Amsterdam. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 15.25" x 20.75". Beautifully detailed town plan of Bolsward in northern Holland, shown in an unusual panoramic birds-eye view, circa 1649. Features the fortress and the town within it, and the surrounding pastoral landscape. Includes two coats of arms, both of which are hand burnished with beautiful gold leaf. Dedication cartouche is decorated in an agricultural theme. Latin text on verso. Published around the time of the Spanish acknowledgment of the..... More

Amsterdam. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 14.75" x 19.5". Beautifully colored town plan of Goes in western Holland, shown in an unusual panoramic birds-eye view, circa 1649. Features the fortress and the surrounding pastoral landscape, with ships in the waters. Includes two coats of arms, both of which are hand burnished with beautiful gold leaf. Latin text on verso. Published around the time of the Spanish acknowledgment of the Dutch Republic in "Novum Ac Magnum Theatrum Urbium..... More

Amsterdam. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 13.75" x 19.75". Absolutely stunning town plan of Hasselt in northeastern Holland, shown in an unusual panoramic birds-eye view, circa 1649. Features the fortress and the town within it, and ships in the surrounding river. Includes two coats of arms, both of which are hand burnished with beautiful gold leaf. Latin text on verso. Published around the time of the Spanish acknowledgment of the Dutch Republic in "Novum Ac Magnum Theatrum..... More

Amsterdam. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 16.25" x 20.75". Exquisite town plan of Zwartsluis in northeastern Holland, shown in an unusual panoramic birds-eye view, circa 1649. Features the fortress and the town within it facing the ships in the outstretched waters. North is oriented toward the bottom of the page. Scale includes hand burnished gold leaf. Latin text on verso. Published around the time of the Spanish acknowledgment of the Dutch Republic in "Novum Ac Magnum Theatrum..... More

Amsterdam. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 16.25" x 20.75". Beautifully detailed town plan of Tiel in central Holland, circa 1649, shown in an unusual panoramic birds-eye view. Shows the pastoral and maritime nature of the area, with farms, houses, churches and ships in the surrounding waters. Includes two coats of arms. Dutch text on verso. Published around the time of the Spanish acknowledgment of the Dutch Republic in "Tooneel der Steden van der Vereenighde Nederlanden" ("Town books..... More

Cologne: Braun & Hogenberg, 1575. View. Engraving with hand coloring. Image measures 13.75" x 19.25". Beautiful town plan of Brielle (den Briel) in the Netherlands, circa 1575. Den Briel is a town, municipality and historic seaport in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The panoramic birds-eye view reveals the pastoral and maritime nature of the area. North is oriented at the bottom of the page. From the city atlas "Civitates Orbis Terrarum", a collection of city views..... More

Henry de Leth, 1768. Map. Engraving. Image 16 1/8 x 19 1/4 inches. Striking plan of the port city of Rotterdam on the Maas River in the Dutch province of South Holland. Top left in a block is a legend with 76 main street buildings and, top right in cartouche the provincial coat of arms from Holland and the city arms of Rotterdam. Extensive repairs to center margin and gate 36. The Amsterdam publishing firm of Covens and Mortier (1665-c..... More

Pieter van den Keere, 1617. Map. Engraving. Image measures 14.875 x 19.25". Sheet measures 17 x 23.25". Beautifully composed map of Friesland, in the Northwestern Netherlands on the North Sea. Includes the West Frisian Islands and many nautical details such as sand banks and polders. The Frisian double lion coat of arms and the Cirksena family coat of arms, a crowned harpy, float above the islands. Dark impression with full margins some minor abrasions on the paper. No text on..... More

Nuremburg. Map. Engraving with original color wash. Image measures 20" x 22.25". This lovely map of the Hague includes a plan and view of the prominent Dutch city. Published circa 1739, the plan shows the city before it became the international and political hub it is today. Rather than the modern buildings that house the International Court of Justice and embassies, the significant buildings highlighted are mainly churches and Dutch governmental buildings, labeled according to keys at the sides of..... More

Amsterdam: Jansson, J., 1666. Map. Uncolored engraving. Image measures 15.25" x 19.5". Map of three of the West Frisian Islands, Vlieland, Terschelling and Ameland, as well as part of Friesland. Shows rail lines, post roads and major churches. Latin text on back. Minor staining along top margin, some wear to lower corners. Jan Jansson was part of an influential family of map publishers from the Netherlands throughout the 17th century and beyond. They were based in Arnhem then in Amsterdam..... More

Amsterdam: Petrus Schenk. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 18.5" x 23". Amsterdam:1705. Unusual map of the Netherlands. Includes an array of unusual features: two inset maps of areas with Dutch VOC influence, the East Indies and a view of Batavia; and New England and Long Island, with a view of New Amsterdam. Also included is a table showing the coats of arms from the seven provinces part of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands. Scale is..... More

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1916. Map. Color lithograph. 9" x 13". In very good condition. A map to accompany the article "Linguistic Barriers in Europe: their boundaries and political significance" by Leon Dominian, published in the 1915 Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. The map illustrates the areas where French, Walloon, Flemish, Dutch, and German are spoken in the region, as well where French had expanded since the 13th Century. More

Amsterdam: 1681. Diptych sea chart (east and west). Copper plate engravings with modern hand coloring. Each image measures 19.5" x 21.5", each page measures 21" x 23.75". Exceptionally beautiful diptych sea chart of the southwestern islands of the Netherlands. Eastern plate shows Dordrecht, Rotterdam and the fortress at Willemstad. Western plate depicts the "Hook of Holland" showing Goeree and Brielle. Elaborate sea-themed cartouches and Poseidon vignette on western sheet. Both scale cartouches decorated with cornucopia. Each include rhumb lines and..... More