Condition: Folio, title page printed within ornate woodcut compartment, final leaf blank but for woodcut device; separate divisional title for commentary printed within the same compartment. Title within an ornamented border, one leaf; 13 preliminary leaves; text, pp. 196; ?Joachimus Vadianus Helvetius candido Lectori,? one leaf, verso blank; ?Loca aliquot,? etc., 28 leaves; colophon with the device of the printer and motto, one leaf, recto blank. With Oronce Fine woodcut world map. Contemporary brown calf over wooden boards, boards are blind stamped with fillets and scroll rolls. Spine decorated with six raised bands. Binding expertly restored. The book has been cleaned and restored, a few traces of dampstaining and soiling. Map restored and margins reinforced.
Third edition with the commentary of Joachim Vadian with some contemporary notes in Latin, issued with the first edition of O..
Condition: Folio. 64 maps, 231 pp. + 18 double text pages. Brown mottled calf binding, covers are gilt tooled with a triple fillet line, coat of arms gilt tooled in the center (Guillaume de Lamoignon), spine gilt in compartments with de Lamoignon cipher “GDL”.
First edition of the atlas of the "Five Kingdoms" (Great Britain, Spain, France, Italy and Germany) bound with the descriptio..
Condition: In-8 oblong ; veau brun (reliure de l'époque restaurée).Traces de mouillures sur le contreplat. Exemplaire frais intérieurement malgré d'infimes trous de vers marginaux n'affectant pas les cartes. - 3 parts in one. 8vo oblong, contemp. Brown calf. Binding used. Small marginal wormholes not affecting the maps, otherwise maps in very good condition. The general title "Diverses cartes et tables… is lacking.
Edition C sans date, variante. Cartes géographiques dressées pour bien entendre les Historiens… / La Chronologie en plusieurs..
Condition: Contemp. brown calf with gilt raised spine. 4 parts in 1 vol. Paris: P. Duval around 1667-72. 13.5 x 8.3 cm. With an additional 5 double-page engraved titles, 43 maps, and 28 double engraved text sheets. Partly slight marginal tears, minor signs of wear and a little age-spotted in the 4th volume are missing the panels of the province of Artois and Franche comté.
Compilation of Duval's Pocket Atlas, with an archbishoprics and dioceses description of the world, here right at the beginnin..
Condition: In-folio brown marbled calf, spine in 5 raised bands with gilt compartments, red morocco label (rebound in a 17th century binding) Book block 46x33cm. In-folio brown marbled calf, spine in 5 raised bands with gilt compartments, red morocco label (rebound in a 17th-century binding) Book block 46x33cm. The atlas includes 90 maps together with a manuscript list of the maps.
A rare French composite atlas including 90 maps, published by Parisian publishers from the 17th century, mainly by Gérard I J..
Condition: 5 volumes in 7 luxury later half leather bindings, incl. 266 plates and maps, including a folding portrait of the author, an allegorical title and engraved dedication leaf with vignette, numerous text illustrations (two full-page), and 9 folding tables. Volume 1; complete, in excellent condition with just some minor professional restorations; Volume 2; complete with minor professional restorations. Volume 3-1: complete, some water stains and damage on bottom right side of the book; Volume 3-2; complete with some foxing on title page; Volume 4-1; missing 4 portrets p 296,297,346 and 350, map p 26 is profesionally restored, two maps of Batavia later added; Volume 4-2: complete, some water stains throughout the whole book in the top right corner. Volume 5-1: complete only plate 32 is upside down. Volume 5-2: complete but with waterstains in top part of the second half of the book.<br>Overall: All plates and maps are in excellent condition if not otherwise stated. The book block 37 x 23.5 cm.
"The most comprehensive work on Asia published in Europe during the early colonial period" (Landwehr). The first book to give..
Condition: Paris, Chez l'Auteur Sur le Quay de l'Horloge du Palais à l'Enseigne de LA PLACE DES VICTOIRES a la descente du Pont-Neuf. Avec Privilege du ROI. 1746.<br>Folio. With a frontispiece, 123 mostly double page maps in original outline colour and a 4 pages manuscript list of contents. 18th century brown calf, gilt spine with raised bands (binding carefully restored). Maps in very good condition despite some small restoration work, the paper is very slightly age-toned as is usual, with a few brown spots. Generally in very fine condition.<br>The frontispiece in this example has like in the other known examples the engraved date 170[.], for this example the manuscript addition changing the date into 1746. Bound at the end we find a 4 page manuscript table of contents, according to this list the title page and 3 maps are wanting (36, 91 and 101).
The present example of the Théâtre du monde is the reissue of 1746 by Jean-Baptiste Nolin II. This scarce atlas is illustrate..
Condition: Large-folio. Cont. mottled calf with raised bands, richly decorated. gilt back, gilt lettering 'Delfland' on both sides, surrounded by 2 gilt decorated. borders. Engraved title in 2 parts, engr. general map (2nd, altered edition, dated 1750) 25 numbered maps.
The so-called Kruquius map is a wall-map of the Delfland water board district. The map consists of 25 engraved map sheets. Se..
Condition: In-16. 1 volume in 16 relié en plein maroquin rouge, dos à nerfs fleurdelysé, plats richement ornés. Bel exemplaire entièrement gravé et illustré d’un frontispice, 1 titre, catalogue 2ff., avertissement 1 ff. et 26 cartes sur double page rehaussées en couleur.
Les cartes, gravées par Durand et Le Roy, portent toutes le nom de l’auteur et ont été réduites par Giovanni Antonio Battista..
Date: Paris, Savoye, Despilly, Duchesne, Dessaint et Saillant, Guillyn, Grange et Dufour, et l'Auteur, 1763
Format: 275 x 215mm.
Color: Noir et blanc.
Condition: In-4 de VIII-XXXIV-122-XII pp. et (1) f. ; titre gravé, une planche à double page et 25 cartes aquarellées à double-page ; demi-veau fauve, dos à cinq nerfs orné de roulettes dorées, étiquette de maroquin rouge, tranches rouges. Plats recouverts de papier (reliure restaurée). Les pp. 21 à 24 reliées après la p. 28, 2 cahiers numérotés 97 à 100 mais avec un autre texte, les pp. 105 à 108 n'existent pas mais pas de manque dans le texte.
Illustré d'un titre gravé à double-page, d'une planche gravée à double-page (Statue Equestre de Louis le bien Aimé) et de 25 ..
Condition: Contemp. half, spine ribbed and gilted. Frontispiece, title page, 202pp. description in Dutch of all countries, Empires, index and 42 folding maps.
Second edition of this charming travel compendium which is becoming rather scare now-a-days.Illustrated with a charming front..
Condition: Atlas in elephant folio (book block measuring 580x375 mm.), bound in modern. half calf with gilted label on spine "ATLAS DE D'ANVILLE", 59 pages multisheet maps, actual map sheet count is 42. Maps dated 1743-1786. This set is accompanied by a 4 pages printed broadsheet "Mémoire instructif. . . En Mars MDCCXXXII D'Anville, Geographe ordinaire du Roy. Permis d'imprimer ce 21 Mars 1732, Herault" and 4 pages manuscript text in pen and brown ink "Mémoire instructif pour faire la carte (de d'Anville)…"<br>Very good condition inside the book block, the two sheet map of Africa has slight overall browning, the others printed on fine white thick paper and coloured in outline.
Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville was perhaps the most important and prolific cartographer of the 18th century.He engraved ..
Condition: Large folio (69 x 52 cm), contemp. half-calf, spine damaged. Containing 8 general one-sheet maps, and 8 detailed four-sheet maps. Printed on heavy paper.
Large folio atlas containing 8 general one-sheet maps, and 8 detailed four-sheet maps: Containing2 World maps- "Mappe-monde s..
Condition: Manuscript atlas ([13] folded double leaves) : colour maps mounted on thick rice paper ; sheets 33 x 39 centimeters, folded to 33 x 19,5 centimeters. Korea, early or mid nineteenth century.
The Ch’onha chido [Atlas of all under Heaven] is a 19th century copy of the traditional Korean atlas produced in the early Ch..
Condition: 5 volumes in half marocco, spine richly gitted. Pages a very little browned, and binding a little bit rubbed, but generally in very good condition.
Second edition of this fine travel companion illustrated with 16 very decorative maps, each map surrounded with local product..