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Attractive copper engraved map of the whole of the West Indies and the Florida Keys.Cartouche.Very good condition.

Ireland tipped on its side.Original wash colour on map.Printed on heavy paper.Mint condition.

Very decorative map of Asia by De Fer.Cartouches.Fanciful coastline north of Japan.Very stromg impression.Small tear into left margin,invisible.Otherwise very good condition.

From a history of the Roman Empire.Shows Cyprus and Syria.Folds as issued.Very good condition.

Full title:Æthiopia Superior Vel Interior Vulgo Abissinorum Sive Presbiteriioannis Imperior. John Ogilby's work "Africa" was based on the Dutch publication of two years earlier, by Jacob van Meurs, of Olfert Dapper's "Naukeurige Beschrijvinghe Der Afrikaensche ...". Using, in the main, the same copperplate maps and views, this translation was the best English account of the continent to that time and was intended to be part of a series of atlases of all parts of the world, which, in fact, was never completed. The maps, with title cartouches supported by native figures, animals and so on, and the plates were finely engraved and represent evocative European perceptions of the regions as known during the seventeenth century. Central and Eastern Africa with accurate coastal definition and the two great lakes, centrally shown as the sources of the Nile and the Congo.Some staining in top matgin well away from printed surface.Very good condition.

Copper engraved map from Histoire Universelle.Shows Ancient Syracuse.Folds as issued.Good condition.

Map of Oceania by Fremin.Decorative border.Original outline colour.Mint condition.

Attractive lithographic map of Canada.Printed on heavy paper.A few nicks in margin one just extending into map invisible.Otherwise very good condition.

A plan of Alicante specifically while being besieged by sea.Folds.Repairs in lower margin otherwise good.

Attractive copper engraved map of the British Isles.Cartouche,original outline colour.Printed on heavy paper.Mint.

Attractive copper plate map of Scotland with original outline colour.Printed heavy paper.Cartouche.Mint condition.

Attractive copper engraved map of the whole of Ireland.Cartouche.Original outline colour.Mint condition.

Full Title: Opulentissimi Regni Persiae juxta suas Provincias recentissima et accuratissima Designatio, Studio et Sumtibus... Very attractive and Rare map of Persia during the first part of the Eighteenth century.Covers the area from the Black Sea to Kashmir.Very detailed with roads marked.Attractive cartouche with figures in local costume.Excellent original colour.A little dampstaining in top margin just encroaching on map but not detrimental,otherwise very good condition.

Very attractive little map of Turkey by Bertius after Ortelius,printed Amsterdam.Full hand colour.Mint condition.

Rare map of Turkey.From "La Geografia" of Girolamo Ruscelli, printed 1561 in Venice by V. Valgrisi.Very good condition

Uncoomon map of Turkey.Decorative coloured map of Asia Minor with several Greek Island and the Western part of Turkey and the Bosporus. From "A New Sett of Maps both of Antient and Present Geography" by Edward Wells an English clergyman, teacher and mathematician, born in 1667. All map are dedicated to William the Duke of Gloucester who died 1700, the year of the first edition of the atlas. The Wells maps have been much valued during the beginning of the 18th century because of its accuracy.

Large, detailed map covering all of Russia showing topography, forested areas, provinces and towns. Title cartouche features three windheads and two bears.Excellent hand colour.Mint condittion.

Full title: Australien ( Südland) auch Polynesien oder Inselwelt, insgemein der Fünfte Welttheil genannt. Attractive and rare map of Australia,New Zealand and the Pacific including the Sandwich Isles Hawaii.Decorative border. Small repair in left margin just invisibly encroaching on map,otherwise very good condition.

Full Title: Les Montagnes des Alpes ou sont remarques les Passages de France en Italie, le duche de Milan, et les Estats du duc de Syvoye &c. - Dresse sur les Memoires les plus Nouveaux par le Sr. Sanson, Geographe ordinaire du Roy. A Paris chez H. Iaillot joignant les grands Augustins aux deux Globes, Avec Privilege du Roypour 2o Ans. Superb very large Copper engraving, an uncolored fine example of a strong impression of this very large map. This issue is published and printed at Pierre Mortier in Amsterdam 1705. This large map, printed from two plates, was first published in the 'Atlas Noveau ...' by Alexis Hubert Jaillot & N. Sanson. In the right above corner ornated with a large decorative highly ornated allegoric figurative title-cartouche. Hubert Jaillot's map can be treated as a masterpiece of the French baroque cartography in the 17th century. It took Nicolaus Sanson and Hubert Jaillot a period of about fifteen years to complete this enormous work (c. 1681-96). The atlas was dedicated to Ludwig XIV.V.Large decorative cartouche.Small repair on back otherwise Mint condition.

Large detailed map of Turkey.Original outline colour.Large cartouche.Printed on heavy paper.Very good condition.