Lovely engraved map based on the cartography by C. Franz Radefeld (1788-1874) showing part of United States which includes insets of New York City, Philadelphia, Niagara Falls, Albany, Pittsburgh and the Baltimore – Washington DC area. From the “Meyer’s Neuester Zeitungs Atlas” published by Bibliographischen Instituts in Hildburghausen in 1849-52. The innovation of this work is that almost all maps had small inserts showing richly detailed maps of major cities and their surrunding areas: so…
- Author: MEYER Joseph
- Year: 1849
- Dimension: 200 x 265 mm
- Place of publication: Hildburghausen
Early pocket map of the Rio de La Plata region in Uruguay showing also part of Argentina from the Mercator Hondius “Atlas Minor” published in Amsterdam in 1648 at Jannsonius with german text on verso. In 1607 Jodocus Hondius published a reduced size version of Mercator’s “Atlas”, itself suitably titled “Atlas Minor”. The maps were copied from those of the great cartographer Mercator of around 1580-90 or were reductions of Hondius’ own maps of 1606. Almost 20 years later Joannes Janssonius commi
- Author: MERCATOR Gerard - HONDIUS Henricus
- Year: 1648
- Dimension: 193 x 145 mm
- Place of publication: Amsterdam
decorative map of western and central Mexico covers from Xiamora to Acapulco and includes Mexico City and Guadalajara along with cities, towns, mines, missions and Indian villages. Notations in the mountains north of Mexico City describe the rich deposits of silver and other annotations describe the manners and customs of the Indians. From Coronelli’s Atlante Veneto, one of the most decorative and ornate of all 17th Century Atlases, published in Venice, 1690. Vincenzo Maria Coronelli…
- Author: CORONELLI Vincenzo Maria
- Year: 1690
- Dimension: 453 x 605 mm
- Place of publication: Venice
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Pictorial map of the United States featuring portraits of iconic American Jazz musicians like: Paul Desmond, Dave Brubeck, Jimmy Giuffre, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, Gerry Mulligan, Bessie Smith, Coleman Hawkins, Stan Kenton, Lester Young, Woody Herman, John Coltrane, Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum, Bennv Goodman, Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Billie Holidav, Lennie Tristano, Stan Getz, Ornette Coleman, Jerry Roll Morton, Eric Dolphy, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Charles Mingus, Gil Evans.…
- Author: Vladimiro Lupi
- Dimension: 100 x 69 cm
- Place of publication: Ferrara
- Year: 1984