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SouthAfrica-dudley-1647 $6,500.00 Title Carta particolare che comincia con il capo Degortam e con il capo Buona Speranza e finisce in gradi 27 di latitudine Australe.   1647 (undated)         1 : 2130000 Description This is a superb example of Robert Dudleys 1647 coastal chart of South Africa. It was included in Dudleys Arcano del Mare, hailed by Tooley as the first sea atlas in which every chart was based on Mercator’s projection, the first to show prevailing winds and currents ...

  1675 (undated)         1 : 63360 Description This is John Ogilbys road map detailing the road between the cities of Oxford and Bristol. It is a strip-map, following the road from Oxford south and west in six lengths, presented as if on a single, unspooled sheet of paper. Smaller towns, bridges, forests, churches, and county borders are all noted along the way. Pastures, and even some coal mines are marked as well. Strip maps served to inform travelers of the distances, landmarks, ob...

USFC Albatross in scientific papers, was the first specifically built marine research vessel. Albatross operated in the Atlantic between December 1882 and November 1887, when she began her voyage to the Pacific Ocean. She arrived at the Straits of Magellan on January 23, 1888, and then continued up the coast of South America, stopping in the Galapagos briefly in April 1888. She operated along the U.S. Pacific coast and as far north as the Bering Sea and as far south as Panama between 1888 and ...

  1919 (dated)         1 : 10000 Description This is a striking 1919 Alexander Petrov chromolithograph Map of Sofia, Bulgaria, issued at the end of World War I (1914 - 1918). The cartography here roughly corresponds to the Amadier Plan, a bold re-envisioning of Sophia, not only as a national capital, but also as a modern European city - rejecting nearly 500 years of Ottomanization. Bold chromolithograph color defines various neighborhoods, with important buildings indexed numericall...

    1 : 63360 Description This is a rare 1946 first edition map of Bombay / Mumbai issued by the Survey of India just days before the Royal Indian Navy Mutiny (February 18 - 15, 1946). The map features manuscript annotations near Butcher Island (Dia Deva) in Bombay Harbor - a major focus of the mutiny as the Bombay Presidency’s entire ammunition hold, including telephone and wireless equipment, was stored there. The map is large and meticulously detailed, noting individual buildings, st...

  1838 (undated)         1 : 7110000 Description This is a scarce c. 1838 Direccion Hidrografia nautical chart or maritime map of the West Indies, Florida, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean. Centered on Hispaniola, the map covers from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, to the Equator, and from the Pacific coast of Central America to the mouth of the Amazon River. Manuscript notates throughout follow the 1867 voyage of a Spanish ship. 1867 Voyage in ManuscriptManuscript annotation in ...

BirdsEyeBrooklynBridge-major-1883-2 $5,500.00 Title Birds-Eye View of the Great New York and Brooklyn Bridge, and Grand Display of Fire Works on Opening Night.   1883 (dated)     Description The most dynamic and dramatic Brooklyn Bridge View, this is the 1883 A. Major four-color chromolithograph birds-eye view of the Brooklyn Bridge during its opening day celebrations. Then known as the New York and Brooklyn Bridge or the East River Bridge (it would not be officially renamed the Brooklyn...

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...