Antique Plan of the Siege of Grave by Guicciardini, c.1608

Antique map titled 'Die Stat Grave' Bird's eye view plan of Grave, The Netherlands, Holland. Showing the siege of Grave in the year 1602 by Prince Maurits of The Netherlands. Source ...

Antique map Emden titled 'Civitas Embda, eo modo situata cum essit controversia inter ipsam et suum Comitem anno'. Small plan of the city of Emden, Germany, Also depicted is part of ...

Antique map Duinkerke titled 'Duijnkerken'. Small plan of the city of Duinkerke/Dunkerque, France. Artists and Engravers: Lodovico Guicciardini (1521-1589): an Italian merchant fr...

Antique map titled 'Belgicarum Provinciarum Nova Descriptio'. Beautiful old map of the Netherlands. With decorative cartouche including the coat...

Antique map titled 'Hollandiae Cattorum Regionis Typus'. Early copper engraving of the Netherlands in the 2nd state, numbered 30 bottom right. This map originates from 'Description d...

Antique map titled 'Die Stadt Enchuijsen, La ville denchuijsen'. Map of Enkhuizen, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands. Oiginates from the 1625 edition of 'Discrittione di tutti i Paesi B...

The Ordeal of the Hermitage, The Siege of Leningrad 1941-1944. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1985. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 302 pp. A beautifully photographed bo...

This large and detailed plan of Paris was published by Alexandre Vuillemin in 1845. The map conveys a wonderful amount of information and is decorated throughout with pictorial vigne...

Great battle plan of The Battle of Abukir Drawn by A.M Perrot Steel engraving by Tardieu with original hand colour Unframed. The size given is the paper size

By Andrew Ellicott (1754-1820) and Pierre Charles L'Enfant (1754-1825). Plan of the City of Washington. Published by Thackara & Vallance, Philadelphia, 1792. Later impression printed on 19th century wove paper. This is a fine 19th century printing of the "official" plan of Washington, D.C. First printed in 1792 by the original publishers, Thackara & Vallance in Philadelphia, this is a later 19th century printing of the fifth recorded engraving of the L’Enfant / Ellicott city plan. The first three issues of this city plan were in published in periodicals, making the fifth edition only the second separately-issued engraving of the plan. In full, the title reads, “Plan of the City of Washington in the Territory of Columbia, ceded by the States of Virginia and Maryland to the United States of America and by them established as the Seat of their Government after the year 1800.” The national capital city is laid out according to a plan originally proposed by Pierre Charles L'Enfant and modified by Andrew Ellicott. L'Enfant was born in Paris, where he trained to be an architect. He came to America in 1777, and served under George Washington as an engineer during the Revolutionary War. In 1791, Washington asked L'Enfant to design the new capital city in the District of Columbia. However, trouble arose between the city and L'Enfant. The City Commissioner needed a finished, printed copy of the plan in order to sell building lots but L'Enfant worked slowly and released only incomplete plans, and proved to be quite obstinate. On instruction from President Washington...

Produced for the W.H. Smith guide, folded in the original. The map here is unfolded and framed flat, with transportation routes shown and color details. sight 22 x 32" (original ful...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely Antique style pictorial plan map of the West Country of England etched in gold leaf foil This is a very interesting and decorative p...