Search Results: Titles starting with O from Gallery of Prints

original colour lithograph map from 'Allgemeiner Handatlas' 2nd improved and expanded edition; p.64; verso: Übersichtskarte von Italien (SKU# 9769).

steel engraving. full page view from "Narrative of the United States exploring expedition (1838 - 1842). Condition: shaved left and right margins, with approximately 1-2mm paper and image loss, some staining. Condition considered when priced. Reference: Howes W414.

View from "Voyage dans les Mers de L'Inde .", vol.1, pl.6, First edition; published by Imprimerie Royale, Paris, 1779-81, 1779 19.5 x 15 cm, copper engraving, EXTREMELY RARE. Gay, 3239; Grandidier, 3090; Olivier, 2496; Pardo de Tavera 1510; Phillips 103-107; Henze III, 178 ; DSB VIII, 143 - 44; Griffin 118 ; Fernie, pp. 41-53.

original hand-colour lithograph, with a text vignette on Borneo. This important map for the Philippines shows Southern Mindanao, and the area between Sulawesi, Mindanao and Gilolo (today: Halmahera), part of the Moluccas. From 'Atlas Universel de Geographie…', (Oceanique no. 6); This 6 vol. Atlas contains 382 lithographed mapsheets and 40 plates of statistical data by Henri Ode (mostly hand-coloured in outline) and was published in instalments over 3 years. The maps in the atlas make up the first map of the world on a uniform scale and the first lithograph atlas created on a modified conical projection and, if assembled form a globe with a diameter of 7.75m, although only one such was known to have been assembled, by the author himself, and requiring a specially designed room. A text box gives extensive information on Borneo. Reference: Reference: NOT in Quirino, atlas: Koeman III, Vdm 1; Phillips, Atlases 749; National Maritime Museum, 179; Wellens-De Donder, L. Philippe Vandermaelen 1795-1869,… Read More

RARE original-colour lithograph, features long text on "New Holland pl. 29" apparently due to space reasons(bare ocean….). RARE map of Kiribati with the Gilbert Islands, from 'Atlas Universel de Geographie...', (Oceanique no. 16). This 6 vol. Atlas contains 382 lithographed mapsheets and 40 plates of statistical data by Henri Ode (mostly hand-coloured in outline). The maps in the atlas constitute not only the first atlas of the world on a uniform scale, but also the first lithograph atlas. Constructed on a modified conical projection, if assembled, they form a 7,75 m diameter globe, although only one such was known to have been assembled, by the author himself, and requiring a specially designed room. Map shows the Gilbert Islands, now main part of Republic of Kiribati. But the main feature of this map is the extensive description of Australia, referring to map no. 29. Prime meridian: Paris. Reference: atlas: Koeman III, Vdm 1; Phillips, Atlases 749. Condition: with center fold as issued, with some… Read More

original-colour lithograph double-page map, with centerfold as issued. insets: 1) 5.8 x 6.5 cm, 2) 5 x 4.7 cm, 3) 5 x 5 cm, 4) 5 x 5 cm, 5) 5 x 9.4 cm. Map from The Citizen's Atlas of the World, pp. 111-112.

Botanical Print from 'Select Orchidaceous Plants', first edition, pl. 28; original colour lithography. Reference: 'Tropica, p.1048, Graf, 3rd ed. 1981.

hand-coloured engraving. RARE double page view from 'The Illustrated London News', Aug. 19, 1899 issue, pp. 250-251. Condition: with a bit of foxing into plate. SCARCE

original-colour lithograph. Map from The Citizen's Atlas of the World, p. 96. inset: 6 x 7.4 cm.

original hand-colour copper engraving. Condition: tight margins, otherwise very good.With glorious fully (later?) colour huge and decorative allegorical cartouche, representing the Europe-China trade.Five allegorical figures combine Knowledge, Power and Influence looking at the map of China; the seated figure of Prosperity points to trading junks at sea.A not only detailed but also very stunning map of China, Korea, Taiwan and southern tip of Japan.Matthias Seutter (1678- 1757) was the son of a goldsmith in Augsburg. In 1697, Seutter began his studies in Nuremberg. In 1710, he established his own publishing house and print shop. (further details see JO & label.The Seutter publishing house produced a great number of maps, atlases, and globes. However, very few original maps were printed there, as Augsburg at that time had no university and no connection to the fields of mathematics or the natural sciences. Seutter therefore copied the work of other cartographers, making his own engravings based on… Read More

copper engraving. View from 'A New System of Geography or A General Description of the World'. Condition: with foxing, stains & smudges at the edges, paper toning.

original outline-colour lithograph map, with folds as issued.

original-colour lithographMap printed by C. Hellfarth, in Gotha. This map of Bretschneider's, made in Beijing while he was a doctor of the Russian Legation, remains the best plan of the surroundings of the Capital of that period, scale : 1:400000. CONDITION: with folds as issued, with some foxing along folds and on plate.

original-colour lithograph map printed by C. Hellfarth in Gotha. Condition: with fold as issued.

original outline-colour lithograph Map printed by C. Hellfarth, in Gotha. CONDITION: with folds as issued, with some foxing at the top of margin

original outline-colour lithograph map, with folds as issued.

original-colour lithograph map, with fold as issued.

original-colour lithograph map from Mittheilungen aus Justus Perthes' Geographischer Anstalt... [volume 36], taf.17.

original-colour lithograph map.

Map from "Asiae Nova Descriptio [Tabularum libri IV]", f. 34. Asian part from "Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri quatuor". Second to the last edition, substantially extended edition of Barent Langenes' Caert-Thresoor, published then at Middelburg. This edition is extremely rare as only "one copy known" (per Koeman in British Museum), and has no text, I.e. all maps show a blank verso - collector's item. copper engraving - NO verso text with some foxing along margins, barely affecting plate, with stain at left margin, not affecting plate.EXTREMELY RARE edition. Ref: Koeman Vis 4 (= Lan 15); Shirley T.LAN-1h; Tiele 1160..