Rare & Old Panoramic Views of Stanchio, Greece and the Island of Rhodes, 1698

Antique print Greece titled 'Rhodus'. Beautiful view of the Island of Rhodes, Greece, depicting the Old Town with fortifications beside a row of w...

Antique print titled 'Kaap Sint Maria aan 't begin van de Straat Magellaan (..)'. Coastal views of Cabo Santa Maria and Tierra del Fuego on the Argent...

Plate 68-69 : 'Vilagio Primo att Nilo - Vista del Nilo presso di Damiate.' This plate shows panoramic views of the Nile, Egypt. Below near Damietta. This rare print originates from: 'Voyage au Levant c'est a dire dans les principaux endroits de l'Asie Mineure dans les Isles de Chio, de Rhodes, de Chypre &c., de meme que dans les plus considerables villes d'Egypte, de Syrie, et de la Terre Sainte...

"A View General of the City of Havana of Amerique." Contemporary hand-colored copper engraving, designed as an optical view. Engraved text in French (in reverse) above the image and...

La Valetta is an original modern artwork realized in Italy in the first half of the 19th Century. Original Lithograph on Ivory Paper. Inscripted in capital letters on the lower ma...

Braun G. and Hogenberg F., Corfu, from the collection Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Cologne, T. Graminaeus, 1572-1617. Image dimensions: cm 19 x 48; dimensions: cm 40 x 70. Very lovely ...

An original antique engraving entitled "Joppe; in ’t Hebreeusch by ouds Japho; hedendaags Japha, of Jaffa; volgens d’aftekening gedaan 1668", by Nicholas Sanson d'Abbeville (1600 - 1667). This is a view of the city of Joppe (in Hebrew Japho), now called Japha or Jaffa, the harbor portion of modern day Tel Aviv, Israel as it appeared in 1668 . It depicts a very busy harbor with numerous boats. A large ship on the left appears to be firing its canons and a small ship on the right appears to be sitting very low in the water, either heavily loaded with cargo or sinking. The town is seen on the far shore with a fortress on a hill across in the background. The map is printed from the original Sanson copperplate and was published in 1709 by his descendants. The map is presented in an ornate brown wood frame embellished by gold-colored leaves and gold inner trim with a double mat; the outer mat is cream-colored and the inner mat is black. There is a central vertical fold, as issued. There are two small spots in the lower margin and one in the upper margin, as well as two tiny spots adjacent to the central fold. 1717 is written below the date 1668 in the inscription. The map is otherwise in very good condition. Another map of the "Holy Land" (by Claes Visscher in 1663), with an identical style frame and mat is available. This pair of maps would make a wonderful display grouping. Please see Reference #LU117324709892. Artist: Nicholas Sanson d'Abbeville (1600 - 1667) and his descendents were important French cartographer's active through the 17th century. Sanson started his career as a historian and initially utilized cartography to illustrate his historical treatises. His maps came to the attention of Cardinal Richelieu and then King Louis XIII of France, who became a supporter and sponsor. He subsequently appointed Sanson 'Geographe Ordinaire du Roi' the official map maker to the king. Sanson not only created maps for the king, but advised him on geographical issues and curated his map collection...

Trapani is an original modern artwork realized in Germany in the Mid-19th Century. Original B/W Lithograph on Ivory Paper. Inscripted on the lower central margin in Capital Letter...