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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Matthaus Seutter, Framed 1730 Color Engraving Map of "Belgium Fonderatum"
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Label on verso. From Grosser Atlas. The name Belgium comes from the ancient designation "Gallis Belgica". Figural decoration upper left. M. Seutter was a famed German mapmaker in the...
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European Renaissance Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Brass

Rare 1690 Map of England by Nicolaes Visscher II – Heptarchy Depicted
Located in Langweer, NL
Map of England 1690 by Nicolaes Visscher II – Heptarchy and Counties Shown Antique 1690 map of England by Nicolaes Visscher II, showing the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy and detailed county...
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Dutch Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

Antique Map of Yemen by Schraembl, 1789
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique map titled 'Karte von dem groessten Theil des Landes Jemen'. Original map of Yemen, this map is the first printed map specifically of Yemen, and t...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

Antique Map of Macedonia by the Famous Mapmaker Blaeu, c.1650
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique map titled 'Macedonia, Epirus et Achaia'. Ornated with a nice allegoric cartouche, one ship and a milage scale. Macedonia is shown in the centre of the map. With many detai...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

Antique Map of Peru in South America by Blaeu, circa 1645
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique map titled 'Peru'. Original antique map of Peru. With cartouche, compass rose, ships and two sea-monsters. Published by W. Blaeu, circa 1645.
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Dutch Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

Beautiful Original Antique Map of Antwerp, Belgium by Mapmaker Blaeu, ca.1652
Located in Langweer, NL
Description: Antique map titled 'Antverpia; Gallis Anvers. Vernacule Antwerpen.' A very nicely coloured plan of Antwerp in Flanders, Belgium. West-oriented, with the river Scheld...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

Baroque Garden and Palace near Vienna – Antique Architectural Engraving, 1649
Located in Langweer, NL
Baroque Garden and Palace near Vienna – Antique Architectural Engraving, 1649 This is a beautifully detailed 17th-century engraving, depicting a formal Baroque garden layout in Vien...
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German Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

17th Century Framed Map of Ancient France Titled "Typus Galliae Veteris"
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate an office or a library with this elegant historic map. Crafted in the Netherlands circa 1630, this beautifully framed antique map with pr...
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Dutch Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Glass, Giltwood, Paper

Scarce Antique Map of the Island of Java, Indonesia
Located in Langweer, NL
Title: "Kaart van 't Eyland Groot Java: Antique Map of Java, Indonesia" Description: This antique map, titled "Kaart van 't Eyland Groot Java," offers a rare and valuable depiction ...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

Beautiful Rare Antique Map of the Holy Land, 1648
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique map Holy Land titled 'Perigrinatie ofte Veertich-Iarige Reyse, der kinderen Israels uyt Egipten, door de Roode-Zee; mitsgaders de Woestyne tot int Beloofde Landt Canaan, : met groote vlyt uyt verscheryden auctoren by een gestelt, uyt de H. Schrift gecorigeert, ende int licht gegeven'. Beautiful and rare antique map of the Holy Land...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

Antique Map of Tartary, Showing the Great Wall of China, 1718
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique map titled 'Carte de Tartarie'. Detailed map of Tartary, consisting of the Eastern part of Russia, Central Asia, China and Korea, first published by Guillaume De L'Isle in 1706. The map extends from the Peninsula of Korea in the east to the Caspian and Black Seas. The Great Wall of China...
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British Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

Antique French Map of Java, Indonesia by Chatelain, 1719
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique map titled 'Carte de l'Ile de Java: Partie Occidentale, Partie Orientale, Dressee tout Nouvellement Sur Les Memoires Les Plus Exacts (..)'. This beautiful map of Java (Indone...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

Antique Engraving of Kirby Hall Near Gretton, Northamptonshire, England c.1770
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique print titled 'Principal Front of Kirby Hall'. Kirby Hall is an Elizabethan country house, located near Gretton, Northamptonshire, England. The nearest main town is Corby. One of the great Elizabethan houses of England, Kirby Hall was built for Sir Humphrey Stafford of Blatherwick, beginning in 1570. In 1575 the property was purchased by Sir Christopher Hatton of Holdenby,[1] Lord Chancellor to Queen Elizabeth I. It is a leading and early example of the Elizabethan prodigy house. Construction on the building began in 1570, based on the designs in French architectural pattern books and expanded in the Classical style over the course of the following decades. The house is now in a semi-ruined state with many parts roof-less although the Great Hall and state rooms remain intact. The gardens, with their elaborate "cutwork" design, complete with statues and urns, have been recently restored. Anne of Denmark stayed at Kirby on 9 August 1605 while King James stayed at Rockingham Castle. King James stayed for three days in August 1616. During a royal progress Esmé Stewart, 3rd Duke of Lennox died at Kirby of the "spotted ague" on 30 July 1624. The building and gardens are owned by the Earl of Winchilsea and are managed by English Heritage. Kirby Hall has been used as a filming location in many productions. These include the following; an episode (6. Protest and Communication) of Kenneth Clark...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

Exploring Ancient Persia: Ptolemaic Map of Iran and Iraq by Ptolemy and Mercator
Located in Langweer, NL
Claudius Ptolemy was a mathematician, astronomer and geographer who worked in Alexandria, then a part of the Roman Empire, in the 2nd century AD. One of the most learned and influent...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

Antique Map of the World on Mercator Projection by Anson, 1749
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique map titled 'Nieuwe Wereld Kaart waar in de Reizen van den Hr. Anson rondsom de Wereld'. Original antique map of the world on Mercator'...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

Colossal Terrestrian Globe Hand Painted, French, First Half of the 18th Century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Colossal Terrestrian globe hand painted, French, first half of the 18th century. Mounted in a 19th century pedestal wood.   
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Beech

Antique Map of the Peloponnese – Peloponnesus, Morea, by Cluver, ca.1697
Located in Langweer, NL
Hellas seu Graecia Universa is a finely detailed late-17th-century map of Greece and the Aegean world, issued by Philipp Cluver around 1697 (possibly 1694). The map was published in ...
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German Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

Ottoman Empire Map 1719 – Europe Asia Africa, Jean Chiquet, Paris
Located in Langweer, NL
Title: Ottoman Empire Map 1719 – Europe Asia Africa, Jean Chiquet, Paris Description: Original early-18th-century engraved map titled Estats de l’Empire du Grand Seigneur, depicting...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

Antique Map of Carta Soura, Headquarter of the Javanese Nobility, 1706
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique map titled 'Carta Soera de Nigrita'. Early map of the town of Carta Soura, also known as Kartosuro and Karta Soera de Nigrat, located in the interior of central Java, headqua...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

Antique St Christopher Nevis Map, English, Caribbean Cartography, Georgian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a superb antique map of St Christopher and Nevis. An English, framed Caribbean island cartography engraving, dating to the Georgian period and later, circa 1780. A fascinatin...
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British Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Glass, Paper

1773 John Blair Map of the Ancient Holy Land: Tribes, Journeys, and Empires
Located in Langweer, NL
Title: 1773 John Blair Map of the Ancient Holy Land: Tribes, Journeys, and Empires This exceptional map by John Blair, published in London in 1773, offers a richly detailed view o...
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English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

Antique Map of the Adriatic Sea and the Balkan by J. Janssonius, circa 1650
Located in Langweer, NL
Striking large-scale map of the Greater Balkans. Decorated with two large-scale cartouches, one showing two swordsman at odds with one another and the other ...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

Rare Original 16th Century Antique Map of Greece, 1598
Located in Langweer, NL
Beautiful and rare antique map of Greece with Albania, Mecedonia, Romania, Dalmatia and the peninsula of Salento to the Golf of Taranto. Also clearly shown the islands of the Aegaian...
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Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

Rare Original Antique Ptolemy Map of Ceylon, Present Day Sri Lanka
Located in Langweer, NL
Original antique map titled 'Tab XII Asiae Taprobanam (..)'. For this map of Toprobana (Sri Lanka), Ptolemy drew on the accounts of travelers and sailors and though the information was secondhand and often inaccurate, it represented the most advanced account of the world's geography at that time. This map depicts the island with the typical misconceptions of the period with the enlarged island straddling the Equator and nearly divided by a ridge of mountains. A small part of India is incorrectly shown in the northeast corner of the map and a spurious coastline labeled Gangem fills the upper right corner. The stipple engraved sea contains an oriental ship...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

Antique Map of Paraguay and Jesuit Missions by D’Anville, 1733
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique Map of Paraguay and Jesuit Missions by D’Anville, 1733 Antique map titled Le Paraguay. This finely detailed copperplate engraving depicts the region of Paraguay along with ...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

16th-Century Map of the Ottoman Empire and Near East: Turcici Imperii Descriptio
Located in Langweer, NL
Title: Original 16th-Century Map of the Ottoman Empire and Near East: *Turcici Imperii Descriptio* by Ortelius, 1571 This rare copperplate engraving, Turcici Imperii Descriptio, i...
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European Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

Antique Map of Celtic Europe by Cluver, 1678
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique map Europe titled 'Europam sive Celticam Veterem'. Rare map of Celtic Europe. Made after A. Ortelius, originates from 'Introductionis in uni...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

Rare 18th C. Newport Map
Located in Sandwich, MA
Rare 18th C, Map titled "A plan of the town of Newport in the province of Rhode Island". Earliest printed plan of Newport, published for the use of the British just prior to their o...
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American Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

Original 17th-Century Antique Map of Nanjing Province, China – by Blaeu
Located in Langweer, NL
Title: 17th-Century Antique Map of Nanjing Province, China – "Nanking sive Kiangnan" by Blaeu, with Decorative Details Description: This captivating 17th-century map of Nanjing Pr...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

Ancient Egypt – Nile Valley Map by d’Anville, Classical Antiquity, c.1765
Located in Langweer, NL
Ancient Egypt – Nile Valley Map by d’Anville, Classical Antiquity, c.1765 This finely engraved map depicts Ancient Egypt as understood through classical sources, extending along the...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

Mediterranean Barbary Coast – Elegant 18th Century Map by Bowen, c.1747
Located in Langweer, NL
Mediterranean & Barbary Coast – Elegant 18th Century Map by Bowen, c.1747 This elegant mid-18th-century engraved map presents the Mediterranean world with a strong focus on the Barb...
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Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

River Sanaga, West Africa – Elegant French Exploration Map, c.1750
Located in Langweer, NL
Nubia and Abyssinia – Venetian Map of Northeast Africa, Zatta, 1784 This detailed late-18th-century map depicts Nubia and Abyssinia, covering large parts of present-day Sudan, Ethio...
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Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

Nubia and Abyssinia – Venetian Map of Northeast Africa, Zatta, 1784
Located in Langweer, NL
Nubia and Abyssinia – Venetian Map of Northeast Africa, Zatta, 1784 This detailed late-18th-century map depicts Nubia and Abyssinia, covering large parts of present-day Sudan, Ethio...
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Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

Monomotapa Empire Map – East Africa, French Cartography, c.1740
Located in Langweer, NL
Monomotapa Empire Map – East Africa, French Cartography, c.1740 This important French map depicts the legendary Empire of Monomotapa and the surrounding regions of southeastern Afri...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

East African Coast – French Map by Bellin, Zanzibar to Arabia, 1740
Located in Langweer, NL
East African Coast – French Map by Bellin, Zanzibar to Arabia, 1740 This important French map depicts the eastern coast of Africa from Mozambique and Zanzibar northward to the Horn ...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

Mozambique Bay – French Naval Sea Chart by Bellin, c.1765
Located in Langweer, NL
Mozambique Bay – French Naval Sea Chart by Bellin, c.1765 This detailed French sea chart depicts the Bay of Mozambique and the strategically vital island settlement of Mozambique, s...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

Anjouan Island, Comoros – French Naval Sea Chart by Bellin, c.1765
Located in Langweer, NL
Anjouan Island, Comoros – French Naval Sea Chart by Bellin, c.1765 This finely engraved French sea chart depicts the island of Anjouan (Ndzuwani), one of the Comoros Islands in the ...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

17th Century Map of Denmark by French Cartographer Sanson, Dated 1658
Located in Copenhagen, K
17th century map of Denmark by French cartographer Sanson. Nicolas Sanson (20 December 1600-7 July 1667) was a French cartographer, termed by some the creator of French geography an...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

Old Map of the New Philippines – Early 18th Century Spanish East Indies, 1706
Located in Langweer, NL
Map of the New Philippines – “Carte des Nouvelles Philippines”, 1706 This 18th-century copperplate map, titled Carte des Nouvelles Philippines, depicts the island chain referred to ...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

Map of the Provence in Southern France, Original Old Engraving by De Wit c. 1688
Located in Langweer, NL
Title: Provence Map - Hand-Colored 17th-Century Engraving by Frederik De Wit c. 1688 Description: This captivating map, "Gouvernement de Provence," depicts the Provence region of so...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

Antique Map of Siberia and Chinese Tartary, Incl Nova Zembla, ca.1732
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique map of Tartary titled 'Nieuwe Kaart van Tartarie na de alderlaatste ondekking int ligt gebracht tot Amsterdam door Isaak Tirion'. Map op Siberia and Chinese tartary. In t...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

Map of Persia, the Caspian India – Isaak Tirion, c.1730
Located in Langweer, NL
Map of Persia and Surrounding Regions – “Nieuwe Kaart van 't Ryck van Persie” by Isaak Tirion, Amsterdam, c. 1730 This finely detailed copperplate map titled “Nieuwe Kaart van 't Ry...
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Dutch Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

Map Holy Promise Land Canaan Richard Palmer Richard Blome 1687 Joseph Moxon
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
Canaan comonly called the Holy Land or the Land of Promise, being the Possesion of the Israelites & travelled through by Our Lord & Saviour Iesus Christ and his Apostles. Engraven by Richard Palmer for Richard Blome. 1687 Blome, Richard, 1641-1705. London. 283 x 452 mm. Copperplate. Probably from an English Bible...
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British Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

Original Antique Map of Greece and part of Turkey
Located in Langweer, NL
Original antique map titled 'La Grece ou partie meridionale de la Turquie d'Europe'. Small map of Greece and part of Turkey. This map originates from 'Le nouveau et curieux Atlas Geo...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

Cortés Scuttling Ships at Veracruz – Hand-Colored Engraving by Van Beecq, c.1690
Located in Langweer, NL
Cortés Scuttling His Ships at Veracruz – Hand-Colored Engraving by Van Beecq, c.1690 An exceptional late 17th-century hand-colored copperplate engraving depicting Hernán Cortés scut...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

Dutch City Plan of Workum in Friesland by N. Van Geelkercken, hand-colored 1616
Located in Langweer, NL
Workum in Friesland by Nicolaes van Geelkercken, hand-colored map ca. 1616 This beautifully hand-colored engraving titled 'Worcum' presents an early 17th-century bird’s-eye view of ...
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Dutch Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

Cartographic Elegance of the Mughal Dominion in a Hand-Colored Antique Map, 1705
Located in Langweer, NL
This original antique map titled “'T Ryk van den Grooten Mogol” by Nicolas Sanson from 1705 is an interesting historical artifact. It depicts the extent of the Mughal Empire in North...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

Map of the Philippines and Palau Islands – Antique French Engraving, c.1790
Located in Langweer, NL
Map of the Philippines and Palau Islands – Antique French Engraving, c.1790 This antique French maritime chart depicts the western Pacific region between the Philippines and the Pal...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

Antique Map of the Holy Land by Schut, 1710
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique map of the Holy Land titled 'Het Beloofde Landt Canaan.' Very detailed and decorative map of the Holy Land embellished with sailing ships and com...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

Old Original Hand-Colored Engraving of Various Apples, 1758
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique print depicting apple variaties including the Pigeon of Passe Pomme, Rode Herfst- of Winter Calville, Witte Ribbert of Ribling, Winter Parmain Pepping, Paasch Appel, Wyker Pe...
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Dutch Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

Map Silk Embroidered Western Eastern Hemisphere New Old World Asia America Afri
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
A rare, late-18th century, silk, embroidered, double hemisphere, world map, blackwork, sampler, showing the tracks of captain cook’s three voyages - Illustrating public understanding of the world in the late-18th century and the recent discoveries of the time delineating the tracks of Captain Cook’s three voyages. - Shows the incentive for further exploration during the 19th century as no mass is indicated within the southern polar region, the interior portions of western North America, Africa, and Australia are still relatively void of detail even though California is no longer shown as an island. - Includes beautifully worked allegories of the four continents Asia, the Americas, Africa & Europe, a cartouche being supported by two angels and a compass - The cream, silk ground is finely embroidered with a variety of stiches in black, silk threads emulating the black ink on maps. -“Recent international conflicts and voyages by Captain Cook and others made the study of geography exciting at the time this map was made. Elaborate embroidered maps...
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British Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Silk

Antique Map of Île de Ré and Île d Oléron by Janssonius, 1657
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique map 'Insulae Divimartini et Vliarus vulgo l'isle de Re et Oleron'. Decorative map of Île de Ré and Île d'Oléron. This map originates from 'Atlas Novu...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

Highly Decorative Map of The Eastern Mediterranean and The Middle East, ca.1700
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique map titled 'Byzondere Kaart van de Landen Daar de Apostelen Het Evangelium Gepredikt Hebben (..).' Highly decorative map of the eastern Mediterranean...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

Countye of Monmouth, Dated 1610
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
The countye of Monmouth with the situation of the townshire described Anno, 1610 The reverse with Monmouthshire, Chapter VI and an alphabetical list of towns. In a beautiful Flemish oak polished and gilded frame Cartographer: John Speed...
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English Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

Antique Print of the Monument to Pope Paul iii Located in the Vatican, c.1710
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique print titled 'Deposito di Papa Paolo III Eretto nella Basilica Vaticana'. Old print of the monument to Pope Paul III by Giacomo della Porta, locate...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Antique Lithography Map, Cumbria, English, Framed Cartography Interest, Georgian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique lithography map of Cumbria. An English, framed engraving of cartographic interest, dating to the early 18th century and later. ...
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British Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Wood

Map of Choromandel Malabar, Incl Kerala, Tamil Nadu Part of Sri Lanka, 1726
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique map titled 'Nieuwe kaart van Choromandel ende Malabar.' Original antique map of Southern India documenting the VOC's areas of influence. Included is Kerala, Tamil Nadu...
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Dutch Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

The City of Cowlang – Antique Map of Kollam (Quilon), India by Baldaeus, ca.1672
Located in Langweer, NL
The City of Cowlang – Antique Map of Kollam (Quilon), India by Philip Baldaeus, c.1672 Rare and beautifully hand-colored 17th-century bird’s-eye plan of the fortified coastal city o...
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Dutch Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Antique Map of the Jesuit Missions in Madurai and Surrounding Kingdoms, c.1760
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique Map of the Jesuit Missions in Madurai and Surrounding Kingdoms, c.1760 This 18th-century copperplate map, titled Carte des Missions du P.P. de la Compagnie de Jésus dans le ...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Rare Hand-colored Map of the British Isles by Gerard Valk, Published circa 1700
Located in Langweer, NL
Map of the British Isles by Gerard Valk circa 1700 – Hand-Colored Engraving This elegant copperplate engraving titled *Les Isles Britanniques, qui contiennent les Royaumes d'Anglete...
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Dutch Antique 18th Century and Earlier Maps

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Paper

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