Antique Maps, Globes, Charts, Atlases & Vintage Graphics
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1 De Praecipuis, Totius Universi Urbibus, Liber Secundus Title Pages Braun & Hogenberg 1575 A   $425.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 9 x 13.7 inches) Fine title page from the second volume of this monumental work. The title is engraved onto a strapwork cartouche within an architectural surround. Several figures from Roman mythology fill the sheet including Penates (patron god of the storeroom), Lares (guardian spirit of house and fields), Cybele (the goddess of nature and fertility), and the goddesses of religion and politics.

2 Belgii in Ferioris Geographicae tabule Title Pages Gerard Mercator 1606 A   $150.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 6.5 x 9 inches) Lovely title page surrounded with strapwork designs, garlands, fruit, fish and cherubs.

3 Italia di Gio: Ant. Magini' Title Pages Giovanni Antonio Magini 1620 B   $140.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 10 x 14 inches) Unusual title page with the title surrounded by figures and putti with surveying instruments, a globe, an armillary sphere, books, etc., and enclosed in a bold decorative border printed from a separate plate.

4 Le Theatre du Monde, ou Nouvel Atlas... La Seconde partie de la Premiere Title Pages Blaeu Family 1643 A+   $375.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 7.6 x 12.7 inches) Decorative title page from this great atlas. A knight in full armor and a nun flank the title. At the top are two maidens displaying coats of arms, and the allegorical figure of Mars with his ferocious hounds. Title pasted onto engraving, as was customary.

5 [Lot of 2] L' Ambassade de la Compagnie Orientale des Provinces Unies Vers l' Empereur de la Chine, ou Grand Cam de Tartarie [and] Ioannes Baptista Colbert' Title Pages Johann Nieuhoff 1665 B   $150.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 0 x 0 inches) First is the interesting title page (7.2 x 11.2") for Jan Nieuhoff's important chronicle of the first embassy to China by the Dutch East India Company (VOC). The engraving shows the emperor seated on his throne with his arm resting on a large globe. He is surrounded by his generals with prisoners prostrated on the ground before him. Second is a portrait (7.2 x 10.5") of Jean Baptiste Colbert, s...

6 Cosmography in foure Bookes Contayning the Chorography & History of the whole World, and all the Principal Kingdomes, Provinces, Countries, Isles, Seas, &c. Title Pages Peter Heylin 1703 A   $250.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 7.2 x 11.2 inches) A splendid decorative title page featuring the female representations of water, earth, and the four continents, and warrior representatives of the four continents. This is the last edition of this important work, published by Chiswell, Tooke, Hodgkin and Bennet in 1703.

7 Atlas Minor: or a new and curious Set of Sixty two Maps, in which are shewn all the Empires, Kingdoms, Countries, States, in all the known parts of the Earth' Title Pages H. Moll 1710 A   $150.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 12 x 9 inches) An unusual title page incorporating the list of maps enclosed in a decorative frame, with putti, sea monsters, maps, surveying instruments, globes, etc.

8 [Atlas Novus Frontispiece] Title Pages - South Asia Scherer 1710 A   $220.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 7.5 x 9.5 inches) This fascinating frontispiece was designed by Johannes Deger and engraved by Joseph a Montalegre. At center is a circular map of South Asia surrounded by the heavens and the signs of the zodiac. The land is filled with depictions of wildlife (including a unicorn) and the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve, and the sea is filled with a variety of sea monsters. A cloud background surrounds the map ...

9 Atlas Historique Tome 7 Title Pages Henry Abraham Chatelain 1721 A+   $300.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 9 x 15.5 inches) Superb engraving with a group of beautiful young women and an angel studying geography and history. It appears that the Grim Reaper has abducted one of the girls and is taking her to heaven where a pantheon of ancient gods awaits in the clouds. The engraving is attributed to B. Picart and dated 1720.

10 [Lot of 8 - Title Page] Title Pages 1746-178 A-B passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 0 x 0 inches) Collection of atlas title pages. Lot includes: 1) A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas, In his Majesty's Ship The Endeavor: Faithfully Transcribed From the Papers of the Late Sydney Parkinson, 1784, 10.5 x 12.5", Charles Dilly and James Phillips, London. 2) L' Amerique en Plusieurs Cartes Nouvelles et Exactes; et en Divers Traittez de Geographie & d' Historie, n.d., 6 x 8", San...

11 Typus Orbis Terrarum World Abraham Ortelius 1587 A   $6,000.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 19.2 x 14 inches) Ortelius' beautiful oval world map is a simplified version of Mercator's influential map of 1569. From surviving correspondence it is known that Mercator encouraged Ortelius and provided him with information, particularly with co-ordinates of places in the Americas. This is the first state of the third plate updated with the more correct shape of South America and the first depiction of the Solom...

12 Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula World Henricus Hondius 1630 A   $9,000.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 21.2 x 15 inches) A splendid baroque-style world map that features hemispheres surrounded by voluptuous representations of the four elements: Fire by Apollo driving the Sun's chariot across the sky; Aeros, the goddess of Air, surrounded by clouds and birds; Mother Earth, surrounded by animals and the earth's bounty; and Water represented by a Siren and sea monsters. Tucked between the hemispheres ar...

13 Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula World Willem Jans Zoon Blaeu 1640 A   $13,000.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 21.5 x 16 inches) This famous map is a classic example of the mapmaker's art with carte-a-figures borders depicting allegorical representations of the sun, moon, the five known planets, the four elements and the four seasons. Along the bottom are vignettes showing the seven wonders of the world: the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Colossus over the harbor at Rhodes, the Pyramids, the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus at ...

14 Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula World Matthaus Merian 1646 A   $1,300.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 14.2 x 10.5 inches) The cartography of this finely engraved map was closely copied from Blaeu's world map of 1606. Latin title at top, outside neatline, with German script title and notation concerning the discovering of the Americas in 1492, which covers the unknown interior of North America. There is a large southern continent connected to New Guinea, California is a peninsula and there are plenty of open ended w...

15 Typus Orbis Terrarum World Cluver/Jansson 1660 A+   $700.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 12 x 6.2 inches) Fine miniature double hemisphere map surrounded in strapwork borders into which are set an armillary sphere and a compass rose. The map features the island of California with no coastline continuing to the northwest. Terra Australis has a broken coastline and a notation that ends with the signature of the engraver, A. Goos. Four lines of Latin text balance the title cartouche. Th...

16 Novissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula, Auctore Nicolao Visscher World Nicolas Visscher 1695 B   $4,250.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 21.2 x 17.2 inches) This is an uncommon double hemisphere map featuring the island of California and a single, large Great Lake. Tucked between the cusps of the hemispheres are north and south polar spheres. The unique corner decorations feature superb engravings of the signs of the zodiac accompanied by cherubs and angels. The map is geographically based on the elder Visscher's map of 1658. The exact date...

17 Der Neuen Welt Begriff' Nord America und Sud America' / Der Acte Welt Begriff' Africia Europa, Asia' World Gabriel Bodenehr 1700 A   $250.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 5 x 5.7 inches) Nice pair of Western and Eastern Hemisphere maps with medallion portraits of important explorers in the corners. The map of the Americas shows California as an island from the Dutch perspective (with a flat northern coast of California). In the Eastern Hemisphere only part of the coasts of Australia appear.

18 [Lot of 2] Typus Totius Orbis Terraquei Geographice Delineatus, et ad Usum Globo Materiali Superinducendus [and] Fol. DDD World Scherer 1700 A   $1,200.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 13.7 x 8.5 inches) This pair of plates provides one with all that is needed to construct a globe. First depicts the world on a set of globe gores. California is shown as an Island, Iedso is a part of Japan, and Australia, New Guinea and New Zealand are not yet fully formed. Strapwork title cartouche. Second shows the parts of a base including the horizon and meridian ring.

19 Werelt Caert World Bastiaan Stoopendaal 1700 A   $1,100.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 18.5 x 11.5 inches) This is the second state of Stoopendaal's double hemisphere from a Dutch Bible based on Visscher's similar map of 1663 and surrounded by allegorical representations of the continents. It has been updated here to show California as an island with a flat northern coastline, Australia's western and northern coastlines, a revision in the coastline for New Guinea, and the addition of some islan...

20 Carte Generale du Globe Terrestre World Nicholas de Fer 1700 A   $160.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 6.5 x 5.2 inches) Small double hemisphere map of the world showing the island of California, part Terre Antarctiques and a partially formed Australia. Engraved by Liebaux.

21 Orbis Terrarum Tabula Recens Emendata et in Lucem Edita World Daniel Stoopendaal 1702 A   $1,500.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 17.8 x 13.8 inches) This decorative double hemisphere world map was issued in a Dutch Bible published by Pieter Keur. It is based on Visscher's Bible map of 1663 and surrounded by nearly identical engravings, which include numerous exotic animals and four female allegorical representations of the continents. At the top and bottom are two diagrams depicting the Copernican and Ptolemaic theories of the solar system. ...

22 Plan de l' Histoire universelle, oul'on voit les quatre Monarchies du Monde, et tous les Anciens Etats' World Henry Abraham Chatelain 1705 A+   $450.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 17.2 x 13 inches) This is a very interesting map with a unique composition showing the entire world but emphasizing the Old World. The main map depicts the Eastern Hemisphere, into which is inset a smaller Western Hemisphere with the Island of California. The map shows the extents of the Roman and Alexander the Great's empires. Below the map are vignettes depicting the seven wonders of the ancient ...

23 Carta Hydrographica oder Algemeine Welt und Commercien carte Warinnen die Grosse Meer und Seen auch See Kusten, und fornehmbs te Laender, der Gantzen Welt, neben denen Schiffarthen nach West uud Oost Indien auch von dar Zurucke deutlich entworffen World Gabriel Bodenehr 1706 A   $250.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 9 x 6 inches) Charming little world map showing the Dutch commercial interests in the East and West Indies. The map combines several cartographic myths including the island of California, the great southern landmass (here labeled Laender des Sud Pols), and Compagnie Land situated between Asia and North America. Two ships decorate the map at the top with columns of Dutch text at sides. Wi...

24 [Lot of 2] Fol. O Projectio Geometrica Hemisphaerrii Occide. [and] Fol. I Planisphaerii Aequinoctialis Delineatio Geometrica World Scherer 1710 A+   $375.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 7.5 x 9.5 inches) An interesting pair of hemisphere maps with diagrams below. These were included in Scherer's geographical compendium that emphasized the Catholic hierarchy and spread of Jesuit missions throughout the world. The map of the Americas includes the large island of California with an unusual peninsula on its northwest coast. The map of the Eastern Hemisphere includes a partially formed Austra...

25 [Untitled - World] World Magini and Porro 1713 B passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 5.6 x 4.1 inches) An interesting mariner's map reflecting the geography of the late 1500's. First issued in 1597 and republished by Lasor a Varea. Most of the world is depicted - centered on the Atlantic Ocean and featuring a huge southern continent Terra Incognita. The northwest coast of North America and Asia east of India are not depicted. The oceans are stipple engraved and rhumb lines cross the map....

26 Platte Kaart van de geheele Werelt World Wetstein 1730 A passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 18 x 14.6 inches) This scarce and unusual map of the world is derived from Pierre Mortier's Carte General du Monde of 1700. The map is on Mercator's projection and depicts California as an island. Above the island the coastline stretches directly west ending just at the map's border. The northeast coastline of Asia is lacking Kamchatka and Japan is depicted connected to 't Land van Yedso. A...

27 Carte Generale de Toutes les Costes du Monde et les Pays Nouvellement Decouvert' World Jean Covens & Corneille Mortier 1730 A+   $3,750.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 35.5 x 23 inches) Fine example of this large world map on Mercator's projection. It is based on Pierre Mortier's slightly smaller map that was published in Mortier's counterfeit version of Le Neptune Francois in 1693. This map, engraved by Baltasar Ruyter, has been updated with additional information in Hudson Bay and Northeast Asia. The known coastlines are accurate for the period but many interior detai...

28 Mappe Monde qui Comprend les Nouvelles decouvertes saites jusqu'a ce jour World Le Rouge 1748 A   $425.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 12 x 9 inches) Charming double hemisphere map with the female representations of the continents adorning each corner. The Northwest part of North America is nearly blank except for a complex river and lake system alluding to a Northwest Passage. Nouvelle Hollande is shown with the known coastlines connected between the mainland, Tasmania and New Guinea, creating an oddly shaped landmass.

29 [Untitled - World] World Jan Van Jagen 1748 A+ passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 18 x 12 inches) Lovely double hemisphere from a Dutch Bible published by the Keur family. The map is surrounded by allegorical representations of the continents based on Visscher. The Keur publishing family used Daniel Stoopendaal's world map titled "Werelt Caert" (Ref: Shirley #498) for 70 years in their Bibles. When the plate became worn, Jan van Jagen was commissioned to engrave a new plate. It was updated...

30 Mappe-Monde sur la Projection de Mercator Carte Encyprotype World Adrien Hubert Brue 1816 A   $600.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 60 x 43 inches) Uncommon, large-scale map printed on four sheets. Very well engraved with detail precisely defined. In North America the topography reflects the reports of Lewis and Clark, Vancouver and other recent explorers. The boundary between the United States and Canada reflects the British claim to the Columbia River. In Africa the interior is left largely blank without fictitious topography. In the P...

31 The World on Mercators Projection World John Arrowsmith 1852 B   $110.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 23.5 x 19 inches) Beautifully and finely engraved with original outline coloring. Two polar hemispheres in blank areas detail the known geography of the polar regions. Antarctica is barely taking shape with most detail in the New South Shetland area. Explorers notes and partial exploration tracks are shown throughout and there is a remarkable amount of detail in the South Pacific with a myriad of islands delinea...

32 The World on Mercator's Projection World Adam & Charles. Black 1870 B   $45.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 22.5 x 16.2 inches) World map with direction of various currents shown in great detail. Antarctic just beginning to take shape with the majority of the coastline left blank.

33 Der Welt Ancient World Johann Schonsperger 1496 A   $5,000.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 5.7 x 4 inches) This rare woodcut depicting the ancient world is from the first edition of the reduced version of Hartman Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle, sometimes called the mini-Schedel. The Ptolemaic map, featuring huge rivers and convoluted mountain ranges, is enclosed in a border containing twelve wind heads. At three corners are Noah's three sons, Ham, Shem and Japhet. This miniature ...

34 Tabula Itineraria ex illustri Peutingerorum Bibliotheca' Ancient World Jan Jansson 1662 A   $1,800.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 20 x 15.5 inches) Four sheets making up the famous Peutinger Table, or a Roman road map of the world. The original parchment document was found by Konrad Celtes in a library in Augsburg, came into the hands of Konrad Peutinger and later went to his relative Mark Welser who was the first to publish a copy of it in 1591 at Aldus Manutius in Venice. These maps, based on the original manuscript were first popu...

35 [Untitled - World] Ancient World Ambrosius Aurelius T Macrobius 1712 A   $350.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 2.5 x 2.5 inches) This is a very rare miniature map of the world based on the works of Macrobius, a fifth-century Roman philosopher. The woodcut was originally prepared by Andreas Asulanus in 1528 for an Aldine edition of Expositio in Somnium Scipionis ex Cicerone (Commentary of the Dream of Scipio by Cicero). It was then included in the final edition of Teatro del Cielo by Giuseppe Rosaccio,...

36 Septentrionalium Terrarum descriptio North Pole Mercator/Cloppenburgh 1632 A   $850.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 9.7 x 7.2 inches) First state of this reduced version of Mercator's famous map of the North Pole. The hemisphere is surrounded by a finely engraved design with four round insets in each corner. These contain the title, the Faeroe Isles, the Shetland Isles, and the mythical island of Frisland. The North Pole is shown according to legend as a large rock in a giant whirlpool surrounded by four islands that a...

37 Regiones Sub Polo Arctico North Pole Willem Jans Zoon Blaeu 1645 A   $550.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 21 x 16 inches) This is one of the prototype maps of the Arctic. It incorporates new information from the explorations of Capt. Thomas James with the bay named for him labeled here James his Bay. The Arctic coast of Russia provides information from Willem Barentsz' voyage and Spitsbergen is shown according to the Danish expedition of James Hall. It depicts rhumb lines radiating from the North Pole. A ...

38 Carte du Nord Est & du Nord West du Pole North Pole Jean Frederic Bernard 1720 B   $300.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 22.5 x 13 inches) Copper engraved map of the Arctic showing the three-island version of Greenland, based on Sanson, and Nova Zembla as an island. The mythical island of Freesland, with several place names, is shown off the southwest coast of Greenland. This map is derived from Moses Pitt's map of the Arctic that was reduced by Robinson in 1694. First published in his Recueil de Voyages au Nord 1717...

39 Facies Poli Arctici adiacentiumque ei regionum ex recentissimis itinerariis delineata cura Christophori Weigelii, Norib North Pole Christoph Weigel 1734 B   $250.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 14 x 12.5 inches) Uncommon polar chart that labels present-day northwestern America America Septentrionalia Incognita and shows no western coast at all. Good detail of the northern reaches of Europe, Russia and eastern North America around Baffin's and Button's bays. Locates Sir Thomas Smith's Bay, Sir Dudley Digs' Cape, and scores of other place names. Port Nelson and Briggs his Bay are the furth...

40 Tabula Geographica Hemisphaerii Borealis' North Pole Johann Christoph Rhode 1753 B   $300.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 12 x 12 inches) This interesting and uncommon polar map shows the fictitious Mer de L’Ouest prominently with an extensive river system connecting it with the Great Lakes and thus forming a Northwest Passage. Johann Cristoph Rhode [1713-1786] was an active publisher in Berlin during the 1740s and 1750s and is best known for his important French and Indian War maps. This map was prepared for the Roy...

41 Terra Antarctica South Pole Duval/Beer 1679 B   $200.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 4.6 x 4 inches) A diminutive map of Antarctica shown as a huge southern continent from which Australia is beginning to emerge. Pierre Duval was Nicolas Sanson's nephew and pupil. He published a wide range of atlases and individual maps including a fine miniature world geography with many of the maps based on Sanson. This map is from the German edition of Duval's world geography. The maps were probably engrave...

42 Sud-Polar-Kaarte South Pole Adolph Stieler 1875 A+   $85.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 16.2 x 13.2 inches) A steel engraved chart filled with finely engraved details. It contains a remarkable amount of information including the tracks of numerous explorers and scores of ship routes with sailing days noted. Known portions of Antarctica are mapped. Around the main hemisphere are 12 inset maps that include two small polar hemispheres and the islands of Juan Fernandez, Deception, Shetland and Orkney, Wa...

43 Horologium Hortzontale Horas a Meridie et Media Nocte Numeratas Continens, ad Latitudinem' Cartographic Miscellany Franz Ritter 1640 A+   $750.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 14.2 x 11.5 inches) Franz Ritter was a German mathematician and astronomer whose works are very rare. This beautiful engraving is a horological diagram with depictions of the Zodiac. It is most remarkable for the elaborately engraved decorative border with a large cartouche and 32-point wind rose.

44 Globe Terrestre [Figure LXXI] Cartographic Miscellany Allain Mallet 1683 A   $130.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 4 x 5.7 inches) Interesting miniature engraving featuring a globe rendered onto a cartouche fashioned as a wall map with mathematical calculations surrounding the globe. This hangs above a fortified medieval city from which a military procession marches toward the sea. The map depicts the hemisphere centered on the Atlantic Ocean showing most of America, Europe and Africa and the enormous continent at the South...

45 Icon Synoptica Sac. Rom. Imp. Electorum, ducum Principum Cartographic Miscellany Matthias Seutter 1730 A   $400.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 19.2 x 22.5 inches) This fascinating engraving is one of the most interesting cartographic curiosities providing historical information in tabular form. This, the third plate in the series of four, depicts the gigantic symbolic figure of an Elector in full robes, which are covered with listings of all the rulers of the Holy Roman Empire, princes, electors, and dukes. At the left is a pillar of heraldic coats...

46 Statua Regum Europaeorum P.C.N. Nomina Continens Cartographic Miscellany Matthias Seutter 1730 A   $500.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 19.5 x 22.5 inches) This fascinating engraving is one of the most interesting cartographic curiosities providing historical information in tabular form. This, the second plate in the series of four, shows a warrior king with flowing robes and his regal and martial trophies. This breastplate, shirt and legs are covered with text listing European kings from the 1st to the 17th century. To the left are twelve large a...

47 [Lot of 2] The Artificial Sphere [and] Espositioni Cartographic Miscellany Various 1713-84 A   $80.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 6 x 7.7 inches) First is a decorative copper engraving of an armillary sphere at center on a stone plinth with river and hills behind. At one side is a tombstone topped with an urn and engraved with the words "Sacred to the Memory of Capt. Cook." On the right a young gentleman holds partially rolled map of the island of Oahu, Hawaii. Attractively bordered at top and down the sides with garlands of leaves, flow...

48 A Map of the Principal Rivers Shewing Their Courses, Countries, and Comparative Lengths Cartographic Miscellany SDUK 1834 A   $75.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 12.5 x 15.2 inches) Very interesting comparative chart uniquely arranged on concentric circles around a classic compass rose. The rivers are depicted with their relative distance from the sea, including an index of each river’s length in English miles. Associated towns and lakes are noted and respective countries are identified in capital letters with an index at lower left. A fine thematic map utilizing a unique ...

49 Principes d' Arpentage et du Lever des Plans Cartographic Miscellany Aristide Michel Perrot 1840 A   $150.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 24 x 19 inches) Large chart showing a variety of instruments used in mapmaking and surveying. French text at bottom with a description of the instruments. Enclosed in a bold keyboard style border.

50 Tableau de l' Enseignement des Poids et Mesures Cartographic Miscellany Fosset 1855 B   $100.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 25 x 18 inches) Large chart with numerous engravings depicting instruments for weights and measures.

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