper.

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Rare and very detailed antique map of the Neumark (New March), the historical eastern territory of Brandenburg, newly drafted and divided according to its administrative districts (Kreise) by German cartographer Franz Ludwig Güssefeld. The map covers the region bordered by Hinterpommern (Farther Pomerania) to the north, Polen (Poland) to the east, Schlesien (Silesia) to the south, and the Uckermark/Mittelmark to the west, with the Oder and Warthe (Warthe Fl.) rivers clearly traced through the territory.

The nine constituent Kreise are individually hand-colored and identified by two-letter abbreviations (KK – Königsberg, SoK – Soldin, LK – Landsberg, FK – Friedeberg, AK – Arensvalde, DK – Dramburg, SK – Schiefelbein, StK – Sternberg, CrK – Crossen, ZK – Züllichau, SchK – Schwiebus), fully explained in an extensive legend ("Erläuterung der Zeichen und Buchstaben") in the upper left corner detailing town ranks, church types, mills, noble estates, and administrative seats.

The lower right features an elegant neoclassical title cartouche in the form of a stone altar/pedestal set beneath trees, bearing the imprint: published in Nuremberg by Weigel und Schneider, 1789, under Imperial privilege ("Mit Kayserl. allergnst. Privil."). A pair of scale bars (German/geographic miles and large miles) appears below the cartouche too.

Franz Ludwig Güssefeld was a highly influential Prussian cartographer, engineer, and surveyor renowned for creating exceptionally accurate regional and international maps.

Cartographer:   Franz Ludwig Güssefeld (1744 - 1808)

Sheet size:             65,5 x 53,6 cm

Year:                       1789

Technique:           copper engraving

Condition:
Very good, original condition. Contemporary outline coloring.

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What sets this map apart is its lower border, decorated with an extraordinary series of hand-colored engraved roundels depicting ancient Roman and Iberian coins — a hallmark of Weigel's numismatic map series — alongside a mock stone tablet bearing the title.

Comes from Weigel's atlas “Descriptio orbis antiqui in XLIV. Tabulis exhibita a Jo. Davide Koelero Hist. et polit. P.P. altdorfino studio atque opera Christophori Weigelii Norimbergae...“ published by Johann David Köhler, in Nuremberg 1718.

Cartographer:       Johann Christoph Weigel (1654-1725)
Sheet size:               47,8 x 39,0 cm
Year:                           1718
Technique:             copper engraving

Condition:

Good condition with age-appropriate toning. Attractive hand coloring to regions and coin roundels. Centerfold as issued. Wide original margins.

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Extremely rare, large format and very detailed bilingual map (Russian and Latin) of Lake Ladoga and its surrounding provinces, published in the celebrated Atlas Russicus — the first national atlas of Russia, produced by the Russian Academy of Sciences under Empress Elizabeth in 1745. This example covers the region stretching from St. Petersburg and the fortress of Schlüsselburg (Шлиссельбург) along the southern shore of Lake Ladoga, through the historical provinces of Karelia, Ingermanland, and Novgorod.

The map is richly detailed with hundreds of named villages, rivers, and estates rendered in fine copperplate line work, with the course of the Wolkchov River running through the lower right. A superb baroque cartouche in the lower right corner depicts classical river gods and nymphs reclining on a rocky shore, framing the descriptive title text.

Compiled under the direction of the Russian Academy of Sciences, with cartographic work associated with Joseph-Nicolas de L'Isle. This series of regional maps of the St. Petersburg / Lake Ladoga environs was issued in 1745, and was later re-engraved in a competing edition by Seutter in Vienna.

Cartographer/Engraver:   Johann Elias Grimmel (1703 - 1759)
Sheet size:              72,3 x 51,2 cm
Year:                        1745
Technique:           copper engraving

Condition:
Very good, original condition, no restorations. Watermarked paper. Contemporary coloring.
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Description:

Very decorative map of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) showing the historical kingdoms and regions of Hispania. The map covers the entire peninsula including all major territorial divisions: Gallaecia, Asturias, León, Castilla Vetus, Castilla Nueva, Aragonia, Catalonia, Valencia, Granada, Andalusia, and Portugal. Inset maps show the Balearic Islands (Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza, Formentera) and the North African coast. Based on the cartographic work of Rodrigo Méndez Silva.

The upper right corner features an ornate baroque cartouche with allegorical figures and cherubs framing the title, a hallmark of mid-18th-century German cartographic design. Each historical region is outlined and hand-colored in soft pastels—greens, pinks, and yellows—distinguishing the various kingdoms.

The map comes from the atlas „Atlas Géographique de cent et huit cartes générales et spéciales / par les géographes Tobie Conrad Lotter, Matthieu Seutter, et Jan-Michel Probst a Augsburg et par les Heritiers de Homan ...″ engraved by Georg Friedrich Lotter, published in Nurnberg, circa 1750.

Cartographer/Publisher:  Tobias Conrad Lotter ( 1717 – 1777 )
Sheet size:           64,7 x 54,2 cm
Date:                      circa 1750–1770
Technique:          copper engraving

Condition:
Good condition with age-appropriate toning. Watermarked paper. Attractive hand coloring. Centerfold visible from atlas binding. Minor paper toning consistent with 18th-century provenance.

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The imaginary view of England and Spain by Hartmann Schedel from the Latin edition of the "Liber chronicarum" published in 1493.

Recto depicts an imaginary, stylized medieval cityscape meant to represent England or London. Because production costs were high, the chronicle's creators repeatedly recycled the same woodcut blocks to illustrate different locations throughout the book.

Verso features a detailed, stylized woodcut view of a fortified European city intended to represent Spain (Hispania).

Page number: CCLXXXVIIII

The Nuremberg Chronicles was the first printed history of the known world with about 2000 woodcuts the most picturesque work of the early time of printing. It became one of the most popular books of the 15th. century. The woodblock cutters were Michael Wolgemut, teacher of Albrecht Dürer and his stepson Wilhelm Pleydenwurff. The printing was carried out under the supervision of the great scholar-printer Anton Koberger.

Cartographer:      Hartmann Schedel (1440 – 1514)
Sheet size:               27,0 x 43,5 cm
Year:                         1493
Technique:            wood block

Condition:
In good condition compare to the age, strong press on watermarked paper. Two wormholes present.

This is an original antique map published in 1493 and NOT a modern copy or reprint

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Comes from the Carlo Antonio Barbellini book „Atlante delle geografia antica e moderna ”, engraved by Giuseppe Caniani, published in Milan 1807.

Engraver:             Giuseppe Caniani (1773-18..)
Sheet size:            41,6 x 28,0 cm
Year:                       1807
Technique:           copper engraving

Condition:
Very good condition. Contemporary coloring.
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The drawing was made by Erik J. Dahlberg, painter and architect in the service of Charles X Gustav during the Polish-Swedish War.

Comes from the Samuel Pufendorf book “De Rebus a Carolo Gustavo Sveciæ Rege Gestis commentariorum libri septem. Elegantissimis Tabulis æneis exornati cum triplici Indice”, engraved by Nicolas Pérelle, published by Christophorus Riegel Literis Knorzianis in Nürnberg, 1696.

Painter:               Erik Jönsson Dahlbergh (1625–1703)
Sheet size:          68,4 x 34,5 cm
Year:                     1696
Technique:         copper engraving

Condition:
Very good condition. Two sheets joined, as issued.
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Description: 

Rare antique map of the Duchy of Pomerania along with adjacent regions spanning modern-day northeastern Germany and northwestern Poland, after Frederick de Wit map. It borders the Baltic Sea, labeled here in Latin as Mare Balticum and in Dutch/German variations as Vulgo De Oost Zee. Very decorative title cartouche.

The geographical layout was originally created and engraved by the Dutch cartographer Justus Danckerts in Amsterdam. Following the decline of the Danckerts firm, the Ottens brothers acquired their inventory of printing plates in 1726. They modified the cartouche at the top to display their own imprint—"Authore per R. & J. Ottens"—and sold it inside their own commercial atlase "Atlas Maior" published in Amsterdam.

Cartographer:   Renier Ottens (1698–1750) & Joshua Ottens (1704–1765)

Sheet size:             64,3 x 54,1 cm

Year:                     1726

Technique:           copper engraving

Condition:
Very good, original condition. Contemporary outline coloring.

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Description:
Very rare Ptolemaic map of European Sarmatia (Sarmatia Europae), a historical classical region covering modern-day Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Southern Russia. The map prominently features the Tauric Chersonese (Crimea Peninsula) pointing down into the Palus Maeotis (Sea of Azov) on the lower right. It features ancient mountain ranges like the Hyperborean and Riphean mountains drawn in a stylized, early Renaissance pictorial format.

Verso, on left side (Nona Evro) depicts the ancient Roman Balkans and Central-Eastern Europe. It clearly marks ancient provinces such as Dacia (modern Romania & Moldova), Iaziges Metanaste, Mysia Superior and Inferior (modern Serbia, Bulgaria), and Thracia. The right side (Pae Tabula) showing the Sicily island, Italy.

Silvano’s 1511 book is famous for being one of the earliest to utilize two-color printing (red ink for major regional names and black ink for local topography and smaller text labels).

Comes from the Bernardus Sylvanus book „Claudii Ptholemaei Alexandrini Liber Geographiae cum tabulis et universali figura et cum additione locorum quae a recentioribus reperta sunt diligenti cura emendatus et impressus.", published by Jacobus Pentius de Leucho in Venice, 1511.

Cartographer:     Bernardus Sylvanus (1465- 15..)
Sheet size:              53,0 x 42,0 cm
Year:                        1511
Technique:            woodcut
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Condition:
Good condition. The map professionally cleaned and margins restored. Lower margin extended.
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