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472 [Lot of 3] Gouvernement General de l'Isle de France' [with] Comitatus Burgundiae, Vulgo la Franche Comte' [and] Novissima Artesiae Comitatus Tabula in Lucem Edita France 1700 passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 0 x 0 inches) 1) Gouvernement General de l'Isle de France' is a decorative map of the area surrounding Paris by Frederick de Wit. It has crisply engraved detail and two decorative cartouches; the one on the left is topped with the royal coat of arms and flanked by the goddess Diana and a river god. It has original color, and the lower margin is trimmed into the border, with some paper repairs on the ve...

473 Bethune A Strong Town in the Earldom of Artois in the Low Countries, Subject to the French France Nicholas Tindal 1750 A passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 19 x 15 inches) This is a very attractive bird's-eye plan of the fortification at Bethune and the surrounding countryside. The map illustrates an important battle in the War of Spanish Succession when the city was besieged in the summer of 1710. A decorative title cartouche, legend and a compass rose are at bottom right. Another title (Plan of Bethune) is in the bottom margin. Engraved by J. Basire.

474 [Lot of 4] Roussillon / Ville de Coulioure [with] Port Vendre en Roussillon [and] A Plan of the Town, Harbour and Citadel of Havre de Grace [and] Baye d'Hieres France 1759-79   $90.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 0 x 0 inches) Set of four charts and plans of the French coast. 1 & 2) A pair of nicely engraved plans detail coastal portions of the former province of Roussillon, now known as the Departement of Pyrénées-Orientales. The first shows the fortified Ville de Coulioure and le Chateau. The second shows Fort du Fanal and its Redoutte. Each plan shows soundings, anchorages and fortification...

475 Le Royaume de France et les Conquetes de Louis le Grand France Tobias Conrad Lotter 1760 B   $210.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 22 x 17.8 inches) A striking map of France surrounded with a decorative border incorporating city plans and fortifications of towns conquered by Louis XIV, including Strassbourg, Cadiz, Algiers, Barcelona, Hamburg and many others. The map was engraved by J. Christofle Steinberger.

476 Carte du Royaume de France ou sont Tracees Exactement les Routes des Postes France Gilles Robert de Vaugondy 1762 A   $350.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 20 x 18.5 inches) An attractive map of France showing the postal routes throughout the country. The cities on the mail routes are marked with a tiny circle. The decorative cartouche shows a landscape scene in which a postal worker and his mail-laden horse prepare to ascend to a remote monastery.

477 [Lot of 2] Vue Perspective des Cascades de Saint Cloud [and] Le Caravan Seray de Cachan France le jeune Basset 1780 B+ passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 0 x 0 inches) 1) This engraving illustrates the formal French garden and spectacular fountains at Saint Cloud. The principal fountain, the Grand Cascade, measuring 90 meters, was a testament to the mastery of waterworks of architect Antoine Le Pautre. (15.8 x 9") 2) This engraving shows the caravanserai (roadside inn) in a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris. (15.5 x 10")

478 [Lot of 12 - French Departments] France Victor Levasseur 1850 A   $160.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 11 x 16.5 inches) A charming group of maps depicting French departments, with each map surrounded by decorative depictions of the region's produce and portraits of notable residents. Most of these departments include the wine regions of France, including the Loire valley, Burgundy, Chablis, Champagne, and Rhone valley. 1) Dept. de la Loire. 2) Dept. du Puy de Dome. 3) D...

479 [Die Statt Paris] Paris, France Sebastian Munster 1580 B   $375.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 14 x 10 inches) This charming, woodblock view of the walled medieval city of Paris represents the capital in about 1530. A lettered key identifies important places, including the Sorbonne. The surrounding countryside is filled with small walled estates, windmills and farmland, while in the foreground two bodies dangle from the gallows. The monogram of the engraver is shown at lower right (HRMD), followed by a...

480 Nouveau Plan Routier de la Ville de Paris' Paris, France Anonymous 1832 A   $200.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 32 x 21.5 inches) This large pocket map of Paris shows the city center, extending west to Champ de Paris, east to Place du Trone, south to below Val de Grace and up to the Parc de Mouceaux. This depicts the old city before the large changes wrought by Baron Haussmann in the 1860s. It is a graphically handsome plan with fully engraved plots and heavily ruled borders. Tables at sides name and locate more than 1,000...

481 Paris Vue Prise du Trocadero (Exposition Universelle de 1867) Paris, France Maxime Lalanne 1867 B+ passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 24.4 x 14.6 inches) This is a fantastic etching of the Exposition Universel in 1867, located on the Champ-de-Mars. The view is from the Place Trocadero across the Seine. The etching is signed and dated in the plate on the lower left. Maxime Lalanne was the author of several important books on the subject of etching and was at the forefront of the French revival of etching during the 1860's. He was a founding me...

482 Paris Vue Prise du Pont de la Concorde Paris, France Maxime Lalanne 1870 A   $425.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 24.5 x 14.6 inches) An exquisite, large etching of Paris viewed from the Seine with the Pont de la Concorde in the foreground. The Palais du Louvre is visible on the left of the view and the spires of Notre Dame are faintly visible in the distance. The etching is signed in the plate in the lower left, with the imprint of Lalanne below. A very scarce example. Maxime Lalanne was the author of several impor...

483 Hispanie Beschreibung' Spain & Portugal Munster/Petri 1598 B   $180.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 5.5 x 3 inches) A simple woodcut map of the Iberian Peninsula on a sheet on German text with eight coats-of-arms below.

484 Hispaniae Veteris Des. Spain & Portugal Cluver/Jansson 1661 A   $90.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 7.8 x 6 inches) Attractive small map of the Iberian Peninsula in classical times. It is based on Ortelius' map of the same title using information gleaned from Clusius' map of 1571 as well as from classical sources. Adorned with a strapwork title cartouche. Engraved by Petrus Kaerius.

485 [Lot of 2] Accuratissima Totius Regni Hispaniae Tabula [and] Regnum Castellae Veteris Legionis, et Gallae' Spain & Portugal Justus Danckerts 1700 C   $160.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 22.3 x 19 inches) An attractive pair of maps of Spain. Size varies slightly. 1) Accuratissima Totius Regni Hispaniae Tabula is an attractive map of the Iberian Peninsula covered with great detail, and extending to include the Balearic Islands. The elaborate cartouche is centered on the royal crest, flanked by putti and a queen. Original color on a sheet with some worming and loss in the map, b...

486 Insulae Balearides et Pytiusae Spain, Balearic Islands Jan Jansson 1640 A   $475.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 19.5 x 15 inches) This fine chart details the Balearic Islands of Mallorca, Minorca, with Ibiza and Formentera, here called the Pytuisae Islands. The map includes the Gulf of Valencia and the mainland cities of Denia, Tarragona, Gandia, Valencia and Tortosa and extends to show Barcelona in the extreme north. It is richly embellished with rhumb lines, sea monsters, two galleys, a sailing ship, compass roses...

487 Principaute de Catalogne Spain, Catalonia Nicholas de Fer 1705 A+   $160.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 13.5 x 9.5 inches) A simply engraved map of the Spanish region of Catalonia depicting the Mediterranean coastline from the French border near Cadaques, southwest through Barcelona to the delta of the River Ebro. A panel of French text at the left describes the region.

488 Olisippo. Lisabona Portugal Matthaus Merian 1646 A   $550.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 14.3 x 11 inches) This lovely bird's-eye scene of Lisbon, viewed from the Tagus River, shows the city as it was before the 1755 earthquake that leveled much of the older parts of the city. The streets are filled with minutely engraved buildings; 34 points of interest are keyed to a table below. An astonishing variety of ships and boats parade across the foreground. Two coats of arms flank the title.

489 Portugallia et Algarbia quae olim Lusitania Portugal Matthaus Merian 1646 A   $230.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 14.5 x 11 inches) Beautiful map of Portugal with north oriented to the right. Based on Fernando Alvarez Secco, a Portuguese mapmaker whose rendering was used by various publishers until the end of the 17th century. This lovely map is adorned with numerous artistic embellishments including ships, coats-of-arms, two compass roses, and Neptune astride a sea monster.

490 A New Mapp of the Kingdom of Portugal and Algarve Divided into its Archbishopricks, Bishopricks and Territory's Portugal John Overton 1675 B+   $425.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 18.8 x 22.7 inches) This is an extremely scarce map based on the cartography of Nicolas Sanson and copied very closely from Jaillot's large map of Portugal and Algarve, circa 1672. The map provides a detailed view of the region with topography, cities, towns, fortifications and major roads shown. The large title and scale cartouches are surrounded by allegorical figures, and were also copied from Jaillot's design. ...

491 [Lot of 2] Partie Septentrionale du Royaume de Portugal [and] Partie Meridionale du Royaume de Portugal Portugal Gilles Robert de Vaugondy 1751 A+ passed Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 20.5 x 19 inches) A handsome, matched pair of large maps covering the whole of Portugal. They are filled with engraved detail of topography and cities with the fortifications at Lisbon prominently shown. Each map stands on its own and is graced with elegantly designed title cartouches and scales of miles.

492 [Germania] Europe - Central Waldseemuller/Fries 1541 B   $190.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 12.5 x 11.5 inches) This woodblock "modern" map of central Europe presents the region with distorted Ptolemaic outlines and shows mountains in a typical rope-like shape. In this map, Fries has added a vignette of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, not included in Waldsemuller's model. This edition was published in Vienna by Gaspar Trechsel. Latin text on verso.

493 Germania Europe - Central Cluver/Jansson 1661 A   $50.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 7.5 x 5.5 inches) This small map of the German Empire shows the river systems, mountains, forests and major cities. It covers the region form Belgium and France through Poland and Hungary. It is embellished with a strapwork title cartouche, a compass rose and a tiny sailing ship.

494 Totius Fluminis Rheni Novissima Descriptio Rhine River Frederick de Wit 1680 A   $230.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 20.8 x 18.2 inches) Two maps one sheet, one above the other, charting the course of the Rhine River. Beginning on the top map, from its spring at the Bodensee in Switzerland, the river flows through the eastern part of Germany and transitions to the bottom map to show its course through western Germany, the Netherlands and into the North Sea. The upper map has a decorative title cartouche attended by the trumpeting...

495 L'Empire d'Allemagne Divise en ses dix Cercles et Autres Estats' Central Europe Jacques Chiquet 1719 B+   $80.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 8.8 x 6.3 inches) A delicately engraved small map of central Europe including Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Switzerland, Austria and a portion of France and northern Italy. The kings and emperors from Charlemagne to Charles VI are noted in a panel at the lower left. The map is graced with a simple cartouche.

496 Nieuwe Kaart van Duitsland Verdeelt in Zyn Thien Kreitzen Central Europe Isaac Tirion 1765 B+   $85.00 Closed     Archived Auction. Click on the Title for details on this lot.    (Size: 13.5 x 11 inches) Copper engraved map of the German Empire incorporating nearly all of northern and central Europe. There is good detail of the major cities and river systems. Simple title block and original color make a graphic presentation.

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