Photography & Ephemera

[MAPS]. A group of 8 early engraved maps and views. Including: PORCACCHI, Tomaso. Descrittione Dell’Isola di S. Lorenzo. Venice, circa 1570s–1600s. Engraved and hand colored map vignette, with cartouche and sea monsters. From the famous “Book of Islands” published by Simone Galignani and Girolamo Porro. –– BELLIN, Jacques Nicola. Carte du Royaume de Juida, ou Whidah. Circa 1753. Hand colored engraving. From Prevost’s Histoire generale des Voyages. –– MALLET, Alain Manesson. Routes… de l’Afrique. Paris, ca. 1683. Shows routes of the Pilgrims travelling to Mecca. –– And numerous others including an atlas frontispiece, an 18th century English road map, a plan of Rome, and an early bird’s eye–view of Baruth, Germany. Largest 12 x 16”, condition generally very good.