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
Detailed map of Peru, extending from just North of Guayqauil to just South of the Tropic of Capricorn, showing the western Amazon, Andes, Lake Titicaca, and the many regions and Territories. From “Atlante Novissimo, illustrato ed accresciuto sulle osservazioni, e scoperte fatte dai piu’ celebri e piu’ recenti cartografi” by Antonio Zatta published in Venice in 1779-85. Antonio Zatta was a prominent Italian editor, cartographer, and publisher. Little is known about his life beyond his…
- Author: ZATTA Antonio
- Year: 1779
- Dimension: 407 x 310 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
Rare map of the Northwest Passage, Northern Canada, part of Alaska (America Russa) and Greenland showing the known islands of the Northwest Passage, including several partially known coastlines. From the rarest and most elegant cartographic work by Francesco Celestino Marmocchi, the Corso di Geografia Commerciale published in Genoa in 1858.
- Author: Francesco Costantino Marmocchi
- Dimension: 25 x 38 cm
- Place of publication: Genoa
- Year: 1858