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"One of the most influential maps of America ever made"

[TODESCHI, Pietro]. [Nova et accurata totius Americae tabula auct. G. I. Blaeu] America quarta pars orbis quam plerunq, nuvum orbem apellitant primo detecta est anno 1492 a Christophoro Columbo...
[Bologna, Giuseppe Longhi?, 1673]. Ca. 86 x 110 cm. A hand-coloured engraved wall map, printed on 4 joined sheets. Full description
€ 65,000
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Very rare first edition of a very interesting early 19th-centure travel guide for The Netherlands

[TRAVEL GUIDE - THE NETHERLANDS]. Le voyageur dans les Pays-Bas Unis. Ouvrage indispensable pour chacun qui voyage dans ces Pays. Orné de 28 cartes, plans, vues, etc.
Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, 1815. 12mo. With a title vignette showing the Amsterdam publishing house of Evert Maaskamp, 3 folding maps, 13 double-page maps by I.B.D.B., 3 double-page city plans of Amsterdam, the Hague and Rotterdam, 6 full-page plates of the coins in use in The Netherlands on 1 folding leaf and 2 full-page plates of the ground floor of the Amsterdam city hall and Paleis Het Loo; all coloured by a contemporary hand. Original publisher's blue paper wrappers over boards. [2], 380, XXII, [10] pp. Full description
€ 1,850
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Japanese woodblock geography of the Middle and Near East and Indonesia, with 5 maps and 35 views

UCHIDA Masao. Yochi shiryaku [Compendium of world geography].
[Tokyo], Meiji 4 [= 1871]. (25.5 x 17 cm). With the title and all text in Japanese, printed from woodblocks on rice paper, with 1 double-page, 2 full-page and 2 half-page maps and 12 full-page and 23 half-page illustrations of architecture, people and costumes, topography, plants and animals. Original publisher's heavy paper wrapper. [1 blank], 59, [1] ll. Full description
€ 4,500
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U.S. Air Force aeronautical chart of the future UAE

[UNITED ARAB EMIRATES]. USAF Pilotage Chart. Ash Sharigah (548 D). Trucial Oman.
Washington, DC, Aeronautical Chart Service, U.S. Air Force, 1948-1950. Colour-printed map, 554 x 733 mm. Constant ratio linear horizontal scale 1:500,000., Lambert Conformal Conic Projection. Relief shown by contours, shading, gradient tints, and spot heights. Key printed on verso. Full description
€ 3,500
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