De Zeden der Wilden van Amerika by La Fiteau, 1731

Orxma-State.' (Orxma Castle.) This Castle was situated in the province of Friesland in Menaldum. The castle was demolished in 1831. Well known occupants were the Van Juckema family a...

Antique map titled 'L'Over-Issel'. This map depicts the Dutch province Overijssel. This map originates from 'Nouvel Atlas, très exact et fort commode pour toutes sortes de personnes,...

Antique map titled 'Le Perou, Grand Pays de l Amerique Meridionale (..)'. Decorative map of Peru including portions of Ecuador and northern Chile and Boliv...

Antique map titled 'Scandinavie Septentrionale' and 'Scandinavie Meridionale'. Copper engraving with two maps on one sheet. The upper map depicts Northern Scandinavia with Norway, Sw...

Antique Dutch Silver Purse Mount by van der Ree, Schoonhoven, dated 1921 An antique purse mount with chain with a typical Dutch scenes. One one side people at table with music instr...

Important and brilliantly edited survey of early modernist furniture and interiors. Written by Herbert Hoffmann and published by Julius Hoffmann in Stuttgart in 1930. Features work by a who's who of the period's top designers, including Alvar Aalto, Marcel Breuer, Le Corbusier, Donald Deskey, Maurice Dufresne, Paul Laszlo, Jaques Adnet, Rene Herbst, Eugene Printz, Fritz Brehaus, Andre Lurcat...

1656 map entitled "La Souverainete de Sedan et de Raucourt, et la Prevoste de Doncheri," Hand Colored Ric0004. Description: Lovely map centered on Sedan and Doncheri an...

La Terre Sainte, The Holy Land, Tiree Des Memoires De M.De.La Rue. Par N. de Fer. Geographe de Sa Majeste Catoliq et de Monseigneur le Dauphin. Avec Privil du Roi 1703 Detailed map of the Holy Land from Nicholas de Fer's L'Atlas Curieux ou le Monde. East is oriented at the top. MAKER Nicolas de Fer 1646-1720 The French cartographer and engraver, Nicolas de Fer, was a master at creating maps that were works of art. The maps that he published were printed during the Baroque period when the decorative arts were characterized by ornate detail. De Fer’s detailed maps and atlases were valued more for their decorative content than their geographical accuracy. Nicolas de Fer was born in 1646. His father, Antoine de Fer, owned a mapmaking firm. At the age of twelve, Nicolas was apprenticed to a Parisian engraver named Louis Spirinx. The family business was starting to decline when his father died in 1673. Nicolas de Fer’s mother, Genevieve, took over the business after the death of her husband. In 1687 the business was passed on to Nicolas and the profits increased after he took over the firm. Nicolas de Fer was a prolific cartographer who produced atlases and hundreds of single maps. He eventually became the official geographer to King Louis XIV of France and King Philip V...