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  • Original hand-coloured, double-page engraved map.

    WIT, Frederick de.
    [Sweden]. Ducatus Uplandiae [c.1730].
    £550.00

  • Plan of fortifications from Joan Blaeu's town book of the Netherlands, first published one year after the Spanish acknowledgement of the Dutch Republic.
    Plan of fortifications from Joan Blaeu's town book of the Netherlands, first published one year after the Spanish acknowledgement of the Dutch Republic.

    BLAEU, Joan.
    't fort van Griet-Zyl in Oost-Vriesland. Lieroort. 1649.
    £100.00

  • Plan of Delfzijl from Blaeu's town book of the Netherlands, first published one year after the Spanish acknowledgement of the Dutch Republic.

    BLAEU, Joan.
    Delf siil. 1649.
    £100.00

  • From Joan Blaeu's town book of the Netherlands, first published one year after the Spanish acknowledgement of the Dutch Republic.

    BLAEU, Joan.
    Brefurtum Capta Anno 1597 ab Ill.mo Principe Mauritio Exercituum Foederatae Belgicae Duce. Breevoort. 1649.
    £100.00

  • Plan of Rhees from Blaeu's town book of the Netherlands, first published one year after the Spanish acknowledgement of the Dutch Republic.

    BLAEU, Joan.
    Rhees. 1649.
    £100.00

  • Plan of Emmerik from Blaeu's town book of the Netherlands, first published one year after the Spanish acknowledgement of the Dutch Republic.

    BLAEU, Joan.
    Emmeryck. 1649.
    £100.00

  • Fine manuscript plans showing all 29 of the battles waged by Napoleon during 1813. Most notably Kalzbach, Klum, Dresden, Liebtwolkwitz and Leipzig.

    [NAPOLEONIC WARS]. HEUSCH, [Louis Ernest Amand Marie, Baron de].
    Feldzug von 1813. 1831.
    £2,000.00

  • View of Grave from Joan Blaeu's town book of the Netherlands, first published one year after the Spanish acknowledgement of the Dutch Republic.

    BLAEU, Joan.
    Grave. 1649.
    £600.00

  • View of Blokzijl from Joan Blaeu's town book of the Netherlands, first published one year after the Spanish acknowledgement of the Dutch Republic.

    BLAEU, Joan.
    Block-zyl. 1649.
    £600.00

  • Plan of Campen from Joan Blaeu's town book of the Netherlands, first published one year after the Spanish acknowledgement of the Dutch Republic.

    BLAEU, Joan.
    Campi Vulgo Campen. 1649.
    £1,000.00

  • Detailed plan from Joan Blaeu's town book of the Netherlands, first published one year after the Spanish acknowledgement of the Dutch Republic.

    BLAEU, Joan.
    Leoverdia. 1649.
    £800.00

  • From Joan Blaeu's town book of the Netherlands, first published one year after the Spanish acknowledgement of the Dutch Republic.

    BLAEU, Joan.
    Tolen. 1649.
    £600.00

  • From Joan Blaeu's town book of the Netherlands, first published one year after the Spanish acknowledgement of the Dutch Republic.

    BLAEU, Joan.
    Steenwiick. 1649.
    £600.00

  • From Joan Blaeu's town book of the Netherlands, first published one year after the Spanish acknowledgement of the Dutch Republic.

    BLAEU, Joan.
    Medemleck. 1649.
    £800.00

  • From Joan Blaeu's town book of the Netherlands, first published one year after the Spanish acknowledgement of the Dutch Republic.

    BLAEU, Joan.
    Harderwiick. 1649.
    £800.00

  • From Joan Blaeu's town book of the Netherlands, first published one year after the Spanish acknowledgement of the Dutch Republic.

    BLAEU, Joan.
    Berghen op Zoom. 1649.
    £600.00

  • From Joan Blaeu's town book of the Netherlands, first published one year after the Spanish acknowledgement of the Dutch Republic.

    BLAEU, Joan.
    Dockum. 1649.
    £800.00

  • From Joan Blaeu's town book of the Netherlands, first published one year after the Spanish acknowledgement of the Dutch Republic.

    BLAEU, Joan.
    Emda. 1649.
    £1,200.00

  • With a dedictation to the city council of Dordrecht in cartouche in lower left corner. From Joan Blaeu's town book of the Netherlands.

    BLAEU, Joan.
    Dordrecht. 1649.
    £1,400.00

  • From Joan Blaeu's town book of the Netherlands, first published one year after the peace of Munster.

    BLAEU, Joan.
    Middelburgum. 1649.
    £1,100.00

  • Attractive map by Jansson, showing the southern Duchy of Holstein in northern Germany. Central to the map is the Hanseatic port of Hamburg.

    JANSSONIUS, Joannes.
    Tabula Geagraphica... Ducatus Stormariae. 1658
    £250.00

  • First edition of this very interesting work which contains five separate essays, including accounts of the rituals surrounding the pilgrimage to Mecca.
    First edition of this very interesting work which contains five separate essays, including accounts of the rituals surrounding the pilgrimage to Mecca.

    GALLAND, [Julien Claude].
    Recueil des rits et cérémonies 1754.
    £2,850.00

  • First edition.
    First edition.

    BAEDEKER, Karl.
    Deutschland. Schwarzwald, Odenwald. Bodensee. 1921
    £65.00

  • Italy, Egypt, the Holy Land.
    Italy, Egypt, the Holy Land.

    ZANGAKI; BONFILS; ARNOUX; DUMAS et al.
    Italy, Egypt, the Holy Land. [c.1880s].
    £1,000.00

  • Three engraved maps, printed by Ludwig Broenner in Frankfurt in circa 1760. Hand-coloured in outline, depicting the course of the Rhine.
    Three engraved maps, printed by Ludwig Broenner in Frankfurt in circa 1760. Hand-coloured in outline, depicting the course of the Rhine.

    BUNA, W.C.
    Exactissima Totius Vederoviae late sumtae Tabula, [?c.1760].
    £600.00

  • A fine bibliography with full collations and notes. An excellent companion to the author's previous catalogues of the Blackmer and Atabey collections.
    A fine bibliography with full collations and notes. An excellent companion to the author's previous catalogues of the Blackmer and Atabey collections.

    NAVARI, Leonora.
    Greek civilization 2004.
    £150.00

  • Engraved map of hand-coloured in outline, extending west to east from London to Warsaw and north to south from 'Sleswick' to Venice.

    SENEX, John. PRICE, Charles. MAXWELL, John.
    Germany 1710.
    £450.00

  • Carte Colombophile

    [PIGEON (?), A.]
    Carte Colombophile [n.d.]
    £50.00

  • Engraved colour panorama, mounted on linen, extending north to south from Cologne to Mainz.

    [DELKESKAMP, Friedrich Wilhelm].
    Panorama des Rheins und seiner nächsten Umgebungen von Mainz bis Cöln. [n.d.].
    £800.00

  • Engraved map, hand-coloured in outline. From London in the West to Moscow in the East, and from Stockholm in the North to Naples in the South.

    SCHMIDT, J.M.F., MATTHIAS, W.H. and KLÖDEN, C.
    Wege- Karte durch den grösten und wichtigsten Theil Europa's [c.1814].
    £450.00

  • A later state of the map, with the engravers name (J.M. Schmidt), dedication to Herrn.

    HEGER, F.J. [and] BORS Jacob von.
    Neue und vollstaendige Postkarte durch ganz Deutschland 1786.
    £500.00

  • Engraved map, hand-coloured outline. From London to Warsaw and Copenhagan to Florence.

    JUGEL, Carl [and] HENDSCHEL, U[lrich].
    Carl Jugel's Post- u. Reise-Karte von Deutschland [?1850]
    £320.00

  • The first edition, with dedication to 'Emerscu Joseph' and before addition of the name of 'Schmidt' as engraver. Hand coloured outline

    HEGER, F.J. [and] BORS Jacob von.
    Neue und vollstaendige Postkarte durch ganz Deutschland [?1764]
    £850.00

  • Engraved map, hand-coloured in outline, dissected and mounted on linen, extending from London in the West to Kracow in the East, and Copenhagen to Genoa.

    STIELER, Adolf; STÜLPNAGEL, F. von; & BÄR, J.C.
    Deutschland Königr. der Niederlande, Kgr. Belgien und die Schweiz, 1845.
    £280.00

  • Engraved map, hand-coloured, extending west to east from London to Krakow and north to south from Copenhagen to Genoa.

    STIELER, Adolf, STÜLPNAGEL, F. v. and, BÄR, J.C.
    Deutschland Königr. der Niederlande, Kgr. Belgien und die Schweiz, 1850.
    £450.00

  • A wonderfully detailed "birds-eye" view of Emuda, in German Emden, the capital of East Frisia. Taken from the famous work "Civitates Orbis Terrarum".

    BRAUN, Georg and HOGENBERG, Franz.
    Emuda vulgo Embden urbs Frisia orientalis primaria. c1575].
    £600.00

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