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Description An important and stunning c. 1642 birds eye view and map of Rome by Matthäus Merian. Merians panoramic view of Rome, based on the eastward oriented model established in 1593 by Antonio Tempesta, reveals the city at the height of the Italian Renaissance. The view looks on Rome from the northwest - thus looking roughly southwest. This map follows shortly after Pope Sixtus Vs ambitious civic redesign of Rome and yet predates the massive rebuilding that occurred during the Baroque Pe...

Description This is a beautiful full-color example of Matthäus Merian c. 1642 view of Venice at the height of its prosperity. The view looks directly north on Venice from a fictional highpoint in the Adriatic just south of Giudecca. The Piazza San Marco appears at center, with the Grand Canal winding its way through the neighboring islands Murano, Burano, Torcello, and Mazorbo, among others. The harbor is particularly bustling, with ships of all sizes and shapes waiting to dock. The armorial c...

Madagascar-coronelli-1697-2 $1,400.00 Title Isola di Madagascar, o di S. Lorenzo scoperta da Portoghesi nellAnno 1506, Descritta dal P. Mrō Coronelli M.C. Cosmografo della Seren.ma Rep: Di Venetia, Dedicata All Ill.mo Sigr. Antonio Magliabecchi, Bibliotecario dell A. Serenissima Del Gran Duca di Toscana.   1697 (undated)         1 : 1011588 Description This is Vincenzo Maria Coronellis 1697 map of Madagascar, the most sophisticated 17th century map of the island. While the southea...

ParisAndEnvirons-concanen-1870-3 $3,000.00 Title No. 8. Stannard and Sons, Perspective View of Paris and its Environs, Shewing All the Fortifications and Redoubts, Together with the Lines of Defense Recently Thrown Up, and the Roads, Rivers, and Railways Communication with the Interior.   1870 (dated)     Description Published eighteen days before the beginning of the Siege of Paris on September 17, 1870, this 1870 Alfred Concanen view of Paris and its environs details the newly construc...

  1777 (dated)         1 : 430000 Description A fine 1777 first-state first-edition map of New Jersey by William Faden and Bernard Ratzer - exhibiting the fine strong strike only evident on first editions. Focused on New Jersey, coverage extends to include eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New York City. It captures the states complex topography, noting the Jersey Highlands and the Palisades in the north and the Pine Barrens and coastal marshes in the south. New Jersey is here br...

  1854 (undated)     Description John Bornet presents a sweeping panoramic birds-eye view of New York City on the cusp of its monumental expansion northwards in the second half of the 19th century. The view looks east on Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn from a high point to the west of Hoboken, New Jersey. Bornet purports to have drawn the view from nature, likely from Bergen Hill, New Jersey, a popular high point used by other viewmakers of the period. Looking at the ViewThe view contra...

Title Fredonia, or the United States of North America; including also Cabotia, or the Canadian Provinces; the Western Territory to the Pacific Ocean; and the Northern Part of the Mexican States.   1830 (dated)         1 : 570000 Description A fine example of the rare 1830 first obtainable edition of the famous Richard Holmes Laurie Fredonia map of the United States. The map is best known for its advocation of a new name for the United States - Fredonia, which it is argued would buil...

CuliacanCuba-ortelius-1579 SOLD Title Culiacanae, America Regionis Descriptio./ Hispaniolae, Cubae, Aliarumque Insularum Circumiacentium, Delineatio./ Cum Imp. et Regio./ privilegio decennali 1579.   1579 (dated)         1 : 8000000 Description This is a beautiful, sharp example of Ortelius 1579 map of the Viceroyalty of Culiacan in Northwestern Mexico, and Ortelius map of Cuba and the Caribbean. While Ortelius is generally most esteemed as an editor and compiler of maps, he was an ...

    1 : 126720 Description This is a scarce Showa 7, or 1932 map illustrating the vicinity of Shanghai shortly after the Shanghai Incident of 1932. The map was produced to illustrate the shanghai suburban region, and as such covers from the confluence of the Huangpu with the Yangtze to the sharp bend in the Huangpu near modern day Sheshang and Xixie. The Hunagpu River runs through the center of the map, with the International Settlement and French Concession areas highlighted in pink - es...

    1 : 80000000 Description One of the most iconic maps of all time, this is Abraham Orteliuss 1589 map of the world, Typus Orbis Terrarum, here in the first state of the 3rd plate. This map was published in Ortelius Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern published atlas. The map embraces the entirety of the known world and represented the most widely-disseminated and eagerly-copied image of the world available to the European reader at the end of the 16th century. In compiling thi...